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Investigating Corrupt Winamp Skins
A deep dive into corrupted Winamp skins, following the oddities found inside broken files down some very strange rabbit…
IOCCC Flight Simulator
The author of a winning Obfuscated C Code Contest entry presents his full flight simulator written in under 2 KB of code…
IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District
A student recounts his senior prank: taking over the IPTV system of a huge Illinois school district to rickroll thousand…
Ironic Sans: #DearInventor
David Friedman's Ironic Sans post collecting playful invention ideas like pre-pixelated clothes for reality TV, from a b…
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Is Grover swearing? No, it's in your ears
A phonetics professor breaks down the viral Sesame Street clip where Grover seems to swear, using spectrograms to explai…
Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?
The infamous 2001 Adequacy.org satire that warns parents their son may be a hacker if he uses Linux, owns a modem or kno…
It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
A funny, Rube Goldberg style account of wiring a home doorbell through a chain of cloud services, and the absurd complex…
It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code
A short, true-story dialogue by ed weissman showing how layers of process turn a one-line software change into days of m…
Iterating Towards Bethlehem
A Peter Watts essay on spider cognition and what tiny brains can do, a thoughtful science writing piece from a hard scie…
Jeff Varasano's NY Pizza Recipe
Jeff Varasano's legendary, exhaustively detailed guide to making Neapolitan-style pizza at home, covering dough, starter…
Jokes and Humour in the public Android API
A tour of the jokes, easter eggs and silly placeholder strings that Android engineers left in the platform's public API,…
Justin's Links from the Underground (1996 Intro)
Justin Hall's summer 1996 introduction to his pioneering personal web diary, reflecting on sharing your mind online in t…
Kane Robinson
A scrolling longform story about a student who ran an indie music forum for 12,000 fans from his bedroom in North East E…
Kid Pix - The Early Years
Craig Hickman tells the story of creating Kid Pix, the beloved children's painting program, from a rough prototype for h…
Kilnettle Shrine Talking Tape Dispenser
A maker builds a talking tape dispenser inspired by Father Ted that tells you how much sticky tape you've used, god bles…
Kilroy Was Here
An illustrated essay with audio narration on the Kilroy Was Here doodle that spread across World War II, asking whether…
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
Jason Kottke's long-running curated blog highlighting interesting finds across art, science, technology, and culture sin…
LackRack
The famous hacker-wiki guide to turning a cheap IKEA LACK side table into a 19-inch server rack, with measurements, phot…
L'Affaire Siloxane
The strange true story of how antiperspirant fumes nearly led NASA to evacuate the International Space Station, told wit…
Largest Island in a Lake on an Island in a Lake
A geography curiosity hunt for the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island, with maps and a satisfy…
Launch 98
A 1998 photo report of a Linux user group rocket launch where the fins were cut from Windows 98 beta CDs, with launch pr…
Lenna Meets Lenna in Person
The story of Lenna Soderberg attending an imaging conference in 1997, where researchers met the woman behind the famous…
Lie still in bed
A short personal essay by Ognjen Regoje about the simple, restorative habit of lying still in bed and letting your thoug…
Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Theories
An outline of the many theories surrounding Lincoln's assassination, including one-page summaries, claims that Lincoln e…
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