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Obituary for Cyc
An in-depth essay on Cyc, the forty-year project to hand-code common sense into a computer, covering its millions of rul…
Ocean Conservancy
A marine conservation nonprofit publishing research-backed articles on ocean health, plastic pollution, and the animals…
Oceana Marine Life Encyclopedia
A browsable encyclopedia of ocean animals and ecosystems, from sharks and sea turtles to coral reefs, with conservation…
ODI Global
A London-based think tank publishing research and data visualizations on international development, humanitarian aid, an…
Odin Leather Goods Education
A leather goods maker's free educational hub with classes, podcasts, and articles teaching traditional leatherworking te…
OECD iLibrary
The OECD's digital library of books, papers, and statistics on economics, education, and social policy, with many chapte…
Official PlayStation 1 Development Kit
A deep dive into the official dev kit hardware Sony gave studios to build PlayStation games, with photos of the boards,…
Oh fuck, you're still sad?
A frank, tender essay arguing that grief does not follow a timeline and that loss is part of being human, written for an…
Okayplayer
A music and culture site founded by The Roots covering hip hop, soul, and Black music culture with features and intervie…
Okhsv and Okhsl
Bjorn Ottosson explains why classic HSV and HSL color pickers are perceptually broken and introduces two better color sp…
OKSolar
A refreshed take on the Solarized color scheme that rebuilds the palette in the OKLab perceptual colorspace, so lightnes…
Olaf: Acoustic Fingerprinting on ESP32 and in the Browser
A write-up of Olaf, an acoustic fingerprinting system that identifies audio on a tiny ESP32 microcontroller and also run…
Old House Web
A resource site for owners of historic homes, offering restoration articles, maintenance tips, and period-appropriate re…
Old Town Home
A couple's detailed blog documenting their historic Alexandria home renovation, with practical tutorials across eleven a…
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Old Urbanist
A blog examining pre-automobile town planning and traditional urban form, arguing older neighborhood patterns hold lesso…
Old vs. New Growth Trees and the Wood Products They Make
A millwork shop explains how old-growth and new-growth timber differ in grain, strength and stability, and why that matt…
Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil
A tongue-in-cheek but carefully argued fan theory that Tom Bombadil from The Lord of the Rings is secretly the most sini…
OldHouseGuy Resources
A restoration enthusiast's blog chronicling his own Victorian home renovation and curating resources for other old-house…
Oliver Byrne's Euclid
A look at Oliver Byrne's 1847 edition of Euclid, which replaced letters with bold red, yellow and blue shapes and became…
Oliver Heaviside and the Theory of Transmission Lines
A clear technical note on how Heaviside reshaped electrical signaling theory, explaining waves, impedance and distortion…
Olivetti Programma 101
An in-depth Inexhibit case study of the Olivetti Programma 101, the 1965 Italian desktop machine often called the first…
On Beauty and the Death of African American Literature
An essay on Zadie Smith's novel On Beauty that asks whether African American literature is dying, examining Black petit…
On Bill Watterson's Refusal to License Calvin and Hobbes
An essay on why cartoonist Bill Watterson turned down fortunes in toys, movies and merchandise for Calvin and Hobbes, an…
On Craft
A personal essay by Cat Hicks that starts with a grandfather's slide guitar and reflects on what craft means and how car…
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