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Ruling out the icecaps melting, a meteor becoming crashed into us, the ozone layer leaving, and the Sun exploding, we're definitely going to blow ourselves up. H'okay. So basically we've got China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, The UK, and us, with nukes. We've got about 2600 more than anybody else. Whatever. H'anyway.

Apple has a long track record of trying out new features in iMessage the app, but has seldom re-evaluated how the text of messages themselves could be improved on. That’s where Markdown comes in…

What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?

Michael Jordan grew up wearing Converse kicks like his idol David Thompson. He played at North Carolina in Converse kicks.…

When millions of African-Americans fled the South in search of a better life, they remade the nation in ways that are still being felt

When do you hang with an old dude online? When he’s running for office!

In the 1890s, in remote locations such as railroad construction sites, lumber camps, turpentine camps, or coal mines, jobs often existed far from established towns. As a pragmatic solution, the emp…

What happens if you decide that falling in love is not something that happens to you, but something that you do?

This blockbuster keynote by Steve Jobs (San Francisco, 2007) started a new era of iPhones! Probably, the first smartphones which paved the way for better mobile phones or smart

Steal her recipe for an unforgettable Thanksgiving feast.

Why spreadsheets have resulted in some genes getting new names, plus poisons mistakenly taken from Zelda in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up

How text is reclaiming its cultural throne in the era of endless scrolling

After years of insomnia, I threw off the effort to sleep and embraced the peculiar openness I found in the darkest hours

Are you sick of Forbes appearing in search results? For topics that Forbes doesn’t have any expertise in? Here’s the organic rankings for “best pet insurance”: Forbes ranks #2. Not sure a business website knows how pet insurance actually works. But okay. They also have the #1 ranking for best cbd gummies: Because it’s a marijuana category, PPC ads don’t […]

Let's take a dive into one of my favorite pieces from my design collection, Apple's 1987 Corporate Identity Guidelines.

I think we're at the precipice of a technological revolution.

The kinds of music played behind NPR's Tiny Desk have changed significantly since the concert series started in 2008. I decided to use data to show exactly how it’s evolved. To accomplish this, I used a web-scraping package called Playwright, Last.fm’s artists API, Datawrapper, Adobe Illustrator, some CSS and JavaScript for animation, and, of course,

On and off for the last several years I’ve been manually curating my roughly 40,000 lifetime tweets. I recently finished, and in the process embarked on a

Not an artistic judgement. Just a technical one.

Are you a freelancer with a great idea? Start here.

On Friday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that 'more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use.' Even better, the images can be used at no charge (and without getting permission from the museum). In making this announcement, the Met joined other world-class museums in putting put large troves of digital art online.

The iconic silhouette returns now in a new reiteration

The scary future of digital gerrymandering – and how to prevent it.

Putin is trying to take down the entire world order, the veteran Russia watcher said in an interview. But there are ways even ordinary Americans can fight back.

The ‘centre’ has long been chasing the right on immigration politics.

While widening the scope of experiences and viewpoints on the bench to include that of a Black woman may lead to some positive outcomes for some people experiencing oppression (to the apparent chagrin of conservatives), it doesn’t erase the conditions that allow oppression to occur.