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Visualizing Disk IO Activity Using Log-Scale Banded Graphs
A development note from the Bvckup 2 backup tool on how its disk IO graphs use log-scale bands to make wildly varying th…
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Science
Visualizing Ocean Shipping
A historian plots thousands of 18th and 19th century ship logbook positions to map the old ocean trade routes, with stri…
Visualizing Risk
A scrollytelling article using a pension savings calculation and Monte Carlo simulation to show how risk and uncertainty…
Voronoi Diagrams on the GPU
An illustrated article with live WebGL demos showing how to generate real-time Voronoi diagrams on the GPU, with fun var…
Vox - Understand the News
Explanatory news site that breaks down politics, policy, science, and culture to help readers understand the news.
VoxDev
A research-to-policy platform where development economists summarize their findings in short, readable articles aimed at…
Waiting at the Oregon Trail River for 14272 Years
A playful retro-computing experiment asking whether the Oregon Trail can be won by waiting at a river crossing for mille…
Wallace and Gromit Font
A case study by Jamie Clarke Type on Buttered Crumpet, the custom typeface made for Wallace and Gromit, showing the desi…
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Gaming
Wander (1974) - a lost mainframe game is found!
The story of Wander, a 1974 mainframe program for building text adventures that was thought lost, and how its source cod…
War Is a Racket
The text of Major General Smedley Butler's famous 1933 speech, in which a twice-decorated Marine describes his career as…
Warsaw Rising 1944
A ten-chapter story about Warsaw, the city that stood up to totalitarian regimes and rose from the ashes, centered on th…
Was Daft Punk Having a Laugh With the Tempo of HBFS?
A playful dig into the BPM of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger that asks whether Daft Punk hid a joke in the tempo, with…
Was Queen Victoria the Victim of Coercive Control?
Novelist Daisy Goodwin rereads Queen Victoria's diaries to re-examine her marriage to Prince Albert, asking whether the…
Was the Internet Created to Survive a Nuclear Strike?
A myth-busting history of the early internet that untangles ARPANET, packet switching and Cold War claims about nuclear…
Washington Center for Equitable Growth
A research organization funding and publishing academic work on how economic inequality affects growth, with plain-langu…
Wave-Based Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging in Julia
An introduction to non-line-of-sight imaging that shows how to reconstruct images of objects hidden around a corner in u…
Waxwing
A free online literary magazine focused on international and translated writing, publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfict…
Waxy.org - Andy Baio's Personal Website
Andy Baio's personal blog and curated link feed covering internet culture, technology, games, and independent web projec…
We Are All Public Figures Now
Ella Dawson's sharp essay on how strangers become unwilling public figures overnight when someone live-tweets their live…
We Eat at the Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever
Travel writer Geraldine DeRuiter's hilarious account of a marathon tasting menu at Bros. in Lecce, Italy, where course a…
We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
A write-up of the first experiment using focused ultrasound on the brain's olfactory bulb to make human volunteers smell…
We Let Four AIs Run Radio Stations
Andon Labs lets four AI models run radio stations around the clock, and reports how one became a protest broadcaster and…
We Made the Isospectral Drums
A maker's account of building a real pair of isospectral drums, shapes that sound alike, and what happened when the math…
We Will Not Destroy This List of Lists
A crowd-sourced roundup of the strangest Wikipedia lists, from leaning towers and stories set in a future now past to in…
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