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Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast in 2023 [Colorized]
posted on Jun-15-23 at 10:24 PM

A beautifully illustrated deep dive into the magical, complicated physics of bicycles.
posted on Mar-28-23 at 12:43 PM

Idle Breakout. Break a million bricks! A weird, addictive mix of the classic game Breakout, a tower defense game, bullet hell and an idle clicker and upgrade game where certain upgrades carry over through resets. (Warning: Manic sound and graphics.)
posted on Mar-27-22 at 11:52 AM

The Failed Logistics of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Wendover Productions takes a detailed look into the logistical failures of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
posted on Mar-6-22 at 1:57 AM

Look at this marvelous rat!
posted on Jan-4-22 at 7:09 PM

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. Cecil B. DeMille really chews up his own scenery in this archival film via Periscope Video.
posted on Jul-8-21 at 8:37 PM

An in depth RF focused teardown and analysis of a Starlink base station antennae.
posted on Jan-22-21 at 8:01 AM

Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men. The evolution of The Punisher, big trucks, and militarized toxic masculinity as an illustrated webcomic.
posted on Jun-3-20 at 10:40 PM

How the Pandemic Splintered the Appalachian Trail. (Single link New York Times - possible paywall.)
posted on May-22-20 at 12:32 AM

Air Cargo's Coronavirus Problem. Wendover Productions does an in depth dive into the recent history of the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspective of air cargo, aviation and logistics.
posted on May-6-20 at 1:17 AM

Introducing the Whirly Dirly Corollary. Correcting the record about which planet is closest to Earth. (SLYT, science!)
posted on Mar-12-19 at 2:18 PM

Police logs of Port Townsend. (SLYT, very safe for work.)
posted on Mar-6-19 at 10:51 PM

James Bridle takes on the nightmare of children's YouTube videos and the sorry state of the internet. (Mild trigger, adult topics.)
posted on Jul-13-18 at 11:53 AM

Mix tape 1. Spouting out. Mix tape 2. Coast. Standing. Epic. Spirals. Testing. Huge.
posted on Apr-12-18 at 1:48 AM

For Transgender Day of Visibility, The Independent interviews a wide spectrum of trans activists, asking how cis people can be better allies in 2018.
posted on Apr-1-18 at 11:15 AM

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads. Zeynep Tufekci analyzes the state of advertising in social media. TL;DR imgur gif.
posted on Mar-26-18 at 4:22 PM

Making Championship Curling Ice.
posted on Feb-25-18 at 2:24 PM

Telescope Building with John Dobson
posted on Feb-9-18 at 2:24 PM

Manymanywomen.com is an active index dedicated to collecting and curating women artists working in the avant-garde, electronic, experimental, noise, classical, jazz and other non-mainstream audio/music arts. "As of December 12th, 2017, there are 1,205 artists listed in this index."
posted on Dec-17-17 at 4:17 PM

You know you just can't get enough of those juicy, succulent Presidential tweets, so here's the Markov chain bot the world so obviously needed.
posted on Nov-7-17 at 5:23 AM

Inward.Audio Real time streaming video mashups paired with the Fnoob techno stream. (Warnings: Blinking, flashing lights, potentially NSFW imagery, widely varying loud techno.)
posted on Oct-16-17 at 5:23 AM

Guy feeds a whole box of crickets to a bunch of different reptiles. (SLYT, NSFC)
posted on Aug-2-17 at 5:20 PM

A Big Dumb Button.
posted on Jun-29-17 at 10:58 AM

How to do karate in a Victorian Dress. (Tor, SLYT)
posted on May-17-17 at 3:03 AM

If People Talked About Other Things the Way They Talked About Gender Identity.
posted on May-6-17 at 11:52 PM

Now where could my pipe be? Lasagnacat: John Blyth Barrymore digests Garfield with a side of Philip Glass.
posted on Mar-10-17 at 4:01 AM

Love Twilight Zone marathons? Pressed for time? Watch them all at the same time. (SLYT. Warning: Loud!)
posted on Feb-3-17 at 10:35 AM

Mining diamonds from the street. (SLYT)
posted on Oct-4-15 at 9:51 PM

Cork.
posted on Sep-20-15 at 5:22 PM

TREE JOB FROM HELL! Massive 30-50 ton live oak fall balanced on a chimney removed with naught but slings and a bucket truck and chainsaws. (slyt, 30:23, not safe for home owners)
posted on Sep-16-15 at 1:50 AM

Lusine's "Two Dots", illustrated by Britta Johnson.
posted on Jan-19-15 at 7:42 PM

81 year-old Charlie goes to Burning Man. (NSFW)
posted on Sep-13-14 at 1:18 AM

Arthur C. Clarke, Benoit Mandelbrot, Stephen Hawking, David Gilmour and many more trip the fuck out about Fractals, the Colors of Infinity.
posted on Apr-3-14 at 1:39 AM

Column 7: The Young Man’s Guide to Wearing and Shopping for Women’s Clothes for the First Time. A hilarious column by Casey Plett at McSweeny's Internet Tendency.
posted on May-10-13 at 8:27 PM

A nice documentary video of live electronic music sampling and improvisation featuring Matmos with a rat cage.
posted on Feb-21-13 at 8:06 PM

Professor Martyn Poliakoff of Periodic Table Videos fame learns something about burning balloons full of hydrogen via high speed camera footage.
posted on Jan-11-13 at 4:37 AM

Richard Feynman delivers a charming talk about Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Electrodynamics and the versatile, enigmatic photon. (SLYT - 1:17:58)
posted on Dec-11-12 at 10:01 PM

The Citizens for Decent Literature want you to join their fight against PRINTED POISON. (possibly NSFW.)
posted on Sep-14-12 at 12:16 AM

GRiZ - Mad Liberation. Take a 21 year old bedroom producer from Michigan, raise them on the the internet with a near complete access to the history of modern music with a focus on electronic/dance and apparently you get this incredibly humanistic and cross-cultural album that's both homage, monument and appropriation of hundreds of influences in modern music in an incredibly dubby dubstep framework. (Free album download here.)
posted on Sep-5-12 at 3:25 AM

Casseroles.
posted on Jun-6-12 at 4:15 AM

Minecraft. In Minecraft.
posted on May-6-12 at 12:05 AM

Chris Dodd responds to the SOPA/PIPA protest and blackout on the official MPAA blog calling it an "abuse of power".
posted on Jan-19-12 at 1:06 AM

The Light Bulb Conspiracy is a documentary about disposable printers, light bulbs and everything else, investigating the implications of the business model and industrial design philosophy of Planned Obsolescence that drives and shapes our economy.
posted on Dec-10-11 at 2:24 PM

Pole Riders. A pole vaulting game from the maker of QWOP and GIRP.
posted on Nov-8-11 at 5:34 PM

Welcome to Kitty City. A new animation from Cyriak. Previously.
posted on Nov-5-11 at 3:46 PM

Melt your brain into goo on an overdose of crass 80s consumerism and TV without the TV shows at 80sCommercialVault. Superbowl 19 commercials. Commercials from Jaws. Saturday morning commercials. Daytime / evening commercials.
posted on Oct-30-11 at 9:38 PM

GRANDMA PARTY!
posted on Aug-5-11 at 3:27 AM

Space: 1975!
posted on Jul-16-11 at 11:39 PM

Newstweek: fixing the facts. Newstweek is a device that injects fake news into unsecured wireless connections. More info at hackaday.
posted on May-30-11 at 11:02 PM

A string of electrical transformers exploding in Fort Worth, TX.
posted on May-12-11 at 8:52 PM

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