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Allrecipes | Recipes, How-Tos, Videos and More
A large community-driven recipe site with user-submitted dishes, ratings, reviews, and cooking how-tos.
Atlas Obscura - The Definitive Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Travel and culture site cataloging the world's unusual, obscure, and hidden places and experiences.
Lobsters
An invite-only community link aggregator focused on computing, programming, and software development with tag-based filt…
MetaFilter | Community Weblog
A long-running community weblog where members share and discuss interesting links from across the web.
10 Years of Pomological Watercolors
The story of how a call to release the USDA's century-old fruit paintings turned into a public collection of thousands o…
17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future
A serialized multimedia story set thousands of years from now, in which sentient space probes watch football evolve into…
1967 Futurists Predictions for the 21st Century
A look back at what 1967 futurists predicted life would be like in the 21st century, from TVparty's retro archive - a fu…
27 Years Later the Psion 3a Is Still Wonderful
A fond look at the Psion 3a pocket computer rediscovered in a cupboard, still working after 27 years, and why its keyboa…
4 Billion If Statements
A tongue-in-cheek post exploring a viral screenshot of absurd code and asking how many if statements it would take to ch…
50 Hours to Draw Some Lines
An artist spends 50 hours hand drawing data visualizations with vintage drafting tools, documenting each step of turning…
52 Things I Learned in 2018
A list of 52 surprising, well-sourced facts gathered over a year, from how infants lie in their cribs to odd bits of his…
8088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators
The story behind 8088 MPH, a legendary demo that coaxes hundreds of colours, 3D effects and polyphonic music out of a st…
84-24
A beautifully designed scrolling tale of one developer's midlife quest to find and restore an original 1984 Macintosh, f…
93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs
A deadpan April Fools research paper showing that random paint splatters can be read as valid Perl, with a gallery of co…
93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
A SIGBOVIK joke paper showing that most random paint splatters, run through OCR, turn out to be valid Perl code, with a…
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
A beloved comic timeline of programming languages from Jacquard's loom to modern times, packed with deadpan jokes and fa…
A Communist Apple II
An engineering archaeology tale about a Cold War era Apple II clone, and how an old machine was tested for years without…
A Complete History of Birdo's Gender
A thorough history of how Nintendo has described Birdo since Doki Doki Panic, comparing English and Japanese manuals, ga…
A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
A YouTube engineer tells how a small team slipped a banner into the video page to nudge users off Internet Explorer 6, a…
A Constructive Look at TempleOS
A thoughtful essay examining Terry Davis's TempleOS on its technical merits and quirks, from a programmer who finds real…
A Kantian Critique of Sorry by Justin Bieber
A tongue-in-cheek philosophy essay that holds Justin Bieber's pop apology up against Kant's categorical imperative and a…
A Literary History of Apple Fake Texts
An essay tracing the curious genre of staged text conversations in Apple's ads and keynotes, and what the style says abo…
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A Long Time Ago (Mystery Man on Film)
A screenwriting blogger walks through highlights from George Lucas's strange early draft of Star Wars, full of odd names…
A look at search engines with their own indexes
A thorough survey of independent search engines that crawl their own indexes, comparing quirks and strengths, handy for…
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