_why's Estate

Hey, welcome to my collection of why the lucky stiff links. Everything _why has published on the internet should be accessible from here. It works sort of like a museum that sells maps. Many of his abandoned writings are mirrored locally here, and everything else is through external links. To download the Estate perhaps for local viewing, get why.zip (5.4 MB).

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Code

I believe whymirror.github.com has it all taken care of. Still, let's replicate the list of projects here, for convenience and effect.

Writings

Pictures

Music

Videos

Miscellaneous

Notes

1 _why's incidents are inspired by Daniil Kharms' Incidences. Kharms is a large influence on _why: "Gogol and Kafka and Kharms (and anything Oberiu) hold the lion's share in my mind's governing committee."

2 _why created The Preeventualist to go along with his Poignant Guide. It's a philosophy he made up for the book. It comes up in chapter 6, right at the beginning. Read shack_a_nerd's story about this, you'll love it!!

3 Soccer Riot Magazine appears to be _why's first website. I hope he doesn't mind me drawing attention to it. I'm not sure what he thinks of these old writings and I am worried that he doesn't want them elevated like this. But I will elevate them nonetheless, as I find them just as valuable as any of his other works. Still, I purposely didn't provide any links to the various well-hidden pages on the site. There's a lot of flash and the site is choppy and unorganized. So you'll have to blaze through it yourself, as _why intended. (If you want to make sure you don't miss a thing, you can always browse the directory yourself.)

4 My Rails Blob is a satirical Ruby on Rails blog by _why. On the Lake by the Snacks is part of the Ten-sided project, for which _why is listed as a writer.

5 _why drew an illustration for each chapter of The Ruby Programming Language. They appear at the beginning of each chapter and are all available for viewing through the Google Preview of the book on the website linked to.

6 (.~) what a quiet stiff (~.) was a photoblog by _why. He talks about it in one of his Advogato entries.

This page is totally mutable! Just send in to jeremy.ruten@gmail.com with your rousing list of ideas.

And stroll anytime to the Estate's commit cottage to keep up on any updates that may take place!