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#marginalia

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Ramin Honary
A fun thing to do on my computer/phone in a few spare minutes

I take a quick look at the “Explore” tab of the Marginalia search engine. Marginalia is a small, traditional search engine that indexes traditional websites, by which I mean mostly sites that are statically generated and not “single-page applications” (SPAs), things like blogs, wikis, non-corporate news, instruction manuals, free-to-read works of fiction, web comics, and so on. The “Explore” tab shows you some random selection of indexed web pages.

marginalia-search.comMarginalia Search Engine - Marginalia Search - Explore
#internet#Marginalia#SmallWeb
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chesheer

When I want to find something interesting outside the usual internet venues (if you compare modern internet to city we degraded from flourishing agglomerations to neolithic times with two-three places where you can go)... I digressed...
So when I'm bored I use search engines like wiby.me or #Marginalia (search.marginalia.nu/) with simple search queries to find some obscure personal blog and embrace simplicity of #smallnet.
These small search engines aren't great, so you never know what you find. But it will be something small, personal and AI-free.
And if you use StreetPass for Mastodon extension, you'd probably find new people on Mastodon to subscribe to in the process.

Marginalia SearchMarginalia Search Engine - Marginalia SearchMarginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.
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Erik

#HobbyStreak day 1187+8

Finished stuff. First my #Mordheim or #BloodBowl #Medieval #Marginalia. After some highlighting up the garbage contrast paints and finishing the bases i was quite happy.

Second my ancient #BattleMasters ogre for #RangersOfShadowDeep. He's hideous and has five knuckles on his left fist. But he's fun.

#MiniaturePainting #PaintingMiniatures #PaintingMinis #MiniPainting #OnTheBall #Wargaming #PaintingWarhammer #nerdlings @nerdlings

Medieval marginalia figures in white metal, all painted to resemble drawings from the margins of manuscripts. They're all set on bases with flowers. There are weirdos such as Smiling Squatting Horned Demon With Befuddled Face On His Tummy, or Happy Bearded Face With Bear Ears Purse On Disembodied Legs, or Massive Head With On Backwards Hooved Legs With Dog Head On Top And Hand Nose Holding Sword, or Belligerent Dog With Shield And Spear Riding Bunny That's Not Understanding The Dog's Orders, or my favourite Half Fox With Crowned Human Skull Head
Battle Masters ogre with Mongolian helmet and a massive shoulder and belly plate. He is waving about giant spiked mace and wearing and orange shirt and black trousers
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Erik

#HobbyStreak day 1168

Dramas with the eldest again for again very low energy. Applied texture paste around the feet of these nerds to hide the pudding bases, among others.

I'm still not sure if this should be a #Mordheim warband or a #BloodBowl team.

@nerdlings #MiniaturePainting #PaintingMiniatures #MiniPainting #Miniatures #Miniature #PaintingMinis #Warmongers #Nerdlings #WarhammerSocial #MedievalMiniatures #WeirdMedievalGuys #MedievalMarginalia #Marginalia

Bunch of miniature models on 25 millimeter bases covered with Vallejo beach sand texture. Not the models but the bases are covered in the texture of course. The models depict a wide range of things that occurred in medieval manuscripts as marginalia. There is a dragon wearing a bowler hat because that is what you get. There is a demon with a face on his stomach and another very hairy one with horns and bird claws all over the place. There are plenty of snails and dogs and bunnies involved in jousting.
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Tim Harford :verified:

Where to find me these days

The simplest and most reliable way to see everything I create is here on this blog, via RSS or email. (I don't share your email or use it for any other purpose.) Try it!

Audio You can also subscribe to Cautionary Tales [Apple] [Spotify] [Stitcher] or More or Less as podcasts.

FT Subscribers If you have an FT subscription then you may already know that you can click "Add to my

timharford.com/2024/11/where-t

Tim Harford · Where to find me these daysThe simplest and most reliable way to see everything I create is here on this blog, via RSS or email. (I don't share your email or use it for any other purpose.
#Marginalia
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Tim Harford :verified:

It’s Independent Bookshop Week!

I suggest that this is a particularly good week to visit your local independent bookshop and buy some lovely books.

If, however, you are not in easy reach of an independent bookshop, Bookshop is the website which donates 30% of sales revenue to an independent bookshop that you nominate, or 10% of revenue to a pool that supports independent bookshops in general. (They also

timharford.com/2024/06/its-ind

Tim Harford · It’s Independent Bookshop Week!I suggest that this is a particularly good week to visit your local independent bookshop and buy some lovely books. If, however, you are not in easy reach of an independent bookshop, Bookshop is th…
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

Minds in the Margins: Annotators Bringing Books to Life

“We recently had a remarkable copy of Apianus’s Cosmographicus liber (1533), a treatise on geography and astronomy. Its value lies in the extensive annotations, especially in the one on leaf XXXIV, shown below. The note corrects the text by adding the name of Columbus as one of America’s discoverers alongside Vespucci, and reports a learned tradition that America was known to Augustan Rome by quoting two lines from the Aeneid.”

peterharrington.co.uk/blog/min

#Annotation #Marginalia #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Peter Harrington Journal - Rare and First Edition Books · Minds in the Margins: Annotators Bringing Books to Life
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Jcrabapple

If you're someone who has gotten used to using natural language queries in search, Marginalia has a great explainer on syntax to use with keyword-based search engines.

"Search terms can be excluded with a hyphen.

Using quotes will cause the search engine to be as literal as possible in interpreting the query.

Parentheses can be used to add terms to the query without giving weight to the terms when ranking the search results.

Samples:
soup -chicken
Look for keywords that contain soup, but not chicken.

"keyboard"
Look for pages containing the exact word keyboard, not keyboards or the like.

"steve mcqueen"
Look for pages containing the exact words steve mcqueen in that order, with no words in between.

apology (plato)
Look for pages containing apology and plato, but only rank them based on their relevance to apology"

search.marginalia.nu/

search.marginalia.nuMarginalia Searchsearch.marginalia.nu is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.
#search#marginalia
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Tim Harford :verified:

My favourite books for children

An idiosyncratic list, although I am sure it contains few surprises...

The good people at Bookshop UK, who provide a website to sell books online which supports local independent bookshops around the country, tell me, "Read It Forward February ... will launch Feb 1st. Simply put, any and all children's book sales during the whole of February will result in a 10% donation

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Tim Harford · My favourite books for childrenAn idiosyncratic list, although I am sure it contains few surprises… The good people at Bookshop UK, who provide a website to sell books online which supports local independent bookshops arou…
#Marginalia
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Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

Putting aside quibbles about whether #PhilipKitcher's critique of #analyticPhilosophy is novel, I found #TimothyWilliamson's critique to be the kind of #romanticism, #anecdote, and unsupported speculation that's dissatisfying and deficient to empirically-oriented #philosophers like #Kitcher (see my #marginalia).

If I were #Kitcher, #Williamson's critique may not provoke a single qualm about my latest #book; it may only reinforce my concern about contemporary analytic #philosophy/#philosophers.

Page 6 of Timothy Williamson's accepted critique (2024) of Philip Kitcher's 'What’s the Use of Philosophy?' (2023) with marginalia from Nick Byrd. The main points of the marginalia are that Williamson relies two weak reasons to thin analytic philosophy is useful. First, analytic philosophy is intrinsically valuable because all inquiry is. Second, analytic philosophy is valuable because there are a handful of examples of in the entire history of analytic philosophy of an analytic philosophers' ideas becoming valuable later on (even if posthumously). Overall, there seems to be no compelling argument or evidence that analytic philosophy or analytic philosophers are generally useful. Some of the best examples of the alleged utility involve people using scientific methods to make ideas from analytic philosophy *become* useful — a sign that the ideas were not useful on their own. Given the lack of citations of evidence for its empirical claims and lack of argument the critique seems to fall short of basic academic standards.
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