Links
These are the bookmarks I've collected throughout my years browsing the net.I hope you might find some part of it useful.
Favorites
- Daring Fireball
- kottke.org
- Ars Technica
- Atlantic
- BBC
- CBC
- CTV
- LaPresse
- MetaFilter
- Quanta
- Mtl City Weblog
TV
- MIB's major conflict (LOST)
- Turkeys Away: An Oral History
- The Oral History of 1990s YTV
- What it's like to be on Jeopardy
- If I Wrote a Coronavirus Episode
- The Night Tony Soprano Disappeared
- The 100 Best TV Episodes of the Century
- Find your next binge-watch! - Rating Graph
- Who Is America Rapper Ness Lee Responds
- TV bests: 25 episodes that changed television
- Game-Filled Korean Reality Show Is A Must-Watch
- When Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki Fell in Love
- It Still Stings: Veronica Mars and Logan Echolls' Fate
- Vanna White Takes a Spin as ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Host
- Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes appraised by episode
- 5 takeaways from The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air Reunion
- "Just One More Thing": Columbo and Class Disruption
- Terrible name, terrific sitcom: Schitt's Creek a surprise hit
- Chucky Turns a Tired Horror Cliché Into a Queer Narrative
- ‘Stranger Things’ Is Back, and the Duffer Brothers Made It Big
- Two friends facing off resulted in the greatest Columbo episode
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: What I Learned Writing for 'Veronica Mars'
- 2009 MTV VMAs Oral History: Kanye West Interrupts Taylor Swift
- Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’?
SNL
- HOW WE DID IT — SNL Title Sequence
- The Nine Lives of “Saturday Night Live”
- Don Pardo Dead: Voice Of SNL Dies At 96
- Talking to Zach Kanin About Writing for 'SNL'
- All Eyes On Wally Feresten, the Cue-Card Guy
- David Spade: This is why Eddie Murphy hated me
- What It Was Like Seeing Saturday Night Live, Live
- ‘SNL’s James Downey on Working with Norm Macdonald
- 40 years of inspired graphic design in SNL’s title sequence
- SNL super fan from Queens boasts first-ever permanent ticket
SNL -- Lorne Michaels
- The God of ‘SNL’ Will See You Now
- In Conversation: SNL's Lorne Michaels
- Lorne Michaels - Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee
- Lorne Michaels’ 10 Favorite Lines From Saturday Night Live
- 'If They Have It, It's Undeniable': Lorne Michaels On Casting 'SNL'
SNL -- Sketch/episode retrospectives
- Black Jeopardy Oral History
- The Best Cameo Appearances in ‘SNL’ History
- Remembering Every Second of 'Debbie Downer'
- An Oral History Of The Time Wayne Gretzky Hosted SNL
- “Saturday Night Live” and Richard Pryor: The untold story
- Vanessa Bayer never breaks. Except when Regine comes to visit.
- SNL, Dec. 15, 1984 (Host: Eddie Murphy) · A Very Special Episode
- SNL: Best, Worst and Most Memorable Musical Guests of All-Time
SNL -- Cast member profiles/interviews
- Talking to Fred Armisen About 'SNL'
- Kenan Thompson on Saturday Night Live
- Live From New York...It's Kenan and Cecily!
- Talking with Bill Hader about 'SNL', Breaking
- Chris Farley Was My Summer Camp Counselor
- Kenan Thompson video and interview transcript
- Bill Hader On Sketch Comedy, His Love Of Old Films
- Kenan Thompson: The 'SNL' Legend Is Ready for More
- ‘If You Take Out Kenan Thompson, The Studio Will Explode'
- Ego, Melissa, and Heidi Want You To Know They’re Friends
- Quiet brilliance of SNL’s longest-tenured cast member (Kenan)
Buffy
- The best episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer
- Why Academics Love 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'
- Episodes for someone who hasn't watched Buffy
- Joss Whedon Allegations: The Undoing of the ‘Buffy’ Creator
Psych
- Halloween/Spookier episodes of psych
- Psych-O-Ween (Halloween Episode Guide)
- Favorite Psych Season and Top 5 Episodes RESULTS!
- Timothy Omundson on getting back to Psych after his stroke
Frasier
- Why 'Frasier' Is Peak Comfort Television
- 'Frasier' Has Always Had a Maris Problem
- Nerd History 101: Top 20 Frasier Episodes
- David Hyde Pierce On When We Rise, Frasier, and Coming Out
- Frasier/Niles Relationship in a Real-Time Dinner Party Meltdown
X-Files
- The X-Files (Reviews)
- Q&A w/ Dean Haglund
- Mythology Episodes Database
- How To Fix The Revival Mythology
- Feel good episodes of the X-Files?
- The X-Files – Gethsemane (Review)
- ‘The X-Files’ Best Episode of ‘Cops’
- Did Mulder and Scully investigate an X-File near you?
- Of Mulder/Scully and the Birth of the "Shipping" Phenomenon
Star Trek
- TrekCore
- Ex Astris Scientia
- Some Kind of Star Trek
- My Star Trek Reviews
- The Greatest Generation
- 10 Best Star Trek GIFs Ever
- The Star Trek Chronology Project
- Live Long and Star Trek on Vimeo
- Star Trek Character Data Visualization
- Where Did Spock and Nero Come From?
- [Fan Theory] Federation eventually becomes the Borg
- Beam me up: A beginner’s guide to the Star Trek franchise
- Why does the Star Trek franchise keep returning to its origins?
- Interview: Nana Visitor Writing A Star Trek Book
- Why 'Star Trek' made SF the center of the universe
- Nancy Jo Sales's Star Trek Convention 2015 Road Trip
- John de Lancie Talks Reprising Q on 'Star Trek: Picard'
- A Life Frequently Apart, but an Enterprise They’ll Boldly Take On
- Star Trek Halloween Episode List
- Uplifting Star Trek Episodes and Movies
- Best Episode of Star Trek Polls (All Series)
- Star Trek Poll Says Scariest of ALL Trek Episodes Was...
Star Trek -- TNG
- Shaka, When the Walls Fell
- Next Generation Transcripts
- Star Trek: The Next Generation In 40 Hours
- Spencer Garrett Looks Back At The Drumhead
- Scenes Worth Saving: Happy 16th Birthday, Wesley
- John De Lancie Surprise Appearance At Convention
- 10 things you might not know about STAR TREK: TNG
- 77 Must-Watch Star Trek: The Next Generation Episodes
- The Most Daring Cliffhanger in 'Next Generation' History
- 12 Best Episodes for Celebrating Captain Picard's Return
- Ron Moore on Star Trek: TNG, DS9, the WILD Way he Got the Job
- 'Star Trek': Jonathan Frakes on Directing Next Generation, Lower Decks
- In the end, Picard became fan-service TNG reunion
Star Trek -- DS9
- Rene Auberjonois Recalled by Nana Visitor
- 117 Must-Watch Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes
- Celebrating Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang with James Darren
- Ira Steven Behr Reveals How He Really Wanted DS9 To End
Star Trek -- VOY
- Fun And Practical Jokes On The Voyager Set
- INTERVIEW: Voyager's Doctor Chaotica, Martin Rayner
- Lisa Klink Takes Us Inside The ‘Voyager’ Writers’ Room
- Serialized “Year Of Hell” Season Rejected By Rick Berman
Cartoons
- ‘The Simpsons’ Is Good Again
- An Oral History of 'Marge vs The Monorail'
- Why 'Hey Arnold!' Had the Most Amazing City on TV
- Ranking Every 'Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror Segment
- How "ReBoot" Predicted The Future But Got Left Behind
- The story behind the iconic Vietnam episode of 'Hey Arnold!'
- YTV in the '90s influenced entire gen. of artists to 'keep it weird'
- Marc Brown on the End of ‘Arthur’ and His Favorite Fan Theories
Iron Chef
- Allez Cuisine!
- Iron Chef Collection
- Iron Chef Episode Exchange
- Wokin' and Rollin': Dubbing Iron Chef
- An Ode to Iron Chef: The Cooking Show That Reigned Supreme
Are You Afraid of the Dark? / Goosebumps
- AME with D.J. MacHale
- A Message from Aron Tager on Vimeo
- 'Goosebumps' at 30: R.L. Stine interview
- 13 Things About Are You Afraid of the Dark?
- That time when Halloween was the Dark Night
- Are You Afraid of the Dark returns to your TV tonight
- Goosebumps, AYAOTD and the Canadian kids' TV boom
- 'I never wanted to be scary': an interview with R. L. Stine
- This re-imagining of AYAOTD is Midnight Society approved
- Classic Games Reimagined As R.L. Stine Goosebumps Books
- Big Orange Couch: The Tale of the Pinball Wizard (Podcast ep)
- 6 ‘Are You Afraid Of The Dark’ Episodes That Will Mess You Up
- What was the shooting schedule like? How was it like in Canada?
Art
- Vesia Photography (MTL)
- Guerrilla Public Service Redux
- Color Photos of the 1939 New York World's Fair
- Tokyo Looks Animated in These Amazing Photos
- Every Building on Every Block: A Time Capsule of 1930s New York
- jsPaint
- Lost cities
- Justin Peters
- G A L L E R Y
- Retro Vectors
- but does it float
- Computerworks!
- Visualizing Viruses
- *The Graphics Fairy*
- I LEGO N.Y. (NYTimes)
- Wolfman Museum of Art
- Edits Quarterly × Ian Coyle
- Japanese Creative Barcodes
- Modern technology retro'fied
- The Big Picture - Boston.com
- thecoolhunter.net - architecture
- Manifesto, 2015 | Julian Rosefeldt
- 25 Great Calvin and Hobbes Strips.
- 20 Corporate Brand Logo Evolution
- Losing Ourselves in Holiday Windows
- 10 Kick-Ass Secret Passage Bookshelves
- 15 Amazing Places You Can Tour Virtually
- If We Were Allowed To Visit by Ian MacLarty
- Hyperbole and a Half: Adventures in Depression
- Olly Moss’ 2010 Rolling Roadshow Poster Series
- Stacks of fun – the man piling up books across NYC
- James Webb telescope: the Universe as never before
Music
- Film Noir Music
- No Words, No Song
- The Nostalgia Machine
- Joanna Newsom's lyrics
- The Songs That Time Forgot
- 100 Years of Rock Visualized
- Genealogy of Pop & Rock Music
- What are your 'perfect albums'?
- The music classifying nightmare
- 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time
- Before & After Funkadelic’s ‘Maggot Brain’
- John Coltrane’s 'A Love Supreme' Lives On
- Musical tastes offer a window into how you think
- Lizzie Bravo: The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles
- Pete Townshend on Rock’s Legacy, and His Own Dark Past
- Goal: Meet the Beatles. Solution: Impersonate the opening act
- Getting Out of the Woods: A Primer on Not Being a Music Hater
Music -- Nardwuar
- The Human Serviette
- #314 Nardwuar: The Interview
- #313 Nardwuar: An Oral History
- An Interview with Nardwuar the Human Serviette
- 10 Most Entertaining Nardwuar Interviews, Ranked
- Nardwuar gets his own star on B.C.'s Walk of Fame
- Stars align as Nardwuar inducted into B.C. Hall of Fame
Movies
- DVD Talk
- SF Debris
- High Def Digest
- Short of the Week
- Mathematics in Movies
- Movie Reviews | film noir
- The Day the Movies Died: Movies + TV
- David Mamet's Memo re drama writing
- I Went to the Oscars and Nobody Cared
- Why Millennials Watch Children’s Movies
- The changing face of computers on screen
- Hayao Miyazaki Prepares to Cast One Last Spell
- Director / Crew - I am Werner Herzog, the filmmaker. AMA.
- LA becomes Blade Runner in illegal fireworks aerial video
- You Won't Believe the Line Up of Summer Movies of 1982
- How ‘WarGames’ Inspired Reagan’s Cybersecurity Policies
- This Return of the Jedi fan edit might be the ultimate version
- Samuel L. Jackson Bizarre First Encounter with Marlon Brando
- ’90s-era video rental store still exists—in some guy’s basement
Movies -- Pixar
- The Pixar Movie Ranking
- WALL·E | Typeset In The Future
- Daring Fireball: Best Picture (Wall•E)
- How Pixar’s Toy Story 2 was deleted twice
Movies -- Histories
- Nicolas Cage Can Explain It All
- An Oral History of ‘Office Space’
- 56 Up: 'It's like having another family'
- Casino Royale: discovering the lost script
- Keanu Reeves Is Too Good for This World
- "They Got the Wrong Envelope!" (Oscars)
- The Fifth Element: most optimistic sci-fi films
- Office Space 20th anniversary: Behind the scenes
- 'Child's Play': Chucky and the Horror of Creepy Dolls
- With ‘The Godfather,’ Art Imitated Mafia Life. And Vice Versa
- The Last Jedi and the necessary disappointment of epilogues
- Scott Pilgrim vs The World cast looks back on 10th anniversary
- ‘Legally Blonde’ Oral History: Raunchy Script to Feminist Classic
Movies -- Top lists
- AFI: 10 Top 10
- Good Movies List
- Best Mystery Movies
- The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies Ever
- The Greatest Films of All Time | BFI
- Every Time Travel Movie Ever, Ranked
- The 25 Most Rewatchable Movies Of All Time
- Directors’ 100 Greatest Films of All Time | BFI
Movies -- Tarantino
- The Making of Pulp Fiction
- Pulp Fiction - Official Trailer (HD)
- Tarantino On ‘Once Upon A Time,’ Trek As ‘Pulp Fiction’ In Space
- Oscar 2020 Q&A: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood's Barbara Ling
Movies -- Short films
- Sight
- Nothing
- Caine's Arcade
- The Bloody Olive
- Hidden Heroes: Johnny
- Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time
- The Politics of Competitive Board Gaming Amongst Friends
Podcasts
- #16 Rob
- This Is Not A Drill
- Teen Creeps Podcast
- The Best Podcast Episodes
- #126 Alex Jones Dramageddon | Reply All
- Anderson Cooper Explores Grief and Loss
- #158 The Case of the Missing Hit | Reply All
- #140 The Roman Mars Mazda Virus | Reply All
- Chuck E. Cheese’s: Where a Kid Can Learn Price Theory
- #102 Long Distance (podcast ep. about telephone scammer)
Literature
- Tape Delay
- Letters of Note
- Forgotten Bookmarks
- The Writing Revolution
- ‘Wayside School’ Is Back
- Mythical Creatures and Monsters
- The forgotten Internet of Cyber.kdz
- Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
- Who’s Afraid of The Handmaid’s Tale?
- The Harper Lee ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Fraud
- The madness of Susanna Clarke, fairy princess
- How Long Does It Take to Read Popular Books?
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and the Villa Diodati
- Does ‘The Da Vinci Code’ Writer Have a Secret?
- Churchill Presents His Compliments to Churchill
- Spider-Man 60 This Month. He’s as Boyish as Ever
- 'Go Set a Watchman' Should Not Have Been Published
- How a Book Publisher Failed to Get Salinger's Final Book
- Algorithm to Unravel the Rhymes of Hit Musical ‘Hamilton'
- The Enduring Allure of Choose Your Own Adventure Books
- Meet the muses behind Robert Munsch's most iconic stories
LOTR
- The Hobbit - The Tolkien Estate
- The Most Metal Deaths in Middle-earth, Ranked
- Lord of the Rings: A theory about the eagle 'plot hole'.
- J.R.R. Tolkien Reads from LOTR and Sings in a Rare Recording
Poetry
- Easter, 1916
- Narrative Poems
- T. S. Eliot's "Little Gidding"
- "Silver" by Walter de la Mare
- Atlantis by Clark Ashton Smith
- Zothique by Clark Ashton Smith
- The Castle of Dreams by Clark Ashton Smith
- Goethe: Der Zauberlehrling - German/English
- Longfellow: The Rainy Day, Ballads and Other Poems
Top lists
- Scariest books
- Harvard Classics
- ALL-TIME 100 Novels
- What Should I Read Next?
- 15 Sci-Fi Books You Should Definitely Read
- [2007-2016] The most popular books on Reddit
- 17 Brilliant Short Novels You Can Read in a Sitting
- Books Hunter S. Thompson Thinks You Should Read
- What classics did you not read until much later in your life?
- A College Curriculum on Your Bookshelf: 50 Books for 50 Classes
Language
- Online Etymology Dictionary
- The Evolution of the Alphabet
- 'Oldest English words' identified
- On Target: Grammar Traps Archive
- the revival of the exclamation mark
- On Language - Against Camel Case
- How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
- What's Going On with the Way Canadians Say ‘About'?
- CAPITAL CRIMES, PART 1 : SHOUT, SHOUT, LET IT ALL OUT
- Tsundoku: Japan’s Word for “Books You Buy But Don’t Read"
Harry Potter
- Who Did J.K. Rowling Become?
- Why Millennial Harry Potter Fans Reject J. K. Rowling
- HP's biggest legacy is how it shaped modern fandom
- Celebrating 20 years of PS inside the mini-Hogwarts in NYC
Detective fiction
- A Scandal in Bohemia
- Philip Marlowe’s Los Angeles
- The complete Sherlock Holmes
- The Case of the Vanishing Private Eyes
- A Sherlock Holmes Mystery at the Grolier Club
- Former Apple Executive's Obsessive Search For Holmes
Gaming
- The Obscuritory
- Macintosh Garden
- Bad Game Hall of Fame
- The Cutting Room Floor
- The Art of Video Games
- How Mac gaming has changed
- Mac Gaming 101: A Brief History of Mac Gaming
- Neopets is reckoning with black market pet trading
- ‘I Could Never Abandon Them’: Neopets Users Play On
- Bioshock and the Horror of the Infinite
- Rapture leaked: The true story behind the making of BioShock
- What The Yu-Gi-Oh Manga Meant For Immigrant Duelists
Interactive Fiction
- Milliways
- Curveship
- GET LAMP
- IFWiki FAQ
- IFDB Home
- AI Dungeon 2
- Midnight. Swordfight.
- Kerkerkruip - IF roguelike
- Let's Tell a Story Together
- Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom
- Brief Bibliography about IF History
- New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 3
- The Text Adventures That Never Were: Spelunky
- 50 Years of Text Games
RollerCoaster Tycoon
- parks - rct
- GAME INFO
- Mini Golf Tips
- RCT2 Archives
- genetic rct-rides
- RCT2 Ride Codes
- Price Gouge Tycoon
- IntelOrca/OpenRCT2
- OpenRCT2 Plug-ins Directory
- Fossil's Dig Site - A RCT2 Resource
- Hacking RCT with Genetic Algorithms
- Getting RCT (1 & 2) running on mavericks
- Guide to Optimal Food/Drink/Merchandise Stalls
- 20 Years of RCT: A Look Back At The Legendary Series
Diablo
- Amazon Basin
- DII Soundtrack
- The Arreat Summit
- D2GS Packet Research
- Diablo II 'Magic Find' Guide
- Diablo 2 Level Up Guide v1.10
- A Compilation of Map Layouts
- fastest way through dungeons
- Walkthrough of two dupes and an item corruption exploit
- David Brevik's GDC Diablo postmortem
- The Past, Present, And Future Of Diablo
- In Their Own Words: An Oral History of Diablo II
- How Diablo 2 Evolved from Gothic Horror to Epic Fantasy
- Defining Moments – Diablo
- A Night With the Devil - Analysis of Diablo I
- Charm Guide
- Re-rolling skill charms
- A guide to all that is items
- What Should I Get Charsi To Imbue?
- Which 'open socket' items are worth something?
- 1.11 Blizz Mf Sorc Guide
- Godly Lighting Sorc build
- Undying's Pvm Uber Smiter Guide
- Ultimate Gold/magic Finder Barbarian Guide
Articles
- The Great Scam (Eve Online)
- Super Mario Anniversary Commercial
- Playing roguelikes when you can’t see
- Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior
- The Video Game Horror Of HBO’s Westworld
- The oldest PC games still getting updated today
- Mourning the slow death of the retail game store
- How Yakuza's City Changes From Game To Game
- How Frog Fractions 2 Stayed A Secret For Two Years
- Myst remake impressions: Handsome island touch-ups
- The rise and fall of the company behind ‘Reader Rabbit’
- How To Write Good Game Dialogue Using Blade Runner
- One Of The Best April Fools' Gaming Hoaxes Of All Time
- Defending quantum chess champion takes the title again
- 7 memorable boss fights that every developer should study
- Secret Douglas Adams RPG Still Being Played After 15 Years
- We Asked a Transit Planner How to Up Our 'Mini Metro' Game
- 7 games with interesting hacking mechanics all devs should study
Game profiles
- Fallout 3: A Game Of Moments
- The Cyberspace we Forgot | Neuromancer
- » Sequels in Strategy Gaming, Part 1: Civilization II
- Robot Odyssey: The Hardest Computer Game of All Time
- Sad Story Behind A Dead Game That Can't Come Back (NOLF)
- Streets Of Rogue: A Roguelike You Can Talk, Bribe, Or Smash...
- Super Hexagon Dev's New Typing Game Creates Surreal Worlds
Author profiles
- Master of Play (Shigeru Miyamoto)
- The Father of Civilization (Sid Meier)
- Failing to Fail: The Spiderweb Software Way
- How Jason Rohrer Won The Game Design Challenge
- How one man made 22 games in 22 years (Jeff Vogel)
- TWENTY YEARS, only a few tears. | Double Fine Productions
- The Flight of the Birdman (Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen)
- IndieGames.com Interview: Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software
- How 1 indie developer has kept the classic cRPG alive (Vogel)
- Chris Sawyer on remaking Transport Tycoon for mobile devices
Genre histories
- Roam free: A history of open-world gaming
- Headshot: A visual history of first-person shooters
- Tracking The Strange Trails Of The Adventure Game Genre
- From SimCity to, well, SimCity: The history of city-building games
Deus Ex
- Warren Spector AMA
- Hell's Kitchen vs. Detroit
- Ion Storm's lost Deus Ex Sequels
- How Deus Ex Predicted the Future
- Jean-François Dugas on the series
- DXHR Dev Vault: Level Design Philoshophy
- ‘Deus Ex’ Really Did See the Future Coming
- The tools that built Deus Ex, with Chris Norden
- The Deleted Scenes of Disney, Doom and Deus Ex
- Deus Ex at 20: The oral history of a pivotal PC game
- Warren Spector Thinks Deus Ex Is Too Real For 2021
- How '90s graphics shaped the bleak future of Deus Ex
- Revisiting Deus Ex, Ion Storm’s classic cyberpunk RPG
- Exploring Deus Ex: MD’s massive new cyberpunk world
- Scott Martin on building a new kind of first-person shooter
- Creator of Deus Ex reviews Dishonored, Zelda, and Fallout 4
- Deus Ex Gets Air Vents All Wrong, According To An Architect
- Cool Deus Ex Stuff
- darkreality - Deus Ex
- Deus Ex Item Locations
- Original Deus Ex story mods
- cHuT speed runs Deus Ex. 37:29.88
- GDC Vault - Classic Game Postmortem: 'Deus Ex'
- Deus Ex 1 Locations vs. their real-life counterparts
- Fun things to investigate with the original Deus Ex?
Glitches
- Spelunky eggplant run article
- Pokémon Yellow "Executes Arbitrary Code"
- Pokémon's Famous Missingno Glitch, Explained
- The Steam Achievement That Nobody Unlocked
- Sector Alpha Rom - Corrupted? - ColecoVision / Adam
- Fallout 76 Player Uses Glitches To Build Her Own World
- Reprogramming Super Mario World from Inside The Game
- Inside the ROM: secrets of MissingNo. and Glitch Pokémon
- The mythos and meaning behind Pokémon’s most famous glitch
Undertale
- Why Undertale rules
- Interview Time with Temmie!
- Undertale Part #8 - Dogbass
- Deltarune Chapters 1 and 2, explained
- An Examination of Leitmotifs and Their Use to Shape Narrative 1
- An Examination of Leitmotifs and Their Use to Shape Narrative 2
- The Pope Seems To Enjoy Listening To Undertale's Megalovania
Old Games
- Globbo
- Dr. Brain article
- Old Mac Shooters
- The Digital Antiquarian
- The Games of Windows
- Boom | The Obscuritory
- The Pokemon Retrospective
- The Text Adventures of 1991
- TaskMaker | The Obscuritory
- Defining Moments - Retrospective
- Apple II Library: The 4am Collection
- The Most Infamous Pokémon Bootleg
- Does Anyone Remember Arctic Thunder?
- Music Highlight: Realmz | The Obscuritory
- Defining Moments - Pokemon Red and Blue
- Music Highlight: ClockWerx | The Obscuritory
- Games on the Net Before the Web, Part 2: MUD
- Mac OS Classic games - The Cutting Room Floor
- The Oregon Trail Video Game Is Available Any Time
- Karateka remake looks to modernize a classic story
- Call Me Fishmeal.: My “Doom” 20th Anniversary Stories
- Looking back on the game 'Myst' on its 20th anniversary
- The Nostalgia Nerds Who Rescue Old Games From Oblivion
- A Complete Directory Of The Classic PC Games You Must Play
- Games on the Net Before the Web: Persistent Multiplayer CRPG
Web Games
- 2048
- guess
- jigsaw
- Dlgate
- sudoku
- Chesses
- 4D Maze
- Asteroids
- avalanche
- Battleships
- Just Letters
- Screentendo
- Where Am I?
- Constellation
- Rogue Puzzles
- Wolfenstein 1-D
- MS-DOS Games
- Bloxorz (291709)
- Battleship Solitaire
- The eyeballing game
- Drowning in Problems
- Desktop Tower Defense
- Wikipedia: The Text Adventure
- Sierra Adventure Games on the iPad
- Rock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. the Computer
- Untrusted - a user javascript adventure game
- Elevator Saga - the elevator programming game
- Network Games - RetroWeb Vintage Computer Museum
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 30th Anniversary Edition
Game Design
- GDC Vault old game postmortem
- Principles of an Indie Game Bottom Feeder
- Some Thoughts about What I Like in Games
- Game development on the observer pattern
- Why Bushwhacking Your Players Is a Bad Idea
- From Idea to App Store: An Adventure in Game Dev
Life is Strange
- Music can take video games to next level
- Life is Strange: What ‘Bae over Bay’ Says About Us
- On Life is Strange‘s Empty Spaces and Quiet Moments
- Interview With Ashly Burch on Chloe, Queerness, & LIS
- LiS' Literary References Give Deeper Meaning To Its Journey
Board/card games
- SeaFall review
- 1000 Blank White Cards
- Rules of Card Games: Durak
- Monopoly square probabilities
- 7 Wonders Duel Strategy Guide
- Best Betrayal At House On The Hill characters
- Most riveting sudoku puzzle you will ever watch
- Magic Leans Into 25 Years Of Telling Stories With Cards
- Dune: Spice and sandworms power a great “lost” board game
- The Notorious Board Game That Takes 1,500 Hours To Complete
Comedy
- Urban Prankster
- Planning Notices
- generosityfoundation.org
- Rob! at Improv Everywhere
- What's a jewel over seconds?
- For the handful of hurricane geeks out there
- the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks
- What we SHOULD have been taught in senior year
Comedy -- Tech
- BOFH
- Windows RG
- Microsoft Bob
- lhartikk/ArnoldC
- Computer Stupidities
- Interface Hall of Shame
- things are a little crazy rn
- JAMES FACE - OLI + ALEX
- Whose bug is this anyway?!?
- Never interrupt a programmer
- Worst security hole you've seen?
- Wat — Destroy All Software Talks
- What is your best programmer joke?
- The Parable of the Two Programmers
- The Codeless Code: Table of Contents
- How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell
- when I open my code on monday morning
- RFC 3092 - Etymology of "Foo" (RFC3092)
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - mill comic
- The spectacular failure that was the Bill Gates deposition
- Ballmer can't clean malware on PC
Comedy -- Whose Line
- A Chat With Colin Mochrie
- Ryan Stiles: The Complete Q&A
- He who laughs last, laughs at Colin Mochrie
- Line, Please...Colin Mochrie on improv comedy
- Colin Mochrie Smartly Predicts ‘Whose Line’ Renewal
Comedy -- Politics
- Harper calls on 'Minister' Trudeau
- Jean Chrétien hired as Trudeau’s bodyguard
- Bernie Sanders Is Once Again the Star of a Meme
- Republican Candidates Walking to Debate Podiums
- Stephen Harper refuses to answer questions about cape
- Unlocked iPhone Worthless After F.B.I. Spills Glass of Water on It
- Ontario PCs Asked To Stop Giving Themselves So Many Ovations
Comedy -- Articles
- Op-Classic, 1993 - O'Brien Flops!
- Sask. man opts for giant ‘ASSMAN’ decal
- People Photoshopping Mr. Bean Into Things
- On Documentary Now’s Perfect, Touching Ending
- Tom the Dancing Bug: A Security Issue at the Office
- The 20 defining comedy sketches of the past 20 years
- Russell Crowe Remembers When He Was Trailed by the F.B.I.
- Ranking Every Episode of ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’
- Thomas Pynchon pranks 1974 National Book Awards ceremony
- How a Thanksgiving Day gag ruffled feathers in Mission Control
- Kyle Mooney Non-Existent Podcast Is Best New Comedy Podcast
Comedy -- Monty Python
- Monty Python Sketches
- Interview with John Cleese
- Various Scripts; Blackadder, Python
- Eric Idle Blog » Fifty years ago today....
- Eric Idle on Surviving Pancreatic Cancer
- How the Holy Grail Influenced Film By Satirizing It
- I would like to retain 'fart in your general direction'
- Python at 50: a half-century of silly walks and dead parrots
Macintosh
- After Dark in CSS
- Organized Archive
- Upside Down Apple Logo
- iPad un(chocolate)boxing
- The Eclectic Light Company
- John Gruber - Çingleton 2011
- Markdown is the new Word 5.1
- apple pop-up museum: atlanta
- All 74 stickers in Apple's new ad
- Insanely Great History of Apple 3.0
- Macintosh 25th Anniversary Reunion
Macintosh -- History
- Folklore.org
- Vintage Apple
- The Apple Museum
- Goodbye, Macworld
- Apple keynotes reference
- Archive of Old Mac Books
- Apple's Technology Transitions
- The Case of the Top Secret iPod
- Think Retro: Open Apple, closed Apple
- Why Apple Is Still Sweating the Details on iMac
- iPad lead looks back on the device's first 10 years
- Remembering the Apple Newton's Prophetic Failure
- Defining the decade: ten years of Apple on one page
- “This Is Not a Product”: The Apple Developer Transition Kit
Macintosh -- History -- 90s
- The Windows Threat
- Star Trek: Macs on Intel
- The Roots of the PowerPC
- Inside the Macintosh Portable
- Jean Louis Gassée and the Mac
- bs_labs: Looking Back at WWDC 1990
- 50 Years In Tech. Part 16: From One Ice Floe To The Next
- Call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT
- An act of desperation 20 years ago was the building block for Mac
Macintosh -- History -- iPhone
- 'I'm the original voice of Siri'
- A Look at the Apple 'Skankphone'
- Siri, Tell Me a Joke. No, a Funny One.
- A Lot Can Happen in a Decade (iOS apps)
- SIRI RISING: The Inside Story Of Siri's Origins
Macintosh -- History -- Mac OS X
- Mac OS X Public Beta
- Keeping Safari a secret
- An Illustrated History of Mac OS X
- When I first heard the name “Safari”
- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard review
- The state of Apple's Mac software: December 2014
- Here's to the crazy ones: a decade of Mac OS X reviews
Macintosh -- History -- Mac OS 6-9
- MacOS 9.2.2
- Mac System 1.0
- a/ux server penelope
- MacKiDo/EasterEggs/
- Hypercard Introduction
- Graphing Calculator Story
- A Visual History of Mac OS
- system 7.0 - elegant and minimal
- A Time Machine trip to the mid-'90s
- Pink: Apple's First Stab at Modern OS
- The Secrets of Pink, Taligent and Copland
- Inside System 7.5.1: System Folder Contents
- About Boxes, Easter eggs, and computer cases
- System 7 transformed the Mac on May 13, 1991
- A few About boxes from vintage Mac applications
Macintosh -- History -- 1984 and older
- 0x22 - cdespinosa
- Employee #1: Apple
- Alan Kay: Xerox PARC when Steve Jobs visited
- Larry Tesler, inventor of cut, copy, paste, dies at 74
- eBay: An original Apple-1 with wonderful documentation
- Jim Reekes: The Apple sound designer who created Sosumi
- Myth: Copyright Theft, Apple Stole GUI from Xerox PARC Alto
- Apple's first employee: The remarkable odyssey of Bill Fernandez
Macintosh -- History -- Birth of the Mac
- The Twiggy Mac Lives!
- Macintosh 128K Teardown
- The original Macintosh User Manual
- MacPaint and QuickDraw source code
- Steve Jobs – Unveiling Apple Macintosh
- Bill Atkinson Presents HyperCard (1987)
- Jan. 1984: How critics reviewed the Mac
- How the “lost” Mac intro video was found
- The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile
- The Macintosh Is 30, and I Was There for Its Birth
- Interview w/ Engineer of the Original Apple Mouse
- Macintosh 128k with marketing materials and dealer catalog
- The Untold Story of How My Dad Helped Invent the First Mac
- Thoughts on (and pics of) the original Macintosh User Manual
- The Birth of the Mac: Rolling Stone's 1984 Feature on Steve Jobs
- Watch Steve Jobs Show Off the Mac in Footage Unseen Since '84
Macintosh -- History -- Working at Apple
- Eject, eject!
- Inside Apple HQ
- Rumor Monger Blog
- Patching the Newton
- Mail team (2000-2004)
- Aperture: Senior QA (2004-2005)
- How does Apple keep secrets so well?
- An Oral History of Apple's Infinite Loop
- Inside Apple’s Internal Training Program
- Confessions of an Apple Store Employee
- Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: It’s a Trap!
- Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple
Macintosh -- Articles
- ATPM
- Apple Lightning
- Anti-Apple Anger
- Life Changing Tech
- My First Week with the iPhone
- The market for used Mac minis
- 2019 Mac Pro (28-core) Review
- Why is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast?
- Steve Wozniak: walking billboard
- One of Us (Schiller on Talk Show)
- Montreal's big, shiny Apple launch
- The success of the Macintosh idea
- What We Can Learn From MacHeist
- Vintage Macworld Magazine Library
- bs_labs: Re-engine, Not Re-imagine
- Tim Cook Interview with People en Espanol
- Steve Wozniak's 60th Birthday Surprise Party
- How much would an iPhone have cost in 1991?
- Wil Shipley’s ideas for improving the App Store
- iMac with Retina 5K display vs. the Original Mac
- Scott Forstall, the sorcerer's apprentice at Apple
- Reading The Apple Event Tea Leaves With Actual Witches
- President Trump praises Tim Cook's communication skills
- Cook Says Lives Enriched Matters More Than Money Made
- MacBook Air is Choice in a Tribe's Fight to Save the Amazon
- We Overreacted About U2 Putting A Free Album On Our Phones
- Can U2’s Songs of Innocence Be Removed From Apple Account?
- Apple Store Boasts 50 ft Glass Walls and Free-Floating 2nd Floor
- WWDC isn't the only event in town, and Apple seems OK with that
Macintosh -- UI Design
- (mac)OStalgia
- It's a Windowful Life
- Aqua Screenshot Library
- iOS Timeline - Infographic
- The Origin Of The iChat UI
- Inspecting Yosemite's Icons
- AskTog:mac ui trends(2000)
- Apple UI design is back home
- Behind the Icons (Susan Kare)
- Susan Kare, Iconographer (EG8)
- Inspecting Web Views in macOS
- A Visual History of the iTunes Icon
- Everything is a Remix Case Study: The iPhone
- A retrospective look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard
- The untold history of macOS System Preferences
- A few About boxes from vintage Mac applications
- Sketch — Why we’re proud to build a truly native Mac app
- If Apple Made iOS In 1986 This Is What It Would Look Like
- Watch the Evolution of Apple and Microsoft in Animated GIFs
Macintosh -- Marketing
- 'Think Different'
- iPhone New York
- Old Apple Print Ads
- The Mac Turns 30 Today
- Apple Advertising Gallery
- '1984': As Good as It Gets
- The making of Apple’s HAL
- When Apple’s Ads Were Emotional
- '1984' ad named best of Super Bowl
- Apple Get a Mac: The Complete Campaign
- Understanding Apple’s Mastery of the Media
- The definitive list of music used by Apple Inc.
- Gates throws fit when asked about 'Get a Mac'
- The Enduring Appeal of Macintosh Picasso Artwork
- The Ad Contrarian: Advertising And The Future Of Apple
- Everyone Missed This in That FKA Twigs Apple Commercial
- 12 Lessons In Creativity From The Greatest Super Bowl Ad Ever
Macintosh -- Tips & tricks
- QuickLook Plugins List
- Control your Mac via email
- Mac text editing: mark, kill, yank
- SSH Without Entering Your Password
- iWorkCommunity | Templates Exchange
- You’re probably using the wrong dictionary
- Shortcut for Syntax Highlighting in Keynote
- Dotfiles: automating macOS system configuration
- The long, long list of Mac startup folders and files
- ‘Other’ storage on your iPhone and iPad explained
- Hard to discover tips and apps for making macOS pleasant
- Daring Fireball: Quit Confirmation for Safari on MacOS
- How to set the size of Finder windows, and other tips
- Remove Duplicates from “Open With” Right-Click Menu
- Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes ♫
- 18 Years of iTunes Design History
- Unveil hidden Mac OS X features
- Reveal hidden files and folders: ⌘ + Shift + .
- Sharecuts
- List of Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts & Keystrokes
- Using fs_usage as a Troubleshooting Tool
Macintosh -- Tips & tricks -- Terminal
- Terminal Tips
- Some Mac Terminal Tips
- Cool, but obscure unix tools
- Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for sudo
- All commands | commandlinefu.com
- A list of new(ish) command line tools
- My Favorite Command-Line Shortcuts
- Terminal Tips and Tricks For Mac OS X
- Let it Snow in the Terminal of Mac OS X with This Command
- 8 Terminal Utilities Every OS X Command Line User Should Know
Macintosh -- Apps & tools
- DetectX
- showterm
- Useful Mac
- Objective-See
- Explore – Pacmax
- Irradiated Software
- iCHAIT/awesome-osx
- All the Ways I Automate
- Clean Install – OS X 10.11 El Capitan
- 72 Best OS X Apps You Need (2015)
- sparklines (progress bars) for Terminal
- aharris88/awesome-mac-screensavers
- Mac Software for Advanced OS X Users
- Install Mac Software From Terminal With Homebrew
- Automation scripts focused around Mac OS X Server
- Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Sierra
Steve Jobs
- You're the ones
- life inside Apple
- Icon Ambulance
- Mister Macintosh
- Working At Apple
- Memories of Steve
- Steve Jobs in Kyoto
- 2 Letters from Steve
- Emails To Steve Jobs
- Mickeleh's Take: 1944
- Operating Partner, DFJ
- The RIAA v. Steve Jobs
- Remembering Steve Jobs
- John Sculley On Steve Jobs
- Steve Jobs' Magic Kingdom
- Steve Jobs' Elevator Pitches
- Steve Jobs by Doug Menuez
- Safari is released to the world
- Steve Jobs on the File System
- Steve Jobs: Nobody Loves Me
- John Carmack and Steve Jobs
- Someone is Coming to Eat You
- Steve Jobs vs Me on my bicycle
- 8 stars speak out on Steve Jobs
- Untold Stories About Steve Jobs
- Bob Iger Remembers Steve Jobs
- Sept. 16, 1985: Jobs Quits Apple
- Steve Jobs: Memories and Legacy
- My Experience with Jobs and Apple
- Steve Jobs demonstrates NeXT Step
- 11 New Anecdotes About Steve Jobs
- How Steve Jobs Became a Billionaire
- Macintosh Stories: Black Wednesday
- Demoing Guitar Hero at WWDC 2010
- How Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina
- Inside Steve Jobs' home office (2004)
- A Gift From Steve Jobs Returns Home
- Bill Gates and Steve Jobs | AllThingsD
- The Night Steve Jobs Met Andy Warhol
- My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000
- jobs sent letter to the attacked developer
- The Hero Returns: Steve Jobs’ real genius
- Reasons for Steve Jobs success on Twitter
- The secret car that caught Steve Jobs’ eye
- Longform Podcast #314: Lisa Brennan-Jobs
- Amogh Talpallikar's answer to What is OOP?
- Bethany Bongiorno on Twitter (thread - iPad)
- Doug Menuez Spent 3 Years With Steve Jobs
- And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone'
- "What it's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs"
- 20 CDs curated by Steve Jobs & the iPod team
- Tony Fadell on what he learned from Steve Jobs
- That time I had Steve Jobs keynote at Unix Expo
- Apple's Secret Plan to Steal Your Doctor's Heart
- Randy Wigginton's Answers on Apple (company)
- So, Steve Jobs has left his role as Apple’s CEO....
- Apple shows employees lighter side of Steve Jobs
- Who Gets the Last Word on Steve Jobs? He Might.
- Bill Gates: 'I was so jealous' of 'genius' Steve Jobs
- Steve Jobs Rejected The First Medical App In 1977
- What Apple’s Steve Jobs Learned in the Wilderness
- Remembering Steve Jobs, seven years after his death
- The Night Steve Jobs returned to Apple, Dec 20, 1996
- Tim, Jony, and Laurene Discussing Steve Jobs Archive
- SoftBank's Son pitching Apple cellphone to Steve Jobs
- Pixar Founder Accepts Jobs' Award in Emotional Speech
- Steve Jobs Inducted into Bay Area Business Hall of Fame
- Tim Cook Is Running Apple, but Not Imitating Steve Jobs
- Allison Johnson: We Have Enough Companies Like Apple
- Alan Kay and Steve Jobs talk at the 2007 iPhone keynote
- Photos: What it was like to attend Apple’s iPhone X event
- What Was It Like to Deliver a Presentation to Steve Jobs?
- The incredible architectural secrets of Steve Jobs Theater
- The man who produced Steve Jobs’ keynotes for 20 years.
- A look back at Steve Jobs' most colorful keynote moments
- Steve Jobs, the moral high ground, and the return to Apple
- In 1994 when Steve Jobs got to use a device like an iPhone
- How to Change the World: What I Learned From Steve Jobs
- How Jobs thrived in a technical field with non-technical bg?
- Witless to history: When the Steve Jobs movie came calling
- Joe Shelton tells about about Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
- Tim, Jony, Laurene discuss the legacy of Steve Jobs at Code
- Steve Jobs emails show how to win a hard-nosed negotiation
- Stevie Wonder thanks Steve Jobs for iOS devices accessibility
- John Sculley Account Of How Steve Jobs Got Fired From Apple
- Steve Jobs Danced To My Song — Where You Lead I Will Follow
- Jobs licensed Amazon’s 1-click patent for $1M in one phone call
- Steve Jobs On Android Founder Andy Rubin: 'Big, Arrogant F***'
- Steve Jobs took weekly hands-on role in first Apple store design
- What ex Apple, Pepsi CEO John Sculley learned from Steve Jobs
- Women From Apple's Early Days Recall Working With Steve Jobs
- Tim Cook remembers Steve Jobs on the anniversary of his death
- Jobs' first iPhone call still spawns Starbucks pranks 6 years later
- Wozniak on the Steve Jobs Movie, Why Accuracy Doesn’t Matter
- The day Steve Jobs called AT&T for help with the iPhone’s radios
Macintosh -- Old software
- mac.org
- abandonia
- OldApps.com
- Abandonwares
- Old Mac Games
- The House of Moth
- Old Apple software
- Philips CD-I Games
- Home Page of Gamba
- Index of /~archive/mac
- Old Mac OS Downloads
- Mac GUI City :: Downloads
- Le Grenier du Mac, Accueil
- SE/30 logicboard recreation
- Classics For X: SheepShaver
- All | Mini vMac Compatible Apps
- Associate.com's MacOS File Site!
- Apple Macintosh before System 7
- MacPlus Antique System Software
- Ultimate System 7.1 #MARCHintosh
- Mini vMac - early Macintosh emulator
- Welcome to the vMac Application Site!
- System 6 Heaven - Main Download Area
- office 98 does not work under emulation?
- Giantmike's Vintage Shareware Collection
- Appletalk for SheepShaver/Basilisk in Lion
- E-Maculation :: View Forum - SheepShaver
- How to properly preserve Classic Mac data
- System 6 Hell: Games and Apps for Mini vMac
- Internet Archive Search: vintage mac shareware
- Setting up system 7.5.3 with BasiliskII for Mac OSX
- Looking for a reliable source for Mac OS System 0.97
- Apple_Macintosh_Imaged_Floppy_Collection_JALLER_2018
- Getting Started With ResEdit
- The Macintosh Wayback Machine
- Macware - The Digital Antiquarian
- Giantmike.com Articles: The Mac Plus
- MacMedics saves data off dead Mac IIci
- Confessions of a Disk Cracker: the secrets of 4am.
Macintosh -- Old software -- Emulation
- Using The Old Mac OS Is Pure Zen
- The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing
- What It’s Like to Work on a 30-Year-Old Macintosh
- OS 9 odyssey: Why these Mac users won’t abandon
- felixrieseberg/macintosh.js: virtual Sys 8 on Electron
- mpw-emu: Emulating 1998-Vintage Mac Compilers
- How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the Web
- Turning an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh ⌘I Get Info
Macintosh -- Hardware design
- Apple Mice
- Design Predictions
- The Colors of Apple
- Macintosh Neue mockup
- Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple
- The unusual world of Mac prototypes
- What color was “Apple Beige”? (Not Pantone 453)
Other Stuff
- rfd
- ooh.directory
- Wikipedia: ANI
- Wikipedia: RfA
- Where's Willy? ® 2.2
- Satoshi Kon's last words
- Most Depressing Day (Jan 21)
Food
- MyFridgeFood
- The Rise and Fall of @FairmountBagel
- Shoestring Montreal restaurant reviews
- Panettone: The mysterious Italian fruitcake
- 28 ultimate Canadian foods you have to try at least once
- Brownstein: Chalet Bar-B-Q, keeping it tasty for 75 years
- Difference Between Pastrami and Montreal Smoked Meat
- The Truth About Cast Iron Pans: 7 Myths That Need To Go Away
- Exploring Montreal’s good, bad, and weird with local indie-rockers
Places
- Road Trip
- Let’s Go for a Stroll Outside
- Driving the Trans-Taiga Road
- An Irish Castle to Call Your Own
- What to See, Eat and Do in San Francisco
- A Nostalgic (if Isolating) Road Trip Along Route 66
- Fairway to Heaven (abandoned golf course exploration)
- Faux Facades: Fake Buildings Hide Trains, Power & More
- Death Of Shopping Malls
- When Malls Saved the Suburbs From Despair
- With Department Stores Disappearing, Malls Could Be Next
- Magnificent Visions
- Amazon rainforest was giant garden city
- Subterranean Amazon river 'is not a river'
- She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away
- An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest
- The Last Arcade in Chinatown
- Japanese Arcades Light Up The Night
- What it's like running an arcade in 2015
- Arcade Raid – The Duke of Lancaster Ship
- The Alternative Universe Of Soviet Arcade Games
- Final Days Of Anata No Warehouse, Japan's Incredible Arcade
- A visit to Galloping Ghost, largest video game arcade in the USA
- The Epic Struggle to Tunnel Under the Thames
- Nobody Knows What Lies Beneath New York City
- What lies beneath: subterranean secrets of London's super-rich
- The Noah's Ark
- Theme Park Maps
- Mystery Fun House
- 12 theme parks where the danger is real
- A Grown-Up’s Guide to Walt Disney World
- Traumatic License: An Oral History of Action Park
- Beijing's "mystery rooms": single-room funhouses
- The Trashed Remains of Abandoned Disney Projects
- Park Tech Maximizes Screams And Minimizes Injuries
- The Crumbling Chaos of Abandoned Amusement Parks
- WRITING ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF ROLLER COASTERS
- 'DefunctLand' Investigates How And Why Theme Parks Die
- How Two Bit Circus is turning its carnival into one giant game
Health
- CRON-O-Meter
- Daily caffeine 'protects brain'
- Caitlin Flanagan on Turning 60
- Walking a little can go a long way
- Taming the Hidden Drowsiness Epidemic
- Snake oil? Scientific evidence for health supplements
- Exam revision students 'should smell rosemary for memory'
- Indoor Air and Coronavirus (COVID-19) | US EPA
- The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
Life tips
- Presentation tips
- How to apologize properly
- Specialization is for insects
- Mr. Rogers's "Look for the Helpers” Is Bad for Adults
- KEVIN SMITH: It costs nothing to encourage an artist
- The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
- On Finding Your Purpose: Letter by Hunter S. Thompson
Montreal
- Coolopolis
- mtl pollution
- Under Montreal
- Mtl City Weblog
- Vanishing Montreal
- Literary Tourism: Montréal
- Photos from inside Montreal sewer system
- How to speak French like a Quebecker
- Best French tv shows (trying to improve my French)?
- Most Important TV Show In Quebec Has No Equivalent In Canada
Montreal -- Metro
- Montreal by Metro
- Direction Angrignon
- Le Métro de Montréal
- Qui est derrière Albert ?
- The beauty of the Montreal Metro
- Les Stations de Métro de Montréal
- The Mini-Villages of Montreal’s Metro
McGill
Montreal -- Articles
- Lessons from the Biodôme renovation
- Ces films qui captent l'âme de Montréal
- Soccer Politics / The Politics of Football
- Montreal’s roadwork lie: An investigation
- Quand l’art change la ville (Art Souterrain)
- Past Visions Of A Future That Never Came
- Heyday of Côte Saint-Luc's Cavendish Mall
- Montréal, un problème qu’on ne veut pas voir
- Sin City? The dimming of Montreal's neon signs
- Montreal in the Spring: The Time of the Butterflies
- Find the bridge lights underwhelming? Stay up later
- Irish message-in-a-bottle mystery solved in Montreal
- 30 years ago today, Youppi! earned first mascot ejection
- Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine bridge-tunnel a world-class wonder
La Ronde
- Xtreme La Ronde
- Remembering: LaRonde
- Une histoire monstrueuse
- 18 Rides At La Ronde That Are No Longer With Us
- ♫ ♪ Emmène-nous à La Ronde, La Ronde, La Ronde ♫ ♪
- La Ronde Discussion Thread - Page 90 - Theme Park Review
Montreal -- Things to see
- Early Morning Jogging Paths
- Strange Things in and around Montreal
- Le Vieux-Montréal (est) | Mes Quartiers
- Montreal is Canada’s most haunted city
- Cité Mémoire: le Vieux-Montréal prend vie
- Master list of unusual adventures in Montreal
- Montreal's Most Overlooked Architectural Gem
- 5 Secret Montreal Locations No One Knows About
- Montréal’s best-kept secret park – Place des Nations
- what is your favorite getaway (<2hour) from Montreal?
- Hiking Mount Royal: Discover the wild side of Westmount
- Quebec computer museum - from passion project to reality
- Hiking Mount Royal: The long winding road named for Olmsted
- Hiking Mount Royal: Beware sheer drop along Escarpment Path
- Hiking Mount Royal: Outremont Summit is a secret worth sharing
- Halloween haunts for both ghost lovers, entry-level scare seekers
Montreal -- History
- Portrait Sonore
- Ville souterraine
- Graves from 1842
- Le rocher irlandais
- Mais pourquoi YUL?
- Lachine Canal Audio Tour
- Montreal Manhole Covers
- Leonard Cohen's Montreal
- St-Henri | Mes Quartiers...
- Following Rivière St. Pierre
- The Great Peace of Montréal
- Ville Marie Autoroute (A-720)
- 20 faits sur Montréal, 6e édition
- Montreal at the Crossroads: 1758
- Le patrimoine rasé à toute vitesse
- GEIST: The Great Wall of Montreal
- Montreal Goes Underground (1966)
- Tous au cinéma au théâtre Empress
- Les enclaves de la ville de Côte-Saint-Luc
- What we lost to the Ville-Marie Expressway
- Letters unearthed from Jean Drapeau's archive
- Montréal dans ta Pipe: Les Hasards du temps 3
- Voyage dans le temps! - Les voyages de Seth et Lise
- Montreal has no cultural cachet without cultural venues
- Walking tours offer spirited look at Griffintown’s history
- Explorers find massive ice-age cavern beneath Montreal
- Montreal is 375 years old, but how old are her buildings?
- "Vue aérienne du centre-ville de Montréal, 1930 vs 2016"
- Connaissez-vous l'origine de ces noms de rue de Montréal?
- McGill student’s Montreal gallery slides back and forth in time
- Vintage Photos Of Empress Theatre Are A Blast From The Past
- 8 Montreal Places That Would Make Awesome Supervillain Lairs
- Amazing Color Photos Of Street Scenes Of Montreal In The 1960s
- Village des tanneries démoli « en catimini », s'indigne l'opposition
- Forbidden MTL
- Forbidden MTL on Google Maps
- Forbidden MTL: Eaton's 9th floor
- Forbidden MTL: Mount Royal Tunnel
- Forbidden MTL: Biodome, Lafontaine Tunnel, La Ronde and more
Expo 67
- Dans le labyrinthe
- The Razing of Expo 67
- Ce qu’il reste d’Expo 67
- Growing Up in a Concrete Masterpiece
- These 20 Pictures Of Expo 67 Will Leave You Speechless
- Expo 67's strange remains still exude magic across Canada
- Vestige de l’Expo 67: le Minirail de la Ronde démoli en catimini
- Losing 'little bit more than history' with demolition of Expo 67 minirail
Sciences
- Dissertation Haiku
- The Day the Dinosaurs Died
- The Case of Sleeping Beauty
- One-Way vs. Two-Way Streets
- The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft
- Do we live in a computer simulation?
- When a Mars Simulation Goes Wrong
- Amazing New Species of Ancient Human
- whats one TED talk everyone should see?
- I Had One Night to Invent Interstellar Travel
- Why This Scientist Turned Down an Appearance on Oprah
- DNA Jumps Between Animal Species. No One Knows How Often.
Math
- Integration
- Riemann Sum
- Wolfram|Alpha
- Algebra Ladder
- Immersive Math
- The Pi-Search Page
- Linear Algebra Notes
- Simplex Method Tool
- Walpha Wiki: Calculus I
- A Crisis of Identification
- The Map of Mathematics
- Matrix Row Operation Tool
- Notes on the Oxford IUT workshop
- Solving an Unsolvable Math Problem
- New Math Book Rescues Landmark Topology Proof
- Murderer solves ancient math problem and finds his mission
- Mathematician changed course of physics but couldn’t get job
- Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture
Physics
- Feynman Online
- Feynman Tapes
- The Jaguar and the Fox
- Centre of the Lightcone
- How Matter Lost Its Mojo
- Eclipsed by Fame (Hawking)
- Paradox of Special Relativity
- 4D Visualization: Introduction
- Einstein-Minkowski Spacetime
- Simultaneity in Special Relativity
- Paul Dirac and the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Lawrence Krauss’ Brief History of the GUT
- Hitchhiker’s guide to an infinity-free theory
- How Gravity Is a Double Copy of Other Forces
- Stephen Hawking Always Lived on His Own Terms
- Physicists Aim to Classify All Possible Phases of Matter
- Einstein's Theory of General Relativity Baffled the Press
- Quantum Physics May Be Even Spookier Than You Think
- Will the Quantum Nature of Gravity Finally Be Measured?
- What Graduate School in Theoretical Physics Is Really Like
- What Happens If You Stick Your Head in a Particle Accelerator?
- How many dimensions are there, and what do they do to reality?
- I was a student of Stephen Hawking's – here's what he taught me
Linguistics
- Online Etymology Dictionary
- The Evolution of the Alphabet
- 'Oldest English words' identified
- On Target: Grammar Traps Archive
- the revival of the exclamation mark
- On Language - Against Camel Case
- How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
- The Linguistic Tricks of YouTube Stars
- But why can’t I use ‘as such’ instead of ‘therefore’?
- What's Going On with the Way Canadians Say ‘About'?
- CAPITAL CRIMES, PART 1 : SHOUT, SHOUT, LET IT ALL OUT
- Tsundoku: Japan’s Word for “Books You Buy But Don’t Read"
Cosmology
- The Size of Space
- The Fermi Paradox
- The Scale of the Universe 2
- Ultimate fate of the universe
- If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel
- Gravitational Waves Should Change How You See the World
Psychology
- Neurotic Neurons
- Spaced repetition
- The Lifespan of a Lie
- Online disinhibition effect
- Is there a genius in all of us?
- The Autumn of the Multitaskers
- The Strange Blissfulness of Storms
- The Running Conversation in Your Head
- David Eagleman and Mysteries of the Brain
- Carol Dweck Explains the False Growth Mindset
- Study: Best Friends Build Shared Memory Networks
- Study offers clues on how to stop thinking about sth.
- Why Japan is so successful at returning lost property
- I am Steve Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard
- Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking
- The Music Industry Is Brainwashing You to Like Bad Pop Songs
- Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer
- We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it.
Environment
- Golden Frog
- Desert Tortoises
- the Sun in Motion
- An amphibious assault
- Inside the mind of the octopus
- Family Araneidae - Orb Weavers
- 4-Acre Spider Web Engulfs Building
- Narwhals on thinner ice than polar bears
- 15 Most Alien Looking Caterpillars on Earth
- Helping the Stars Take Back the Night (NYT)
- The museum filled with venomous spiders that just won't die
Halloween
- Halloween Short Films
- Create Petrifying Props
- Make A Fog Machine For $5
- Spooky Little Halloween Blog
- Ultimate Halloween Music List
- HowStuffWorks "Haunted House"
- Sanctuaries, Dreams and Shadows
- 18 Years Of Halloween Music Mixes
- Scared ya, didn't I? - Halloween Hits 13
- Monster Page of Halloween Project Links
- Best Horror Short Films | Short of the Week
- Disney's Haunted Mansion Is A Terrific Mess
- Nightmare City Halloween Presents Scar Stuff Lives
- How Do We Put Together the Perfect Halloween Playlist?
- Drinking a Blue Screen of Death in the back streets of Tokyo
- Photographer Brings Terrifying Childhood Nightmares to Life
History/politics
- PolitiFact
- Able Archer 83
- Samantha Smith
- Playing Snapdragon
- History of the Electoral College
- We Are The Masters Of Our Fate
- Histography - Timeline of History
- How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Really Happened
- Townsend, Ont. — a planned 'utopia' gone wrong
- Why did ancient Egypt play a game nobody else liked?
- Nero, History's Most Despised Emperor, Gets a Makeover
- WarGames for real: How 1983 exercise nearly triggered WWIII
- King Tut Died Long Ago, but Debate About His Tomb Rages On
- How Chuko Liang Used A Lute To Single-Handedly Defeat Army
- Syndrome K: Fake Disease That Fooled the Nazis, Saved Lives
Technology
- kottke.org
- Webby Awards
- The Old New Thing
- A/N/N/A/R/C/H/I/V/E
- One More Admin Blog
- Computer History Museum
- The Official Site of Bill Gates
- T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M
- Before You Graduate From CS
- Modern Microprocessor Guide
- Open source/tiny tools roundup
- The science of keyboard design
Technology -- Articles
- Life at Google
- A Story About ‘Magic'
- defunct computer store
- A Story of GameLayers, Inc.
- Computer latency: 1977-2017
- Please get my data back! (story)
- How I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
- Speak, Memory (building friend with AI)
- A Comprehensive History of Computers
- Best Buy Optimization Is Waste Of Money
- Y2K Oral History - New Year's Eve 20 Years Ago
- George Jedenoff: A 101-year-old TidBITS Reader
- Steve Wozniak Was My Computer Teacher in 1995
- How the judge on Oracle v. Google taught himself to code
- How to respond to climate change, if you are an algorithm
- Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2
- Pixar pioneers behind Toy Story animation win Turing Award
- Amazon Go debuts; its prying cameras foil shoplifting attempts
- What the AI Behind AlphaGo Can Teach Us About Being Human
- Article that inspired Steve Jobs: “Secrets of the Little Blue Box”
- Don't Piss Off Bradley, Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive
- Eulogy for RadioShack, the panicked and half-dead retail empire
- A farewell to screen savers, the imagined dreams of our machines
- What Happens When Installing the Top 10 Download.com Apps
- How long do hard drives actually live for?
- Newegg trial: Crypto legend takes the stand
Technology -- Articles -- GPT
- GPT-4 Hired Unwitting TaskRabbit Worker
- Microsoft’s Bing Chatbot Offers Puzzling Responses
- A Man Sued Avianca Airline. His Lawyer Used ChatGPT.
- Microsoft Says New AI Shows Signs of Human Reasoning
- Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled
- Kevin Roose’s Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot: Full Transcript
Technology -- Articles -- Internet
- The story of .io
- How the Web Was Won
- Raiders of the Lost Web
- The Return of the 90s Web
- Those who hold the keys to worldwide internet security
- Before Netscape: forgotten Web browsers of early 1990s
- Archive Corps Is Saving Documents Before They Disappear
Technology -- Articles -- Microsoft
- The Secret Origin of Windows
- Creative/unusual things from Windows API
- Mac Office users were Microsoft guinea pigs
- What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?
- Bizarre Win8.1 ad pleads: "Honestly, it works for work"
- From ‘Bob’ to ‘Clippy’ - the biggest failures of Microsoft
- The inside story of how Microsoft killed its Courier tablet
- Win8: Disappointing Usability for Both Novice & Power Users
- 1500 Win 3.1 shareware apps now immortalized in the browser
Technology -- Articles -- Cybercrime
- The Great Cyberheist
- The software awards scam
- How We Spot Fake Amazon Reviews
- The MonaRonaDona Extortion Scam
- Meet Del Harvey, Twitter's Troll Patrol
- The Computer Virus That Brought Down Whac-A-Mole
- How a Reporter Broke the Target Security Breach Story
- Telecom guy uses bots to foil Microsoft support scammers
- Secret Service Agent Collared Cybercrooks by Selling Them Fake IDs
Technology -- Articles -- Web culture
- Marijn’s Link Cabinet
- The Twisted Life of Clippy
- 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles
- When Pixels Collide: reddit place
- Digging through the Geocities Torrent
- Twitch Stars Are Becoming More Like Regular Celebrities
- Rickrolling: The Definitive Oral History of the Classic Meme
- The Jezebel Comments Section Went on Vacation Together
- The A.V. Club's best, worst, and weirdest internet of the 2010s
Windows tools
- Ninite
- SnapFiles
- The PC Decrapifier
- Windows Sysinternals
- SHELL EXTENSION CITY
- NirSoft - freeware utilities
- 94 Great Freeware Programs
- Speccy - System Information
- Disable Windows 10 telemetry
- Ultimate Outsider - Software Downloads
- Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Tool List
- The Windows 3.x Showcase : Internet Archive
Graphics/UI
- Iconfactory
- Dontclick.it
- Audion skins
- LMNT: Apple
- Let's Enhance
- Beautiful Pixels
- ASCII Generator
- KeynoteUser.com
- minimally minimal
- ☆ Pixel Delicioso ☆
- PQ FUI Toys on Vimeo
- The Parallax View Project
- The Iconfactory : 20 Years!
- Lessons in Graphic Design Theory
- The best 44 photoshop text effects
- Digibarn: Xerox Star 8010 Interfaces
- Susan Kare - User Interface Graphics
Icons
- Invisible iOS icons
- Browsing Mac OS on DeviantArt
- History of Icons – a visual brief on icon history
- Feather – Simply beautiful open source icons/symbols
- macOS icon pack - beautiful open source icons for Big Sur
- Bird Folder - Name new folders after random birds in macOS
Fonts
- FontSpace
- dafont.com
- Font Squirrel
- Anonymous Pro
- 25 Classic Fonts
- Google Web Fonts
- free fonts for games
- Comic Sans Criminal
- Use the Best Ampersands
- Latest typography samples
- 32 of the Best Programming Fonts
- The 100 Greatest Free Fonts for 2014
Graphics/UI -- Critiques
- Brushed Metal
- Adobe UI Gripes
- Interface Hall of Shame
- Google Wave's Scrollbars
- The Dark Side of Dark Mode
- pxldot (Apple's Icon Ecosystem)
- MacOS Get Info Design on Behance
- The many sliders of Photoshop CS4
- The worst volume control UI in the world
- The Brushed Metal Diaries: Et Tu, iTunes?
- The Windows Start menu saga, from 1993 to today
- The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline
- macOS 12 Monterey and User Interface Inconsistencies
- How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?
- How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11?
Desktop pics
- Gallery
- cole rise
- Unsplash
- InterfaceLIFT
- fiftyfootshadows.net
- WallpapersWide.com
- iPad Wallpaper Gallery
- Dynamic Wallpaper Club
- Browse — Simple Desktops
- Portable Macs login wallpapers
- Dynamic wallpapers for macOS
- Every Default macOS Wallpaper in 5K
- iPhoneXpapers - iPhone X wallpapers
- Aqueux — Dynamic wallpapers based on a classic
Graphics/UI -- Development
- Cloud icons
- Own a shape
- good installers
- We Have a Dialog
- MacKiDo/Interface/
- Visualizing Fitts’s Law
- Visceral Apps and You
- Progress Bar Thoughts
- Managing UI Complexity
- Creating New Documents
- ignore the code: Gestures
- ignore the code: Consistency
- Fireworks alternatives on trial
- 20 Stunning App Icon Designs
- H&FJ Fonts: Finishing Touches
- Saving Icons for Snow Leopard
- Better Software Through Less UI
- On Heuristics and Human Factors
- ignore the code: Realism in UI Design
- Good design: The ten commandments
- 'Stand Up' Mac Dock Mockup on Vimeo
- User Experiences: Evolving the blue “e”
- Notes from Adobe installer management
- The Birdfeed Easter Egg That Never Was
- 10 Important Traits of a Great Blog Design
- John Gruber - The Gap Theory of UI Design
Design developer sites
Web simulators
- cloudpaint.com
- The Restart Page
- Jurassic Systems
- Atkinson Dithering
- Umnrella Corporation
- Google Images BBS Terminal
- WebSE - System 7 Simulation
- PCE.js - Classic Mac OS in the Browser
Programming
- Super User
- Stack Overflow
- Screen shots of code
- LaTeX Equation Editor
- The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
- LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition
C
- C++ FAQ
- C STRINGS
- Will it optimize?
- Alphanum Algorithm
- Getting Interactive Input
- The bell has tolled for rand()
- Tips and Tricks for Using C++ I/O
- The Lost Art of C Structure Packing
- ColinIanKing/christmas-obfuscated-C
- Main is usually a function. So then when is it not?
- Results of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition
- What Every C Coder Should Know About Undefined Behavior
AI
- colah's blog
- Paper on Julia
- Evolving Floorplans
- Markov by Candelight
- Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow
- Markov Chains explained visually
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
- How To Standardize Data for Neural Networks
- A Neural Network in 11 lines of Python
AI -- RL
- Cart-Pole Balancing with Q-Learning
- Simple RL with TF: Part 0: Q-Learning with Tables
- Simple RL with TF: Part 4: Deep Q-Networks and Beyond
- Actor-Critic Introduction
- Intuition of tradeoffs between MCTS vs policy gradient
- Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels (policy gradients)
Git
- Git for the lazy
- A Hacker’s Guide to Git
- Undo the last Git commit?
- Legit (Git Workflow for Humans)
- Create GitHub releases via command line
- Most common git screwups/questions and solutions
JS
- eyeballs.js
- js: include js in own files
- JSLint, The JavaScript Verifier
- Learning Advanced JavaScript
- ClippyJS - Add Clippy to any website
- Concurrent Ajax
- Loading gif generator
- Ajax Activity Indicators
- AJAX response: XML, HTML, or JSON?
- The Hows and Whys of Degradable Ajax
- Asynchronous Ajax Requests and PHP Sessions
CSS
- Fireworks!
- CSS3 Lightbox
- CSS3 Click Chart
- Old CSS, new CSS
- The Shapes of CSS
- How to Center in CSS
- Styling form controls with CSS
- CSS3 Playground by Mike Plate
- Blur Menu with CSS3 Transitions
- CSS - Contents and compatibility
- Animated Web Banners With CSS3
- CSS Buttons with Pseudo-elements
- Block Hover Effect for a List of Links
- Experiments with background-clip: text
- The Definitive Guide To Styling Web Links
- Grid Garden - A game for learning CSS grid
- 98.css - build faithful recreations of old UIs
- Using dark mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave
- Creating Polaroid Style Images with Just CSS
- Responsive Full Background Image Using CSS
- SingleDivProject: One <div>. Many possibilities.
- The most complete CSS tools for web designers
- Designing Flexible Pie Charts With CSS and SVG
- Custom Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, Select Lists
- Amazing Image Hover Effects with Webkit and CSS
- Fullscreen Background Image Slideshow with CSS3
- 5 Extremely Useful But Rarely-Used CSS3 Properties
- Interactive Typography Effects with HTML5
- textorize: Pristine Font rendering for the Web
- Typing & erasing effects, plus a blinking cursor
CSS -- Colors
- XKCD rgb list
- Subtle Patterns
- Web Color Chart
- A Farewell to CSS3 Gradients
- Animated Pixel Gradients Maker
- Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator
- Paletton - The Color Scheme Designer
- Color Trends + Palettes :: COLOURlovers
- uiGradients - Beautiful coloured gradients
- Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
CSS -- Creations
HTML
- Scott Schiller
- The HTML5 test
- Dive Into HTML5
- HTML5 Boilerplate
- HTML5 video player
- Notifications (Safari)
- The Web Can Do That!?
- HTML5 video in 3D space
- Short URL Auto-Discovery
- FAQ by the Press on HTML
- Initializr (HTML5 Boilerplate)
- Why do we have an IMG element?
- Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
- HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment
- HTML Tips - Marko Denic - Web Developer
Web -- History
- The evolution of the web
- IANA — Root Zone Database
- How Does the Internet Work?
- The Deleted City 3.0 (geocities)
- The Early World Wide Web at SLAC
- History of browser user-agent string
- Mosaic Communications Internet Directory
Apache
- .htaccess tutorial
- mod_rewriting an entire site
- Log Files - Apache HTTP Server
- URL Rewriting to Prevent Duplicate URLs
- Allow Remote Connections to Mysql Server Ubuntu
- 4 HTTP Security headers you should always be using
- Reducing Memory Usage by Apache and MySQL in a 512MB VPS
Web Tools
- Proxy Test
- WiGLE Tools
- image converter
- Webmaster Tools
- About Validator.nu
- IP Address Locator
- Detect Social Sites
- UserAgentString.com
- Relaunching a website
- How can I own an IP address?
Web Design
- website optimisation
- STRML: Projects and Work
- Reveal.js (slides framework)
- Web Design - The First 100 Years
- Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
- Reset / Cancel Button Considered Harmful
- Web Design Blog by Smiley Cat Web Design
- Image Lightbox, Responsive and Touch‑friendly
- PNG vs. GIF vs. JPEG vs. SVG - When best to use?
Programming -- Docs
- GNU `make'
- Learnable Programming
- a ZIP archive walkthrough
- LLDB/GDB Command Map
- build-your-own-x (tutorials)
- DevDocs API Documentation
- Compression Decompressed
- Computer Science Field Guide
- why’s (poignant) guide to ruby
- Intro to Alg (MIT) ipnyb notebooks
- free-programming-books at master
- A Beginners’ Guide to Big O Notation
- 45 Free Online Computer Science Courses
- What most young programmers need to learn
- Computer Science courses with video lectures
- Classic Papers in Programming Languages and Logic
Python
- The Python Profilers
- Learn python3 in Y Minutes
- Why You Should Learn Python
- Pointers in Python: What's the Point?
- Easy performance optimizations in Python
- Profiling Python using cProfile: a concrete case
Programming -- Articles
- Paul Ford: What is Code?
- Communicating with code
- 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number
- Undefined Behavior in 2017
- The Great Works of Software
- Overly defensive programming
- Why you can't just unplug a drive
- Doing Terrible Things To Your Code
- Letter to a Young Haskell Enthusiast
- Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
- Google Interview Problems: Ratio Finder
- Compile like it's 1992 (Wolf3D compilation)
- Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it.
- We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source
- Exchange “remote wipe” is a terrible, terrible bug
- Being a woman in programming in the Soviet Union
- Programming thought experiment: PC without an OS.
- To the brain, reading code not same as reading language
- Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—And It's All in One Place
- Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you
- How did game devs pack games into so little mem. 25 yrs ago?
- INTERCAL, YAML, And Other Horrible Programming Languages
Programming -- Articles -- Stories
- Special Delivery
- My Hardest Bug
- I Survived Bedlam3
- Unix Recovery Legend
- A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
- So You Hacked Our Site!?
- My oldest code still running
- The code I’m still ashamed of
- The case of the 500-mile email
- The Bug in the Physical Building
- On compiling 34 year old C code
- BSoD to Watson: The Reliability Journey
- Cracking a 35 year old Macintosh Game
- A Teenager's Guide to Avoiding Actual Work
- The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy
- Did Microsoft Just Manually Patch Their Equation Editor?
- What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified?
Programming -- Articles -- Coders
- The Neuroscience of Programming
- Read Why programmers work at night
- The Taxonomy of Terrible Programmers
- It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer.
- Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders
- Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
- programming-language-subreddits-and-their-choice-of-words
- How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning to Code
Programming -- Graphics
- Pixel Art Tutorial - Rocks
- BioShock Infinite Lighting
- Non-Power-of-Two Textures
- Common Pixel Art Mistakes: Color
- OpenGL Programming/GLStart/Tut3
- How to use the SDL viewport properly?
- SIGHT & LIGHT - 2D visibility/shadow effects
- Pure SDL2 vs SDL2+OpenGL for 2D gamedevelopment
- Forces
- Drag (physics)
- 2D AABB Collision Resolution
- Projectile motion with air resistance?
- Representing Projectile motion in openGL
Mac apps
- cpp-objc
- NSHipster
- time in cocoa
- MacOSX10.1.5-11.sdk
- Creating working dylibs
- Using C++ With Objective-C
- Building for the Mac app store
- furbo.org · Mac App Store guide
- Respond to Thermal State Changes
- High Resolution Guidelines for OS X
- How to build Sandboxed app without XCode?
- Human Interface Guidelines for macOS Apps
Game Development
- as3sfxr
- Music for Games
- Game Mechanic Explorer
- Game Dev Movement Tips
- Blizzard Programming Book List
- How cards are defined in Citadel
- Game Dev books, and suggestions.
- Replication in network games part 2
- Writing a game server protocol parts 1-5
- Some things you should know about Steam
- Math for Game Developers - YouTube series
- Making a game with massive restrictions is liberating.
- Program Arcade Games and Learn Computer Science
- Important game dev principle - Don't Repeat Yourself
Game Development -- PCG
- Dropping Loot
- Procedural Star Rendering
- Understanding Perlin Noise
- Procedural space vista generator
- Procedural colors for video games
- Procedural Content Generation in Games
- Add procedural sprites to your next game!
- Rooms and Mazes: A Procedural Dungeon Generator
- The mysterious origins of an uncrackable video game
- A Generative Approach to Simulating Watercolor Paints
- Randomly Generated Items using the Decorator Pattern
- How to generate star positions in a 2d procedural galaxy
- Three techniques to procedurally generate dungeons (Unity, C#)
News articles
- Why Is the World So Loud?
- The Grief That Made 'Peanuts' Good
- Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages
- Cartoon-Off: XKCD: The Cartoon Lounge
- The worst of the Manhattan Project leaks
- Can Anyone Hear What Caitlin Fink Is Saying?
- Celebrities Have Never Been Less Entertaining
- Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border
- Woman rocked awake by crashing meteorite chunk
- The McDonald's Of The Future Opens In Hong Kong
- The Useful Village
- The Empty Chamber
- Peter Van Loan, "Privilege" on May 18th, 2016
- The Art in the Oval Office Tells a Story. Here’s How to See It.
- Can a life-swap exercise stop a community tearing itself in two?
News articles -- Crime
- A Loaded Gun
- The Brain on Trial
- A Kiss Before Dying
- Iphigenia in Forest Hills
- Mysterious Circumstances
- The Boy Who Heard Too Much
- The Accidental Get Away Driver
- A dramatic kidnapping revisited
- When Your Child Is a Psychopath
- Ghoulish Acts & Dastardly Deeds
- The Case of the Vanishing Blonde
- Who’s Making All Those Scam Calls?
- 74-year-old attacks cars that run light
- How “Making a Murderer” Went Wrong
- Serial Killers Should Fear This Algorithm
- When You Have a Murderer in the Family
- The Final, Terrible Voyage of the 'Nautilus'
- Rodrigo Rosenberg’s Murder in Guatemala
- Mafia boss used crocodile to extort money
- Who Will Remember the Mississippi Murders?
- How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People
- The French Burglar Who Pulled Off Biggest Art Heist
- How Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing
- A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse
- A Brooklyn Neighborhood Went 5 Days Without the Police
- The Mystery Behind the Crime Wave at 312 Riverside Drive
- Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game, Stole Millions
- "The Imperfect Alibi" | New clues in old church murder case
- Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief
- TWA85: 'The world's longest and most spectacular hijacking'
- Woman Becomes a Cop After Being Shot by Jail Guard Boyfriend
- Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Fought Back
- Selectric bug
- The spy who couldn’t spell
- Bad Blood (radioactive poisoning)
- Inside the NSA’s For-Sale Spy Town
- Jury Duty
- The Mysterious Lawyer X
- “Your Judge Is Your Destiny"
- The Judge and the Case That Came Back to Haunt Him
- The Execution of Clayton Lockett
- My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard
- I Went Undercover in America's Toughest Prison
- A look at the hard life inside San Quentin’s Death Row
- A Solitary Jailhouse Lawyer Argues His Way Out of Prison
- Joe Ligon: America's 'longest juvenile lifer' on 68 years in prison
News articles -- Stories
- Sweet Bitter Blues
- On Tipping in Cuba
- ‘Love Thy Neighbor?’
- The Machine Fired Me
- Sincerely, John Hughes
- Ben’s Big Decision (9/11)
- The real Lord of the Flies
- The Jungle Prince of Delhi
- New York’s Shadow Transit
- The Weekly Package, by Kim Wall
- Holy Shit, I Interviewed the President
- A Story of Slavery in Modern America
- U.S. Helps Frequent Fliers Make a Mint
- How to Make Visa Obey Your Every Desire
- Selling used books on Amazon for a penny
- Cleaning out the Museum of My Childhood
- What Was It Like at Walt Disney World on 9/11
- If Your Life Were a Movie (Adventure Services)
- Trent McCleary: The shot that almost killed me
- A man walks into a bank (cashing fake cheque)
- I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America.
- The World Has No Room For Cowards (swatting)
- For DecorMyEyes, Bad Publicity Is a Good Thing
- The medical professor who beat the roulette table
- We Think We’re in Control on the Road. We’re Not.
- The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
- Under the Hollywood Spotlight, Wrexham Is Reborn
- How to be human: the man who was raised by wolves
- T La Rock, the Man Who Forgot He Was a Rap Legend
- If you lose your cellphone, don't blame Wayne Dobson
- We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever
- The Plane that Accidentally Circumnavigated the World
- The Beautiful Summer Day When My Family Almost Died
- I Made My Shed the Top-Rated Restaurant on TripAdvisor
- Hans Niemann Is the Bad Boy of Chess. But Did He Cheat?
- Elizabeth Wurtzel on Discovering the Truth About Her Parents
- Overnight in Walmart Parking Lots: Silence, Solace and Refuge
- How Tokelau Teenagers Survived Being Lost in Ocean for 51 Days
News articles -- Profiles
- Dr. Don
- Alex the Parrot Dies at 31
- John McAfee's Last Stand
- Stalin’s Daughter Dies at 85
- The Secrets Ed Koch Carried
- Mister Rogers’s Enduring Wisdom
- 'World's oldest blogger' dies at 108
- Ricky Jay, the Magician with an Edge
- Larry David, Master of His Quarantine
- Can You Say ... 'Hero'? (Mister Rogers)
- The secret history of Santa interceptions
- At 92, Movie Bootlegger Is Soldiers’ Hero
- John McAfee Plays Hide-and-Seek in Belize
- Betting my last dollar on a horse (Larry King)
- Night rider: 21 years sleeping on a London bus
- Steve Ballmer Was My Youth Basketball Coach
- Queen Elizabeth Doesn’t Take Sick Days Lightly
- Meet Wanz, the 51 y.o. Former Software Engineer
- The Pixel Painter: A 97-Year-Old Man Using Microsoft Paint
- ‘He Must Have Superpowers’: Asi Wind's Sublime Card Tricks
- The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay
- How One Man Hacked His Way Into the Slot-Machine Industry
News articles -- Education
- The Teens Will Save Us
- Why We Should Memorize
- What’s known about tutoring
- How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs
- Staging exams in winter is a test for anyone (McGill)
- My secret life attending two universities at the same time
- Families In Maya Village Secret To Getting Kids To Do Chores
- Video-Gaming School Stumbles on Way to Get Dropouts Back
Investigative journalism
- The Pink Panthers
- The Digital Dirt: Inside TMZ
- America, Pizza Hut, and Me
- HIROSHIMA: THIS IS YOUR LIFE
- The Man Who Broke Atlantic City
- The evolution of cheating in chess
- Who Wants To Be a Thousandaire?
- Highway Teardowns across America
- The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever
- Drama at Horace Greeley High School
- Guests say goodbye as Sahara goes dark
- Pearls Before Breakfast (Washington Post)
- Albany Senate Needs to Work on Its Brawls
- At Thomas Keller’s Per Se, Slips and Stumbles
- The Revolutionary Routine Of Life As A Female Trucker
- Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened
- At Señor Frog’s in Times Square, It’s Spring Break Forever
- How a 90-Year-Old Missing Person Became a Hit on Spotify
- Sherlock Holmes And The Adventure Of The Impudent Scholars
- The Dark Side of Chess: When Is a Grandmaster Not So Grand?
Inspiring stories
- Mr. Rogers' Returned Car
- Nation of Second Chances
- The girl who gets gifts from birds
- Meet The Man Who Lives With Hyenas
- Where 9/11 News Is Late, but Aid Is Swift
- My Dad's Friendship With Charles Barkley
- Henrico 5th grader saves choking classmate
- She Found Love in a Surprising Place: A CD Pile
- 46 Things I Learned Making Mister Rogers & Me
- Gay couple's 1971 marriage officially recognized
- How Mister Rogers Helped Me Land My New Job
- An Eagle Who Adopted a Rock Becomes a Real Dad
- New York boy's message in a bottle reaches Azores
- Fitting Into His Schedule, Then Into Her Royal Family
- Viral TikTok boosts father's thriller book to bestseller
- Tapping Into the Brain to Help a Paralyzed Man Speak
- 'UFO crashes' into London primary school playground
- Teen being booked at jail helps rescue stricken officer
- 'No idea' passenger lands Florida plane as pilot falls ill
- When Mister Rogers Visited Me While I Was in a Coma
- Humpback nuzzles saviors in thanks for untangling her
- After their car fell into a canyon, phone likely saved them
- More Than Two Dozen Responders Resuscitate Neighbor
- Police officer stops ex-cop who delivered him 27 years ago
- He Handles Crises for a Living. She Solved One He Couldn’t
- Warren seventh grader prevented school bus from crashing
- Jazzy the dog reunited with owners years after running away
- Teenager keeps bumble bee as pet after it followed her home
- Southwest Passenger Falls Ill, 20 Doctors on Board Offer Help
- NORAD's Santa Tracker Began With A Typo And A Good Sport
- Why the Biggest Ovation at the Tonys Luncheon Was for a Waiter
- Genshin Impact Streamer Films Classroom Hyped For Hu Tao Roll