Links

Connections to other places …

Art and Literature

• Anna’s Archive
  Metasearch engine and mirror for several popular pirate libraries, including Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and Z-Library.
• Closer to Van Eyck
  Extremely high-resolution images of the Ghent Altarpiece and other works by Jan van Eyck.
• Four Quartets
  An accurate and aesthetically-pleasing edition of T.S. Eliot’s poem.
• Living Worlds HTML5 Demo
  Mark Ferrari’s classic pixel art landscapes, animated to reflect different times of day via HTML5.
• 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.
• Ted Nasmith
  Fantasy artist best known for his landscape paintings based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin.
• The Thain’s Book
  A collection of stories from the unfinished works of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited for consistency/readability and presented as excerpts from Bilbo Baggins’ Red Book of Westmarch.
• Wayne Barlowe
  Concept artist and sci-fi illustrator best known for his depictions of demons and alien creatures.

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.
• A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
  PhD-run history blog with a focus on warfare and the ancient Mediterranean that manages to avoid the top ten most epic battles from ancient Rome presentation style that typically goes with the topic.
• The Greek Age of Bronze
  An authentically old 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 on Unusual Locomotives is a highlight.
• The Nixon-Presley Meeting
  National Archives page dedicated to the first and only meeting between Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley.
• 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 to hard science fiction.
• Open Source Society University
  A collection of free online computer science courses and textbooks, organized to replicate the curriculum of an undergraduate CS program.

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 anime Haiyore! Nyaruko-san, the closest thing yet produced to a work of fiction with absolutely no original ideas.
• Rotating Sandwiches
  Rotating Sandwiches.
• The Stinkymeat Project
  This is what happened in the summer of 2000 when I took 3 kinds of meat, 19 days, and 1,000,000 maggots, and stuck them in the yard of my unwitting neighbor. Not for the squeamish.

Games

• The Digital Antiquarian
  An exhaustive and unfinished history of computer games.
• noclip
  A digital museum of video game levels.
• 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 and Miscellanies

• 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.
• A Tea Addict’s Journal
  Long-running and highly-regarded tea blog.
• Zimmerit
  An online magazine for old-school mecha model kits and other anime fandom ephemera.

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