Before I decided on my format change, I was going to space out round ups by three months and then only have 10 slots -- using this to create some selective pressure toward quality.
As it is, the real skill of going through a value bin is learning how to sort through for what is good and useful, so I will just be sending out my findings more in the style of a fire hose. This might therefore be the final round up post.
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1) So why is a ruler called a ruler, and what does it tell us about how the pre-moderns looked at political power?
2) On Sauntering, from a rightful urban descendant of Thoreau's from the 1920s.
A kind of philosophy distills itself in the mind of the saunterer. Painfully tedious as people often are, they have the sublime quality of interesting one. Not merely by what they say, but often by what they don't say. Their eyes—how amazing is the thought of all those millions of little betraying windows! How bravely they struggle to express what is in them. A modern essayist has spoken of "the haggard necessities of parlor conversation." But the life of the streets has no such conventions. It is real: it comes hot from the pan. It is as informal, as direct and as unpretentious as the greetings of dogs. It is a never-failing remedy for the blues.
3) Newton, Defoe and Financial Bubbles.
4) http://elizabethandrama.org/
Indeed, though most people only think of Shakespeare when they think of Elizabethan drama, Shakespeare wrote only 37 plays (a couple in collaboration) that we know of; happily, more than 600 plays from this era survive. This means that, for those who savor the potential exquisiteness of the English language, our ancient dramas can be the source of a lifetime worth of reading enjoyment.
5) Another maker channel I enjoy, Noho91. He has more equipment than my gold standard, but is willing to reach down more to useful low tech hacks to help with his projects. Representative example.
6) Cola di Rienzo and the basically led a 1340s French Revolution in Italy. The difference being he lost and didn't change the arc of events in the same way.
7) The Sibylline Books were Roman books that they consulted at key times, Foundation style.
8) Coooool.
9) Great discussion of technology and its effects.
10) I love the patter this man gives as he shows levels of complexity in drawing.
