If all cats belonged to everyone then no cats would ever go missing and we wouldn’t have to kill loads of trees printing out “Missing Cat” posters #catlaws #pseudophilosophy
If all cats belonged to everyone then no cats would ever go missing and we wouldn’t have to kill loads of trees printing out “Missing Cat” posters #catlaws #pseudophilosophy
@julien51 #indiewebcamp on freenode! Would love to chat about PuSH and SubToMe and other such things
7888 #steps today
Digging through some mailing list archives I pulled recently revealed some familiar faces, some interesting stories and SO MUCH amazing information lost in the depths of the web.
measuringworth.com is an excellent — if somewhat confusing — tool for calculating the relative historic worth of currency #bookmark
I was astonished to learn that the 2012 value of the $30 Henry David Thoreau spent building his house beside Walden pond in 1854 could actually vary from $846 to $128,000!
7792 #steps today
Sjómannadagur timelapses with #gurdy accompaniment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-llMLfE56-k
Two timelapses I took whilst on a boat trip on Sjómannadagur (Fisherman’s Day) 2013-05-03 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Soundtrack is my hurdy gurdy and some ambient sounds.
Sound effects CC licensed from freesound.org by inchadney, juskiddink, IEDLabs and Eelke — thanks!
14263 #steps today
8270 #steps today
New recording: You Can’t Measure Chaos With A Yardstick on #gurdy
9505 #steps today
It just occurred to me that I’ve had my 2nd gen Vio #gurdy built and playing for a couple of months but I’ve never posted a photo. Here you go:
Beware debates about implementation that weren't preceded by debate and agreement on the desired outcome.
Particularly relevant to the #indieweb and #fedsocweb
/by rjs
It’s funny — people are saying so much about the #indieweb/federated social web not being a “Facebook Killer”, and yet it’s killed my usage of FB beyond occasional passive consumption.
So, implementors: build stuff which kills your own FB usage before trying to kill facebook.
Another #indieweb creator has commented on Laurent Eschenauer’s famous thread with a new implementation — congratulations benwerd!
What we refer to as “culture” is actually just a bunch of recursively nested in–jokes #latenightthoughts
8985 #steps today
My favourite recurring overheard phrase here at Vísar is “We don’t know what five is”
Current #hypertext history reading/watching list:
Specced out improvements to #pubsubhubbub after use-case-driven discussion in #indiewebcamp: indiewebcamp.com/pubsub focusing on simplicity, reusability, content-agnosticism. Comments/discussion appreciated on wiki, IRC or your own sites /cc Brett Slatkin