Ironic Sans
Stories from forgotten corners of culture, popular and otherwise
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- 169 from 3 Jan 2024 to 20 Oct 2026
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2026 21
- The “Welcome Back, Kotter” Searchable Family Archive
- Tired Women in Art
- My first App Store app is a game
- Six Short Things I Wrote About 9/11
- The Most Relatable Astronaut
- How We Used To Get Jobs
- The Mystery Of Why Uber Gave Me 77 Free Rides
- The Onion of Biblical Times
- The All-Updates Edition
- The Color Strike
- The Best Thing About The Satanic Panic
- The Half Newsletter
- The Other Twin Towers in the Spider-Man Trailer
- The Long Reply
- Tour Your Favorite Corporation
- The Silly Apps Graveyard
- It’s Their Mona Lisa
- When “Hackers” Was Hacked
- 80s Headshots of Famous Artists
- Blame This Man for Auto-Tune
- The Worst TV Season Of All Time
2025 23
- My gifts to you for 2025
- The 13th Day of Christmas
- There be whales here!
- The Inquiring Photographers
- The Gremlins Edition
- The King of Blurbs
- The Trampoline on the Great Pyramid
- Doomscrolling: The Game
- Keyword: Illusion
- One Year of Gisnep
- The Optical Illusion That Let Black and White TVs Show Color
- Saturday Night Live on Saturday Mornings
- It’s True: The JAWS Shark is Public Domain
- The Internet is about to get less weird
- Proof that Patrick Stewart exists in the Star Trek universe
- Why Is Everybody Knitting Chickens?
- The Supermodel Snowpocalypse Was Insane
- Science And The Strapless Evening Gown
- Vintage Pranks From Those Ads In The Back Of Comic Books
- The True Meaning of Pi Day
- Comics That Resemble The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan Album Cover
- An Episode of Bewitched Written By A High School English Class
- The Dumbest Thing I Ever Did That The New York Times Wrote About
2024 121
- I got you these presents
- Lessons From The Movies
- Let’s Visit Some Alternate Timelines
- A Real Huge Voter Fraud Scandal [video]
- The SNL Superfan Who Saw Every Episode In Person
- The Company Company
- The Found Art of My eBay Folder
- The Perfect Cup of Coffee Doesn’t Exi—
- Weird and Wonderful Filmstrips
- A Moth Story
- I made a new daily puzzle. It’s called Gisnep!
- A Look Back at StripWare
- Why you should always email people who make things
- Hunting in Central Park
- A Real Life Wayne’s World
- Classic Video Game Dioramas
- Media Roundup #2
- A Nobel Prize Winner And Chocolate
- How To Photograph The Solar System
- Researching An Old Sitcom With AI
- The Life and Death of the Bulbdial Clock
- The U.S. Census Is Wrong on Purpose
- The Man Who Made The Cell Phone
- A Font Confession
- Spider-Man, Robots, Endings, And Zero Nazis!
- Robots and Comics
- What’s Ironic Sans?
- Like Proust But For Email
- My Neighbor Turturro
- Pop Culture Archaeology
- Birds on a Beach and Other Bugs
- The Voter Fraud That Time Forgot
- The Art Of “Cool As Ice”
- The Library of Ephemera
- The Ropers
- Isn’t It Mnemonic?
- Pop Culture C-SPAN
- Not Another Gift Guide
- The Harold Hill of Movie Making
- Timothy Leary’s Missing Book
- Ode To Your Childhood
- Idea: Procedurally Generated DJs
- Can you identify these movie and TV stars?
- Norbert Wiener’s Magazines: Part II
- A Vanity Supercut of Your Name
- Norbert Wiener’s Magazines: Part I
- Everybody Still Hurts
- Adventures in Stereograms
- Wheels Down on YouTube
- Manna Manna 6-5000
- Inventors I've Known
- Vaccines At The Movies
- Showrunners On Couches
- Unnecessary Novelizations
- The Time I Loaned A Billionaire $20
- The Tragic Genius of Brent Lee Farley
- Smörgåsbord
- Clownfall
- Fun With Celebrities Holding Signs
- The Cause of and Solution to All of Life’s Problems
- The Other Victims of Lincoln’s Booth
- You’re looking for what now?
- The Best Bar Bet Ever
- At the Old Video Store
- A Biography in Buttons
- The Boxing Philosopher
- When Nobody’s Watching
- What You Miss Out On When You Die
- Who Was The Old Woman With The Marionette?
- You Misunderstand “Cat’s in the Cradle”
- Reconstructing My Favorite Music Review
- What a Movie Premiere Is Really Like
- Letters From Sophina
- I Hope The Kids From E.T. Are Okay
- A Secret Service Story
- My Batman Confession
- A Crazy LEGO Journey
- The Case of the First Evergreen Tweet
- Gilded and Non-Gilded Ages
- Should We Bury You Head First or Feet First?
- “Smörgåsbord II” is a Terrible Subject Line But Anyway
- Building Jeopardy!, Family Feud, and More
- Meet A Woman Who Saved Millions of Lives
- Animated Manhattan: Part 1
- The Case for Keming
- My Ninja Turtle Action Figure Windfall
- Where Your Camera Came From
- Have We Reached Peak Wonder?
- The Ancient Technology Behind (Like, Literally Behind) The James Webb Space Telescope
- The Empty Picture Frame in the Oval Office
- He Was From The Sun
- Murder in the Hundred Acre Wood
- Innovations in Juggling
- Don’t Stuff Your Cello in the Overhead Bin
- A Spectacle of a Post
- What We Did Waaay Before Twitter
- ♫ Twitter is a Dumpster Fire ♫
- Lessons From My Favorite Video That Nobody Watched
- Westworld Is Here and the Bodies Are Piling Up
- The Strangest Computer Manual Ever Written
- The Last Calendar You’ll Ever Need
- The Batter Blaster Breakfast
- A Podcast I Don’t Have Time To Make
- The Funny Pages in Modern Times
- Announcing Ironic Sans: The Series
- Did A.I. write this New Yorker cartoon caption contest finalist?
- The Father of Home Video Games
- It’s a Media Roundup!
- Darth Vader answers the Proust Questionnaire
- I Get No Mail and It’s Glorious
- The Logic of Baseball
- The Segway Inventor and His Comic Book Father
- The Story of The First Software Patent
- 3D Gaming Before VR
- New Evidence in 100-Year-Old Claim of Amateurs Accomplishing What Experts Couldn’t
- The Magician, The Artist & The Mathematician
- The Great Emu War
- I have such a migraine
- Where “Matrix Ping Pong” Came From
- I Can’t Believe The Navy Gave Me So Much Access
- Why I’m Still Not Sick of ChatGPT