Whether it be our mobile phones, tablets or laptops, we bookmark things either for reference or to catch up to something later. I am sure one can learn a lot about someone's personality just by gauging their bookmarks.
So what are your recent 3 bookmarks, in whichever device you currently are reading this post in: Mine are:
I don't know if those are the three most recent because I have no idea how to look that up but they're quite recent: MAPfrappe allows you to compare the outlines of different countries/cities/regions by projecting them onto Google Maps. You can even create your own outlines. Very useful to get a feeling of how a big certain region really is. Resemble.js basically like diff but for images. Lets you compare two images. Geacron an interactive map of how the world looked (politically) in a given year. Really useful!
Chrome. And yes, they do settle at the bottom of the folder but I have different folders and just recently moved some bookmarks, so it's kind of hard for me to know which ones were the most recent. Hah, thank you! :) I'm actually more into history but those two kind of go hand in hand.Which browser do you use? I think the latest bookmarks usually settle at the bottom. But any three would do.
Looks like you are very much into geography! Super interesting!
My latest bookmark is Lichess.org, a free online chess platform with chess modes I didn't know existed. I've found myself drawn to chess partly because smart people are supposed to play chess, and people have been pressing me to be smart because I've shown some abilities beforehand, and partly because it offers to teach foresight through play, which is a great opportunity for someone who doesn't have it developed. I visit it almost daily, to play a game or two against computers: other people give it a lot of thought, which, for me, is still strange.
Interesting to note. Does this stem from a belief to be a part of the "smart" community. I very many times have insecurities of being smart or not so I bury myself in topics (like pop psychology) to get the social gratification of being "smart". It's just that I want to be more like the people I consider "smart". I am not saying that the above applies to you, i am just curious whether the thinking is similar as to why we get attracted to "smart" communities and our desires to be in them. (Hey, STEM circle-jerks are fun) What other topics do you consider to be "smart" topics? For me neuroscience and programming comes into mind.drawn to chess partly because smart people are supposed to play chess
You've answered the main question perfectly on your own. I'll just add that it stems from a deeper cause: for us to fit into the tribe, whichever tribe it is that we want to belong to. Being accepted feels good, and being cast off feels terrible. It is, of course, a more complex and interesting topic than that, but I'll leave researching it to you because I don't have the energy to dive into it. Finding an intellectual equal and enjoying their company is one thing; circle-jerks are another. They're both gratifying in nature, but where one moves you towards thoughtful discussions and rewards you for using your intellect, whatever it rises towards, for good, circle-jerking is using your intellect as a pedestal to make yourself appear to be bigger, more important than those puny stupid other humans, which promotes inequality and swelled egos for the jerkers and anti-intellectual ideas for their targets. Needless to say, neither is helpful or useful. As for "smart" topics -- Here, in Russia, knowing a second language is considered to be a sign of a clever person; a third language and beyond will make many people talk about you in awe. Things like advanced natural sciences are perceived as beyond the ability of a normal human being; where I live, even knowing physics rings a nerd alert - which is to say, I don't live in an academic neighbourhood. From that pattern, you may figure out the rest.I very many times have insecurities of being smart or not so I bury myself in topics (like pop psychology) to get the social gratification of being "smart".
Rebol stopped being anachronistic and selling a programming language, too late for it to catch on. Still, I remembered thinking it looked like it'd be cool if it wasn't a proprietary, commercial programming language, so I bookmarked it to play with at some point.
Vexillonaire | 99% Invisible podcast I watched and thoroughly enjoyed Roman's TED talk and I think the podcast is the exact same content so I haven't listened to it yet but it sparked a deep-seated desire to create stuff. I actually have made a flag before, using the Minecraft flag system which I then used in Kerbal Space Program, I like the simplicity of it but don't think it would work in real life. My other recent bookmark is Chaplin's speech from The Great Dictator set to modern music and imagery which was mentioned on here the other day, I just really loved the video and it's such a great speech.
The last three tabs I opened up in Firefox and have saved for further reading: http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/applications/top-5-best-itunes-download-alternatives-1262515 http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/ http://www.ghacks.net/2015/05/07/first-firefox-umatrix-build-created/
That uMatrix is interesting, I've been using uBlock Origin as I know there's been some dodginess with the other version so I would want to see uMatrix tested and verified a bit first. Policeman looks interesting, thank! The list of iTunes alternatives is not that good though, check out Alternativeto.net which quite rightly has Foobar2000 listed as the best software, as it is. :)