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On the Origins of .DS_Store
Explains where the mysterious .DS_Store files that litter Mac folders came from, tracing the name and Finder history in…
Operation Luigi
A fun first-person tale of how one hacker, with her friend's blessing, quietly took over her computer using only pranks…
Orson Welles' Drunk Wine Commercial
A first-hand behind-the-scenes account of the infamous Paul Masson wine commercial shoot where a visibly tipsy Orson Wel…
Our Comrade The Electron
Maciej Ceglowski's Webstock talk transcript, which travels from Soviet electronic-music pioneer Leon Theremin to modern…
Over-Engineering a Do Not Disturb Device
A write-up of a custom hardware Do Not Disturb device built to stop family walking in on video meetings, because a locke…
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Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played The Game
A first-hand essay on how kids actually played Pac-Man in 1980s arcades - quarters on the cabinet, crowds, tricks and ri…
Patch Notes
A found poem built from The Sims patch notes, where fixes for duplicated fridge fish and wishes to skinny dip with mummi…
Philip K. Dick: How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
Philip K. Dick's celebrated essay on reality, fake worlds and what makes a universe hold together, a dizzying tour throu…
Phreaks and l33ts: The Early 90s Scene That Created L0pht
A history of the Boston hacker scene behind L0pht, the legendary hackerspace whose members testified before Congress and…
Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter
A personal essay by a man with 'environmental OCD' who decided he is the 'someone' who should pick up litter, with the h…
Pink Floyd at Hyde Park 1970
An archive page on the free Hyde Park concert of 12 September 1970 featuring Pink Floyd, Eric Burdon and War, Canned Hea…
Pipe Dreams: The Life and Times of Yahoo Pipes
The story of Yahoo Pipes, the visual mashup tool that let ordinary people remix the web in 2007, and the reasons it was…
Places - Atlas Obscura
A crowdsourced catalog of the world's hidden wonders, unusual landmarks, and offbeat destinations.
Please Do Not Write Below This Line
A deadpan classic of the old web from BBCtvLicence.com, a mock bureaucratic reply to a television licence letter that ha…
Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
The detailed story of getting Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah to boot natively on a Nintendo Wii, with all the bootloader, kernel…
Post-Futurism: The Age of the Hinge
An essay arguing that after a century of racing toward the future, the people who built it are walking away, leaving the…
Power Metal: Is It Really About Dragons?
A data-driven look at lyrics from power metal bands, counting words to test the stereotype that the genre is all dragons…
Pranking My Roommate With Eerily Targeted Facebook Ads
A story of revenge by ad targeting: how a roommate was driven to paranoia by Facebook ads seemingly reading his mind, wi…
Precise Geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning
An approachable investigation into how a laptop can pinpoint your location from nearby Wi-Fi networks, and how the datab…
Programming Quotes
A long, old-school collection of quotes about programming, software design and computing from Dijkstra, Pike, Thompson a…
Programming Sucks
A cult-classic comic essay on why programming is a miserable and miraculous craft, with vivid analogies that non-program…
Pronounce Every Word in This English Poem
A famous poem of English spelling and pronunciation quirks that trips up native speakers, shared with the claim that rea…
Psychedelic Cryptography
A contest write-up about encoding messages that can only be understood in non-ordinary states of consciousness, a strang…
PySkyWiFi
A gleeful write-up of how to get free in-flight wi-fi by tunnelling data through the airline's free messaging allowance,…
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