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pau1.substack.com Article

This Newsletter Does Not Exist

A curated list of more than 25 websites in the spirit of This Person Does Not Exist, each generating convincing things t…

jeetmehta.com Article

Thrive in Obscurity

An encouraging essay on why creative mastery begins with years of silence and why you should keep publishing your work e…

notyesterdayanymore.substack.com Article

To Force the Stumble into Freedom

An essay arguing that Schopenhauer's idea of beauty suspending the Will is undermined by social media, which industriali…

todayifoundout.com Article

Today I Found Out

A trivia and curiosity blog dedicated to surprising, well-researched facts about history, science, and everyday things p…

spencerchang.substack.com Article

touching computers

Spencer Chang on carrying his website around as a physical object, tangible computing and building little computing shri…

blog.lauramichet.com Article

Touching the Back Wall of the Apple Store

A funny, thoughtful personal story about a teenage mall game of reaching the back wall of a store, and what it says abou…

hackcur.io Article

Trashing the Phone Company with Suzy Thunder

A short annotated history of dumpster diving by early phone phreaks, built around a 1982 TV clip featuring hacker Susan…

druid77.github.io Article

TRS-GPT

A project write-up showing ChatGPT running on a 1981 TRS-80 Model III, with a client and server that let the vintage mac…

ygdp.yale.edu Article

Try and

A Yale linguistics project page explaining the 'try and' construction (as in 'try and fix it'), how it differs from 'try…

teamten.com Article

Turbo Pascal Compiler

The story of two friends' 1989 Turbo Pascal graphics programs found on old diskettes, and the browser-based compiler wri…

tvtropes.org Article

TV Tropes

Community-edited wiki cataloging storytelling devices and conventions across TV, film, books, games, and other media.

sceneandheardnu.com Article

TV's Best Drama You've Probably Never Heard Of

A passionate essay making the case for Halt and Catch Fire, the 1980s computing-industry drama that starts slow and grow…

home.interlog.com Article

Two Jealous Perverts: Give Me Another Present!

John Waters's essay on why he loves Christmas, hosted on Two Jealous Perverts, an old-school fan site with Waters pop qu…

intertext.com Article

Two Solitudes

Carl Steadman's short story from the InterText online fiction magazine, a romance told entirely through email that captu…

slate.com Article

Two Spaces After a Period: Why You Should Never, Ever Do It

Farhad Manjoo's famously blunt essay arguing that typing two spaces after a period is wrong, with the typographic histor…

mrwint.github.io Article

Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge

A detective story about a 1991 Winter Olympics DOS game, digging into its hidden rules and tricks to find out how its ev…

en.uncyclopedia.co Article

Uncyclopedia

A satirical parody of Wikipedia written entirely as comedy, turning the encyclopedia format itself into a long-running a…

bengoldhaber.substack.com Article

Unexpected Things That Are People

An essay on the strange legal fact that rivers, ships, corporations and idols have all been treated as persons, explorin…

greenharbor.com Article

Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips

A darkly funny guide to surviving a fall from a crashing airliner, part of the Free Fall Research Page with its archive…

unselfing.social Article

unselfing.social

A short manifesto against the culture of self-celebration, calling on readers to make and share creative work about some…

urbandictionary.com Article

Urban Dictionary

A crowdsourced dictionary of slang, internet jargon, and joke definitions that has documented the evolving vocabulary of…

catsmeatshop.blogspot.co.uk Article

Victorian Monkey Tennis?

A Victorian history blog shares a manager's notes of attraction ideas for Alexandra Palace around 1880 - including, appa…

collectorsweekly.com Article

Visiting Scarfolk

A tour of Scarfolk, Richard Littler's darkly funny 1970s British town of fake public-information posters, cursed ephemer…

joelgustafson.com Article

Visualizing 13 Million Bluesky Users

A visual essay mapping Bluesky's follow graph into clusters, with layouts and plots that reveal the distinct communities…

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