Everett Kaser Software
Personal website of a guy who's been making logic computer games since 1991. Love the retro graphics. Many of these have thousands and thousands of levels, wow. There's a lot of cool content here and it seems like he still updates it. Some of the games are also available for Android (though not iPhone :( ) -- I've been playing Honeycomb Hotel on my phone, which is kind of insane but very interesting.
HERMIT-CRABS.COM. Your hermit crab care headquarters!
A charming 2001-era website about proper care and feeding of hermit crabs. Contains all the info you could ever want to know about hermit crab ownership. Did you know hermit crabs make chirping sounds? I sure didn't.
Dirona Around the World - Adventures on Land and Sea
A website cataloguing the escapades of the MV Dirona, a boat based in Seattle which appears to be owned by a couple who have used it to travel all around the world (including several voyages across the ocean!)
They have an interactive map of everywhere the boat has traveled, and blog posts about the various locations they have visited. As well as a lot of information about the boat itself, if you're into that kind of thing. Looks like they've been updating it since at least 2011. Hey, cool website!
They have an interactive map of everywhere the boat has traveled, and blog posts about the various locations they have visited. As well as a lot of information about the boat itself, if you're into that kind of thing. Looks like they've been updating it since at least 2011. Hey, cool website!
Science Made Stupid
Once, when the secrets of science were the jealously guarded property of a small priesthood, the common man had no hope of mastering their arcane complexities. Years of study in musty classrooms were prerequisite to obtaining even a dim, incoherent knowledge of science.
Today, all that has changed: a dim, incoherent knowledge of science is available to anyone. Popular science books, magazines and computer programs - with their simple, fatuous and misleading prose, their garish illustrations, their flimsy modern production values - have brought science within the reach of anyone who can afford their inflated prices or who can mooch off someone else.
Indeed, today a myriad of sources are available to explain science facts that science itself has never dreamed of.
This web site is one of them.
I especially enjoy their discussion of particle physics.
Full versions of the book as pdf etc here (with permission).
Love Blender
Online collection of love poetry submitted by readers, operating continuously since 1997. It seems like they don't get nearly as many submissions as they used to, so if you've written a love poem lately, maybe send it in! <3
The Rad Project
In 1991, Jaleco of America released an NES game called Totally Rad. It was a fairly decent late-generation platformer, but it was perhaps most memorable for its oddly relentless '80s-surfer-dude dialogue, which even at the time had started to sound dated. I played it at least once around the time of its release, but I had mostly forgotten about it until one day I happened upon a Japanese game from 1990 called Magic John.
It was Totally Rad. And yet it was not.
It turns out the iconic surfer-dude lingo of this game was a complete invention of the American translators. They also redrew a bunch of the graphics to be more Radical™. This series of pages goes through all the game text and compares the original Japanese text/graphics to the English 'tude-ified version. It's amazing. Honestly, in the end, it seems like the '80s version ended up being a lot more memorable than the original.
This is actually a link to a mirrored/rehosted version of the original page, which seems to be sadly defunct. Be sure to check the hidden hover-text on the images! See also: Kid Radd
Mark's Record Reviews
This is an incredibly extensive collection of music reviews by this guy who ran this website from 1996-2011. Scrolling through the list of artists fills me with a sense of awe.
Welcome to our garden.
An imageboard where posts can only be made by physically mailing a postcard to the website. Maybe I'll try sending them something...
Spinal Tap Fan Site
A fansite for the definitely real and not at all fictional band Spinal Tap. Appears to have been online since 1995 but still being updated as of 2023!
The BeanWeb
A very old fansite for the obscure comic book series Beanworld by Larry Marder. Explore and learn interesting facts about the Beans, as they are called.