Jeff Kaufman appears to be an effective altruist techbro, but this number system is genuinely interesting to a math hobbyist like me.

suckless.org is full of nazis, even though they claim to be “apolitical” this is a collection of links that i’ve gathered over the years.

The National Center for Home Food Preservation is your source for home food preservation methods.

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a tool for making your own sitelen pona font, with just a pen or a drawing program!

This article shows how a DIY expert Trishla Sanjeev made faux leather at home. Yes leather which is completely cruelty free and looks great.

Members of estranged parents' forums often say their children never gave them any reason for the estrangement, then turn around and reveal that their children did tell them why. But the reasons their children give—the infamous missing reasons—are missing. This article examines the phenomenon and offers some explanations for why it happens.

A website with many resources to help you learn Latin.

A cuddly noir Multi-Touch novel demonstrates both the advantages and drawbacks of self-published ebooks.

Some years ago, I (GLS) was snooping around in the cabinets that housed the MIT AI Lab's PDP-10, and noticed a little switch glued to the frame of one cabinet. It was obviously a homebrew job, added by one of the lab's hardware hackers (no one knows who).

You don't touch an unknown switch on a computer without knowing what it does, because you might crash the computer. The switch was labeled in a most unhelpful way. It had two positions, and scrawled in pencil on the metal switch body were the words ‘magic' and ‘more magic'. The switch was in the ‘more magic' position.

I called another hacker over to look at it. He had never seen the switch before either. Closer examination revealed that the switch had only one wire running to it! The other end of the wire did disappear into the maze of wires inside the computer, but it's a basic fact of electricity that a switch can't do anything unless there are two wires connected to it. This switch had a wire connected on one side and no wire on its other side.

It was clear that this switch was someone's idea of a silly joke. Convinced by our reasoning that the switch was inoperative, we flipped it.
The computer instantly crashed.

Tool to convert or write Kaktovik numbers. The Kaktovik Iñupiaq numerals are used in Alaska by Inuit peoples.

A tiny tool for simple, self-contained wikis!

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What happens when your entire life is ruled by a prophecy – your future foretold by people you’ve never met, who died long before you were born. Such is the story of two young sea creatures. One believed to be a guiding light for his people, a Beacon who will lead them to a bright, prosperous future. The other is a teenage prince for who’s destiny is to KILL the Beacon so that HIS own people might thrive. When both reject the course set for them, it leads to a raucous adventure as big and unpredictable as the ocean itself – and a romance that nobody could have predicted.

A regularly updated list of online bookshops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs.

A recipe manager for desktop with the possibilities to import, organize, and tweak recipes

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