Like Frances, Eryn and I have also been rewatching The West Wing. Periodically on the show there are these moments where politicians from both parties solemnly uphold democratic norms while treating each other with respect and wow, those scenes hit different twenty years later. Via Kottke: The Extrapolated Futures Archive is a reverse-lookup for speculative fiction. Describe a situation you are facing, and find the SF stories that already worked through the implications. Constellations, a short story by Jeff VanderMeer, also via Kottke. Via Matt: Whole New World is a fan archive of SOPHIE’s output, no matter how obscure. Via Virginia: Will Joseph Pearson’s Mud displace Marked as my preferred Markdown previewer? Only time will tell. IIRC I met him when I met Virginia, at the Internet Archive’s Books in Browsers in 2011. Via Jeremy: Aaron Gustafson’s <form-saver> element is a great progressive enhancement that improves the user experience of forms on the web. Join the Sovereign Tech…
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