Saturday, July 26, 2025

recs, hacks, and saves

A couple of recs: 

This NYT quiz on dreams--I'm what they classified as "a big dreamer" but there's plenty I learned about how we dream in the process of taking the quiz. 

This list of most recommended books in The Atlantic. I'm horrified I've read so few. 

A couple of hacks:

If you hit a paywall and don't feel like supporting Islamophobic/Transphobic outlets like The New York Times or The Atlantic, you could use archive.is. Paste the URL of the piece you want to read into the second box (the one that says: "I want to search the archive for saved snapshots"). Usually, that should do the trick. 

I figured out this next hack myself! When I came back from last week's health nightmare, I found I wasn't able to leave comments on some (WordPress?) blogs like Nicole's, J's, and Jenny's. "Mod_Security" kept telling me that my server was "Not Acceptable!" (Threatening exclamation point and all.) But if I toggle my computer WiFi to my phone's hotspot, I can!

Pic: I saved this meme to my desktop years ago... Good save. And I guess those little things did save me keep me mostly sane.

2 comments:

Jeanie said...

That's a good tip. I like a lot of the Atlantic article titles but not the paywall! And the meme is great. And yes, I do that to stay sane too (but not in the field!)

Jenny said...

I defintiely want to read that Atlantic article- I'll try it using your tip. And what is this, you couldn't leave a comment on my blog? I wonder if anyone else is having this problem.
Glad big A is feeling better! Phew.

recs, hacks, and saves

A couple of recs:  This NYT quiz on dreams --I'm what they classified as "a big dreamer" but there's plenty I learned abou...