While Being A Rather Chaotic Person

The most popular link last time was the Luytens Crypt, with this piece about culling your book collection second.

1. I can feel myself becoming ever more algorithm-phobic. This is how I want everything recommended to me, these days.
2. I found this audio serialisation of Hiroshima, 8.15: The Lost Memoir by Kiyoshi Tanimoto and Koko Kondo equal parts chilling and fascinating. (Apologies to those outside the UK who might not be able to access this, it's a BBC production.)
3. We’re Taking Hobbies Too Far.
4. Using horror to come to terms with your own inevitable death.
5. A website where you can cast judgement on birds.
6. This is so extremely my sort of thing: someone listened to, and then ranked, the work of 24 lesser-known contemporaries of Mozart.
7. Thoughts on the Sydney Sweeney "Good Jeans" campaign, one year on. Did it actually sell any jeans?
8. I already liked Susanna Clarke's writing, but after reading this piece about her years of illness and her thoughts on Virginia Woolf, I'm now a committed fan.
9. This might be one of the best video essays I've ever seen. It's about a specific 40-second clip of stock video footage, and also about why we need images that are deliberately unmemorable.
10. A database of free, open-source, and/or one-time fee software that won't tie you into a forever-subscription just to use it.
11. The writers who wrote the most in history. G.K. Chesterton wrote the equivalent of an essay per day for eleven years straight "while being a rather chaotic person".
12. Nostalgia for Warped Tour and July 2007.
13. Hollywood keeps making films about people who play the cello because it's "the Meryl Streep of the orchestra".