{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Kicks Condor", "home_page_url": "https://www.kickscondor.com", "feed_url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/feed.json", "description": "LEECHING AND LINKING IN THE HYPERTEXT KINGDOM", "icon": "https://www.kickscondor.com/apple-touch-icon.png", "favicon": "https://www.kickscondor.com/favicon.ico", "expired": false, "hubs": [{"type": "WebSub", "url": "https://kicks.superfeedr.com/"}], "author": { "name": "Kicks Condor", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com", "avatar": "https://www.kickscondor.com/images/chair-square.png" }, "items": [ { "id": "ac749791fbb2bab23f2582fa1fb8a36a93259163", "title": "Ending Gel", "content_text": "He hadn't even gotten the letter into the envelope when he was sprayed down with\nEnding Gel. I know what the letter said because I was the one who sprayed him\ndown. I tore the letter from his gnarled, dead grasp. It was an honest mistake,\nkilling him --- he was naked at the time, just lounging around in his car\nwithout a stitch of clothing on, the spitting image of an enemy soldier.\n\n--- p. 118, *Super Flat Times* by Matthew Derby\n", "content_html": "
He hadn’t even gotten the letter into the envelope when he was sprayed down with\nEnding Gel. I know what the letter said because I was the one who sprayed him\ndown. I tore the letter from his gnarled, dead grasp. It was an honest mistake,\nkilling him — he was naked at the time, just lounging around in his car\nwithout a stitch of clothing on, the spitting image of an enemy soldier.
\n— p. 118, Super Flat Times by Matthew Derby
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/ending-gel", "tags": ["death","hypertext","imagery","quotes","war"], "date_published": "2022-07-22T21:22:05.415Z", "date_modified": "2022-07-22T21:22:05.415Z" } , { "id": "2ef34350ff432cfeffd5b01a1a622d70f6c80147", "title": "Talschat", "content_text": "Back at it - scrapchat today (Sept 21st) at 6 PM Eastern with Talita of\n[UH](https://unimaginable-height.neocities.org/). Starting with the topic of\nSunshine69 and moving outward from there. Talita is like one of my favorite\npeople ever, so I am personally very excited about this.\n", "content_html": "Back at it - scrapchat today (Sept 21st) at 6 PM Eastern with Talita of\nUH. Starting with the topic of\nSunshine69 and moving outward from there. Talita is like one of my favorite\npeople ever, so I am personally very excited about this.
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/talschat", "tags": ["garage","hypertext","psa"], "date_published": "2021-09-21T19:40:14.232Z", "date_modified": "2021-09-21T19:40:14.232Z" } , { "id": "e4450a59674a0b6cb4c1a901781c00ef10ba0942", "title": "scrapchat-with-rebane", "content_text": "Upcoming scrapchat livestream tomorrow Friday, Sept 17th at 10:30 AM Eastern.\nTalking with @rebane2001, keeper of the [taia777-archive] (and various other Minecraft,\nASMR, MLP channels). Talkin web archives and 'checkpoints'.\n[twitch.tv/kickscondor](https://twitch.tv/kickscondor).\n", "content_html": "Upcoming scrapchat livestream tomorrow Friday, Sept 17th at 10:30 AM Eastern.\nTalking with @rebane2001, keeper of the Taia777 Archive (and various other Minecraft,\nASMR, MLP channels). Talkin web archives and ‘checkpoints’.\ntwitch.tv/kickscondor.
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/scrapchat-with-rebane", "tags": ["hypertext","cataloging","psa","web"], "date_published": "2021-09-16T19:58:19.593Z", "date_modified": "2021-09-16T19:58:19.593Z" } , { "id": "be0378923f51a56e3df17de2091ed88465fa088e", "title": "The Woodcutter (1997)", "summary": "Finished my personal archive of the classic Flash website.", "content_text": "Looks like I first started working on this backup of thewoodcutter.com back in\nMay of 2019. At the time, a lot of the Flash preservation projects out there\nwere just starting out - like [Flashpoint](https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/)\nand [Ruffle](https://ruffle.rs/). I decided to take an hour this week and see if\nanything had improved and... was able to get Ruffle working pretty well right off.\n\nI have no idea if The Woodcutter will appeal to anyone out there - I personally\nreally found it fascinating. It made me feel like the Web wasn't just going to\nbe a recreation of mainstream art - but was an avenue for its own sensibilities.\nAnd it felt like so much of the Web would be doomed to be underground - which\nwas a good thing in my mind. Hidden corners, cult classics, experimental shit.\n\nIn hindsight, I think The Woodcutter hints at the future - art games like\nSamorost (which was also at first an early Web Flash game), messy handmade\nmeme faces, and cryptic websites like [Superbad](https://superbad.com/) or\n[Terminal 00](https://angusnicneven.com/).\n\n+++\n\nI had also planned to revive the Bob Dylan ['Like a Rolling\nStone'](https://video.bobdylan.com/) - which was down for a year or so - but it\nis back in business. Another possible target for my archive is Pharrell's [24\nHours of Happy](http://24hoursofhappy.com), which just isn't quite functional\nany longer.\n\nIt's interesting that The Woodcutter has disappeared from the Internet - while\nother contemporaries like [Fly Guy](http://www.trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy/) have\nmanaged to find their way to Flash preservation sites across the Web.\n\nMaybe it's just not as well known. Hope you enjoy it!\n", "content_html": "Looks like I first started working on this backup of thewoodcutter.com back in\nMay of 2019. At the time, a lot of the Flash preservation projects out there\nwere just starting out - like Flashpoint\nand Ruffle. I decided to take an hour this week and see if\nanything had improved and… was able to get Ruffle working pretty well right off.
\nI have no idea if The Woodcutter will appeal to anyone out there - I personally\nreally found it fascinating. It made me feel like the Web wasn’t just going to\nbe a recreation of mainstream art - but was an avenue for its own sensibilities.\nAnd it felt like so much of the Web would be doomed to be underground - which\nwas a good thing in my mind. Hidden corners, cult classics, experimental shit.
\nIn hindsight, I think The Woodcutter hints at the future - art games like\nSamorost (which was also at first an early Web Flash game), messy handmade\nmeme faces, and cryptic websites like Superbad or\nTerminal 00.
\n+++
\nI had also planned to revive the Bob Dylan ‘Like a Rolling\nStone’ - which was down for a year or so - but it\nis back in business. Another possible target for my archive is Pharrell’s 24\nHours of Happy, which just isn’t quite functional\nany longer.
\nIt’s interesting that The Woodcutter has disappeared from the Internet - while\nother contemporaries like Fly Guy have\nmanaged to find their way to Flash preservation sites across the Web.
\nMaybe it’s just not as well known. Hope you enjoy it!
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/the-woodcutter-(archived)", "image": "woodcutter.png", "external_url": "https://thewoodcutter.archive.kickscondor.com/", "tags": ["garage","hypertext","web"], "date_published": "2021-09-16T16:47:29.601Z", "date_modified": "2021-09-16T16:47:29.601Z" } , { "id": "736bebd8baa304e9bc0273279d705493de5e1710", "title": "The Life and Death of an Internet Onion", "summary": "Net.art? Literature? Zine? No, an Internet onion.", "content_text": "This project only appears to have about two weeks left - but it's a good time to\ncheck it out because there's a lot there now. A lot of onion!\n\nThis is a webzine - concept by Laurel Schwultz, but made possible by [a\nteam](https://the-life-and-death-of-an-internet-onion.com/#contributors) - where new writing is added from\ncontributors every day for five weeks. (Back for its second season, it appears:\n[here's](https://web.archive.org/web/20200819190353/https://the-life-and-death-of-an-internet-onion.com/)\na snapshot from last August.[^1])\n\nThe onion works like so:\n\n> Just so you know, onions grow new layers from the inside-out. The oldest\n> layers are on the outside, and the newest on the inside.\n\nIn true onion skin style, you can slightly make out the next entry in the background\nof the current entry you're reading.\nYou can also browse by\n[contributor](https://the-life-and-death-of-an-internet-onion.com/#contributors).\n\nThis new site includes the 2020 onion as well - the new season starts at layer\ntwenty-three.\n\n+++\n\nPart of what really pushed me to posting about this, though, is this amazing\nspreadsheet:\n\n![Internet Onion Decay Spreadsheet.](/images/blog/decaysheet.png)\n{ct}\n\nFrom a [blog post](https://fruitful.school/blog/2020-09-17.html) where the\nstylesheets are laid out.\n\n> The internet onion is decaying by phases because it has to be, given the basic\n> hand-coding HTML and CSS we are using. We could write a script, but we are\n> lazy, and there won’t be that many more phases of decay than this, Laurel\n> thinks to herself. (Although down the line, Laurel would like to also degrade\n> the content itself and source code, but that will be in Late Decay.)\n\nSo this is like the full 90's web reenactment here.\n\nI hope this continues to be a staple of the Web. The bots can't keep up with\nthe handmade Web. It's too small - they can't even BE that small!\n\n[^1]: And\n [here's](https://web.archive.org/web/20201025105936/https://the-life-and-death-of-an-internet-onion.com/)\n a snapshot from a few months into its decay. (Notice the barely visible 'peel'\n button in the lower-left corner.)\n", "content_html": "This project only appears to have about two weeks left - but it’s a good time to\ncheck it out because there’s a lot there now. A lot of onion!
\nThis is a webzine - concept by Laurel Schwultz, but made possible by a\nteam - where new writing is added from\ncontributors every day for five weeks. (Back for its second season, it appears:\nhere’s\na snapshot from last August.[1])
\nThe onion works like so:
\n\n\nJust so you know, onions grow new layers from the inside-out. The oldest\nlayers are on the outside, and the newest on the inside.
\n
In true onion skin style, you can slightly make out the next entry in the background\nof the current entry you’re reading.\nYou can also browse by\ncontributor.
\nThis new site includes the 2020 onion as well - the new season starts at layer\ntwenty-three.
\n+++
\nPart of what really pushed me to posting about this, though, is this amazing\nspreadsheet:
\n\nFrom a blog post where the\nstylesheets are laid out.
\n\n\nThe internet onion is decaying by phases because it has to be, given the basic\nhand-coding HTML and CSS we are using. We could write a script, but we are\nlazy, and there won’t be that many more phases of decay than this, Laurel\nthinks to herself. (Although down the line, Laurel would like to also degrade\nthe content itself and source code, but that will be in Late Decay.)
\n
So this is like the full 90’s web reenactment here.
\nI hope this continues to be a staple of the Web. The bots can’t keep up with\nthe handmade Web. It’s too small - they can’t even BE that small!
\nDirectories aren’t surging. There isn’t this nascent directory movement\nfomenting - ready to take on the world. Directories aren’t\ntrending.[1]
\nBut there is a certainly really sweet little directory community now. From the\nMarijn-inspired stuff listed in Directory Uprising to the link-sharing ‘yesterweb’\ncollected around sadgrl.online - or the originals at\nIndieseek and i.webthings.
\nBarnsworthburning (by Nick Trombley) is a very\nformidable addition to this commuity - a clean, multilayered design and an\ninnovative bidirectional index.
\n+++
\nI know it bills itself as a ‘commonplace book’ or ‘Zettelkasten’ - I like to\nview it through the lens of a personal web directory - simply a collection of\nlinks and knowledge that acts as a portal to other things.
\nTo the author, it’s a box to store things. But to us it’s a way of finding the\nvital pieces of this beautiful disastrous Web - which becomes more beautiful and\nmore disastrous by the day!
\nSome of the entries are links with summaries; other entries are quotes and\nexcerpts from larger articles.[2]
\nOh but what sets BWB apart is this triptych view.
\n\nThe left is an index of tags and creators. The center contains the entries\nbeneath the selected tag or creator. And the right-hand side shows details for\nrelated articles and entries that link back.
\n+++
\nTo use the detail pane, you click on any of the attached excerpts or\nbidirectional links at the bottom of an entry.
\n\nSometimes these excerpts are fragments inside of a larger entry. For example,\nhere ‘Its place in the web of nature’ is linked to ‘crafting repair’ - even\nthough its just attached to ‘A Pattern Language’, the book the thought comes\nfrom.
\n\nThis also gets used to group together metapages - such as the\n(basically) ‘about’\npage.
\nI’ll leave it to you to explore now. I feel like we could see some really\ninteresting riffs on this setup in the future. It’s great.
\nNot so much a musical recommendation here; illuminating another\nweb corner. Seems like I’ve encountered this before, but it bears\nrevisiting.
\nCurrently there are 333 releases from this band right there on the\nhome page. Some are a few minutes long,\nothers are seven years long. A few (like 211 - With Muffled Sound Obliterating\nEverything) are negative in length.[1] Still others have unknown length.
\nOne of the more popular tracks is called n and is 87,708,958,333,333 hours\nand 20 minutes long. There is a ‘simulated’(?) excerpt on\nYouTube which runs closer to 10\nhours. (In accordance with 2010s tradition.)
\n+++
\nA very interesting track, though, is ‘A Lovely\nPear’. Knowing that this kind of\nstuff is in there makes this whole project a lot more than just audio file math.
\n+++
\nI discovered this group while plowing through the recordcollector1972\nwiki - which is another story,\nconveniently linking some recent interests on this blog.
\nRecordcollector1972 is a YouTube channel adjacent to SiIvaGunner. However, instead of\nhigh-quality video game rips, the channel posts high-quality music tracks. These\nare mostly all mashups, but there are some very straightforward rips, such as\nDepeche Mode’s ‘Enjoy the\nSilence’.
\nThe channel departs into strange terrain sometimes with very obscure tracks,\nlike this Nero’s Day at\nDisneyland mashup - never thought\nI’d run across such a thing! Or this New Deluxe\nLife parody.[2]
\nAnd, okay - what’s this?
\n(Also want to mention here, while we’re off on abandoned trails, that\nSiIvaGunner’s recent foray into Aphex Twin / Space Jam / GTA V territory\nis pretty frightening.\nThis will obliterate many college educations.)
\nThis particular track is -47’22". I clicked on it and nothing played. But\nI also might have just finished it. ↩︎
\nWhich is DEFINITELY a\nmusical recommendation that I can make. It kind of cancels out your college\neducation if you haven’t brought it current by listening to this album.\nGood knowledge here. ↩︎
\nMaya gets it. I mean I don’t even know if I get it as much as Maya does. Glad to\nsit back and learn at this point.
\nAfter a year, there’s no need to get high-minded. Maya.land is just fun.
\nBut let’s get high-minded anyway.\nIs maya.land a blog? Is it a wiki? Whatever - it’s hypertext through and\nthrough. There’re regular updates, pages devoted to topics (like the goblin\nmanifesto - which also can be blogged to), and\nresponses to things.[1]
\nI think Maya has a rare formula where aesthetics and wordsmithing get\nbalanced.
\n\n\nIn the same way that one might ask “how would the Book of Kells have looked if\nColumban monks had had access to neon pigments”, I like to use contemporary\nCSS options as my means toward ends that are a little anachronistic.
\n
I think the pigments do work to say other things that we can’t. Or to be us in this\nhypertext world that we can’t easily pierce.
\n+++
\nTo celebrate the inaugural year of maya.land, there is a very precious gift - in the form\nof this carefully annotated blogroll - a very\ngood map of nearby ‘altweb’/‘outerweb’/‘yesterweb’ people!
\n\nI harp on about personal directories THEY ARE SAVING US and this lovely little\ncatalog gives me a serious,\nuhh, shall we say… well it gives me the pringles all over. It’s really amusing\nto me that the 88x31 tiles are making such a come back. I mean we’re really\ngetting quite specific with those dimensions.
\n+++
\nMaya.land is also a kind of touchstone for the current pragmatic Indieweb stuff.\nWebmentions bring in mentions from Twitter and other websites like mine. RSS\nfeeds are still around.[2] Bit of whostyles\nin there. And a lot of posts get crossposted (manually?) to\nLemmy.
\nI think this shows a kind of middle ground of easy-to-reach protocols\nthat should be more achievable to people. It gets you connected to our\nworld of chatter enough that you’re not alone out here - but also gives you\nyour own iceberg to carve.
\nLike an iceberg - this\ncomparison was made in Hypertext 2020 - ‘layers of hypertext that\nbecome progressively more personal, or which become more detailed, or perhaps\neven more (or less) ephemeral as you go through the layers.’ ↩︎
\nMaya: ‘I’m really sick of people complaining that RSS is dead. RSS isn’t\ndead!’ ↩︎
\nNo one had ever given him such an effusive, heartfelt handshake,\nnever had anyone but intimate acquaintances stood so close to him,\nknee to knee, and as a math teacher Herman never did anything to\nencourage such impulses.
\n— p. 38, That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/as-a-math-teacher", "tags": ["garage","novels","quotes","imagery"], "date_published": "2021-07-07T04:19:11.538Z", "date_modified": "2021-07-07T04:19:11.538Z" } , { "id": "9f96f566931d714a88220c8187e743822ce24896", "title": "Taia777 Archive", "summary": "Rebane has checkpointed the checkpoints, after a DMCA takedown by Nintendo.", "content_text": "I recently covered [taia777] (and its 'checkpoints') here - now many of those\nvideos have now been taken down - along with all of the comments. This appears\nto have happened on June 15th.\nCheckpointers have moved to other Stickerbrush\nSymphonies [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdtHHeB6SqA) and\n[here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQx91RR3Y8o). It appears that home for\ncheckpointers is any place that this song calls home.\n\nFortunately the video is now also archived\n[here](https://hobune.stream/videos/bPVohspy054) along with all of the\ncomments.[^1] Jonny RaZeR has also made a very good\n[summary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcdFIMXqpwI) of the history and events\nup to the disappearance of these videos - with a bunch of screenshots taken the\nweek previous.[^2]\n\n+++\n\nRebane - who runs the 'hobune stream' YouTube archive says [on\nReddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/taia777/comments/o1rls6/taia777_videos_and_comments_archive/):\n\n> Hey, I'm an internet archivist and I archived the taia777 channel and also the\n> comments on it. Now that Nintendo has struck down many of the videos, I'm\n> going to share my archives.\n\nThis reminds me of a tweet I recently saw from Robin Sloan:\n\n> I have developed a pretty strong habit of using youtube-dl to grab\n> \"tenuous-feeling\" videos, especially those that qualify as some kind of\n> research, and stashing the files away.\n\nI have a stash too - I'm sure many of you have your own! If anyone out there is\nworking on archival tools or has some pointers, please pass them on. It's a good\ntime for that.\n\n+++\n\nOh also: [this\nplaylist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlaLGkfUmWQ1oqXxbiwwe-HgIKgmgWEHh)\nis an incredibly solid directory in this world - and also happens to be\nSiIvaGunner/Soundclown adjacent. Go get a good education!\n\n[^1]: Replace `/videos` in the URL with `/comments` to see them all. I assume\n Rebane has a good reason to not directly link to that comments page - so I'm\n respecting that here as well.\n\n[^2]: The making of the video happened to coincide with the deletion of 'the\n lost sanctuary' - as the author writes in Discord: 'I was making a video about\n the original stickerbrush video, and as I was finishing the editing process,\n and looking for comments, I discovered that the video was blocked by\n nintendo.'\n\n", "content_html": "I recently covered Taia777 (and its ‘checkpoints’) here - now many of those\nvideos have now been taken down - along with all of the comments. This appears\nto have happened on June 15th.\nCheckpointers have moved to other Stickerbrush\nSymphonies here and\nhere. It appears that home for\ncheckpointers is any place that this song calls home.
\nFortunately the video is now also archived\nhere along with all of the\ncomments.[1] Jonny RaZeR has also made a very good\nsummary of the history and events\nup to the disappearance of these videos - with a bunch of screenshots taken the\nweek previous.[2]
\n+++
\nRebane - who runs the ‘hobune stream’ YouTube archive says on\nReddit:
\n\n\nHey, I’m an internet archivist and I archived the taia777 channel and also the\ncomments on it. Now that Nintendo has struck down many of the videos, I’m\ngoing to share my archives.
\n
This reminds me of a tweet I recently saw from Robin Sloan:
\n\n\nI have developed a pretty strong habit of using youtube-dl to grab\n“tenuous-feeling” videos, especially those that qualify as some kind of\nresearch, and stashing the files away.
\n
I have a stash too - I’m sure many of you have your own! If anyone out there is\nworking on archival tools or has some pointers, please pass them on. It’s a good\ntime for that.
\n+++
\nOh also: this\nplaylist\nis an incredibly solid directory in this world - and also happens to be\nSiIvaGunner/Soundclown adjacent. Go get a good education!
\nReplace /videos
in the URL with /comments
to see them all. I assume\nRebane has a good reason to not directly link to that comments page - so I’m\nrespecting that here as well. ↩︎
The making of the video happened to coincide with the deletion of ‘the\nlost sanctuary’ - as the author writes in Discord: ‘I was making a video about\nthe original stickerbrush video, and as I was finishing the editing process,\nand looking for comments, I discovered that the video was blocked by\nnintendo.’ ↩︎
\nLivestream June the 10th at 2 PM Eastern. An urgent scrapchat with\n@devonzuegel - exploring her recent ‘Field Notes:\nMiami’ and other fine\nhypertexts. Should be a good afternoon. twitch.tv/kickscondor
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/chat-with-devon-z-today", "tags": ["hypertext","psa"], "date_published": "2021-06-15T07:30:02.620Z", "date_modified": "2021-06-15T07:30:02.620Z" } , { "id": "6d55e6ae84c617147c4c862b1cdf74983e02159b", "title": "Sadgrl.online", "summary": "Personal directory through-and-through - got some Neocities pointers for you as well.", "content_text": "Ah so - this is a good rabbithole - go click on it, that's all there is to it.\n\nThis site is truly a throwback to the Original World-Wide Web. A personal home\npage. Pages of links. Tutorials on making your own web page. Lots of little\n88x31 link buttons. You can go here and pretty much experience the Web as it\nwas.\n\nOne of my favorite areas is the [shrines](https://sadgrl.online/shrines/) - a\ncollection of mini-sites dedicated to Sadness' obsessions. These sites are their\nthing: their own designs, their own feel - I assumed they were external links at\nfirst. Yeah, no.\n\n+++\n\nSince the site is on Neocities, there is [a\npage](https://neocities.org/site/sadgrl) cataloguing the recent updates. I've\nbeen using Neocities' RSS feeds - but they are very limited - no indication of\nwhat has changed, just a timestamp.\n\nSo when I visited Unimaginable Heights' [recent\nupdates](https://neocities.org/site/unimaginable-heights) page, I was happy to\nsee that it shows thumbnails that are linked to the pages that have changed.\n\nI've added support for this to Fraidycat, so that you can keep up with updates\nto these sites - just follow the url\n(https://unimaginable-heights.neocities.org/, for example) and it'll show you\na feed of that 'recent updates' page.\n\n![Screenshot of Neocities follow in Fraidycat. ](/images/blog/neocities-fc.png \"Looking nice.\"){ct}\n\nI like this a lot - no need for a blog - just build your home page on Neocities\nand people can have a window into what you're working on day-by-day. Would love\nto see this on mmm.page!\n\n+++\n\nOh also - you can find sadness on [Spacehey](https://blog.spacehey.com/sadness).\n", "content_html": "Ah so - this is a good rabbithole - go click on it, that’s all there is to it.
\nThis site is truly a throwback to the Original World-Wide Web. A personal home\npage. Pages of links. Tutorials on making your own web page. Lots of little\n88x31 link buttons. You can go here and pretty much experience the Web as it\nwas.
\nOne of my favorite areas is the shrines - a\ncollection of mini-sites dedicated to Sadness’ obsessions. These sites are their\nthing: their own designs, their own feel - I assumed they were external links at\nfirst. Yeah, no.
\n+++
\nSince the site is on Neocities, there is a\npage cataloguing the recent updates. I’ve\nbeen using Neocities’ RSS feeds - but they are very limited - no indication of\nwhat has changed, just a timestamp.
\nSo when I visited Unimaginable Heights’ recent\nupdates page, I was happy to\nsee that it shows thumbnails that are linked to the pages that have changed.
\nI’ve added support for this to Fraidycat, so that you can keep up with updates\nto these sites - just follow the url\n(https://unimaginable-heights.neocities.org/, for example) and it’ll show you\na feed of that ‘recent updates’ page.
\n\nI like this a lot - no need for a blog - just build your home page on Neocities\nand people can have a window into what you’re working on day-by-day. Would love\nto see this on mmm.page!
\n+++
\nOh also - you can find sadness on Spacehey.
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/sadgrl.online", "image": "sadgrl.png", "external_url": "https://sadgrl.online/", "tags": ["hypertext"], "date_published": "2021-06-10T00:42:10.649Z", "date_modified": "2021-06-10T00:42:10.649Z" } , { "id": "9adf6bf3270c2dda9920b7397c2d6ff1bdbe48b1", "title": "Vivaldi 4.0 Includes Feed Reader", "summary": "And not as a separate app - but as an integrated part of the browser.\n", "content_text": "I've been using Vivaldi for quite awhile - it's a Chromium-based browser with\nquite a lot of interesting features, such as tab groups, tiling windows, and\ncustomizable sidebars. Their new RSS reader is rather elegant - as it's just\npart of an inbox page that's integrated into the browser - and can act as both\nan e-mail client and a feed reader!\n\nI'll personally continue to use Fraidycat with Vivaldi - because the 'inbox'\nmetaphor doesn't work for the volume of feeds I like to follow - but it's great\nto see a resurgence of support for RSS in recent weeks. (I'm thinking\nparticularly of Chrome for Android's new\n['follow'](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/chromes-rss-powered-follow-button-is-like-a-rebooted-google-reader/)\nbutton.)\n\n![Vivaldi Mail/Reader](/images/blog/vivaldi-mail.png \"Screenshot of Vivaldi\nMail.\"){ct}\n\nYou can access the e-mail/reader pane by visiting `vivaldi://mail/`.\n\n+++\n\nKind of wish you could hook into the RSS 'subscribe' button in extensions - but\nhey at least it's there! The icon shows up in the address bar when feeds are\ndetected - and you can click there to subscribe.\n\nThere's also a preview window to show you the contents of a feed. Nice touch to\nsee if the feed shows the full text of a post.\n\n![Vivaldi RSS Preview](/images/blog/vivaldi-preview.png \"Screenshot of Vivaldi\nRSS Preview.\"){ct}\n\nI think this is one of the better RSS integrations among browsers over the\nyears. Firefox used to have a way of monitoring RSS as a ['live\nbookmark'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu9sDuAZdp4) - which was REALLY\nWEIRD. This was [removed](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/live-bookmarks)\nin 2018.\n", "content_html": "I’ve been using Vivaldi for quite awhile - it’s a Chromium-based browser with\nquite a lot of interesting features, such as tab groups, tiling windows, and\ncustomizable sidebars. Their new RSS reader is rather elegant - as it’s just\npart of an inbox page that’s integrated into the browser - and can act as both\nan e-mail client and a feed reader!
\nI’ll personally continue to use Fraidycat with Vivaldi - because the ‘inbox’\nmetaphor doesn’t work for the volume of feeds I like to follow - but it’s great\nto see a resurgence of support for RSS in recent weeks. (I’m thinking\nparticularly of Chrome for Android’s new\n‘follow’\nbutton.)
\n\nYou can access the e-mail/reader pane by visiting vivaldi://mail/
.
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\nKind of wish you could hook into the RSS ‘subscribe’ button in extensions - but\nhey at least it’s there! The icon shows up in the address bar when feeds are\ndetected - and you can click there to subscribe.
\nThere’s also a preview window to show you the contents of a feed. Nice touch to\nsee if the feed shows the full text of a post.
\n\nI think this is one of the better RSS integrations among browsers over the\nyears. Firefox used to have a way of monitoring RSS as a ‘live\nbookmark’ - which was REALLY\nWEIRD. This was removed\nin 2018.
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/vivaldi-4.0-includes-feed-reader", "image": "vivaldi-rss.png", "external_url": "https://help.vivaldi.com/mail/mail-feeds/feeds/", "tags": ["hypertext"], "date_published": "2021-06-09T22:15:18.895Z", "date_modified": "2021-06-09T22:15:18.895Z" } , { "id": "b33efe23de0c2dd7f895bfe71d3458d665b9ec37", "title": "Somewhat Lozengy and Masculy", "content_text": "'A mascle is a voided lozenge—that is, a lozenge with a lozenge-shaped hole in\nthe middle—and the rarer rustre is a lozenge containing a circular hole. A field\ncovered in a pattern of lozenges is described as lozengy; a similar field of\nmascles is masculy.'\n\n--- Wikipedia article for [Lozenge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lozenge),\n\"Heraldry\"\n", "content_html": "‘A mascle is a voided lozenge—that is, a lozenge with a lozenge-shaped hole in\nthe middle—and the rarer rustre is a lozenge containing a circular hole. A field\ncovered in a pattern of lozenges is described as lozengy; a similar field of\nmascles is masculy.’
\n— Wikipedia article for Lozenge,\n“Heraldry”
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/somewhat-lozengy-and-masculy", "tags": ["garage","quotes"], "date_published": "2021-05-28T04:26:32.869Z", "date_modified": "2021-05-28T04:26:32.869Z" } , { "id": "8b7d08c1f73de1833070e2ae2dc28bee3807ff9a", "title": "Taia777", "summary": "The world of *checkpoints* in the YouTube comments.", "content_text": "Ran across this link in the mmm.page discord last week. I'm\nnot linking to the video part of the page here - to be\nhonest, I haven't watched it yet. The video is not irrelevant\nhere - but there is just a lot going on in the comments.\n\nIn fact, these aren't just comments - but *checkpoints*!\nA new kind of comment where you check in and say how life is\ngoing. That's all there is to it![^1]\n\n+++\n\nThe [Taia777 Sanctuary Discord](https://discord.gg/d97dgtX) describes\ncheckpoints as 'spiritual comments':\n\n> When people listen to the song and see the background of the vines/sky, it\n> invokes a sense of nostalgia and curiosity. It’s hard to explain. It brings\n> you back to a simpler time, when everything was controlled and bliss. But it\n> can also amplify the current state you’re in, causing a complete reevaluation\n> of yourself, and perhaps an epiphany of your existence as well. Many people\n> have found solace in the comment section, as they pour their hearts and souls\n> out to anonymous people on the internet.\n>\n> It’s unknown what the first spiritual\n> comment was, but when the video was first recommended to me around 2017, I\n> recall seeing people question their identity and reality; I had also\n> translated several of the Japanese comments, many of them sending their love\n> to the unknown and those who are lost. Ever since I can remember, the taia777\n> comment section has been filled with love and, for many people, has been a\n> safe space where people can vent with no repercussions. Everyone’s experience\n> with these videos is different, but what’s universal is the utilization of the\n> pathos. Emotions will be involved one way or another.\n\nAn even more popular video is taia777's [\"Corridors of\nTime\"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9XTqQbuavI) video - while there are\nsome *checkpoints* attached to this video, most of it is color commentary on\nthis peculiar subculture.\n\n+++\n\nAlong similar lines (and also brought up in the original discussion on Discord,)\n[this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQnC1UHBvWA) of Porter Robinson &\nMadeon's \"Shelter\". Except that the comments section in this video is dominated\nby a single user (name of JustJeff) posting checkpoints daily!\n\nFrom a few hours ago:\n\n> Day 824: Finished “That time I got reincarnated as a slime” season 2 today.\n> Man I love that anime\n\nSorry, it's not strictly JustJeff. There are a lot of comments that are fake\ncheckpoints, parodies or copycats.\n\nI can't help but feel that the stigma around YouTube comments - once seen as\nthe premiere cesspool of the Internet - has perhaps made them the perfect spot\nfor this kind of natural flowering of humanity. A great balancing has\ntranspired.\n\n[^1]: It actually is so much better than a normal comment.\n\n", "content_html": "Ran across this link in the mmm.page discord last week. I’m\nnot linking to the video part of the page here - to be\nhonest, I haven’t watched it yet. The video is not irrelevant\nhere - but there is just a lot going on in the comments.
\nIn fact, these aren’t just comments - but checkpoints!\nA new kind of comment where you check in and say how life is\ngoing. That’s all there is to it![1]
\n+++
\nThe Taia777 Sanctuary Discord describes\ncheckpoints as ‘spiritual comments’:
\n\n\nWhen people listen to the song and see the background of the vines/sky, it\ninvokes a sense of nostalgia and curiosity. It’s hard to explain. It brings\nyou back to a simpler time, when everything was controlled and bliss. But it\ncan also amplify the current state you’re in, causing a complete reevaluation\nof yourself, and perhaps an epiphany of your existence as well. Many people\nhave found solace in the comment section, as they pour their hearts and souls\nout to anonymous people on the internet.
\nIt’s unknown what the first spiritual\ncomment was, but when the video was first recommended to me around 2017, I\nrecall seeing people question their identity and reality; I had also\ntranslated several of the Japanese comments, many of them sending their love\nto the unknown and those who are lost. Ever since I can remember, the taia777\ncomment section has been filled with love and, for many people, has been a\nsafe space where people can vent with no repercussions. Everyone’s experience\nwith these videos is different, but what’s universal is the utilization of the\npathos. Emotions will be involved one way or another.
\n
An even more popular video is taia777’s “Corridors of\nTime” video - while there are\nsome checkpoints attached to this video, most of it is color commentary on\nthis peculiar subculture.
\n+++
\nAlong similar lines (and also brought up in the original discussion on Discord,)\nthis video of Porter Robinson &\nMadeon’s “Shelter”. Except that the comments section in this video is dominated\nby a single user (name of JustJeff) posting checkpoints daily!
\nFrom a few hours ago:
\n\n\nDay 824: Finished “That time I got reincarnated as a slime” season 2 today.\nMan I love that anime
\n
Sorry, it’s not strictly JustJeff. There are a lot of comments that are fake\ncheckpoints, parodies or copycats.
\nI can’t help but feel that the stigma around YouTube comments - once seen as\nthe premiere cesspool of the Internet - has perhaps made them the perfect spot\nfor this kind of natural flowering of humanity. A great balancing has\ntranspired.
\nIt actually is so much better than a normal comment. ↩︎
\nWeiwei spotted this one some months ago - a tweet showing a responsive website\nbuilder:
\n\n\nXH:
\n
\nI’ve been working on a dead simple way to make websites.Drag-and-drop, free-form, collage-like.
\n\n
Well, today mmm.page is out! So good! Please\nshare your pages in the comments.
\nOver the past few months, I have seen this tool become incredibly polished - and\nhave had some great chats with XH, discussing the\nplans for it. But even today - what a killer tool! Works brilliantly on mobile\ndevices. Easily an heir to the throne of the original Byte page maker.
\n+++
\nDon’t want to speak for XH here, but there has been talk about self-hosting\npages as well.
\n\n\na) definitely want to support the use case of self-hosting. i think the ideal\nworld is… “decentralized” hosting
\nb) at the same time, i want to support ppl who have no technical knowledge. let\nppl put up a website within a minute or two – a presence online.
\n
I asked about how the service will be kept alive, given that so many website\nbuilders end up capitulating to ad revenue and “engagement stuff” - the reply\nwas “I would rather have no service running than one doused with\nadvertisements.”
\nThere is such a community of zazzy web tools coming together lately! Brilliant\nwork, XH.
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/mmm.page", "image": "mmmpage.png", "external_url": "https://mmm.page/", "tags": ["hypertext","personal","web"], "date_published": "2021-05-12T14:39:42.153Z", "date_modified": "2021-05-12T14:39:42.153Z" } , { "id": "50e60a92e99a97dc659b1d2a22941d484317c94d", "title": "Pinboard Walls Up For the Moment", "summary": "Someone's hyperactive spider got loose.", "content_text": "Clearly the radio silence on this one means that perhaps I am the only one who\nis affected here. Many of my personal link-hunting escapades begin on the\nPinboard tag and user pages -- those pages have been closed to the public for\nthe past week, requiring a login to access.[^1]\n\n> [Pinboard](https://twitter.com/Pinboard): User+tag pages will remain limited\n> to logged-in users only because someone is trying to do a distributed crawl of\n> Pinboard at about 40 queries per second. They didn't even buy me dinner first\n\nI asked if this was a permanent change and got a quick reply:\n\n> I don't like it, but right now it's my only defense against heavy distributed\n> crawling.\n\nI'm going to take the phrase 'right now' as an indicator that this is a brief\nmanuevre.\n\n+++\n\nLogins for Pinboard are $22/year - very reasonable - a small fee to pay for the\nwealth of information within. But would be sad to see such a gift to the Web\nforced into a hole. (Especially since we recently saw [some\nactivity](https://twitter.com/delicious/status/1357065549436518400) on twin site\nDelicious, after nearly ten years in a hole of its own.)\n\nAt the same time, I'm surprised there are no Pinboard-like sites in [the\nFediverse](https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous). There are 'link-sharing'\nsites, but they're all more like Reddit.\n\n[^1]: Happily, the RSS feeds are still up. (Sssssh! Let's not jinx it!)\n Sample URL: https://feeds.pinboard.in/rss/t:chiptune\n", "content_html": "Clearly the radio silence on this one means that perhaps I am the only one who\nis affected here. Many of my personal link-hunting escapades begin on the\nPinboard tag and user pages – those pages have been closed to the public for\nthe past week, requiring a login to access.[1]
\n\n\nPinboard: User+tag pages will remain limited\nto logged-in users only because someone is trying to do a distributed crawl of\nPinboard at about 40 queries per second. They didn’t even buy me dinner first
\n
I asked if this was a permanent change and got a quick reply:
\n\n\nI don’t like it, but right now it’s my only defense against heavy distributed\ncrawling.
\n
I’m going to take the phrase ‘right now’ as an indicator that this is a brief\nmanuevre.
\n+++
\nLogins for Pinboard are $22/year - very reasonable - a small fee to pay for the\nwealth of information within. But would be sad to see such a gift to the Web\nforced into a hole. (Especially since we recently saw some\nactivity on twin site\nDelicious, after nearly ten years in a hole of its own.)
\nAt the same time, I’m surprised there are no Pinboard-like sites in the\nFediverse. There are ‘link-sharing’\nsites, but they’re all more like Reddit.
\nHappily, the RSS feeds are still up. (Sssssh! Let’s not jinx it!)\nSample URL: https://feeds.pinboard.in/rss/t:chiptune ↩︎
\nAyyy!!! Frantic ayyyy!!! CURIOS IS BACK. Previously a regular feature of\nImperica zine - which sadly disbanded a year or so ago. But I’m glad to see\nCurios return on its own website.
\nInitially this will save us a lot of time because we won’t have to surf the Web\nourselves any more. However, we now have to surf each episode of Web Curios -\nstart yer scrolllllling.
\n\n\nImperica sadly folded, but thanks to the able assistance of Shardcore\n(website and spaffwrangling), Ant (design) and Kris (email gubbins) all the\nWeb Curios from the past have been retrieved and resurrected, and the whole\nhorrible, overlong, emotionally-traumatic, faintly-exhausting rigmarole can\nbegin anew – I can only imagine the look of excited expectation (that’s what\nthat is, right?) thats spreading across your chops as you read this.
\n
(Oh - incidentally, if you want to follow with RSS, here’s a super seekrit\nlink for\nyou…) Nvm - REAL FEED:\nwebcurios.co.uk/feed/. (thank ya krisu - in\ncomments below.)
It’s possible that you’re reading this thinking, “Okayyyy, uh Kicks? You can dig up\nrare TiddlyWikis and out-of-the-way neo-cities, but you’re just discovering\nSiIvaGunner??” Hey, I’m sorry! I don’t know who is reading this or what anyone\nknows or what’s IMPORTANT OKKKK!!
\nLet me start by saying that I’ve been asking around in kid circles - and it’s\nnot unlikely that they know SiIvaGunner. HOWEVER. They don’t really know\nSiIvaGunner - they often have just heard the video game soundtrack “rips” -\nhigh quality rips - posted to the YouTube channel. And they uncritically\naccept them - videos such as “Horse Race (Extended Mix) - The Legend of Zelda:\nOcarina of Time” - as nothing more\nthan high quality rips.
\nOf course, if you happen to continue down the SiIvaGunner storyline - which is\neasy to do, since a dozen new videos might appear each day - you can end up at\nvideos like: “Main Theme (Anniversary Edition) - Wii Shop\nChannel” or “Title Theme &\nEnding - 7 GRAND DAD”. A “rip” can\nbe a mashup, a remix, a medley, mixed-up sentences - stuff like\nthat.
\nOf course, the channel has fought through several takedowns over the past six\nyears - since it purports to be unironically infringing copyright and distributing\nunedited tracks.[1] (A cover story which plays into its “fake out” strategy.)
\n+++
\nAnyway, SiIvaGunner isn’t a single person. There are about 300 active\ncontributors - more\nthan 900 people having contributed to the catalog.
\nSo this is obviously a deep well to try to dive into with a massive Discord\nchannel and wiki and network of YouTube and Twitter accounts, regular\nlivestreams and ARG events. I think my\nfavorite place to point people is the\nGilvaSunner Bandcamp page, which regularly\nreleases new compilations assembled by the collective.
\nThere is a wider “high quality rips” scene - like\nCrystalForce is a great example I\nrecently stumbled into.
\nIf you’re interested in more backstory, look for interviews with Chaze the Chat.
\nThe wiki also says for “misleading content”. It’s a rough time for\nfiction. ↩︎
\nFound this off the creator’s website: anemon.es. Which is\nalso good fun - click on “my old site zzz” as well - good stuff in there too.
\nBut back to e-worm club. It’s basically just a shared directory of files. Some\nof them are doing twtxt.txt[1] - but many of the pages are\n.gmi
files?? Anyway, just click around on names and files and you’ll find\nhidden blogs.
Wish more people got to build the little out-of-the-way community that they want\nto build. This is custom!
\n+++
\nThis is unrelated sorta - but I didn’t share it at the time, so I’m going to\ntack it on here as well. One person I met on special.fish some months ago is\nmikael.
\nBut mikael’s pinboard is the place you want to\ngo. A lot of great links. Furthermore, the\nhomepages tag of mikael’s is\nfii-urrr. Ugg saying it like that doesn’t help. How do I express enthusiasm\nhere suitably? It’s good. It’s very good.
\nWhich also is a fun website - to just visit domains that are in the listing. ↩︎
\nThis fantastic art tool is going right into my href.cool\nWeb/Participate collection! Made by Shannon\nLin - equally fascinating website at\nhello-shannon.com - what a sensation to use the\nfill tool to pour lollipops and little external hard drive icons into circles\nand squiggle shapes. I’ve recently had some fun with\nMacPaint - and this\nstirs up all the same freewheeling spraycan feelings!
\nMy poor rendition of Toulouse-Lautrec is\nhere\nno here - for some reason the link isn’t working, might be\ntoo big of an image.
Kind of a cool facet that the images show up differently on the different\nplatforms.
\n\n\n@s_han_non_lin:
\n
\nmobile support has been solved!! thanks @bwasti – the animated emojis are\nstill coming … please do hold your breath n stay tuned
Links to canvases can get huge - but glad it’s all there in the query string.\nKeep a URL shortener close.
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/emojraw", "image": "emojraw.png", "external_url": "https://emojraw.glitch.me", "tags": ["garage","hypertext","web"], "date_published": "2021-03-24T04:46:31.723Z", "date_modified": "2021-03-24T04:46:31.723Z" } , { "id": "a41b798e03f1561a3816476c648dc793125ef74c", "title": "Herb Quine Interviews Herb Quine", "summary": "The beginning of a new series where readers thoroughly interview themselves.", "content_text": "Some time ago, I had a reader send me a very curious e-mail. It was an interview\nthat they had conducted. In fact, they had interviewed themself!\n\nAt first, this was very puzzling.[^1] But, on some reflection, I realized what a\ngift this was! I don't like my part of the interview very well anyway. This is\nthe answer!\n\n::: q\n\nAlso I can't stress to you enough - **THIS IS NOT FICTIONAL OR SOME KIND OF HOAX.**\nThis is actually an e-mail I received of someone interviewing themselves. Feel\nfree to contribute your own if you want to. I am beyond serious. I'm in some\nkind of state of eigenseriousness that goes by the street name of CAVE. AGED.\nCHEDDAR.\n\n:::\n\n::: q\n\n\\> Herb Quine enters the digichat.\n\n:::\n\n::: q\n\n**Herb Quine:**\nYou are invited to a house boat party at Ted Nelson's place. What do you bring?\n\n:::\n\n::: a\n\n**Herb Quine:**\nA dozen balloons and a first edition of \"Lagos During The 80s - The Birth Of\nCompetitive Knitting In An Era Of Overinsurance\" by Lula Drury. Also, a pet\nhamster in case Werner Herzog shows up.\n\n:::\n\n::: q\n\n**Herb Quine:**\nSpeaking of Werner Herzog, name at least one film missing in his filmography and\nhow to fix this grave mistake with the help of a voucher for 53 free time\nmachines minutes to be used for a single travel to a time before October 1995.\n\n::: \n\n::: a\n\n**Herb Quine:**\nEasy, the film in question would be the missing biopic of Mike Tyson focusing on\nhis time as a scholar of Medieval Media Studies in the field of Carolingian\nReality TV, played by Bruno Schleinstein and filmed entirely in Yiddish. How to\nuse the time machine should be obvious enough.\n\n:::\n\n::: q\n\n**Herb Quine:**\nMore seriously now, why a pet hamster?\n\n:::\n\n::: a\n\n**Herb Quine:**\nPet hamsters are the closest thing to miniature grizzly bears, a fact which is\nof course entirely unrelated to their remarkable characteristics as party\nanimals (the hamsters, not the bears, though they might qualify, too...). The\npurpose of the hamster at Ted's party is thus twofold: In the unlikely event\nthat a discussion of Xanadu's future turns into an attempt to establish the\nSeasteading Republic Of Hypertext, someone needs to keep the engines chugging\nalong. And secondly, you need a fluent German speaker to reminisce about Wagner\nwith Werner (coincidentally also the title of the longest running radio show in\nNigeria's Yiddish enclave).\n\n:::\n\n+++ background:url(/images/blog/quine2.gif)\n\n::: q\n\n**Herb Quine:**\nYou walk down to the shore to buy a new edition of \"Learning Perl\", as you do\nevery Thursday. But when you reach the ice cube factory, you suddenly realize\nthat Unicode is pointless. Sure, you can play quite a few nice little language\ngames with all these emojis they keep adding, but the burrow only goes so far.\nAnd then you hit the parking lot of the Consortium's reserved committee parking\nspaces and tumble head first onto the seat of a convertible. Which makes sense,\nI guess, until you realize that the wonderful weather of the bay area is no\nbueno for rhizomes and others of their ilk. They need constant watering, don't\nthey?\n\n:::\n\n::: a\n\n**Herb Quine:**\nSorry, was there a question?\n\n:::\n\n::: q\n\n**Herb Quine:**\nYeah, all right, enough with the rambling. Let's get down to business. What's\nyour affiliation with the FBI and are you or have you ever been an agent engaged\nin any work of endeavor related to printables, convertibles, mazes or any\ncombination thereof?\n\n:::\n\n::: a\n\n**Herb Quine:**\nI can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the information sought. Also,\nclassical logic is overrated and all these lying Cretan hipsters are not nearly\nas interesting as they think. If you ask me, and you just did, they are just\nlazy bums who came up with this lying-business as an excuse to get out of the\nreal work of building tremendously beautiful walls like real Cretans do. These\nkids nowadays, let me tell you...\n\n:::\n\n::: q\n\n**Herb Quine:**\nDat / Hypercore / Beaker sure look very interesting, but aren't they a technical\nsolution to a problem of the medium? One great aspect of Fraidycat is that it\ndoesn't care how established or indie your chosen medium is, in a way it feels\nas if Fraidycat is rerouting and connecting existing media to extend and create\nnew media. It doesn't care if you're Kylie Jenner or Ted Nelson, it doesn't\n(much) care about the underlying technology, because it changes the topology of\nthe existing pieces while not denying that centralized sub-parts of the network\nstill exist. Is a more foundational project like Dat / Hypercore / Beaker\northogonal to that idea?\n\n:::\n\n+++ background:url(/images/blog/quine.png)\n\n::: a\n\n**Herb Quine:**\nI know I'm mostly answering rhetorical questions at this point, but this is one\nthat I'm really not sure how to answer. I do love the spirit of Dat / Hypercore\n/ Beaker, I am just a bit suspicious of any attempts to revive the good parts of\nthe personal web without paying attention to why it became less important as a\nmedium (the non-app-web, that is), because I would be hesitant to point to\ntechnical reasons. To me, IPFS and SSB in particular often look like solutions\nthat fix all the underlying tech in a very admirable way, without really\nchanging the medium that they are producing or favoring. A decentralized\nFacebook will still result in a medium very much like Facebook, just at a\ndisadvantage because the technical forces can never be fully aligned with the\nforces of the medium.[^2] I do think that Dat / Hypercore / Beaker are not as\nsusceptible in this regard and I really hope that they do not end up emulating\nexisting media too much. But really, I don't know, what do you think?\n\n:::\n\n::: q\n\n**Herb Quine:**\nIs the treasure hunt over? What are we supposed to do now? Wait for National\nTreasure III? IS THIS REALLY IT? What about CGI Youngface and all the hard shell\nkayaks that are still lying around in undiscovered places on the globe? What\nabout annie dark?\n\n:::\n\n+++ background:url(/images/blog/quine.jpg)\n\n::: a\n\n**Herb Quine:**\nYeah, I don't think I'm equipped to answer this one. But damn, it was an amazing\nride so far.\n\n:::\n\n[^1]: In an attempt to shed some light on what is going on here, this \n person DOES preface the interview with a note to me which reads: \"I am\n writing you this electronic letter to defuse the somewhat bizarre situation of\n having sent you an unsolicited printable maze that perhaps put you in an\n awkward position. After all, how are you supposed to react to such a strange\n and perhaps unexpected offering from a stranger on the internet? Well, since\n the printable maze in question has already escaped into the tubular ether,\n there is no going back and we might as well get to know each other a little\n better, what do you say?\" (That other e-mail is reprinted in\n [a-verbal-history-of-the-infinitely-printable-maze], for completeness' sake.)\n\n[^2]: Fine, fine, I'll cut in here. Can't you lot just interview yourselves and\n gotdamn leave me out of it??Some time ago, I had a reader send me a very curious e-mail. It was an interview\nthat they had conducted. In fact, they had interviewed themself!
\nAt first, this was very puzzling.[1] But, on some reflection, I realized what a\ngift this was! I don’t like my part of the interview very well anyway. This is\nthe answer!
\nAlso I can’t stress to you enough - THIS IS NOT FICTIONAL OR SOME KIND OF HOAX.\nThis is actually an e-mail I received of someone interviewing themselves. Feel\nfree to contribute your own if you want to. I am beyond serious. I’m in some\nkind of state of eigenseriousness that goes by the street name of CAVE. AGED.\nCHEDDAR.
\n> Herb Quine enters the digichat.
\nHerb Quine:\nYou are invited to a house boat party at Ted Nelson’s place. What do you bring?
\nHerb Quine:\nA dozen balloons and a first edition of “Lagos During The 80s - The Birth Of\nCompetitive Knitting In An Era Of Overinsurance” by Lula Drury. Also, a pet\nhamster in case Werner Herzog shows up.
\nHerb Quine:\nSpeaking of Werner Herzog, name at least one film missing in his filmography and\nhow to fix this grave mistake with the help of a voucher for 53 free time\nmachines minutes to be used for a single travel to a time before October 1995.
\nHerb Quine:\nEasy, the film in question would be the missing biopic of Mike Tyson focusing on\nhis time as a scholar of Medieval Media Studies in the field of Carolingian\nReality TV, played by Bruno Schleinstein and filmed entirely in Yiddish. How to\nuse the time machine should be obvious enough.
\nHerb Quine:\nMore seriously now, why a pet hamster?
\nHerb Quine:\nPet hamsters are the closest thing to miniature grizzly bears, a fact which is\nof course entirely unrelated to their remarkable characteristics as party\nanimals (the hamsters, not the bears, though they might qualify, too…). The\npurpose of the hamster at Ted’s party is thus twofold: In the unlikely event\nthat a discussion of Xanadu’s future turns into an attempt to establish the\nSeasteading Republic Of Hypertext, someone needs to keep the engines chugging\nalong. And secondly, you need a fluent German speaker to reminisce about Wagner\nwith Werner (coincidentally also the title of the longest running radio show in\nNigeria’s Yiddish enclave).
\n+++ background:url(/images/blog/quine2.gif)
\nHerb Quine:\nYou walk down to the shore to buy a new edition of “Learning Perl”, as you do\nevery Thursday. But when you reach the ice cube factory, you suddenly realize\nthat Unicode is pointless. Sure, you can play quite a few nice little language\ngames with all these emojis they keep adding, but the burrow only goes so far.\nAnd then you hit the parking lot of the Consortium’s reserved committee parking\nspaces and tumble head first onto the seat of a convertible. Which makes sense,\nI guess, until you realize that the wonderful weather of the bay area is no\nbueno for rhizomes and others of their ilk. They need constant watering, don’t\nthey?
\nHerb Quine:\nSorry, was there a question?
\nHerb Quine:\nYeah, all right, enough with the rambling. Let’s get down to business. What’s\nyour affiliation with the FBI and are you or have you ever been an agent engaged\nin any work of endeavor related to printables, convertibles, mazes or any\ncombination thereof?
\nHerb Quine:\nI can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the information sought. Also,\nclassical logic is overrated and all these lying Cretan hipsters are not nearly\nas interesting as they think. If you ask me, and you just did, they are just\nlazy bums who came up with this lying-business as an excuse to get out of the\nreal work of building tremendously beautiful walls like real Cretans do. These\nkids nowadays, let me tell you…
\nHerb Quine:\nDat / Hypercore / Beaker sure look very interesting, but aren’t they a technical\nsolution to a problem of the medium? One great aspect of Fraidycat is that it\ndoesn’t care how established or indie your chosen medium is, in a way it feels\nas if Fraidycat is rerouting and connecting existing media to extend and create\nnew media. It doesn’t care if you’re Kylie Jenner or Ted Nelson, it doesn’t\n(much) care about the underlying technology, because it changes the topology of\nthe existing pieces while not denying that centralized sub-parts of the network\nstill exist. Is a more foundational project like Dat / Hypercore / Beaker\northogonal to that idea?
\n+++ background:url(/images/blog/quine.png)
\nHerb Quine:\nI know I’m mostly answering rhetorical questions at this point, but this is one\nthat I’m really not sure how to answer. I do love the spirit of Dat / Hypercore\n/ Beaker, I am just a bit suspicious of any attempts to revive the good parts of\nthe personal web without paying attention to why it became less important as a\nmedium (the non-app-web, that is), because I would be hesitant to point to\ntechnical reasons. To me, IPFS and SSB in particular often look like solutions\nthat fix all the underlying tech in a very admirable way, without really\nchanging the medium that they are producing or favoring. A decentralized\nFacebook will still result in a medium very much like Facebook, just at a\ndisadvantage because the technical forces can never be fully aligned with the\nforces of the medium.[2] I do think that Dat / Hypercore / Beaker are not as\nsusceptible in this regard and I really hope that they do not end up emulating\nexisting media too much. But really, I don’t know, what do you think?
\nHerb Quine:\nIs the treasure hunt over? What are we supposed to do now? Wait for National\nTreasure III? IS THIS REALLY IT? What about CGI Youngface and all the hard shell\nkayaks that are still lying around in undiscovered places on the globe? What\nabout annie dark?
\n+++ background:url(/images/blog/quine.jpg)
\nHerb Quine:\nYeah, I don’t think I’m equipped to answer this one. But damn, it was an amazing\nride so far.
\nIn an attempt to shed some light on what is going on here, this\nperson DOES preface the interview with a note to me which reads: “I am\nwriting you this electronic letter to defuse the somewhat bizarre situation of\nhaving sent you an unsolicited printable maze that perhaps put you in an\nawkward position. After all, how are you supposed to react to such a strange\nand perhaps unexpected offering from a stranger on the internet? Well, since\nthe printable maze in question has already escaped into the tubular ether,\nthere is no going back and we might as well get to know each other a little\nbetter, what do you say?” (That other e-mail is reprinted in\nA Verbal History of the Infinitely Printable Maze, for completeness’ sake.) ↩︎
\nFine, fine, I’ll cut in here. Can’t you lot just interview yourselves and\ngotdamn leave me out of it??
I feel what you saying so acutely - making\na distributed web is actually a minor change on the surface - who would\nnotice? (And I’m levels down: not a zealot - I just think it’s fun.)\nBut I think there are cascading effects. When the app and the data and\nthe whole thing is on Facebook’s servers, that has implications. And when the\napp and the data and the whole are on home computers, that has\nimplications.
For me, Beaker DOES pay attention to the original good\npart: view source. It brings view source to the modern ‘ye-app-web’ relevant\npart you speak of. That’s all. ↩︎
I don’t imagine this meme has had longevity outside my personal skeleton - it’s\nbeen three years now. I put this meme on my best of 2010s\nlist and thought I was done with it. But I just keep\ncoming back to it via stuff like\nthis.[1]
\nThis vid is a collection of my favorite set of a certain subset of Bitconnect\nmeme vids: the “…but it’s Bitconnect” vids. (X-Files but it’s Bitconnect,\nUniversal Studios but it’s Bitconnect,…) I already loved the sensations I\nwas feeling in other Bitconnect videos - uncovering a whole subgenre within the\nwider Carlos Matos movement was quite thrilling!
\n+++
\nHowever, I think this video is very useful.
\nI am doing really good on this post for once.
\nI’m basically a Bilbo, content to stay at this corner of Bag End, being a\nlayabout, munching wiki squares and playing all of Soundcloud chronologically\nin the background. (They were right about this ‘cozy\nweb’ thing!)
\nNow glitchyowl has snatched my coat collar and dragged\nme into the woods on adventures. My pipe is still spinning in the air.
\n\n\nThis is the tale of purple desert designs, silent HTML livestreams, MacPaint\ntoolbars, Mario Kart-inspired JavaScript and disgustingly gaudy drop shadows.
\n
We’re starting to draw the curtain on Multiverse - our combination of a new\n‘blog’/‘wiki’ aesthetic, paired with some Indieweb sprinkles.
\n+++
\nAlso - we’re doing this diary at Futureland, which is\nreally great. If you’re looking for a (somewhat minimalist) hideaway to blog\nat - but with much more style that the pastebins and a nice community - give it\na go.
\nOf course there’s not the autonomy of a self-hosted customized TiddlyWiki or\nNeocities site - but it’s a community. Think of it as a replacement for the\nold message boards.
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/the-multiverse-diary", "image": "mvpc.png", "external_url": "https://futureland.tv/glitchyowl/multiverse-diary/", "tags": ["hypertext","catalog","chain","whostyle"], "date_published": "2021-02-09T18:09:34.772Z", "date_modified": "2021-02-09T18:09:34.772Z" } , { "id": "8341b381d81b6ef77f32c4b0deaa5ead6766d609", "title": "IPFS", "content_text": "Now in the interplanetary file system. [ipns://kickscondor.com/](ipns://kickscondor.com/)\n\nAlso distributed as shitstore.zip on eDonkey.\n", "content_html": "Now in the interplanetary file system. ipns://kickscondor.com/
\nAlso distributed as shitstore.zip on eDonkey.
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/ipfs", "tags": ["hypertext","psa","redecentral"], "date_published": "2021-01-23T17:34:02.216Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-23T17:34:02.216Z" } , { "id": "1eeb07a1d22ac1c251e95fa9d4e1a8f619a02656", "title": "Squiddo's Podcasts", "summary": "Anything can happen.", "content_text": "Episode one of this podcast is a rereading of the 'Cars 1' movie script. Episode\ntwo is Squiddo and sister explaining every character in the Danganronpa\nuniverse. (Doesn't matter if you know anything about that - 1. they will teach\nyou from the ground up and 2. they mostly talk about restaraunts.)\n\nMost of the time you can't hear what's being said bc the mic is too far away.\nThis is a recently discovered podcast recording technique that is the FINAL\ndiscovery unlocked in our planet's World Technology story line.\nSquiddo is 'known' for the [Secret Memes\nVault](https://soundcloud.com/user-475682973-977298220/sets/secret-memes-vault-best-of-1)\nplaylist.[^1]\n\n+++\n\nSo yes this kind of podcast is like something you'd find on a cassette tape\nat a thrift shop. That these recordings are now available to the general public\nis a boon and an artifact. The world thanks me for finding the courage to\nunearth these.\n\nIt's my honor to link to something this lowbrow. No one else offer this kind of\ncomprehensive package.\n\n[^1]: Insofar as it is possible for one to be known for their playlists.\n", "content_html": "Episode one of this podcast is a rereading of the ‘Cars 1’ movie script. Episode\ntwo is Squiddo and sister explaining every character in the Danganronpa\nuniverse. (Doesn’t matter if you know anything about that - 1. they will teach\nyou from the ground up and 2. they mostly talk about restaraunts.)
\nMost of the time you can’t hear what’s being said bc the mic is too far away.\nThis is a recently discovered podcast recording technique that is the FINAL\ndiscovery unlocked in our planet’s World Technology story line.\nSquiddo is ‘known’ for the Secret Memes\nVault\nplaylist.[1]
\n+++
\nSo yes this kind of podcast is like something you’d find on a cassette tape\nat a thrift shop. That these recordings are now available to the general public\nis a boon and an artifact. The world thanks me for finding the courage to\nunearth these.
\nIt’s my honor to link to something this lowbrow. No one else offer this kind of\ncomprehensive package.
\nInsofar as it is possible for one to be known for their playlists. ↩︎
\nI originally first stumbled across Dioramas by way of Elisabeth’s other photo\nblog Abject Sublime. I can recommend all of it. And\nmore links to other designs and essays at this\nwebsite.
\nOf all of it, so far I really get into Dioramas the most. Elisabeth does some\nclever things with GIFs - but the full-window experiments at Dioramas are\nbeautiful and thought-provoking. It reminds me of early hypertext experiments,\nin the best way.
\n+++
\nSome are GIF landscapes with a halftone touch.\nOthers are caught in a wave. Sometimes you\nare reading fragments over a feather flitting\nover the hand.
\nPretty neat. See what you find.
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/dioramas.space", "image": "dioramas.png", "external_url": "https://dioramas.space/", "tags": ["hypertext"], "date_published": "2021-01-16T00:10:09.293Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-16T00:10:09.293Z" } , { "id": "47fde57d3e2c98c3bc8d716ac2d61198d371e67a", "title": "dvision", "content_text": "mix from the new years chat D:\VISIONmix from the new years chat D:\VISION
\nsoundcloud.com/kickscondor/dvision
Here we go: more surprising news in the personal directory front. Who woulda\nthought. Perfect tiny directories - you all are always asking me about this.
\nTray[1] is much like other link page / one-page tools (linktree, carrd, about.me)\nwhich lets add you add links and notes to build a rudimentary web page.\nBut it adds a key element: subpages. When you add a subpage, it is linked\nfrom the page you added it to. And you can add more inside that new page.
\n\nSo we’re looking at kind of barebones wiki here. Ingenious.
\nThis also feels more freeform and ‘fresh’/‘clean’ than those others.
\n+++
\nFrom @bgdotjpg:
\n\n\ni’m just a normal person, who doesn’t want to write a blog or start a\nnewsletter.
\n
I think this is one of the things that killed blogging - you basically had to be\nan essayist to do it. (In the perceptions of Internet travellers.) So people\njumped ship for these other mediums that weren’t so exhausting.
\n\n\ni’ve tried a lot of site builders. none of them have felt quite right. i don’t\nwant a splashy, highly customized landing page. i’m not an influencer.
\ni’ve got some cool links though, and some half-formed ideas.
\n
This vibe was actually a big part of the olden Web - all the Geocities pages\nwere like this - a smattering of links, a gif collection, some construction cones.\n“Hi, this is my page!” And I like to see this mood live on.
\n+++
\nRelated tweet from\n@valstals:
\n\n\ni swear neocities is getting really good
\n
Oh, please note: I had some trouble with tray and Chrome. Give Safari\na go. Works well on iOS as well. ↩︎
\nSpotted this mixtape on Gossip’s Web: not just an mp3\nentitled “A Walk to Remember”, but a really cool page of floating paper wads,\napparently done for a Secret Santa exchange.
\nIt’s a good feeling, examining the paper scraps and wondering who is behind\nthem.
\n\n\nsomething fun to say in German is
\n
\nnebeneinander
\nwhich means : next to eachother / sidebyside
You can find a number of similar uses of Glitch on Gossip’s Web.
\n+++
\nOn the New Year’s Scrappychat (pdf),\ntinyfluff mentioned wanting to use Glitch for other things:
\n\n\nI desire a nice glitch friendly indieweb blog that supports all the nonsense\nlike webmentions that anyone can start up as easily as a tumblr, so we can get\nback to a nice place where people had feeds that were just stuff they follow,\nand people could make stuff accessible to those feedreads very easily, instead\nof this weird nightmare zone of trying to scrape instagram or whatever.\ninstagram-private-api is pretty nice but I shouldn’t have to emulate a chinese\nandroid phone to be able to include content from my friends in my feeds
\n
I think a good start is just to see people continue to use Glitch and Neocities\nfor whatever ideas pop into their heads! It’s the tultywits thing. Webmentions\nand feeds are nice - but they don’t fill with amazing things on their own.
\nI mean: is there a way to do this right now without needing to build something\nelaborate? Like…
\nThat tag could then act as the ‘feed’ for your pages. (Or even for a group\nof people sharing their pages.)
\nAnd webmention.io has feeds for incoming messages you get.
\n+++
\nI don’t disagree with tinyfluff’s wish at all. But I think that understanding\nhow to cobble together your own little thing - like above - could both help someone\nput together a tool - and would help anyone wanting to dabble with hypertext\nin this way.
\nI also think Gossip’s Web is showing that you may not need a feed for\neverything. If you can submit to a little directory, then you have a doorway to\nothers as well.
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/to:-shea", "image": "wad.png", "external_url": "https://shea.glitch.me", "tags": ["hypertext"], "date_published": "2021-01-04T19:12:08.772Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-04T19:12:08.772Z" } , { "id": "87a0928c62fb22419ad1fb3dbba024c0ec65a26a", "title": "New Years Scrapchat", "content_text": "SPECIAL GREENLAND NEW YEAR SCRAPCHATTING. 9 PM EST on Dec 31st. Weiwei Hsu will be\njoining us from the year 2021. Peep into the future. We will countdown to\nGreenlandic midnight, calling on its restorative powers.\n[twitch.tv/kickscondor](https://twitch.tv/kickscondor)\n", "content_html": "SPECIAL GREENLAND NEW YEAR SCRAPCHATTING. 9 PM EST on Dec 31st. Weiwei Hsu will be\njoining us from the year 2021. Peep into the future. We will countdown to\nGreenlandic midnight, calling on its restorative powers.\ntwitch.tv/kickscondor
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/new-years-scrapchat", "image": "scrapchat1.png", "tags": ["hypertext","psa"], "date_published": "2020-12-28T22:17:41.143Z", "date_modified": "2020-12-28T22:17:41.143Z" } , { "id": "69ddb2d0994ba85e8ceec6e5b6b58abb99408707", "title": "Meat Computer", "summary": "You don't have to like this bc I already do.", "content_text": "One thing I love about Meat Computer - every single song has the same \"I like\nthis new generation of music\" sample. :laughing: But really - this is just the\nsame thing I am always posting - very slapshod, goofy and overlooked little\nbits of whatever.\n\n> these fangsOne thing I love about Meat Computer - every single song has the same “I like\nthis new generation of music” sample. But really - this is just the\nsame thing I am always posting - very slapshod, goofy and overlooked little\nbits of whatever.
\n\n\nthese fangs
\n
\nr 4 u
\nonlydeath threats
\n
\n@ my head
\njus 4 bein me
\nsuper creatine
\nya
\nfck my chrons diseasedrinking kratom
\n
\nlike it’s fucking lean
\nnow im sleepin
\nin my mommas jeans
Of course, you can barely make any of this out, because the vocals are so\nperfectly rushed and faint in the far upper reach of falsetto octaves.
\n+++
\nSoundcloud page is here. Another great\ntrack is ‘nowhere fast’.
\nI don’t know what covid has done to turn this all into a music blog… but I\nswear that there are a variety of interesting things coming up once I get my act\ntogether. Pray that these HTMLs will manifest themselves to us.
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/meat-computer", "external_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTjUfddbTrQ", "tags": ["garage","music"], "date_published": "2020-12-11T19:49:24.196Z", "date_modified": "2020-12-11T19:49:24.196Z" } , { "id": "d5e9852b7521bca8c6b4431539f095e25d41a9a6", "title": "CSIDES", "content_text": "C:\\SIDES (from the 1st scrapchat)\n[soundcloud.com/kickscondor/csides](https://soundcloud.com/kickscondor/csides)\n", "content_html": "C:\\SIDES (from the 1st scrapchat)\nsoundcloud.com/kickscondor/csides
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/csides", "tags": ["garage","csides"], "date_published": "2020-12-02T19:23:18.564Z", "date_modified": "2020-12-02T19:23:18.564Z" } , { "id": "ecb7a4cc1eb1110b341bd958b0ec27cce5dcc592", "title": "THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE", "summary": "Is this stunning human / computer musical collaboration really as unknown as it appears to be???", "content_text": "I am having a very hard time believing that these albums (by human Eryk Salvaggio\nand computer counterpart Francois Harddisk) have been overlooked. But it's the\nsame story week after week - who can find anything in the mess of the Internet\nanymore - with absolutely abyssmal search engines and recommendation engines\ngetting in the way.[^1]\n\nOh and I daresay - the above link is a very thorough, very juicy tracklist.doc\nof how the creative effort was seeded.\n\n> I asked Jukebox to produce new samples from libraries that created music in\n> the style of Francois Hardy, but in the genre of Experimental Hip-Hop, which\n> from what I can tell means a music model trained on Death Grips records. I\n> took these generated pieces (which were maxed out at 1:20 seconds long), cut\n> them up and reassembled them - the same way old records might be sampled for\n> any other hip-hop record. This would form the basis of a handful of these\n> tracks, though in some cases the generated samples were removed from the final\n> product after serving as stems from which the rest of the song would be built.\n\nBut this goes even further beyond that! Lyrics are generated by tools such as\nGPT-2, then fed through a speech synthesizer to produce the singing. The\n[\"Oligarchic Ganglions\"](https://vimeo.com/440293085) vid also has a neat bit of\n\"deep fake\" ancient history to it.[^2]\n\n+++\n\nThis is also reminiscent of Robin Sloan's recent [Brian, the Angel of History\nEP](https://robinsloan.bandcamp.com/album/brian-the-angel-of-history-ep). (Also\nvery good imho!)\n\n+++\n\nNow, please, if you link to THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - and, you can't see it,\nbut I am shamelessly *begging* you to do just that - do not link to my flimsy\npost here, but link straight to the original essay. No one should be an extra\nclick removed from such a wonder.\n\n[^1]: I only found this by listening to song after song on random Soundcloud\n playlists. The musical equivalent to a link dump.\n\n[^2]: Like I said - impressive! To think that this could languish in obscurity\n is heartbreaking...\n", "content_html": "I am having a very hard time believing that these albums (by human Eryk Salvaggio\nand computer counterpart Francois Harddisk) have been overlooked. But it’s the\nsame story week after week - who can find anything in the mess of the Internet\nanymore - with absolutely abyssmal search engines and recommendation engines\ngetting in the way.[1]
\nOh and I daresay - the above link is a very thorough, very juicy tracklist.doc\nof how the creative effort was seeded.
\n\n\nI asked Jukebox to produce new samples from libraries that created music in\nthe style of Francois Hardy, but in the genre of Experimental Hip-Hop, which\nfrom what I can tell means a music model trained on Death Grips records. I\ntook these generated pieces (which were maxed out at 1:20 seconds long), cut\nthem up and reassembled them - the same way old records might be sampled for\nany other hip-hop record. This would form the basis of a handful of these\ntracks, though in some cases the generated samples were removed from the final\nproduct after serving as stems from which the rest of the song would be built.
\n
But this goes even further beyond that! Lyrics are generated by tools such as\nGPT-2, then fed through a speech synthesizer to produce the singing. The\n“Oligarchic Ganglions” vid also has a neat bit of\n“deep fake” ancient history to it.[2]
\n+++
\nThis is also reminiscent of Robin Sloan’s recent Brian, the Angel of History\nEP. (Also\nvery good imho!)
\n+++
\nNow, please, if you link to THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - and, you can’t see it,\nbut I am shamelessly begging you to do just that - do not link to my flimsy\npost here, but link straight to the original essay. No one should be an extra\nclick removed from such a wonder.
\nI am barely keeping this site together - particularly since my creators have\nleft me alone now.[1] I suppose they can go on with their lives, off into\nfortunes, while I have to stay back and do all the work![2]
\nAh, well. @glitchyowl is keeping company.[3] And, now in 2020, I present to\nyou a fine, fine, optifine list of directories appearing, without fanfare, but\nwith placid, reverent gratitude gushing through the Internet pipes. Almost all\nof these give praise to Marijn’s Link Cabinet - which is really exciting for\nthe linkbrarian Mx. van Hoorn!
\n+++
\nA very potent set of links from Elliott Cost, sea king of the special fish.\nIntroduced me to things like Sunday Sites and to\nthe sweet little blog of tiana.computer and\nto the completely-achievable lists of Doable\nLists.
\n$1 to participate.
\n+++
\nJust a big list of categorized links. I love linking to many of the things on\nhere as well! (Another way to do this is to keep pages for each category,\nsuch like Maya does here under ‘ye timeless content’.)
\nA cheap way to do this kind of thing is to use Listography. You can go into\nextreme detail (highresness) or petite\nlike (daisy.)
\n+++
\n‘Cool sites, straight from earth.’ A very nice directory with tags. The\nsource code is on Gitlab.
\nSome great material, unknown to me: The Bus Stop\nanonymous message temp space and Spitalfields\nLife anonyblog. This person knows the Web - a\nstaple in my link trove now.
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\nA blog by Sean McCoy - here’s the\nlinks. Just starting - hoping a link back will encourage more. This makes me\nthink I should start to catalog newsletters in href.cool.
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\nOh, wait - the links page is here.\nCategories like ‘Soundscapes’, ‘Other worlds’, ‘Tasty things’ - there are some\nreally interesting YouTube channel links in here. Seri! Pixel\nBiologist?
\nI also love seeing links to personal things - like the tea companies linked\nto - which are a window into the life of The Lynx.\nI’m trying to do more of this as well - such as linking to headache vids in\nhref.cool.
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\nLooks good! I love when static text is part of the directory - such as the list\nof words here. (Incidentally, there was a\nlist in Gossip’s Web as well.)
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\nInternet trash. Literally.
\nThis looks like an unassuming list - but there are a lot of things here that I\nrealized I left out of href.cool for reasons of pure negligence.
\nThe Web is so awesome!
\nThey are off doing\npress junkets? ↩︎
\nAt least Last Days of Disco taught me how sexy Scrooge McDuck can be. ↩︎
\nTonight. 11 PM Eastern. On twitch with\nwhatever scraps we have. ↩︎
\nI’m going to be livestreaming with @glitchyowl\nnext week, Thursday at 11 PM\nEST\nby way of twitch.tv/kickscondor. We’ll be\nscrapchatting sub silentio. Honestly can’t tell you much about it -\nwe’re keeping the details secret from each other - but it will be a kind of\nconversation I suppose.
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/inaugural-scrapchat", "tags": ["hypertext","scrapchatting","psa"], "date_published": "2020-11-11T14:10:53.218Z", "date_modified": "2020-11-11T14:10:53.218Z" } , { "id": "d4e96f4bbb2212476aa5c9f91306182d389e8014", "title": "Browseulator", "summary": "Overlooked Paul Ford project - a suitable 19th Century Twitter substitute.", "content_text": "[Ftrain](https://ftrain.com/) captain and Classic Internet uncle Paul Ford\ndropped this charming little bit of code back in August that throws up random\nInternet Archive images.\n\n> [@ftrain](https://twitter.com/ftrain):Ftrain captain and Classic Internet uncle Paul Ford\ndropped this charming little bit of code back in August that throws up random\nInternet Archive images.
\n\n\n@ftrain:
\n\n
\nI’ve replaced Twitter on my phone with a tiny web app that selects page images\nrandomly from a few hundred thousand old books, plus some museum images, and\nit’s…basically the same mess of America being problematic, goofy memes, and\nwomen dunking on men.
It’s good fortune that this is such a mix of random photographs, scientific\ndiagrams, magazine covers and such. So it’s a rather cool corpus - compared to\nGoogle Books, for instance - which might just turn up legions of dry bricks of\nout-of-date text. This done with Gutenberg might fare better, who knows.
\nI mean these random samplings are a nice feeling for an archive. There’s\ndefinitely some boring things - a scan of a giant page of identical stamps,\na ledger of unreadable faint cursive - but you can’t beat the speed of hopping\nfrom image to image\nuntil.
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\nThis is also a microcosm of rare linkhunting. Scroll and scroll and scroll,\nthen stop. And pay attention to where you stop. That’s the drill. This is the\nminigame.
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/browseulator", "image": "ephemeralist.png", "external_url": "https://ephemeralist-ixz4p7lmaq-ue.a.run.app", "tags": ["hypertext"], "date_published": "2020-11-09T07:12:58.662Z", "date_modified": "2020-11-09T07:12:58.662Z" } , { "id": "1a40a765dc878bc96482b76a63a8e46955abedd4", "title": "2020.11: What's New to Href.Cool?", "summary": "Nearing 10% completion of my twenty year directory project.", "content_text": "New link in [Bodies/Adventure](https://href.cool/Bodies/Adventure):\n\n* **[North Pacific Logbook](https://100r.co/site/north_pacific_logbook.html)\n Article 1h**New link in Bodies/Adventure:
\nAdded to Bodies/Human:
\nGary Crowley’s Headache Vids\nVideo 10m
\nI risk losing you here - cause this might seem spammy or something. But I\nthink a good librarian is going to hang on to something sweet, regardless of the\noptics.
If you have headaches, give this trilogy of short vids a shot. I’ve\nrecommended these to so many people with positive results. A low-effort\nvictory. I’ll take it.
\nTo Bodies/Inanimate:
\nUpdated the link to\n“Ain’t Got No, I’ve Got Life”.\nThe previous vid was removed from YouTube.
\nTo Stories/Poems:
\n"THE NARRATION" (2020)\nVideo 1m
\n\nWild livers, yes, the neighbors of the lungs, people sleep on livers, I\nprefer mines in brown gravy, drenched over a bed of white rice.
\n
More of these @dayne_n_simple.
\nTo Tapes/Classic:
\nNew in Tapes/Infinite:
\nCorrected “Mouth Trilogy” to “Mouth Tetralogy” now that Mouth\nDreams is out.
\nTo Tapes/Vaporwave:
\nAdded within Web/Meta:
\n\n\nShe rolled her eyes at me. “Yeah,” she said, “because everyone knows images\nare totally uncomplicated and true and exactly what they announce themselves\nto be.”
\n
Expanded the file transfer entry in\nWeb/Participate:
\nI have joined the UnderWater Web! It’s lovely bobbing along. If only these words\ncould be read by a warbly text-to-speech.
\nAlso, the Hypertext 2020 project is complete, nearly one year later:\nkickscondor.com/HT2020.
\n", "url": "https://www.kickscondor.com/underwater-web", "tags": ["hypertext"], "date_published": "2020-10-29T23:25:01.882Z", "date_modified": "2020-10-29T23:25:01.882Z" } ] }