Mackenzie's Site (https://www.tobymackenzie.com/blog/category/ideas.md) Thoughts & Ideas posts ==================== Thoughts & Ideas ======== -------------------------------------------- Trump: the act ---------- Mar 30th, 2026 in ideas politics Sometimes it feels like Donald Trump's whole political career is an act, as if … -------------------------------------------- Jan 9th, 2026 ---------- in ideas philosophy thoughts Do not feed evil, or it will surely grow. -------------------------------------------- Proposal: *daily ---------- Dec 9th, 2025 in ideas ideas english language words I propose that, for any word that ends with the suffix "day", the suffix can be… -------------------------------------------- Oct 25th, 2025 ---------- in ideas thoughts violence He who lives by the sword shall see violence as the solution to all ills. -------------------------------------------- Complete freedom ---------- Oct 11th, 2025 in ideas freedom power thoughts Pure or complete freedom is an impossible theoretical. There will always be co… -------------------------------------------- Ideas: Library after-hours lockers ---------- Jun 30th, 2025 in ideas ideas library Lockers would be installed outside of a library facility, accessible after hour… -------------------------------------------- Nov 4th, 2024 ---------- in ideas politics president vote I will be voting for Kamala Harris on Tuesday. I felt a positivity when she too… -------------------------------------------- Sep 7th, 2024 ---------- in ideas philosophy Our life is a giant puzzle, with a great many pieces that must be fit together t… -------------------------------------------- Jul 22nd, 2024 ---------- in ideas ethics philosophy To all wrongdoers, may you see, and atone -------------------------------------------- Aug 7th, 2023 ---------- in ideas toby constitution ohio politics vote Ohioans, tomorrow (Tuesday, the 8th) is the day to vote on issue 1. I suggest w… -------------------------------------------- CSS wishes: add to existing rules ---------- Jul 18th, 2023 in ideas www css wants Some months ago, I wrote a [2023 CSS wishlist](https://www.tobymackenzie.com/bl… -------------------------------------------- May 3rd, 2023 ---------- in ideas funny movie A friend of mine was commenting that *Jaws* got pushback for inciting fear of sh… -------------------------------------------- Ideas: Cascading Behavior Sheets, a declarative alternative to JS ---------- Nov 23rd, 2022 in ideas ideas www declarative js web I have had the idea for some time that the web ought to have a declarative form… -------------------------------------------- Nov 8th, 2022 ---------- in ideas toby politics vote I Ohio Voted. I'm an independent. In the past I have voted third party when I … -------------------------------------------- Ideas: Hybrid energy storage for electric vehicles ---------- Oct 27th, 2022 in ideas ideas battery car electric energy storage I would like to see electric cars adopt hybrid energy storage / generation syst… -------------------------------------------- Ideas: Waste material as shade structures ---------- Aug 6th, 2022 in ideas ideas city heat recycling solution waste I saw an article about cities doing various things to reduce heat, including li… -------------------------------------------- Ideas: Vanlife parking garage ---------- Jun 7th, 2022 in ideas ideas business camping car vanlife A parking garage would be built catering to vanlife visitors. It would have am… -------------------------------------------- Mar 15th, 2022 ---------- in ideas war Слава Україні (Slava Ukraini) ✊🏻 🇺🇦. … -------------------------------------------- Mar 18th, 2021 ---------- in ideas ideas funny Idea: A lodging establishment called Linked Inn. It would likely cater to busin… -------------------------------------------- Ideas: compute furnace ---------- Feb 18th, 2021 in computer ideas ideas computing furnace home Furnace with a powerful computer system providing the heat. Will use compute c… -------------------------------------------- Idea: layered E-ink plus transparent LCD screen ---------- Jan 24th, 2021 in ideas ideas eink eye-health lcd monitors A fully transparent LCD screen would be layered over an E-ink screen. The LCD … -------------------------------------------- Aug 1st, 2020 ---------- in ideas ideas funny Idea: A mobile shoe seller called Shoeffeur. -------------------------------------------- Jul 24th, 2019 ---------- in ideas ideas funny meaning words Today at work, I came up with the word "æffect" as a solution to the common con… -------------------------------------------- Oct 22nd, 2018 ---------- in ideas hero thoughts Part of me believes that everyone is a super-hero in the right circumstances. -------------------------------------------- Ideas: regions vote for governing state ---------- Oct 23rd, 2017 in ideas ideas federation government politics Each state would be close to sovereign, with general freedom to create and enfo… -------------------------------------------- Ideas: Remotely hosted personal site with home data store that syncs as client ---------- Aug 14th, 2016 in ideas ideas www data home indieweb security server site web This idea is based on my [Local + Proxy Remote Hosting for Personal Site](https… -------------------------------------------- Unofficial tagline for the movie "Groundhog Day" ---------- Apr 5th, 2016 in et-cetera ideas ideas funny movie tagline "From asshole to awesome in one day flat" -------------------------------------------- Idea: Single character TLDs for permashortlinks ---------- Feb 17th, 2016 in ideas ideas www domains indieweb permashortlinks tld I've been interested in [Indieweb](http://indiewebcamp.com/) lately, and have b… -------------------------------------------- Ideas: Local + Proxy Remote Hosting for Personal Site ---------- Jan 12th, 2016 in ideas www cache hosting indieweb selfhosting Hosting your personal website on a computer at your home puts extra indie in [i… -------------------------------------------- Maximizing blindness in science ---------- Aug 5th, 2015 in ideas ideas science Organization created to separate out steps of scientific method to help prevent… -------------------------------------------- Home Lighting: Sun-light, Moon-light ---------- May 16th, 2015 in ideas ideas designengineering home housing lighting Every room has sun-light and moon-light. Hallways, stairwells, walkways, etc. … -------------------------------------------- Taxes: Income Tax Simplification of Forms ---------- Apr 3rd, 2011 in ideas ideas government taxes Usonian income taxes are crazy complicated and a pain to deal with. They shoul… -------------------------------------------- Taxes: Sources Define Destinations ---------- Apr 3rd, 2011 in ideas ideas government taxes The destination of tax revenue should directly and rigidly define the destinati… -------------------------------------------- Post-Suicide Q&A ---------- Oct 19th, 2010 in ideas ideas toby It would be nice if you could field questions after killing yourself. Then may… -------------------------------------------- Socialisms: Government Provision of Essentials ---------- Apr 27th, 2010 in ideas ideas government socialisms This is somewhat a revisit and modified version (probably a better one at that)… -------------------------------------------- Teacher spot reports for knowledge check ---------- Aug 10th, 2009 in ideas ideas education School administration would on occasion randomly choose some teachers to write … -------------------------------------------- Appropriate living place service ---------- Jul 28th, 2009 in ideas ideas countries government housing location politics To help ensure people can easily move to the country best suited to them, there… -------------------------------------------- Education done like work flex-time ---------- Nov 13th, 2008 in ideas ideas education school stub reasons ----- - scheduling class around work, home, and other parts of life ca… -------------------------------------------- Presidential Advertising and Funding ---------- Oct 15th, 2008 in ideas ideas government politics The advertisements on the TV and radio and the costs associated are crazy and h… -------------------------------------------- Objective File System ---------- May 10th, 2008 in computer ideas ideas computing database file system This is a modification of part of a [previous post](https://www.tobymackenzie.com/blog/2004/05/05/fi… -------------------------------------------- the opennest market ---------- Feb 16th, 2008 in ideas ideas government In democracy, each person gets one vote equal to every other. The votes are ba… -------------------------------------------- Force multiple candidates ---------- Jan 19th, 2008 in ideas ideas elections government Each party must field in final election a number of candidates based on the per… -------------------------------------------- versatile home: an ideal ---------- Dec 12th, 2007 in ideas ideas housing The versatile home is a type of home which can be changed easily to fit any nee… -------------------------------------------- Workshop Paradigm ---------- Oct 28th, 2007 in computer ideas ideas computing organization stub apps + files organized by job/workshop example: music making workshop has musi… -------------------------------------------- congress and president money ---------- Jun 21st, 2007 in ideas ideas government Here are several ideas about money relating to the president and congressmen. … -------------------------------------------- Schooling: focus on life ---------- May 25th, 2007 in ideas ideas education government humans Schools are very focused on "academic" stuff; they need to give better focus to… -------------------------------------------- government provides info ---------- May 25th, 2007 in ideas ideas government Government needs to give info to the people, the people who need it, not just m… -------------------------------------------- finder desktop views ---------- May 16th, 2007 in computer ideas ideas computing stub similar to desktop paging type applications - these allow you to switch between… -------------------------------------------- schooling: variable length course duration ---------- May 16th, 2007 in ideas ideas education humans **timeless schooling**: a person takes a class to learn a certain set of tasks … -------------------------------------------- Ideas: mail to person, not address ---------- May 4th, 2007 in ideas ideas government Mail 'addressed' to a person or business, not a physical address. 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