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kentwalters.com Internet Culture

Filing the Corners off My MacBooks

A short, cheerful defense of sanding the sharp corners off his MacBooks, with close-up photos and an invitation for ever…

foundersatwork.posthaven.com Business & Finance

Find Your People

Founders at Work author Jessica Livingston gives a commencement speech about luck, friendship and why the people you cho…

jd-mathbio.blogspot.ca Science

Finding Cheaters Using Multiple-Choice Comparisons

A professor walks through how he caught students cheating on a final exam by comparing matching wrong answers, with simp…

twobraids.com Science

Finding The Air Cannon

A blog post about tracking down a mysterious booming noise in the countryside by triangulating its sound, which turns ou…

kundor.github.io Science

Finding Waldo in Pi

Taking up an SMBC comic challenge, a math blogger searches the digits of pi for a sequence that can be drawn as a recogn…

finegardening.com Lifestyle & Health

Fine Gardening

An in-depth gardening magazine site with regional design ideas, plant recommendations, and troubleshooting guides for ho…

fineleatherworking.com Lifestyle & Health

Fine Leatherworking

Tips, tutorials, and inspiration from a professional leather goods maker for crafting finely finished bags and accessori…

en.andros.dev Internet Culture

Finger: The 1971 Social Network That Never Died

A look at the Unix finger protocol, arguably the first social network, with no accounts or ads, and how people still use…

hagen-schmidt.de Entertainment

Finnish as a world language?

A deadpan humorous essay making the case for Finnish as the global language, with jokes about vowel exports, endless gra…

first-nature.com Science

First Nature

A meticulous UK wildlife reference with photo identification guides spanning fungi, wildflowers, butterflies, and other…

benbeck.co.uk Science

First Photo of a Person

Part of a site on firsts in recording sight and sound, this page tells how a man getting his boots shined in Paris in 18…

emigre.com Art & Design

First Things First Manifesto 2000

The full text of the First Things First 2000 manifesto from Emigre 51, in which dozens of designers urged the profession…

directedplay.com Science

First TV Image of Mars

The story of the first close-up image of Mars, which impatient JPL engineers hand-colored with pastels from printed stri…

sociological-eye.blogspot.com Lifestyle & Health

Five Kinds of Friends

A sociologist's short essay splitting the word friend into five distinct kinds - allies, backstage intimates, fun friend…

edbatista.com Lifestyle & Health

Five Levels of Communication

Executive coach Ed Batista explains Richard Francisco's Five Levels of Communication, a simple model of how conversation…

fullcircuit.com Lifestyle & Health

Fixing Annoying Blue Standby Lights

A practical, cheap fix for the painfully bright blue standby LEDs on TVs, stereos and set-top boxes, explained by an ele…

neocomputer.org Gaming

Fixing E.T. for the Atari 2600

A walk-through of how to patch the infamous Atari 2600 E.T. game, explaining why its pits frustrate players and the smal…

matduggan.com Tech

Fixing Macs Door to Door

A first-person account of working as an AppleCare dispatch contractor in Chicago, visiting homes and offices to repair M…

pointinthecloud.com Lifestyle & Health

Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

A charming local-history story of repairing the long-silent clock on an Edinburgh police station, with photos of the old…

fiyahlitmag.com Entertainment

FIYAH Literary Magazine

A quarterly magazine of speculative fiction by Black writers from across the African diaspora, publishing short stories,…

joelgrus.com Tech

Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow

A deadpan fictional job interview in which the candidate solves the simplest coding exercise, FizzBuzz, by training a ne…

georgiaencyclopedia.org Education

Flannery O'Connor - New Georgia Encyclopedia

The New Georgia Encyclopedia's entry on Flannery O'Connor, tracing her life at her Milledgeville farm, her peacocks, her…

flashfictionmagazine.com Entertainment

Flash Fiction Magazine

A daily publisher of flash fiction stories under a thousand words, offering a constantly refreshed feed of very short st…

flashfictiononline.com Entertainment

Flash Fiction Online

A monthly magazine devoted entirely to flash fiction between 500 and 1,000 words, publishing tightly crafted short stori…

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