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The Director of Toy Story Also Drew the BSD Daemon
A short bit of computing trivia revealing that John Lasseter, director of Toy Story, drew the BSD daemon mascot, with th…
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The distractions of social media, 1673 style
Historian Tom Standage shows how 17th century English coffeehouses were accused of wasting time and ruining productivity…
The dril Turing Test
Is that tweet from the legendary weird-Twitter poster dril or from a GPT-2 bot trained on him? Guess real, fake or neith…
The Drive
An automotive news and culture site with car reviews, model reveals, industry scoops and features on the people and mach…
The Dweetabase
A searchable browser for every Dwitter dweet, the 140-character JavaScript animations, with live playback so you can scr…
The Embroidered Computer
An art project by Irene Posch: a programmable 8-bit computer hand-stitched from historic gold embroidery threads, glass…
The Endeavour
John D. Cook's long-running blog of short posts on mathematics, statistics, computing and data privacy, full of useful i…
The Era of American Computer Magazines Has Drawn to a Close
A nostalgic look at the end of the American computer magazine, from buying Maximum PC at airport newsstands to what disa…
The Exact Location Where the Web Was Invented
A bit of web-history detective work that pins down the exact building and office at CERN where Tim Berners-Lee invented…
The Experience Longhorn Project
An archive that walks through Microsoft Longhorn, the ambitious Windows XP successor that collapsed in 2004, with build…
The Fintech Times
A monthly newspaper dedicated to fintech, exploring the ecosystems, startups and technology reshaping banking, payments…
The First Apple Homepage
Kevin Fox digs up what may be Apple's earliest homepage from the early 1990s and walks through its screenshot, links and…
The Floppy Museum
A museum of floppy disks and obsolete media served from an old 286 PC booted entirely from a single 3.5-inch floppy, wit…
The Folders Programming Language
An esoteric language where programs are written as nested folder structures, from Daniel Temkin's collection of playful,…
The Fractal Nature of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
A behind-the-scenes look at the visual effects of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, covering the fractal design of Ego and…
The Fraud Supply Chain
Patrick McKenzie's essay on how credit card fraud really works as an industry, with specialized firms selling stolen car…
The Fun Factor of the Video Game Uplink
A game-design essay on why Uplink, the hacking simulation, is so compelling, looking at its interface, pacing and sense…
The Gadgeteer
A gadget news and review site running since 1997, covering gadgets, toys, everyday-carry gear, and other interesting tec…
The Game Boy Pocket SP
Allison Parrish recounts modding a Game Boy Pocket into a folding clamshell handheld she calls the Pocket SP, with photo…
The GDELT Project
An open database and set of interactive visualizations tracking global news events, sentiment, and connections drawn fro…
The Geomblog
A long-running blog of ruminations on computational geometry, algorithms and theoretical computer science, with notes on…
The Ghost in the MP3
Ryan Maguire's project rescues the audio that MP3 compression discards from Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner and turns those l…
The Gold Standard of Optimization: RollerCoaster Tycoon
A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon and the assembly-level tricks that let one developer make the classic park…
The Good Man
A one-page experiment in basic CSS3 animations, showing how far stylesheets alone can bring a scene to life in the brows…
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