Over the 25 years I've been online I've collected a lot of weird and wonderful bookmarks. Many of them were for once-offs or saving tabs from a browser at one point or another. Most have barely any relevance today. nevertheless, there lies buried in them the occasional gem from some project or other.
In order to make the web a more interesting place, I share the most interesting of them with you here. No guarantee is made to their contents.
Art
Geography
Language and Writing
- The Alternative Dictionaries
- [DIVIDE BY ZERO] Fonts
- Fifty Viss: “The Origins of ‘Laphet’”
- graphemica - l♥ve letters
- The Historical Thesaurus of English
- Interlinear Text Research
- LangMaker.com (archive)
- ozTypewriter: “History of the Shavian Keyboard Imperial Good Companion Portable Typewriter”
- ScriptSource - Writing systems, computers and people
- Shady Characters
- Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts
- Typedia
- Under-ConScript Unicode Registry
Music
- AppleMusic.info - The definitive list of music used by Apple Inc. in commercials, keynote addresses, presentations, and other marketing materials
- Byzantine Chant: Byzantine Notation
- Pushing Ahead of the Dame
- Rainboard - DIY Dynamic Rainbow Isomorphic Keyboard
- The University of Iowa Musical Instrument Samples
Technology
- CHU - Signal Identification Wiki
- Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present (V 13.4.0)
- gbdev
- meus recogitare et excogitare: Introducing the RSTHD layout
- LM-3 --- resurrecting the MIT CADR
- Macintosh Garden: Gravitation Ltd.
- 9595 - Ardent Tool of Capitalism
- Notation3 (N3): A readable RDF syntax
- The OS/2 boot sequence
- Tech information in floppy disks drives and media
- TEI (Text Encoding Initiative): P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange
- TILE | Text-Image Linking Environment
- Unicode Technical Note #34: Unicode Collation Case Study: Sorting French Topic Lists
Time
Selected Articles
- The Ancestry Insider: “Evidence Management Explained”
- AV Club: “‘Anime was a safe space’: On magical girls, damaged villains, and trans adolescence” by Willow Maclay and Cressa Beer
- “Borges Remembered” by Norman Thomas di Giovanni
- The Globe and Mail: “What would Jack Bauer do?” by Colin Freeze
- The New Yorker: “Making Insider Trading Legal” by Patrick Radden Keefe
- The New York Times Magazine: “The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie” by John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Paste: “Serial Experiments Lain: Peeling Back Layers of Queerness Through Y2K Technology” by Austin Jones
- Washington Post: “Remembering Richard Thompson: See the now-revealed comic ideas he contributed to Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’” by Michael Cavna
Selected Papers and Essays
- “Addressing the Houses: The Introduction of House Numbering in Europe” by Anton Tantner (2009)
- “The Assimilation of Captives on the American Frontier in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries” by Joseph Norman Heard (1977)
- “Data Collection with Self-Enforcing Privacy” by Philippe Golle, Frank McSherry and Ilya Mironov (2008)
- “Giving voice to the extra-normal self with the extra-normal voice: Improvised exploration through the realms of shamanic chaos magick, insight meditation and gender performance” by Sage Harlow (2019)
- “Indexing the great ledger of the community: urban house numbering, city directories, and the production of spatial legibility” by Reuben S. Rose-Redwood (2008)
- ”Liberty of the Exercise of Religion in the Peace of Westphalia” by Gordon A. Christenson (2012)
- “Phonological Change in Japanese-Ainu Loanwords” by Edwin Everhart (2009)
- “Plutonium uptake and behavior in vegetation of the desert southwest: a preliminary assessment” by Eric Caldwell, Martine Duff, Caitlin Ferguson and Daniel Coughlin (2011)
Selected Books
- Almanach de Gotha: Annuaire Généalogique, Diplomatique et Statistique (1821–1910)
- A Glossary of Dialectal Place-Nomenclature to which is appended A List of Family Surnames pronounced differently from what the Spelling suggests by Robert Charles Hope (1883)
- Cantemus: A Collection of Folk-Songs, National Songs, etc., some with French and Welsh words, suited for use in Secondary Schools, Continuation Schools, Social Centres, etc., Part II by Maurice Jacobson (1900?)
- Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie: I. Band: Zeitrechnung der Babylonier, Ägypter, Mohammedaner, Perser, Inder, Südostasiaten, Chinesen, Japaner und Zentralamerikaner by F.K. Ginzel (1906)
- Introduction to Programming: PDP-8 Family Computers prepared by the Software Writing Group, Programming Department, Digital Equipment Corporation (1969)
- A New System of Geography: Vol. 5: Germany: Circles of the Upper-Rhine, Swabia, Franconia, and Upper-Saxony by A.F. Busching, D.D. (1762)
- Radio and Television Sound Effects by Robert B. Turnbull (1951)
- Traitez nouveaux & curieux du café, du thé et du chocolate by Philippe Sylvestre Dufour (1685)
- The Traveller’s and Tourist’s Guide Through the United States of America, Canada, Etc. by W. Williams (1851)
Selected Wikipedia Articles
- A/ROSE
- Ares I-X
- Cinemagraph
- Coligny calendar
- Evenki language
- Four-channel Compact Disc Digital Audio
- Hydra (moon)
- Lexicon (Game)
- List of common resolutions
- Plane (Unicode)
- robotfindskitten
- Science and technology of the Tang dynasty
- Seikilos epitaph
- Shinbutsu Bunri
- Shruti (music)
- Thalassery cuisine
- What's Michael?
- Yamatai
Other Things
- Digital Transgender Archive
- Dogs Never Die. They are Sleeping in Your Heart.
- Free Darius Now.
- Liste des pays historiques de 1815 à 1997
- Open Library
- ポケモン情報サイト「palette」
- Same Energy | Visual Search Engine
- Scans from the Yellow Book
- Smaky 130 Personal Computer keyboard | X2308.2002B | Computer History Museum
- Teamouse's Home