- James Barrett’s wife.
- Yikes! Religious albums with unfortunate titles.
- Paperlike is a screen protector for that makes Ipads feel more like apaper when you draw or write with an Apple Pencil.
Post Category → Curiosities
Fighting Skynet
This low-tech Google Maps hack is so brilliant. Its a regular person waging asymetric warfare against an gargantuan, dehumanizing corporate AI. Everything about this reminds me that the science-fiction-future of my youth is happening right now, in real life, right in front of me.
Link Dumplin’s
- Generative placeholders lets you use generative art as image placeholders. What a wonderful idea.
- Temper is a simple little tool that helps you make a basic HTML file. (Via the always awesome Kicks Condor.)
- Legiblenews.com is a single page-a-day news recap sourced from Wikipedia’s current events and presented in text-only, static HTML (again via the amazing Kicks Condor)
- Boonsaikotik on Instagram is super beautiful.
- Holy shit glitch cats are a thing
- Ugurgallen’s Instagram is beautiful, fascinating, and darkly thought-provoking.
Link Dumplin’s
- The Inn at the Crossroads creates recipes from the Game of Thrones, and other fictional universes. They have even made cookbooks.
- Tiny-helpers.dev is a bunch of single-purpose, online tools for developers. (H/T to Waxy.org)
- I had one of these plushy mushroom stools in my room as a kid.
- The Weird Book Room at Abesbooks.com is hysterical.
Link Dumplin’s
- Once more, with feeling: You should start a blog! And Fast.ai has a quick, easy, and free way to to do it without any coding. Best of all, everything you post there is yours. What are you waiting for? Stop giving your words and pictures to Facebook.
- There is a real good pizza dough recipe on github (whaaaaat?)
- Here’s great piece on the YO app. It was such a simple and ephemeral thing, and yet it was perfect. I was introduced to it years ago by a close friend and we spent a glorious few months sending each other YO’s. From the piece: “Zen teacher Deborah Eden Tull says: ‘Attention is the most subtle form of love.’ That’s all a Yo is, really. Just a little bloop of attention.“
- And again with my tumblr thing. Another gold-medal post mixing Google data, Pokemon, and late 19th century linguistics.
OK Boomer
I know you’ve heard of BTS. At least I have to assume you have because I have, and I’m aware of stuff but I’m not omniscient. What I do know is that the internet has made the big world both smaller, and somehow larger at the same time, and if you couple that with the inexorable march of age the result is a sort of foggy apprehension of pop culture. So I’ve heard of BTS, I am aware that they have something to do with the Kpop phenomenon, and I’ve pretty much relegated that whole agglomeration to the not-for-me file. As it turns out that was unfair. Connect BTS sounds pretty damn interesting in this breakdown by Jay Springett.
Link dumplin’s
- Wiby is a search engine for personal web pages.
- Oldnet welcomes you to the old internet again.
- TT2020 is a sweet new typewriter font.
- This is The Guns and Sand Club. Its pretty much what it says on the tin.
100 Memes that Defined the Decade
Buzzfeed has a list of The 100 Memes that Defined the 2010s. The list provides insight into the sometimes inscrutable language of internet culture while doubling as a walk down memory lane.
Cameron’s World
Cameronsworld is a love letter to the glittering, now-defunct jewel that was geocities. There’s music, flashy animated gifs and lots of stuff to click. All clicks show you archived geocities pages.
Its like internet time travel.
Link Dumpin
Hello, I’m back from the internet! Here are a bunch of interesting things I’ve stumbled across.
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