The Awl and the Hairpin’s Best Stories, Remembered by Their Writers
19 January 2018
The Awl and The Hairpin were the Good Blogs. Sad to see them go, excited to see what replaces them.
- filed under anthology, blogs, history, the good shit
19 January 2018
The Awl and The Hairpin were the Good Blogs. Sad to see them go, excited to see what replaces them.
09 June 2017
What a zany thing to have existed: This is the instructional video that was bundled with the Singer IZEK sewing machine/Game Boy Color combo. Hopefully this will help others who may be struggling to set up or operate their IZEKs or for those who just want to enjoy awesome VHS goodness! via Frank Cifaldi on […]
15 May 2014
A long excerpt from Blake J. Harris’ new book, Console Wars, which I am very much looking forward to.
02 April 2013
I’m not sure how I haven’t linked to this before, but here it is now. This needs to exist and I’m so glad it does.
12 July 2011
From the indispensable blog of Jess Nevins: Still another Gopher of distinction was Happy Jack Mulraney, so called because he always appeared to be laughing. However, his smile was caused by a partial paralysis of the muscles of his face. In reality Happy Jack was a verjuiced person and very sensitive about his deformity; when […]
20 April 2011
We’ll never really know, but Eddie Cicotte said so…
04 March 2011
Jason Scott: Yahoo! are about to delete all user-generated content on Yahoo! Video and that is really busting my crank, as well as the crank of a lot of people that have joined Archive Team to rescue it. We’re now to the point that the whole process is pretty smooth, and we’re getting in the […]
24 January 2011
Old documents, unreleased game reviews, and more from a games reviewer. It’s a formatted simply, easy to read, and made up of neat little bits and bobs.
14 January 2011
Doctor Sparkle, the mad genius behind Chrontendo, mentions the GDRI several times in his videos, and it’s an awesome resource for information on… game developers. The bent is toward older companies and projects because those are the ones we generally know the least about.
04 October 2010
Historian Jason Scott walks through the many-years story of software piracy and touches on the tired debates before going into a completely different direction – the interesting, informative, hilarious and occasionally obscene world of inter-pirate-group battles. A multi-media extravaganza of threats, CSI-level accusations and evidence trails, decades of insider lingo, and demonstrations of how the […]
16 February 2010
Describing the technical workings of the Atari 2600, it is not an emulator, or even really a “how to,” but more like a… Documentary App. I love this kind of thing. It is Volume One in what will become a series, and if you don’t buy this you are an asshole.
26 October 2009
You were responsible or many of the most retch-inducing websites on the internet, and you only got worse with time. We’ll miss you. xkcd is GeoCities-ified (saved image).
21 August 2009
An absolutely astonishing demonstration of a vector drawing application from 1962.
25 July 2009
Jason’s acquired about 5 years worth of expired threads from the internet’s House of Awful Shit and Meme Factory, 4chan. Yes, this is culturally important. Just trust me. via Andy Baio.
01 June 2009
Woof, this is a big deal. There is a lot of culture and history in these sites.
30 May 2009
Philip Greenspun: Our literary culture is impoverished when every idea is stretched or amputated to fit the Procrustean bed made up by magazine and book publishers. When an author runs out of relevant stuff to say after 20 or 30 pages, that’s how long the essay should be. Quoting the same passage that Gruber did, […]
29 April 2009
WebRing was started by a co-founder of DreamHost. Then sold to GeoCities, which was then sold to Yahoo, and, well, read the article. Josh thinks it’s a sort of micrososm of the web: It went from a tiny ad-free community service, to hyper-growth, to showing ads, to being acquired for an INSANE price, to being […]
14 April 2009
The Sonic Bible was an internal document created by SOA to provide a localised history and overall philosophy for Sonic and the Sonic universe. It is apparently not based on the Japanese history. The series bible for Sonic The Hedgehog from Sega’s launch of the first Sonic game in the US.
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