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welcome
Welcome to my website! Here I have included links to various creations from around the web as well as some other useful links that everyone should check out. Click any of the sidebar links to get started on this page, or see below for more fun things. Best viewed on desktop. things to do: personal essays, art book/downloadables/my projects page, proper footer, tribute to blackmoor manor? Disclaimer: I "learned" to "code" on Neopets in 2007.....and you can tell.

welcome

Welcome to my website! Here I have included links to various creations from around the web as well as some other useful links that everyone should check out. Click any of the sidebar links to get started on this page, or see below for more fun things. Best viewed on desktop.

things to do: personal essays, art book/downloadables/my projects page, proper footer, tribute to blackmoor manor?

Disclaimer: I "learned" to "code" on Neopets in 2007.....and you can tell.

essays
These are some of my favorite essays, writeups, books, and articles. Many of them are related to the internet, but not all. They are not in any particular order. Please Stop Closing Forums: short, but rings true. The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same investigates the feedback loop of "aesthetic" coffee shops and similar spaces. Linked within it is Will the Millennial Aesthetic Ever End?, also worth reading. Similarly: Social Media Is Not Self Expression and E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops, written in 1909. Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed Capitalists want you to be constantly stimulated Bahaus to Our House Six decades of revolution with John Sinclair Invisible Man, by Lawrence Otis Graham Orientalism by Edward Said Capitalist Realism is worth reading. In the same vein, Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, and of course, The Communist Manifesto. The Ecological Impact of Browser Diversity How bad are search results? compares Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT. Janelle Shane's blog, AI Weirdness, is fun. I also highly recommend her book You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, which goes into how AI actually works, in particular how its "thought processes" inform its limitations. Also, ChatGPT is a Blurry Jpeg of the Web and The Year That AI Came for Culture are excellent. I also recommend following Slashdot, Ars Technica, and Matt Stoller's Monopoly Round-up for more news. Cory Doctrow is consistently good. My favorite essays of his are Luxury Surveillance, The Coprophagic AI Crisis, Tiktok's enshittification, and If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing. New by Cory Doctrow: 2028 General Strike. Read this essay!!!!

essays

These are some of my favorite essays, writeups, books, and articles. Many of them are related to the internet, but not all. They are not in any particular order.

Please Stop Closing Forums: short, but rings true.

The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same investigates the feedback loop of "aesthetic" coffee shops and similar spaces. Linked within it is Will the Millennial Aesthetic Ever End?, also worth reading. Similarly: Social Media Is Not Self Expression and E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops, written in 1909.

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

Capitalists want you to be constantly stimulated

Bahaus to Our House

Six decades of revolution with John Sinclair

Invisible Man, by Lawrence Otis Graham

Orientalism by Edward Said

Capitalist Realism is worth reading. In the same vein, Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, and of course, The Communist Manifesto.

The Ecological Impact of Browser Diversity

How bad are search results? compares Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT.

Janelle Shane's blog, AI Weirdness, is fun. I also highly recommend her book You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, which goes into how AI actually works, in particular how its "thought processes" inform its limitations. Also, ChatGPT is a Blurry Jpeg of the Web and The Year That AI Came for Culture are excellent.

I also recommend following Slashdot, Ars Technica, and Matt Stoller's Monopoly Round-up for more news.

Cory Doctrow is consistently good. My favorite essays of his are Luxury Surveillance, The Coprophagic AI Crisis, Tiktok's enshittification, and If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.

New by Cory Doctrow: 2028 General Strike. Read this essay!!!!

archives
Internet related anlucas's 88x31 collection Archive of 88x31 buttons. Cloudhiker Collection of interesting, weird or astonishing websites. Flashpoint Archive of over 200,000 games and animations. the largest 88x31 collection on the internet The largest 88x31 collection on the internet. Malware Museum Archive of malware distributed in the 1980s and 1990s on home computers. Old Google Archive of Google search results throughout history. The Old Net Proxy server returning archived copies of websites for a user-specified year and month (between 1996 and 2012). Wayback Machine Archive of the World Wide Web. Winworld Online museum dedicated to the preservation and sharing of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software. Stuff that will probably get me put on some list Blackout History Project Archive of material related to NYC blackouts of 1965 and 1977. courtlistener Archive of legal opinions from federal and state courts. cryptome Archive of secret, suppressed, and liberated information. Gaga Media Archives Archive of material related to Lady Gaga. governmentattic.org Archive of Federal Government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. JFK Assassination Records 5 million pages of assassination-related records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts. Office of Public Affairs Documents Archive Archive of US Department of Justice website documents. The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences Database of number sequences. One of my favorite sites. Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and Paranormal Events NSA's catalog of formerly classified reports. Virtual Absinthe Museum Archive of materials related to absinthe. LGBT related Digital Transgender Archive Online hub of trans-related digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world. Gerard Donelan's Lounge Archive of the work of comic artist Donelan. Independent Voices Open access digital collection of alternative periodicals produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century. Lili Elbe Digital Archive Documentation of Lili Elbe's life narrative. Queer Zine Archive Project Archive of LGBTQ zines with links allowing users to view or download electronic copies. Stonewall Digital Collections Archive of material documenting LGBTQ+ political, cultural and social history. Software AlternativeTo Alternatives to many mainstream websites and applications. Recommend searching by tags: free, open source. Awesome-Selfhosted oldgamesdownload Archival database of abandoned video games from the 70s, 80s, 90s and early 00s. myabandonware Abandonware games to download, ordered by year. Software Clearance Bin Uploaded software from a variety of sources, indicating in some way it was once a professional product.

archives

Internet related

anlucas's 88x31 collection Archive of 88x31 buttons.

Cloudhiker Collection of interesting, weird or astonishing websites.

Flashpoint Archive of over 200,000 games and animations.

the largest 88x31 collection on the internet The largest 88x31 collection on the internet.

Malware Museum Archive of malware distributed in the 1980s and 1990s on home computers.

Old Google Archive of Google search results throughout history.

The Old Net Proxy server returning archived copies of websites for a user-specified year and month (between 1996 and 2012).

Wayback Machine Archive of the World Wide Web.

Winworld Online museum dedicated to the preservation and sharing of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software.

Stuff that will probably get me put on some list

Blackout History Project Archive of material related to NYC blackouts of 1965 and 1977.

courtlistener Archive of legal opinions from federal and state courts.

cryptome Archive of secret, suppressed, and liberated information.

Gaga Media Archives Archive of material related to Lady Gaga.

governmentattic.org Archive of Federal Government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

JFK Assassination Records 5 million pages of assassination-related records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts.

Office of Public Affairs Documents Archive Archive of US Department of Justice website documents.

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences Database of number sequences. One of my favorite sites.

Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and Paranormal Events NSA's catalog of formerly classified reports.

Virtual Absinthe Museum Archive of materials related to absinthe.

LGBT related

Digital Transgender Archive Online hub of trans-related digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.

Gerard Donelan's Lounge Archive of the work of comic artist Donelan.

Independent Voices Open access digital collection of alternative periodicals produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

Lili Elbe Digital Archive Documentation of Lili Elbe's life narrative.

Queer Zine Archive Project Archive of LGBTQ zines with links allowing users to view or download electronic copies.

Stonewall Digital Collections Archive of material documenting LGBTQ+ political, cultural and social history.

Software

AlternativeTo Alternatives to many mainstream websites and applications. Recommend searching by tags: free, open source.

Awesome-Selfhosted

oldgamesdownload Archival database of abandoned video games from the 70s, 80s, 90s and early 00s.

myabandonware Abandonware games to download, ordered by year.

Software Clearance Bin Uploaded software from a variety of sources, indicating in some way it was once a professional product.

resources - academic
ABC CLIO American publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals; primarily history and social science related. Provides service to fifteen different online databases which contain over one million online textbooks. basesearch Bielefeld University Library's search engine for academic web resources; 60% open access. bioline Platform for open-access distribution of peer-reviewed journals published in developing countries. linkspringer Access to more than 10 million scientific documents, including books, articles, and research protocols. pdfdrive Over 225 million books in pdf format. Project Gutenberg Library of over 70,000 free eBooks. refseek Academic Resource Search. More than one billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines. science American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites; 200 million articles indexed. worldcat Search 20 thousand worldwide libraries for open-source e-books, articles, downloadable audiobooks, authoritative research materials, one-of-a-kind documents, photos of local or historic significance, and digital versions of rare items.

resources - academic

ABC CLIO American publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals; primarily history and social science related. Provides service to fifteen different online databases which contain over one million online textbooks.

basesearch Bielefeld University Library's search engine for academic web resources; 60% open access.

bioline Platform for open-access distribution of peer-reviewed journals published in developing countries.

linkspringer Access to more than 10 million scientific documents, including books, articles, and research protocols.

pdfdrive Over 225 million books in pdf format.

Project Gutenberg Library of over 70,000 free eBooks.

refseek Academic Resource Search. More than one billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

science American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites; 200 million articles indexed.

worldcat Search 20 thousand worldwide libraries for open-source e-books, articles, downloadable audiobooks, authoritative research materials, one-of-a-kind documents, photos of local or historic significance, and digital versions of rare items.

resources - other
Search engines Marginalia Independent DIY search engine focusing on non-commercial content. Highly recommend trying out browse:random tineye Reverse image search. Search My Site Open source search engine. Create things Beepbox Online tool for sketching and sharing instrumental music. blinkies.cafe Generate your own blinkies. The Cat-Tea Corner Recipe Collection Recipes related to tea. jspaint.app Browser version of MS Paint. Plaidmaker Create plaid patterns. photopea Browser version of Photoshop. rot13 rot13 cipher tool The Sad Bastard Cookbook A completely free cookbook for the zero spoons crowd. splitter Isolates audio stems. sedja Free online PDF editor. springhole.net Character and story generators. I recommend exploring the rest of this site as well. YayText Unicode text editor. My favorite style is "classified" Coding Codecademy HTML course Phoenix Code Editor In-browser code editor. Shay Howe's Learn to Code HTML & CSS Access things archive.ph Bypass paywalled articles. Calibre open source ebook manager, can be used for DRM removal EASY USSR Torrenting guide. FMHY ihavenotv Community managed collection of free documentaries. Oman Observer New York Times Service Read NYT articles without subscribing or using archive.ph. tosdr.org Summarizes terms of service.

resources - other

Search engines

Marginalia Independent DIY search engine focusing on non-commercial content. Highly recommend trying out browse:random

tineye Reverse image search.

Search My Site Open source search engine.

Create things

Beepbox Online tool for sketching and sharing instrumental music.

blinkies.cafe Generate your own blinkies.

The Cat-Tea Corner Recipe Collection Recipes related to tea.

jspaint.app Browser version of MS Paint.

Plaidmaker Create plaid patterns.

photopea Browser version of Photoshop.

rot13 rot13 cipher tool

The Sad Bastard Cookbook A completely free cookbook for the zero spoons crowd.

splitter Isolates audio stems.

sedja Free online PDF editor.

springhole.net Character and story generators. I recommend exploring the rest of this site as well.

YayText Unicode text editor. My favorite style is "classified"

Coding

Codecademy HTML course

Phoenix Code Editor In-browser code editor.

Shay Howe's Learn to Code HTML & CSS

Access things

archive.ph Bypass paywalled articles.

Calibre open source ebook manager, can be used for DRM removal

EASY USSR Torrenting guide.

FMHY

ihavenotv Community managed collection of free documentaries.

Oman Observer New York Times Service Read NYT articles without subscribing or using archive.ph.

tosdr.org Summarizes terms of service.

interesting things
On neocities Anlucas Beanbottles kopawz things to browse ao3statscraper Cameron's World Archive of, and tribute to, oldweb graphics. Floodgap Gopher to HTTP gateway. Geoquest Killifish Mandelbrot Set Explorer My 50s TV Retro TV experience (includes other decades) PQR A bunch of poems, quotes, and readings curated by someone at UMich silversprocket Independently published comics Texture Town Several thousand user submitted textures. UHS the Universal Hint System Vistadome Views Photographs from one traveller's train trips around North America. yokai.com Yokai encyclopedia. favorites crouton.net A classic Calculus Made Easy Originally published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson, converted to html by hand. I absolutely love this website. The Last Days of Foxhound Linking to my fave page so I don't lose it lol metal gear solid 3 Directory of information about Metal Gear Solid 3.