Nov 12, 2025 from The Linkfest Linkfest #41: The "Chthulucene", Doom on a Satellite, and The Ethics of Selling a Haunted House Hello! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my next Linkfest, in which I offer up the finest nuggets of science, culture and technology that I could pan from the glittering, unceasing cr...
Nov 11, 2025 from Jasco's Website The rewrite I talk about an old program I wrote, Feedie, and the process of rewriting it
Nov 11, 2025 from Jasco's Website The rewrite I talk about an old program I wrote, Feedie, and the process of rewriting it
Nov 10, 2025 from The Jaxson Smaller Than Jax, But I Have Rail: Lessons from Tucson As JTA's Ultimate Urban Circulator faces growing scrutiny from the Duval DOGE committee, it’s worth turning our gaze westward to a smaller, less dense city that’s managed to do what Jacksonville ha...
Nov 10, 2025 from JoeHx Blog October 2025 Book Reading List It must be the end of an era. For the first time in over seven years, I read no books to either my son or my daughter.
Nov 09, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz Call Off Your Dogs This post discusses recent laws banning social media for adolescents
Nov 09, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz Call Off Your Dogs This post discusses recent laws banning social media for adolescents
Nov 07, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 7 — Marginalia Poetry DAY 7. Marginalia PoetryMarginalia are the notes, arrows, grumbles, doodles, and side-whispers readers leave in the edges of a text. In medieval manuscripts, scribes glossed, quibbled, even sketche...
Nov 06, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 6 — Misheard Prayers DAY 6. Misheard PrayersThe term mondegreen was coined by writer Sylvia Wright in a 1954 Harper’s essay. As a child, she misheard the ballad line:“They hae slain the Earl o’ Moray / And laid him on ...
Nov 05, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 5 — Inventory of What Remains DAY 5. Inventory of What RemainsAn inventory poem catalogs, lists, and tallies. Unlike the bookish errata/corrigenda, this one lives in the material world, what’s left behind when someone leaves, w...
Nov 05, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software Zürich and Vaduz I wasn’t quite sure if I should put this post on this blog or my personal one, but since it is about two people who have been important in my life as well as being involved in open source I figured...
Nov 04, 2025 from Improve Something Today A choice to counter culture: notes for November 2025 Ways to practice: refusal, invitation, risk. The new Ram Dass book. Revisiting ‘whole-heartedness.’
Nov 04, 2025 from R74n Newsletter NEW Civilization Simulator - GenTown - OUT NOW Influence human society indirectly in this nation simulation game.
Nov 04, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 4 — Duplex of Two Places DAY 4. Duplex of Two PlacesA duplex is a braid of repetition. Each couplet borrows the previous line, shifts it a little, and carries on. Think: echo that returns changed. Today, let two geographie...
Nov 04, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software NixCon 2025 Apologies for such a late post on my trip to NixCon back in September, but my life has recently been overtaken by events. The annual Nix conference was held at the Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (OST)...
Nov 03, 2025 from BEEW Holy Shame The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. — Virginia Woolf Woolf meant this as a warning. A century later, I can’t help but wonder if those same eyes might be the only thing that co...
Nov 03, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 3 — Corrigenda Crown DAY 3. Corrigenda CrownIn fixed forms, a “crown” often means linked sonnets; we’re adapting the idea: seven linked lists with a repeating line that mutates and returns. A crown of seven short poems...
Nov 03, 2025 from Galaxy Garden Another Long Unexpected Water Supply Disruption in 2025 Having to endure an unscheduled water supply cut that lasted more than a day was not in my 2025 bingo card, let alone having to experience it twice in the same year. In late May, my house experienc...
