The Far Side
For those who don't remember the 80s, this is one of the top weird comic that were in newspapers (big sheets of paper they printed news on before the internet)
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For those who don't remember the 80s, this is one of the top weird comic that were in newspapers (big sheets of paper they printed news on before the internet)
Comics that can be NSFW. The best ones usually are.
a random comic that amuses me.
Elder Scrolls comic that started back before Skyrim even came out like holy crap that was at least three years ago.
animals play basketball
animals play video games
an old one
another classic online comic
yep more fantasy comedy, though this one ended
oh look a fantasy theme comic. "Stonebreaker is the sequel to Over the Wall, a story about a young girl named Anya and her quest to find her brother in a vast, abandoned (by humans, anyway) city." Oh, I guess should read the first one first.
aaa yep a comic in a fantasy world, this time three characters live in a tree.
a monkey on a motorcycle!?
Public domain books you can download or read online for free.
The same but cleaned up nice for ereaders etc.
ebooks about myths and stuff
PDFs of Astounding and Analog sci-fi magazines.
Exactly that. Over 1 million photos, maps, drawings, books, etc
notes on hard scifi and space stuff
a scholarly collection of original works *adjusts monocle*
to find where to watch stuff.
For watching MST3K and sometimes Mythbusters and anime and other things.
Another free ad supported streaming TV service, they have some movies and cartoons and stuff.
national screening room, a hodgepodge of public domain videos.
public television archive.
all kids out of the pool.
yep
ancient MST3K fan site
a random post of concepts for the Princess of Mars series
"an illustrated hypertext encyclopedia of Tolkien's realms and peoples. It already contains about four thousand entries, and we're constantly adding new entries and expanding existing ones."
all about Tolkien research
more Tolkien stuff
all about tengwar
all about the origins of Star Wars
and more, this one focused on finding scripts
is a book, the original site is lost to time, this is an archive of some sort
"The Independent WHA wiki is dedicated to the world featured in the manga series Witch Hat Atelier (Tongari Boushi no Atorie), written and illustrated by Kamome Shirahama, and its spinoff, Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen (Tongari Boushi no Kitchen), written and illustrated by Hiromi Sato."
oops I haven't gotten enough links for a music section
"Monstropedia is an electronic encyclopedia which aims at listing all monsters that belong to mythology, art and modern popular culture (games, comics, films). "
Japanese monsters!
urban legends
harder to exit than VIM
cosplay stuff
one of the first sites I visited online
more word nerds
"we'll tell you what it means, where it came from, and how it's been used."
an absurd number of slang words from the last 1000 years
Official tribal online dictionary
Official tribal online dictionary
Names that are supposed to be Native American but maybe ain't after all
a bunch of hardcore lingo nerd stuff
languages fonts etc
on Project Gutenberg, for when you read too much Tolkien
"This work-in-progress is a comprehensive quotation-based dictionary of the language of science fiction."
yes just a bunch of Maya glyphs and their meanings
some Minoan research
blog about old languages
words about birds
about saving and swapping heirloom seeds
Left over from when Texas cared about nature. "The University of Texas at Austin Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is the Botanic Garden of Texas. The Center promotes its mission to inspire the conservation of native plants through its internationally recognized sustainable gardens, education and outreach programs, and research projects."
all about eating plants in the woods
ad heavy but useful
a zoology blog
"A revised synthesis of the rift and drift history of the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding regions in the light of improved age dating of the Middle Jurassic salt"
Texas garden info
whee
now this is some retro web 1.0
the more you know
another database of native plant stuff
info on native plant dyes from the USDA
oh you thought I couldn't get more obscure? Here's stuff about LICHEN!
this was useful but it's archived now
yeah that's what it is
"Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, first published in 1932. This digital edition reproduces all of the atlas's nearly 700 maps."
"The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania."
yep
how nerdy
from the USGS
because there was a thing to fill in the counties you visited
yep
fossil map!
yay rocks
not to get political
spreading like smallpox
official highway info
ditto
Acrocanthosaurus and cool pottery
just a random museum to maybe visit someday
idk they have a few fun articles
anthology of documents
yep
a huge collection of genealogy links
from the Smithsonian, thought it might be useful to take notes
"select digitized newspaper pages produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program"
1870 to 1950
on ancient Rome etc
good articles
yep
I remember when it was green and black
To double check your speed limit
hours of fun!
not the live map itself but thought the info would be useful
make some memes
random links to random sites
random projects
you know you like graphs of obscure data