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The Kilopixel
The story of a ridiculous 1000-pixel wooden display built over six years, with the mechanics, mistakes and the quirk tha…
The Kryptos Project: Ed Scheidt
Profile of Ed Scheidt, the CIA cryptographer who helped Jim Sanborn design the Kryptos sculpture cipher, on a fan resear…
The Last Message Sent on AIM
A nostalgic essay about AOL Instant Messenger, away messages and teenage friendships, and what it felt like when the cha…
The Last Post
Blogger Derek K. Miller's final post, published by his family after his death from cancer, in which he reflects calmly a…
The Last Quiet Thing
A beautifully designed scroll essay built around a twelve-dollar Casio watch, asking what happened when our possessions…
The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat
Chip Morningstar and Randall Farmer's classic 1990 paper on building Habitat, an early online virtual world, and what it…
The Library of Babel and Infinite Monkeys
A Harvard reading-course exhibit tying Borges's Library of Babel to the infinite monkey theorem, with links to working v…
The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003
The story of a sneaky two-line change slipped into the Linux kernel source in 2003, how it was caught, and what it says…
The Load-Bearing Vocabulary of Claude
An essay on the words that do the heavy lifting in Claude's writing, looking at which vocabulary choices shape the recog…
The man who collects lost pet posters
A feature on punk drummer Don Bolles and his one-of-a-kind collection of lost pet posters, and what these handmade pleas…
The Mayday Mystery
The firsthand story of the Mayday pages, cryptic ads full of symbols, languages and math that appeared in a Tucson stude…
The Meme-ification of the Demon Core
Historian Alex Wellerstein traces how the 1946 criticality accident involving the Demon Core turned from a tragic lab mi…
The Most Incredible Video Game No One Has Played
A feature on Sandcastle Builder, an absurdly deep browser game that takes months to finish and grew out of a forum threa…
The Most Influential Works, According to TvTropes
A ranked list of the books, films, shows and games that other works reference most, computed by crawling TvTropes shout-…
The Other Sean Byrne Doesn't Exist
An investigation into how a fictitious employee of an Irish aircraft-parts company ended up on a US government restricte…
The Overengineered Solution to My Pigeon Problem
A maker builds a wifi-connected water gun to chase pigeons off his balcony, controlled over the internet by a Python scr…
The Page With No Code
A web puzzle about a page whose View Source shows nothing at all yet still has content, with the author unpacking the tr…
The Perils of Audience Capture
Gurwinder's essay on audience capture, showing through vivid case studies how online creators slowly reshape their perso…
The Pixar Theory
Jon Negroni's sprawling theory arguing that every Pixar movie, from Toy Story onward, happens in one shared universe, wi…
The Plot of the Phantom
Scott Andrew announces that his text adventure The Plot of the Phantom is finally playable, a project he started as a ki…
The PMRC Filthy Fifteen
NNDB's list of the Filthy Fifteen, the songs the Parents Music Resource Center singled out in 1985 for sex, violence and…
The Remote Lounge NYC
A look back at a retro-futuristic New York bar where patrons sat before screens and remote-controlled cameras to watch e…
The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol
The story of how a small team at the University of Minnesota built Gopher, briefly ruled the early internet, and then lo…
The RollerCoaster Tycoon Ride That Takes 3,000 Years
The story of a RollerCoaster Tycoon fan who built a ride so long and slow it would take thousands of in-game years for g…
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