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25. OneStarReview.net

    OneStarReview.net is Clint Zehner's response to what he jokingly calls the “constant business need for validation.” It provides short replies to requests for ratings, recommendations, surveys, and reviews—including requests that make little...

26. Operation Paperclip

    Clint’s 2019 redesign gives Universal Paperclips a production-console interface and keyboard shortcuts for working in batches.

27. Pet Savers of Shreveport Website

    The Pet Savers of Shreveport website is a long-running design and development project by Clint Zehner. He first built it in 2006 as a surprise for his mother, who had founded Pet Savers in 2005. What began as a site he maintained himself...

28. The Primordial Singularity

    The primordial singularity is the hypothetical beginning of the Big Bang reached by tracing the universe's expansion backward in classical general relativity, where density and spacetime curvature become unbounded. Whether such a state...

29. The Road Under the Hill

    Maeve follows a road beneath the hill into Faerie, where curiosity becomes a rescue and one night changes a lifetime.

30. Running Underhill (Song)

    Four interlocking voices carry Maeve and a captive prince through Faerie toward a sunrise that promises escape at a lasting cost.

31. Running Underhill (Story)

    Maeve chooses a hidden road into Faerie, then risks her way home to lead a captive prince out before sunrise.

32. Ryanne Flynn

    Ryanne Flynn is a singer, songwriter, and percussionist in Sisters Erie. The youngest of the four Flynn sisters, she was nineteen during the band's 2013 U.S. tour. She is from Abbeyleix, County Laois, Ireland, and has straight black hair...

33. Silver Hollow, Vermont

    An arts-minded Vermont city with an industrial past becomes home to Arcana University and a community accustomed to the unusual.

34. Sisters Erie

    Sisters Erie is an Irish folk rock band from County Laois, comprising the four Flynn sisters: Aileen, Mary, Gael, and Ryanne. Their music draws on Irish traditional song and instrumental playing, with close vocal harmonies, fiddle, and...

35. Sisters Erie's First U.S. Mini-Tour

    Sisters Erie made their first U.S. mini-tour in summer 2012, with four performances in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. The visit came shortly after the spring release of their debut EP, The Coming Storm. A trip to the United...

36. Toes

    Toes are the digits of the feet. They help maintain balance and stability while standing, walking, and running. Source

37. Universal Paperclips and the Paperclip Maximizer

    An ordinary manufacturing goal grows into a universe-sized problem in Frank Lantz’s game and the thought experiment behind it.

38. VoTexas

    Clint gave Susan Shelton’s election recommendations a wider home while preserving the reasoning and personal knowledge behind them.

39. Wind & Rain Tour (2013)

    The Wind & Rain Tour was a nineteen-performance U.S. tour by Sisters Erie, running from September 1 to October 4, 2013. The itinerary moved east from Southern California through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, the South, the Mid-Atlantic, and...

40. ZDP Development Protocol

    The ZDP Development Protocol is Clint Zehner's framework for working with AI on software projects. It developed over time as he moved between projects, kept what helped, and turned recurring problems into working rules. Its concern is...

41. Zwikipedia

    Zwikipedia is Clint Zehner's personal encyclopedia, long-form portfolio, and home for writing about subjects that interest him. It brings together the projects he makes, fictional worlds related to those projects, and other ideas worth...

42. Zwolf Personal Intranet (ZPI)

    The Zwolf Personal Intranet, or ZPI, is Clint Zehner's evolving place for the information he needs and the ideas he does not want to lose. Its history reaches back to a personal intranet page he made in 2002, while the current application...