Cyborg Folly

Robots are obsessed with 1990s web aesthetics

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:01:55 +0000

Maybe let’s not enslave AIs, huh?

https://buttondown.com/thehypothesis/archive/robots-are-obsessed-with-1990s-web-aesthetics/

Why Bell Labs worked and Google doesn’t

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:01:18 +0000

https://manganiello.social/notice/AukwkbWFAQDB0uXM80

Algorithms are breaking how we think

Sat, 22 Feb 2025 17:16:00 +0000

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QEJpZjg8GuA

Games Where You’re NOT the Main Character

Sun, 04 Aug 2024 13:54:22 +0000

https://youtube.com/watch?v=szi24FesVYQ

Why do we have grass lawns?

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 17:05:46 +0000

I hate grass

https://www.vox.com/videos/361616/why-do-we-have-grass-lawns

Non-Euclidean Doom

Fri, 17 May 2024 15:48:59 +0000

https://youtu.be/_ZSFRWJCUY4?si=ADLDuq4p4J5egA6x

1967 Video about atomic experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Wed, 15 May 2024 09:36:30 +0000

(via Attoparsec)

https://youtu.be/GsuiLxcDuHY

Tom Scott video about modern Long Barrows

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 17:00:11 +0000

Now I'm wishing I had a lot more property

https://youtu.be/_G2Q1qsoGEU

4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 17:22:14 +0000

https://youtu.be/S7TUe5w6RHo?si=JyUbRTahLaIgJyMa

Collars, by Matthew Dockrey

Sat, 21 Oct 2023 18:19:36 +0000

https://www.cyphertext.net/collars.html

Making a real Talkie Toaster

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 06:24:56 +0000

Because it needed to be done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HERkwJ0OIMo

Wonky shapes can be made to roll along a specific path of your choice

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:23:14 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUYWZUP_r5Y

Making A Billion-Year Lego Clock

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 07:35:36 +0000

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kRzgCylePjk

Auto Tape Wrapping Machine

Mon, 01 May 2023 21:10:31 +0000

This is genius and I need one

https://hackaday.com/2023/04/28/auto-tape-wrapping-machine-is-amazing-for-cable-management/

The Dawn Of Synthetic Milk

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 10:58:26 +0000

I honestly had no idea there were actual products available. Gonna hafta try some when I get a chance.

https://hackaday.com/2023/01/05/the-dawn-of-synthetic-milk-when-milk-becomes-more-like-beer/

Excuse Me, Your Tie Is Unzipped

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 07:59:38 +0000

A history of zip ties. I always called them “tie wraps”, because that’s what my dad called them, but didn’t realize I was spelling it wrong and it was a brand name.

https://hackaday.com/2023/01/05/excuse-me-your-tie-is-unzipped/

Meander

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 14:37:31 +0000

A procedural system for generating historical maps of rivers that never existed (via attoparsec)

https://roberthodgin.com/project/meander

The Two Thirds Keyboard (The worst keyboard in the world?)

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:34:05 +0000

My friend gets more ridiculous with time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdP_sTMOWYo

Pocket Typewriter

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 11:49:52 +0000

My friend is a ridiculous nerd

https://youtube.com/watch?v=14WBiDV02DE

Disco Elysium and the death of art

Sun, 27 Nov 2022 14:28:46 +0000

Well, that made me sad

https://boingboing.net/2022/11/27/disco-elysium-and-the-death-of-art.html

Adam Conover: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Bankman-Fried are actually… shockingly dumb

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:02:12 +0000

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jUMXOrM5g10

Making a Fremen Thumper

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 12:59:48 +0000

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jI-KMPBLAhs

What it’s like to work in the world’s greatest office

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:53:21 +0000

Kind of a sad ending. (via Vox)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yb-kYt1lpnI

Crypto Rebels (1993)

Sun, 18 Sep 2022 14:37:00 +0000

1993 was kinda crazy. Also, both weird and sad how little has changed since.

https://www.wired.com/1993/02/crypto-rebels/

Reimagined Ramen Comes In Edible Package

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 02:39:10 +0000

As a consumer of a lot of ramen, I like this idea

https://hackaday.com/2022/09/15/reimagined-ramen-comes-in-edible-package/

Senior Engineers are Living in the Future

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 09:49:58 +0000

https://www.zerobanana.com/essays/living-in-the-future/

The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 19:54:44 +0000

https://florentcrivello.com/index.php/2019/09/04/the-efficiency-destroying-magic-of-tidying-up/

Desktop Democracy - 1993

Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:30:05 +0000

Proto-resistbot

https://www.wired.com/1993/05/desktop-democracy/

Rota counter

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:25:53 +0000

This looks really cool and I want one

https://hackaday.com/2022/08/19/ro%cc%86%cc%bdta-counting-with-style/

Vox: Who made these circles in the Sahara?

Wed, 11 May 2022 21:54:19 +0000

https://youtu.be/twAP3buj9Og

Huge If True: Would you use an artificial womb?

Sat, 16 Apr 2022 13:22:43 +0000

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mLYMAkgvZsI

Watch the ice maker work from inside the freezer

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:37:08 +0000

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/04/ice/

Vox: Linoleum flooring is cool, actually

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:30:32 +0000

Don't eat the linoleum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIWKjBMYfBw

Permission Marketing

Sun, 12 Dec 2021 09:02:38 +0000

https://seths.blog/2008/01/permission-mark/

Haunted By Data

Sun, 12 Dec 2021 08:48:47 +0000

Big data is bad, m’kay?

https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm

The Programmer's Dream

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 08:12:12 +0000

https://nickbradbury.com/2014/12/11/the-programmers-dream-a-ramble/

The Guy Who Worked For Money

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 18:17:55 +0000

https://www.shareable.net/the-guy-who-worked-for-money/

Programming Sucks

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:12:46 +0000

Yeah..... yeah.

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

Country Centered Map Projections

Sun, 18 Apr 2021 14:28:11 +0000

(via JWZ)

https://engaging-data.com/country-centered-map-projections/

Shapeshifting Streetlights

Sun, 18 Apr 2021 14:22:57 +0000

https://hackaday.com/2021/04/18/shapeshifting-streetlights-are-the-future-we-want-to-live-in/

“Lose Yourself” to a horse race

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 14:02:30 +0000

https://boingboing.net/2020/12/18/eminems-lose-yourself-as-if-the-rapper-was-a-1940s-horse-race-announcer.html

99PI - For the Love of Peat

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:49:53 +0000

Bogs are Best

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/for-the-love-of-peat/

Unsurprising how the Declaration of Independence is so applicable

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:45:53 +0000

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/09/a-new-american-manifesto/

Podcast On A Floppy Disk

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 15:16:04 +0000

(via Hackaday)

https://hackaday.com/2020/08/09/45-minute-podcast-served-up-on-a-floppy-disk/

Shining City on a Hill?

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 14:37:24 +0000

(via BoingBoing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObqBtoz_fRA

Color Copy Paste

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 10:09:42 +0000

A rather cool little tool. Just aiming it around my room was fun.

https://colorcopypaste.app/

Pizza arbitrage via Doordash

Mon, 18 May 2020 10:12:25 +0000

https://boingboing.net/2020/05/18/doordash-charges-16-for-a-24.html

Touch-Typing On Fingertips

Sat, 16 May 2020 13:37:55 +0000

Iiiinteresting.

https://hackaday.com/2020/05/09/touch-typing-on-fingertips-prototype-says-it-could-work/

Alka Seltzer, oil and water in a glass

Sat, 16 May 2020 11:08:54 +0000

Pretty, in a slightly off-putting way.

https://boingboing.net/2020/05/16/when-you-put-alka-seltzer-oil.html

Volcano-dwelling snails

Fri, 15 May 2020 14:50:42 +0000

https://boingboing.net/2020/05/14/these-volcano-dwelling-snails.html