Interesting Links
| Site | Description |
|---|---|
| Skyscrapercity | THE place to visit if you want to learn about urban developments going on around the world! |
| Yesterweb | The movement that inspired me start my personal website. The Zine is both fascinating and moving to read. |
| Crush Capitalism | Good starting point for a critical look on capitalism and looking beyond it for alternative systems. |
| Internet Archive | No explanation needed. Just people doing God's work. |
| Project Gutenberg | More than 70.000 ebooks of works that have fallen in the Public Domain. Can be downloaded as epub files as well. |
| Public Domain Review | Exploring works of art that have fallen into the public domain. |
| Webcamtaxi | Very nice collection of live webcams from all over the world. |
| Qingpeiguo's history of Shangai page | Wonderful archived personal site I found accidentally describing the history of Shangai. At the bottom of the page is a navigation menu to other pages, but many of them didn't get archived sadly. |
| The Spider's Apprentice - How to use web search engines | An old net website that is still up explaining how to use search engines. |
Website Building
| Site | Description |
|---|---|
| W3Schools | Essential guide to anyone new at HTML, CSS and beyond. I've learned so much from this site already! |
| MagicPattern | Helps you create CSS background patterns. I got my background design from here. |
| GifCities | A search engine for gifs from archived Geocities pages on The Internet Archive. |
| buttonwall.neocities.org | Awesome collection of buttons to use for your site! |
| 88by31.neocities.org | More buttons! This collection is sorted by category making easier to find what you need. |
| Pixilart | Excellent tool for making pixel art. |
Boorinbubu |
Geocities page containing some very nice backgroundpatterns you can use for your website. Not sure if this author made these themselves. |
| Mangomonkey's Puff Shrine |
Large Kao shrine. Lots of Kao for the collectors among us. |
| Canuck's House of Kao | Alright wrap it up folks. This is the ultimate Kao Archive. More than 10.000 Kao here. |
| Animated Images | Huge animated gif archive! Roughly 150.000 categorized gifs! |
| Icone-Gif | Another big image and gif archive. |
| Fionasingachan's page |
Nice personal website containing old gifs and other images. |
| Kitsutsuki's animal gifs | Loads of retro animal gifs on this site. |
| Animegifs.free.fr | Old site that's still up containing lots of animated gifs of different anime and videogames. |
| Cute Baby Gifset |
Gifset of a cute baby character. |
| Girl With Animals on Head set |
From the same source. |
| Kaleidoscope Cliparts |
Excellent site containing two clipart sections specialising in 'Eurpean history' and 'Japanese history'. You can find icons, gifs, lines and more. |
| Star Trek Animated Gif Archive |
Interesting site with a big collections of star trek gifs. |
| Hisayo Tada's Sweet Room |
Hisayo Tada's web graphics are brilliant! Emphasis on English, French and Italian cultural icons. |
| Dan Simpson's animated house collection! | Dan Simpson is a hero for keeping his more than 25 year old website up. Huge collection of animated houses with proper credit to the creators. Also visit his hiking page which he still maintains to this day! |
| A Soft Murmur | Customizable ambient sounds for when you need to block out the world. |
Fun Links
| Site | Description |
|---|---|
| Old Games Download | Archive of free to download abandonware games from various platforms. |
| Cartoon Cartoon Summer Resort | Here you can play all four of the the old Cartoon Network Summer Resort shockwave games! |
| Cartoon Network 1998-2012 | An online stream trying to recreate the golden age of Cartoon Network. |
| Agar.io | Terribly addictive game. Eat or be eaten. |
| TagPro | Old school capture the flag online game. Has a learning curve in the beginning but once you get the feeling it's mad fun! |
| PokeMMO | The Pokémon game I dreamed of playing as a kid exists! This MMO mod based on the first 5 gens is the best one I've played. |
| Tibia | I've never been an MMORPG player but Tibia has a special place in my heart. Free to play but has premium features. |
| Drive and Listen | Drive around a city of your choice while listening to a selection of radio stations. Very relaxing. |
Podcasts
| Title | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Citations Needed | Opinion/Media Analysis | A podcasts about the intersection of media, PR and power. Hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. The two hosts have great chemistry together. |
| Your Undivided Attention | Tech | From the Center of Humane Technology, a think tank founded by former and current big tech workers trying to create awareness about how current social media applications are designed to maximize time spent on device and how this affects people. Also trying to come up with solutions to make future tech applications (such as AI) more humane. |
| The Ezra Klein Show | Opinion/Politics | From the NY Times. Ezra Klein's long interviews are always a treat to listen to. |
| Scene on Radio | History/Analysis | Produced and hosted by John Biewen at Duke University. Takes a deep dive each season into a core issue that impacts our society. Season 2 "Seeing White" about the history of the concept of a white race was incredibly fascinating. |
| Cyber | Tech | Matthew Gault talks to fellow Motherboard writers, or other people from the tech industry about current developments on the internet. |
| Serial | Crime/Investigative | Still the king of true-crime podcasts. Later productions such as "Nice White Parents", "Trojan Horse Affair" and "We Were Three" as very well made shows. But the original season about the murder of Hae-Min Lee is still one of the best podcasts ever made. |
| In the Dark | Crime/Investigative | In the Dark's second season is probably the second best true-crime show ever made. Excellent investigative journalism podcasts which actually helped to solve the case it was covering. |
| Things Fell Apart | Sociology/Culture | Recently started listening to this. Jon Ronson from the BBC explores the origins of today's culture wars. |
| Underunderstood | Culture/Investigative | If you need a new safe haven after Reply All, then Underunderstood is a great alternative. The hosts dive deep into sometimes very trivial stuff, sometimes geeky stuff. |
| Land of the Giants | Tech | Every season explores the history of one of todays tech giants. |
| Dan Carlin's Hardcore History | History | Dan Carlin's unique format needs to be experienced to understand. He is such an engaging storyteller. |
| History of Japan Podcast | History | This podcasts has been going on for ages. Every week a new episode about a certain topic in Japanese history is covered. It is recommended to start with the first 20ish episodes to get a broad outline of Japanese history, although the sound quality of those older episodes is not great. |
Youtube Channels
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