Everything2.com reaches a quarter of a century on this historic day! Like the humble horseshoe crab this beautiful site has persisted for eons of (internet) time. To the outsider it appears as the common ancestor of a wiki and Reddit; walking a middle way between the discussion thread of the moment and the sterile articles of facts. To we souls sailing the node gel it remains the best place to dump our thoughts and feelings. For me personally, the purity of hypertext has always been one of the great strengths of this site. Some pictures may be worth a thousand words but there are trillions of sentences which carry the full beauty of a painting. Most of them have yet to be written.

It's arguably the case that writing is the greatest of human inventions because it's what let's us pile knowledge on top of knowledge. It's definitely the case that the world wide web exists at all because people wanted to share their writings. The internet has broaden exponentially since then but words remain.

Given the British reputation both on and off line as a nation where guns are incredibly tightly controlled, I'm genuinely surprised nobody has noded this in the 25 years this place has been active. And yes, I've checked under shotgun certificate and firearms certificate and similar as well. In fact it is one of the few nations in the entire world where the police are not routinely armed, which made the attendees of the George Floyd protests in London in 2020 chanting "hands up don't shoot"

I am home from the hospital! I had a heart attack on 31 October, so I spent my Halloween early evening in the ER in Davis before getting moved to Sacramento for observation and treatment. By the sixth they had confirmed evidence of a significant heart attack and determined that I had an almost complete blockage of one of the arteries that feeds the heart muscle. One scan later and they'd confirmed that a stent was not possible, but that they must graft on a new piece of vascular tissue to