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Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag
A playful essay on Denglisch and Berlinglish, the pseudo-English words Germans invent, and what these borrowed and bent…
Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear
A playful dive into how emoji really work, showing how invisible joiner characters glue bear and snowflake into polar be…
Behind the Name
An exhaustive etymology and history reference for first names from every culture and era, perfect for rabbit-hole browsi…
Being Raised by the Internet
A personal essay on growing up with little money and how the early internet, forums and open tools became a teacher and…
Being Too Ambitious Is a Clever Form of Self-Sabotage
A reflective essay on how grand ambitions can quietly become an excuse never to start, and how doing small, real things…
Bizarre Insurance Claims
A collection of funny quotes lifted from real insurance claim forms over the years, in which policyholders describe thei…
Boing Boing
A long-running blog of curated wonderful things, covering technology, culture, art, gadgets, and the weird and offbeat.
Boomtown at Dawn: Atomic Parties
An illustrated history of the 1950s Las Vegas atomic parties, with rooftop blast-viewing at the Desert Inn and Sands and…
Broken Pencil
A magazine and community celebrating zines and independent small-press culture, reviewing self-published books and under…
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2024 Winners
The 2024 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical competition for the worst possible opening sentences…
Burning a NeXTCube (1993)
Simson Garfinkel's famous 1993 post telling how a NeXTcube was set on fire, a darkly funny piece of early Internet lore.
CAN Injection: Keyless Car Theft
A detective story about how a car got stolen with a tiny device plugged into its headlight wiring, and how that led to u…
Casio TM-100 Transmitter Watch
A look at the 1987 Casio TM-100, a digital watch with a hidden FM transmitter you could tune into on a radio, from a sit…
Celebrating the First NES Tetris Game Crash
A write-up of the moment Blue Scuti broke NES Tetris, reaching the long-theoretical crash screen, with the context of ho…
Character Amnesia in China
Explores why many literate Chinese speakers now struggle to hand-write characters they can read, thanks to phones and ty…
Charles Mingus Cat Toilet Training Program
The jazz bassist Charles Mingus's own numbered instructions for teaching a cat to use a human toilet, a strange and funn…
Chasing Cats
A homemade project log in which a neural network watches the front yard through a camera and turns on the sprinklers whe…
Chess Puzzle From My Dad's Old Book
A chess problem composed by Kempelen, builder of the famous Mechanical Turk, found in an old book and presented to solve…
CIA 2010 Covert Communication Websites
A write-up of the network of fake websites the CIA used to talk to agents in Iran and China, how researchers found them,…
Cigar Box Nation
A community of hobbyist builders and players devoted to cigar box guitars, sharing build plans, videos, and homemade ins…
Clay's Big Adventure at Atari
A nostalgic first-person account, with photos, of a 13-year-old Atari fanatic talking his family into visiting Atari hea…
Climbing a Shard of Glass
Urban explorer Bradley Garrett's photo account of sneaking into the unfinished Shard in London and climbing to the crane…
Commercially Available Chairs in Star Trek
An obsessively detailed catalogue of the real off-the-shelf office chairs, lounge chairs and car seats that turn up as f…
Computers Cannot Make Decisions
A short essay unpacking the famous idea that a computer can never be held accountable and therefore must never make a ma…
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