Weekly Bookmarks

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week.

🔖 abcde - A

Better CD Encoder

Ordinarily, the process of grabbing the data off a CD and encoding it, then tagging or commenting it, is very involved. abcde is designed to automate this. It will take an entire CD and convert it into a compressed audio format - Ogg/Vorbis, MPEG Audio Layer III, Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC), Ogg/Speex, MPP/MP+(Musepack), M4A (AAC) or Opus format(s).

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The New York Good Times

An alternative home page for the NYT

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Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space

https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/visualizing-all-books-in-isbn-space/

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DC Tabular Application Profiles (DC TAP) - Primer

This primer is the best starting point for understanding the Dublin Core Tabular Application Profiles (DCTAP) model. With just the primer you should be able to create your first DCTAP. DCTAP is the product of the DCMI Application Profiles Interest Group. This and other work products of the group can be found at the DC TAP github repository. Other documents in this project are:

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feed-survey

A high-performance, distributed survey of RSS/Atom feed usage, autodiscovery, and quality in Common Crawl using AWS EMR.

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Maintenance begins at creation, so why are we not creating better?

What digital substrate could we be using for the different categories of digital record out there? How can we take what we know about digital preservation and, instead of restricting ourselves to one format, embrace plurality to enable the creation of rich, flexible, preservable records?

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Stuplimity: Shock and Boredom in Twentieth-Century Aesthetics

As “dispositions” which result in a fundamental displacement from secure critical positions, the shocking and the boring usefully prompt us to look for new strategies of engagement and to extend the circumstances under which engagement becomes possible. The phenomenon of the intersection of these affective dynamics, in innovative artistic and literary production, will thus be explored here as a way of expanding our notion of the aesthetic in general.

🔖 My Blog

Principles

So over my (relatively) long blogging journey I’ve accumulated some crust of principles. Ensuring that what I’m doing is kind and useful to people. This led to some decisions. Including ones that make my own blog maintenance slightly harder. But I’m ready to suffer if this brings something good to others. Here are things I formulated that must be true for my blog…

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Tyler State Park (Pennsylvania)

This is the park where John deployed his weather station.

🔖 Whole Health

Veterinary Care

Penny’s new vet!