Fun Friday Resources

Someone on Bluesky posted about pudding.cool and its fun collection of collections. The one that got me started was a history of dining in America as evidenced by restaurant menus over the years, as we morphed from Fine Dining to Eating Out. Have fun exploring!

Figures and prayers related to the art of rhetoric from a manuscript of the Ars notoria (Mellon MS 142, f. 13v), ca. 1225

I encourage you to read the article “Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge,” by Anne Lawrence-Mathers, over at Public Domain Review. The interest, for me, was not the idea that simply reading/incanting these pages would instill “instant knowledge” in me, but the very graphic nature of those pages. What would your instant knowledge page look like? [Lichtenbergian Assignment alert!!]

1) Go read up on Creative Commons licensing; and 2) Acquaint yourself with Cory Doctorow if you are not already so acquainted.

This one is just fun: What Wikipedia articles are near you? I keep looking to see if there’s a Wikipedia article about me yet, but alas, the universe has not yet begun to grind that exceeding small yet.