List of Lists

(if you can't get into tumblr)

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline
Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game
Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet
Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games
Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones
Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy
ZenGM - simulate sports
Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi
IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)
Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface
The Cafe & Diner - mystery game
The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game
Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions
Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game
Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game
Miniconomy - player driven economy game
Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes
BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators
Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil
Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

Nationalclothing.org about national clothing, the history of traditional dress, and the modern life of vintage pieces of clothes

David Bennett Piano

Here is a collection of my videos that aim to baptise use into music theory by fire! Across this set of videos I will be dipping you into a range of music theory topics to prime you for understanding more advance concepts.

While it is true that all the information you need to create and maintain a Webcomic is available on the Internet, finding the stuff can be difficult. For example, finding character design sheets and comic storyboard sheets can be quite challenging, not to mention the problem in finding a Manga A4-to-A5 Layout Board that you can actually get to print on your inkjet printer without losing the edges! We have brought together these various elements and put them on this page to make your life a little easier.

The downloads below are divided into three sections: fourteen design, plotting, and storyboard sheets to help the artist and writer create their characters and plot and organize the stories they intend to tell; seven Comic Art-boards used in the Comic industry today, both in Japan and in the U.S; and six comic-book layout sheets (also called signature ladders) to help you fit your comic into the appropriately-sized book.

Given all the praise and hype that surrounds Duolingo, I wanted to articulate why, in my opinion, it is at best, a supplement, and what to use in its place if you truly wish to learn Irish.

I’ll begin by focusing on the issues with Duolingo in general, followed by those particular to the Irish course itself later on.

I am not going to focus on Duolingo’s highly inflated numbers; while they are better than they were previously, they are still incredibly misleading, as they count anyone who has done a lesson at any time in the past year. Let’s just say, there are not nearly as many people learning Irish as is claimed.

So Han gives us a first look at Gong Fu Cha (功夫茶), the Chinese art and practice of steeping/serving tea.

home of the Ian Knot, the world's fastest shoelace knot. If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces – this is the place!

The stitch bank provides written and photo tutorials as well as a video option to learn to do it yourself. There are examples of the stitch in use, resources, references, everything but a needle and thread!

ooh.directory is a place to find good blogs that interest you.

Open Culture scours the web for the best educational media. We find the free courses and audio books you need, the language lessons & educational videos you want, and plenty of enlightenment in between.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/9138157

The Best American Magazine Writing 2023
Edited by Sidney Holt for the American Society of Magazine Editors
Columbia University Press, November 2023

The Battle for Baby L.
Rozina Ali - New York Times Magazine

She Never Hurt Her Kids. So Why Is a Mother Serving More Time Than the Man Who Abused Her Daughter?
Samantha Michaels - Mother Jones

Aristocrat Inc.
Natalie So - The Believer

Monuments to the Unthinkable
Clint Smith - The Atlantic

The Landlord and the Tenant
Raquel Rutledge & Ken Armstrong - ProPublica & Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Death Sentence
Nicholas Florko - Stat

The Time to Pass Paid Leave Is Now
Natasha Pearlman - Glamour

A Post-Roe Threat and The Post-Roe Era and Is Abortion Sacred?
Jia Tolentino - New Yorker

"We Need to Take Away Children"
Caitlin Dickerson - The Atlantic

The Militiamen, the Governor, and the Kidnapping That Wasn’t
Chris Heath - Esquire

How a Nepo Baby Is Born
Nate Jones - New York

Tinder Hearted
Allison P. Davis - New York

Acid Church
Courtney Desiree Morris - Stranger’s Guide

"She’s Capital!"
Namwali Serpell - New York Review of Books

Viola Davis, Inside Out
Jazmine Hughes - New York Times Magazine

Light and Shadow
Raffi Khatchadourian - New Yorker

Winter Term [Paywalled]
Michelle de Kretser - Paris Review

Untold
Tom Junod & Paula Lavigne - ESPN Digital

The Virtual Filksing is the oldest anthology of recorded "filk" (science-fiction folk) music on the Internet, with hours of informal and professional performances highlighting both serious and silly songs of science-fiction, fantasy, and technology.

Many web-sites showcase audio software for Linux, each with it's own look and focus. None of them really met my personal need when I finally made the switch to Linux, so..

Some goals of this site:

-Make it easy and quick for musicians to find the tools they need
-Focus on good quality software with proper UI
-Promote the great developers that make the effort of supporting Linux
-Showcase the software using modern web technology

The National Center for Home Food Preservation is your source for current research-based recommendations for most methods of home food preservation. The Center was established with funding from the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (CSREES-USDA) to address food safety concerns for those who practice and teach home food preservation and processing methods.