Wondering what typeface was used in any given video game? Charlotte Couderc's Game Font Library is exactly what it claims to be. You can search by game, genre, studio, typeface… Read the rest of the article: Game Font Library is a library of game fonts

What's the source of the dark goop washing up on Florida's beaches? The U.S. Coast Guard is scanning the shores from Port Everglades to Palm Beach after locals reported sticky… Read the rest of the article: Mystery tar balls wash ashore in Florida

With Google and Apple renaming The Gulf of Mexico "The Gulf of America" in their mapping services to honor Donald Trump's whimsical executive order, anticipatory compliance seems to be corporate… Read the rest of the article: Associated Press and Encyclopedia Britannica still calling it Gulf of Mexico despite White House tantrum

In "Soy Right ascendent" Max Read describes the shift in Trumpdom away from the old MAGA tribe of angry dads and obsessed moms toward the "Soy Right" of sexist techbros,… Read the rest of the article: The Soy Right may be in charge, but who will clean up its mess?

I love the idea of specialized writer decks, fail at using them productively, and am always a sucker for the next one. The latest Pomera—a range of monochrome word processors… Read the rest of the article: Pomera's latest writer deck folds into a (deep) pocket

Making a graphics processing unit with 1.8 terabits of memory bandwidth, 24,576 CUDA cores, 768 tensor cores and 192 ray-tracing cores, capable of produding 1636.76 gigatexels per second? Easy! Pushing… Read the rest of the article: Gamers complain Nvidia's powerful new video card is melting connectors

I still use a screenless graphics tablet, an Intuos Pro PTH 660, not because it's the right tool to use in 2025 but because it's fine and it hasn't died… Read the rest of the article: The new Intuos Pro is an old-timey graphics tablet

Using variation selectors, you can conceal messages of arbitrary length within emoji, or indeed any unicode character. "To be clear, this is an abuse of unicode and you shouldn't do… Read the rest of the article: How to hide secret messages in emoji

UnitedHealth, the healthcare insurance giant in the spotlight after its CEO was assassinated in broad daylight, has hired a law firm specializing in defamation to monitor reportage and social media… Read the rest of the article: UnitedHealth hires defamation lawyers

Fighting Fantasy gamebooks were my introduction to role-playing games, the fantasy genre itself, and to the enduring mystery of the two Steve Jacksons! They'll soon be back in print in… Read the rest of the article: Classic Fighting Fantasy gamebooks returning to U.S.

In this video, artwork_in_studio on Instagram mixes pigments in water to find the average colors of national flags. This method honors the relative amount of each color in the flag—the… Read the rest of the article: What results when you mix the colors of national flags?

Behold the face of Thomas Aquinas—"Beware the man of a single book"—as recreated from a computer-assisted analysis of his skull. The Italian friar, who lived 750 years ago, was imaged… Read the rest of the article: Face of Catholic Saint Thomas Aquinas recreated from skull analysis

Feed the Javascript Kaleidoscope the address of an image and let it get you high, no chemicals necessary. Coded by Andrey Mutlu and made available in instantly-editable form at Codepen,… Read the rest of the article: Javascript Kaleidoscope

Two canyons on the far side of the moon, each as large as Earth's Grand Canyon, formed within less than 10 minutes, most likely due to a massive impact there… Read the rest of the article: Massive lunar canyons formed within minutes, most likely due to asteroid strike

It took an hourlong chase, including the use of a helicopter, before police officers were able to apprehend a teenager on an e-bike Sunday. The BBC reports that the 17-year-old… Read the rest of the article: Teenager charged after police chase his e-bike for an hour with helicopter

British supermarkets have clock towers. One might walk in sight of them for years, decades even, without wondering why, or noticing that the clocks are typically nonfunctional, or deducing that… Read the rest of the article: Behold the fake supermarket clock towers of Britain

Andrew Gwynne, until today the junior health minister of the United Kingdom, deeply regrets his badly misjudged comments. "I deeply regret my badly misjudged commments and apologise for any offense… Read the rest of the article: British junior health minister fired over racist and sexist messages

Aman Vir created an interactive map of his favorite obscure islands. Some you may well have heard of, such as Midway, for which a major WWII naval battle was named,… Read the rest of the article: Interactive map of obscure islands

Lose yourself for a while in this fine collection of vintage film cameras of the 1930s at the Living Image Museum. [via Hacker News] "Their true value lies with the… Read the rest of the article: Vintage cameras of the 1930s

Paper Apps are pen and paper games cunningly disguised as little reporter-style notepads, pitched as a "fun, smart alternative to screen time." There are games themed around dungeons, space exploration… Read the rest of the article: Pocket paper "notebooks" with games printed on them