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Welcome to the rebirth of your desire to write.

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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.

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In Jewish and Christian tradition, Jophiel (Hebrew יוֹפִיאֵל‎ Yopiʾel, "Beauty of God"), also known as Zophiel and Zuriel, is an archangel associated with beauty, art, and wisdom. Jophiel is said to be the angel that inspires beautiful thoughts in human beings, and is thus the angel most associated with artists, artisans, and others who would seek to create beauty.

Although angels are technically neither male nor female, and Jophiel can be depicted as either

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I've been running Linux as my only computer OS for probably ten years, and have been very happy overall with the tech and how to use it. Dealing with the community is sometimes a litttle challenging; many people find there are many gatekeepers, many opinions and yes, still many holy wars. One is the title reference, that "it's not 'Linux', it's GNU-Linux!" Frankly I see this as off-putting to many, potentially a barrier to adoption; yes, there can be some toxicity within the communities.

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News for Noders

October 1: Oh no! It's The Halloween Horrorquest!

October 17: Happy Birthday gnarl!

October 31: Something spooky will probably happen today. It usually does.

October 31: prepare yourselves for the XVIInd Iron Noder in November!

If you have an item for this calendar, /msg Tem42.