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Photographs of Old Japan
A gallery-style essay of 19th century photographs of Japan, with hand-coloured portraits and landscapes paired with cont…
Photography Composition: The Definitive Guide
A huge free tutorial on photographic composition by a landscape photographer, explaining the rules, when to break them,…
Phreaks and l33ts: The Early 90s Scene That Created L0pht
A history of the Boston hacker scene behind L0pht, the legendary hackerspace whose members testified before Congress and…
Phyllotaxis: An Audio-Reactive LED Display
A maker's tale of building a spiral LED display that dances to music, using the golden-angle patterns found in sunflower…
Piano Street
A resource for piano students and enthusiasts offering free sheet music, forums, and articles on repertoire and techniqu…
Piano World
A community forum for pianists and piano technicians discussing instruments, tuning, repertoire, and buying advice.
Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter
A personal essay by a man with 'environmental OCD' who decided he is the 'someone' who should pick up litter, with the h…
Pillar Box Blue
A craft and upcycling blog with clear tutorials showing how to repurpose furniture, fabric, and household items into new…
Pink Floyd at Hyde Park 1970
An archive page on the free Hyde Park concert of 12 September 1970 featuring Pink Floyd, Eric Burdon and War, Canned Hea…
Pinocchio Is Weirder Than You Remember
A look at the original 1881 Pinocchio serial, from the puppet hanging dead from an oak to donkey-skin drums and dead-gir…
Pipe Dreams: The Life and Times of Yahoo Pipes
The story of Yahoo Pipes, the visual mashup tool that let ordinary people remix the web in 2007, and the reasons it was…
Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling
Read the 22 storytelling rules first tweeted by Pixar story artist Emma Coats, short practical lessons on character, str…
Pixel Art Algorithm: Drawing Smooth Bezier Curves
A programming essay with a live demo on drawing smooth Bezier curves on a pixel grid, from the vector tool of the author…
Pixel Art: Common Mistakes
Spelunky creator Derek Yu takes beginner pixel art and fixes it step by step, showing common mistakes like jaggies, pill…
Pixelblog 41 - Isometric Pixel Art
An illustrated tutorial by pixel artist Raymond Schlitter that walks through drawing isometric pixel art, from basic lin…
Places - Atlas Obscura
A crowdsourced catalog of the world's hidden wonders, unusual landmarks, and offbeat destinations.
Plague Cookies
A family Passover tradition taken to its delicious extreme: a batch of kosher-for-Passover cookies depicting each of the…
Planet Mellotron
An exhaustive fan resource reviewing albums that feature the Mellotron, the tape-based keyboard instrument of 1960s and…
Planetizen
A news and resource hub for urban planning professionals covering zoning, transportation, housing policy, and city desig…
Playing in the Creek
A reflective personal essay on damming a backyard creek as a kid and how that kind of open-ended play shapes the way the…
Playing to Win
Alice Maz tells how she cornered the market on a Minecraft server, gaming its player economy with arbitrage, monopolies…
Please Do Not Write Below This Line
A deadpan classic of the old web from BBCtvLicence.com, a mock bureaucratic reply to a television licence letter that ha…
Please, Enough with the Dead Butterflies
A science illustrator makes the case against pinned dead butterflies as the stock image for insects, with a sharp look a…
Pleasures by Aldous Huxley
A short 1920 essay by Aldous Huxley on the pleasures that civilization quietly depends on, free to read in a clean publi…
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