A Decade of Sore Winners

The underdogs that are top dogs, the upstarts who are establishment — these people refused to admit they had any power, even if they had all of it. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 1 year ago

The secret Pakistan masters of Tekken (2019)

Pakistani players seemingly came out of nowhere to dominate the classic fighting game this year. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 1 year ago

The lowly page number

Far from being a utilitarian afterthought, an astonishing number of design choices go into pagination. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 1 year ago

New cars make me want to Saab (2020)

Once upon a time, not all cars had to look like folded-up Optimus Prime. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 2 years ago

The Spam Is Back (2017)

It seemed like we had defeated electronic junk mail. Then the spammers rose from the dead. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 2 years ago

The DC resident who filed thousands of the city’s noise complaints (2017)

This Italian astronaut is still searching for peace and quiet. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 2 years ago

Why are there so many knobs in GarageBand? (2017)

Audio software is ugly and confusing. It doesn’t have to be this way. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 2 years ago

Cloudy with a Chance of Bullshit (2018)

Why your weather app can’t seem to get it right. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 2 years ago

When disability tech is just a marketing exercise

Companies love to get press for disability tech projects, but they often aren’t all that interested in actually putting real money behind them. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 2 years ago

Chiropractors Are Bullshit

You shouldn’t trust them with your spine or any other part of your body. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 2 years ago

Diet Coke is not killing you

It also won’t make you gain weight or cause depression. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 3 years ago

Why does Amazon have two completely different products called Alexa? (2017)

Who is Alexa, and why is Amazon obsessed with her? | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 3 years ago

The Outline

It's not for everyone. It's for you. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 3 years ago

The Secret Resistance Behind the World’s Most Dangerous CHEE

Sardinia’s casu marzu teems with maggots, and might eat through your stomach. Why can’t people stop eating it? | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Release That Shit

As we remain at home due to coronavirus, we’re all in desperate need of distraction — a new movie or video game would help. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Facebook fumbles its response to coronavirus

The social media giant’s contracted content moderators are only now being sent home. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

We are all quite literally becoming more myopic

The nearsighted population has increased by 14 percent in the U.S. and almost 15 percent in western Europe. Is society on the verge of going blind? | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

The war on food waste is a waste of time

Efforts to reduce the amount of food in landfills produce a lot of pretty infographics but very little change to a deeply flawed food system. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Canada is fake

What Americans think of as their friendly neighbor to the north, if they think of it at all, is a scam. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

There are enough good RPGs to fit on a 20-sided die

An entire world exists beyond ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, the only role-playing game to achieve any sort of mainstream consciousness. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

There are enough good RPGs to fit on a 20-sided die

An entire world exists beyond ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, the only role-playing game to achieve any sort of mainstream consciousness. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

The Most Fascinating Riot You’ve Never Heard Of

The Astor Place Opera House Riot of 1849 combined two of 19th-century America’s favorite pastimes: going to the theater and rioting. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

One Font Took over the World

It’s the font we deserve, but is it the one we need right now? | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

We are where we piss

San Francisco’s lone open-air urinal is architectural masochism at its boldest. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Are We All Members of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement? – The Outline

The desire for humanity to go extinct seems crazy, but it may also be the dominant ideology of our time. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Computer People for Peace

Computer People for Peace were ahead of their time. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Computer People for Peace, activist group from the '70s (2018)

Computer People for Peace were ahead of their time. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Raising a person in a culture full of types

We probably shouldn’t be telling children that who they are determines what they do. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

James Joyce’s grandson and the death of the stubborn literary executor

Stephen Joyce was notoriously protective of his family’s legacy, much to the consternation of Joyce scholars. But the days of one person holding all of a dead writer’s communications are probably over. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Sure, whataboutism seems bad, but have you considered other bad things?

The best defense against charges of hypocrisy is to simply not be hypocritical in the first place. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Joyce

Stephen Joyce was notoriously protective of his family’s legacy, much to the consternation of Joyce scholars. But the days of one person holding all of a dead writer’s communications are probably over. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Giving corporations free money doesn't work

Business tax incentives are one of the great policy failures of our time. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

So Long to ‘Star Wars’

The new movies don’t feel the same, and it’s not just because they aren’t as good. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Mastodon makes the internet feel like home again

I have been using the open source Twitter competitor for almost a year, and I love it. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

A new drug meant to stimulate a woman’s libido

A new drug meant to stimulate a woman’s libido might not be for everyone, but if a woman thinks it might help, she deserves a chance to give it a shot. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

You Have to Follow the Recipe

Baking is not a fucking game. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

The Decade in Domino’s

Once a joke, in the ’10s the company became the biggest pizza chain in the world. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

The falling price of a TV set is the story of the American economy

A 50-inch TV for $300 comes with some trade-offs. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Sweden’s ‘Milk War’ is getting udderly vicious

The Swedish dairy lobby is fighting alternative milks, like Oatly, as if they’re an existential threat. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

What do you do? I'm a podcaster-vlogger-model-DJ

The gig economy has given us multi-hyphenates: people who’ve made a lifestyle out of working more than one job. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Car doesn’t need a touchscreen in it

The Volkswagen SPACE VIZZION is just the latest example of car companies betting it all on touch technology. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

How the all-hands meeting became a way for bosses to give you the finger

What once brought startups together is now tearing them apart. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Car doesn’t need a touchscreen in it

The Volkswagen SPACE VIZZION is just the latest example of car companies betting it all on touch technology. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

A Good Place: The Influencer Is Present

The Instagram account @sighswoon, run by the artist Gabi Abrão, shows that performance art can be created within the bounds of the algorithm. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Netflix's Reed Hastings Is a Coward

The streaming service is happy to pretend it's a moral force bringing the power of documentary filmmaking to new markets. Until that becomes inconvenient. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Netflix’s Reed Hastings Is a Coward

The streaming service is happy to pretend it's a moral force bringing the power of documentary filmmaking to new markets. Until that becomes inconvenient. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

I got my life together and now I’m constantly bored

Is this really what being an adult is like? | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago

Cable television was perfect and we ruined it

There is freedom in a lack of choice. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 4 years ago