Wygle Wide Web

A quiet field journal of digital archaeology. Reconstructing a life from 25+ years of digital traces, with occasional help from ChatGPT when things get weird or surprising.

  • The Most Highlighted Sections from Kindle Users

    Check out what Amazon is doing. You can look through the most highlighted sections of books that people are reading on their Kindle. When I checked, they had three books by Tim Keller; The Reason for God, Counterfeit Gods, and The Prodigal God as well two books by Francis Chan; Crazy Love and Forgotten God. You can also find the ESV, NIV…

  • How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill compared to your city?

  • Google Chrome Speed Tests (via googlechrome) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Snapped a pic of an Endangered Species on the way home.

  • The first neighborhood BBQ went very well. We had about 40 people show up; tons of existing friends—which helped bring out some of our neighbors—and 4 households that showed up. One of the more interesting things was a comment made by my neighbor, Dick, who has lived in his house since 1956 (he was the first…

  • I’m Building a Playlist

    If you were doing a big neighborhood BBQ, what artists would you include in the playlist?

  • Bellevue child is transformed into a superhero | Bellevue News (Source: http://bellevue.komonews.com/)

  • Werner Herzog Reads Where’s Waldo (via robhuebel) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • photojojo: socmoth: this photo is so good Ben Heine’s pencil drawing-photo hybrids – Boing Boing Needs lasers and some sharks with jetpacks. Source: Boing Boing

  • Beautiful photos of discarded over-mined quarries (and others) The Work of Edward Burtynsky via The Build Blog (ht @BTS) Source: blog.buildllc.com

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