How Aphex Twin Created Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (reverbmachine.com)
Amazing in depth dissection and replication of the famous Aphex Twin record. There’s no end to the amount of gear chatter you can find regarding Aphex, but this article goes the distance and makes pretty good impressions of the tracks themselves!
modsamplemaster.thegang.nu
What’s extra cool about this site is that you can see what samples are common in mod tracks rather than blindly browsing STXX libraries. Very cool. Add seven semitones if you’re loading these up in Renoise. Interpolation always off.
matteline.com
Concept artist doing imaginary box art for scifi vehicles that never got model kits.
168: Legion Of Doom (darknetdiaries.com)
This and 169 are an interesting couple of Darknet Diaries episodes covering the Phone Phreak era. Looks largely sourced from The Hacker Crackdown, wish he’d also covered Exploding The Phone.
ninjatoes.blogspot.com/2008/08/tabletop-gaming.html
Archive of (unfortunately, links to) tons of papercraft models. Many red links. Someone posting this is what inspired the earlier post dredging up the DND models.
Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers (notepad-plus-plus.org)
Notepad ++ of all things was hacked. I’ve long since moved on to other text editors, but it’s wild to see something like this happen. One wonders who was using it that made it worth a state level actor attacking it.
The Hands Resist Him: did ebay auction a haunted painting (thethreepennyguginol.com)
I love this kind of lore dive. Would make a decent Endless Thread episode.
A goodbye to the Cape Cod Chip factory in Hyannis (wbur.org)
Time marches on, places disappear. I remember visiting this place, now it’s gone. Hope the employees find new gigs. Should they still call them cape cod chips? I suppose you could say the same of many brands…
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/
Discusses the history of the “Unbound” publisher which put out Secret History Of Mac Gaming. Unfortunate that it turned out that way. I thought crowdfunding books was a neat idea.
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today
Archive dot today has used its considerable traffic to execute a DDOS attack against a blogger that was apparently trying to track them down. This type of abuse of trust makes them dubious as a source of truth. The reality is though that they were mostly used to bypass paywalls.
haveibeenflocked.com
Check to see if your license plate has been part of a Flock search.
Child’s Play: Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking (harpers.org)
This has some undeniably funny moments even if it pulls punches more than it swings.
The billionaires’ eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science (thenerve.news)
Presented without comment.