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# Colophon

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*The Psalms* is proudly hosted by [Write.as](http://write.as/about) - a new sort of blogging content management system built atop [Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) and maintained by a company which [explicitly shares](https://write.as/principles) my commitment to a better, Open web.

A somewhat-outdated version of this site's theme is [listed among others](https://write.as/themes/bilge) in Writeas' official themes list. The full, up-to-date CSS and JS can be found below and on in [this GitHub repository](https://github.com/extratone/bilge), which I created in November, 2020 as an experiment in using Git to track editorial changes. (*That means you can see [current in-progress drafts](https://github.com/extratone/bilge/tree/main/Drafts)!*)
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<a rel="me"href="https://mastodon.social/@DavidBlue">Mastodon</a>
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# Reading

![Compaq Portable 386](https://i.snap.as/niq0aqH.png)
![Single-Page Unicode](https://i.snap.as/j6vtJcTM.jpg)

I read a lot on the web about technology, cars, music and media. If you'd like to keep up with me, join my/*Extratone*'s [**reading list channel**](http://bit.ly/extraread) on Discord, which has also served as a place for others to share their favorite links as well. Using the [Discord chat exporter](https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter), I've created an **[HTML file](http://bit.ly/extraread42020)** of the channel's **entire history** as of April 6th, 2020.
Since I first began working online in 2016, I have grown and maintained quite a curatorial habit, and therefore sought all sorts of modern curator's tools. The system I settled upon for some five years: a dedicated [Reading List channel](http://bit.ly/extratone) in *Extratone*'s Discord. It wasn't until this past year that I encouraged something which (so far) has exceeded willy-nilly copy-and-paste of URLs into a single feed. It's an application/bookmarking service called [**Raindrop**](https://bit.ly/dbraindrop) which includes tagging, public, RSS-enabled collections, and fairy competent web page archiving. I became a paid subscriber within minutes of discovering its existence, three months ago, and have since integrated it quite hardily in my workflow (including automated reposts in that same Discord channel, for good measure.)

I've posted some of my all-time favorites from the past few years in [this Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1247152287379861504).
![Raindrop Bilge](https://i.snap.as/69TKyPZJ.png)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">here is the entire history of the Extratone reading list as of today in HTML format. literally years of good reads! <a href="https://t.co/8wFoiDE7SU">https://t.co/8wFoiDE7SU</a></p>&mdash; David Blue (@NeoYokel) <a href="https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1247152287379861504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
## [Raindrop Collections](https://bit.ly/dbraindrop)

Another great tool I recently discovered is [**Reading**](https://www.reading.am/DavidBlue), which appears to be everything I've ever wanted (but never found from services like Pocket) in a public reading list. You can even subscribe to [my profile's RSS feed](https://www.reading.am/DavidBlue/list.rss)!
| Collection | Web | RSS |
| :---------------------: | :-------------------------------------------------: | :--------------------------------------------------: |
| Magazines | [Raindrop](https://raindrop.io/collection/13419360) | [Feed](https://bg.raindrop.io/rss/public/13419360) |
| Reading List | [Raindrop](https://raindrop.io/collection/13380406) | [Feed](https://raindrop.io/collection/13380406/feed) |
| Music | [Raindrop](https://raindrop.io/collection/13387737) | [Feed](https://raindrop.io/collection/13387737/feed) |
| Automotive Reading List | [Raindrop](https://raindrop.io/collection/13379949) | [Feed](https://raindrop.io/collection/13379949/feed) |
| Software History | [Raindrop](https://raindrop.io/collection/13379957) | [Feed](https://raindrop.io/collection/13379957/feed) |
| Blessed Web Utilities | [Raindrop](https://raindrop.io/collection/13380122) | [Feed](https://raindrop.io/collection/13380122/feed) |

---
<div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/487038988?autoplay=1&loop=1&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script>

## Favorite Newsletters

An ongoing list of my favorite email publications.

### [Art & Letters Daily](https://aldaily.com/)

*The Chronicle of Education*'s [ancient](http://web.archive.org/web/19990203021844/http://www.nzine.co.nz/features/ald.html) "web portal" is a bit overwhelming, but their [weekly newsletter](https://aldaily.com/subscribe/) has somehow become perhaps my most unmissable email subscription.

### [Nextdraft](https://nextdraft.com/)

Dave Pell's [*Nextdraft* newsletter](https://nextdraft.com/) is the only hard news mailer I would ever recommend. If you can stand his puns, you need to subscribe. I've recently reduced my actual clicking on hardnews in a big way, so *Nextdraft* has become the singular hard news-ish aggregator I make sure to skim regularly.

### [The Browser](https://thebrowser.com/)

Edited by [Robert Cottrell](https://robertcottrell.com/) and [Caroline Crampton](http://carolinecrampton.com/), [*The Browser*](https://thebrowser.com/) always adds *something* to my week.

### [The Media Today](https://www.cjr.org/email)

The [*Columbia Journalism Review*](https://www.cjr.org)'s daily in-depth email is perhaps the most comprehensive aggregate of media news available.

### [Memoir Monday](https://memoirmonday.substack.com/about)

A weekly collaborative effort between [Catapult](https://catapult.co/), [Longreads](https://longreads.com/), [Granta](https://granta.com/), [Guernica](https://www.guernicamag.com/), [Narratively](https://narratively.com/), and [The Rumpus](https://therumpus.net/) that provides memoirs I *actually want to read*, which is astonishing.

### [Tedium](https://tedium.co/)

Ernie Smith's *Tedium* is unlike any other publication on the web.

---

## All-Time Favorites

An ongoing list of some of my absolute favorite reads on The Net.

* "[Let's Learn About Waveforms](https://pudding.cool/2018/02/waveforms/)" | *The Pudding*
* "[The Lottery Hackers](https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/)" | *Huffpost Highline*
* "[The Curse of the Bahia Emerald](https://www.wired.com/2017/03/curse-bahia-emerald-giant-green-rock-wreaks-havoc-ruins-lives/)" | *Wired*
* "[The Secret Rules of The Internet](https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderator-history-youtube-facebook-reddit-censorship-free-speech)" | *The Verge*
* "[Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/my-joe-rogan-experience/594802/)" | *The Atlantic*
* "[The Galaxy-Sized Video Game](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/world-without-end-raffi-khatchadourian)" | *The New Yorker*
* "[Billions Registered](https://www.wired.com/1994/10/mcdonalds/)" | *Wired*
* "[Philip Roth doesn’t live here anymore](https://forward.com/culture/446516/philip-roth-russ-murdock-grave-house-connecticut-litchfield/)" | *Forward*
* "[The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/)" | *The Atlantic*
* "[The Californian Ideology](https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology)" | *Mute*
* "[Disruption: A Manifesto](https://logicmag.io/intelligence/disruption-a-manifesto/)" | *Logic Magazine*
* "[Rediscovering the Small Web](https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/)" | Parimal Satyal
* "[Is Google Making Us Stupid?](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/)" | *The Atlantic*
* "[The myth of an objective press benefits the powerful at the expense of the people](https://www.mediamatters.org/howard-kurtz/myth-objective-press-benefits-powerful-expense-people)" | *Media Matters*
* "[Spies, Lies, and Stonewalling: What It’s Like to Report on Facebook](https://www.cjr.org/special_report/reporting-on-facebook.php)" | *Columbia Journalism Review*
* "[Raiders of the Lost Web](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/raiders-of-the-lost-web/409210/)" | *The Atlantic*
* "[It wasn’t easy to describe The Outline. That’s what made it great.](https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/the-outline-its-for-you.php)" | *Columbia Journalism Review*
* "[Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool](https://subpixel.space/entries/come-for-the-network-pay-for-the-tool/)" | Toby Shorin
* "[The Crisis of Intimacy in the Age of Digital Connectivity](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/crisis-intimacy-age-digital-connectivity/)" | *Los Angeles Review of Books*
* "[Space, Time and DVR Mechanics](https://grantland.com/features/space-time-dvr-mechanics/)" | *Grantland*
* "[Fish: A Tap Essay](https://www.robinsloan.com/fish/)" | Robin Sloan
* "[The Sentence is a Lonely Place](https://believermag.com/the-sentence-is-a-lonely-place) | *The Believer*
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# Reading

![Compaq Portable 386](https://i.snap.as/niq0aqH.png)

I read a lot on the web about technology, cars, music and media. If you'd like to keep up with me, join my/*Extratone*'s [**reading list channel**](http://bit.ly/extraread) on Discord, which has also served as a place for others to share their favorite links as well. Using the [Discord chat exporter](https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter), I've created an **[HTML file](http://bit.ly/extraread42020)** of the channel's **entire history** as of April 6th, 2020.

I've posted some of my all-time favorites from the past few years in [this Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1247152287379861504).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">here is the entire history of the Extratone reading list as of today in HTML format. literally years of good reads! <a href="https://t.co/8wFoiDE7SU">https://t.co/8wFoiDE7SU</a></p>&mdash; David Blue (@NeoYokel) <a href="https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1247152287379861504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Another great tool I recently discovered is [**Reading**](https://www.reading.am/DavidBlue), which appears to be everything I've ever wanted (but never found from services like Pocket) in a public reading list. You can even subscribe to [my profile's RSS feed](https://www.reading.am/DavidBlue/list.rss)!

---

## Favorite Newsletters

An ongoing list of my favorite email publications.

### [Art & Letters Daily](https://aldaily.com/)

*The Chronicle of Education*'s [ancient](http://web.archive.org/web/19990203021844/http://www.nzine.co.nz/features/ald.html) "web portal" is a bit overwhelming, but their [weekly newsletter](https://aldaily.com/subscribe/) has somehow become perhaps my most unmissable email subscription.

### [Nextdraft](https://nextdraft.com/)

Dave Pell's [*Nextdraft* newsletter](https://nextdraft.com/) is the only hard news mailer I would ever recommend. If you can stand his puns, you need to subscribe. I've recently reduced my actual clicking on hardnews in a big way, so *Nextdraft* has become the singular hard news-ish aggregator I make sure to skim regularly.

### [The Browser](https://thebrowser.com/)

Edited by [Robert Cottrell](https://robertcottrell.com/) and [Caroline Crampton](http://carolinecrampton.com/), [*The Browser*](https://thebrowser.com/) always adds *something* to my week.

### [The Media Today](https://www.cjr.org/email)

The [*Columbia Journalism Review*](https://www.cjr.org)'s daily in-depth email is perhaps the most comprehensive aggregate of media news available.

### [Memoir Monday](https://memoirmonday.substack.com/about)

A weekly collaborative effort between [Catapult](https://catapult.co/), [Longreads](https://longreads.com/), [Granta](https://granta.com/), [Guernica](https://www.guernicamag.com/), [Narratively](https://narratively.com/), and [The Rumpus](https://therumpus.net/) that provides memoirs I *actually want to read*, which is astonishing.

### [Tedium](https://tedium.co/)

Ernie Smith's *Tedium* is unlike any other publication on the web.

---

## All-Time Favorites

An ongoing list of some of my absolute favorite reads on The Net.

* "[Let's Learn About Waveforms](https://pudding.cool/2018/02/waveforms/)" | *The Pudding*
* "[The Lottery Hackers](https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/)" | *Huffpost Highline*
* "[The Curse of the Bahia Emerald](https://www.wired.com/2017/03/curse-bahia-emerald-giant-green-rock-wreaks-havoc-ruins-lives/)" | *Wired*
* "[The Secret Rules of The Internet](https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderator-history-youtube-facebook-reddit-censorship-free-speech)" | *The Verge*
* "[Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/my-joe-rogan-experience/594802/)" | *The Atlantic*
* "[The Galaxy-Sized Video Game](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/world-without-end-raffi-khatchadourian)" | *The New Yorker*
* "[Billions Registered](https://www.wired.com/1994/10/mcdonalds/)" | *Wired*
* "[Philip Roth doesn’t live here anymore](https://forward.com/culture/446516/philip-roth-russ-murdock-grave-house-connecticut-litchfield/)" | *Forward*
* "[The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/)" | *The Atlantic*
* "[The Californian Ideology](https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology)" | *Mute*
* "[Disruption: A Manifesto](https://logicmag.io/intelligence/disruption-a-manifesto/)" | *Logic Magazine*
* "[Rediscovering the Small Web](https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/)" | Parimal Satyal
* "[Is Google Making Us Stupid?](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/)" | *The Atlantic*
* "[The myth of an objective press benefits the powerful at the expense of the people](https://www.mediamatters.org/howard-kurtz/myth-objective-press-benefits-powerful-expense-people)" | *Media Matters*
* "[Spies, Lies, and Stonewalling: What It’s Like to Report on Facebook](https://www.cjr.org/special_report/reporting-on-facebook.php)" | *Columbia Journalism Review*
* "[Raiders of the Lost Web](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/raiders-of-the-lost-web/409210/)" | *The Atlantic*
* "[It wasn’t easy to describe The Outline. That’s what made it great.](https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/the-outline-its-for-you.php)" | *Columbia Journalism Review*
* "[Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool](https://subpixel.space/entries/come-for-the-network-pay-for-the-tool/)" | Toby Shorin
* "[The Crisis of Intimacy in the Age of Digital Connectivity](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/crisis-intimacy-age-digital-connectivity/)" | *Los Angeles Review of Books*
* "[Space, Time and DVR Mechanics](https://grantland.com/features/space-time-dvr-mechanics/)" | *Grantland*
* "[Fish: A Tap Essay](https://www.robinsloan.com/fish/)" | Robin Sloan
* "[The Sentence is a Lonely Place](https://believermag.com/the-sentence-is-a-lonely-place) | *The Believer*
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## Fall

I returned in late September with a partial recount of what I'd discovered: "[Indulging Once More in Digital Excess](https://bilge.world/digital-excess)." After exploring the concept of [*Digital Gardens*](https://tomcritchlow.com/blogchains/digital-gardens/), buying [my first pro-ready desktop PC](https://www.davidblue.wtf/hp-envy-desktop/) in 10 years, playing with Big Boy Adobe software for the first time, and reading [a delightful book](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674417076) documenting the history of word processing, I arrived upon the term *Software Historian* with which to partially describe myself. It doesn't mean all that much at the moment, but will no doubt be explored imminently on this Web Site.
I returned in late September with a partial recount of what I'd discovered: "[Indulging Once More in Digital Excess](https://bilge.world/digital-excess)." After exploring the concept of [*Digital Gardens*](https://tomcritchlow.com/blogchains/digital-gardens/), buying [my first pro-ready desktop PC](https://www.davidblue.wtf/hp-envy-desktop/) in 10 years, playing with Big Boy Adobe software for the first time, and reading [a delightful book](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674417076) documenting the history of word processing, I arrived upon the term *Software Historian* with which to partially describe myself. It doesn't mean all that much at the moment, but will no doubt be explored imminently on this Web Site.

Addressing "[The Social Dilemma's Dilemma](https://bilge.world/the-social-dilemma)" and "[Software Thanksgiving](https://bilge.world/big-thank)" in detail would be awfully redundant, but I would at least note how they represent diametrically opposed perspectives through which to discuss this stuff. Going forward into 2021, I think it's important that I hold short on the progress I've made in moderating my voice since 2018. *Digestibility* is not a virtue I am at all interested in, nor is it an appropriate one in which to invest any more effort. Any non-*radical* argument will inevitably prove enormously unoriginal, which makes for a huge waste of all our time. For the moment, that's all the editorializing I've done.

![Blogging vs.](https://i.snap.as/T4Z1w1nI.jpg)

## Three Point Oh

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- [ ] [In-Progress Drafts](https://github.com/extratone/bilge/tree/main/Drafts)
- [ ] [October 18th, 2018 Capture](http://web.archive.org/web/20181101000000*/bilge.world)
- [x] [May 1st Capture](https://web.archive.org/web/20200501203946/https://bilge.world/)
- [ ] Migrating WTF here, moving the domain to a NeoCities landing page.
- [ ] Migrating WTF here, moving the domain to a NeoCities landing page. (Gonna really miss those redirects tho...)



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