Links
Connections to other places
Literature
- Anna’s Archive
Metasearch engine and mirror for several popular pirate libraries, including Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and Z-Library. - Four Quartets
An accurate and aesthetically-pleasing edition of T.S. Eliot’s poem. - Loebolus
Every public domain volume of the Loeb Classical Library. - Power Moby-Dick
An online annotated edition of the greatest novel ever written by an American. - Project Gutenberg
The original public domain ebook site.
History
- Apollo in Real Time
Real-time multimedia replays of Apollo 11, 13, and 17 featuring original mission control audio, TV and film footage, photos, and more. - The Greek Age of Bronze
An authenticallyold web
collection of articles on the arms and armor of Bronze Age Greece, with a foucus on the historical Trojan War. - The Museum of RetroTechnology
Strange and interesting means of communication, transport, computing, and power generation. The page onUnusual Locomotives
is a highlight. - Trivia Library (Archived)
An offbeat collection of historical and cultural fun facts taken from The People’s Almanac, originally published in 1975.
Science and Technology
- Atomic Rockets
An unapologetically nerdy look into realistic spacecraft design and other topics related tohard
science fiction.
Software and Tools
- Album Art Downloader
Searches your music collection for files without album artwork and automatically downloads the correct images from iTunes, Discogs, etc. - Aspect Ratio Calculator
A simple online tool for calculating the width/height of an image based on a given aspect ratio. - AutoEq
Tool for automatically equalizing headphones, plus a wide variety of ready-to-use equalizer presets for specific models. - BreezeWiki
Replacement service for Fandom/Fextralife wikis that displays pages without ads, videos, and other obnoxious social media features. Also features a browser extension that automatically redirects to independently-run alternatives. - Dr. Link Check
Tool for detecting broken hyperlinks. The free service is limited to 1,500 links, more than enough for the average personal website. - K2pdfopt
Crops and optimizes PDF files to be more readable on e-readers and smartphones. - time.lol
Timestamp generator for a variety of formats. - W3C Markup Validation Service
Online validator for HTML, CSS, XML, and more. - waifu2x
A neural network-powered image upscaler. Trained on anime fanart but works for other kinds of drawings and photos.
Humor
- Nestflix
Netflix for movies that don’t exist. - NyaruReferences
A catalog of every single pop-culture reference in both seasons of the truly terrible animeHaiyore! Nyaruko-san,
the closest thing yet produced to a work of fiction with absolutely no original ideas. - Rotating Sandwiches
Rotating Sandwiches.
Games
- The Digital Antiquarian
An exhaustive and unfinished history of computer games. - Paean to SMAC
A complete analysis of the tech tree quotes, secret project videos, and overall lore of Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri. - Tally-Ho Corner
A computer wargaming and simulation blog run by one of the few tolerable contributors to Rock Paper Shotgun.
Blogs/Miscellaneous
- BLDGBLOG
A long-running architecture blog with a quirky writing style. - Dalong’s Gunpla Review
Korean-language reference site for Gundam plastic model kits. - Food Wishes
Straightforward, interesting, and tasty recipes presented in video format by the one and only Chef John. - hylobatidae
A now-defunct collection of interesting links and photos from the creator of the truly excellent Half-Life 2 mod MINERVA. - Zimmerit
An online magazine for old-school mecha model kits and other anime fandom ephemera.