#rabbitholing — Public Fediverse posts

This is CogDogBlogged: "Virtual Painting Tractors"

In the fuzz of being laid horizontal on the couch with a flu that feels worse than covid, I glanced at the phone noticing an app I had not opened in maybe 8+ years (is there a name for these apps we just leave dusty on devices).

It’s called “Virtual Painter” and is in a folder with a few other iOS apps that were more commonly used a decade ago to do creative fun with images- you upload a […]

https://cogdogblog.com/2026/05/virtual-painting-tractors/

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This is CogDogBlogged: "The Best Holes of Curiosity"

… are the ones you dig yourself. After more years than I prefer to calculate, little matches the joy and super charge energy of a session of web rabbit holing, of hopping from one link to another, and finding something at the other end I might never have thought existed.

That’s what the web, with all its current baggage and slopification still makes possible- through the humble hyperlink, […]

https://cogdogblog.com/2026/05/the-best-holes-of-curiosity/

#cogdogblog #rabbitholing #Small #smallweb #webGoodDog

This is CogDogBlogged: "Chasing Raildog: The rabbit hole path to the anti-algorithmic edge of the internetz"

“Raildog is the Ansr” but the question is how the heck did I end up following a curiosity trail where logic and the dull stasticical parroting of GenAI leaves a mind wanting?

I blame / credit Jim Groom. He posted today of his pleasure in the saner mode of travel.

https://social.ds106.us/@jimgroom/116272950976482434

It got me thinking to my time living in little Strawberry Arizona. Travel by […]

https://cogdogblog.com/2026/03/chasing-raildog/

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This is CogDogBlogged: "Web Serendipity Machines"

Who would not answer “yes” when asked if they would like a dose of serendipity. A word that conjures a bit of magic. A rather well worn tag around here.

So I am coming back again to relish in my own weird obsession, not saving vats of time asking LLMs to do my tasks but worse, spraying that time with my web flashlight down public domain rabbit holes.

Flynn’s Free to Use Browser Extension […]

https://cogdogblog.com/2026/01/web-serendipity-machines/

#cogdogblog #rabbitholing #serendipity #webserendipity

This is CogDogBlogged: "Down the Rabbit Hole Chasing Fractals via the Grand Canyon and Animated Triangles"

There’s more to memory than just recall versus forgetting. I came across this brilliant read “To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything” and it downs like the broligarchy thinks they just need to toss into the algorithms is a machine that never forgets?

Forgetting is a feature of human memory“Infinite memory” runs against the very grain of what it means to be human. […]

https://cogdogblog.com/2025/12/fractals-grand-canyon-triangles/

#cogdogblog #rabbitholing #webserendipity

This is CogDogBlogged: "Back to Zero to Zillions via the Web Link Curiosity Trick"

I admit my weirdness. As a kid (and still one) I love math. I loved doing long division. I loved when my 10th grade whacky Chemistry teacher Bloom Friedmen taught us all about dimensional analysis for unit conversions all it is is multiplying stuff by one.

There goes a tangent again.

But math and this old book as a kid got swept up in another one of my link adventures on the web […]

https://cogdogblog.com/2025/03/zero-to-zillions/

#cogdogblog #rabbitholing

Hey @[email protected]
The other day I mentioned I thought I had contacted Scottlo when he was here on the west coast of the US. Sure enough, but it was way back in 2020. Anyway, that was my last contact. (I too used my archive of frickin tweeeets. cool in a very sad way) @barking
#cogdogblog #ds106 #rabbitholing #scottlo @cogdog @timmmmyboy @toddconaway @jimgroom

This is CogDogBlogged: "Chasing Down the Ghost Internet Tracks of Scottlo’s SRBs"

Apparently writers with orders of magnitude more readers than I are penning saga length whinging rage posts about how terrible technology is. Oh they keep moving the buttons on me! Teams Sucks. Google Search is junk. Technology is terrible.

I don’t counter the disgust of bad software interfaces (oh reminds me I have a post to do about the interface of my air fryer, I digress). But I find […]

https://cogdogblog.com/2025/02/scottlo-srb/

#cogdogblog #ds106 #rabbitholing #scottlo

Just went from #OpenEducation to #OpenRecognition to Atingi.org to AllAboardHE.ie to #VandR all the way @DonnaLanclos.

Sometimes, #rabbitholing is efficient and useful.

This is CogDogBlogged: "6x6x4 Chasing Blurry Bigfoot Down the Rabbit Hole"

I have a problem.

Last week, instead of investigating an issue with one of my project platforms, I was exploring via Google Streetview a town in British Columbia verifying that photos of certain mysterious creatures inexplicably had their faces blurred by Uncle Google’s algorithms.

In an upcoming “thing” in a few weeks I hope to be making a case for the power of maybe misusing my […]

https://cogdogblog.com/2022/04/blurry-bigfoot/

#cogdogblog #6x6 #GoogleMaps #privacy #rabbitholing