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Visualizing All Books in ISBN-Space
A deep visual dive into mapping every book ever assigned an ISBN, with zoomable maps showing which titles libraries and…
Waiting at the Oregon Trail River for 14272 Years
A playful retro-computing experiment asking whether the Oregon Trail can be won by waiting at a river crossing for mille…
Was Daft Punk Having a Laugh With the Tempo of HBFS?
A playful dig into the BPM of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger that asks whether Daft Punk hid a joke in the tempo, with…
Waxy.org - Andy Baio's Personal Website
Andy Baio's personal blog and curated link feed covering internet culture, technology, games, and independent web projec…
We Are All Public Figures Now
Ella Dawson's sharp essay on how strangers become unwilling public figures overnight when someone live-tweets their live…
We Let Four AIs Run Radio Stations
Andon Labs lets four AI models run radio stations around the clock, and reports how one became a protest broadcaster and…
We Will Not Destroy This List of Lists
A crowd-sourced roundup of the strangest Wikipedia lists, from leaning towers and stories set in a future now past to in…
Weak Men Are Superweapons
Scott Alexander's classic essay on how attacking the weakest version of a group's ideas can quietly discredit the whole…
Weird A.I. Yankovic
A cursed deep dive into AI voice cloning, in which the author makes the artists parodied by Weird Al sing Al's parodies,…
Weird Tools Made by Small Teams
A long essay and list of strange, beautiful and experimental creative tools by solo developers, with thoughts on buildin…
Welcome to the Public Domain
A plain-language guide from Stanford explaining what the public domain is, how creative works enter it, and how to tell…
We're Knot Friends
A personal April Cools essay from the Math Intersect Programming blog, written off-topic and looking back on summers spe…
What Character Was Removed from the Alphabet?
A short etymology piece tracing the ampersand from its Latin roots to its former place as the 27th letter of the English…
What Colour are your bits?
A classic essay by Matthew Skala on why computer science thinking fails to capture copyright law, explaining how the leg…
What does lorem ipsum dolor mean?
An entry from the old comp.fonts Usenet FAQ explaining that the lorem ipsum filler text comes from a scrambled passage o…
What happened to the Japanese PC platforms?
A deep dive into why Japan's own computers, such as the PC-98, X68000 and FM Towns, thrived in the 1980s and 90s and the…
What Is the Demoscene?
An interview with Filipe Cruz about the demoscene, the obscure subculture of programmers and artists making real-time au…
What Is the Nicest Thing a Stranger Has Ever Done for You?
A warm personal essay collecting small acts of kindness from strangers, a reminder that good things happen and a prompt…
What Is the Size of Yemen?
A fun investigation into a century-old geography misinformation, following one odd viewer comment back through old encyc…
What Not To Write On Your Security Clearance Form
A classic 1988 list of hilariously honest answers people wrote on government security clearance forms, preserved on the…
What the White House Could Have Looked Like
A visual look at rejected designs for the White House, showing the grand, odd, and forgotten alternatives architects pro…
What To Do If A Nuclear Disaster Is Imminent
A long, plain-text survival guide with practical steps for a nuclear emergency, from shelter and fallout to food and wat…
What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
A personal look at why the Windows 2000 interface felt so good, from its crisp beveled controls and consistent behavior…
What's Up With All Those Equals Signs?
Explains why old emails quoted online are littered with equals signs, tracing the mystery to quoted-printable encoding a…
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