January 30, 2010
January 20, 2010
January 17, 2010
January 12, 2010
December 31, 2009
- Adam Parrish on the Joking Computer
what we can learn from a punning program
December 28, 2009
- How Victoria’s Secret modifies a photo
in short, a lot
- New Yorker 2009 news quiz
i just think it’s an interesting coincidence
December 3, 2009
November 27, 2009
- Video: Gerald Chertavian at Big Think
nice interview on social enterprise and education reform
November 26, 2009
- Archive of MIDI files from Geocities
yakety sax had not yet gone viral
November 25, 2009
November 20, 2009
November 6, 2009
- Denver Post photographer follows one soldier for 27 months
induction, training, and deployment in iraq
October 25, 2009
October 11, 2009
- Interview with a New Yorker copy editor
a good writer can make you care about anything
- POV video of a skier starting an avalanche
warning: hard to watch
- BBC analysis of some of the Beatles’ multitrack masters
amazing research
September 29, 2009
- Entire cities recreated from geotagged Flickr photos
like autostitch on a scale of hundreds of thousands of images
- Robin Hanson - This is the Dream Time
low-delusion heroes and the strange rich clowns around them
September 14, 2009
- Book titles if they were written today
the unbelievable truth
September 13, 2009
- British PM releases official apology for treatment of Alan Turing
we’re sorry, you deserved so much better
August 28, 2009
August 27, 2009
- Venn diagram of mythical creatures
mermahuataur?
August 14, 2009
- What would it take to replace the NYC subway?
at least 76 more brooklyn bridges, plus 3.8 square miles of parking spaces
August 7, 2009
- Vol Libre, Loren Carpenter’s 1980 CG film
29 years later, he’s the chief scientist at pixar
- Launch years of the 50 most popular sites on the internet
43% of today’s top 50 have been around since 1996 or earlier
July 19, 2009
- Flickr commenter identifies only known photo of Phineas Gage
mistakenly captioned ‘the whaler’ for over 30 years, until the flickr community figured it out
- Elliott Malkin’s Home Movie Reconstructions
1974 to 2004
July 14, 2009
- Eric Kleptone to broadcast live from the Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square
cool art project; looking forward to a recording
July 13, 2009
- Pew trends in Internet usage over the last 10 years
only this year (!) did we pass 50% of american adults using the internet on a daily basis
July 6, 2009
June 29, 2009
- How the NYT kept news of David Rohde’s kidnapping off of Wikipedia
for 7 months (!)
June 28, 2009
- The Toaster Project
attempting to build a 3.99 toaster from scratch, including mining all the raw materials
- Nabokov papers now open at the Library of Congress
including manuscripts and notes for pale fire and lolita
June 23, 2009
- Infographic: The story (so far) of Twitter
love the roots
June 21, 2009
- John Hodgman on Barack Obama’s nerdiness
you may be the kwisatz haderach
June 17, 2009
- Interview with James Wood
easy to attack precisely because he offers so much to consider
June 16, 2009
- NYT on the role of Twitter in Iran
‘the qualities that make twitter seem inane and half-baked are what make it so powerful’
June 12, 2009
June 6, 2009
- Graphic: How to be happy in business
in venn diagram format