On its Facebook page, Muji describes its aim as creating “products that are really necessary in everyday life in the shapes that are really necessary.” Photograph by Todd Heisler / The New York Times

Hello Jason, I’ve recently learned of your amazing archiving efforts and I wanted to thank you for all that you have done for the internet community. You’ve really got me thinking more than I had befo

I Am Not Charlie Hebdo The journalists at Charlie Hebdo are now rightly being celebrated as martyrs on behalf of freedom of expression, but let’s face it: If they had tried to publish their satirical

SVG certainly crashed and burned before it rose like a phoenix from the ashes... Sometime in 1998, a former co-worker who had gone to work at Adobe came by my office at Bertlesmann to inform me of a b

Save for the image of a six-year-old Hungarian girl which I do not possess — these are the photographs of 10 of the 11 members of my family who did not escape

There's another web out there, a better web hiding just below the surface of the one we surf from our phones and tablets and laptops every day. A web with no ads, no endlessly scrolling pages, and no

English speakers know that their language is odd. So do people saddled with learning it non-natively. The oddity that we all perceive most readily is its spelling, which is indeed a nightmare. In coun

francois schnell / Flickr “Persistence is one of the great characteristics of a pitbull, and I guess owners take after their dogs,” says Annetta Cheek, the co-founder of the D.C.-based nonprofit Cente

Die Nacht kratzt und beißt, es ist laut, Grasgeruch liegt in der Luft. Körper pressen sich an Körpern über den Bürgersteig, die Masse gleitet, taumelt, pöbelt

Annals of Technology December 29, 2013 This past October, just before the leaves changed, I went on a six-day hike through the mountains of Wakayama, in central Japan, tracing the path of an ancient imperial pilgrimage called the Kumano Kodo. I took along a powerful camera, believing, as I always…

As Aparajita astutely observed, the question seems to confuse [a] ease of writing malicious code and [b] ease of infecting a computer with malicious code. The two are very different concepts. The latter is a much more difficult barrier to cross.A better question to ask is: assuming you are in…

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First Person I’m Too Old for This Credit... Juliette Borda There is a lot that is annoying, and even terrible, about aging. The creakiness of the body; the drifting of the memory; the reprising of per

“OMG You have to try Vim.” - lots of people So around a year ago after about 8 years of using numerous OSX / Windows based text editors and IDEs, I decided to switch to VIM. Why? Mostly I was bored with Sublime, and in 2014 Atom.io and LightTable weren’t that impressive, so I figured why not try…

× Let's try a word association: When I say the word "debt", what word pops into your mind? It's "Greece", right? That's the result of an effective media campaign to brand the "lazy Greeks" as invetera

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Welcome to Out of the Kitchen , our ongoing exploration of America’s coolest food artisans. Over the next few months, we’re apprenticing with the best knife forgers, cider brewers, and spice blenders,

That’s how it looked back in 1859, according to Scientific American. Clive Thompson May 22, 2014 · 6 min read Let’s take a trip back to 1859, when our mental environment faced a dire new threat. An up

Editor’s Note: The following article appeared in a 1902 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine (which started out as a quality family magazine before becoming a women’s rag). I think it raises an interesting

Quinn Norton May 20, 2014 · 17 min read Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started playing with i

When you read a lot of books people inevitably assume you speed read. In fact, that’s probably the most common email I get. They want to know my trick for reading so fast. They see all the books I rec

The other day I was reading a book and I came across a little anecdote. It was about the great Athenian general Themistocles. Before the battle of Salamis, he was locked in a vigorous debate with a Sp

I’m a voracious web reader. I spend most of my working days either writing or checking Twitter, NewsBlur, Nuzzel , Techmeme, and The Tech Block looking for interesting stuff I can link to or longer ar

Unix tool tip: How to undo almost anything with git https://t.co/ZcMo3wlG9V

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I have lived thirty years in these thirty days. I am thirty years sadder. I feel like I am thirty years wiser.

I spent ten years in the trenches of professional restaurant kitchens. While other twentysomethings were taking jobs in the real world—working in offices where people got eight hours of sleep every night, dressed like fully grown adults, and didn't use the word 'fuck' in every other sentence—I was…

Well-meaning people have, for a good many years now, been forming a “consciousness” about where their food comes from, who produces it, and how. This gets tedious. But it’s also sensible, given how important food is in our lives. Computers, it would seem, deserve similar attention. They are constant…

murmurs: Well @csswizardry does it again. Not even done reading this article and it's already worth sharing. http://t.co/pZfifrc8if

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