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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 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 Beginners Guide to Subtitling
A step-by-step guide to fansubbing, from equipment and choosing a project to obtaining translations, timing dialogue and…
The best $4 ever spent
A warm personal essay about what actually delights small children, built around a cheap toy that beat every expensive gi…
The Book of Enoch Online
The full text of the Book of Enoch in the R.H. Charles Oxford translation from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the O…
The Buffy Guide to the Internet
A screenshot tour of a 1997 Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode about a demon loose online, cataloguing its wonderfully dat…
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The Camel, the Rope, and the Needle's Eye
A classicist digs into the Greek word kamilos to ask whether the famous New Testament saying meant a camel or a rope, tr…
The Camera-Shy Hoodie
A DIY wearable project that uses infrared LEDs to hide the wearer's face from IR security cameras, documented with photo…
The Casino in Your Pocket
A rough statistical analysis of the mobile game Wordscapes, with the data behind the claim that it uses casino-style tri…
The Closer to the Train Station, the Worse the Kebab
A tongue-in-cheek data study using restaurant ratings and walking routes to test whether kebab shops near train stations…
The Curious Case of the Raspberry Pi in the Network Closet
A detective story about finding a rogue Raspberry Pi hidden in an office network, tracing it with help from Reddit and c…
The Demoscene as UNESCO Heritage in Sweden
An account of how Sweden recognized the demoscene, the subculture of computer art and music, as national UNESCO cultural…
The Director of Toy Story Also Drew the BSD Daemon
A short bit of computing trivia revealing that John Lasseter, director of Toy Story, drew the BSD daemon mascot, with th…
The Egg
A short, thought-provoking story by Andy Weir about death, rebirth and the nature of the universe, one of the most share…
The Era of American Computer Magazines Has Drawn to a Close
A nostalgic look at the end of the American computer magazine, from buying Maximum PC at airport newsstands to what disa…
The Exact Location Where the Web Was Invented
A bit of web-history detective work that pins down the exact building and office at CERN where Tim Berners-Lee invented…
The Fed Says This Is a Cube of $1M
A blogger counts the bills in the Federal Reserve's famous cube of one million dollars and finds the official figure is…
The First Apple Homepage
Kevin Fox digs up what may be Apple's earliest homepage from the early 1990s and walks through its screenshot, links and…
The Forgotten War on Beepers
A look back at the moral panic over pagers in the 1980s and 90s, when parents, schools and lawmakers tried to ban beeper…
The Game Magazine That Spent Two Years Taunting a Final Fantasy VIII Hater
A gaming-history tale of a 1990s magazine that kept teasing one reader who despised Final Fantasy VIII, with scans of th…
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 Infinite Jukebox, 10 Years Later
Paul Lamere looks back on building the Infinite Jukebox, the Music Hack Day toy that loops a favorite song forever by ju…
The Internet Is Already Over
A literary, darkly funny essay by Sam Kriss on what the internet turned into, mixing memes, theology and cultural critic…
The Isolator
Hugo Gernsback's 1925 piece on The Isolator, an oxygen-fed helmet meant to block all noise and distraction, free to read…
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