Links
I have a habit of keeping tabs open on my phone on links that I went into a rabbit hole with and keep to re-read in the future. This is a place for me to dump these links so my terrible 100-tabs-open habit doesn't relapse.
Wikipedia
history
- Dance of Zalongo: Reading this (unrelated) Reddit thread
- Normandy landings: Always fun to dive into D-Day rabbit holes.
- Tarrare: I really thought he was fictional the first time I read about him.
- John A. Chapman: A frequent mention in Air Force combat and SEAL corruption. If you don't know him, worth a look into for Chapman's bravery and military corruption.
- 2011 Norway attacks: Learned from 22 July (the film). It's as important as 9/11 in Norway - worth a learn for history.
- Geir Lippestad: 2011 Norway attacks attorney for the terrorist. A good read into what criminal appellate lawyers do and believe.
- Kentucky meat shower: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs... but make it actual, raw meat.
- USS Indianapolis (CA-35): The worst shark attack in history.
- Jester: There's two in every poker deck, but as an actual job? Jester's privilege.
- 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf": Saw an out-of-pocket US Army Instagram post at some point.
science
- Survivorship Bias: Every time I look at the plane diagram, I keep thinking how smart it is.
- Fibrodyplasia ossificans progressiva: Weird disease! Looks straight outta fiction.
- Pinchbeck: I want gold!
- White phosphorus munitions: Israel-Hamas War. Good history and scientific read.
- Terminal lucidity: It's scary how this happens.
- Coastline paradox: Really feels like there should be a set length to how long a country is on its side, right?
- Color of water: I learned explanations of wavelengths, depth, the angle of light... but it turns out water was simply blue this whole time.
- Sedative: In relation to The Queen's Gambit.
- Hypothermia: Sections "Paradoxical undressing" and "Terminal burrowing".
- Battered woman syndrome: ...cases of physically and psychologically abused women who have killed their male partners.
tech
- Creeper and Reaper: Computer worms.
- George Dantzig: The legend who literally solved an open problem thinking it was homework.
math
- Collatz conjecture: Famous unsolved problem, what else is there to say?
- Homotopy: Animation but make it math??
gaming
- Disco Elysium: A universally acclaimed video game with dialogue-heavy gameplay mechanics.
- Konami Code: This used to be a secret code to animations in Google Hangouts (back in middle school).
- Bad Apple!!: I participated (minimally) in r/Place 2024.
- Doom (franchise): If it exists, it can play Bad Apple. (vs) Can it run DOOM?
- One-card: Uno, but make it trump cards; my childhood game.
- Geometry Dash: Looked this up when writing my 6-hand carillon arrangement of the music.
sports
- Eric Moussambani: Slowest swim time in Olympic history.
arts
- List of carillons in the United States: For reference if a fellow carillonneur ever needs to travel :)
- Ossia: O sia, "or be it".
- Francis Bacon: Apparently if he's your favorite artist, there's a high chance of being a psychopath.
book
- Arbeit macht frei: Reading Maus by Art Spiegelman.
- Principia Mathematica: Cool (old) math book. 1+1 is what?
- Uncle Remus: Joel Chandler Harris (white man) and his Black dialect books.
- Struwwelpeter: I want to learn German so I can read these someday.
- The Queen's Gambit: Hoping to read the book someday, I binge-watched the show in one go (9pm-5am).
TV
- Lewis Nixon III: Band of Brothers.
- Cameron Winklevoss: The Social Network.
- Deborah Czeresko: Blown Away (Netflix).
culture
- Feast of the Seven Fishes: Feast of the Seven Fishes (2018) film.
- Poe's law: Nathan Poe's contribution to the internet phenomenon.
- Mary Sue: My least favorite character trope.
phrases
- Jack of all trades: Jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of none...
- Drinking the Kool-Aid: Grim history behind the common catchphrase.
- Dum spiro spero: One of my favorite quotes of all time.
- Space Cadet: I thought this meant a USSF cadet for an embarassingly long time.
- List of military slang terms: Comes up in NYT Mini hints ever so often.
food
- International availability of McDonald's products: I was looking for McWaffles at Belgium and found beer instead.
miscellaneous
- Hangar reflex: I saw some TikTok video doing this. Never bothered to try it myself, but isn't it so weird?
- Social Credit System: I totally thought China had a unified SCS. I guess not.
- Cross of Saint Peter: Crazy how the satanic cross in horror movies was once a traditional Christian symbol.
- Robert Hansen: Frankly a disturbing read; why is it so detailed??
- Andreas Mihavecz: Wild how something like this happened in the late 20th century.
- Lists of deaths by year: One of the most frequently visited Wikipedia articles at all times.
- Korean Demilitarized Zone: Don't step into the DMZ by accident...
Papers
- Rowing and the Same-Sum Problems Have their Moments: The reason to bucket-rigging, standard rigging, and unconventional riggings in rowing shells.
- The Perfect Crime: A paper I found through a YouTube video - the narrow Zone of Death in Idaho.
- Death Squared: The Explosive Growth and Demise of a Mouse Population: AKA Universe 25. Happy mice, stressed mice, homosexual mice, asexual mice, and more.
Other
- American Dream: I cannot believe I read through this entire thing. One of the best representative stories of the American dream - extremely well structured and written (humorously).
- this TO that: Fun site I found through Reddit in a post where someone asked for help glueing things together.
- Operation Soda Steal: A famous, meme-y heist worth watching.