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Gutenpost

Post author By Ben
Post date May 17, 2018

This is a first post using the new Gutenberg editor in WordPress.

It’s pretty great
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Set Phasers to Stun

Post author By Ben
Post date February 12, 2018

Recently frozen lake ice has some interesting properties: it looks completely black and makes some interesting sounds when you skate over it. Swedish mathematician Mårten Ajne is a black ice skating enthusiast and he demonstrates his technique in this National Geographic video. You’ll want to turn up the sound or use headphones…

via The wonderful sounds of black ice skating — kottke.org

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micro.blog’ing

Post author By Ben
Post date February 2, 2018

We could be excused for thinking that Micro.blog is like App.net — a Twitter alternative greeted with enthusiasm but that eventually closed. It’s not the same thing, though, and I’ll explain why. Micro.blog is not an alternative silo: instead, it’s what you build when you believe that the web itself is the great social network.

– from Why Micro.blog is Not Another App.net @ inessential.com

I’m adding the Webmention plugin here to see how it flies.

I’m blowery on micro.blog.