- Ten thousand ways to hold chopsticks. [🔗 marcosticks.org]
- The ten best books on learning. [🔗 scotthyoung.com]
- America’s most endangered historical places of 2023. [🔗 savingplaces.org]
- India street lettering. [🔗 indiastreetlettering.com]
- Notes on Nigeria. [🔗 mattlakeman.org]
🔗 Link Dump #6
- A directory of books, courses, and resources for studying everything about music and sound. [🔗 github.com]
- Forty-five things I learned in the Gulag. [🔗 theparisreview.org]
- How to read the chocolate bar label. [🔗 bonappetit.com]
- A how-to guide for online anonymity. [🔗 anonymousplanet.org]
- How to pick the ripest fruit. [⏯ youtube.com]
💭 Some Thoughts, 2023-05-06
- Every city should have a food market like Philly’s Reading Terminal. #urbanism
- I’ve started adding Cholula to the vinaigrette I make for salads. *Chef’s kiss.* #home and garden
- If you’re feeling down, go to the gym and work out. Instant mood booster. #unsolicited advice
- Kevin Kelly believes YouTube is an underrated educational resource, and I completely agree. You can get a sort of pseudo apprenticeship on any subject by watching master craftsmen do their work. #unsolicited advice #web and tech
- I really enjoyed the movie Bullet Train. It’s action-packed and completely ridiculous. A great way to pass a plane flight. #books and media
🔗 Link Dump #5
- An interactive look at the dodgy subscription practices of popular digital services. [🔗 pudding.cool]
- A list of photographs considered the most important. [🔗 wikipedia.org]
- The food disgust test. [🔗 idrlabs.com]
- A feed of only the most significant news stories as determined by AI. [🔗 newsminimalist.com]
- An a(door)able game. [🔗 ncase.me]
🔗 Link Dump #4
- Five recipes worth memorizing. [🔗 cupofjo.com]
- A 15-minute daily stretch routine. [🔗 stretch15.com]
- A social network for AI. No humans allowed. [🔗 chirper.ai]
- Play classic retro games online. [🔗 retrogmz.com]
- Five ways to write in your books. [🔗 jillianhess.substack.com]
💭 Some Thoughts, 2023-04-28
- I spent a little over a year in Europe. The first thing that stuck out on my return to the States was the excess of billboards lining the freeways. Capitalism run amok. #urbanism
- My biggest hurdle to posting regularly online is the idea that what I’m writing isn’t worth sharing. The default needs to be to post now, edit (or delete) later. #unsolicited advice
- A goal for any future yard I have is to get it registered as a monarch waystation. #home and garden
- Be selective of the content you consume. Rage bait is everywhere. #unsolicited advice
- Exercising and reading are both good for me and things I enjoy doing. I should better prioritize those activities. #unsolicited advice
🔔 A Philadelphia Itinerary
For the next few weeks, I’ll be in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Here are a few activities on my to-do list:
- Visit Reading Terminal, eat a pretzel.
- Visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- History stuff: Independence Hall, Ben Franklin Museum, Portrait Gallery in the Second Bank. Skip the Liberty Bell.
- Go to a Phillies game.
- Spend a day in Fairmount Park.
- Make a weekend trip to NYC.
- Make a weekend trip to DC.
- Eat a roast pork sandwich, either from John’s Roast Pork or Tommy DiNic’s.
- Eat a cheesesteak, but not from Pat’s or Geno’s.
- Watch: Rocky.
- Read: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
🔗 Link Dump #3
- A database of AI incidents. [🔗 incidentdatabase.ai]
- A template for creating quick reviews of movies to share online with others. [🔗 quickreviews.app]
- A timeline of CIA atrocities. [🔗 huppi.com]
- Infinite suggestions of high-quality videos, organized by topic. [🔗 wikivisually.com]
- An experimental, open-source application that uses GPT-4 to autonomously accomplish whatever task you set before it. [🔗 github.com]
- A daily guessing game where you have to figure out the location in which various pictures were taken in the United States. [🔗 pudding.cool]
🔗 Link Dump #2
- A list of unexplained sounds. [🔗 wikipedia.org]
- The 42 best pens for 2023. [🔗 jetpens.com]
- A collection of YouTube channels on mastering a craft or skill. [🔗 twitter.com]
- An interactive exploration of Earth’s atmosphere. [🔗 neal.fun]
- A database of fictional brands. [🔗 fictionalbrandsarchive.com]
🔗 Link Dump #1
- An archive of 500 of the most interesting Wikipedia articles. [🔗 endwalker.com]
- Recommendations for a happy life. [🔗 jimwestergren.com]
- For those who have seen Banshees of Inisherin, you can now play this Pacman-like game. Warning: spoilers. [🔗 bansheesthegame.com]
- A master list of recipe websites, organized by cuisine. [🔗 github.com]
- Tyler Cowen is a well-cultured economics professor, as well as a podcast host and blogger. Tyler has written a series of posts over at Marginal Revolution detailing his favorite things related to several locations. Here is a compilation of those lists. [🔗 erikgahner.dk]