DACHVARD

Pull the lever. The server picks one of the curated geekish feeds at random, fetches it live, and hands back a single post. No recommendation engine. No algorithm. The roll is the recommendation.

tags: rss, blogroll, random, tool, reading

Fifty-two quotations from the English Wikiquote, plus three vignettes — on Beauty (2009), on oikophilia, the love of home (Green Philosophy, 2012), and on the working life as Scruton lived it after dinner (I Drink Therefore I Am, 2009). Buslingthorpe · Cambridge · the Wiltshire farm · Malmesbury. 1944 — 2020.

tags: scruton, philosophy, conservatism, aesthetics, beauty, england, music, wagner, oikophilia, wine, hunting

Two random-draw cards on top — one tip from plonkit.net (5,278 tips · 137 countries), one from the r/geoguessr wiki (146 tips · 24 topics). Then a Field Manual of two visual hunts: study a single photograph and write what you spot, or find the named country among nine decoys.

tags: geoguessr, geography, plonkit, reddit, field manual, random

Fifty-eight proverbs from Erasmus's Renaissance compendium of 4,151 classical adages — each with Latin, English, and Erasmus's commentary. A random draw, then seven instructive games: match the Latin, diagnose your situation, pair the opposites, apply it today, Festina lente, the rhetorician, and your own commonplace book.

tags: adages, proverbs, erasmus, renaissance, classical, rhetoric, humanism, wisdom

Sixty-three men and women in seven elements — polar explorers, single-handed sailors, desert wanderers, mail pilots, climbers, river-runners, travel-writers. The case against the comfortable life. 548 curated sayings across eight centuries, Rogerson's 524-quote commonplace book on travel (chapter accordion), two full books — Shackleton's South + Slocum's Sailing Alone.

tags: adventure, exploration, polar, antarctic, arctic, shackleton, scott, amundsen, lawrence of arabia, saint-exupery, slocum, nansen, mallory, bourdain, burton, chatwin, theroux, iyer, cook, lindbergh, hillary, tenzing, messner, harrer, livingstone, stanley, kingsley, bell, heyerdahl, basho, macfarlane, matthiessen, kapuscinski, blixen, muir, dalrymple, bligh, davidson, travel writers, courage, leadership, edwardian, expedition