What I saw on the web on 2025.4.11

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1. The World's LONGEST Klein Bottle
   by Cliff Stoll and Lucas Clarke
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7yKZzbyF74
   Cliff is such a goofball!
   via rss
   
   
2. Philip K. Dickens
   by Ward Q. Normal
   https://bsky.app/profile/wardqnormal.bsky.social/post/3lmfg4dbkkc2w
   seems accurate at this point ayup
   via FB
   
   
3. The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien’s fantasy world
   by Rob Ferrett and Beatrice Lawrence
   https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-cartographer-karen-wynn-fonstad-mapped-tolkien-fantasy-world-oshkosh
   Fonstad's maps are getting scanned! excellent news!
   via discord
   
   
4. Anachronym Challenge
   by Randall Munroe
   https://xkcd.com/3075/
   clever
   via rss
   
   
5. Reimagining Democracy
   by Bruce Schneier
   https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/reimagining-democracy-2.html
   a bunch of good hard questions
   via rss