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Compyx: A Multicolor 8-bit Font for Browsers
A typographic hack in the browser: how a multicolor C64-style 8-bit font was built from layered glyphs, with live specim…
Conceptually
A site of short, illustrated explainers on cognitive biases and mental models designed to make behavioral science easy t…
Conclave Obscurum
Eye Magazine's 2007 feature on Oleg Paschenko's strange and unsettling interactive art project, a look at a cult piece o…
Concorde
A quick-fire list of surprising Concorde facts, from the fuselage stretching 30cm at Mach 2 to engineers wedging their c…
Concorde 'B'
A detailed look at Concorde B, the quieter, longer-range version with new engines and redesigned wings that was fully de…
Confessions of a Once-Bearded Lady
A frank personal essay by a woman who began growing a beard at fourteen, about hiding it, shaving it and living with a b…
Confronting the War in Primetime
A history essay on how The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour smuggled antiwar satire onto 1960s network TV, got cancelled fo…
Conrad Heyer, Earliest-Born Person Ever Photographed
Meet Conrad Heyer, born in 1749 and a veteran who crossed the Delaware with Washington, whose daguerreotype portrait may…
Contasino Meets Churchill, 1931
The story of the December 1931 night Winston Churchill looked the wrong way on Fifth Avenue and was hit by Mario Contasi…
Conversable Economist
A long-running blog by economist Timothy Taylor that explains economic research and current events in plain, accessible…
Converting a $20 4G Wireless Hotspot into a Texting Device
A hacker's write-up on turning a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a dedicated texting device, with the hardware tricks and t…
Convolutions, Fast Fourier Transform and Polynomials
A friendly explainer showing how multiplying polynomials connects to convolutions and the fast Fourier transform, built…
Conway's Gradient of Life
A short, playful explainer showing how to run Conway's Game of Life backwards with differentiable automata, so that a ch…
Copenhagenize
A blog and consultancy chronicling bicycle-friendly urban design, drawing on Copenhagen's cycling culture to argue for p…
Copper Sushi
A pretty map of the European electrical transmission network, drawn as glowing dots and lines, with an explanation of wh…
Copying Is the Way Design Works
An essay on the space between riffing and ripping: how designers learn by copying, where inspiration ends and theft begi…
Corymbus
A free essay-form blog aiming to illuminate classical music for newcomers through accessible, in-depth writing on works…
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
A clear primer on the cosmic microwave background, explaining what cosmology studies and how this leftover glow reveals…
Could We Stop Yellowstone from Erupting?
A back-of-the-envelope engineering look at whether drilling heat out of the Yellowstone supervolcano could prevent an er…
Counting People with Machine Learning
A project write-up on counting foot traffic from IP webcam feeds with machine learning, walking through the detection ap…
Country Sizes Compared to the USA
A visual article overlaying 30 countries on a map of the USA at true scale, correcting the distortions of flat world map…
Cracked.com - America's Only Humor Site
Comedy site publishing humorous lists, articles, and videos about pop culture, history, and weird facts.
Crafting Plausible Maps
A worldbuilding guide to drawing believable fantasy maps, explaining how mountains, rivers, coastlines, climate and sett…
Crate Review System
A satirical 2000 essay proposing to rate video games by how quickly the player reaches the first crate, a deadpan dissec…
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