Ah, the digital era's literary masterpiece: a "403 Forbidden" error, now with a side of
#nginx. 📚🚫 Didion's existential musings have clearly transcended into the realm of server permissions, where the only thing slouching is the web admin's competence. 🤦♂️🔒
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/06/didion/ #403Forbidden #digitalliterature #webadmin #servererrors #HackerNews #ngated
Slouching Towards Bethlehem | The Saturday Evening Post
In her transformative essay from 1967, Joan Didion takes a closer look at the dark side of the Haight-Ashbury counterculture during the Summer of Love.
The Saturday Evening PostOh, the irony! 🧐 An article about Beowulf's "What" that opens with a demand for
#JavaScript as if ancient epics were composed in HTML. 🍪 But sure, let's pause our digital lives for a cookie break to decode literary history. 🙄
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetry-news/69208/new-research-opening-line-of-beowulf-is-not-what-weve-eternally-thunk #Beowulf #Irony #DigitalLiterature #CookieBreak #HackerNews #ngated
New Research: Opening Line of Beowulf Is Not What We've Eternally…
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Ah, the "Ortega Hypothesis"—the latest thrilling addition to the literary canon of internet trivia! 🎉 Apparently, the real challenge isn't understanding it, but navigating through a maze of digital etiquette rules and obscure hyperlinks that nobody asked for. 🤖🔗
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortega_hypothesis #OrtegaHypothesis #internetTrivia #digitalEtiquette #hyperlinkMaze #digitalLiterature #HackerNews #ngatedOrtega hypothesis - Wikipedia
🤔 Oh, rejoice! 📚 Standard Ebooks is here to save us from the tyranny of poorly formatted public domain texts! Because nothing screams "liberated" like a laboriously re-typeset 19th-century novel! 🙄 Just the
#revolution we needed, if you’re a font enthusiast with too much time. 💁♂️✨
https://standardebooks.org #StandardEbooks #PublicDomain #Typography #FontEnthusiast #DigitalLiterature #HackerNews #ngatedStandard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.
Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.
😒 Another open-source ebook reader bragging about supporting a million formats. Because that's exactly what we need: more ways to procrastinate reading War and Peace. 📚🙄
https://github.com/koreader/koreader #openSource #ebookReader #procrastination #readingFormats #WarAndPeace #digitalLiterature #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - koreader/koreader: An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices
An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices - koreader/koreader
GitHub📚🤪 "The Book (2021)": Ah yes, another riveting read that’ll make you sprint to your nearest podcast rather than a library. 🏃♂️🎧 Who needs actual words on paper when you can just subscribe to a newsletter and pretend you’ve read them? 📩🤔
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-real-book/ #BookRecommendations #PodcastCulture #ReadingHabits #DigitalLiterature #NewsletterAddiction #HackerNews #ngated
The Real Book - 99% Invisible
Since the mid-1970s, almost every jazz musician has owned a copy of the same book. It has a peach-colored cover, a chunky, 1970s-style logo, and a black plastic binding. It’s delightfully homemade-looking—like it was printed by a bunch of teenagers at a Kinkos. And inside is the sheet music for hundreds of common jazz tunes—also
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