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A MacBook Touchscreen for $1
A clever hack that uses a small mirror and some computer vision to make an ordinary MacBook respond to touch, with demos…
A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane
A first-person investigation into a viral Reddit post complaining about bots that turns out to be a bot itself, selling…
A Requiem for a Dying Operating System
A tongue-in-cheek 1994 verse lament for the VMS operating system, sent to the Unix-Haters Handbook editors and preserved…
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A review of Julian Assange's favourite meme
Artist Chris Hayes reviews the wake-up-sheeple meme as if it were a gallery artwork, dissecting its composition, symboli…
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A Rocket Cat?
A Penn special-collections post on the bizarre rocket cat and rocket bird illustrations in a 16th-century artillery manu…
A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
The strange story of ghost characters in Japan's JIS X 0208 encoding: phantom kanji that were never real words yet haunt…
A Time Before Algorithms Took Over the 90's Web
A nostalgic essay on the chaotic, personal 90s web of handmade homepages and creative oddities, and how far it feels fro…
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A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab
A 2006 insider's walk through the lab where Microsoft tested Office for Mac, with photos of rows of vintage Macs and sto…
Accidentally Turing-Complete
A list of things that were not supposed to be Turing-complete but are, a tour of the surprising places where general com…
Adam? ...is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge?
A funny 2006 tale of a hot laptop, an overheating problem and a very creative cooling solution that ended up in the hous…
ADSL works over wet string
A delightfully nerdy post confirming that broadband really can run over a piece of wet string, with the details of how a…
Agloe, New York
The story of Agloe, a fictional town invented by mapmakers as a copyright trap that briefly became real when someone ope…
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
A famous list of witty engineering maxims from aerospace professor David Akin, such as 'Engineering is done with numbers…
Alive Internet Theory
An essay by internet artist Spencer Chang arguing that bots will never win and celebrating tiny online spaces where peop…
All of the 8,331 License Plates in America
A visual catalogue of every license plate design the US states offer, from universities and sports teams to professions…
Always Invite Anna
A short personal essay about the friends who always say no to invitations and why you should keep asking anyway, with a…
Always Look Down in London
A photo-led tour of London's pavement oddities, from old coal-hole covers to tiny markers and hidden inscriptions you ca…
Amiga Juggler Animation
The story of the 1986 Amiga Juggler ray-traced animation, with the history and technique behind a famous early computer-…
Anglish
A wiki about Anglish, a form of English that swaps borrowed Latin and French words for native Germanic ones, with word l…
Apple iPod engraver
A former Apple web designer recounts building the iPod engraving page for the online store in the mid-2000s, with design…
Attacking My Landlord's Boiler
A tenant who spent months cold digs into the building's shared boiler system to find out why it never works, in an enter…
Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages
A charming personal project in which the author prints years of iMessage history into paperback books, with the scripts,…
Auto-Generating Clickbait With Recurrent Neural Networks
A developer trains a neural network on millions of headlines and shares the hilariously plausible clickbait it invents,…
Bad Songs of the Seventies
Perfect Sound Forever's affectionate roast of the worst musical refuse of the 1970s, compiled with Billy Bob Hargus and…
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