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A Communist Apple II
An engineering archaeology tale about a Cold War era Apple II clone, and how an old machine was tested for years without…
A Complete History of Birdo's Gender
A thorough history of how Nintendo has described Birdo since Doki Doki Panic, comparing English and Japanese manuals, ga…
A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
A YouTube engineer tells how a small team slipped a banner into the video page to nudge users off Internet Explorer 6, a…
A Constructive Look at TempleOS
A thoughtful essay examining Terry Davis's TempleOS on its technical merits and quirks, from a programmer who finds real…
A Crafty Mix
An award-winning DIY blog sharing unique recycling and upcycling tutorials alongside general craft and home-decor projec…
A Darkly Mysterious Instrument
A post from the Historical Photographs of China project following Victorian photographer John Thomson through China, and…
A Data Table Thousands of Years Old
A short, fascinating post about a Babylonian clay tablet that is effectively a data table, looking at how ancient scribe…
A Day in the Life: The Global BGP Table
A data-driven look at how the internet's global routing table changes over a single day, with charts of announcements, w…
A Dot a Day Keeps the Clutter Away
A maker explains a surprisingly simple organization system built on colored dot stickers that reveal which stored boxes…
A Few Rules For Predicting The Future
Octavia E. Butler's short essay on how she imagined the futures in her novels, with her rules for thinking about what co…
A Fighter Pilot's Guide to Surviving on the Roads
An RAF pilot explains how saccadic eye movement and motion blindness make drivers miss cyclists, and what both riders an…
A File Format Uncracked for 20 Years
A reverse-engineering detective story about decoding a mysterious game asset format from a classic Splinter Cell title t…
A Gigantic Jet Caught on Camera
NASA explains the rare gigantic jet an astronaut photographed from the ISS, lightning shooting from a storm top into the…
A Hepster's Dictionary
Princeton's Graphic Arts Collection shows off Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary, the 1930s and 40s guide to jive talk…
A High-Speed Laser Camera Trigger for Under $2
A build log for a microsecond-fast laser camera trigger made from cheap parts, created to fire a high-speed flash at exa…
A Japanese Glossary of Chopsticks Faux Pas
A handy illustrated glossary of the chopstick mistakes to avoid when eating in Japan, explaining each gaffe by name and…
A Japanese Life of Bento
An essay tracing how bento boxes run through a Japanese life, from kindergarten lunches made by parents to school, work…
A Kantian Critique of Sorry by Justin Bieber
A tongue-in-cheek philosophy essay that holds Justin Bieber's pop apology up against Kant's categorical imperative and a…
A Kitchen for the Modern Woman
Norway's National Museum tells the story of the Frankfurt kitchen, the compact 1926 'laboratory of housework' by Margare…
A leap year check in three instructions
A short, clever write-up showing how to test for leap years in the Gregorian calendar with just three machine instructio…
A Literary History of Apple Fake Texts
An essay tracing the curious genre of staged text conversations in Apple's ads and keynotes, and what the style says abo…
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A Long Time Ago (Mystery Man on Film)
A screenwriting blogger walks through highlights from George Lucas's strange early draft of Star Wars, full of odd names…
A look at search engines with their own indexes
A thorough survey of independent search engines that crawl their own indexes, comparing quirks and strengths, handy for…
A Los Angeles Primer: Union Station
A history of Los Angeles Union Station, the 1939 rail terminal, covering its Mission Revival design, its Dean Cornwell m…
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