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The (In)Compleat Index to the Almanack Archive

Footnotes

Capitalism

Capitalism, Effectiveness of: "Capitalism: Good, Bad, Indifferent, or Just More Lombardy Flimflam?", Giovanni Battista Fuggero, Almnck. 1389.

Communism

Authoritarianism

Centralization

Free Markets

Government

HTML

Economics

Sport

Fascism

Racism

"Human Biodiversity" and Eugenics

The Singularity

Types or Late Binding

Religion

Boomers

Why Lisp?

Rust

Cryptography

Privacy

Surveillance

Atheism and Woo

Astrology, Usefulness of, : "Astrology Proof At Last", John Dee, Almnck. 1575; "A Small Correction Regarding The Heavens", Francis Bacon, Almnck. 1605; "No, As You Were", George Warton, Almnck. 1675.

The Culture War

Americans

Europeans

Arbitrary Enemies of Almanack

Jim Henson

Because we stole the idea of arbitrary enemies from him (the muppets hate puppets for some reason), and because it's funny

Ben Franklin

Stole all our ideas

Voltaire

Arbitrarily banned because of the fake quote about defending everyone (also he was a total troll at our French salons)

Saints

Saints are people who would hate to imagine that they hold their position entirely by reputation, rather than the product of their thoughts, and also who we would like to avoid suing us, or even assuming that we dislike them.

St Stallman of Ignutious

St Eliezer of Yud

St Anil of Trott

St Thomas of Ptacek

St Maciej of Maciej