Links: Journalling, the humanities, retro computing, and more
So much fun stuff! Websites and retro computer adverts and all the computers in Jurassic Park! Books and journalling and the humanities and philosophy!
Websites as anthologies of self, which might prompt a full blog post, but for now
As the author of this website, I use my site in a different way, I suspect, from readers. I use my site for creative reference. I use my site to remember if I have covered a topic before. I link to posts that I want to build on as I develop an argument in future posts. And, over time, my website becomes something of an anthology of self.
Also Forward, James's follow-up to Home.
In Shambles is collecting first sentences.
Horror and Romance as mirror genres by Tracy Durnell.
Both genres are powerful storytelling modes: one imagines the worst that could happen; the other imagines the best.
Bored of the Swords: The Rebirth of Sword & Sorcery and the Death of the Weird from Reactor Mag.
I’m pleased to see S&S has gotten more diverse since the mid-twentieth century. I’m less pleased to see that it’s also gotten less diverse since the mid-twentieth century. By “less diverse,” I mean that the definition of S&S has considerably narrowed.
Also in Reactor Mag, the short story Turn Right For Terror which I read and was then like, "Hey, I know that guy!" Congrats on the story!
There can be no sin committed from love – the radical ethics of Héloïse a video from Aeon that features her actual theological and philosophical ideas, and the impact they still have.
It is time to revive the humanities by VH Belvadi
Such conflation of truth and consensus is precisely the sort of critical thinking that a humanities education can help us avoid. The ability to deconstruct verbal arguments and introduce an objective counterargument without being carried away by the mere existence of a statistic – to see statistic within the richness of its context, to even know what would amount to context at all – is a critical benefit of a good humanities education from which society today can benefit greatly.
In favor of short games at Writing my Odd Game on the overlooked gap between one-shots and long-term campaigns. It's extremely persuasive and a great model, with some really nice stories about their games.
Marc G's If you care about your friends, write it down on how journalling has improved his memory and listening skills. I definitely find that with journalling - the memory is reinforced by writing it down.
Kai Gulliksen is also Journaling for Fun and Brain Health and doing a Vacation Writing Experiment.
Congrats to JD and his 254th Post In A Row Celebration. Despite not having a musical bone in my body I read JD's blog regularly because it's both considered and passionate. A little retrospective is always nice too.
I have noticed that my thinking is clearer when I go thru all my musical issues. I’ve got a sound philosophy in the way I think, and I’ve really honed in on gear that works for me.
Brendan at Kaijuville writes so charmingly about Getting Things Done, flowers, and Matisse in Tend to the Small Things.
Manu On Planting Seeds, following on from the Downsizing.
Public Domain Art Resources from Explorer's Design.
Brandon talks about internet outrage in A Wake Up Call. I'm like Brandon's wife, I'm happier not knowing most of this stuff.
It's almost alarming when you start to mimic the outrage of the internet in your personal life and the person you are ranting to looks at you like your crazy, or ask you why do you care so much or why do you subject yourself to this.
Retro computer advertising memories by Jon has some very fun older adverts.
A terrific look at Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail by Fabien Sanglard, via Steve.
Nostalgic Watcher is doing an X-Files blog? I'm already extremely into this.
Rosie Spinks's On not doing stuff to my face makes me think that next time someone stops me in the supermarket to recommend extract of unicorn's piss I might have to write something like this.
Mirrored World is busting excuses in But I
Are you familiar with this? You come up to a person you respect/admire, they agree to teach you/give you tips/share their methods, but when they do you start thinking, "But I..."
Trying to get my head around Callard's Uni-Context, A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird.
Castle Map. Does exactly what it says on the tin. 2435 castles!
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