The Best Thing About The Satanic Panic

It’s the name. It’s so good.

The Half Newsletter

Who has time for a whole one?

The Other Twin Towers in the Spider-Man Trailer

Besides the WTC, these were also destroyed

The Long Reply

How long is too long to write back?

Tour Your Favorite Corporation

Somehow this ends with a John Tesh story

The Silly Apps Graveyard

Plus, why I'm done writing about vibe-coding

It’s Their Mona Lisa

What institutions besides the Louvre consider to be their “Mona Lisa”

When “Hackers” Was Hacked

How the movie’s website became the first ever to be hacked

80s Headshots of Famous Artists

Central Casting, but make it art

Blame This Man for Auto-Tune

It has been a long time since I’ve shared a story from my Inventor Profile series. So let me tell you about Andy Hildebrand, the inventor of Auto-Tune, the 47th inventor I interviewed for the series. In 2014, I visited Andy at his secluded home in the hillside

The Worst TV Season Of All Time

What year was the absolute worst on television?

My gifts to you for 2025

I got you some more presents

The 13th Day of Christmas

A fun look at how a picture book comes together

There be whales here!

In which a 92 foot model whale is listed on eBay for $2.25

The Inquiring Photographers

When “Inquiring Photographer” was an actual job.

The Gremlins Edition

A visit to the Gremlins Museum

The King of Blurbs

“A gripping tale of hubris, hyperbole, and hardcovers!” - a famous author

The Trampoline on the Great Pyramid

Or: Lady and the Trampoline

Doomscrolling: The Game

Can a game work where all you do is scroll?

Keyword: Illusion

What does a computer think is an illusion?

One Year of Gisnep

I launched a daily game as a side project, and here’s how that’s worked out.

The Optical Illusion That Let Black and White TVs Show Color

A forgotten experiment in visual perception

Saturday Night Live on Saturday Mornings

The SNL characters who jumped to cartoons

It’s True: The JAWS Shark is Public Domain

A story with legal drama, a mystery, snow leopards, and, uh, naughty bits.

The Internet is about to get less weird

Two cult audio legends call it quits