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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. This is CogDogBlogged: "Back from 2025 with Terry Anderson’s Amazing Story"

    Over at my OEGlobal perch I just scheduled a new recording session for the OE Global Voices podcast, this by request from the folks at Athabasca University that publish the open access journal, The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRODDL) as it is their 25th anniversary.

    And it was exciting to see the guest for the session include Terry Anderson, still blogging […]

    https://cogdogblog.com/2025/03/amazing-terry-anderson/

    #cogdogblog #amazingStories #webserendipity