Detour Through The Junk Drawer

A list of links to the 100 greatest songs of the 1960s according to Paste Magazine.

A list of links to the 100 greatest songs of the 1970s according to Paste Magazine.

A list of links to the 100 greatest songs of the 1980s according to Paste Magazine.

A bullet list summary of decluttering advice.

A list of book reviews for "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents" by Lindsay C Gibson (2015).

Amazon's profits by year according to macrotrends.net

A list of news articles about the Athens Olympic Meteor art installation in 2004.

Terminal commands for finding battery status information on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

A list of books about the dotcom, NFT, and crypto bubles that I'd like to get around to one day.

A list of books about user interface design.

A comparison of American/English, Brazilian, and International checkers/draughts rules.

A list of image files ("sprites") of chess pieces, along with a list of JavaScript chess engines.

A list of apps for reading comic book files on a Macbook. The recommended one is YACReader which is also available for Windows and Linux.

A list of common YouTuber mistakes. I compiled this list because I want to return to making videos, but needed to keep these issues in mind to avoid making basic mistakes and looking like an amateur.

“Counting ears in Hamlet” usually refers to a literary-analysis exercise: tracking how often Shakespeare uses the words “ear,” “ears,” hearing, listening, and related imagery throughout the play. It matters because the ear is a major motif in Hamlet. King Hamlet is murdered by poison poured into his ear, while Denmark itself is metaphorically “poisoned” by Claudius’s lies—“the whole ear of Denmark” is deceived. Throughout the play, words, rumors, spying, overhearing, and deceptive speech repeatedly enter through people’s ears.

The ChatGPT response to, "A list of books that teach programming to beginners but also teach what LLMs are and how to integrate LLMs with your code." However, I'm not quite sure how good this list actually is. I've decided to post it anyway.

A list of news articles discusses occassions where LLMs reported jokes as real.

Computer science is young compared to other sciences, but at this point many "classic" CS textbooks are over a quarter century old. Here is a list of general computer science books from the last 15 years.

I was thinking of that Simpsons gag in the episode Bart Gets an Elephant where the radio station manager threatens the DJs with replacement by an automated DJ machine. The electronic DJ quips, "Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns." and the credulous human DJ says, "How does he keep up with the news like that?" It made me want to compile a list of perennial, evergreen news stories.

A list of period tracker mobile apps that offer end-to-end encryption so that even the cloud storage host cannot access your data.

A list of news sources for the Python programming language.

A list of news articles where Republicans defend and endorse child marriage.

Books on signage strategies for events and locations, as well as official guidance from various Departments of Transportation. I wanted to know what kinds of signs are helpful, unhelpful, and what the appropriate amount of signage is.

The "everything liberals want annoys me" attitude reminds me: I have a screenshot saved of a Reddit comment from a deleted user that I think was posted in 2014/2015ish about South Park:

I thought it was neat how artists made faces out of cardboard toilet paper tubes, so I compiled a list of links about how to make them.

A list of things Trump joked about that he later actually did.

A list of VPN services recommended by Redditors.

Because Wednesday preserves an old spelling even though its pronunciation changed. It comes from Old English Wōdnesdæg, meaning “Woden’s day”—the day named after the Germanic god Woden (Odin). Over centuries: Wōdnesdæg → Wednesday → “Wenzday”. The spelling kept the historical d, but everyday pronunciation dropped that sound. English spelling often preserves these older forms even after pronunciation changes.

Who coined the term "Turing Test"? Did Alan Turing call his "imitation game" that? (Apparently not, and there's some popular misconceptions about these terms.)

A list of wizard school management games on Steam: Spellcaster University, Wizdom Academy, Mind Over Magic, Songs of Glimmerwick, Witchbrook