Archive for Internet
Why I dislike Markdown
For those unfamiliar with it: Markdown is “a text-to-HTML conversion tool”—or, to put it another way, a simplified way to...
See cats instead of ads, and support sites you like
Google Contributor is an experimental system that allows you to directly financially support websites you visit. If you sign up...
Excellent Easter egg in Vogue and GQ websites
This was probably my favorite thing that I saw online yesterday. Requires a computer keyboard. Go to the Vogue UK...
How to help fix the “American novelists” problem on Wikipedia
The “American novelists” category on Wikipedia is apparently theoretically supposed to be just a list of subcategories, but it currently...
Lewis Thomas on computers
In 1974 or so, Lewis Thomas wrote an interesting essay titled “Computers,” which he reprinted in his book The Lives...
Kith is back online
My domain was offline for somewhere around seven to twelve hours last night. I have no idea what happened. I...
Request to editors of online magazines
I've been doing some research on online magazines, and I've found two things particularly frustrating: First, a great many web...
Historical list of online prozines
Today, instead of doing anything on my to-do list, I spent about five hours drafting an article covering the whole...
Want to read the fifth Marla Mason book?
T.A. Pratt's Marla Mason series of urban fantasy novels was cancelled last year after four books. Not long ago, the...
Woofer, Twitter, Squeaker
Courtesy of links from a discussion thread on Otavia's recent Facebook post: Woofer: Just like Twitter, except that any given...
What site am I on?
I often find myself reading a web page with no conscious idea of what site it's on or who the...