Via tmn, we are directed to an attempt to better understand the pioneering science-fiction author Ursula K Le Guin (†, previously)—and more generally all writers through their routines, chapbooks and other faded ephemera—and chancing upon her digital demesne in her websites, one curated by her estate and the other archive-only, as reflection of an author’s public-facing persona, from a time when websites took effort and imagination and no standard templates were available or enforced and provides insights how people want to be remembered extra-cannon. More from Dirt contributor Meghna Rao at the link above.
synchronoptica
one year ago: compilation albums (with synchronoptica), more marketing tie-ins for 2001 plus academic SEO
five years ago: the Munker-White optical illusion
six years ago: the Coconut Song, the EU enacts Article 13, electronic assistants for hotel rooms, the US withdraws from the UN Human Rights Council, Canada legalises recreational marijuana use, unique churches in southern India plus reflections on World Refugee Day
seven years ago: assorted links worth revisiting plus the unwritten rules of the English language
eight years ago: sense of direction and handedness plus conserving the historic record in the digital age