This week’s internet rabbit hole led me from the lofty halls of Mensa reading lists to plastic bag wallet tutorials, with a detour through vertebrate anatomy and early-90s generational angst. Also: RIP to a few of my old bookmarks, now officially 404 ghosts. I’m starting to think a personal archive might be less of a geek move and more of a survival tactic.
The grades 9-12 must read list from Mensa. I won’t admit how many of these I still need to read: https://onepercentrule.substack.com/p/the-mensa-reading-list-for-grades
The Open Vertebrate project publishes 3D scans of animal anatomy. Perhaps a source of inspiration: https://www.openculture.com/2024/03/openvertebrate-presents-a-massive-database-of-13000-3d-scans-of-vertebrate-specimens.html
Video short. A wallet made by upcycling plastic bags. Interesting low-tech laminating technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9_RbBcZBIc
I operate a small home server, sort of a de-Googled Google Drive. Now I’m thinking of setting up a personal Internet Archive, since the real one at archive.org has been under attack lately. And because a review of some older bookmarks has come up with 404 messages: https://jeffmackinnon.com/building-a-personal-webarchive.html
Speaking of archives, this Time article from 1990 bemoaning the slackers of Generation X, when they were just “not baby boomers” (full disclosure, I’m a GenXer): https://time.com/archive/6715389/living-proceeding-with-caution/