Posts
This page contains both my posts that deal primarily with discussing some particular linked page and my more independently written stuff.
Until this gets Tolstoy-long, I stand by my belief that pagination is for cowards.
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missing concepts in link culture?
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three words for you: fantasy console theremin
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offbrand mp3 players, in honor of the retirement of the ipod
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US immigration is a kafkaesque nightmare: "high-skill" edition
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this 1657 still life has raised so many questions for me
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dog breed doesn't influence behavior as much as people think
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you have like four days to sign up for dracula emails
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I take it back, safari CSS is good now
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how can newsletter writers figure out with whom to bundle their work?
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how do we feel about podcasts as transformative use?
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you want to see this 1-bit animation
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does china have a culture of hypertext?
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buckle up it's time for some game theory pizza (I'm sorry)
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wildly jealous of this kind of athens apartment building
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vicki boykis on telegram, now more than ever
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how the catholic church in germany got so much better on LGBTQ stuff than the church elsewhere
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seek opinions from big fans: the haunted mansion
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that painting of the cossacks writing a letter is based on a hoax, but still matters
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update: mac and cheese and user styles
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sneaking in under the wire for international women's day
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decline can imply hope: stucco
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maybe it's a period of grace
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forbidden maps
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digital conditions don't mandate scale
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they've traced down the invention of the granny square
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should you shift your celebration of a holiday?
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you already know whether you're the target audience for a satire of lieder
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in the middle ages they thought about kissing very, very differently
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people are naming sons kylo
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found poetry from researching what in astrology signifies the software industry
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website visitors are still the visitors
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gatorade bread is... what you'd think it is
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no, the facebook feed algorithm is still bad
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learn about the bread lab (and the approachable loaf!)
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orange site iamverysmart commenters: they're worse than that, even
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links vs. likes: how do they make you feel?
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james g on programming being like cooking
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can you feel the weight of the clipboard?
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david jonathan ross runs a font of the month club
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in this 1410s illuminated book of hours, december is for hunting wild boar
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3x speed ain't bad: maya digs way too deep into a blog post from hacker news
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listen to the 333 covers of 'last christmas' released since last christmas
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make charts just by typing in your data with this font
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horrible pest poisons openly sold on internet
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my refine and play tarot deck arrived
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painting of the day: fauns fleeing before an automobile
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private chats aren't private if one of your interlocutors has legal issues
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a blogger deciphers a code in the adventure time comic
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sunflower seed butter and chemical leaveners will turn a baked good green
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space travel still doesn't return on its staggering opportunity cost
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if you have an image of a repeating pattern, but the image isn't aligned on the tile...
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there is a distinct dialect of german endemic to texas
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3D molded cardboard at home!
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a brief defense of vibes
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wesley's notebook is a beautiful personal site
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twitter threads and chesterton's fence
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paddy maloney, founder of the chieftains, has died
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jonathan wojcik examines the wibbly forms of bruegel's fallen angels
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update: neocities, the moon, a gramophone, and altsearch
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laurent gerdil's carvings of opinel's carvable knives
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this tiny custom search engine has given us a flavorful portal into neocities
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what might an anti-meme be?
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jay hulme writing about his poem jesus at the gay bar
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the goat is an enemy of the vine
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this video on The Bell Curve is over two and a half hours long and I'd still recommend it
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how many people still hear this song in their heads whenever they read WYSIWYG?
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an HTML webcomic site template suitable for static hosting
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the music video for followers by AREA21
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I don't buy that The Kids are missing fundamental file directory skills
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this picture of a fox might be illegal
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a found poem about climate change
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a lovely video about celebrating the autumn equinox
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women who know how to do contour makeup are gonna save us from surveillance dystopia?
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an attempt to create a squabble between some chunk of the altweb and indieweb folks.... was made
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an imagemagick script that can produce fractalesque kaleidoscope-like image deformations
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horrisonous, horrisonant
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papercraft low-poly-esque mask patterns for sale
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tech is bad because it'd rather use evopsych to blame teenage girls than admit social media might be hurting them
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a tarot kickstarter that seems to have spared no expense in print quality
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heat related mortality in over-65s has 1.5xed in past two decades
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cool series of posts on premodern agriculture
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a history of deviantart and similar
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some great halloweeny songs on a great personal website
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open transclude: quote yourself, use an iframe
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the guy who did final fantasy is making an rpg by photographing crafted sets to make them 3d
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femicom: femme aesthetic electronics museum
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joy of joys, PFAs are apparently also in the air...
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emma goldman actually never said that thing about dancing and revolution
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you may not like it, but this is what peak web design looks like
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this cube cured my mortality
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you can't just slap a bunch of bell towers and colonnades wherever (in your memory palace)
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a GIF collage of bubbles
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BitMidi is a modern MIDI site
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vampirewebsite.net: a website for real vampires
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the tech-facilitated gig economy sucks, and it's all more gendered than you might think
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ngmi.works: art, mostly black and white, mostly pixel
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I don't agree that browser tabs killed the web, but I respect the chutzpah of the hypothesis
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wonderful south african backyard bird webcam
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a supposedly fun writing analysis tool I'll never run again
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update: a year of maya.land and The Independent Web or whatever
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review: paper penguin co.'s onion skin paper notebook
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an artist's site featuring contemporary tarot decks
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jacob hall is continuing kicks condor's work on whostyles!
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my matrix bot that transcribes speech in audio messages
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stop everything, they brought back confetti text from ms word 97
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this piece about pigeons is factual and touching
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my super-hot take on gawker coming back
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did we all know they were using giant styrofoam blocks instead of filler dirt, or...
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the background for this japan-inspired typeface exploded my font brain
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thinking about the metaverse courtesy of ryan broderick's garbage day
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slapheart is a new lil' web directory
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cool map visualizing distance to cities
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nyanseong is a cool personal site with an even cooler zines page
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the self-hostable community software that powers dev.to
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fundamental attribution error is the cognitive bias you don't think enough about
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update: heloise
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admit it, you thought diamonds were expensive because of DeBeers
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kicks condor's hypertexting and the syntopicon
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a covid confession
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how to make an image into a 88x31 banner with CSS
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inter: a very sleek open source sans-serif font
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josh lee might have the funniest about me section
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maggie andersen's diagram
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nuclear explosions for the national economy
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even amazon is getting in on fanfic-style publishing
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a blackberry basket made of blackberry vines: stuff and gratitude
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actually some of us had heard of shein, thanks
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j. kenji lópez-alt is seattle’s now and you can't have him back
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overgrown: a hypercomic you gotta scroll through
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fast food and crow cholesterol
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wikijousting
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archaic names for diseases
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coffee deserves cardamom, not mushrooms
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if you cut a perfectly human-shaped hole in an unlocked door...
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this clicker game will make you think and also maybe cry?
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on noah smith on depression
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literally the first thing I've ever read about palestinian refugee return
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it turns out chipotle sucks (no, for other reasons)
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space exploration is more like antarctica than the frontier
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on: internet study culture
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the atlantic: just how bad is america’s drinking problem?
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check your sunscreen for cancer juice
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global population decline
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know thyself
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I would read a whole book about the history of this virtual pet game
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those pavé eternity rings were created because they needed to sell smaller diamonds from the Soviet Union
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hana berggren made a wholesome zine about mashrums
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best grandson makes machine to pair up telegram messaging with a grandmother-friendly physical interface
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I switched my daily news consumption to start with KUOW's morning news podcast and it's good
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this package tracking site can grab details of Chinese shipping companies too
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houses carved into the stone in langenstein
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update: federated notes, likes, and zines
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kate dunn's zines are a tumblresque delight
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my jeans plea to gen z
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content moderation and human nature
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the (us) state birds are garbage
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tilde.town's bulletin board software is open source and great
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the tiger lillies released a covid-19 album last year
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social media's painful relationship with memory
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using homoglyphs to make bilingual (bi-orthographic?) crosswords
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jacob hall's links
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gorgeous suite of utilities for developing for the command line (MIT licensed)
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the british walking sickness
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should home cooks use modified wheat dextrin in fried breading?
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most card games that say they're good for two people aren't, but this one is
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what chinook jargon orthographies should a learner concern herself with?
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cute line of stuffed animals, looks new?
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make a zine PDF out of images
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four musicians, one cello, ravel's bolero
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anti-professionalism by stanley fish
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this is a personal pandemic experience cliche, not a zine about zines cliche
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the story of hank the cowdog and his author
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NY and WA governors compared on COVID
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what we've missed about communes
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wick editor is stepping up to the plate to try to reproduce the beginner-friendliness that made the flash internet magical
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an argument to make your website work without javascript
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a real o. g.
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a helpful write-up on the death card
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drawing.garden
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facebook is worse than even us antis thought
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a pnw artist's lovely online gallery
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warning: capitalism encroaches on magical thinking
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pictures for sad children demolishes my morning
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dr. janega writes on medieval life expectancy (and there are sweet skeletons)
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a merriam-webster.com editor had some fun writing about the words supposably and supposedly
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novena: a poem that is a game that is a poem
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anybody have a line on what I should be doing to oppose surveillance here?
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bryan lee o'malley's seconds: ok
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under no circumstances do you gotta hand it to nixon, but...
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interesting rebuttal to said's orientalism
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those check-out donations are not actually scams that generate tax benefits for the corp
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la vague by henri privat-livemont
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terre thaemlitz's writing on content removal (annotation)
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dr. mcmillan cottom has written a really good really long essay about dolly parton
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digital washi tape: sozai?
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80% of the COVID dead in TX county jails were in pretrial detention
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an older dictionary has different kinds of entries
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a pseudo-webring of sites whose design is really....something
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an online chord progression tool that doesn't suck
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are you the right person to take on UK hyacinth preservation?
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should I care about internet things?
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annotation of american idle
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A program teaches Seattle teenagers to make websites, providing them to Black-owned businesses
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earthquake satire should have us all feeling chastened
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tiny enclosed electric vehicles have found their niche in China
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ngl I was bodied by this
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dithering, part deux: ordered dithering
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dither in the browser with the power of CSS
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remember macpaint?
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they keep giving superhero costumes wedge heels and you're never going to be able to unsee it
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an incisive observation about furries and the internet
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this dithering tool has presets from Computer History
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what speech-adjacent stuff is a necessary part of freedom of speech?
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should you subscribe to high-volume RSS feeds?
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this plant-based chicken patty has the best food packaging I've ever seen in my life
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dior's ss 2021 collection is tarot inspired
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the peacock room
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an inspirational letter from peggy ramsay to david hare
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skull paintings inspired by gideon the ninth
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the NYT is both-sides-ing the internet terribly in innovative ways
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medieval images of death
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medieval pilgrims: to protect against disease, wear a pin of a winged penis
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digital spaces aren't
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christine dodrill asks if social media was a mistake
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an invented tradition of witchcraft, returned to
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most of the time when you think someone is lying on the internet, you have to live with the uncertainty of never really being able to know
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bridges are painted green because a guy won an award based on an inaccurately tinted illustration
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a 2013 piece about trailer parks and retirement
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benedict evans is importantly wrong about publishers and governance
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a syllabus of tech history to go along with halt and catch fire
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guy who might know suggests to run screaming from bitcoin
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the evil of postcards: prisons prohibit envelopes, sometimes even stamps, and it's bad for everyone
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an argument about when you should handle problems and in what batch size seems really relevant to my own brain problems
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errors, freaks, and oddities - wikipedia
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a piece on elder goths
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side business magical girl: a labor revolution takes place within only 25 pages!
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this person claims to use chickens to uncover potatoes for harvest
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if semi-charmed life had been written by blink 182
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an alternative to twitter for those who plan to work with traitors, courtesy of ancient greece
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a chrome extension that marks names of the seditionist members of congress with an asterisk
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recyclable plastic isn't
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an updated comic sans
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i may not harm jeff bezos by rusty foster
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congresswoman pramila jayapal on the capitol siege
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the tragedy of gemini
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gwern's december newsletter links the coolest pop-up preview tech I've ever seen
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science is a process defined by odd limits placed upon the social motivations that fuel us all
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update: whostyle, notes
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the part of my brain that allows me to comprehend this needs to be repossessed
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re: pianists' hands
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an excellent jekyll cheatsheet
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a different perspective on cool URIs
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a small objection to this criticism of silicon valley
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smartphones and data have reached even the illiterate in india
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today we had a coup and here are some pictures
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has anyone played airborne kingdom?
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what vibes do I give off? generator
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1-bit image dithering
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james tomasino on comments
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a poem / artpiece about a swamp
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basic html as punk folk
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the dead christ (camillo procaccini)
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read unsent letters
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an invented tradition of witchcraft
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a pretty intense art-site for which I recommend turning your speakers on
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make a beaded bracelet online and send it to a friend through the power of url parameters
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writing as metadata: a yale course
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sand physics game except it's an aquarium you have to keep in balance
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I just found out my domain registrar sells themed stickers of their mascot for different TLDs
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china is pressuring the catholic church in hong kong in ways reminiscent of medieval europe
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staff locked up on cruise ships are committing suicide and the cruise corps might be making it worse
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a beautiful traditional tarot deck with some non-traditional additions
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an intrepid investigation into the bucatini shortage of 2020
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gpt-2 will regurgitate personal info, code diffs, copyrighted text
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klaus (2019)
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krampus (2015)
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through one lineage, modern occultism inherited its attitude to blending science and religion from pre-Marxist socialism
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russian love and american love
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psychologist creates soothing narrative for estranged parents, blames their children cutting ties on desire for soothing narratives
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a new study indicates crows have consciousness more complicated than stimulus-response
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grammatical gender is weak. give me that noun class based on fruit
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synthy and sampledy version of the nutcracker
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generate a bird avatar based on your name
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web design museum - 1991-2006
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tilde.town is inspiring
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a virtual pub in static html
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every tv show helena fitzgerald has binge-watched since march: part one
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blood of napolitan saint fails to liquefy; bad omen
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air inside planes can be full of toxic fumes
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adam savage explains who makers are
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tape filter to fan, measure air particulates, it helps
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the death of the newsfeed (and its afterlife)
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yubikey necklace
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update: pictures, pages, and pixelly games
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classism and classical music in america
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My Boo by Brasstracks
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wolfwalkers: there is another glorious tomm moore film and I am ready
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digital fusion: a genre definition with spotify playlist
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tarotwave
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why didn't the atlantic mention spinster?
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adorable cultural relic
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handheld emulators have screens that aren't scaled right for GB games
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architecture rejects ornament to its detriment
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let a webmention and websub enabled site interact with activitypub
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free vector designs that make COVID cute somehow
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eleanor janega tears a bad COVID take apart via the medieval view of advent
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mixed and mashed music aggregated by kickscondor
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i am dismayed at myself for how much i want this marketing stunt sweater
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EPA air monitors miss a lot
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why do they even have sports that aren't this
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I think this blog post might have been written with machine learning and I'm fascinated
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how to buy gifts people want
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make blackout poems from tweets
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making a logo with PlantUML
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however bad you think people are with computers, they're worse
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adventures in de-googling
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blogging vs. blog setup
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papercraft templates generated in custom dimensions
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this sparrow is evolving four sexes
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how Obama still fails to reckon with his history with the banks
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tom stoppard ghostwrote on indiana jones and the last crusade
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how an informational map can further anti-migrant sentiment
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whether trump can pardon himself may depend on finicky parsing of a word's reflexivity
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find sites and feeds of the twitterers you follow
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refresh for another awful affirmation
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update: pens, embeds, and the changing of the seasons
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ievan polka by hatsune miku but in the original finnish
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cute lil personality test
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legend of the christmas spider
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tinder for streaming video
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best explanation of different voting systems I've ever read
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tlingit artist designs raven postage stamp, out 2021
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evening on the north shore
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kicks condor's interview with uses this
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frog
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list of sites that weigh in at less than 1MB
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a 1928 method of creating plots for (zany) stories, now online
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americans are moving to the cities that climate change is going to make uninhabitable
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indieweb for wordpress? still needs work.
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growing up in nature predicts better mental health in adulthood
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excellent poultry webcams
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google should be rotating and publishing DKIM secret keys
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one method of cleaning, bleaching, and gilding bone
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should we stop making software?
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how to add an external link icon with CSS
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smart person decluttering by shipping packages of random stuff to whoever'll pay postage
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22120 is an archival project that lets you rebrowse your browser history as you saw it
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rich people fighting with rich people: the magna carta and covid-19
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update: yarn, russian, commentpara.de
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website lets you attend a random recorded classical performance
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e-ink display of what a radio station is currently playing
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what language is spoken in the balkans?
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how to fold handkerchiefs so they'll dispense like tissues
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'Amelia' necklace made with Irish lace crochet techniques
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douglas adams's 'hyperland': the web that never was
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mind mapping but cute
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gas stoves are bad
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london built a railway to take urban mourners and dead to a cemetery outside the city
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edinburgh has a hotel that is clearly shooting for medieval gothic and 1800s gothic and alt culture gothic all at once
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richard teschner's work is jim henson decades before jim henson would be born
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ceiling crocodiles: religious symbolism and rad decoration
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persimmons are very weird as fruit trees go
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chromeos's sandboxed linux VMs can do graphical desktops and applications
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play instruments as bongo cat
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seattle ranks no. 1 for percentage of residents working in STEM
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marty mcguire on the state of webmentions
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skeletons enrobed in jewels
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an argument that the jamstack can't do comments
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white-collar crime has already seen its police defunded
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update: now listening
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what to do if your tiddlywiki is saving .tid files instead of markdown
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a covid song parody that's actually somehow good
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zero indexing doesn't come from c and it has nothing to do with runtime execution
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how to take your reviews from goodreads and put them into a wordpress install
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books and the indieweb
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re: ruminations on divination
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holly black's the cruel prince: eh
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webGL 3d sculpting app, somehow
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make a bread mold of your face
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click on the brick building and it will change shape
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there are many color palette generators out there but this one is good
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handy explainer on how to create a jekyll command plugin
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update: tarot, astrology, perfume
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vampires vs. the bronx
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help i'm trapped making grooves in this online synth/drum machine simulator
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promnesia: browser extensions to enrich browsing history and provide you your data
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hanford nuclear site still in bad shape
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update: words, spaced repetition
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the fog this weekend that they kept predicting would clear up may have owed its persistence to wildfire smoke
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a cute little tool to make patterned pixel borders for CSS
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how many words to say something's not worth it?
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publishers restrict libraries' ability to rely on ebooks even during pandemic
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former 90s tech-worker temp points out that even wage comparisons understate how much worse it is for the young now
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re: where did my webmentions go
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nice lil' tool for checking color contrast ratios visually and mathematically
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analysis of Vancouver housing proposal
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what do you think about 'epistemic status' headers?
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trendy mending for the upper thighs of jeans
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tamsyn muir's gideon the ninth: necromancy in SPAAAACE
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update: OPML blogroll
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outliner as snazzy as Roam, but stored locally!
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I made a little guide for adding webmentions to a Neocities site
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don't miss aphyr's latest 'the technical interview' post
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great post on webmentions on neocities
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anyone tried using photo upscaling APIs on their old pictures?
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trans people and cancel culture: judith butler tells it like it is
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romans gave little metal skeletons out as party favors
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how hard do you think it would be to combine this UV camera with a digital display for a magic mirror?
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anti-Dalit discrimination within US tech companies
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facebook might leave europe if it can't send data to US
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avoiding caching others' PII with runtime javascript
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project setup
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analytics and webmentions
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its been a terrible year so i think we should extend Halloween season to November 30th to boost morale (EOM)
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richest 1% emit more than 2x the carbon of bottom 50%
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samantha shannon's the priory of the orange tree: gender is a f*ck
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home ventilation: a love story
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man realizes he only befriends other programmers, searches for explanation in census data
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chris aldrich on roam's VC round
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re: webmentiond
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the 1998 bill gates deposition video revisited
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update: webmentions and technical notes
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unstaffed markets in rural Sweden
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a certain alexander
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iframe-based quotation UX pattern
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animal crossing music played at matching times
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the worms play pinochle on your snout
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update: footer 🕸💍, manifesto
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leo babauta on minimal websites
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mike elias on how the concept of 'facts' can be bad
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'I Thought I Would Have Accomplished a Lot More Today and Also by the Time I Was Thirty-Five'
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prescribed burns are dangerously underused in california
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content, bloat, privacy, archives
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the real 90s font look in a modern browser
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BREAD, not CRUD
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proposal for a web made of markdown documents
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bmj: honey may be effective in symptom relief for coughs and such
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suggestion: nice medical supplies as stock photo article headers are too calming, so all COVID articles should start with this
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plague doctors didn't wear that cool outfit
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update: alcohol and a thing to do with it
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steve yegge on google cloud and deprecation
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jack skellington ricotta olive tarts
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update: twenty-something ukulele tab
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inspiring slides from a talk on css for generative art
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environmental impact of air conditioning
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The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing
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A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
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facts man
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apartment decor I'd kill for
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EFF's legislative proposals for internet interoperability
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australia increases fees for humanities degrees
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pure CSS halftone portrait from jpg
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Not an Amazon Problem: Tim Bray
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elaborate Russian window settings
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RUSSIAN SOUL, 2005 - Frank Herfort
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Update: books and some skeletons
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masks, social distancing, and moving activities outdoors: not surface transmission
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afghani women campaign for right to use own names
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best tarot card meanings resource I've found
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constructive criticism and bullying
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ein jeder Ego ist alter
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from spyplanes to facebook
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New study documents systemic racism in Seattle restaurants
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infinite jest and house of leaves: what is the footnote of the web?
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create a spotify playlist that blends from one artist to another
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Maine man saws neighbor’s garage in half amid boundary dispute
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cat steals the milk
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List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English - Wikipedia
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The Independent Variable is headed to Seattle
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Snazzy personal wiki with column layout
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on Anil Dash on the american death cult
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The 88x31 GIF Collection
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now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party jams
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re: read disney
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The Dirty Work of Killing
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Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages
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I cannot emphasize enough how much you should check this out, **thoroughly**
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Jorin - Antifascist Magick Runes
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Pixel art tutorials from studiominiboss
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Using Roam in homeschooling
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leaving after 8 years and 100gb of Google Drive
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