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Pluralistic: Disney lost Roger Rabbit (18 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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on: 2025-11-24
Time travelling with IKEA catalogues 1951-2021 - IKEA Museum
Browse IKEA catalogues through the ages, reflecting different eras and lifestyles - a goldmine for the nostalgic, design enthusiasts and history buffs.
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on: 2025-10-08
Skibidi Boppy: McDonald’s e la nostra vita digitale
Ovvero: il costo sociale della tecnologia sta in quello che sostituisce
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on: 2025-07-25
The naked billboard that shocked the establishment – and blazed a trail in the art world
It's been 40 years since the controversial activist group Guerrilla Girls formed. Their most powerful campaign, the "naked poster", broke new ground – and has had a lasting influence.
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on: 2025-06-03
The 3 Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen
With the rise of Flash and CSS in 1997, three web design philosophies emerged. David Siegel advocated for 'hacks', Jakob Nielsen kept it simple, while Jeffrey Zeldman combined flair with usability.
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on: 2025-05-30
Pixels in Islamic Art: Square Kufic Calligraphy
When I was a little kid whenever we drove by mosques, I would be intrigued by the complex motifs they’re decorated by. I always tried to figure out the pattern; to me it was just a pattern, I never…
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on: 2025-05-06
European word translator
Translate any word from English to more than 30 other European languages, on a map
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on: 2025-02-24
The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2024
Ho, ho, ho, hope you’ve brought an appetite for destruction, because we’ve got some choice cuts for you this holiday season. Among the books being tarred and feathered in the town squar…
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on: 2024-12-22
Programmer in Berlin: Culture
This is part 4 of a 5-part series detailing what I wish I had known as an American programmer moving to Berlin. This page details cultural differences and things I wasn’t aware of until I stumbled on them.
Politics One thing about Germany, and Europe in general, is that it’s relatively left-wing when compared to the US. This is a place where universal healthcare is so commonly accepted that no party – not even the super-racist party! – is talking about removing it. The aforementioned super-racist party has effectively the same political platform as the mainstream Republican party in the US (minus the healthcare thing). Politics in Europe certainly has its own problems, but at least in Germany there is a flourishing multi-party system that allows for people to have some kind of choice when voting. There is even a fun website called the “Wahl-o-Mat” (“Vote-o-Matic”) that tells you which party to vote for after answering a series of questions. There’s also none of the Electoral College silliness, which I won’t get into here.
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on: 2024-11-05
Kurt Vonnegut’s lost board game finally published
It could have been a contemporary of Risk, Diplomacy, and other legendary wargames
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on: 2024-10-21
HOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION (leaked PDF)
Whether or not you enjoy MrBeast’s format of YouTube videos (here’s a 2022 Rolling Stone profile if you’re unfamiliar), this leaked onboarding document for new members of his production company …
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on: 2024-09-16
Andy Warhol’s lost Amiga art found
Long-lost copies of Andy Warhol's Amiga art, produced at a 1985 event, resurfaced in July 2024. They shed light on an earlier discovery.
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The “Sun Motorway” is 65 years old: a short history of an extraordinary inf
May 19 1956 marked the laying of the first stone of the A1 Milan-Naples: check the gallery Domus and discover the story of the Sun Motorway in Italy.
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on: 2024-07-29
IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design
When IBM hired designers in the 1950s to shape how the public would see the new computing technology, the tech giant changed modern corporate branding forever.
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on: 2024-05-15
For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter
Eric Ghost's cleverly disguised LSD packaging mirrored the 1960s counterculture's psychedelic vision.
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on: 2024-03-25
https://blog.ayjay.org/the-real-value-of-a-catholic-modernity/
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on: 2024-02-28
Form and Matter: Hylomorphism
This essay provides an overview of the main claims and basic motivations for hylomorphism, the view that all material objects consist of both matter and form.
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on: 2023-12-17
A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials
Exploring the Applecore style
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on: 2023-09-25
Vaporwave and Unicode Analysis
What is vaporwave? Vaporwave is an art movement, born in the early 2010s, that often toys with feelings of nostalgia, dream states, decay…
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on: 2023-06-29
The Diary of Virginia Woolf review – a book for the ages
Woolf’s epic and unmatchable record of her life, times and writing process
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on: 2023-06-24
About Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Learn more about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - a book gifting organization that sends over one million free books to children each month.
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on: 2023-05-28
Giornata della ristorazione, il galateo del buon cliente secondo il camerie
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on: 2023-04-28
Meet the people using Notion to plan their whole lives | MIT Technology Rev
The workplace tool’s appeal extends far beyond organizing work projects. Many users find it’s just as useful for managing their free time.
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on: 2023-04-27
MIT’s Barry Duncan demonstrates the power of writing in reverse
Barry Duncan, a staff member at the MIT Press Bookstore, boasts a unique talent: writing palindromes, or prose that reads the same forward and backward.
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on: 2023-03-21
Why the floppy disk just won’t die | Ars Technica
A surprising number of industries, from embroidery to aviation, still use floppies.
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on: 2023-03-08
The Lost Art of Lacing Cable - The Broadcast Bridge - Connecting IT to Broa
Once, while visiting NBC Television studios in Manhattan’s 30 Rockefeller Center, I saw an abandoned elevator shaft with seemingly miles of different cables laced together. I took notice because it was such a rare sight — with the maze of work quite intricate and, in a way, beautiful.
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Go Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza | Digital Giza
The Great Pyramid, or the Pyramid of Khufu, has fascinated scholars and tourists alike for centuries. Located on the Giza Plateau near Cairo, Egypt, it is the largest of the three pyramids that form the Giza Pyramid Complex. Built during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, around 2580–2560 BC, it is one of the oldest and most intact structures from ancient Egypt, and it is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still in existence.
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This tour was created on-site by the following people:
Doctor Wael Fathy, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
Inspector Ezzat Salama, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
Luke Hollis, Mused
Script is by Luke Hollis. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro provided the …
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on: 2022-10-28
The mystery of “when women stopped coding” – the triketora press
NPR did a Planet Money podcast in 2014 posing the mystery of “When Women Stopped Coding”. The writeup online includes a striking graph of the percentages of women in different fields of…
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on: 2022-08-27
The New Normal: The Coming Tsunami of Fakery
How the Dead Internet Theory is fast becoming reality thanks to zero, marginal-cost content generated at infinite scale
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Spotify’s Failed #SquadGoals
“The Spotify model” got a bunch of companies talking like Taylor Swift about startup culture, but four former Spotify employees reveal the truth: its eponymous way of working failed before it scaled.
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on: 2022-07-10
50 Shades of Beige - Science Museum Blog
Assistant Curator Shaz Hussain explores the history of the personal computer to answer the ever important question: why beige?
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on: 2022-07-06
It's 1997 and you want to build a website - The History of the Web
You have a few options. How much time you got?
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on: 2022-07-06
25 Anti-Mimetic Tactics for Living a Counter-Cultural Life
The social rewards that come from imitating others feel good, but they come at a high price. Here are 25 Anti-Mimetic ideas that can help us
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on: 2021-12-26
An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper, Without Any Cutting
Origami artist Juho Könkkölä spent 50 hours folding an origami samurai from a single square sheet of paper, with no cutting or ripping used in the process. He describes his process on Reddit:
Folded from a single square sheet of 95cm x 95cm Wenzhou rice paper without any cutting.
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on: 2021-12-19
WaterBear - Watch. Connect. Take Action
Welcome to WaterBear, the home of imperfect activists. Discover stories that make you feel good and tools to help you do good.
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on: 2021-09-05
Social Cooling - Big Data's long term side-effect
Thousands of hidden scores influence your chance to get a job, a loan, insurance or even a date. Social Cooling describes how this increases pressure to conform, and asks how this will change society.
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on: 2020-09-29
A Few Rules · Collaborative Fund
The person who tells the most compelling story wins.
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on: 2020-09-25
Work on what matters | StaffEng
I’ve taken to using the word “energized” over “impactful.” “Impactful” feels company-centric, and while that’s important, “energized” is more inwards-looking. Finding energizing work is what has kept me at Stripe for so long, pursuing impactful work. - Michelle Bu
We all have a finite amount of time to live, and within that mortal countdown, we devote some fraction towards our work. Even for the most career-focused, your life will be filled with many things beyond work: supporting your family, children, exercise, being a mentor and a mentee, hobbies, and so the list goes on. This is the sign of a rich life, but one side-effect is that time to do your work will become increasingly scarce as you get deeper into your career.
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on: 2020-09-25
The infinite scroll - Columbia Journalism Review
For the sake of this exercise, please imagine it’s another gray midday in winter, months after the end of the World Series and still weeks from the beginning of spring training. The afternoon is sunless but somehow also hangover-bright, and your brain has decided to make it worse. It wants to know how things are […]
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on: 2020-03-07
The Sounds Of New York City, Circa 1920
A team led by Emily Thompson, a history professor at Princeton, has matched noise complaints from New York City in the Roaring '20s with the actual street sounds of the day.
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on: 2020-01-24
Where Did 'Jazz,' the Word, Come From? Follow a Trail of Clues, in Deep Dive with Lewis Porter
When it comes to the origin of the word “jazz,” it seems that each person simply believes what she or he wants to.Some would like the word to come from…
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on: 2019-08-15
All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
As I focus on becoming a better manager of engineers, I have been reflecting more and more on the advice that produced a 10X boost in my abilities at that same stage. More often than not the best…
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on: 2019-08-05
Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose desperate working conditions
At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site, operated by Cognizant in Tampa, FL one contractor has died, others have developed PTSD and fear for their lives.
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on: 2019-06-19
7 Absolute Truths I Unlearned as Junior Developer
A few things I strongly believed when I was a junior developer which turned out to be wrong.
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on: 2019-06-08
Going Critical
Learn how things spread with playable simulations
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on: 2019-05-14
Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played The Game
People can tell you how many levels, what patterns to follow to beat the levels and how to get a “perfect game”. But until now, no one’s ever told you how people really played the…
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on: 2019-03-04
More games should be truly honest about death
I never intended to make videogames about my brother. But creating videogames became the way in which I tried to make sense of his death.
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on: 2018-12-29
Things I Don’t Know as of 2018 — overreacted
We can admit our knowledge gaps without devaluing our expertise.
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on: 2018-12-29
Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage every day situatio
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on: 2018-12-03
Things Nobody Told Me About Being a Software Engineer · Ana Ulin
My dad started teaching me Basic when I was about 7 years old, and since about that age I knew that I wanted to build software for a living. It was obviously a fun and useful thing to do, and something that I could do well. But there is a big — and I mean Grand Canyon-scale BIG — difference between “programming” and working as a professional software engineer.
Here are, in no particular order, some things that nobody told me about working in tech as a software engineer:
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on: 2018-11-14
How Writers Map Their Imaginary Worlds
A new book collects fantastic literary geographies.
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on: 2018-11-05
Mister Rogers's Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Kids
The TV legend possessed an extraordinary understanding of how kids make sense of language.
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on: 2018-06-09
As easy as 1,2,3…
In every day life we all do our calculations, whether for the taxman, our purchases, paying the household bills or in some academic discipline, using the place value decimal number system. It consi…
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on: 2018-05-08
What Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Means for Hip-Hop | The New Yorker
Doreen St. Félix writes that, in becoming the first hip-hop artist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music, Kendrick Lamar has continued the consecration of blackness in élite spaces.
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on: 2018-04-19
Uncovering Somalia's forgotten music of the 1970s | Hacker News
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I migliori fumetti del 2016 - Francesco Boille - Internazionale
Gipi, Daniel Clowes, Jiro Taniguchi, Davide Reviati e Martoz. I cinque migliori albi a fumetti dell’anno e qualche escluso illustre. Leggi
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on: 2016-12-25
ribbonfarm – experiments in refactored perception
constructions in magical thinking
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on: 2016-10-25
10 MIGLIORI Ristoranti Milano - Elenco giugno 2025
Su Tripadvisor trovi 1.418.784 recensioni di 8.929 ristoranti a Milano raggruppati per tipo di cucina, prezzo e altro.
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on: 2016-10-18
http://luckypeach.com/guides/building-blocks-japanese-cuisine/
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on: 2016-09-23
The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien
"The Lord of The Rings" trilogy is one of the few works of genius in modern literature.
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on: 2016-09-21
Never a Hippie, Always a Freak
When Zappa shows up in a suit and tie debating Robert Novak on Crossfire, the effect is less the ’60s freak who became a normal adult than an uncompromising individual voice channeled into a different format.
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on: 2016-07-09
La poesia "Se" di Kipling è l'eredità che tutti i figli dovrebbero ricevere
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on: 2016-06-21
MILLELIRE - Le Strade Bianche di Stampa Alternativa
Le Strade Bianche di Stampa Alternativa
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on: 2016-06-10
How “Pet Sounds” Invented the Modern Pop Album | Hacker News
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on: 2016-05-17
How the Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds,' With Brian Wilson's Coherent Vision and Emphasis on Production, Invented the Modern Pop Album
Brian Wilson’s Beach Boys masterpiece paved the way for auteurs like Kanye West and anticipated the rise of the producer.
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on: 2016-05-17
The rectangle behind you — The rectangle behind you — Medium
I give talks. I usually enjoy giving talks. Sometimes, I get paid to give talks, which I guess makes me a professional… …although I still rarely feel like one. I speak too fast, I make shitty eye…
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on: 2016-03-31
List of problems solved by MacGyver - MacGyver Wiki - Wikia
This is a list of problems that have been solved by Angus MacGyver. Demonstrating resourcefulness, he employs his knowledge of science, technology and outdoorsmanship to resolve what are often life or death crises. His ingenuity is normally put to the test under dire circumstances with little time or specialized resources with which to work. (Though it does seem he frequently has a Swiss Army knife and a roll of duct tape with him.) MacGyver shorts out a missile timer with a bent paper clip...
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on: 2016-03-22
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World review – Herzog's wild ride through the web
With interviewees ranging from Elon Musk to a gaming addict, Werner Herzog presents the web in all its wildness and utopian potential in this dizzying documentary
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on: 2016-01-25
The best VR films: these shorts will change the way you see cinema (Wired U
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on: 2015-11-05
2015 | The Webby Awards
DISCOVER THE BEST OF THE INTERNET. Welcome to the NEW Webby Gallery + Index. Discover the best of the Internet and uncover trends, insights and talent that define the future of Internet excellence.
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on: 2015-04-28
Walking New York
Sonny Rollins’s favorite corner of the Williamsburg Bridge. The best can-collecting route in Bushwick. See New Yorkers’ most memorable walks in the city, and contribute your own.
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on: 2015-04-24