The ‘small’ web, the ‘slow’ web, or the ‘indie’ web – the non corporate, original style internet we knew and loved in the 90s and early 2000s (people just writing blogs and making their own websites) before corporations and algorithms seemed to move in and take everything over (Facebook, Twitter, etc), is still out there […]
I wrote some about the continued popularity of physical media here in 2024, but I wanted to do one more post on it this year, to also feature some other formats, history, tips and tricks, and outright advantages of owning your own stuff. A quick note about some of the websites I’ll be linking to […]
Most people familiar with the internet know the HTTP protocol, the one that retrieves and displays our www websites. HTTP was initiated in 1989 and went from there. Gopher is another web protocol, like HTTP. It was introduced in mid 1991, but it fell out of favor later, to HTTP. Some more on Gopher is […]
They’ll say all day long ‘sitting shortens your life’ (and?) but I call bullshit on that. Gorillas sit in the jungle all day eating leaves. They don’t care about any of that shit. Do what you want. Here’s the thing about all the self help, improvement, inspirational stuff out there, whatever you wanna call it. […]
Joey Ramone passed away today (April 15) in 2001. Joey no longer walks Earth (and Dee Dee and Johnny are no longer with us either), but the unreal music he and they left behind is immortal, and it will fucking blast and rip forever. It still blows my mind I was briefly on Earth at […]
My happiness and moods are often progress-based. And by this, I mean that when I complete tasks, my brain rewards me with a sense of accomplishment (I have to assume it’s dopamine or whatever), and I feel (even just slightly) better than I did before. The relief of it being done is a lot of […]
Damn, but I don’t think I’ve ever been so glad to be done with a project. 😂 Recently, Tom over on Mastodon published his list for an album every year he’s been alive over on his record.club account. And then Thomas began doing his #AOML (‘albums of my life’) with multiple albums per year on […]
My wife has a long commute home from work, and as she drives, we talk on the phone and I read BuzzFeed quizzes to her. During one of those quizzes, the subject of the 1991 Disney movie The Rocketeer came up. My wife is about a decade younger than I am, so she’s not familiar […]
J.R.R. Tolkien hated the Beatles so much, he halted a version of Lord of the Rings they wanted to make with Stanley Kubrick. Seriously, Tolkien bitched about all kinds of things, as noted here. Never enjoyed the guy’s stuff. Robert E Howard was writing Conan at the same time Tolkien was writing Middle Earth, but […]
The most important consideration for any process, human or otherwise, is its sustainability– the ability to continue something reasonably over an extended amount of time. If you can’t continue it, what happens when you reach its peak? Capitalism doesn’t account for this– it can’t, by its nature. Capitalism can’t just be okay with quarterly earnings. […]