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2026 6

  1. The 40 000 000 blunt from mars
  2. Scrupulosity v. Flatware
  3. Drunk, Interrupted
  4. Pascal's Ante
  5. Emergence Is Nonsense
  6. ICE Agents Are Running Out of Options

2025 1

  1. Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say

2024 2

  1. W.E.L.P.
  2. Navigating the Anxiety Vortex

2023 4

  1. In Praise of Excruciation
  2. Tech Erosion
  3. Eldritch Gymnastics
  4. AI Is Not the Problem

2022 3

  1. To the Tiny Spider That Came With Us From Brooklyn
  2. Pennsylvania, So Far
  3. Dysmantle is a Revelation and the One-Armed King is my God

2021 3

  1. The Tom Cruise Effect
  2. Immuniday
  3. The Steak Knife Incident

2020 16

  1. A Better Place
  2. In His Own Words
  3. The Life and Times of Cerebus Hobbes Welch
  4. A Very American Suicide
  5. The Entropy of Isolation: Why Time Got So Wibbly This Year
  6. The Market Value of Life
  7. The Problem With Bill Gates
  8. Dear New York: The People Are Willing to Negotiate
  9. Kill the Weak
  10. Eat the World
  11. Notes from Ground Two, April 6th
  12. Notes from Ground Two, March 31st
  13. Notes from Ground Two, March 28th
  14. I'm Scared
  15. To All the Friends Whose Work I Will Never Read
  16. The Most Recent Time I Sniped Myself

2019 6

  1. A Spoiler-Filled Review of Finishing The Wheel of Time at 39
  2. Winning the Internet
  3. Coffee is Hard
  4. Take Better Screenshots
  5. That Feeling When You Discover Someone You Know Is a Monster
  6. A Brief Review of Reading The Wheel of Time at 38

2018 5

  1. What It's Like to Be a Fake Extrovert, Part 4
  2. It Takes a Monk
  3. What It's Like to Be a Fake Extrovert, Part 3
  4. What It's Like to Be a Fake Extrovert, Part 2
  5. What It's Like to Be a Fake Extrovert, Part 1

2017 8

  1. This Is Not About Tinder
  2. Assholes in Paradise
  3. Startup Culture Has Jumped the Shark
  4. Sick of Your Shit, Apple
  5. How to Write a Novel
  6. Cat Drinking Water
  7. An Unscientific Analysis of Jet Lag
  8. What to Do in Case of Nukular Sharknado

2016 19

  1. Stop Telling Me to Feel Worse
  2. Protect Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen from 2016
  3. Things I Send to Recruiters
  4. That Fucking Empty Brain Article
  5. Trigger Space
  6. Not a Real Post
  7. The Search for The Hitchhiker's Guide, as read by Stephen Moore
  8. The Gauntlet
  9. Seriously, Make a Better eCigarette
  10. How to Worry Less About Being a Bad Programmer
  11. Mister Munjoy and the Year of Moral Ambiguity
  12. The Wintry Mix
  13. Make MongoBot Great Again!
  14. 5 Reasons Waiting Tables is a Horrific Job
  15. Shut Up About the Universe
  16. Quantum Lens is the Worst Book I've Ever Read
  17. Positions Available
  18. Generation Byte
  19. When Gods Die

2015 8

  1. Interviewing is Broken
  2. The Mad Spitter of 23rd Street
  3. God's Not Dead: A Film Student's Review
  4. The Science of Giving
  5. Proposal for New REST Methods
  6. Game of Cards
  7. 35 Things that Surprised Me Before 35
  8. Trolling Marketers for Profit and Pleasure

2014 15

  1. The FizzBuzz from Outer Space Explained
  2. The Quantum Hitler Scale
  3. Pet Math
  4. Publishing Sucks
  5. Everyday Skepticism
  6. 24 Hours of Privilege
  7. One Space, Two Space, Shut Up, #@$% You
  8. The Big Truth
  9. Waiting for Doctor Who
  10. Nobody. Understands. Punctuation.
  11. Adventures in Piracy
  12. Things that Don't Suck
  13. Programming Sucks
  14. A Letter from Fred Phelps
  15. The Writer's Fallacy

2013 7

  1. Chipotle Bias
  2. Me and the NSA
  3. Why Everyone in Greenwich Village is Lost
  4. The Battle for Sweet Paradise
  5. Men Going Their Own Way
  6. How You Got Here
  7. I'm Watching Twilight So You Don't Have To

2012 6

  1. 3 Major Disappointments in Otherwise Great Video Games
  2. Eulogy
  3. Acceptable Losses
  4. Spilchking
  5. Grammar Maquis
  6. Responses to People Telling Me to Get Over the Death Thing

2011 50

  1. Humble Sky
  2. Spektroscopy
  3. Humorless and Insane: The Crucifixion of Ed Rybicki
  4. Michio Kaku, 96% Awesome
  5. Smackdown: Baby vs. Kitten
  6. Justin Bieber's Relationship Advice
  7. Etiquette Lost
  8. Searle's Court
  9. For Fuck's Sake Irene
  10. The Episode: Conclusions
  11. The Episode: Aftermath
  12. The Episode, Part 16: The End
  13. The Episode, Part 15: The Light and The Void
  14. The Episode, Part 14: Released Back Into the Wild
  15. The Episode, Part 13: Crazy Love
  16. The Episode, Part 12: Settling In
  17. The Episode, Part 11: Grand Theft Auto: Orono Dreams
  18. The Episode, Part 10: The Milieu
  19. The Episode, Part 9: Welcome to the Nuthouse
  20. The Episode: Interlude
  21. The Episode, Part 8: People Finally Start Catching On
  22. The Episode, Part 7: The Naked Guy
  23. The Episode, Part 6: The Mission
  24. The Episode, Part 5: Through the Looking Coke Mirror
  25. The Episode, Part 4: I Party With a Bunch of Hippies and Do More Drugs
  26. The Episode, Part 3: I Get the Fuck Out of Kansas
  27. The Episode, Part 2: Everything Goes Straight to Hell
  28. The Episode, Part 1: Prelude
  29. Amsterdam Sucks
  30. Online Dating
  31. Nobody's Bitch
  32. Coming of Age, Italy, 1996
  33. 24, 911, and Closure
  34. iPhone App Reviews
  35. Tactical Error
  36. Job Advice
  37. Jose Armando Vasquez Lopez
  38. Caw
  39. Playa Gotta Play
  40. Mouse Girl
  41. Nothing is Free
  42. Halloween
  43. Dal
  44. The Comedian
  45. And She Stoned Me
  46. Teenagers are Stupid
  47. Bad Movie Choice
  48. Animal Freak Makes Millions With This One Simple Rule
  49. A Letter to Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  50. 2011

2010 12

  1. Being Thankful
  2. The Idiot Coin
  3. Someone Bless Our Weird Fucking Country
  4. Functionalish
  5. The Mating Habits of the Knobelsdorf
  6. How to Dress for Success
  7. 30 Things I thought I'd do by the time I was 30
  8. A Brief History of Manhood as Illustrated by Star Trek Captains
  9. I Would Rather Burn in Hell
  10. We are a Hipster of One
  11. Atheist Translation Guide for Believers
  12. Observations of a Straight White Male with No Interesting Fetishes

2009 11

  1. Pussiologiphobia
  2. Prudent iSex
  3. I, Wetware
  4. City Guide
  5. End Me a Story
  6. Kindling
  7. Kill Your Heroes
  8. Man are Stupid, Women are Crazy
  9. Camera Angst
  10. Act Without Thinking
  11. Get Me Back to Gomorrah

2008 9

  1. Inadequate Reminders
  2. Odds are Bad
  3. Mensa Can Suck My Salty Lobes
  4. Stalkability (or, [email protected] )
  5. Banking Trust
  6. Porn
  7. God, Again
  8. The Commuter Threat
  9. Research!

2007 6

  1. Pez Dispenser Head Chinese Delivery Man On Moped
  2. Excuse Me, Sorry, Thank You
  3. Water, Water, Everywhere
  4. A Reason for Nothing
  5. Think Before You Babble
  6. The Bitter Pill (or "Swallow This")

2006 9

  1. Nipping Off The Christmas Spirit
  2. Like Clockwork
  3. Ex Goth Seeks Same For Weekend Regression
  4. Stop Blaming Our Parents
  5. Sudofubar
  6. Dear MoveOn
  7. Cross Eyed in the Search for Holographic Love
  8. Stormy Weather
  9. Ian M Tripp Is Building a Bomb

2005 11

  1. Love Thy Neighbor Like Thy Brother
  2. A Leg to Stand On
  3. Instantaneity - A Brief and Uninformed History
  4. Buffy, Love Me
  5. Denial
  6. Hot or Not
  7. Drinking
  8. Know Their Obsessions Before You Try to Get Them Into Bed
  9. Digital Representation
  10. Buddha Logic
  11. Stony Blue Vega