💾 Archived View for jsreed5.org › misc › index.gmi captured on 2024-08-18 at 18:05:49. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content
⬅️ Previous capture (2024-07-08)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
---
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
The famous essay written by Robert Fulghum in 1986.
Five Serious Philosophical Questions
Alan Watts's semi-facetious list, given as an aside during a 1969 recording of his lecture "The Nature of Consciousness".
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
Programmer and hacktivist Aaron Swartz's plea to open educational information to the entire world.
The original Usenet post in which Tom Christiansen warns against making programs require a graphical interface.
Archived from a post by bootyist-monk on Free Republic that is no longer online.
The oft-quoted closing segment of Bill Hicks' 1992 comedy special "Revelations".
Vanessa Gobes discusses hunger and the opportunity it presents for us to be more mindful about ourselves.
Short for "Skill and Work Ethic Aren't Taboo", a pledge to work hard and take nothing in life for granted.
Erlang co-developer Joe Armstrong demonstrates the concept of minimal viable programs through Erlang's ticket system.
One of George Carlin's best works, celebrating and satirizing life in the dawn of the 21st century.
Reddit user u/ryans01 offers some personal advice on building discipline and achieving success.
English essayist William Hazlitt defends the work of theatre and its purveyors.
Carl Sagan's famous 1994 passage, inspired by a picture of Earth take from a distance of 6 billion miles.
Written by Dr. Bob Moorehead in 1995 and incorrectly attributed to many people over the years.
A collection of passages about serenity from many places and times.
Wendell Berry cautions against excessive specialization in this excerpt from his 1977 book "The Unsettling of America".
Gravis of Cathode Ray Dude laments the sell-out philosophy of many modern technology startups.
Trading Substance for Sterility
Written by Elle Purnell (née Reynolds) and published on The Federalist on 2021-02-15. While it focuses mainly on the cultural fallout from COVID-19, I feel it applies to many other facets of life, both pre- and post-pandemic.
My favorite passage from the Buddhist monk Kenko, as translated by Donald Keene in 1967.
From the FSE blog, operated by the Free Speech Extremist Pleroma instance, this article outlines the concept of free speech from an anarchist perspective.
---
My found-document science fiction serial, originally hosted on Cosmic.voyage.
The fictional background to a role-playing group that ultimately never formed.
A fanfiction short story I wrote many years ago, set in the universe of "Holes" by Louis Sachar.
A short story based on an image prompt by IronAge Media.
---
My high school's house rules for ERS, as well as some other rules I know about.
A road-trip game invented/adapted by a few high school friends.
Super Monkey Ball Game Rankings
My thoughts on which Super Monkey Ball games are better than others.
A mini-game featured in the Atlus RPG "Persona 5 Royal", plus a few tips and strategies I've found.
My results from the geography guessing game by acidus. NOTE: contains spoilers for the game.
---
A defunct method for ripping MP3s from Associated Production Music.
How to set up and use the EZ-Flash IV GameBoy Advance flashcart.
How I configure my Planet Computers Gemini PDA for use as a semi-daily driver.
Moving Gemini Client Certificates
How to use the same client certificates in Deedum and Kristall. More clients will be added later.
My assembled and polished notes on using NNCP, a suite of store-and-forward programs and the spiritual successor to UUCP.
---
Why I believe the secondary antagonist of Disney's "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" is not as evil as people claim.
My view on how technologies rise and fall over time.
Hidden by a programmer inside the ROM data for the Nintendo 64 game "The New Tetris", this rant lists the writer's fifty-six most hated things--and Nintendo is prominent on that list.
---
[Last updated: 2024-08-12]