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Closer to deciphering the Indus Valley Civilization script, perhaps: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/h...…
Tolkien songs
I liked the version of “Far over the misty mountains cold” from the first Hobbit movie. The poem with words is from the novel, and there is one version from the older 1977 movie — but there is a “bet…
Writing on paper
Prompted by this article in the Atlantic on how people in general can’t read cursive. Given a current generation of students in which so few can read or write cursive, one cannot assume it will ever…
On kids' activities (as a parent)
Some wisdom from HackerNews: Kids want to be doing what other kids today are doing. Hearing “I loved this as a kid” from a parent can doom something right from the start. Kids want their own experien…
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Kourosh Dini really has the right approach for teaching habits/tools: > Not coincidentally, my books and courses all begin small and gently: > - Creating Flow with OmniFocus begins with a sing…
C++: "the good parts"
Herb Sutter has an interesting proposal The new “basic Hello-World with a single method call” would look something like: ``` main: () -> int = { hello("World\n"); } hello: (msg: _) =…
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Something ambitious that I'll need time to digest woodrush.github.io/blog/lamb...…
Of analog “anti-nets” and slip-boxes
Came across this series of “emails” or “letters” about someone embarking on an analog thinking system. An Antinet is for those who wish to read more effectively, take valuable notes from readings, an…
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An instrument the size of an house: a giant pipe organ. youtu.be/JeB3JnKp8...…
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Luxury doomsday bunkers: www.theguardian.com/lifeandst... Manages to be ridiculous and frightening at the same time.…
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TIL (thanks to Ed West) Alexander Kerensky, the leader of the Provisional Government in 1917, was born in 1881 and lived until 1970, having escaped Russia following the Bolshevik takeover. He died in…
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A weirdly wonderful take on Terry Davis: return.life/2022/08/1... > Modernity has a strong apocalyptic feeling to it, in the biblical meaning of the word, which means “the unveiling”, the event w…