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The Analog Life: 50 Ways to Unplug and Feel Human...

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2025/11/08

The Analog Life: 50 Ways to Unplug and Feel Human Again via InsideHookIn 2006, a UX designer named Aza Raskin invented a concept called “infinite scroll.” The feature provided an alternative to internet pagination — anytime users reached the end of a feed, timeline or results page, they could just flick the screen down for more. And like magic, more always arrived. Raskin knew exactly what he’d built: “If you don’t give your brain time to catch up with your impulses, you just keep scrolling,” he

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Notable people Interactive World Map [Shared]

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2025/10/23

Notable people Interactive World MapUsing data from Morgane Laouenan et al., the map is showing birthplaces of the most "notable people" around the world. Data has been processed to show only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank. Click to show people only from a specific category or click on a name to see personal data Check out this interactive map

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An engineer restores pay phones for free public use...

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2025/10/22

An engineer restores pay phones for free public use via NPR Patrick Schlott often finds himself in a cellular dead zone during his drive to work. "You go down the road, you turn the corner and you're behind a mountain and you'll lose cell coverage pretty fast," he says. The 31-year-old electrical engineer says poor reception is a common frustration for residents of Vermont's Orange County. To address this issue, he's providing his community with a new way to stay connected. Schlott has taken old

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I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel...

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2025/10/17

I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display via Ben HolmenSix years ago I had an idea to build a large, inefficient display with a web interface that anyone could interact with. I've enjoyed Danny Rozin's unconvenional mirrors over the years and was inspired by an eInk movie player that played at 24 frames per hour that got me thinking about a laborious display that could slowly assemble an image. I landed on the idea of a 40×25 pixel grid of pixels, turned one by one by a single

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Bill Atkinson: Polaroids showing the Evolution of the...

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2025/08/02

Bill Atkinson: Polaroids showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI via Computer History Museum [Video] [Shared] Bill Atkinson shows and explains his binder of Polaroid photos which he took during the development of the Lisa, documenting the evolution of its graphical user interface. Watch this entire 25 minute video

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New California tool ranks extreme heat danger by...

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2025/07/22

New California tool ranks extreme heat danger by neighborhood. Here's how it works via LAistIt’s going to be hot this summer. And a new tool can help you figure out the risk that the temperature can pose to your health. The California Communities Extreme Heat Scoring System — which the state is calling CalHeatScore — can tell you the level of heat-related health risk you face and point you to cooling resources in your area. This pilot program ranks risk from extreme heat into four categories,

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WeatherStar 4000+ [Shared]

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2025/07/10

WeatherStar 4000+This project aims to bring back the feel of the 90s with a weather forecast that has the look and feel of The Weather Channel at that time but available in a modern way. This is by no means intended to be a perfect emulation of the WeatherStar 4000, the hardware that produced those wonderful blue and orange graphics you saw during the local forecast on The Weather Channel. If you would like a much more accurate project please see the WS4000 Simulator. Instead, this project

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Video Game History Foundation Library – Digital...

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2025/07/08

Video Game History Foundation Library – Digital Archive The VGHF Digital Archive is the portal for our digitally preserved content. You can directly access our digital collections and search through the full text of documents, magazines, transcripts, and more. This library is a permanent work in progress. Not all materials are currently cataloged or digitized, and our library system may change in the future. For a more complete list of VGHF’s holdings, visit the Library Catalog. Check out the

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Internet in a Box - Mandela's Library of Alexandria...

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2025/07/01

Internet in a Box - Mandela's Library of AlexandriaInternet-in-a-Box “learning hotspots” are used in dozens of countries, to give everyone a chance, e.g. in remote mountain villages in India. It works without internet — like a community fountain, but for the mind — wirelessly serving anyone nearby with a smartphone, tablet or laptop. Now you too can put the internet in a box and customize it with the very best free content for your school, clinic or family! Check out a variety of Internet in a

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CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation)...

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2025/06/16

CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation) via Adafruit IndustriesBack in the 1960’s and early 70’s Bell Labs made some very sophisticated educational kits available to high schools and colleges. Designed for classroom use, they included wonderful manuals written by Bell Labs staff. One of these kits, introduced in 1968, was CARDIAC: A CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation. CARDIAC is a learning aid developed by David Hagelbarger and Saul Fingerman for Bell Telephone Laboratories in

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Atkinson Hyperlegible Font via the Braille Institute...

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2025/06/14

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font via the Braille InstituteIs this font easy for you to read? Good—that’s the idea. At Braille Institute, we’ve created a family of hyperlegible™ fonts designed to improve legibility and readability for individuals with low vision. These carefully crafted fonts feature clear, highly distinctive letters and numbers that make reading easier and more accessible. Our award-winning font has made reading easier for millions upon millions of people and continues to change lives

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Wonders of Street View [Shared]

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2025/05/19

Wonders of Street ViewRandom Interesting Sights on Google Street View Wander through these quirky street view locations around the world

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This Venn diagram-inspired AI image generator is...

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2025/05/08

This Venn diagram-inspired AI image generator is strangely satisfying via Creative BloqThere are already more AI image generators than the world could possibly ever need, even if AI art does become the norm. But that's not stopping people from experimenting with new ways to present them. Many AI image generators let you request a particular artistic style or combine several to influence the look of the image you want to generate. Super Random Studio has come up with a clever UI design to allow

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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too -...

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2025/05/02

I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of Stuff I waste too much time scrolling through social media. It's bad for my health, so why do I keep doing it? Because once in a while, I'll find a post so good that it teaches me something I never knew before, and all the scrolling feels worth it. But I've stumbled upon an old piece of free and open source tech, relatively unknown today, which is THE solution of solving the problems with modern media without sacrificing

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Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting via The...

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2025/04/03

Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting via The Internet ArchivePunch cards are a fascinating binary data storage format that aren’t just history—they’re still used by knitting machines today! Thanks to the Internet Archive and other collections, we still have access to historic punch cards, but there are some technical challenges to using them in the format they’re stored in. Meet a few folx working on those challenges. Read this entire article – Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting via The

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Old Maps Online [Shared]

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2025/03/29

Old Maps OnlineA new way to discover history Explore the past on an interactive map with a timeline. Search for detailed high-resolution scanned maps and see what happened in your chosen place in the past. Check out the maps!

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Sounds of the Forest [Shared]

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2025/03/28

Sounds of the Forest We are collecting the sounds of woodlands and forests from all around the world, creating a growing soundmap bringing together aural tones and textures from the world’s woodlands. The sounds form an open source library, to be used by anyone to listen to and create from.Selected artistswill be responding to the sounds that are gathered, creating music, audio, artwork or something else incredible, to be presented atTimber Festival 2021. Visit the Sounds of the Forest Site and

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Summer Wallpapers for Your Tech via Centsational...

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2025/03/24

Summer Wallpapers for Your Tech via Centsational Style Summer is around the corner! To brighten your tech I made five more seasonal screensavers. Find them below, sized to fit the ratios of a desktop, laptop, tablet, and your phone too. Links to all four sizes for each pattern. Enjoy! Check out the wallpapers

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Histography - Timeline of History [Shared]

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2025/03/21

Histography - Timeline of Historytec Visit the website

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