Live Life Without Regret

From around the web…. A 450-Year History of Blogging Brennan Kenneth Brown https://brennan.day/a-450-year-history-of-blogging/ “In his 1574 A Regiment for Sea, William Bourne describes how, with a line tied to it, a log was thrown over the side of the ship, and the length of line was measured “while someone turned a minute sand glass” or in some cases “spoke some number of woordes [sic]” in order to measure the ship’s speed.[2] (The length was eventually counted by literal knots tied in the line at regular intervals; thus, our equally iconic term “knots.”) Recordings of the log-derived information, eventually replaced by the “chip log,” a weighted wooden quadrant, were entered into what would come to be called the “log board.” — Janet Sorenson, “Logging-In: The Ship’s Log as Medium”” Denormalizing Hypernormalization gapingvoid.com https://www.gapingvoid.com/denormalizing-hypernormalization/ “Hypernormalization is what happens when something is obviously broken, everybody knows it’s…