Mirror world

[liv]

The internet keeps advising me that I should use a web-page saving app so that I actually get to read what I want to read. I've ended up putting the free version of Pocket (aka Read It Later, which I think was a much better name!) on my Android smartphone. Mostly I find it useful because it formats webpages in a way that they work well on my phone which has graphics turned off to conserve bandwidth. (Well, most websites, anyway, it's really awful at Tumblr.) So it hasn't really changed my reading habits much, but what it has done is lead me to collecting a bunch of links from Twitter to download when I have wifi available, by which time I've often completely forgotten who posted them. So sorry for posting these without credit.

Anyway, two articles came up adjacent on my Pocket reading list which I thought I'd pass on. They're not very similar at all, but they're sort of both in the same genre of satire. They describe the default, unmarked norm in the way that minority interests often get written about. I found them quite funny, anyway:

Recommending books for grown-ups

There's nothing so overrated as heterosexuality describes standard, heterosexual, PIV sex in the kinds of terms that are often employed for discussing queer sexualities, making it sound slightly gross but almost fascinating in a why would anyone do that? kind of way. As such it's somewhat explicit, but text only.

Also sweden posted a GIANT Spotify list of 3,500 [sic] Nordic folksongs. This probably isn't interesting to many other people (falena, perhaps?), but the fact it exists is one of those things that makes me appreciate living in the future...

Comments

[falena]

I use Instapaper much in the same way on my iPod touch and the lighter format it saves webpages in is one of the features I like the best.

Ooh, thank you so much for the link to the Nordic folk songs, yay.

[liv]

I can't remember why I picked Pocket over Instapaper; I think it's probably something to do with better Android support versus Apple. But yeah, I'm not really using it to save webpages so much as to reformat them for my phone.

Yay for someone who shares my enthusiasm for extremely nerdy Spotify lists. I am particularly digging Kristen Bråten Berg and Esbjörn Hazelius from what I've listened to so far, if you'd like some recs. But that's partly cos I prefer songs over instrumental music in general.

[honilee]

Thanks for the reading recs; they look interesting and I've saved them to my Pocket account to read later.