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The Gear Page
A large forum community for guitarists and bassists trading advice on amps, pedals, and vintage instrument gear.
The Gentle Seduction
Marc Stiegler's classic 1989 short story following a woman across a lifetime as technology and the singularity gently re…
The Global Warming Blanket
A climate scientist crochets a blanket where each stripe is a year's global temperature, turning a warming-stripes chart…
The Gold Standard of Optimization: RollerCoaster Tycoon
A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon and the assembly-level tricks that let one developer make the classic park…
The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967
A 20-minute history of how Tombow and other Japanese makers raced to build the world's best pencils from 1952 to 1967, w…
The Golden Ass of Apuleius
A richly illustrated online edition of Apuleius's ancient Roman novel about a man turned into a donkey, with graphics wo…
The Good Grief of Beethoven on Schroeder's Toy Piano
An essay on how Charles Schulz put real Beethoven scores on Schroeder's toy piano in Peanuts, and the record collection…
The Good Soldier Svejk
A Library of Congress post introducing Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk, the most famous Czech novel, with its hi…
The GPT-3 Architecture, on a Napkin
A hand-drawn, step-by-step diagram tour of how GPT-3 turns words into predictions, covering embeddings, attention and la…
The Gradient and What It Means (Pt. 2)
An essay on why some oral traditions preserve knowledge with stunning accuracy while others are no better than guessing,…
The Gradual Extinction of Softness
A memoir essay by Chantha Nguon about learning to cook rice as a child in Cambodia, and how food, family and loss intert…
The Graphing Calculator Story
Ron Avitzur tells how, after his project was cancelled, he and a friend kept sneaking into Apple without jobs or badges…
The Great Filter - Are We Almost Past It?
Robin Hanson's 1998 essay that coined the Great Filter, arguing that the silent, empty sky implies some brutal hurdle li…
The greatest program ever written
A game programmer's short ode to David Horne's 1K ZX Chess, a playable chess program squeezed into the tiny memory of a…
The Guardian - News, Sport and Opinion
British newspaper offering global news, opinion, sport, culture, and long-form journalism with a progressive editorial s…
The Guest House
Rumi's short poem The Guest House, in Coleman Barks's translation, which treats every emotion as a visitor to be welcome…
The hardest working font in Manhattan
A lovingly illustrated essay about the segmented lettering on New York signage, with interactive type specimens and a de…
The HarmoNESica
A step-by-step photo walkthrough of gutting an old NES game cartridge and fitting a working harmonica inside it, written…
The Head in the Floor
A surreal short story by Kate Folk about an unemployed narrator whose life gets stranger when a human head begins emergi…
The Hell Harp of Hieronymus Bosch
An experimental musician explains how he built a real playable version of the hellish harp from Bosch's Garden of Earthl…
The High Cost of Saying No
An essay on why cities struggle to build housing, contrasting Atlanta's growth with San Francisco's fights over everythi…
The History and Significance of Totem Poles
An explainer on totem poles of Alaska Native and Northwest Coast peoples: how they are carved, the animal crests and sto…
The History Blog
A daily blog by an independent historian summarizing new archaeological discoveries, restored artifacts, and unusual his…
The History Guide
A collection of university-style lectures on European intellectual history and the origins of the twentieth century's ma…
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