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Stupid Projects From The Stupid Hackathon
A write-up of the projects built at the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon, a showcase of deliberatel…
Subtitling Guide
A step-by-step fansubbing guide covering timing, translating, typesetting, encoding, and quality checks, written for any…
Sun Tunnels
Holt/Smithson Foundation page on Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, four concrete tubes in the Utah desert aligned with the solst…
Super Fighter versus Sango Fighter
A feature by Brandon Cobb on two rival Taiwanese fighting games, the legal wrangles that followed and how the Chinese wa…
Surfel-based Global Illumination on the Web
A visual deep dive into real-time global illumination with WebGPU, using surfels and live demos that show how light boun…
Surprising Shared Word Etymologies
A tour of English words that turn out to be secret relatives, tracing pairs with wildly different meanings back to the s…
Surrealist Astronomy in the South Pacific
An essay on Joseph Cornell's collaged eclipse imagery and his fascination with astronomy and the South Pacific, from a L…
Surrounded by Genius: Lessons From Nature on Great Design
A long-form feature on biomimicry with Janine Benyus, exploring how insect iridescence, fish hydrodynamics and other nat…
Survival Sullivan
A prolific survivalist blog with practical how-to articles on wilderness survival, emergency preparedness, and off-grid…
Surviving 3 Years in North Korea as a Diplomat
A first-hand account of living and working in Pyongyang as a foreign diplomat, covering daily life, restrictions, shoppi…
Surviving Burnout
A thoughtful 2015 essay arguing that burnout comes from caring about outcomes you cannot control, with practical advice…
Susan Sontag: Be Bold! Commencement Address
The text of Susan Sontag's 1983 commencement speech at Wellesley College, urging graduates to be bold, to read widely an…
SWAGGINZZZ
The story of a NetHack game won in 7 minutes 15 seconds by manipulating the random number generator, told as a playful t…
Synth Anatomy
A blog dedicated to exploring the inner workings of synthesizers and drum machines with detailed teardowns and technical…
Synth History
An independent magazine and podcast documenting the people, machines, and stories behind the history of synthesizers.
SynthAxe
An engineer's personal history of the SynthAxe, the strange and costly 1980s guitar-shaped synthesizer controller played…
Synthmania: Famous Sounds
A deep reference to the classic synthesizer sounds everyone has heard, from Jump brass to the Lately Bass, explaining wh…
Synthtopia
A long-running news blog covering synthesizers and electronic music gear, from vintage rarities to new releases and soun…
Tabula Peutingeriana
Explore the Tabula Peutingeriana, a long scroll map of the Roman road network stretching from Britain to India, with an…
Taiwan's Aging Population
An illustrated data story on Taiwan's slide into a super-aged society, explaining with charts why the island may soon ha…
Take Me Fishing
A beginner-friendly fishing and boating resource with species guides, how-to videos, and a tool for finding nearby lakes…
Taking My Diabetes Treatment Into My Own Hands
A Type 1 diabetic recounts building his own closed-loop insulin system, with a gripping first-person story about bodies,…
Talent vs Luck Model
A blog post recreating a famous paper's simulation about talent and luck, showing why the most successful people in a ra…
Talk Classical
A community forum where classical music lovers discuss composers, recordings, and recommendations for new listeners.
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