The solid world
Interview with Bertrand Russell, from 1952 Interesting perspective on the changes felt in the world, speaking a century ago, about the century before that. The contrast, or irony, or whatever the fe…
Monthly Curations - April 2022
* I've always enjoyed learning about "non-C" operating systems * Trying to explain "music about lost futures" * The "two faces" of the moon * Learning by watching…
Use an outliner
* I'd say pick one of Workflowy or Roam * I'm biased towards Roam because * I already use it * It works for me * It has a lot of "power features" that go beyond jotting do…
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A great montage out together for the Dark Crystal series from a couple years ago: youtu.be/z4KA2bggc...…
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Roam is awesome, but the mobile app still has a ways to go…
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Praise for Guile: www.draketo.de/software/...…
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DIY conference details: www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/h...…
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Comparisons between Neolithic cultures at opposite ends of the earth: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/04/stonehenge-exhibition-explores-parallels-with-japanese-stone-circles?CMP=share_btn…
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Climate change might be real if landfills begin to spontaneously combust: gizmodo.com/an-enormo...…
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An excellent set of bests practices for "textual websites": seirdy.one/2020/11/2... (yeah, after trying all the static website generators, it's static-html-or-bust for me too)…
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The soundscape on Mars…
Not-so-uniquely stupid
From Jonathan Haidt's recent article in the Atlantic: The high point of techno-democratic optimism was arguably 2011, a year that began with the Arab Spring and ended with the global Occupy movem…