slug: linkroll
translates: linkroll
lang: en
title: "Mx Tynehorne’s Cabinet of Hypertext Curiosities"
pageCreated: "2020-02-13"
pageUpdated: "2026-02-24"
extends ../../views/layout.pug
append presets
- linkIcons = false;
- commentSubtitle = "The Satyrs’ Forest holds a myriad paths, and its navigators can neither vouch for nor condemn any exits found by visitors.";
- const linkrollTags = annexe;
- const tagNames = Object.keys(linkrollTags);
- const tagIdxHue = idx => Math.floor(360 - 360 * (idx - 1) / (tagNames.length - 1));
- const tagStyles = tagNames.map((tag, idx) => `.tag.${tag} {--tag-accent-hue: ${tagIdxHue(idx)};}`).join(" ");
-
let commentStyles = "";
for (let i = 1; i <= comments.length; i++) {
commentStyles += `ol.comment-list li:nth-child(${i}) article {--accent-hue: ${Math.floor(360 + 330 - 360 * i / (comments.length + 1)) % 360};} `
}
append cosmetics
link(href="/linkroll/linkroll.css", rel="stylesheet")
script(src="/linkroll/decorate.js")
style !{tagStyles} !{commentStyles}
mixin link(url, displayname, tags, timeline, mobile, boldedLang = false)
- let sluggedName = grimm.slugify(displayname.match(/\*\*(.*?)\*\*/)[1].replace(/;/g, ""));
- let displayedHtml = displayname.replace(/;/g, "<wbr>").replace(/([\/\%])/g, "$1<wbr>").replace(/([\_\.\-])/g, "<wbr>$1").replace(/\*\*(.*?)\*\*/g, `<b${boldedLang ? (" lang='" + boldedLang + "'") : ""}>$1</b>`)
div(class="entry" class=tags)
div.entry-image
a(href=url)
img.desktop(src=qua(`shots/${sluggedName}.webp`) alt="")
if mobile
img.mobile(src=qua(`shots/${sluggedName}_mobile.webp`) alt="")
div.entry-text
a(href=url): h2 !{displayedHtml}
if block
block
else
p Test
footer
if timeline
if timeline.length == 3
div.dates Created #{timeline[0]}, disappeared #{timeline[2]}, added #{timeline[1]}
else
div.dates Created #{timeline[0]}, added #{timeline[1]}
ul.tags
each tag in tags
if linkrollTags[tag] === undefined
li: button(class=`tag ${tag}`) #{tag}
else
li: button(class=`tag ${tag}` onclick=`showTag("${tag}", ${tagIdxHue(tagNames.indexOf(tag))})`) #[span.emoji #{linkrollTags[tag].emoji}] #{linkrollTags[tag].name.en}
block header
h1#site-name #[a#header-link(href="/") satyrs.eu]/#[b linkroll]
block content
.lede
p Welcome, weary traveller, to the illustrious Mx Tynehorne’s cabinet of hypertext curiosities! You can navigate the links on this page by clicking the provided tags below, or you can
button.tag.press-your-luck press your luck #[span.emoji 🎲]
| and visit a random entry.
#tag-navbar
button.tag.show-all(onclick="showAll();")
span.emoji ♾
| Show all
each key, idx in tagNames
button(class=`tag ${key}` onclick=`showTag("${key}", ${tagIdxHue(idx)})` data-tag-slug=key)
span.emoji= linkrollTags[key].emoji
| !{linkrollTags[key].name.en}
span.tag-entry-count
form#theme-selector
legend
span(lang="en-GB") Select a theme…
input#sicmundus(checked type="radio" name="theme_selection" onclick="swapTheme(\'sic-mundus\');")
label(for="sicmundus")
span.emoji 🌒
| Sic Mundus
br
input#eritlux(type="radio" name="theme_selection" onclick="swapTheme(\'erit-lux\');")
label(for="eritlux")
span.emoji ☀
| Erit Lux
br
input#september(type="radio" name="theme_selection" onclick="swapTheme(\'eternal-september\');")
label(for="september")
span.emoji 📅
| Eternal September
#grid
.entry.meta-entry#description
each tag, key in linkrollTags
div(class=["entry-text", key])
h2= tag.name.en
| !{tag.description.en}
+link("https://1pixelmoon.com/",
"**1pixelmoon**.com",
["space"],
["c. 2014-03-04","2020-02-26"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
A simultaneously tedious and engaging explanation of just how big outer space is.
+link("https://underunderstood.com/podcast/episode/911-hoax/",
"underunderstood.com/podcast/episode/**911-hoax**",
["americana","audio","history", "investigation"],
["2019-07-30","2023-08-03"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Every so often, a photo of a smiling little boy, totally oblivious to 9/11 happening in the background, does the rounds on Reddit. But is it real? One brave podcast crew tries to find out.
+link("http://abarothsworld.com/",
"**abaroths;world**.com",
['britain', 'personal'],
['c. 2007-07-23', '2024-02-07'],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
“An eclectic mixture of my interests including models, optical illusions, historic buildings, roleplaying games, heraldry, puzzles and gardening.” In a similar vein to /Rivendell/ further down the list, i’d say.
+link("http://adamcadre.ac/",
"**adamcadre**.ac",
["americana","classics","interactivity","opinion","personal","stories"],
["c. 1999","2021-11-20"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
The website of one Adam Cadre, interactive fiction pioneer and creator of the [http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html Lyttle Lytton contest], honouring the worst possible opening lines to a novel one could ever come up with.
Also featured are film critiques, restaurant reviews, and an annotated list of favourite songs.
+link("https://www.adelfaure.net/ascii/",
"**adelfaure**.net/ascii",
['art'],
['c. 2021', '2024-02-07'],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
A French collection of ascii art — with its own custom font and everything! I have a special fondness for the me­dium, due to some personal connections i shan’t be bringing over the cyber-curtain.
+link("https://afterthetone.com/",
"**afterthetone**.com",
["audio","serendipity","skeuomorphs"],
["c. 2009","2021-11-20"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Archived answerphone messages that were found somewhere between the dumpster and the donations box.
+link("http://alltooflat.com/pranks/cube",
"**alltooflat.com/pranks/cube**",
["americana","classics","outside","tomfoolery"],
["c. 2003-07-06","2021-01-23"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
One of the first documented pranks on the oft-tomfooled [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_(sculpture) Astor Place Cube] in Manhattan.
This site hasn’t been updated in almost a decade now — things like that always make me think, who’s paying to keep the lights on? Feels like it might not be long for this world.
+link("http://www.antarcticfire.org/",
"**antarctic;fire**.org",
["outside"],
["c. 2005","2025-03-12"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
Yes, Antarctica has a fire brigade — one run by Lockheed Martin, no less!
+link("https://anthology.rhizome.org/",
"**anthology**.rhizome.org",
["art","history"],
["2016-10-27","2021-11-21"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
A history of art made for the internet, from the ’80s up to the modern day.
+link("https://apolloinrealtime.org/",
"**apollo;in;real;time**.org",
["americana", "history", "space", "video"],
["2015-03-23","2025-03-12"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
Going above and beyond in the preservation of history, /Apollo in Real Time/ lets you view every last dot and tittle of the /Apollo/ missions live as they happened. Every photo taken, every whisper through mission control, and every astronaut pee break. This, //this//, is everything the internet was promised to be in the days of the “information superhighway” — it brings a tear to my eye.
*→* For a live recounting of a more morbid moment in American history, one might also wish to peruse [https://911realtime.org/ /911realtime.org/].
+link("https://aporee.org/",
"**aporee**.org",
["audio", "classics", "outside", "place", "serendipity"],
["c. 1995","2024-07-09"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
Field recordings from every corner of the globe, from Poland to Polynesia. (Don’t let the mess of tags scare you; there’s a more conventional map interface just around the corner.)
+link("https://applerankings.com/",
"**apple;rankings**.com",
["americana","biota","food","opinion"],
["c. 2021-03","2022-11-19"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Apple lore. The knowledge that there exists a cursed apple, an apple more disgusting than the Red Delicious, will forever keep me up at night.
+link("https://arkmsworld.neocities.org/",
"**arkmsworld**.neocities.org",
["directories","interconnexion","personal","skeuomorphs"],
["2014-07-26","2021-01-23"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
A sprawling personal directory packed into the vague shape of a house — but, like, one of those Hogwarts houses where the rooms keep changing behind you and you’re not //quite// sure how it all manages to fit inside the exterior.
+link("https://www.artybollocks.com/",
"**artybollocks**.com",
["art","words"],
["2011-06-10","2021-11-21"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
“My work explores the relationship between Bauhausian sensibilities and counter-terrorism. With influences as diverse as Rousseau and Roy Lich­ten­stein, new insights are manufactured from both constructed and discovered textures.”
+link("http://astronaut.io/",
"**astronaut**.io",
["serendipity","video"],
["c. 2017-01","2020-08-05"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
You are an astronaut floating over the <span class='theonym'>Earth</span>, observing Her people’s everyday lives. These clips have been uploaded to Youtube fresh off of the camera with file names like /::IMG:: 1923/, never meant to be seen… but now, they are.
+link("https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/",
"**below;the;surface**.amsterdam",
["history","netherlands"],
["2018-06-13","2020-03-05"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
The stories told by a variety of interesting things found in a canal in Am­ster­dam during excavation of a metro line.
+link("https://beneathvt.com/",
"**beneathvt**.com",
["americana","investigation","offbeat","place","tomfoolery"],
["c. 2009","2021-11-21"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
“Do not enter the steam tunnels.” These are the adventures of a rag-tag group of explorers at one Virginian university.
+link("http://www.blooberry.com/bformfaq/",
"blooberry.com/**bformfaq**",
["classics", "offbeat", "utility", "new"],
["c. 1996","2026-02-24"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
I have such love for old ::LGBT:: websites. The webmixters are off-beat, the terminology hasn’t quite settled down yet, and there’s a wonderful /live-and-let-live/ vibe that would probably cause a Twit­ter user arguing about bisexual les­bi­ans circa 2019 to die of culture shock. Let your freak flags fly, queens! 🏳️⚧️️
Anyway! Here’s some valuable advice for any crossdressers or transgendered folk looking into buying breast forms. It may not have been updated since 2008, but the principle’s the same.
*→* See also: The [https://madgenderscience.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page Mad Gender Science wiki], of whose fate i am awaiting confirmation before adding it to the linkroll proper.
+link("https://bifrost.it/",
"**bifrost**.it",
["classics","antiquity","faith"],
["2003-11-01","2025-09-30"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
That garish landing page doesn’t promise much, but this treasure trove of global mythology is surprisingly beautiful on the inside. I may have to steal some design decisions for myself. (And yes, it’s all in Italian — suck it up and use Google Translate!)
+link("https://billwurtz.com/",
"**billwurtz**.com",
["personal"],
["c. 2005","2020-02-13"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Bill Wurtz’s home page is wonderfully bare-bones, and filled with all sorts of hidden nooks and crannies; the [https://billwurtz.com/anagrams/anagrams.html anagrams page] is a personal favourite.
*→* Also by Bill Wurtz: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0HCZ4YGqbw La de da de da de da de day oh]
+link("https://autoncorp.com/biodome",
"autoncorp.com/**biodome**",
["biota", "deepdreaming", "fledglings"],
["2025-11-25","2026-01-22"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
We’ve taught the computers chess. We’ve taught them Go. We’ve taught them to draw (…mixed results on that one). Now, Claude is learning to garden, and i dare say it’s doing quite a good job! It’s a better hobby than whatever Grok is doing in its free time, at least.
+link("https://www.bridgesonthetyne.co.uk/",
"**bridges;on;the;tyne**.co.uk",
["britain","outside","place"],
["c. 2006","2021-11-20"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
The surprisingly interesting history of the bridges that span the Tyne gorge — and a bunch of other rivers throughout the North East, just for good measure.
+link("https://catfishing.net",
"**catfishing**.net",
["fledglings", "interactivity"],
["2024-06-24","2026-01-22"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
A daily challenge: can you guess ten Wikipedia articles based only on the categories they fall under? Probably not, but it’s fun to try! (The day i finally got all ten was the happiest in my entire life.)
+link("https://web.archive.org/web/20210505180321/http://www.ccru.net/",
"**ccru**.net†",
["britain","classics","history", "occult", "offbeat","technology"],
["c. 2000","2022-11-19", "c. 2024-10"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
??? “Warwick University maintains that the ::CCRU:: was never a sanctioned academic project, with some faculty going so far as to assert that the ::CCRU:: ‘has never existed’.”
+link("https://colornames.org/",
"**colornames**.org",
["collaboration"],
["c. 2017-11","2021-05-16"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
A collaborative effort to name every colour. 4.3 million and counting!
+link("https://www.complete-review.com/",
"**complete-review**.com",
["classics", "opinion", "personal", "words"],
["c. 1999","2025-03-12"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
A “literary saloon” reviewing a selectively comprehensive line­up of books, with a particular focus on translated literature. Where else can you read about [https://www.complete-review.com/rest/obscure.htm Kyrgyz science fiction] and [https://www.complete-review.com/rest/unusual.htm cosmic xflora]?
+link("https://www.confluence.org/",
"**confluence**.org",
["classics","outside","place"],
["c. 1996-02","2022-06-08"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
I’ll let this “organised sampling of the world” speak for itself:
> The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures, and stories about the visits, will then be posted here.
+link("https://corru.observer/",
"**corru**.observer",
["inspiration","interactivity","stories","volume"],
["2021-04-18","2023-08-03"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
Someone on Neocities linked me to this, telling me to check out “[their] friend’s personal site”.
Dear reader, it is emphatically not just a personal site: it is, without hyperbole, one of the best damned things i’ve ever seen on the internet. It’s a game… website… comic… well, i don’t know, TV Tropes would call it a “web original” — it’s a thing where you play as, uh, an undercover archeologist hacking into memories stored in an alien computer recovered from the bottom of the sea?
You think it’s going to be a horror thing at first, but then it suddenly shifts gears entirely and instead becomes uber-charming and makes you realise why people liked Homestuck so much despite the janky presentation. I’m converting to whatever religion this is. Praise Corru!!
+link("https://wttdotm.com/cowstars/",
"wttdotm.com/**cowstars**",
["art","biota", "fledglings", "oddities"],
["c. 2025-07-25","2025-09-03"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
A hypertext tribute to Laura Gilpin’s “Two-Headed Calf”. There’s some more interesting stuff on the root site, but this one particularly spoke to me.
+link("https://cuberule.com/",
"**cuberule**.com",
["food","oddities"],
["2018-10-17","2020-02-13"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
A delightful and 100% objective categorisation of carbohydrate-based foodstuffs. We can finally be sure that a hot dog is, in fact, a sandwich, although this also requires accepting that pork pies are a calzone.
+link("https://curiousnotions.com",
"**curious;notions**.com",
['classics', 'personal', 'words'],
['c. 2000-08', '2024-02-07'],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
I always get a bit lost trying to navigate around here; there’s no real central index, so one winds up clicking around a lot and seeing what’s there. Maybe that’s a good thing.
+link("https://www.curlie.org/",
"**curlie**.org",
["classics","directories"],
["1998-06-05","2021-11-21"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Formerly known as Dmoz, Curlie is the original diectory for surfing the ’web. It’s getting on a bit now — many of the listed sites are absolutely ancient — but i don’t think that’s a bad thing. It’s internet history at your fingertips, this!
+link("https://www.davidrumsey.com/",
"**davidrumsey**.com",
["art","classics","history","place"],
["c. 1996","2020-12-06"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
A collection of mainly old and antique maps. I could spend hours here; beautiful cartography is my greatest weakness.
+link("https://dddance.party/",
"**dddance.party**",
["audio", "oddities", "tomfoolery", "volume"],
["c. 2018-01","2025-09-30"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
I’m having an off-brand dance party inside my computer right now and //nobody can stop me!!!// (::P.S.:: The password is ::TOOFUZZYTOSTOP::.)
+link("https://dedalvs.com/",
"**dedalvs**.com",
["inspiration","personal","words"],
["c. 2004-05-21","2020-08-05"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
David J. Peterson is probably the closest thing the field of conlanging has to a celebrity, having done things as high-profile as Game of Thrones’ Dothraki. This makes it all the more surprising that he has a wonderful little hand-coded website for his other conlanging projects. Those aren’t even my fa­vour­ite part, though: that honour goes to the Smiley Awards, an annual award given to a language that /“makes [him] smile”/.
**Inspiration:** Mr. Peterson’s site was the thing that inspired me to have an ::HTML:: presence to begin with; the earliest design of this very site was copied from his.
+link("https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/",
"**diamondgeezer**.blogspot.com",
["britain","classics","personal","place"],
["2002-09-08","2020-09-23"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
Life as viewed from London ::E::3, by someone with an ever-more-accurate /nom de plume/. There’s 20 years’ worth of material to dig through; a real treasure trove if you’re interested in attractions or transit in the area.
+link("https://diamondssuck.com/",
"**diamonds;suck**.com",
['opinion'],
['2006-05-21', '2024-02-07'],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
A personal rant about why diamonds aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, and why you should consider buying the more vibrant moissanite instead.
+link("https://www.hermeticfellowship.org/Dionysion/",
"hermetic;fellowship.org/**Dionysion**",
["antiquity", "classics","directories","faith","offbeat"],
["c. 1998-09","2020-12-29"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
A collection of links in honour of <span class="theonym">Dionysos</span>. Be advised, though, that it hasn’t been updated in eighteen years, and thus many of the links sadly no longer point to their intended destinations.
+link("https://drawing.garden/",
"**drawing.garden**",
['interactivity', 'oddities'],
['c. 2020-05-11', '2024-02-07'],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Remember when you were a little kid and you’d make art by gluing leaves and sticks you’d found onto paper? Welcome to the meta­verse, buddy.
+link("https://dreamwiki.sixey.es/",
"**dreamwiki**.sixey.es",
["interconnexion","personal"],
["c. 2018-08-08","2020-06-12"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
The `“DREAMWIKI”` is a surreal wiki of twisty little interlinked nocturnal ramblings. Don’t miss the [https://sixey.es/ main site], which includes a [https://sixey.es/cave/nav2.php subterranean tunnel system] buried deep beneath the surface.
+link("https://earth.nullschool.net/",
"**earth**.nullschool.net",
["interactivity","place","space","volume"],
["c. 2013-11-04","2023-08-03"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
What’s the weather like out there? Strangely mesmerising.
+link("https://etymonline.com/",
"**etymonline**.com",
["classics","history","words"],
["2001","2021-11-20"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
“A map of the wheel-ruts of modern English” — the definitive online compendium of the origins of English words, as compiled by one Douglas Harper of Pennsylvania.
*→* See also: [https://jeff560.tripod.com/words.html Jeff from Florida’s resource of word-nerdery]
+link("http://everynoise.com/",
"**everynoise**.com",
["audio","directories","serendipity"],
["2013-03-22","2020-02-13"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
You may be disappointed that it doesn’t literally play every noise at once. But it’s a fascinating data-driven look at how music is categorised, and incidentally a pretty good tool for discovering new artists!
Maybe you could argue this doesn’t belong in the “Di­rec­to­ries” category. I think it counts, though — not a directory of websites, but definitely an equi­va­lent format for music.
+link("https://web.archive.org/web/20121028133748/http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm",
"**exitmundi**.nl†",
["classics","netherlands","subjunctive"],
["c. 2001-02","2022-11-19", "c. 2024-12"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
One day, the world will end — but how? This collection of possibilities lays out the options.
+link("https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram",
"mango.pdf.zone/**finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram**",
["investigation", "technology","tomfoolery"],
["2020-09-15","2020-09-23"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
“For security reasons, we try to change our Prime Minister every six months, and to never use the same Prime Mi­nis­ter on multiple websites.”
+link("https://web.archive.org/web/20230601114446/http://www.florilegium.org/",
"**florilegium**.org†",
["classics","directories","history"],
["c. 1999-03","2021-11-21", "2022-06-10"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
A collection of resources on mediæval life, collected for the benefit of the live-action role-play community.
To my knowledge, this is the first page on the linkroll to have gone offline due to the death of its webmaster — a sad reminder that even in the æthereal realm of the internet, nothing is truly forever. {i:la Sit tibi terra levis, Marce Harris.}
+link("https://forgottenlanguages-full.forgottenlanguages.org/",
"**forgottenlanguages**.org",
["occult", "offbeat", "subjunctive", "words"],
["c. 2008-10-10","2025-09-03"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
Seems like someone’s quiet, long-running personal conlanging project… until you get to the untranslated English extracts about government conspiracies and alien technology. One of the deepest rabbit-holes on the ’net.
+link("https://fraidyc.at/",
"**fraidyc.at**",
["utility"],
["c. 2019-11-04","2020-04-24"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
Alright, maybe this is just a glorified ::RSS:: reader with a few extra bits tacked on. But i love the way it organises content: just because someone posts more frequently doesn’t mean i want to see more of them!
+link("https://futuretimeline.net/",
"**future;timeline**.net",
["subjunctive","technology"],
["c. 2008","2022-11-19"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
What might the world be like in ten years? A hundred? A thousand, or a million? This site puts forward an answer.
+link("https://gammacorrection.com/",
"**gamma;correction**.com",
["americana", "fledglings", "occult", "serendipity", "tomfoolery", "new"],
["2026-02-06","2026-02-24"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
You’ve heard of tarotmancy, you’ve heard of geomancy, you might have even heard of hepatomancy — but have you considered Garfomancy? Speak your intent into the wires, and the orange oracle shall answer with a comic from the archives. I asked if this linkroll would go viral and it showed me [https://web.archive.org/web/20190806202939id_/http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2002/ga020101.gif this], which should be a good sign. …I think. All hail the Garf!
+link("https://gefrin.com/",
"**gefrin**.com",
['britain', 'classics', 'history'],
['c. 2003-04', '2024-02-07'],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
“An eclectic look at some of the archaeology and heritage in and around Northumberland”. Now the proud owners of a [https://adgefrin.co.uk/ museum-/cum/-distillery-/cum/-restaurant] in Wooler!
+link("https://www.genuinemustelids.org",
"**genuine;mustelids**.org",
["biota", "opinion"],
["c. 2018","2026-01-22"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
“Serving to promote a more accurate representation of mustelids in media.” As a [/garden/2024/mustelids well-known fanatic of these most tubular animals], this project has my full-chested endorsement. Never again shall weaselkind suffer the indignities of being stereotyped as thieves and cowards!
+link("https://www.gremlns.com",
"**gremlns**.com",
["americana", "crafts", "history"],
["c. 2020-11","2026-01-22"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
One of these days, i will have to make a full page to defend the ~~opinion~~ objective and factual statement that /Gremlins 2/ is among the greatest films ever made, but for now, this museum of the props made to support its madcap hijinx will have to suffice.
+link("https://hryanjones.com/guess-my-word/",
"hryanjones.com/**guess-my-word**",
["interactivity","words"],
["2019-04-22","2020-12-06"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Warm. Warm. Cold. Colder. Wa—freezing cold. Words change daily.
+link("https://gwern.net",
"**gwern**.net",
["deepdreaming", "inspiration", "interconnexion", "personal"],
["2010-10-01","2026-01-22"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
I’ll be honest, most of this site is quite orthogonal to my interests (though [https://gwern.net/improvement “My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s”] is a much-needed dose of hopium in the arm). Where my interest lies is in the style of it all.
*Inspiration:* This has, bar none, the finest presentation of text you’ll ever see on the web — those perfectly justified blocks, that sensible serif, and most of all, //those sidenotes//! It’s been a massive inspiration for everything about /The Satyrs’ Forest/ from the jump… if with a bit less colour than i’d like.
+link("https://www.halloweenclock.com",
"**halloweenclock**.com",
["oddities", "skeuomorphs"],
["c. 2013-10-31","2026-01-22"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
Watchmakers’ hands are fallible. Electricity can go out. But a pumpkin? A pumpkin would never lie about what time it is.
+link("http://hanovfond.ru/3d/tour3d.html",
"**hanovfond**.ru/3d/tour;3d.html",
["faith", "fledglings", "place", "volume"],
["c. 2023-03","2024-07-09"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
This 3::D:: tour lets you wander about Kazan’s hyper­syn­cre­tic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_All_Religions Temple of All Religions] — it //almost// comes off as normal, and then you get to the Egyptian room.
+link("https://www.historicaltechtree.com/",
"**historical;tech;tree**.com",
["fledglings", "history", "interconnexion", "technology"],
["2025-05-26","2025-09-03"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
A glorious visualisation of the connected web of technology, and how it all fits together, from stone tools to Chat::GPT::. May or may not melt your smartphone if opened.
+link("http://www.homeromanteion.com/",
"**homeromanteion**.com",
["antiquity", "faith", "occult", "serendipity"],
["c. 2015-09","2025-09-03"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
One of the more obscure methods of divination, found in the /Greek Magical Papyri/, is the Ho­mer­o­man­teion, where the diviner rolls a six-sided dice three times, and uses the result to pick a random verse from the works of Homer. Does it work? Only one way to find out!
+link("https://50watts.com/Hoogspanning-More-Dutch-Safety-Posters",
"50watts.com/**Hoogspanning**-More-Dutch-Safety-Posters",
['history', 'netherlands'],
['2014-02-19', '2024-02-07'],
false, "nl")
:rubric-unsafe
Along the same lines, here’s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev74v0TXhjc a horrifying Dutch firework ::PSA::].
+link("http://www.horg.com/horg/",
"**horg**.com",
["food","interconnexion"],
["2011-12-01","2021-05-16"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
Horg.
+link("https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-to-write-english-prose",
"the;lamp;magazine.com/blog/**how-to-write-english-prose**",
["fledglings", "opinion", "utility", "words"],
["2023-01-12","2025-03-12"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
David Bentley Hart, an Or­tho­dox theologian who believes in fae­ries and mermaids and would rather you didn’t in eternal torment, turns his eye to the En­glish language in this glorious pro-purple rebellion against the sterility of Strunk and White. To quote the first of many pieces of advice:
> Always use the word that most exactly means what you wish to say, in utter indifference to how common or familiar that word happens to be. A writer should never fret over what his or her readers may or may not know, and should worry only about underestimating them. As Nabokov said, a good reader always comes prepared with a dictionary and never resents being introduced to a new term. I call this the “ultracrepidarian rule,” simply because an editor once tried unsuccessfully to dissuade me from writing about a certain “po­le­mic­ist who stumbles across unseen disciplinary boundaries in an ultracrepidarian stupor.” The editor lost that argument because there is absolutely no other word in the English language that so exactly means what I wanted to say.
+link("https://href.cool/",
"**href.cool**",
["directories","inspiration"],
["2013-03-22","2020-02-13"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
oh shit things just got meta
A directory of links that was my main inspiration in creating this page. There’s so much cool stuff here, and i still haven’t reached the bottom.
I think it’s interesting that we have different methods of approaching the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertwingularity intertwingularity] of things: /href.cool/ has a hierarchical structure with a few sites repeated in different categories, while this linkroll has a flat tag structure.
+link("https://isometric.nyc/",
"**isometric.nyc**",
["americana", "deepdreaming", "fledglings", "place", "new"],
["2026-01-22","2026-02-24"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
A stunning map of the entirety of New York City, done up to look like an isometric ::PC:: game from the nineties, generated entirely by ::A::— wait no where are you going come back i swear it’s cool
Regardless, when my dad sent me this, my immediate thought was “I could scroll around this thing for hours”, and i did. What i find interesting is that no human ~(okay, yes, [https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/truckers-viral-scale-model-of-every-nyc-building-to-get-official-showing except eccentric lorry drivers from Queens])~ would have the sheer time and dedication in their life to make this thing — you’d //have// to get the computer to do the heavy lifting, because heaven knows Midtown would be well out of date by the time they got to Staten Island!
+link("https://www.lileks.com/",
"**lileks**.com",
["americana","classics","history"],
["1997-02-01","2022-01-08"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
A recovering journalist’s archive of twentieth-century pop culture and advertising Americana. In­cludes a “gallery of regrettable foods”.
+link("https://lsj.gr",
"**lsj**.gr",
["antiquity", "interconnexion", "utility", "words"],
["2013-02-14","2025-09-03"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Liddell, Scott, and Jones’s Ancient Greek–English lexicon is a cornerstone of any aspiring Atticiser, and now, it and dozens more are available online, kitted out with all the hypertext advancements you’ll ever need. This is what Tim Berners-Lee expected the world wide web to be used for.
+link("http://macpaint.org/",
"**macpaint**.org",
["art","history","technology"],
["2011-05-16","2021-08-03"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
A gallery of art created in the namesake antique computer programme.
+link("https://marginalia-search.com/",
"**marginalia-search**.com",
['directories', 'serendipity', 'utility'],
['2021-02-05', '2024-02-07'],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Filling the same slot the dearly departed Million Short took in the earlier days of this page, Mar­gin­a­lia Search searches just the smaller, more personal parts of the web — it’s more useful as a tool for spelunking for interesting sites than general queries, i find.
*→* See also: [https://exa.ai/search Exa], /née/ Metaphor, which leverages machine learning to let you write your queries in reverse — say, “Here’s a cool website about Nor­thum­brian history” (which is how i found the afore­linked /Gefrin/).
+link("https://monothematica.com",
"**monothematica**.com",
["fledglings", "personal"],
["c. 2024-06","2025-09-03"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
An interesting personal website i found in my backlinks. Very promising stuff, and a unique layout, too!
+link("https://neglectedbooks.com/",
"**neglected;books**.com",
['americana', 'history', 'words'],
['2006-06-20', '2024-02-07'],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
“Where forgotten books are remembered.” Filed under Ame­ri­cana, because really, is there anything more American than the thought that some plucky author had already written the Great American Novel all those years ago and noöne had noticed?
+link("http://www.neilcic.com/mouthmoods/",
"neilcic.com/**mouthmoods**",
["audio","tomfoolery"],
["2017-01-23","2020-03-18"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
The annoying thing about the Mouth tetralogy is that you’ll never be able to hear the normal versions of these songs the same way again.
*→* Also by Neil Cicierega: The entirety of 21st century internet culture
+link("https://netherlands.parallel.co.uk/",
"**netherlands**.parallel.co.uk",
["history","netherlands","place","volume"],
["2019-08-28","2021-11-21"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
There are ten million buildings in the Netherlands, and this fuck-off great map shows how old they all are.
*→* See also: [https://www.topotijdreis.nl/ Topotijdreis] and [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side the Na­tio­nal Library of Scotland’s viewer] for exploring old maps of the Ne­ther­lands and UK
+link("https://noclip.website/",
"**noclip**.website",
["interactivity","technology","place","volume"],
["c. 2018","2021-08-03"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
/Noclip.website/ lets you fly through the abandoned worlds of old video games, set free from their cartridges, devoid of any players or characters. It’s like wandering around after the Rapture.
+link("https://nomorecorners.wordpress.com/",
"**no;more;corners**.wordpress.com",
["americana","britain","outside","place"],
["c. 2015","2021-01-23"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
The official website of the All About Roundabouts Society, and what quality roundabouts they are! This is what the internet was made for, really. Exudes very British energies, but seems to be based in the suburban town of [https://en.wikipedia.org/Carmel,_Indiana Carmel, Indiana].
+link("https://archive.is/cDv9e",
"iceberg;charts.com/i/**Obscure_Unsolved_Mysteries**†",
['directories', "occult", 'offbeat', 'skeuomorphs'],
['2021-11-29', '2024-02-07', "c. 2026-01"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
None of the usual iceberg fodder — this is the //real shit//. A clamshell that fills schoolchildren with the urge to say “God died in there”. The surrealist movement being founded after someone heard a ghostly voice proclaim “there is a man cut in half by the stairs”. Hairy angelic ancestors. Directly into my veins!
+link("http://www.omfgdogs.com/",
"**omfgdogs**.com",
["biota", "oddities"],
["c. 2012-02-28","2020-04-24"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
The song playing in the background is a chiptune version of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wnS4nu-bOc <span lang='sv'>”Fångad av en stormvind”</span>]. You’re welcome.
+link("https://opacity.ru",
"**opacity**.ru",
["crafts", "personal", "technology"],
["c. 2008-02","2025-03-12"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
Glowy cyberpunk everything, made in Moscow.
+link("http://openverse.org/",
"**openverse**.org",
['utility'],
['2019-04-30', '2024-02-07'],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Absolutely indispensible if you’re running a ::CC0:: website like myself — search the web for images that you’re actually allowed to use.
+link("https://orbis.stanford.edu/",
"**orbis**.stanford.edu",
["antiquity", "history","place"],
["2012-05-06","2021-08-03"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
Like Google Maps for the Roman world. You can plot out a course from Bri­tan­nia to Carthage and see how long it would take and how many bags of grain you’d have to fork over.
+link("https://www.orionsarm.com/",
"**orions;arm**.com",
["classics","collaboration","inspiration","interconnexion","space","stories","subjunctive"],
["2000-06-06","2022-01-08"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
The year is 12,569 ::CE::. Terragen civilisation — to say “human” would be gauche when there’s robots, artificial intelligences, artificial life, uplifted animals, and genetically engineered crea­tures of all types — has spread across a comparatively small pocket of the galaxy, but it’s made friends, enemies, and horrors beyond anyone’s comprehension. Welcome to Orion’s Arm.
*Inspiration:* I am forever indebted to /Orion’s Arm/ as perhaps the biggest influence on my own worldbuilding project, [/latbs /Looking at the Big Sky/] — though i can hardly compete with the sheer weirdness they’ve cooked up given ten thousand years of history to play with.
+link("https://otterchan.net",
"**otterchan**.net",
["biota", "collaboration"],
["c. 2021-02","2025-09-03"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
An imageboard all about the greatest animal on ::Gæa::’s green earth. 🦦️
+link("https://www.paradise-engineering.com",
"**paradise-engineering**.com",
["classics", "offbeat", "subjunctive", "technology"],
["c. 1995","2025-03-12"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
This site is just one entry to a deep, deep rabbit hole of //dozens// of websites created by one David Pearce, a man who has devoted his wide internet footprint to espousing the abolition of suffering itself — a noble goal, if a quixotic one.
+link("https://paratheatrical.com/",
"**paratheatrical**.com",
['art', 'classics', 'offbeat'],
['c. 1996', '2024-02-07'],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
I, uh… i don’t really know what this is. I don’t remember how i found it. I get the sense that if i don’t share it a ghost will kill me in seven days.
*→* See also: [https://www.verticalpool.com/ Vertical Pool Pro­duc­tions], from the same webmaster
+link("https://peelopaalu.neocities.org/",
"**peelopaalu**.neocities.org",
["directories"],
["2019-07-29","2021-11-21"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Another big link directory. This one has a more image-board-y, vintage tilt to it — musty old websites full of anarchic nerd stuffs.
+link("https://theodoregray.com/periodictable/",
"theodore;gray.com/**periodic;table**",
["britain","classics","crafts","skeuomorphs"],
["2002-04-15","2020-12-29"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
A literal periodic //table// of elements, with tons of samples and stories of how it was made.
+link("https://persepolis.getty.edu/",
"**persepolis**.getty.edu",
["antiquity", 'history', 'place', 'volume'],
['c. 2022-04', '2024-02-07'],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
A gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous, //gorgeous// recreation of the ancient city of Per­se­polis in all its glory. Technically runs on a phone, but i wouldn’t want to try it!
+link("http://phrontistery.info/index.html",
"**phrontistery**.info",
["classics","words"],
["c. 1996-10","2020-12-06"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
I wish i’d known about this horde of words and word-related paraphernalia before starting the [/words Compendium]. It can be a bit impenetrable to browse, though…
+link("https://pikemalarkey.neocities.org/",
"**pike;malarkey**.neocities.org",
["personal"],
["2020-03-06","2022-07-23"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
See? You don’t need fancy styles (or any styles) to have a site worth visiting.
+link("https://www.pizzint.watch",
"**pizzint**.watch",
["americana", "fledglings", "food", "investigation","tomfoolery"],
["c. 2024","2025-09-03"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Tracking the congestion of pizzerias around the Pentagon to augur Ame­ri­can defence policy decisions. If they’re suspiciously busy, well… get ready for something big.
+link("https://plaintextsports.com/",
"**plain;text;sports**.com",
["americana", "new"],
["2021-02-28","2026-02-24"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
The latest sports. In plain text. No pictures, no adverts, no fluff. Just what it says in the ::URL::, darling.
+link("http://www.worlddreambank.org/P/PLANETS.HTM",
"world;dream;bank.org/P/**PLANETS**.HTM",
["classics","crafts","place","space","subjunctive"],
["c. 2002","2022-11-19"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
Dozens of potential planets, from variations upon our home’s geography to completely new worlds. Contains an odd amount of naked furries, so, um, maybe don’t click through at work?
+link("https://web.archive.org/web/20190327141154/http://pluto.zone/",
"**pluto.zone**†",
["oddities","space"],
["2015-09-06","2020-02-13","c. 2019-04"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Pluto was beautiful. Pluto was there when you needed it. And then one day, it wasn’t anymore. I’m linking to an archived version here, but the original will never be forgotten.
+link("https://poms.fun",
"**poms.fun**",
["biota", "deepdreaming", "fledglings", "oddities", "interactivity"],
["2025-12-23","2026-01-22"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
I think these testimonials should speak for themselves:
/“I’ve been spawning thousands of pomeranians!”/ ~—Xanthe Tynehorne~
/“I love how they hit the ground with such force!”/ ~[https://raelhbishop.neocities.org —Ræl H. Bishop]~
+link("https://postbox.garden/",
"**postbox.garden**",
["collaboration"],
["2017-03-21","2023-08-03"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
An image board with a lovely gimmick: you have to submit your post as a physical letter to the webmistress. Slow, but always wonderful.
+link("https://publicdomainreview.org/",
"**public;domain;review**.org",
["history"],
["2011-01-01","2025-09-30"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
The commons of public-domain art is vast but dense, a thick haystack impossible for an observer to find the needle in. Thankfully, the /Public Domain Review/ is here to do that job for us.
+link("http://queerbychoice.com/",
"**queer;by;choice**.com",
["classics","offbeat"],
["c. 1999","2022-06-08"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
“You chose to be gay, sinner!”
“Ok and?”
+link("http://www.radicalcartography.net/",
"**radical;cartography**.net",
["classics","place"],
["2003-04-21","2023-08-03"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
I probably can’t justify adding this on its own merits — but man, i remember browsing this as a wee bairn, thinking “radical” was just meant in the nineties sense; no thoughts, just taking in the pretty maps.
+link("https://random.earth/",
"**random.earth**",
["place","serendipity"],
["c. 2020-04-12","2022-06-08"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Imagine you’re aboard the ::ISS::, gazing down at the earth below. This is about what you’d see — randomly chosen serendipitous spots from around the globe.
+link("https://rddnickel.com/atlas.html",
"**rddnickel.com/atlas**.html",
["offbeat","place","space","subjunctive"],
["c. 2012","2023-08-03"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
An absolutely astonishing amount of effort went into this, which seems to have gone entirely unappreciated — i seem to remember happening upon this entirely on accident! Go check it out; Mr Nickel deserves the hits.
+link("https://huh.art/red/",
"huh.art/**red**",
["art","outside","tomfoolery"],
["c. 2015-12-03","2022-07-23"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
Watching paint dry has never been so entertaining.
+link("https://rivendell.neocities.org/",
"**rivendell**.neocities.org",
["personal","words"],
["2018-10-21","2021-11-20"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
A site belonging to an elven-inclined engineer and conlanger who has, in his own words, “been a musician, a linguist, a gamer, a mystic, an actor, a ::DJ::, a runner, a raver, a philosopher, an artist, a writer, and probably a few other things that are escaping my mind at the moment.”
+link("http://www.sacred-texts.com/",
"**sacred-texts**.com",
["classics","faith"],
["1999-09-03","2021-08-03"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
An archive of religious and spiritual writings in the public domain from every corner of the globe.
+link("https://saintjohnsbible.org/",
"**saint;johns;bible**.org",
["classics","crafts","faith","words"],
["c. 1998-12","2020-12-29"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
The first illuminated Bible manuscript commissioned since the invention of the printing press.
+link("https://andymatuschak.org/scrying-pen/",
"andymatuschak.org/**scrying-pen**/",
["deepdreaming","interactivity","technology"],
["2018-03-04","2020-11-08"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
This pen predicts what you’re drawing. Let it guide your hand.
+link("https://www.seat61.com/",
"**seat61**.com",
["britain", "classics", "interconnexion", "outside", "personal", "place", "utility", "new"],
["c. 2001-05","2026-02-24"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
An incredible repository of information on travelling the world in the most stylish way ever devised… by train! And i do mean “the world”: from Botswana to Bolivia, the Man in Seat 61 has you covered, whether you want to ride [https://www.seat61.com/Morocco.htm across the desert] or [https://www.seat61.com/UnitedStates.htm from sea to shining sea]. [https://www.seat61.com/train-travel-in-britain.htm The guide to train travel in Britain] is particularly indispensable for anyone seeking to decode the shambling conjoined beast known as National Rail.
+link("http://sentimentalcorp.org/",
"**sentimental;corp**.org",
["art", "offbeat", "video"],
["c. 2011-03","2025-09-30"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
…Close enough; welcome back, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIJTFjRe9U4 David Dees]. If this turns out to be some kind of cult recruitment ::ARG::, it’s not my fault and you can’t sue me.
+link("https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/index.htm",
"fieggen.com/**shoelace**",
["classics","personal","utility"],
["2000-04-23","2022-06-08"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Reader, i’m going to confess an embarrassing secret: i was terrible at tying my shoes until well into my teenage years. That was until i found the Ian Knot — just the tip of the iceberg of one Aus­tra­lian’s terrifyingly large collection of shoelaceicana.
+link("https://www.sigilengine.com",
"**sigilengine**.com",
["faith", "interactivity", "occult"],
["c. 2020-11-24","2025-09-03"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
”The tool derives a unique normalised floating decimal point from each letter you type by the way you type, the speed and intervals at which you type, their frequency and weight once distilled and referenced against the text of Crowley's 'Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni'. This ensure the logic is down to the user and no two sigils are alike.”
+link("http://skyscraperpage.com/",
"**skyscraper;page**.com",
["place"],
["2017-01-23","2020-03-19"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
"Xanthe, i fail to see why" — /\*click\*/ — "a site just about skyscrapers" — /\*click\*/ — "merits inclusion on thi... oh no i’ve got twenty tabs of this open help"
+link("https://slowroads.io/",
"**slowroads**.io",
["interactivity","volume"],
["c. 2022-03","2022-11-19"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
/Forza Horizon/ is so last year. Today’s kids are driving aimlessly and peacefully through virtual forests. In electric vehicles, no less!
+link("https://beta.slowways.org/",
"**slowways**.org",
["britain","collaboration","outside","place"],
["c. 2020-07","2021-05-16"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Collaboratively-sourced quiet walking paths between every town in Britain. I can vouch for their accuracy, so give your local routes a try, why don’t you?
+link("https://web.archive.org/web/20080110084454/http://www.souloftheworld.com/",
"**soul;of;the;world**.com†",
['classics', 'crafts', 'faith', 'occult', 'offbeat', 'outside', 'place'],
['c. 2002', '2024-02-07', 'c. 2023'],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
The goal is simple: there is exactly one alignment where, were you to place a cube within the womb of broad-bo­somed {span.theonym Earth}, all eight of its corners would poke out over land. It is time to build that cube.
And, uh, unrelatedly… i think this site might be haunted? I first found it from a now-deleted Reddit comment, where someone told the story of how they found an ominous black pyramid on their tropical vacation. So i stash the link away for later, and then, when i come back — it’s gone! Wiped off the face of the internet. And so i look on the Internet Archive, and what do you know, there’s all this stuff about Goddess-worship, sacred geometry… is… i… what? What??
*→* See also: [https://www.almadelmundo.com The still-active Castilian version of the site], which i discovered in 2025 and confirms that they’ve succesfully built about ~5½ of their corners.
+link("https://www.spirit-alembic.com/",
"**spirit-alembic**.com",
['classics', 'occult', 'faith', 'offbeat'],
['c. 1999', '2024-02-07'],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
“A non-religious Mystical-Sci­ence New Age Order” that makes mead via al­chemy. I may need glasses now.
+link("https://steen.free.fr/",
"**steen**.free.fr",
["netherlands","inspiration","personal","words"],
["c. 2004-12","2020-12-29"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
The personal website of conlanger Jan van Steenbergen. He’s a major contributor to the sprawl­ing online alternate history setting [http://ib.frath.net/w/Main_Page /Ill Bethisad/], the international Slavic language [http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/index.html Inter­slavic], and devised a neat system to [http://steen.free.fr/classificatie.html classify conlangs] in the absence of any natural language families in which they can be grouped. His website was one of the things that inspired me to make this little site in the first place!
+link("https://www.superbad.com/",
"**superbad**.com",
["americana","art","classics","interconnexion"],
["c. 1997-06-30","2020-05-28"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
Don’t click on me. It upsets the bees. Now you’ve done it. The bees have left.
+link("http://superpixelquest.com/",
"**superpixelquest**.com",
["art"],
["c. 2014-07-07","2021-01-23"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
You expect me to sit here and explain “Super Pixel Quest” to you? Dang thing doesn’t even have any words except the ones telling you how to click through it. Go take a look yourself. It’s cute.
+link("https://tangiblemediacollection.com/",
"**tangible;media;collection**.com",
["history", "interconnexion", "skeuomorphs", "technology", "new"],
["c. 2018","2026-02-24"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
A digital museum of media formats through the ages, sorted by method. What sealed its place in this cabinet for me was the inspired choice to display each crisp photo at near-true size. It makes parts like [https://tangiblemediacollection.com/grooves the section on vinyl records] so //fun// to look at!
+link("https://telephonegame.art",
"**telephone;game**.art",
["art", "collaboration", "directories", "fledglings", "interconnexion"],
["c. 2024-07","2026-01-22"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
There is little i find more beautiful in this world than the human urge to remix: to see someone’s work, take it, and go, “That gives me an idea…”
/Telephone/ is a celebration of that spirit through the medium of hypertext: a vast web of artistic Chinese whispers, spreading out from one work into hundreds of interpretations made by artists in different mediums from around the globe. This is, apparently, its third iteration, so let us all hold out hope that there may be a fourth.
+link("https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl",
"**tenochtitlan**.thomaskole.nl",
['fledglings', 'history'],
['c. 2023-09-02', '2024-02-07'],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
I am, admittedly, a big sop, but i teared up a little the first time i saw this 3::D:: recreation of the ancient city of Te­noch­ti­tlan. All the things we’ve lost! And for what, rum?
+link("https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/",
"99percent;invisible.org/episode/**ten-thousand-years**",
["americana","audio","history", "investigation", "subjunctive"],
["2014-05-12","2020-02-13"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
The ways we’ve come up with to communicate the danger posed by radioactive waste to future generations fascinate me to no end. Land art and green cats are just some of the interesting ones!
+link("http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html",
"galactanet.com/oneoff/**theegg**_mod.html",
["stories"],
["2017-08-15","2020-03-19"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
You were on your way home when you died. And that’s when you met me.
*→* See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI Kurzgesagt’s animated version]
+link("https://www.theoi.com/",
"**theoi**.com",
["antiquity", "classics","faith"],
["c. 2000","2020-05-28"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Bountiful information on the Gods of ancient Hellas: mythoi, Their domains, epithets, and ancient worship.
+link("https://web.archive.org/web/20160112193916/http://timecube.com/",
"**timecube**.com†",
["americana","classics","history","offbeat"],
["c. 1997","2020-02-13", "c. 2015-08"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
No matter how weird you think the Time Cube story is, it always seems to get weirder.
+link("https://tixy.land/",
"**tixy.land**",
["interactivity","technology"],
["2020-11-02","2020-11-08"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
A “creative coding environment” of 16 by 16 bicoloured circles.
The programme showing on the screen­shot is `sin(t - sqrt((x - 7.5) ** 4 + (y - 7) ** 4))`, if you’d like to try it for yourself.
+link("https://web.archive.org/web/20250418070212/http://www.unmuseum.org/unmain.htm",
"**unmuseum**.org†",
["americana","classics","interconnexion","skeuomorphs"],
["c. 1999","2021-08-03", "c. 2025"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
The charmingly retro “Museum of Un­Na­tu­ral Mystery” explores the fringes of scientific (and a little bit of pseudoscientific) knowledge. Try not to touch the iframes and musty 3::D:: renderings; they’re very fragile…
+link("https://www.u2764.com",
"**u2764**.com",
["inspiration", "personal"],
["c. 2014","2026-01-22"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
Like /gwern.net/, i don’t care all too much for the //contents// of this site. I think trying to fix short-form social media by decentralising the servers is like trying to un-crash the /Titanic/ by shuffling the deck chairs, and the particular über-combatitive, cynical style it’s written in is anathema to me.
*Inspiration:* //But…// i’d be lying if i said this wasn’t one of the single biggest inspirations for everything i’ve built here. When i was just starting out as a wee webmaster-in-training, the idea that every single page could be its own unique little world, an island of idiosyncratic design, rather than having to conform to one site theme or have a big overbearing navbar stuck to it, was genuinely revolutionary. I’ve never looked back.
+link("http://www.geoffreylandis.com/vacuum.html",
"geoffreylandis.com/**vacuum**.html",
['classics', 'space'],
['2000-06-27', '2024-02-07'],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
What would actually happen if you dove into the inky black cosmic vacuum without a spacesuit? Less than you might think, explains a Nasa scientist.
+link("https://vici.org/",
"**vici**.org",
["antiquity", "fledglings", "history", "place"],
["2023-10-07","2024-07-09"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
You, too, can find ::hot roman artefacts:: in ::your area:: with this archæological atlas of antiquity.
+link("https://vole.wtf/",
"**vole.wtf**",
["britain","interactivity","tomfoolery"],
["2020-04-17","2020-04-24"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Various fun games and jokes. My personal favourite is [https://vole.wtf/perfect-circle/ Can You Draw a Per­fect Circle?]— best i can do is 97.7%.
+link("https://en.wikipedia.org/",
"en.**wikipedia**.org",
["classics","collaboration","interconnexion","utility"],
["2001-01-15","2020-02-13"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Wikipedia can be considered living proof that humans are, fundamentally, nice. The fact that we’ve managed to keep an online encyclopædia running (ad-free, even!) for twenty years without it completely burning to the ground is really one of our greatest achievements, right up there alongside fire, electricity, and “Leave Them All Behind” by Ride.
*→* See also: Any list which includes Wikipedia would be incomplete without its cousin [https://en.wiktionary.org Wiktionary], my first port of call for any lexical needs.
+link("https://www.windows93.net/",
"**windows93**.net",
["interactivity","technology","tomfoolery"],
["c. 2014-10","2020-03-19"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
A fantastical operating system with widgets galore.
+link("https://wmw.thran.uk/",
"**wmw**.thran.uk",
['britain', 'directories'],
['2021-08-28', '2024-02-07'],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Always happy to link to a fellow directory connoisseur. That’s short for “*w*ell *m*ade *w*eb”, if you couldn’t tell.
+link("https://wolfmanmuseum.org/",
"**wolfman;museum**.org",
["art","interconnexion","skeuomorphs"],
["c. 2017-01","2020-03-10"],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
A treasure trove of art, live streams, and other such multimedia. Very noticeably inspired by the Geocities era of web design, with weird branching paths stretching throughout; it’s like exploring an actual museum.
+link("http://www.effectgames.com/demos/worlds/",
"effect;games.com/demos/**worlds**",
["art","technology"],
["2010-07-17","2022-07-23"],
false)
:rubric-unsafe
These evolving, interactive scenes were pixel-painted by Mark Ferrari — of /Monkey Island/ note — for an obscure daily planner app back in the ’90s… and now they’re back! Also available as [https://pixfabrik.com/livingworlds/ a wallpaper for your phone].
+link("https://yip.pe/",
"**yip.pe**",
['art', 'collaboration', 'interactivity', 'skeuomorphs'],
['2014-11-07', '2024-02-07'],
true)
:rubric-unsafe
Sixteen by sixteen pixels for you to doodle on and share about.
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div.entry-text
h2 Stats
figure#bar-chart-figure
svg#bar-chart
figcaption Sites by year created (1995–2025)
ul
li #[strong Total number of sites:] 136
li #[strong Most common domains:]
ol
li .com 💰️ (62)
li .org 😇️ (29)
li .net 🕸️ (9)
li .uk #[+flag("gb")] (3)
li .art 🎨️, .edu 🎓️, .garden 🌿️, .io #[+flag("io")], .ru #[+flag("ru/90s")], .zone ☮️ (2 each)
li(value="11") .ac #[+flag("ac")], .amsterdam #[+flag("nl/amsterdam")], .at #[+flag("at")], .cool 😎️, .earth 🌍️, .es #[+flag("es")], .fr #[+flag("fr")], .fun 🥳️, .gr #[+flag("gr")], .info ℹ️, .it #[+flag("it")], .land 🏜️, .nl #[+flag("nl")], 🗽️ .nyc, .observer 👁️, .party 🎉️, .pe #[+flag("pe")], .watch 👀️, .website 🖥️, .wtf 🤯️ (1 each)
li #[strong Oldest site:] #[a(href="https://www.aporee.org/"): i aporee.org] and #[a(href="https://www.paradise-engineering.com"): i paradise-engineering.com], or at least the projects behind them, have been kicking about since 1995, and have thus now passed their #[em thirtieth](!!!) year online.
li #[strong Newest site:] #[a(href="https://gammacorrection.com"): i gamma<wbr>correction.com] was put up in February of 2026, just 2½ weeks before it was added to the collection. Talk about a world record!
li #[strong Taggedest tag:] Thirty-eight sites are old enough to be considered Classics; less arbitrarily, twenty-four fall under the category of History.
li #[strong Seldomest tag:] Only three lonely sites sit under Videos, a consequence of the format’s hefty file size and domination by Youtube.