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, or see below for more fun things. Best viewed on desktop.

Things to do: personal essays (rss?), art book/downloadables/my projects page, upload pdfs properly instead of linking lol, proper footer, tribute to blackmoor manor? Also, this page is getting long and probably could do with a good refresh/re-sort, stay tuned for that.

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

In light of the current rise of authoritarianism worldwide I implore you to read They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer

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; E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops, written in 1909; and Erewhon by Samuel Butler, 1906.

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

Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat

Internet manifesto by sadgrl

Capitalist Realism is worth reading. In the same vein, Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Piketty, and of course, The Communist Manifesto.

American Dreamers by Daniel Kazin

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 Doctorow 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.

Cory Doctorow, Nov 2024: 2028 General Strike. Read this essay!!!! And check out The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, No Shortcuts by Jane McAlevey, Authoritarian regime survival guide, Venture Capital Extremism, Simple Sabotage Field Manual, How Nonviolence Protects the State, Who is the real carnival barker? (Stay focused on what matters! Don't let them distract you!)

Out of everyone on earth, billionaires have the absolute most to lose. Don't ever let them forget that.

Internet/computer related

Bitsavers Archive of computing documents.

ClassicCmp Resource for enthusiasts of classic computer hardware, software, and documentation.

Cloudhiker Collection of interesting, weird or astonishing websites.

Computer History Museum Collections Archive chronicling the history and impact of computing and technological innovation on the human experience.

Gossipsweb Directory of handmade webpages.

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.

Museum Of All Things Nearly-infinite virtual museum based on Wikipedia.

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).

Vimm's Lair Console videogame archive.

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.

CIA Reading Room Archive of documents released through the Freedom of Information Act.

courtlistener Archive of legal opinions from federal and state courts.

cryptome Archive of secret, suppressed, and liberated information.

Goods Unite Us Browse the political giving of brands and companies.

governmentattic.org Archive of Federal Government documents obtained under the FOIA.

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

Litigation Tracker Follow legal challenges to the Trump administration's actions.

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

Opensecrets Track money in American politics and its effect on elections and public policy.

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.

Violation Tracker Database of corporate misconduct.

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

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.

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. I cannot recommend Project Gutenberg enough. They also have an audiobook collection.

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.

Search engines

tineye Reverse image search.

Search My Site Open source search engine.

Create things

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

Phoenix Code Editor In-browser code editor.

Shay Howe's Learn to Code HTML & CSS

Access things

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

EASY USSR Torrenting guide.

FMHY

ihavenotv Community managed collection of free documentaries.

MAS

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

tosdr.org Summarizes terms of service.

On neocities

Beanbottles

kopawz

things to browse

Cameron's World Tribute to, and archive of, oldweb graphics.

Dave Sutton's 3D gifs Collection of free-to-use vintage-style gifs.

Floodgap Gopher to HTTP gateway.

Gaga Media Archives Archive of material related to Lady Gaga.

Geoquest Interactive geography game.

Jim Sachs pixel art at randelshofer.ch

Mandelbrot Set Explorer Interactive Mandelbrot fractal.

Metal Gear Solid 2 Ending analysis published in 2002 at junkerhq.net

Minskytron, originally seen on the PDP-1 from 1959. I highly recommend exploring the rest of the projects at Masswerk as well.

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: "Not your ordinary walkthrough. Just the hints you need."

Vistadome Views Photographs from one traveller's train trips around North America.

yokai.com Yokai encyclopedia.

favorites

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.