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Essays and writing about culture and media

Every link here is classified as essays and writing about culture and media.

Hall of Fame: 14
Candidates: 24
Median span: 8.6 yrs
First seen: 2007

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24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

people.xiph.org 10 submissions · 10 people · 14.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-12 Resurfaced 2026-07-02

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Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)

pages.cs.wisc.edu 8 submissions · 8 people · 13.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2025-04-01 archived copy

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I Hate the News (2006)

www.aaronsw.com 14 submissions · 14 people · 12.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-03 Resurfaced 2023-07-04

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The Egg

www.galactanet.com 35 submissions · 25 people · 15.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-05 Resurfaced 2018-05-24

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Giving up reading news will make us happier

www.theguardian.com 8 submissions · 7 people · 12.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-04 Resurfaced 2023-07-05

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Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011)

www.damninteresting.com 7 submissions · 6 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-01 Resurfaced 2024-05-08

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Lena

qntm.org 13 submissions · 13 people · 5.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-12 Resurfaced 2026-02-13

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I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (2007)

qntm.org 9 submissions · 9 people · 15.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-02 Resurfaced 2026-03-17

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Reasons not to become famous

tim.blog 11 submissions · 11 people · 5.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-08 Resurfaced 2025-12-21

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The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans

www.otherhand.org 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-02 Resurfaced 2024-06-03

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Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

bradconte.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 13.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-11 Resurfaced 2026-07-30

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Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms

www.snopes.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-07 Resurfaced 2014-05-16

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Entitlement issues (2009)

journal.neilgaiman.com 8 submissions · 4 people · 9.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2022-03-17

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Stop Reading News (2013)

fs.blog 6 submissions · 6 people · 3.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-09 Resurfaced 2021-09-22

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Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

bradconte.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 13.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-11 Resurfaced 2026-07-30

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24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

people.xiph.org 10 submissions · 10 people · 14.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-12 Resurfaced 2026-07-02

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I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (2007)

qntm.org 9 submissions · 9 people · 15.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-02 Resurfaced 2026-03-17

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Lena

qntm.org 13 submissions · 13 people · 5.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-12 Resurfaced 2026-02-13

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Reasons not to become famous

tim.blog 11 submissions · 11 people · 5.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-08 Resurfaced 2025-12-21

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Candidates

Browse 24 candidates

Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015)

www.npr.org 10 submissions · 5 people · 9.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-03-11

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Why TV Lost (2009)

www.paulgraham.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 12.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-12-09

Needs:5 submissions

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The day Steve Jobs dissed me hard

sivers.org 4 submissions · 4 people · 9.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2013-06-14

Needs:5 submissions

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Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975)

www.depauw.edu 7 submissions · 3 people · 10.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-05-29

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness

theabyssgazes.blogspot.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 14.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2011-09-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions?

slate.com 5 submissions · 3 people · 4.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-05-23

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (2011)

km-515.livejournal.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 8.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-07-28

Needs:5 submissions

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Liu Cixin's War of the Worlds (2019)

www.newyorker.com 5 submissions · 4 people · 4.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-04-29

Needs:3 active years

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The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)

blissbat.net 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-03-07

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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John McCarthy: The Robot and the Baby

www-formal.stanford.edu 5 submissions · 5 people · 14.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-10-27

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Things Unexpectedly Named After People

notes.rolandcrosby.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 3.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-02-22

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story

marco.org 4 submissions · 3 people · 6.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-10-11

Needs:5 submissions

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The Wire in HD

davidsimon.com 4 submissions · 2 people · 10.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-09-20

Needs:5 submissions3 submitters

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The Impossible Music of Black MIDI

rhizome.org 4 submissions · 4 people · 2.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-11-11

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)

torrentfreak.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 7.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-02-25

Needs:5 submissions

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Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)

www.nytimes.com 3 submissions · 2 people · 3.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-04-25

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions3 submitters

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LaTeX Coffee Stains (2009)

hanno-rein.de 4 submissions · 4 people · 9.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-01-08

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction

www.theparisreview.org 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-04-08

Needs:5 submissions

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Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it

bloodknife.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-08-03

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s

www.perceptivetravel.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-05-26

Needs:5 submissions

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A Chicago Newspaper That Bought a Bar

www.topic.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-05-22

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart3 active years

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Why 3D doesn't work and never will (2011)

www.rogerebert.com 8 submissions · 2 people · 7.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-11-23

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart3 submitters

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Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)

medium.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-10-11

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)

arstechnica.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-04-16

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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