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The Mystery Of Why Uber Gave Me 77 Free Rides
See if you can figure out why
The Onion of Biblical Times
Well, this got dark.
The All-Updates Edition
Well, okay one new thing
The Color Strike
A labor dispute that created a multiverse
The Best Thing About The Satanic Panic
It’s the name. It’s so good.
The Half Newsletter
Who has time for a whole one?
The Other Twin Towers in the Spider-Man Trailer
Besides the WTC, these were also destroyed
The Long Reply
How long is too long to write back?
Tour Your Favorite Corporation
Somehow this ends with a John Tesh story
The Silly Apps Graveyard
Plus, why I'm done writing about vibe-coding
It’s Their Mona Lisa
What institutions besides the Louvre consider to be their “Mona Lisa”
When “Hackers” Was Hacked
How the movie’s website became the first ever to be hacked
80s Headshots of Famous Artists
Central Casting, but make it art
Blame This Man for Auto-Tune
It has been a long time since I’ve shared a story from my Inventor Profile series. So let me tell you about Andy Hildebrand, the inventor of Auto-Tune, the 47th inventor I interviewed for the series. In 2014, I visited Andy at his secluded home in the