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  1. CW: Article: Why I Am So Tired

    After dusting off and modernising a joke I first read in a chain email from 1996, I can tell you conclusively that the reason that I'm tired is because I'm overworked.
    Read more: danq.me/2026/01/09/why-i-am-so

    #article #dancast #email #funny #joke #nostalgia #publishedOnGemini #work

  2. CW: Article: Wikipedia @ 25: Necker Island

    Today, thanks to Wikipedia, I learned a lot about a miniscule Hawaiian island with an interesting cultural and archaeological history... after I found my way there from a random page about a hip hop album!
    Read more: danq.me/2026/05/20/wp25-necker

    #article #archeology #dancast #music #pacific #religion #wikipedia #wikipediaAt-25

  3. CW: Article: Wikipedia @ 25: Wesley Merritt

    Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th birthday, and somehow as a result I ended up reading about Wesley Merritt, who was the shortest-lived Governor-General of the Philippines!
    Read more: danq.me/2026/05/14/wp25-wesley

    #article #colonialism #dancast #history #philippines #spain #usa #war #wikipedia #wikipediaAt-25

  4. CW: Article: Wikipedia @ 25: Yousuf Karsh

    Wikipedia is 25 years old today, and in celebration of that I found my way via a Mercurial crater to the article about Yousuf Karsh, one of the most-important portrait photographers of the 20th century.
    Read more: danq.me/2026/05/21/wp25-yousuf

    #article #armenia #canada #dancast #history #photography #photos #wikipedia #wikipediaAt-25

  5. CW: Article: Nostalgia, Music, and Computers

    It turns out that I get nostalgic about technology in the same way as I get nostalgic about music. Here's some things that take me right back to being nine, eleven, thirteen and fifteen years old.
    Read more: danq.me/2026/01/15/nostalgia-m

    #article #arcadeGames #art #basic #boardGames #dancast #games #music #nostalgia #programming #programmingLanguages #roleplaying #ruby #videoGames

  6. CW: Article: Wikipedia @ 25: Lake Baikal

    Today's random Wikipedia article was about a kind of seal that lives only in Lake Baikal in Siberia, which turns out to be a really, really big lake. Like: it's got about a fifth of the world's fresh water in it; that's how big it is!
    Read more: danq.me/2026/05/19/wp25-lake-b

    #article #dancast #fish #food #geography #nature #physics #russia #science #wikipedia #wikipediaAt-25