Friday, October 3 » 80 of the Most Iconic Guitar Intros
Friday, October 3 » Name A 28-Year-Old. “The data tells us that 3,880,894 children were born...
Friday, October 3 » I think I’m gonna read Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence next,...
Friday, October 3 » Harvard Library’s collection of Soviet and post-Soviet lapel pins. Sputnik, ...
Friday, October 3 » Swift Justice: A Look Inside a Taliban Courtroom
Friday, October 3 » Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem, an interview with Ted Chiang...
Friday, October 3 » The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time, including, of course,...
Friday, October 3 » Instead of hiding rips and tears, the visible mending movement turns them...
Friday, October 3 » Old Masters, New Media
Friday, October 3 » When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in...
Thursday, October 2 » A Chronology of All 113 Prints of Hokusai’s The Great Wave
Thursday, October 2 » Are you ok? In a recent video, Hank Green tells his brother...
Thursday, October 2 » Quentin Blake: How I Draw
Thursday, October 2 » The official number of exoplanets tracked by NASA has reached 6000. Astronomers...
Thursday, October 2 » Musician Plays the Last Stradivarius Guitar in the World, the “SabionariR...
Thursday, October 2 » A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot. The company says...
Thursday, October 2 » Have I Earned It?
Thursday, October 2 » A new kind of bone glue that “mimics how oysters stick to...
Thursday, October 2 » 25 years ago today, Radiohead released Kid A. This morning, I’m celebrating...
Thursday, October 2 » “Scientists reflect on the life and work of [Jane Goodall], whose discoverie...
Wednesday, October 1 » Amateurs! How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters. “A bold,...
Wednesday, October 1 » Every Click
Wednesday, October 1 » The driest desert on Earth (non-polar category) is blooming in a gorgeous...
Wednesday, October 1 » From Haymarket Books, an Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List....
Wednesday, October 1 » A Loophole to Survive the End of the Universe?
Wednesday, October 1 » Anil Dash on Mariah Carey’s unreleased “Hole-inspired grunge albumR...
Wednesday, October 1 » Which one of these paintings of a guitar player is by Johannes...
Wednesday, October 1 » The Age Of Innocence: Adaptation Done Right
Wednesday, October 1 » Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America. The manifestation of a Trump...
Wednesday, October 1 » Five More Things I Want to Tell My White Friends. “Please understand...
Tuesday, September 30 » I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein....
Tuesday, September 30 » 12 Booker Prize 2025 nominees share their writing spots. “There are kitchen...
Tuesday, September 30 » Every Click
Tuesday, September 30 » Na Kim, in the Abstract
Tuesday, September 30 » This question from Ta-Nehisi Coates in his recent conversation with Ezra Klein...
Tuesday, September 30 » The Future Was Then: an Exhibition of Fascist Italian Posters
Tuesday, September 30 » How to actually live like a local. “The thing is, nobody ever...
Tuesday, September 30 » A long profile of Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the WWW. “Tim...
Tuesday, September 30 » Mister Rogers Visits Sesame Street (1981)
Tuesday, September 30 » New book from Patrick Radden Keefe (Say Nothing, Empire of Pain): London...
Tuesday, September 30 » Yes, this exactly: “The government is already shut down, and has been...
Tuesday, September 30 » An oral history of Deltron 3030’s stupendous debut album....
Monday, September 29 » Huh, the original version of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears fairy...
Monday, September 29 » A Tour of the New David Bowie Archive
Monday, September 29 » They’re bringing back Reading Rainbow, hosted by Mychal the Librarian....
Monday, September 29 » Mussolini: Son Of The Century
Monday, September 29 » Natalia Newsome is a 5’11” sophomore volleyball player for SMU; she...
Monday, September 29 » Bisa Butler, Hold Me Close
Monday, September 29 » Ismail Ibrahim worked as a fact checker for an unnamed magazine (it...
Monday, September 29 » In post-Soviet Russia, Sauron is good actually? “It became a story about...
Monday, September 29 » M. Gessen: This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know...
Monday, September 29 » Nikole Hannah-Jones on the bipartisan tributes of Charlie Kirk & the mainstreaming...
Monday, September 29 » An asteroid discovered in 2024 has a small chance of hitting the...
Friday, September 26 » Taking the Day
Thursday, September 25 » For more than a century in the 18th & 19th centuries, an...
Thursday, September 25 » A four-year-old mystery finally solved: who was the awkwardly tall stranger at...
Thursday, September 25 » Engineering Lego Cars to Climb Increasingly Tall Walls
Thursday, September 25 » From Eater, a list of the 38 most essential & influential US...
Thursday, September 25 » How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps). “The...
Thursday, September 25 » The Black Hole That Could Rewrite Cosmology. Astronomers may have found a...
Thursday, September 25 » Former NBA star Reggie Miller’s neighbors got him hooked on mountain biking....
Wednesday, November 25 » Kamra's Deja Vu
real-time face manipulation in the form of a music video [ via ]
Wednesday, November 25 » Nicky Case's Emoji Simulator
Vi Hart made a pretty complicated one
Wednesday, November 25 » xkcd's Hoverboard
it's bigger than it looks
Wednesday, November 25 » Bret Victor goes deep on what technologists can do about climate change
"despair is not useful. Despair is paralysis, and there's work to be done"
Wednesday, November 25 » Donald Trump's skid towards outright fascism
I hope Nate Silver's right , but Trump's gone from mildly amusing to scary pretty quick...
Monday, November 23 » Jason Scott on the Infocom Cabinet
staggering collection of Infocom history , now on Archive.org
Monday, November 23 » NeuralTalk and Walk
Kyle McDonald walks around Amsterdam with a neural net trying to describe what it sees ...
Sunday, November 22 » How Reddit Talks
n-gram analysis of Reddit comments from 2007-2015
Friday, November 20 » Operation Wonderland
re-enacting reference footage for Alice in Wonderland; actual reference shots here
Friday, November 20 » Line of Sight
live visualization of satellites in the line of sight above us; more info here [ via ]&...
Friday, November 20 » Gay Island
homophobic Tumblr post turns into dystopian young adult sci-fi
Thursday, November 19 » Behind-the-scenes story of Google Pac-Man background audio bug in 2010
bizarre confluence of browser plugin and bad design choices
Thursday, November 19 » Paint Drying
force the British film board to watch paint drying; currently at six hours, six minutes...
Tuesday, November 17 » Valleywag "permanently shuttered" in Gawker refocusing
I fully expect someone else to fill this niche soon
Tuesday, November 17 » Unfollow
Adrian Chen on Megan Phelps-Roper, a former Westboro Baptist member that found empathy ...
Monday, November 16 » Rdio to shut down in wake of Pandora acquisition
I always preferred Spotify's listening model, but the loss of a good competitor is a bu...
Monday, November 16 » Maciej Ceglowski live-tweets the Next:Economy conference
if the whole bookmarking thing doesn't work out, he has a great future in conference co...
Monday, November 16 » VR Guitar
the race is on for the first full VR band
Sunday, November 15 » mirror lake
stunning generative art by Katie Rose Pipkin