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every··on Human Life
I will settle for being content...
every··on 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
I only use Facebook to stay in touch with widely dispersed family members. Nothing else. One peek a day to see what's up. Assuming you have an account, I find this makes the task much easier:

https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends

every··on The Unusual Evolutionary Journey of the Baobab Tree
The Little Prince was not a fan of baobabs...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince

every··on Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
You might want to play around with the lynx browser as well...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

every··on Funeral Food
Weddings and funerals. Time to break out the family recipes...
every··on Reviving a Flip Clock from the 70ies
While not exactly nostalgia, I can remember the sound of the flips in my bedroom at night from some 50 years ago...
every··on I'm So Old: Web Edition
I'm so old I was a college student when Unix was being developed at Bell Labs. I'm so old I was in my 30's the first time I ever touched a computer and it was an IBM PC 5150 booting MS-DOS off one floppy drive and running Lotus 1A on the other...
every··on The 160-year mystery of Europe's Ice Age 'queens'
These seem from hunter/gatherers with a cycle of feast/famine in a harsh climate. Those who could most efficiently store energy in fat would be most likely to survive the cycle. And undoubtedly both infant and maternal mortality would be high. Fecundity might be both a valued individual and group trait. One or more of these traits might be in the designs of these figurines. Possibly they are talismans...
every··on ViHN: Vim for Hacker News
Interestingly enough, I'm reading this and posting in lynx. I have both vikeys and numbered links set...
every··on Hip to be square – 70 years of the Citroën H Van (2017)
I had a Series 2. The car club told me the first thing I should do is put a mechanic on a retainer. I thought they were joking. They weren't...

https://images.cadar.io/4ed13238-dd1a-4fee-9ddc-e2f2885ff1ef...

every··on Old Online Chevy Manuals
Here's the one I learned to drive in:

https://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com/chevyowner/58omindex.h...

every··on My Visit to Deep Springs College (2009)
Blackburn College is also a work college and was established in 1837. My dad was an alumnus back in the Great Depression. It was all he could afford...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_College_(Illinois)

every··on Confirmation of ancient lake on Mars
I think I still prefer Ray Bradbury's, The Martian Chronicles...
every··on Vint Cerf on PBS NewsHour
A Brief But Spectacular take on the future of the internet...
every··on Orange Site Hit
Seems to work fine...
every··on Orange Site Hit
As an exercise in textually navigating the site I have logged on in my antique lynx browser to see if I can comment as well...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

every··on Blot turns a folder into a website
I do a low-tech version[1] of this using tree-1.8.0...

[1] https://every.sdf.org/

every··on Julia Child's Culinary Notes
"I like cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food."

-- Julia Child

every··on Monsters in the Middle Ages
Much along these lines, I am currently revisiting "The Book of Imaginary Beings" by Jorge Luis Borges...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Imaginary_Beings

every··on My website is one binary (2022)
You get exactly the same result if you look at it with an actual text browser such as lynx. One giant brick of text...
every··on Mysterious rock depicted in 15th century painting is likely a Stone Age tool
This is early Northern Renaissance and still retains a number of Gothic themes and motifs. He nailed the vanishing point though...
every··on “Real Water” that poisoned dozens contained chemical from rocket fuel
Also known as "Whole Paycheck"...
every··on ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment
Ah yes, the CR-48 [1]. Named after an unstable isotope of the element chromium...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook#Cr-48

every··on ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment
ChromeOS is my x-window. Debian is my terminal. Google has done a nice job of integrating the two. The only real constraint is the hardware.

Disclaimer: I was a pre-release beta tester for ChromeOS.

every··on The Unforeseen LSD Overdose of 1972
Never had one. Then again, my shrooms were plucked directly from the soil and popped into my mouth. But there has always been a truth-in-labeling problem in the clandestine recreational drug market...
every··on Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem
I find text editing on mobile to be like tap dancing on bowling pins...
every··on The Unforeseen LSD Overdose of 1972
A veteran of the 60's and 70's. Much preferred psilocybin mushrooms. Knew a young lady who grew them in her closet. Spectacular visuals, no "bad trips" and you never woke up the next day feeling like your dog had died...
every··on Birds with more complex vocal skills are better problem-solvers
Needs more mockingbirds...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN3V4bBpTQs

every··on The thinking path
I find random walks to be too distracting. Instead I prefer to pace in a space, inside or out, that holds few or no surprises for me...
every··on House Republicans propose planting a trillion trees
Planting a significantly large number of humans in the ground might also be an answer...
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