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Links, quotes, and ideas worth sharing.

2024

Wendell Berry in The Unsettling of America google.com
Wendell Berry, "A Prayer after Eating" berrycenterbookstore.com
Doctorow on the AI Bubble locusmag.com

2023

Andrew Hudgins, "The Cestello Annunciation" jstor.org

2022

The Agency of Ice thefunambulist.net
New Avenues robinsloan.com
Web People megnut.com
Thinking on the Collapse of Twitter robinsloan.com
The State of Enchantment google.com
Accidental Universe google.com
This Age of Conformity dissentmagazine.org
Our Moloch nybooks.com
Owning Your Domain vickiboykis.com
How to Write Software With Mathematical Perfection quantamagazine.org
The emotions of life online newpublic.substack.com

2021

The Summer Day

2020

Twitter and Facebook moderating Trump campaign on misinformation washingtonpost.com
Annotating Biden's clean energy plan envirodatagov.org
Apple Pledges to Be Carbon Neutral by 2030 wsj.com
Twitter Begins Limiting the Spread of QAnon Conspiracy Theories nbcnews.com
John Lewis Dies at 80 ajc.com

2019

Alan Brinkley, RIP nytimes.com

2018

Overcast 4.2 marco.org

2015

United States Historical Cities Populations github.com
AeroPress Recipes toolsandtoys.net
The Budget Guide to NCPH elizabethcatte.com
How We Do DH blogs.library.duke.edu
D3 in Action amazon.com
Bulletproof Coffee: Debunking the Hot Buttered Hype gizmodo.com

2014

CShapes: Historical Country Boundaries nils.weidmann.ws
First Draft Podcast: Liberation Technology firstdraftpodcast.com
First Draft Podcast: Humanities Savior Narrative firstdraftpodcast.com
First Draft Podcast: The Pragmatic Tyranny of Building Digital Artifacts firstdraftpodcast.com
Blue Bottle Buys Tonx wired.com

2013

The Campaign Against Coffee theatlantic.com
Atlas of Historical Geography of the United States dsl.richmond.edu
Topotime dh.stanford.edu
Coffee Brewing Guides mistobox.com
Dr Bunsen Coffee Experiments drbunsen.org
Amazon Pairs Print and Digital Books bits.blogs.nytimes.com
The Forgotten Home of Coffee vimeo.com
Github for Writers madebyloren.com
Evernote Reminders blog.evernote.com
Mendeley and Open Access zephoria.org
Secrets of Data Visualization netmagazine.com
The MOOC Bubble railroads.unl.edu

2012

E-book Readership Rising While Print Declines libraries.pewinternet.org
Digital Jubilee frankchimero.com
About Beards the-northwind.com
Perspective Icons for Omnifocus iconsandcoffee.com
Fussy Coffee travel.cnn.com
1970s Homebrew Computer Club Newsletters digibarn.com
Remove Multiple Open With Entries in Finder simplicitybliss.com
The Beards of Silicon Valley wired.com
The Silicon Prairie nytimes.com
What Your Web Design Says About You loopinsight.com
Star Wars Episode VII May Have Found Its Writer vulture.com
Evernote 5's New iOS Interface blog.evernote.com
Africa's Silicon Savannah guardian.co.uk
Ethiopian Kids Hack OLPCs dvice.com
Github Training training.github.com
The Blossom Coffee Machine theverge.com
Bit Rot economist.com
How the Internet Ruined San Francisco salon.com
Fewer Copyright Restrictions Benefit the Economy eff.org
The NSA Data Center in the West wired.com
Handy Guide to Regular Expressions etext.lib.virginia.edu
Resources for the Academic Job Market ryan.cordells.us
One Giant Leap tightwind.net
The Tech Specs of Curiosity extremetech.com
Backup Now marco.org
Indulge in Curiosity wired.com
Mangling the Origins of the Early Internet arstechnica.com
UCI Study Finds People Who Check Email Less Frequently Have Better Focus today.uci.edu
What the Internet Looks Like theatlantic.com
The Vertue of the Coffee Drink openculture.com
Digital History Training Becoming Common in Public History Programs publichistorycommons.org
Writing for History Buffs chronicle.com
The Busy Trap opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
Google Tracking Wildfires in the West arstechnica.com
Becoming a Stylish Writer chronicle.com
Dotfiles on Github dotfiles.github.com
How to Brew French Press Coffee sofawned.com
An Alternative GTD System heydave.org
Content on the Web twitter.com
The Bastards Book of Ruby ruby.bastardsbook.com
World Aeropress Championship worldaeropresschampionship.wordpress.com
Hemingway on Writing theparisreview.org
Open Source Data Journalism Handbook Launched datajournalismhandbook.org
1862 Great Plains Symposium unl.edu
Give It Five Minutes 37signals.com
The Internet is Not Broken plus.google.com

2011

A Literary History of Word Processing nytimes.com
Project 2000 - Apple Computer stephenwolfram.com
Writing in the Age of Distraction locusmag.com
How Books Are Made, 1947 Style youtube.com
Internet Predictions from 1982 nytimes.com
The Market for Digital Textbooks arstechnica.com
US Supreme Court Rules Video Games Protected Under the First Amendment nytimes.com
Self-Publishing is About to Get Real aaronmahnke.com
What Happens On the Internet Every Sixty Seconds technolog.msnbc.msn.com
Why Macs Cost More Than PCs mattrichman.tumblr.com
Dropbox Breach Affects Fewer Than 100 Accounts techcrunch.com
Visualizing Historical Data and the Rise of Digital Humanities fastcompany.com
Gaming the Archives chronicle.com
Of Goats and Headaches economist.com
Digital Humanities: Not Building, But Sharing samplereality.com
Writing and the Problem of Quick Consumption instapaper.com
The Humanities Done Digitally chronicle.com
The Challenge of Writing boston.com
Go Write blog.frankchimero.com
Alternative Scholarly Publishing informationr.net
Code School codeschool.com
"You think you are being a leader, but you are probably being a manager." player.vimeo.com
Go Be Awesome youtube.com
Instapaper 3.0 blog.instapaper.com
A Web Designed for Reading blog.readability.com
Upgrading Windows kottke.org
How Twitter's TOS Changes Hurt Academic Research readwriteweb.com
Digital Historical Research historians.org
The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age amazon.com
Editing in the Digital Age theaporetic.com
Defending the Humanities insidehighered.com
Coverage of the Apple Event live.twit.tv
What Scholars Want from the Digital Public Library of America dancohen.org
Using Vim stevelosh.com
What is the Internet? youtube.com
Programming Guides niche-canada.org
Stanford Tool DataWrangler readwriteweb.com
Less Yack, More Hack chronicle.com
Creating a Government-less Internet datelinezero.com
Learn How to Code lifehacker.com
EFF Uncovers Widespread FBI Violations eff.org
The Importance of No inc.com
Hiring Front-End Engineers computedstyle.com
Focus twit.tv
Road Train Technology newscientist.com
Netflix Spends 20 Times More on Postage than Bandwidth digitalsociety.org
RSS is Dying camendesign.com

2010

URL Design warpspire.com
Net Neutrality economist.com
Why We Program savagelook.com
A Great Year for Ruby rubyinside.com
Start Using CSS3 and HTML5 Now smashingmagazine.com
Ruby vs. Python allthingsprogress.com
Long Live the Web scientificamerican.com
Douglas Rushkoff, Program or Be Programmed boingboing.net
Some Good Words to Live By en.wikipedia.org