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The $5000 Compression Challenge
The full email record of a famous bet: a challenger offered 5000 dollars to anyone who could compress a random file, and…
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Gaming
The 100:10:1 Method for Game Design
A board game designer explains his process of brainstorming 100 game ideas, prototyping 10 and polishing 1, with concret…
The 12-bit Rainbow Palette
A hand-tuned palette of twelve colours chosen around how humans perceive luminance, chroma and hue, with every swatch ex…
The 3 Gurus of 90s Web Design
A look back at 1997, when Flash and CSS arrived and David Siegel, Jakob Nielsen and Jeffrey Zeldman each pushed a differ…
The AARD Code and DR DOS
A forensic deep dive into the mysterious encrypted AARD code in Windows 3.1 betas that quietly checked for DR DOS, with…
The ADHD Body Double
The Attention Deficit Disorder Association explains body doubling, working alongside another person to stay on task, and…
The Age of Average
An essay with side-by-side image grids showing how cars, cafes, buildings, and logos have all drifted toward the same bl…
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The AI Engine of Street Fighter II
A deep dive into the original Street Fighter II code revealing how the computer-controlled fighters choose their moves,…
The Alpha Myth: How Captive Wolves Led Us Astray
How a 1947 study of captive wolves at Basel Zoo gave rise to the 'alpha' myth, and what wild wolf packs actually look li…
The Amp Garage
A forum community for tube guitar amplifier builders and technicians trading circuit knowledge and modification advice.
The Anatomy of Smith's Scampi Fries
A loving, funny deep-dive from Pellicle into Smith's Scampi Fries, the strange fishy pub snack hanging behind British ba…
The Andouillette Does Not Travel
A funny travel essay about ordering andouillette, the notoriously pungent French tripe sausage, in a boozy bistro and th…
The Anti-Amazon
An analysis of why Costco's low-margin, membership-driven model works so well, and how it contrasts with Amazon's approa…
The Antidepressants Side Effects Chart
A clear chart comparing the side effects of different antidepressants, from WhatMedicine, a mental health site that educ…
The Anxiety of the Perfect Loaf
An essay on the illusion of culinary precision, arguing that recipes give false certainty and that good cooking comes fr…
The Aperiodical
A group blog for recreational mathematics news, puzzle roundups, and the annual Big Internet Math-Off tournament pitting…
The Apple IIGS Megahertz Myth
Did Apple deliberately hobble the IIGS to protect the Macintosh? A retro-computing deep dive tests the legend against ha…
The Architect's Newspaper
A trade publication reporting on architecture and urban design projects, policy debates, and the people shaping American…
The Argonne Anti-Jet-Lag Diet
A plain-text copy of the 1980s Argonne National Laboratory diet plan that claims to reset your body clock for travel thr…
The Arrow of Time
ZoneZero's photo essay by the Goldberg family, who meet every June 17 to photograph themselves, building a portrait seri…
The Art and History of Lettering Comics
Comics letterer Todd Klein's free online book on the history of hand-lettering in comics, covering forgotten letterers,…
The Art of LaTeX
An essay on common LaTeX mistakes and practical advice for typesetting beautiful, readable proofs, written for students…
The Art of PNG Glitch
A glitch artist's illustrated guide to how PNG files work inside and how corrupting their filters and compression produc…
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