Solving the Feynman restaurant problem, i.e. how many...

Solving the Feynman restaurant problem, i.e. how many dishes should you sample at a restaurant to find your favorite one? “Once you settle on a dish, the best strategy is to order it on every remaining visit.”

Paul Ford made an app called Mouse Party for easily...

Paul Ford made an app called Mouse Party for easily hosting video watching parties for your friends, no web server needed.

Evoto Review: The Lightroom Alternative Portrait Photographers May Like

In the Phoblographer's continued coverage of reviewing Lightroom alternatives, we decided to look at Evoto -- even though it heavily leans into AI. Since we called the company out in January of this year for pushing AI generated headshots, they've been working on actually being…

The Surma Boys of Afghanistan

Afghan-American visual artist Daniel Malikyar recently shared some great photos of what he calls “a fashion subculture unlike anything I’ve encountered before” that he found in a remote village in the mountains of Afghanistan. I met a group of boys in a remote vill…

The long-lost source for a sample in Craig Mack’s Flava...

The long-lost source for a sample in Craig Mack’s Flava In Ya Ear has been found. “Back then, rap producers took care in disguising the samples that they chopped up, making them difficult to trace — not just for legal reasons, but as part of the art.”

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3 Creative Nude Photographers And How They Make Their Images

Let's be honest here: the web for a while was always really cautious about nudes of any sort. But thanks to social media, it's everywhere now. What's not everywhere though is true creativity with it. Content Creators often make nude images and then try to get people to subscribe…

Literary Hub is trying to determine the best literary TV...

Literary Hub is trying to determine the best literary TV adaptation of all time. I have soft spots for Station Eleven, Mindhunter, Shogun, The Expanse, Normal People, and, especially, My Brilliant Friend. (Where is Fleishman Is in Trouble??)

Sicily and the Family Tree of Citrus

On his site Notes From the Road, Erik Gauger has a wonderful eight-part series on The Citrus Kingdom, a collection of illustrated stories about citrus fruit and Sicily. The key to the citron’s future—a future that links nearly every aspect of Sicily’s cultural, politi…

5 Best Cameras From 2012 That Are Still Worth Buying in 2026

Cameras like the Sony a77, a7r, Canon S100, Fuji X Pro 1, and the Canon G1X are some real standouts even today. The year 2012 saw the introduction of impressive cameras. From mirrorless entries to some good compact cameras, various manufacturers were completing on varied fronts.…

The 100 Best Indie Rock Albums of All Time. Includes...

The 100 Best Indie Rock Albums of All Time. Includes albums by Death Cab for Cutie, Neko Case, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bon Iver, TV on the Radio, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Liz Phair, and Sonic Youth.

Jono is a video game with 1,000,000 levels. Only one...

Jono is a video game with 1,000,000 levels. Only one person can play at a time, for 60 seconds, while everyone else watches on a livestream.” As of this writing, the game is up to level 179,579, and Jono has died 250,687 times.

Before Kodachrome: How Autochrome Gave Us Color Photography (NSFW)

Before color photography was introduced, photographers would often be seen hand-painting portraits to make them seem life-like. While color is now a part of most modern sensors, the appeal, with time, seems to have been fading away. For this reason, we bring to you a slice of ph…

Richard Scarry Illustrations Paired With Karl Marx Quotes

Writer and comedian Zach Mander took quotes from Karl Marx and paired them with illustrations from books by Richard Scarry like What Do People Do All Day? and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go. See also Mamdani’s Richard Scarry socialism. Ta…

Riding the Rails With America’s Last Train-Hoppers....

Riding the Rails With America’s Last Train-Hoppers. “There are still people today who risk injury and arrest to climb aboard freight trains, still moving through the country in cars designed to carry things rather than people.”

The Nostalgia Is Real: Why Photographers Keep Coming Back to Our Retro Digital Presets

Every few months, we hear from someone who just discovered our retro digital presets and asks why nobody told them sooner. The honest answer is that nostalgia in photography doesn't really fade, it just goes quiet for a while. The early-2000s DSLR look, the one defined by camera…

The corkscrew car jump from the Bond film The Man With...

The corkscrew car jump from the Bond film The Man With The Golden Gun was extensively modelled on a computer in 1974. “McHenry took all the measurements and simulated the stunt using the equations of the 18th-century mathematician Leonhard Euler.”

“Today’s rich people are richer than ever, and that seems...

“Today’s rich people are richer than ever, and that seems to have made them worse than ever. More shameless. More out of touch. Less empathetic. Thinner-skinned. And…angrier. They’re people who consider equality for others oppression for themselves.”

Map of New England Places Everybody Pronounces Wrong

As part of the 30 Day Map Challenge, Maxwell Howe created a map of New England places that many out-of-towners mispronounce (Instagram). As you would expect when you start talking about local pronunciations and accents, he’s getting some blowback: You’re mixing accen…

The Leica M-A and M11-P Hammertone Editions are Truly Beautiful

Leica Camera AG is introducing two new camera iterations in hammertone finish: the Leica M-A and Leica M11-P. The company is known for producing impressive limited edition models, whose market value rarely diminishes after purchase. The new hammertone addition is no different, w…

The Upcoming Canon RF 400mm and 600mm May Get a Different Kind of Built-In Teleconverter

Canon is reportedly working on a new Canon RF 400mm f2.8L and RF 600mm f4L. The launch is set to be before the end of the year, and the new variants are said to come with an in-built teleconverter. However, the latter will be quite different, since the current RF version was ori…

Starting today at 7pm in NYC, 400 volunteers will read...

Starting today at 7pm in NYC, 400 volunteers will read Robert Caro’s The Power Broker in 10-minute increments for 4 days. They’re gonna livestream it on YouTube.

Nope, this is not at all metaphorical: “In its glory...

Nope, this is not at all metaphorical: “In its glory days, the S.S. United States was fast, luxurious and all but indestructible.” RIP, the United States.

Robyn’s Tiny Desk Concert

NPR recently welcomed Swedish pop star Robyn to their office for a Tiny Desk Concert. She sings four songs, including one of her first hits, Show Me Love. Every choice here is a tender one, down to the teardrop glued to her cheek. Every move is confident, yet comes from a p…

This Hack Gives the Fujifilm Instax Pal 2 the Film Looks Fujifilm Never Did

Ever since I hacked my old Sony cameras to give them the capabilities that Sony took away from us, I've been hungry for more as I've got loads of older cameras around my office. And after looking around on various sub-reddits, I found some custom firmware from user TheWors3. So…