Gotta give some respect to for this essential set of RSS tools - simple but solid - along the lines of my beloved webmention.io and commentpara.de.

The key tool here is the page, which gives you a random unique email address. You can sign that email up for email newsletters, for instance, and then put the matching RSS feed into Fraidycat to track it like it was a blog.

You could even set up an alias to forward to this address and make yourself a low-key public inbox that won’t clutter up your private email.

Just a cool list that I saw by way of . The mood here recalls Sibylle Baier’s . Not sure the advantage to using Arena over a YouTube playlist. I was hoping for some commentary on the songs perhaps. I absolutely love the Andrei Petrov song here “Dance of Recallings”. It’s from a soundtrack and the film sounds great as well.

Some of these songs are quite popular, but don’t think I’d heard any of them before. Expect harps and harpsichord. The rest of the Masahiko Satoh album is . (Don’t know if I should be doing this - just trying to live up to the LEECHING side of things around here.)

That feeling when Neocities is a legit NeoGeocities.

I would normally wait for to post this, but it’s also got a sweeeeet of other Neocities websites that I can’t just sit on. (They even seem to have found chamy on their own! “she’s good at making up jokes about lizards.” )

This website of scribbled art purports to have sprung from the mind of a teenage Norwegian, however I’m not buying it. It appears that this site was covered somewhat closely by years ago - and was perhaps originally hosted there. The site mostly contains drawings and games featuring a character called D. Duck who has to deal with an unruly Uncle Jubalon and fears losing his girlfriend Dasy to his cousin Anton. (YouTube vids , if you’re rightfully wary of downloading.)

I’ve been wishing for many years that someone would start a newspaper called ‘one-line news’ or something, that would sum up the day of world news in a single (perhaps longish) sentence. I get behind on mainstream culture, but I don’t want to lose track of it completely.

This link (via ) is my dream page!!! Culled from Wikipedia’s portal, this is a highly readable plain HTML page-per-day for the news. In addition, someone has made for it - though I’m having some troubles getting it to work.

I stumbled upon this tool by Jonas Pelzer, after encountering the website. This is exactly the kind of writing tool that I like to collect in href.cool’s category. A simple way to create HTML that you can then slap up to Neocities or 1mb.site.

I think it’s really cool that this is such a small, limited (but focused) tool - it can be polished to near perfection because it is so narrow in its function. I wish there were more little websites like this. It makes me wonder if a directory-building or link list tool could be made along these lines. Or perhaps there already is one! Now - how to find it…

I’ve been playing with IPFS to see if I can offer a Kicks Condor experience there - however, it’s not exactly clear what the best URL scheme is. Browser extensions somewhat support -style addressing. But it seems like gateway-style address works better in practice (such as: .) This is trouble for a static website, because I kind of need to know where the root directory is - for images and CSS and stuff. And the gateway URL may end up redirecting to .

There’s another search engine at , but it appears to contain mostly Chinese search results. I do appreciate that IPFS Search also offers , even to get back file metadata for each file. (Like, in the case of MP3s, it returns encoding details - which is a cool idea!)

Blogs are piling up everywhere. I need to do another . (If you have a blog, .) In the meantime, I don’t want to sit on this one. A Wordpress blog that is very clean and colorful.

While much of it is art (and art supplies), there are also some good essays about blogging, such as . I appreciate articles like this because it has become very common to litter criticism everywhere without any concept of a way forward. I really don’t think an RSS resurgence is going to happen with the mainstream - but it could continue to happen down here in the wilds - and we can definitely benefit from the mindset of bringing your node on the network back under your control.

Anyway, I think Wordpress is still an excellent way to participate. So it’s good to see blogs that use it well.

Don’t know that I’ve seen many GIFs using collage, paint and such in this way. (Also, I guess they are part of this —at , which is a very interesting directory of artists. I’m finding some good things there!)

Anna also has of short films on YouTube. Discovered her on Warren Ellis’ list of feeds (the .)

The Pony Preservation Project undertakes to model (with machine learning) the voices of the characters, thus granting them immortality. And, for Twilight Sparkle, the .

I don’t know if linking to 4chan is considered bad form - did the footwork on this, though, so who am I to say? Audio deepfakes, but for cartoon ponies. I’m just going to yank the text from 4chan, since I never know when these pages will disappear.

Don’t know if it’s just me, but I’m seeing a definite resurgence in directories. Like (previously crocodile.is) - a home page / blog that is almost like viewing an unsecured . Along similar lines, - I think Sphygmus dropped this link - click on the circle in the upper left. I’ve also mentioned Edwin Wenink’s site - but specifically check out the section.

After looking at the AV Club’s of 100 Internet ‘things’ bad and good - I left feeling that there was so much more to find on the Internet over the past decade. The thought that anyone could make a decade list without Neil C, Nathalie Lawhead or the SCP Foundation wiki… well, that’s not the decade I recall at all!!

People say the Web is dead, but after assembling this list, I’ve realized that all of the great experimental creative work is really still happening here. Yes, there is a lot of YouTube on this list - but usually those vids only serve as a helpful intro to that link. There is still no better way to collaborate than on blogs and wikis. And no better way to easily draw someone into some indefinable art project than to serve it on your own dank .pizza domain name.

This personal homepage is a branch of the ‘EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE’ group - and I just want to quickly call it out for some of its sweet side projects.

A good place to start is with the mystery mixes, such as . Or .

But also his various articles, such as , which I’d never heard and because I was very grateful that she was able to resist Dr. Phil’s efforts to take over her.

This year there has been some renewed interest in the Garfield films, as that link went around again, the one that reveals how Bill Murray became involved: the director was one of the Coen Bros. Of course, the story is far from over, especially now that I’ve discovered that this unreleased audio commentary from the sequel was uploaded to the Internet Archive one year ago!

You can place this next to in your private collection.

Ten years ago, a link like this would be ripping up the link and music blogs - and perhaps the blog blogs, too!! Vektroid has dropped this playlist, named . Indeed, have to say - the jams are quite hot.

Hard to not mention here. I still have my 7".

Promised I’d do this after getting Fraidycat out there. This regular feature is back: me hunting in the brambles, coming back up with 22 newly discovered blogs from a variety of sources, mainly 8 threads and blogrolls out there. Raw dump. Good quality.

A very flawed initial release.

Thank you to for finding a pile of problems. Working on 1.0.1 and getting on the addon/extension stores.

I’ve been seeing a lot of monochrome lately—like what’s at , the killer layout at or the coming —so, as a shout to all that high-contrast dither, I commend to you the tales of . This is more than your normal ‘inktober’ project. I’ve linked to the XXIIVV directory before—it’s an incredible hypertext project, connecting artifacts like the language and the conceptualization of time as .

Perhaps you’ve seen Rekka & Devine’s work before in Hiversaires and Oquonie. This crew has done more for black and white than anyone on Earth.

This is GREG RUTTER’S DEFINITIVE LIST OF THE 99 THINGS YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED ON THE INTERNET UNLESS YOU’RE A LOSER OR OLD OR SOMETHING—a , just a single page, a dump of links, mostly YouTube videos really. An additional 99 links continue at —which fills in some missing pieces (‘i kiss you’, ze frank, etc.) It’s missing some things (‘hello my future girlfriend’, Real Ultimate Power) but perhaps those things haven’t aged well and this isn’t necessarily designed to be historical.

This Brooklyn (pun?) bar—well, there’s not much to say, just go look: the olde BBS style boxes-and-lines art. This is actually really nice and clean, totally usable in its own way.

On top of this, tho—this is signed ‘jgs’. Are we talking ??? (Aka . Also covered .) I’ve gotta track her down.