"What can knitting machines teach us about the history of computing? "All punch cards are fundamentally digital, even if we don't generally think of 'digital' as a property physical objects can have."
-Nichole Misako Nomura
-Digital Humanities Scholar
-VANISHING CULTURE
"in which you heard recordings of all the things anyone had ever said about you, both good and bad. The catch was, you had to pass through all the worst things people had said before you could get to the highest compliments at the very bottom. There is no way I would ever make it more than two and a half steps down such a staircase, but I understand its terrible logic:
if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known." (2013)
The Wasian GenÂerÂaÂtion - New York Magazine By E. Alex Jung7 Sep 2026
"What was once an isolÂatÂing experÂiÂence is now a mass comÂing of age. How the sudÂden pop-culÂtural domÂinÂance of part white, part Asian AmerÂicÂans triggered a colÂlectÂive idenÂtity crisis."
"Operation Migration was a nonprofit, charitable organization, which developed a method using ultralight aircraft to teach migration to captive-raised, precocial bird species such as Canada geese, trumpeter swans, sandhill cranes, and endangered whooping cranes"
"This American Studies course is interested in exploring the cultural legacies of 9/11. This 9/11 class will not be explicitly concerned with capital âPâ politics: the real burden of the course has more to do with the construction of what I call â9/11 cultureâ in American popular arts than with the motivations, strategies, or outcomes associated with the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and of Iraq in 2003."
"I turned to my favorite nineteenth-century ornithological books, digitized by the wonderful Biodiversity Heritage Library â the many volumes of John James Audubonâs Birds of America, illustrated by Audubon himself, and John Gouldâs Birds of Europe and Birds of Australia, illustrated by his gifted wife Elizabeth and by Edward Lear, who helped cultivate Elizabethâs talent; a couple of volumes of Henry Leonard Meyerâs Colored Illustrations of British Birds and Their Eggs"
Why Dads Take Their Gay Sons to Hooters - Many fathers and grandfathers take their gay sons to the bar. It's become a place of refuge, and how that happened is a curious story.
"The Black List is an annual survey of the "most-liked" motion picture screenplays not yet produced. It has been published every year since 2005 on the second Friday of December by Franklin Leonard, a development executive who has worked at Universal Pictures and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment."
"Does it Matter?
You may argue that compilation time is not important. After all, once released, who cares that a program took hours to build; as users, we only want it to work and to work fast. It's like complaining that the last Pixar movie took days for the final rendering.
However it can severely affect the development cycle and make developers angry. It's 2024 and I can see that the most common complaint for Rust is still its compilation time."
"M64 is the best way to play your favorite original Nintendo 64Âź games, forever. Every detail of the console exists to produce the most accurate N64Âź experience ever made: full compatibility with original cartridges and controllers, so you can go back and play all your old favorites. Identical gameplay timing and audio. HDMI video output up to 4K. Customization options like CRT filters and overclocking modes. All backed by wireless (or wired) updates"
"Josh Kaufman has a great video at TEDx about how to learn anything. Unlike Malcolm Gladwellâs 10,000 hour theory on learning, Kaufman proposes that people can learn anything without the 10,000 hours input. He differentiated that the 10,000 hour rule applies only to expert level performance â to get to the top of a given field. Instead, you only need to get to an okay level competency about a subject for most things."
"76 years ago, Ray Bradbury published "There Will Come Soft Rains," an apocalyptic short story about a time when we have wiped ourselves outâbut our AI obliviously continues automating our empty smart homes.
Bradbury set the story on August 4, 2026. "
"What happens when you add data and birds into the equation? The latest visual by Nadieh Bremer is her most ambitious yet, an exploration of Google Trends data"
"Soft and tender with a creamy crumb, and featuring 2 layers of juicy peaches for extra peach flavor in every bite, this cake needs no topping or decorating (though a dusting of powdered sugar is always welcome)"
"What makes good engineers good at product design is the same thing that makes them good at engineering. They feel for the boundaries of what the code and the product allows them to do and stop at those boundaries.
Another name for being able to understand and plan for affordances, either through good product intuition, or experience, or both, in the real world is mechanical sympathy.
Mechanical sympathy was initially coined in referring to Formula 1 racecar handling"
"As unlikely as it seems, potatoes were first grown in the Peruvian Highlands where few crops grow, and fueled the Inca Empire, which propagated and consumed over 150 species.
Even more unlikely: the plant came from deadly nightshade vines which were initially poisonous if not consumed with clay, an innovation first discovered by grazing llamas and copied by the Incas."
"BBC literally built the greatest sound library on the internet.
It is called BBC Sound Effects, and it gives you access to more than 30,000 recordings from around the world.
Just search any word, and it instantly finds matching sounds.
You can filter them by category, duration, and even the continent where the sound was recorded.
Every sound can be previewed inside your browser, downloaded, or added to the built-in mixer so you can layer multiple recordings together."
Kohei Nagase is a prodigy special effects artist. He and his friend Shingo Kannazuki, a gifted stuntman, form a special effects company called 'Studio Gimmick'. They do freelance work for various Japanese studios. Often Kohei's makeup skills and Shingo's fighting strength are called in to fight crime.
The CIA released a "Reading Improvement Course" that had been hidden from the public since 1955.
'The objective of the Reading Improvement Course is to improve job efficiency by increasing the employee's reading ability.'
Gochujang Burgers, kimchi bacon jam is a 10/10 â smoky, sweet, tangy, and just a little bit spicy. As weird as it sounds, (add) a slice of gouda cheese
We finally have an answer to "Does Nokia's internal holy grail of ringtones still exist?".
Unfortunately, Microsoft deleted them when transferring Nokia data to HMD Global upon the sale in 2016.
Movies still come on Blu-ray, music is still pressed on vinyl and books still fill store shelves. But as Sony moves to phase out physical PlayStation releases, many gamers are asking why video games should be the first major entertainment medium to go all digital.
Americans were once members of a proudly literate society, but today, reading has declined across age groups, gender, and education levels. For The Atlanticâs August issue, rosehorowitch explores the reading collapseâand its effects on civilization
Cartoon - Moon Girl, a gifted African-American girl who lives a double life as a superheroine and accidentally brings Devil Dinosaur into present-day New York.
Interactive ice cream generator to promo a new album (yeonjun's no labels pt 2) from HYBE.
Choose the ice cream, add toppings, hear stripped-down instrumental teasers of different tracks and generate a custom ice cream combo.
TinyRetroPad - A working, Notepad-style Windows text editor in roughly 2.5 KB.
Compiles with: MASM and Crinkler.
TinyRetroPad is a fork of Dave's Tiny Editor (DTE) by Matt Power, which is itself an extension of tiny.asm HelloAssembly by Dave Plummer. The original goal was a working windowed text editor in the sub-1KB category; TinyRetroPad keeps that minimalist, size-obsessed spirit while filling out a full Notepad-style menu set (File / Edit / Format / View / Help) on top of it