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The Virtue of Owning Books You Haven’t Read: Why Umberto Eco Kept an “Antilibrary” ( www.openculture.com )

[…] Eco separated his visitors into two categories: “those who react with ‘Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have. How many of these books have you read’ and the others — a very small minority — who get the point is that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendages but a research tool.”

I found this old diy cellphone microscope tutorial and thought I'd share it ( www.instructables.com )

I’ve been wanting to get a proper microscope so I can do my own spore examinations to identify local fungi but it’s been out of budget. This looks like a much more affordable option so now off to find some plexiglass and laser pointers at the dump.

On Reddit and it’s federated rivals, Lemmy and kbin ( www.jayeless.net )

As you may have heard, Reddit’s decided to pull a Twitter and start charging an extortionate amount of money for access to their previously-free API, in order to drive third-party clients like Apollo and RIF into extinction. Under Reddit’s proposed pricing, …

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