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Mini-documentary about Pittsburgh’s Long Lines telecom fortress
You’ve likely heard of the menacingly brutalist AT&T Long Lines skycraper in Manhattan, a massive telecommunications center believed to house an NSA…
 • Rob Beschizza
Legendary emulator ZSNES rewritten from scratch
My first experience of emulation was ZSNES in the late 1990s, letting me return to what then seemed like ancient history: the early 1990s.
 • Rob Beschizza
GoDaddy handed a 27-year-old nonprofit domain to a stranger 2,000 miles away
GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, transferred a 27-year-old nonprofit’s main web address to a complete stranger 2,000 miles away.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Play Zork while reading the 1980 code that makes it work
Type “open mailbox” in The Visible Zorker, and the game does what it always did: tells you the mailbox is open, with a leaflet inside.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Trump just killed the Reflecting Pool’s iconic mirror effect
If he can't gold-plate it, he'll turn it into something drab.
 • Jason Weisberger
Grandpa Pudding Brains offends quite easily
The single thing that suggests the attack on Dimwit Donnie's life might have been real is that Trump would likely not have approved a "manifesto" that…
 • Jason Weisberger
Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir arrives May 27, in glorious black and white
Nicolas Cage may have been passed over for Superman long, long ago, but at least he’s finally getting to play an equally iconic superhero.
 • Mark Frauenfelder
The great ASMR heist
Imagine, if you will, a picture-perfect movie heist.
 • Grant St. Clair
Willem Dafoe plays a billionaire Onassis figure in The Birthday Party
If there’s one working actor I love, it’s Willem Dafoe, whose willingness to say yes to seemingly any role and then give that role two hundred and ten…
 • Grant St. Clair
Someone put the dullest part of The Iliad inside a mummy
The excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in Egypt has revealed a 1600-year-old mummy that had been entombed with a papyrus containing an fragment from…
 • Ruben Bolling
Why did it take a random fan letter to get a black kid into Peanuts?
In 1968, two weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., a white schoolteacher and mother of three from the suburbs of Los Angeles wrote…
 • Ruben Bolling
Vlogger re-creates famous Disney illusion in his garage
There are three Tower of Terrors (Towers of Terror?) in Disney theme parks around the world, and my favorite one may be the one is in Tokyo DisneySea.
 • Ruben Bolling
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