The et cetera list
early experiments in /etc/ space:

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...and today I think of trying the space as omnium gatherum for fragments, links, harvestings. Let's see how that goes if I work my way back from the current email inbox:

• Puppets

• The Watchbirds have rejoiced the hearts of parents who read The Ladies. Home Journal, and the demand for the collection of new style Cautionary Tales has resulted in this book. Beware, children who qualify under floor pilers, show offs, thumb suckers, wont players, squirmers, sulkers, grabbers, et al, for The Watchbirds will get you if you don't watch out! Nonsense text and pictures — but the idea gets across.

  The Watchbirds: A Picture Book of Behavior: Munro Leaf 1939

  Perspective: Repressed By The Watchbird Northern Public Radio

  from Michiana Chronicles

• NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper

• Reading a Spiritual Classic: The Cloud of Unknowing America Magazine

  The Cloud of Unknowing archive.org download

  The Cloud of Unknowing pdf from primary-source

  The Cloud of Unknowing pdf, with Introduction

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• Kathy Willis interview: How the healing powers of botany can reduce anxiety and boost health New Scientist

• Analyzing 'Finnegans Wake' for novel spacing between punctuation marks ScienceDaily

• Long Strange Trip Wikipedia

• What Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Took from the Tornado Amanda Petrusich at The New Yorker

• We Humans are embedded in a Web of Intelligent Life, not the Pinnacle of a Hierarchy H Patricia Hynes via Juan Cole

Not sure if that's an efficient way to gather up bits...

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Continuing to excavate from the email overflow of the previous month:

• Are All Things One James Alexander at Medium

• Quantum Mind Sebastian Schepis at Medium

• The Little POW Camp on the Prairie Grady Bolding at Medium

• My Roadtrip to the Industrial Revolution Jon Hunner at Medium

• Family Media Archivist Andrew Howe at Medium

• The 6 Hidden Patterns: Chapter 1 A Brief Introduction to the Metamemes Model Hanzi Freinacht at Medium

• 200 years of Irish Map

• Your brain may be mutating in a way that was thought to be very rare New Scientist

• The Limitless Aleph Andy Ilachinski

• Regional claims on "yeah no / no yeah" Language Log

• Calculating Empires: an huge online chart of tech history

• Vertical Harvard

  Memorial Hall Wikipedia

  Memorial Hall sculptures

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(this led to February-May 2025 links collections)