Enjoyment always requires attention. It’s just that some pleasures force your attention to them, and most don’t. Depending on these attention-forcing sources of pleasure leads to a preoccupation with the more intense ones, which tend to be sugary, intoxicating, mind-rotting, or costly in some other way.
A small town west of Montreal has decided to officially recognize trees as living beings with rights of their own, in what an environmental organization describes as a first in Quebec and Canada.
I thought it would be interesting to look at how hackers were portrayed in illustrations from print news media and magazines from the early to mid 1980s, when the stereotypes and tropes of hackerdom were less set in stone.
Going barefoot in the forest is a very sensuous and a pleasurable experience. For some of us it is almost a mystical experience. I know that I dreamt of it long before I ever durst try it. It is also an experience that brings into question our entire relationship with nature in a way that disturbs and challenges our ideas about ourselves as civilised beings. It is an experience that I have long wanted to see explored properly in print.
The concept is simple.... Follow any of the tag accounts, which corresponds to a hashtag, and you will get copies of posts as they appear around the fediverse, straight to your own timeline.
Creating, collecting, and freely distributing information about long distance nature trails around the world.
The key to making a more energy-efficient coffee maker is insulation. Regardless of which conventional coffee maker you purchase, it will typically have little to no heat insulation, and most of the heat generated by the energy source will be wasted into the environment. Therefore, we made an insulated solar electric coffee maker ourselves.
An interesting alternative to organizing RSS feeds besides alphabetically or by topic.
A crowdsourced directory of memorial benches!
A podcast interviewing webmasters of various popular/famous indie web websites. Released weekly for 15 weeks; currently on episode 3.
Teacake Hosting is a small and affordable hosting service primarily focused on providing web space for personal and hobby-focused sites.
A list of data brokers (and related places) and how to request your data be deleted/removed from them. Updated regularly.
Nice collection of fonts you can use on your web projects-- including fandom-specific fonts!
On this site, I talk about cynicism, nostalgia, and digital culture. You’ll find unique digital lore here and other liminal strangeness. I want to highlight the downright weird millennial technology experience. Living through the birth of ubiquitous computing had both positive and negative aspects. I’m talking (mostly) about the 1990s and 2000s, when the internet was just beginning to take over our lives...
Salvaged.nu is a place on the internet that recovers, repairs, and reuploads Photoshop resources from lost personal blogs from the mid-2000's.
Welcome to Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires, a protection ritual against "New Space" colonizing overlords and an exploration of peer-to-peer online gathering.
This ambitious public art project is presented by Scan Design Foundation, whose mission is to support Danish-American relations with a focus on environmental sustainability. NWTrolls: Way of the Bird King features six giant hand-built troll sculptures by Danish environmental artist, Thomas Dambo. The publicly-accessible sculptures are located around the Pacific Northwest where each whimsical troll sculpture is part of an underlying environmental story. The project celebrates the human experience of art by amplifying the connections of cultural heritage between Coast Salish tribal communities and Scandinavian traditions. Thanks to our funding partners and host site partners, there is no admission fee to visit any of the trolls.
Amazing art here!
Sadly, there’s no easy way to find ethically manufactured and eco-friendly electronics. But there are things you can do to reduce any negative impact your purchases may have. Here are a few ideas we’ve compiled, with the help of Alex Crumbie, writer and researcher at Ethical Consumer, a UK magazine that ranks brands across various categories, from environmental reporting to workers’ rights.
Over the years, lots of folks have asked me how to create the proper atomosphere for writing books. The sort of atmosphere that will make them want to sit down and write, while oblivious to everything else going on around them. Well...to be perfectly honest, I don't have a clue. I only know what works for me - and that's having all the stuff I love right there around me!
A fun virtual tour of pagan author Dorothy Morrison's office space.