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- Silicon Forest, United States
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Not Your Run-Of-The-Mill Books
- A History of Communication by Mia Maluchi and Donald Walton
- Biking the Grand Canyon Area by Andrea Lankford
- Fallen Iron Curtain: A Diary of Operation Farm Ukraine 1993
- From Tool to Partner The Evolution of Human-Computer Interaction by Jonathan Grudin
- Howl of the Mountain King by Stuart Savory
- I Work on a Starship by Roberta X
- Knots & Anchors by S. Y. Afolee (pdf)
- Missives from Maravida by Sandy L. Davis
- Pluto's Realm by Elena Filatova
- Two Stroke Tuner's Handbook by Gordon Jennings
Blogs I Read - In alphabetical order because I like order.
Games
- 0h h1
- 2048
- 3D Logic Cube
- Bart Bonte games
- Blocks
- Color Junction
- Cubox 3
- Deduction
- DOGE2048
- Entanglement
- Equilibria - Won't play on Chromebook.
- Fe[26]
- Flood It
- Geoguesser - Where in the world?
- Gravity
- Grow family of games
- Hexagon of Worms
- Industrial Zombie
- Initial Conditions
- Isoball 2
- Jigsaw Planet
- Jumble
- Linez - Dead?
- Link All - Chromebook only
- Lite-Bot
- Little Alchemy
- Little Wheel
- Mahjong
- Minesweeper
- Minim
- Numbrix
- Planarity
- Psychiatric Hospital for Plush Toys
- Quento
- Spider Solitaire
- Streamline
- Sudoku
- Triplex
- Walk Home Drunk
- Zenge: Starborn - Sliding Blocks
Pages, some stolen, some original
- Albert A. Michelson - Career and Influence
- Amish Farmers
- Betsy Devine's Algebraic Limerick
- A Better City
- Blacklist - Kirk Douglas’ revisionist history
- Blood Oranges
- A Brief History of Iron and Steel Production
- Citibank in South Dakota
- Classic Kit: Sprengel pump
- Climate Change Explanation
- Cuba
- Cuba, Part 2
- DKnight MagicBox II Speaker
- Don Carroll Bliss Reports From India, 1925
- El Chapo Speaks
- Essential Science Fiction Novels
- El Chapo and the Secret History of the Heroin Cri...
- Emergence
- Flak Guns In The Brenner Pass By Frank B. Dean, 380th, 310th
- The Governing Cancer of Our Time
- How FBI super snitch Chuck Blazer went from steali...
- I Dropped Acid and Saw Into the Future: My Surreal First Time At CES by Erin Gloria Ryan
- If You’re Not Paranoid, You’re Crazy
- INVESTING DIMES: FAHRENHEIT 451
- Issues relating to the deceased
- Jingpeng Pass - Route Description
- Jury Nullification: The Right of Free Americans
- Life On The Anti-Aircraft Gun-sites WW2 by Joyce S...
- Midnight in Europe - Alan Furst
- Modern Day Slavery, Part 1 - Used and Abused
- Modern Day Slavery, Part 2 - How They Come
- Modern Day Slavery Part 3 - The Real Cost
- My Mathematical Moments of Fame
- A note of appreciation from the rich
- Notes on Coalescent by Stephen Baxter
- Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says
- Old Stuff
- On hygiene, intellectual and otherwise
- Phantasmagoria
- Rick-in-Billy
- Rosetta Orbital Period
- Swinging on the Burj Khalifa
- Text of President Obama’s Speech in Hiroshima, Jap...
- Tunes
- Tron Battle dot C
- Veronal Poisoning
- Saving Paris From Islamism, by Barton Swaim
- Sammy's Linto Aermacchi
- Spy agency pulls back cloak on secret Cold War sat...
- Stomach growling on a diet? Here’s what and when t...
- Switchbacks over Stevens Pass
- Table of Places
- The Tunnel under Havana Harbor
- Water Injection
- Weight
- When I Landed The War Was Over
- Why Prewar Car Engines Need Bearings Made From Scr...
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- The Mother of All Dohickeys
- Thinking about Guns, Or Not
- The Future Connectivity of All Things, Large and S...
- Quote of the Day
- Comedy. Or Not.
- 500
- Storytellers
- What Goes Around
- Power to the People
- Air Compressor Project
- Dogs on Drugs
- Diamond Age
- Quote of the Day
- Quote of the Day
- Spreadsheet Monkeyshines
- Zombie Detector
- Half of Nothing
- Glue & Mirror
- Bond Rates
- George Orwell and Father Christmas
- Battery Testing
- Bank Fees
- Deadly Dangerous Copra
- The Fourth Man
- Costco Executive Membership
- The Masses Versus Useful
- Hanna
- Quote of the Day
- Gas
- Quote of the Day
- Tab Clearing
- Contact
- Disaster
- Jack's Jury Duty
- Nursery Rhymes
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