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17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future
A serialized multimedia story set thousands of years from now, in which sentient space probes watch football evolve into…
18 Tips for Comic Book Artists by Moebius
Jean Moebius Giraud's 18 tips for cartoonists, translated and annotated by illustrator William Stout, covering drawing t…
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Art & Design
1890s Cycle Companies and Cycling Ads
A history blog tour of 1890s bicycle advertisements, from art nouveau posters to quirky magazine ads, with notes on the…
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Lifestyle & Health
1922: Why I Quit Being So Accommodating
A complete transcription of an oddly modern 1922 American Magazine essay in which an anonymous writer explains why he st…
1967 Futurists Predictions for the 21st Century
A look back at what 1967 futurists predicted life would be like in the 21st century, from TVparty's retro archive - a fu…
20 Rules of Knowledge Formulation
Dr Piotr Wozniak's widely cited guide on how to write effective flashcards, covering simplicity, context and redundancy…
21 Observations from People-Watching
A wedding painter shares 21 small, vivid observations about how strangers move, dress and behave in a room, written with…
24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed
A clear, classic explainer from a Xiph audio engineer on the limits of human hearing, sampling and bit depth, and why 24…
250 Things an Architect Should Know
Michael Sorkin's famous list of 250 things an architect should know, from the smell of rain to the weight of a body, pre…
27 Years Later the Psion 3a Is Still Wonderful
A fond look at the Psion 3a pocket computer rediscovered in a cupboard, still working after 27 years, and why its keyboa…
29-year-old Conway conjecture settled
A math blog post explaining how two Finnish researchers found a finite Game of Life pattern that can only arise from its…
2D Vehicles
Pat Kerr tells how a weekend 1996 physics prototype in GFA BASIC became the vehicle system of Grand Theft Auto, with the…
3:AM Magazine
A long-running online magazine mixing philosophy interviews, literary criticism, and cultural essays aimed at an intelle…
33 Line React
A programming essay showing how a React-like library can fit in 33 lines of code, as a way to understand how components…
3D Modeling with Paper
A hobbyist's tour of papercraft: designing, unfolding, cutting, and assembling 3D models from paper, with photos of the…
3D Packing for 3D Printing
A write-up on a program that packs many 3D models into the smallest possible volume for 3D printing, with images of the…
3D Printing Giant Things With a Python Jigsaw Generator
A maker's write-up on generating giant jigsaw puzzles with a Python script and 3D printing the pieces, with the code and…
4 Billion If Statements
A tongue-in-cheek post exploring a viral screenshot of absurd code and asking how many if statements it would take to ch…
40 Years of Koyaanisqatsi
A thoughtful review marking four decades of Koyaanisqatsi, the wordless Godfrey Reggio film with its Philip Glass score…
404 Media
A journalist-owned outlet publishing investigative reporting on technology, surveillance, AI, hacking, and the hidden co…
43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief
A first-person account of riding Amtrak's Southwest Chief from Chicago to California, with scenery, sleeper-car life and…
5 Mysterious Structures from the World's Smallest Architects
Macro photographer Nicky Bay shows five baffling structures built by tiny rainforest creatures, from the log-cabin cases…
50 Covers for 2013
The Casual Optimist's annotated list of fifty favourite book cover designs of 2013, each image shown with its designer c…
50 Hours to Draw Some Lines
An artist spends 50 hours hand drawing data visualizations with vintage drafting tools, documenting each step of turning…
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