I would like puzzles showing a variety of empty toilet paper aisles which have been ransacked around the world
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I love the slider analogy. Your other comments are very kind. I’ve quoted some of this discussion here: fraidyc.at/blog/tanks-for-the-boost!/
Thank you for taking a peek.
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the feeling when you actually want to read a website
e.g. https://unimaginable-heights.neocities.org/uh.html
cult classic
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@kickscondor how do we give you $ for https://fraidyc.at ? I want to support the development.
Using it + telling people > $$$.
Also, reporting bugs is dope.
Thanks, Danny!
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I try to read the sites I find as deep as I can. Usually one thing links to another. I also tend toward Pinboard and Are.na rather than search engines. I’m still figuring this out too. I really want to encourage you - bc not many people seem to be up to this.
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You can DM me - or are you wondering if there is a Fraidycat IRC or something?
I don’t use chat, so I don’t really know.
Hello tho. Good to meet you, Jordan.
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Well, I’m not as interested in business or software projects - because there are lots of avenues for promoting these - but it’s not a hard rule. So - whatever really! Just trying to break the taboos around self-promotion.
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thank you @kickscondor kickscondor.com/special.fish/
I sat on the link for a few weeks, because I wasn’t sure whether it was a secret thing. Glad you’re ok with some basic linking. I know you like TXT. Honored to pass your way.
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i’m still trying to figure out how to find quality, recent, updated content on the internet due to the state of search engines but one day i’ll get there and throw you something
I dunno, you found jimbo.net and aguastermales.com - keep it up.
Also: no worries about quality or recency. The opposite is a-ok.
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aaaaalright then! i’ve got a few teensy spur-of-the-moment articles here cblgh.org/articles/
i also came across the federated wiki project recently and it’s a magnificent wormhole found.ward.bay.wiki.org/view/welcome-v…
Hey, this is good stuff. Thank you Alexander! I tried to install the wiki some months ago and struggled to - I should give it a shot now.
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Covered this several months ago. kickscondor.com/poolside-fm/ I adore it, of course!
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I really appreciate everyone not spamming me with their personal links - except that, no, I want them. I already say this all the time duh. A really good hrefhunt is coming up and I want you to be in it. -
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Interesting imageboard with colornyms and nonsensical features.
Don’t mind me, going down an imageboard corridor over here - perhaps this is what will shake you off my tail once and for all. Just splay your hands over your eyes and fall forward. We’ll - not catch you - but you’ll go somewhere at least. (No, don’t close your eyes. Just fuzz them a bit.)
You see those color bars? This is the user directory. You can honestly look—there’s no bad words. See, reminds you of special dot fish, yeah? RELEVANT. There, we can go home now.
I do understand why the above ground world hates anonymity so much. And I don’t have a defense. It’s just fun to be someone else. Or nobody at all. Or just a color strip. But I don’t know what you’re going to find in atob - so splay your hands, child.
This is a very fun, inviting design tho, right? I wonder how the archives work. Oh, wait, I can look at the source code. It seems like once a page has 10 upvotes and 50 more replies than it has downvotes(?) then it goes there.[1]
Had never heard of hubski before - it’s mentioned in the liner notes.
I believe I discovered it from THIS monumental directory of tiny imageboards. Fuzz your eyes.[2]
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Hey there. Do you have a website? You should collect your drawings somewhere. Love the guy reading with candles. I like your green and black avatar. I like that your name is two dashes.
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Let’s see what you think about this big pile of colorful squares.
I think we can all agree that this is where we should be headed. I try not to say should - this is the one time. A big directory of people. I’m a big directory freak. But it hadn’t even occured to me to make a social network that is just a directory. Special fish.
I should probably just let you go explore. There is a way to make the site play music that I saw on Twitter a few weeks ago, but I can’t be bothered to look it up right now.
Here are some leads:
These are only the beginning - this reminds me of the tilde resurgence some years back, but more among the art crowd than the technology one.
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A strategy guide for all you hipsters who found me in 2015.
My hypertext is in the shape of a small personal blog from 2015. My hypertext is totally irrelevant in the cultural landscape. I talk to chameleon and I talk to Jack and Tals Vals. I try not to post sometimes. Yes, I have been working on one of the most important software projects of early March 2020. But I also call it in and stick with simply reposting some of the health updates I find and like from YouTube.
I often post bad content, such as this editorial, which frustrates its fans and discourages them from sharing the www.kickscondor.com link. In fact, the whole point of today’s message is that you should not be sharing or talking about this hypertext blog with your friends.
Let’s find out if any of you can take note. This isn’t a reverse psychology message. This isn’t irony or anything. And not that I don’t appreciate when you’ve brought in new people to look around a bit. But the doors are closed. It’s time to stop talking about Kicks Condor and it would be best if you denied ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THIS BLOG at this time.
If you are reading this and you know about this site, all I can say is that you are extremely lucky, as you are probably the last one to find out.
Things are at a good point right now where I can find small websites and pass them up the chain. I’ve got Andy Baio looking in now and then. Seems like I’ve got Warren Ellis from showbiz. I worked hard to score these big guys. Pretty nice, pretty damn decent. Everyone who I want to have reading is now reading. It’s perfect right now.[1]
But now let me explain with some of the problems I’m facing that you are all causing.
I got a really nice e-mail from Justus Grunow a few days ago. But I’m not going to destroy his life by linking to him all the time! He has published GIFs of his close friends and associates on that web site. What would it do to him if those GIFs were suddenly taken over by link cowboys and used as dogwhistles for global coffee thieves?
It would absolutely destroy him. I can safely link to him ten more times here in the dense matter of my hypertext. But the eleventh time will destroy him.[4]
I know I talk a lot about “Let Me Link to You”. But sometimes things get evil. What if Google had realized, on the day they became evil, that they needed to say something to all of us, to let us know? How easy would it have been for them to post a message, explaining that they’d become evil, that we should stop, that we should go away and never return. I think we could have recovered the Earth!
I am not evil yet, I promise you! But I am certainly ALMOST THERE. It’s around the corner. Maybe the 8th. And all you have to do is shut up. Can you do that?
You can share this blog with your enemies however. And, of course, if you are a CIA operative, and sharing this is part of your current assignment, I get that.
Now, let’s all try to calm down and forget about this. Forget about this message, forget about me, forget that I spent so long talking about myself, and most important of all: deny ANY KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE OF THIS BLOG, even if you are tortured or held at gun point. If you think about it, this kind of secrecy will make you much more of an insane hipster than you already have been during the last five years that you have ardently followed this blog.
Okay, I think we can safely say this is the nail in the coffin for this blog.
Except that I do want Olia Lialina to be reading along, humming along, and I would love it if she was really stalking me, but I can e-mail her about doing that later. ↩︎
Part of it is a respect thing. Like you wouldn’t just go get in someone’s body and use it around town after they die. ↩︎
And I have no defense. I did rip all of these things off. And if no one would have said anything, I would have gotten away with it. But now I have to watch it all be snuffed out in painstaking slow-motion. (Meaning: the lawsuit. It seems to be happening at a slower time scale than all of the other things happening out there. A supernatural force is interfering to make my agonizing defeat play out in extreme slowness. I’m not saying it’s God. But it could be God’s nephew or someone in a lower station who isn’t being supervised or responsibly mentored.) ↩︎
Can someone out there put a reminder on their phone to check if I have blogged about Justus an eleventh time? In case I forget. ↩︎
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Well and feels like we’re oblivious to the complex roles we’re just slamming the ‘content creator’ label on. Essayists, shitposters, quote makers, folks who do analysis - but more complex communities also have reposters, voters who camp on /new, tag wranglers. Key non-writers.
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Yiii, this is rather scary. But I’m very glad for your nice spotlights, Andy. I’m perfectly content to just read Waxy. When that spotlight swings over here, I only wish I had bottoms on. Sorry just a baseball jersey.
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Fraidycat 1.1 is out. This a big one.
Details at: fraidyc.at/blog.
New Twitch, Kickstarter, Pinterest, Facebook support.
Sort follows, ignore post edits, expand everything.
And yeah - all Fraidycat news is moving to that blog link.
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So I take it that you don’t use your insane cut-and-paste wiki for this stuff?
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Seems the world has slept on this blog - which covers experimental shit, strange genres. Nice way to branch out.
When I first discovered this link, it seemed that the music became more and more unlistenable as I scrolled down the page. Now that I’ve had time to listen to CTEBCM further, there is actually quite a bit of tame music here that is just strangely genred. Such as ‘the loser’, a solo opera based on the wonderful Thomas Bernhard novel of the same name which feels reminiscent of the meandering ‘Shia LeBeouf’ storysong. Or the sometimes-metal, sometimes-harpsichord of Spine Reader’s ‘Recorded Instruments’.
But there’s ‘Experiments in Bluetooth Technology’ by Car Made of Glass. Call it music?
Can’t say how much of this will stick, but what a ballpit of music to jump into!
Also, hey, hold up - a few interesting vaporwave discoveries while you’re here:
死体’s public broadcasting: This is just my kind of thing. Like ancient transmissions crossing. The tape on DMT is really good too.
A series of videos by andrewarson on /r/vaporwave: CTRL+DEL, BUY STOCKS, INFINITE GROWTH, BUY ANYTHING BUY TODAY.
Passion of the Weiss: Just a great music blog. I’ve been following this for almost a year and I think this is href.cool material.
Sick & Panic: I’m all in on Macintosh Plus’ next wave.
Wish I had time to do everything in the world. But maybe it doesn’t matter. I’d still just spend all the time walking these same dank corners of the hypertext kingdom…
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Addressing (great) comments from sphygmus and fogknife.
Some recent comments on Fraidycat’s importances.
Fogknife:
This leads to my one significant critique with Fraidycat’s current design: I don’t think that sources set to have less frequent check-ins should necessarily get relegated to separate views. Currently, each tag-based Fraidycat tab has sub-views for “Daily”, “Weekly”, and so on, as well as the default “Real-time” view. When you set a source to anything other than “Real-time”, Fraidycat banishes its display to that sub-view.I think this plays a little too much into the program’s shyness about mixing too many sources into one list. As it stands, I tend to forget that any of the “rate-limited” views even exist, within a given tag-view. I don’t mind clicking around in between the category-tags according to my mood, but further clicking around between checking-rates doesn’t feel the same. These rates don’t denote any difference in content or quality from its neighboring sources, after all; I just want to see them presented a little less prominently.
(There is more discussion between the two of us on issue #63 on Github.)
I first want to clear up the idea of ‘rate-limited’ views, in case there is any confusion.
These importances do play a subtle role in how frequently an item is fetched. However, a ‘yearly’ follow isn’t checked once a year. It’s checked about once or twice a day. I don’t actually want these follows to go stale. (I have some plans to remove these limits entirely down the road.)
The more vital role of ‘importances’ is to move things out of view that are less… important to me. I wonder: how many follows do you have? Because I am keeping hundreds around. To have each tag on a single page would be death-defying!
Sphygmus:
About having the real-time/daily/weekly/etc all in one feed - all of my (12) feeds are set to real-time, not because I care about having them checked very often (some I might set to daily or weekly, theoretically) but because I want them all visible in that view. Given that I can set everything to real-time and not have it impact performance with only twelve feeds, though, I’ve just ignored the whole dealio.
So perhaps this is an issue with how someone uses Fraidycat when they have fewer follows? Perhaps I should make the ‘importances’ links disappear if you only have ‘Real-time’ follows under a given tab?
Perhaps detaching the concepts of “importance” and “how often the program checks the feed” would help? As it is now, importance as a way of sub-sectioning tags seems to be mixed in with the idea of “how often do I care about the feed for this being checked” and those seem like two different things to me.
I want to avoid making things more complex - and I am curious if the problem here is a terminology problem. I’m considering changing the names of the importances to something less time-concrete.
Like this:
This way the focus isn’t so much on time - but on actual ‘importance’. Do I need this thing close at hand, on my front page? Or do I just need it tucked away, saved for another time?
On the front page:
My point is that I want some things hidden. And behind a single-click has been useful for me. I struggle to think of a better way.
Perhaps the issue is that I am eager to read a lot of people. So I take on stuff of all kinds of quality. Maybe you both already have a high bar for what you will follow? Part of the point of Fraidycat was to allow me to lower my bar. I can now follow more things because they don’t create noise for me. I need them out of view until I’m sure that they are really important to me.
I will probably do a livestream soon so that I can chat and work some of these things out in conversation. Think about it - I would love to try to understand where you’re coming from more clearly.
Thank you to both of you for your suggestions and for even trying this tool out! I’m also going to tag Eli’s post, as one who has also been offering suggestions as well.
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Tight little tools - RSS feeds for newsletters, Telegram and web hooks.
Gotta give some respect to Kirill Maltsev for this essential set of RSS tools - simple but solid - along the lines of my beloved webmention.io and commentpara.de.
The key tool here is the read email via RSS page, which gives you a random unique email address. You can sign that email up for email newsletters, for instance, and then put the matching RSS feed into Fraidycat to track it like it was a blog.
You could even set up an alias to forward to this address and make yourself a low-key public inbox that won’t clutter up your private email.
I have a hyyyuge new release of Fraidycat coming out Monday that will support Twitch, public Facebook pages, Pinterest, Github users, Kickstarter projects and older RSS feeds. The Pinterest support is particularly juicy because it gives you direct links rather than Pinterest links. Don’t know if anyone uses that site any more, but it felt too subversive to skip out on.
Also, I’ve finally figured out how to load h0p3’s wiki without stalling the extension. Unfortunately, this required some additional permissions. The permissions situation is getting stupid. I’m sorry!!
Also don’t miss Jason McIntosh’s review of Fraidycat after a month of using it. I really appreciate this encouragement and the wonderful suggestions.
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Looks cool!
People can only share one link at a time (the previous one disappears when you post a new one), in order to avoid endless spammy feeds, link fatigue.
I really like this. I’m interested to see how people like it. Can you view someone’s history?
I appreciate the offer - I don’t know, I’ll think about it. Love all your stuff on Arena.
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Thankyou, tuna paragraph. But I am only the Paul Williams of Internet. My colors will fade. Thankyou for the links: font.redcollar.co, andrewleguay.com. I am interested to find sweet Turkish hotlinks as well!
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have you heard of http://wiby.me? I didnt see it on http://href.cool, and thought you might find it interesting
For sure! I use it sometimes to find new links. You’re right - it definitely belongs on href.cool. Thank you for the suggestion!
I like bepbep.co so far. It seems very secure. This makes me want to spend time there.
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I’m so glad to meet you, love your purple vid. Not sure what stuff on UH is yours or Jack’s - tho the zine reviews seemed to be yours. But just a guess.
Burning question - what’s your reaction to Justin Bieber’s “Yummy”? It seems he is once again unfairly maligned?
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That sort of hand-drawn look reminds me of Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass. It’s not scribbly just to be ugly, but it’s whimsically hand-drawn pixel art that doesn’t much care about realism. Such a sense of humor, too.
I really didn’t see the aesthetic match here - “Jimmy” seems to have a lot of really solid art - the flamingo with piano key wings and necktie is fantastic, what a character! But I do see a match with the writing and dialogue I think.
Whatever the case, I am grateful for this link - I’ve not seen it before. Thanks for hanging out, Anon. Would be interested to hear what other obscure games you’ve dug up.
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Jack and Talita’s website - THE model for couples hypertext.
That feeling when Neocities is a legit NeoGeocities.
Unimaginable Heights is a bit like a zine, a bit like the library in The Abortion, a bit like our own invention, a bit like one of those Bob Dylan songs that go on and on with crazy lyrics. It will probably be forever under construction as I learn new silly CSS tricks and shuffle things around. I expect there to be a lot of shuffling around. Hey, who decided the internet needs to be displayed as a stream of chronologically-ordered ‘posts’? This is a place to get lost, and a place to pay some attention.
I would normally wait for HrefHunt to post this, but it’s also got a sweeeeet directory of other Neocities websites that I can’t just sit on. (They even seem to have found chamy on their own! “she’s good at making up jokes about lizards.” Yeah, that’s her.)
The website went up in 2018 and most of the recent work has been focused on the zine page. Which brings me to the other discovery here (from the Winged Snail Mail zine): the ‘master list of postal projects and websites’.[1]
It would be cool if Neocities offered RSS on their site updates page, so we could follow them outside of Neoticies. Perhaps this another thing for Fraidycat to scrape.
(Aside.) Instinctually, I get why people don’t understand my blog. It’s just a feeling that somehow I am lost in my own words. I sometimes read my own stuff and can’t figure out what I’m saying. My sentences can be very unclear and I don’t realize it until a year has passed. It’s the way the words go together.
But I think that I also am just writing on a personal level - not in the Oprah sense, like about tragedy or inner turmoil - but just in that I like to talk about my interests and the people I meet. I don’t really get taken in by news or politics or pop culture - these things aren’t dead to me, they just seem pointless to me - whereas discovering unknown people and learning how to talk to them, as well as building experiments here and there, seems very pointfull. But also memes - I don’t often connect with them either. So I think I lack some language sometimes for connecting with the mainstream.
I guess I’m also thinking about the categorization of my site as ‘counterculture’ - because I don’t really see it that way. That word seems very insurgent. (“Fraidycat as Stuxnet” was serious, but it’s really just a joke idea.) I see myself as being in Jack and Talita’s community - just harmless and out-of-the-way, abdicating any cultural sway or power pronto.[2] And yeah I also see DFW as being ‘hipster bait’ too. But not condescendingly, of course.
Like they say:
Have compassion with the hipster baits of this world, but also try not to waste too much time with them. For they are just like everyone. People are like that, well-meaning, but with much less to say than they think. Maybe hipster bait has the power to reflect us back to ourselves. Hopefully, hipster bait will inspire us. Its social function is to expose the reality of making things, which is that everything is either pathetic or sterile, with very few options in between short of being one of those kooky Italian church painters. At its best, hipster bait is a celebration of both the pathetic and the sterile. And if you think about how Elijah Wood has over 4,000 records in his collection and still says his favourite band are the flipping Smashing Pumpkins (everyone’s third or fourth favourite band when they’re 14), you’ll realise that all he’s doing, all that anyone is doing, is getting up in the morning, then moving around, then going back to sleep; that no matter how grandiose the things you do might feel, they’re still just happening one after another in-between bursts of hunger and tiredness, that it will always be difficult to focus. There will be the task at hand, and there will be disorientating, conflicting impulses swirling around inside of you, always. You’ll realise that existence is much more circular than linear, and maybe your world will feel a bit simpler, and you’ll feel a bit more relaxed.
Yes! This essay is such an antidote to thoughtpieces. Thank you, our beloved Most Quality Couple of Neocities, thank you.
Also an interesting related blog to look into: ‘she lives with an apple tree’ by the author of The Heart is Homebound. ↩︎
Like your run-of-the-mill Draco Malfoy impersonator might feel on any day of the week. Not as Draco, of course, but inside, where they’re just happy to be in his shoes so deep that it feels real. ↩︎
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From shitty website ‘Best of Bjørnar B.’
This website of scribbled art purports to have sprung from the mind of a teenage Norwegian, however I’m not buying it. It appears that this site was covered somewhat closely by Something Awful years ago - and was perhaps originally hosted there. The site mostly contains drawings and games featuring a character called D. Duck who has to deal with an unruly Uncle Jubalon and fears losing his girlfriend Dasy to his cousin Anton. (YouTube vids here, if you’re rightfully wary of downloading.)
I have not dug deeply here - the game mostly seemed to be fat jokes and funny mispellings - but I think the game is a bit more impressive work than the reviews say - and there are only like three one-star reviews out there. The animation and visual style is quite unique - there’s no doubt that some decent work was poured into this. I love hand-drawn games - this Homeward Bound game and this Hanging Gardens game come to mind as other scribbly designs that look unlike anything else. But D. Duck is so scribbly that you almost can’t make out the characters’ appearances - their bent heads and distorted bodies are almost Cubist. The soundtrack also seems too good for a teenager. Who knows tho!
In an age where so much design has become bland and smooth, or simply striving toward realism, I think we could use a lot more mess and distortion. I feel like Charlie McAlister would have made a game like this.
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Can you help me understand what this is? I read through it all and I couldn’t decipher what’s actually happening or what it’s about. It felt like word soup to me – I’m possibly far outside the intended audience.
And from the user’s bio:
Now at Apple. Formerly CEO/Founder of Empirical, Ginger.io, Google, IBM Research. PhD from the MIT Media Lab.
From what I understand, Tim Cook is ordering all the execs to wander around this blog - and which ever one can make sense of it first gets a ‘biscuit’. I’m your hedge maze, bitches.
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don’t think i can dm you here? not sure what the latter is
It’s my email address. But if you DM, I’ll look for it. 
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@kickscondor what are ways to contact you privately?
DM is good. Or ‘kicks’ @ my website.
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I’ve been fascinated with this idea of vias, hat tips, and linking credit (a la the defunct Curator’s Code) just like Jeremy Cherfas. I have a custom field in my site for collecting these details sometimes, but I should get around to automating it and showing it on my pages rather than doing it manually.
Links like these seem like throwaways, but they can have a huge amount of value in aggregate. As an example, if I provided the source of how I found this article, then it’s likely that my friend Matt would then be able to see a potential treasure trove of information about the exact same topic which he’s sure to have a lot of interest in as well.
All the concentrated salience contained in a single offhanded link.
My level of fervor for these kinds of links has gone way up since reading Rebecca Blood’s simple comment in The Weblog Handbook (2002):
I would go so far as to say that if you are not linking to your primary material when you refer to it—especially when in disagreement—no matter what the format or update frequency of your website, you are not keeping a weblog.
These are really strong words! But I kind of think she’s spot on. Blogs become less bloggy when they don’t have blogrolls, linking back, linking to - this is the stuff of hypertext. She goes on to explain how these links are more than just attaching a URL for mere credit - you’re basically attaching an entire conversation and history.
And if we look at the state of the Web in the present day - I think we need to be much more generous with our links if we’re going to survive. The more links, the more we’re connected and intermeshed. It’s a bond.
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Bits of exciting things not to miss:
Personal links showering down here
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22156868
Gag reflex started planetary.social but NO IT’S SSB!?!
Hhuh had not seen tildeverse.org
Ok, salud.
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that media query 
Ohh agreed - hadn’t noticed that! I need to get one of those.
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@kicks This is great, thanks for creating this list!
(and @bradenslen) Glad to encourage all this great work - so it’s a nice bonus to have you both check it out. My hope is that it’ll spark some fantasies for other new websites in the minds of anyone who passes by.
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A wish comes true: a single-page world newspaper.
I’ve been wishing for many years that someone would start a newspaper called ‘one-line news’ or something, that would sum up the day of world news in a single (perhaps longish) sentence. I get behind on mainstream culture, but I don’t want to lose track of it completely.
This link (via Joe Jennett) is my dream page!!! Culled from Wikipedia’s Current events portal, this is a highly readable plain HTML page-per-day for the news. In addition, someone has made an RSS feed for it - though I’m having some troubles getting it to work.
Other news outlets have plain-text link lists:
However, I prefer the daily digest. And this being sourced from Wikimedia is also a mark in its favor. (See also: Sijmen J. Mulder’s directory to text-only websites.)
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glitchyowl, the future of 'people'.
jack & tals, hipster bait oracles.
maya.land, MAYA DOT LAND.
hypertext 2020 pals: h0p3 level 99 madman + ᛝ ᛝ ᛝ — lucid highly classified scribbles + consummate waifuist chameleon.
yesterweblings: sadness, snufkin, sprite, tonicfunk, siiiimon, shiloh.
surfpals: dang, robin sloan, marijn, nadia eghbal, elliott dot computer, laurel schwulst, subpixel.space (toby), things by j, gyford, also joe jenett (of linkport), brad enslen (of indieseek).
fond friends: jacky.wtf, fogknife, eli, tiv.today, j.greg, box vox, whimsy.space, caesar naples.
constantly: nathalie lawhead, 'web curios' AND waxy
indieweb: .xyz, c.rwr, boffosocko.
nostalgia: geocities.institute, bad cmd, ~jonbell.
true hackers: ccc.de, fffff.at, voja antonić, cnlohr, esoteric.codes.
chips: zeptobars, scargill, 41j.
neil c. "some..."
the world or cate le bon you pick.
all my other links are now at href.cool.
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I don’t have anything to say about Dune. But I just wanted to say that I spent time catching up on blogs today and noticed your redesign. It looks great around here! How every post looks like an index card with the colored tags and stuff on the right hand side. But the whole thing has come together nicely.
That’s all!