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Emacs Appearances in Pop Culture
A fun tour of the places the Emacs editor turns up in movies, TV shows and games, with screenshots and notes on how it e…
Emotion Eric
An affectionate interview catching up with Emotion Eric, the kid whose website of exaggerated facial expressions became…
English Homonyms, Homophones and Homographs
A giant list of more than 300 English words that sound or look alike, with Richard Lederer's playful essay on the awful…
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Erik Blevins' Kick-Ass Movie Pitches
A collection of the gloriously unhinged movie pitches a Staples employee mailed to Patton Oswalt for years, convinced th…
Everyone Knows Your Location
A hands-on investigation into how leaked in-app ad data can pinpoint a person's home and routine, told by someone who tr…
Everything From a 1991 Radio Shack Ad I Now Do With My Phone
A nostalgic tally of a 1991 Radio Shack newspaper ad showing how nearly every gadget on the page, from calculator to cam…
Evil Mickey Attacks Japan (1934)
A look at a 1934 Japanese propaganda cartoon in which an evil Mickey Mouse leads an invasion of Japan and is fought off…
Fallout RPG in Excel
A hobbyist explains how he built a full Fallout-inspired post-apocalyptic role-playing game inside an Excel spreadsheet,…
Feelyat: A Corpus-Based Analysis
A linguistic analysis of the faux-Germanic gibberish spoken in a 1994 Kids in the Hall sketch, treated like a real langu…
FictionPress
A companion site to FanFiction.net devoted entirely to original, non-fanfiction stories that writers post chapter by cha…
Filing the Corners off My MacBooks
A short, cheerful defense of sanding the sharp corners off his MacBooks, with close-up photos and an invitation for ever…
Finding Waldo in Pi
Taking up an SMBC comic challenge, a math blogger searches the digits of pi for a sequence that can be drawn as a recogn…
Finger: The 1971 Social Network That Never Died
A look at the Unix finger protocol, arguably the first social network, with no accounts or ads, and how people still use…
Floppinux
A walkthrough for building a tiny embedded Linux that boots from a single 1.44 MB floppy disk, a retro-computing challen…
Fortune Cookie Fortunes
Josh Madison's alphabetical list of every fortune cookie fortune he has collected since 2008, with counts for repeats, a…
Found at Goodwill: WebPad 1001 Prototype
A thrift-store find turns into a hardware mystery: an unbranded bright blue gadget is taken apart, booted and traced bac…
Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
A creative retelling in the spirit of Frog and Toad, where the two friends face the most modern of challenges as machine…
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
A former Apple and NeXT engineer recounts the one email he ever received from Steve Jobs and the small, surprising story…
Furiosa's Cat Feeder
A maker's witty build log of hacking an automatic cat feeder after one clever cat keeps outsmarting it, with photos of e…
Garage Door Torsion Spring Replacement
A classic no-frills guide to safely replacing broken garage door torsion springs, with step-by-step photos and hard-won…
Generated Detective #1
A detective story generated by computer from fragments of public domain detective novels, made for NaNoGenMo 2014 and to…
Generation Junk
Walter Kirn's funny, sharp essay on why nothing he buys works anymore, starting from a seven-dollar vintage juicer that…
Generative Art Over the Years
A maker looks back on nine years and over a hundred generative art pieces, showing how a programming exercise turned int…
Genius | Song Lyrics & Knowledge
A crowd-annotated database of song lyrics with line-by-line explanations, artist commentary, and music news.
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