The Shipbreakers
Published in The Atlantic in 2000. What a great piece of writing. Long, but I'd have hung in even longer for anything this masterful.
Wes Phillips
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Disney Does Devo
This is just wrong on so many levels.
Articles That Make you Go "Hmmm"
I'm not a member of the games generation—well, I kind of miss Zork! and Adventure, but other than Myst, most of them require hand/eye coordination that I simply lack—which is not to say that I'm immune to the levels of complexity and artistry that many games exhibit, simply that I don't get 'em, most of the time.
Free Online Graph Paper
Have you tried to buy graph paper recently? Those 16-year-old clerks at Staples have no clue what you're talking about. If you really want to see their eyes glaze over, tell'em when you went to school you had to carry your own hand-powered computer called a slide rule.
Bagheera Works It
She totally pwns the Cat-Dancer.
Lending a Helping Huck
Huckleberry personally inspects every box before it leaves mi casa.
Chicken CacciaTora Tora Tora
Or should it be Coq au Blam? Some recipes make life a lot more interesting than others.
Are Cats Changing the Behavior of Millions?
Not the usual "ain't they cute?" discussion, but a look into Toxoplasma, a parasite that has a strange behavioral action on rats—and perhaps on men and women as well.
Geek Heaven!
Huge database of animated .GIFs that demonstrate mathematic concepts. Need to explain the Conchoid of Nicomedes? Poincaré Hyperbolic Disks? Semicubical Parabola Involutes? Sweat no more—just point and click.
Is Money A Virus?
No, but it behaves like one, according to researchers who used an internet game called www.wheresgeorge.com to predict the geographical spread of epidemics. How's that work? Money, like viruses, is spread by people and, since people travel great distances these days, coming up with a way to chart how far and fast an epidemic can travel has been nigh on to impossible.