Topic Lords

292. A Dewey Decimal System, But For Libraries


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Lords:

  • Alexander
    • https://youtube.com/@L4MPLIGHT
    • Chall
    • Topics:

      • Having an address after not having an address
      • Slopsquatting
      • Book curses
      • This boke ys myne, Eleanor Worcester
        • https://15thcfeminist.substack.com/p/the-preservation-of-womens-words
        • The David Lynch random number generator
          • Esper says: My personal favorite use of numbers stations is the brief “station ID” type messages on Secret Agent Radio, a radio station that plays funky groovy Bond soundtrack-type music. Every now and then between songs, you’ll get a brief clip of creepy French-accented actual number station recordings, which really sells the vibe: https://somafm.com/player24/station/secretagent
          • Do game designers ever go into public policy or vice-versa?
          • Microtopics:

            • Math.
            • An incredible youtube channel you don't know how to search for.
            • Lamplight but with a four.
            • Making art that only a tetrachromat could appreciate and then finding a tetrachromat to appreciate it.
            • The secret color: yellow.
            • Crashlands 2.
            • Watching X-Files until you've already seen all the Darin Morgan episodes.
            • Having twenty shirts to choose from and the same place to sit every day.
            • How long it takes to tire off the non-stop stream of novelty.
            • Working for yourself vs. working for someone else.
            • How to stop feeling like life is rushing past you.
            • Running a Kickstarter to get chores done around the house.
            • How to get your ADHD brain to do work in purpose.
            • Trying to get past the gauntlet of open browser tabs to the one where you get work done.
            • Running 100 times.
            • Productivity!
            • Buying a productivity calendar and then glaring at the calendar and saying "you can't trick me, calendar"
            • Nefarious NPM packages really popping off in the past few years.
            • Cool pens dot com.
            • Kazaam vs. Shazaam.
            • What people knew before they could search things on the Internet.
            • Dog bone facts.
            • The apocryphal things that LLMs like to say.
            • Lost books that we know about because they were mentioned in less old books.
            • The Actual Monster Mash.
            • Jeff Minter's Polybius.
            • Nobody ever releasing a fake Frog Fractions 2 even though Jim could never disavow it.
            • Hash tag relatable stories about medieval scribes.
            • Laws about book mishandling.
            • Dukes collecting books like treasures.
            • Putting a curse in your book to make sure nobody steals it.
            • The Falling Disease.
            • Irascibly Incoherent Book Curses.
            • May your NPM packages be infected with the falling disease.
            • A curse that can only curse people who can read.
            • Young people getting their grubby fingers dirty in the yard and leaving fingerprints in your books.
            • Someone left their bookmark in my book and the bookmark rotted again.
            • Cursing podcast bootleggers with the affliction where they always put their headphones on backwards.
            • The cheat code to unlock Nukey.
            • May your X button get stuck.
            • The wildest spelling that could possibly make sense.
            • A book that once belonged to a library.
            • Borrowing a book about space from your first grade teacher and forgetting to return it and learning about the ADHD shame procrastination spiral.
            • Blessed be he who steals this book.
            • Walking into a library and instantly being completely overwhelmed.
            • Giving your child the talk about where Little Free Libraries come from.
            • David Lynch giving you the weather in his all caps voice.
            • Why David Lynch never draws a 7.
            • The Reproducibility Crisis.
            • The Law of the Iterated Logarithm.
            • All the ways we make mistakes.
            • Coded drug drop messages on Britney Spears' Insagram.
            • The 485.152nd Amendment.
            • A great source of puns that must've existed for thousands of years.
            • How to predict whether your idea will work and then how to test whether it worked.
            • The Double Crossover Diamond Interchange.
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