This is my publically accessible collection of annotated bookmarks. Right now, it gathers up all the links at the end of my week notes.
If I’ve learned one thing from being a cartoonist, it’s how important playing is to creativity and happiness. My job is essentially to come up with 365 ideas a year. If you ever want to find out just how uninteresting you really are, get a job where the quality and frequency of your thoughts determine your livelihood. I’ve found that the only way I can keep writing every day, year after year, is to let my mind wander into new territories. To do that, I’ve had to cultivate a kind of mental playfulness. We’re not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves.
A forever world in Minecraft is the concept of starting a world in Minecraft single-player, and playing that for the rest of your life. — 0x30.dev
Several collections of Cometbus are available in various libraries:
The World Wants to Be Charmed is a great collection of quotes from my favourite magician blogger, The Jerx.
Personal blogs are the best, I love yours and I’ll try and tell you why by Peter. A lovely and encouraging essay about the joy of personal blogs.
Simon Tatham’s policy of transience: about semi-stateless computing and documenting things well
Angelica World has a bunch of neat gifs and a zine library about yoga.
Some things that I found by poking around club1.fr, a French pubnix:
Zak got me listening to Proton Radio – fairly intense electronic music.
Jake has a nice post about styling external links using CSS. Something I like, but haven’t tried yet.
PoleClock shows a 24 hour clock with a bunch of timezone information. Love it. Could I have this as a dynamic background?
The Jerx on The Only Life Skill That Actually Matters: going from idea to action.
American College of Sports Medicine:
Suspension Trainer Exercises:
Beginning Exercise Advice:
Dr. Popular is a yo-yo magician. Also, he has the best RSS icon.
Ben Borgers did some guerilla fork charity and I love it.
sizeof(cat) is a deep rabbit hole. Especially appreciate the Internet Radio List.
Legu, Aŭdu, Vidu – a little series of reviews of reviews of freely available poems and books in Esperanto.
Everyday Systems by Reinhard Engels has a lot of quirky DIY productivity and health information. It is clearly the result of long and careful self-observation. It’s also funny and self-deprecating. I might buy a sledgehammer.
Tai Chi Solo Practice Thoughts has some insights about learning Tai Chi alone. I think that all these observations generalize well to learning anything physical alone. Mike’s various website are an inspiration for my notes section.
Policy of Transcience: about a personal philosophy of stateless or transient computing.
Some references for a project that I’m thinking about this week.
Kicks Condor has an awesome piece about hypertexting as a superset containing blogging and wiki-ing.
Music: Adam Borsage has some wonderfully weird music on his YouTube.
Music: Cinematic Orchestra x Bonobo continues to delight.
National Gardening Association’s Learning Garden has a bunch of material on plants with an eye to gardening. The materials are really well designed. I read through the first week of Exploring the Garden Part 1.
Syncthing Dashboard: I have no idea where this tab came from, but I have this cool Syncthing dashboard open.
Cory Doctrow’s piece Shorter about learning to write, practice, and concision.
Almost two years of learning Russian on-and-off, and all I got was the ability to understand a fake language. That’s a common sort of trade-off you’ll get with language learning, and I’ll still keep at it, because I’m insane.
Farmer’s Almanac’s Veggie Gardening for Beginners
Remember: It’s better to be proud of a small garden than be frustrated by a big one!
Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer: As I read this, I kept suspecting that it was satire. However, it seems that Bukowski did indeed use a computer later on. I especially like the Crumb illustration of him sitting at a computer writing.
Old writer puts on a sweater
sits down, leers into computer
screen and writes about life.
How holy can we get?
BAD BUNNY - BAILE INoLVIDABLE (Video Oficial): Rich encoruaged us to dance to this track. Why not?
Jula Wise spelling out the fact that Most children of smart parents will be pretty ordinary.
A funny graphic with the banner That Which Doesn’t Kill Me Only Makes Me Weirder and Harder To Relate To by Ezra Landsman.
YouTube: Finding Purpose in Play: my absolute favourite juggling video of all time.
An interesting variation on OBTF Plaintext Personal Organiser.
On Thursday, I went down a back-up rabbit hole:
rsyncs and a restic call” backup infrastructureGodlyPlayFoundation: does a cool storytelling theater thing for kids.
Cory Doctrow posted a link about the “epochalpyse”. It’s sooner than I realized!
Youtube: Bison: When Time Was Stone. This is an AI generated album and I’m don’t care. It’s that good.
PDF Minstrel has a tonne of ukulele and recorder music.
Zak’s a year of website zakkerdabbletinkering: a wonderful tour through a year of blogging and linux obsessions. Crackling with excitement.
100R on computing and sustainability.
Aŭtuna Foliaro — poemo kiu kunligas: Autumn leaves — a poem that brings us together. The British Esperantist has an English translation of the poem.
Display Case: A web art piece by v buckenham which shows parts of Unicode as a display case. Odd Borgesian vibe.
Mail Blog by Cortney Cassidy is a zine or blog via snail mail.
Kevin Kelly: You are not late: a little blog-post-essay about how the greatest days of the internet are still ahead. It was written in 2014, but still lands in 2025.
Placecats has placeholder images of cats.
Alex Schroeder: Canada: a summary of the escalating Canada-US trade war. And here is the Wikipedia: 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico.
Allen Downey: The Inspection Paradox: a bunch of nice example of a statistical “paradox” (rather, a counter-intuitive thing).
YouTube: Sebastián Tozzola - Paseo del Bajo: Beautiful up beat bass guitar jazz. Wow! There is a beautiful version of Fugue VII for 3 Voices in there!
“The text and the code go hand in hand”: Funky custom build webpage stacks. Lots of crunchy stuff here from wonderful geeks.
“How fundamental spinning used to be to people’s lives”: A multi-paragraph Tumblr post about the historical importance of spinning yarn explained by comparison with food.
AI 2027: a long read forcasting possible AI futures up to 2027. They’ve thought long and hard about this piece.
Chris Siebenmann gives a quick desktop tour in 2011 with a flashback to 1996.
Esperanto Britain has some scans of books by Claude Piron, one of my favourite authors.
Various links about todo lists got gathered up over there.
PDF Minstrel has a tonne of ukulele and recorder music.
Textile Museum of Canada: Temporarily Closed: I am saddened to learn that my favourite museum is struggling financially and has to close down temporarily.
Wikipedia: Bloom’s Two Sigma Problem: The most important (intractable?) problem in education that I learned about this week.
The Diggers Archives: an archive of a hippy movement.
Song.Link: a tool for linking to songs which gives links to YouTube/Spotify/etc. Very cool!
YouTube: Gideon Elson: Lots of fantastic two ball juggling.
todo.txt: This is one of those things that I keep opening up and never implementing. Do I need this in my life? Probably not.
YouTube: Faierie Knotting has very far out and experimental string stuff. The videos are by Joaquim Almeida Escudeiro, pictures of his knot work are in Knotting Matters.
String Figures Wiki: It looks like someone put up a string figure wiki. Exciting!
YouTube: Mukuxí Pleiades popped up on my feed. Incredible!
Hokusai Says by Roger Keyes
Chilltrax.com is a great internet radio station that I found via Zak.
Wouter has a lovely piece Writing is Redirecting Attention that I’ve been pondering a lot since I read it.
In a world where everything seems to spiral towards negativity, writing becomes more and more important. Writing yourself, mind you: writing that helps to better form and steer thoughts in your mind, cluster them, extract ideas, and persist pleasant personal experiences. Writing as a cure for negativity.
Eric Raymond on Documentation as Knowledge Capture
[…] I am here to suggest that you try to stop thinking of documentation as a chore you do for others, and instead think of it as a way to explore your problem space and the space in your head around your intuitions about the problem, so you can shine light into the murkier corners of both. Writing documentation can function as valuable knowledge capture about your problem domain even when you are the only expert about what you are trying to do.
Missing Semester of Undergrad CS: a bunch of UNIX-y hackery that no-one ever teaches you in CS.
While looking up the translation Hokusai Diras, I found out that Sheila Devlin did some musical experiments experiments around another favourite poem of mine Memore by Claude Piron.
Bradley Taunt’s website design is shockingly similar to mine. Stumbling upon this page was so exciting. It is like see convergent evolution on the web or something. I reached out to Brad, and he responded. Yay, web friends!
Cosma Shalizi writes about 30 Years of Notebooks and ponders whether maintaining his website is a worthwhile use of time.
Erik Demaine’s Cube Folding Puzzles. These puzzles are surprisingly tricky! I played with the first one for five minutes or so. Meg solved it in a minute!
Youtube: Stone Rebel: Waiting for the World to Change: another solid Stone Rebel album.
Toby Thruston’s Drawing with Metapost is a huge crestomathy of amazing illustrations. It makes me want to learn Metapost.
Elizabeth Sandifer is amazing. Very punchy. Witty. Lots of molten lava takes. For a short read, check out: Four Tiny Essays on SF/F.
You can make little webrings from RSS feeds / OPML files: openring.
Terry Tao’s Differential Forms and Integration: an absolutely dynamite presentation of a difficult concept. I learned a few things reading this. Tao is a wizard!
Terry Tao’s Multiple Choice Questions
Unoffice Hours: hosting online “unoffice hours” to connect with people. A neat micro-movement.
Wikipedia: Axial Tilt for the piece on sundials, I needed to look up the convention for axial tilt. Turns out that Uranus is hugely tilted!
Sriram Krishnan’s advice about cold e-mails is spot on.
Jeff Kaufman’s kids post retrospectives are awesome.
Taylor’s Seizing the Means of Re-Production: about plants and plant intellectual property.
You may use/lend/sell/destroy a patented wrench. But you may not clone that wrench (or sell its clones), even if that wrench clones itself. The same legal framework applies to plants.
Robert Birming has a huge treasure trove of blogging inspiration.
Cory Doctrow on The Memex Method: Reflections on Twenty Years of Blogging
Austin Kleon on 15 years of blogging (and 3 reasons I keep going)
Marc Weidenbaum on Bring Out Your Blogs
Matt Might on 6 blog tips for busy acsdemics
Write Yourself In has a thought-provoking list of Things To Think about When Blogging
George Hart: Mathematical Impressions: Juggling
The three health risk behaviors are unhealthy diet, sedentary lifestyle, and tobacco use. The four chronic conditions are cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, and diabetes. These four conditions cause more than 50 percent of all deaths in that vast majority of communities.
I think most of the resistance boils down perceiving the cost as higher than it really is, and the rewards as smaller than they really are. … In other words, the best deal in the world looks like a bad deal from the outside — i.e. when you’re not taking the deal. For now I’ll say this much: the number one thing is to never do an exercise you truly hate.
The Hacker’s Diet: Exercise - A strong argument that a little bit of exercise everyday will pay for itself.
Alan Thrall – Training 1x per week - To get started on excerise, go to the gym once per week. Do stuff that you like. Get used to it.
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