292. A Dewey Decimal System, But For Libraries

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10d ago 1:04:47

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Alexander
- https://youtube.com/@L4MPLIGHT
Chall

Topics:

Having an address after not having an address
Slopsquatting
Book curses
This boke ys myne, Eleanor Worcester
- https://15thcfeminist.substack.com/p/the-preservation-of-womens-words
The David Lynch random number generator
- Esper says: My personal favorite use of numbers stations is the brief “station ID” type messages on Secret Agent Radio, a radio station that plays funky groovy Bond soundtrack-type music. Every now and then between songs, you’ll get a brief clip of creepy French-accented actual number station recordings, which really sells the vibe: https://somafm.com/player24/station/secretagent
Do game designers ever go into public policy or vice-versa?

Microtopics:

Math.
An incredible youtube channel you don't know how to search for.
Lamplight but with a four.
Making art that only a tetrachromat could appreciate and then finding a tetrachromat to appreciate it.
The secret color: yellow.
Crashlands 2.
Watching X-Files until you've already seen all the Darin Morgan episodes.
Having twenty shirts to choose from and the same place to sit every day.
How long it takes to tire off the non-stop stream of novelty.
Working for yourself vs. working for someone else.
How to stop feeling like life is rushing past you.
Running a Kickstarter to get chores done around the house.
How to get your ADHD brain to do work in purpose.
Trying to get past the gauntlet of open browser tabs to the one where you get work done.
Running 100 times.
Productivity!
Buying a productivity calendar and then glaring at the calendar and saying "you can't trick me, calendar"
Nefarious NPM packages really popping off in the past few years.
Cool pens dot com.
Kazaam vs. Shazaam.
What people knew before they could search things on the Internet.
Dog bone facts.
The apocryphal things that LLMs like to say.
Lost books that we know about because they were mentioned in less old books.
The Actual Monster Mash.
Jeff Minter's Polybius.
Nobody ever releasing a fake Frog Fractions 2 even though Jim could never disavow it.
Hash tag relatable stories about medieval scribes.
Laws about book mishandling.
Dukes collecting books like treasures.
Putting a curse in your book to make sure nobody steals it.
The Falling Disease.
Irascibly Incoherent Book Curses.
May your NPM packages be infected with the falling disease.
A curse that can only curse people who can read.
Young people getting their grubby fingers dirty in the yard and leaving fingerprints in your books.
Someone left their bookmark in my book and the bookmark rotted again.
Cursing podcast bootleggers with the affliction where they always put their headphones on backwards.
The cheat code to unlock Nukey.
May your X button get stuck.
The wildest spelling that could possibly make sense.
A book that once belonged to a library.
Borrowing a book about space from your first grade teacher and forgetting to return it and learning about the ADHD shame procrastination spiral.
Blessed be he who steals this book.
Walking into a library and instantly being completely overwhelmed.
Giving your child the talk about where Little Free Libraries come from.
David Lynch giving you the weather in his all caps voice.
Why David Lynch never draws a 7.
The Reproducibility Crisis.
The Law of the Iterated Logarithm.
All the ways we make mistakes.
Coded drug drop messages on Britney Spears' Insagram.
The 485.152nd Amendment.
A great source of puns that must've existed for thousands of years.
How to predict whether your idea will work and then how to test whether it worked.
The Double Crossover Diamond Interchange.

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292. A Dewey Decimal System, But For Libraries

Topic Lords

published 10d ago

MP3•Episode home

Lords:

Alexander
- https://youtube.com/@L4MPLIGHT
Chall

Topics:

Having an address after not having an address
Slopsquatting
Book curses
This boke ys myne, Eleanor Worcester
- https://15thcfeminist.substack.com/p/the-preservation-of-womens-words
The David Lynch random number generator
- Esper says: My personal favorite use of numbers stations is the brief “station ID” type messages on Secret Agent Radio, a radio station that plays funky groovy Bond soundtrack-type music. Every now and then between songs, you’ll get a brief clip of creepy French-accented actual number station recordings, which really sells the vibe: https://somafm.com/player24/station/secretagent
Do game designers ever go into public policy or vice-versa?

Microtopics:

Math.
An incredible youtube channel you don't know how to search for.
Lamplight but with a four.
Making art that only a tetrachromat could appreciate and then finding a tetrachromat to appreciate it.
The secret color: yellow.
Crashlands 2.
Watching X-Files until you've already seen all the Darin Morgan episodes.
Having twenty shirts to choose from and the same place to sit every day.
How long it takes to tire off the non-stop stream of novelty.
Working for yourself vs. working for someone else.
How to stop feeling like life is rushing past you.
Running a Kickstarter to get chores done around the house.
How to get your ADHD brain to do work in purpose.
Trying to get past the gauntlet of open browser tabs to the one where you get work done.
Running 100 times.
Productivity!
Buying a productivity calendar and then glaring at the calendar and saying "you can't trick me, calendar"
Nefarious NPM packages really popping off in the past few years.
Cool pens dot com.
Kazaam vs. Shazaam.
What people knew before they could search things on the Internet.
Dog bone facts.
The apocryphal things that LLMs like to say.
Lost books that we know about because they were mentioned in less old books.
The Actual Monster Mash.
Jeff Minter's Polybius.
Nobody ever releasing a fake Frog Fractions 2 even though Jim could never disavow it.
Hash tag relatable stories about medieval scribes.
Laws about book mishandling.
Dukes collecting books like treasures.
Putting a curse in your book to make sure nobody steals it.
The Falling Disease.
Irascibly Incoherent Book Curses.
May your NPM packages be infected with the falling disease.
A curse that can only curse people who can read.
Young people getting their grubby fingers dirty in the yard and leaving fingerprints in your books.
Someone left their bookmark in my book and the bookmark rotted again.
Cursing podcast bootleggers with the affliction where they always put their headphones on backwards.
The cheat code to unlock Nukey.
May your X button get stuck.
The wildest spelling that could possibly make sense.
A book that once belonged to a library.
Borrowing a book about space from your first grade teacher and forgetting to return it and learning about the ADHD shame procrastination spiral.
Blessed be he who steals this book.
Walking into a library and instantly being completely overwhelmed.
Giving your child the talk about where Little Free Libraries come from.
David Lynch giving you the weather in his all caps voice.
Why David Lynch never draws a 7.
The Reproducibility Crisis.
The Law of the Iterated Logarithm.
All the ways we make mistakes.
Coded drug drop messages on Britney Spears' Insagram.
The 485.152nd Amendment.
A great source of puns that must've existed for thousands of years.
How to predict whether your idea will work and then how to test whether it worked.
The Double Crossover Diamond Interchange.

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