Psychiatric Explorations of the Ever-Enlarging Brain
A (sadly now defunct) fansite for the Oklahoma psych-rock band The Flaming Lips. Appears to have gone down in the last couple years but still persists via Internet Archive. They've got a lot of interesting info about the band and their songs; probably my favorite is the juxtaposition of these two quotes on their page for Christmas at the Zoo (order reversed here for comic effect):
Truly one of the rock bands of all time.
Wayne's quote from Staring At Sound:
"We were building on these themes: What band can sing about animals? What band can sing about Christmas? I know we can, not because it is so sincere, but we can sing about things that other bands wouldn't care to."
Steven's quote from Staring At Sound:
[about "This Here Giraffe"]"I was just like, 'Aw, geez, not another fucking song about animals.' The same thing happened with 'Christmas at the Zoo.' I had the music and the melody intact on a four-track demo, and of course I didn't give him anything to go by when he asked, 'Well, what do you want the song to be about? Do you have any ideas?' My answer is always the same: 'No, I don't have a vague idea what I would want you to sing about.' So he came back a couple days later talking about the animals at the zoo and Christmas, and I was like, 'Jesus Christ!'"
Truly one of the rock bands of all time.
Innit Art
Personal website of a photographer from Spain. They have a unique photographic style, with an apparent emphasis on themes of loneliness or emptiness.
Upside-Down-Ternet
An old page detailing a technique for running software on your router to mess with people who are stealing your Wi-Fi. Certainly not something that would work as well today in our age of HTTPS and CSS, but it is still an entertaining little read.
Puzzles About Time Travel
A discussion of different possible models of time travel, and how these play out in terms of video game mechanics. Goes quite in-depth and makes several interesting time-travel distinctions that wouldn't have occurred to me.
(Hey, who's that listed in the “Tenet” section...? ;) )
(Hey, who's that listed in the “Tenet” section...? ;) )
Hou tu pranownse Inglish
Sure, English spelling is undeniably wacky. But it’s not as lawless as people claim. This is an article from 2000 that discusses the often subtle (but logical!) rules that govern (most of) English spelling, and explains once and for all why “ghoti” can’t actually be pronounced “fish.”
Whenever the subject comes up, someone is sure to bring up all the words in -ough, or George Bernard Shaw's ghoti-- a word which illustrates only Shaw's wiseacre ignorance. English spelling may be a nightmare, but it does have rules, and by those rules, ghoti can only be pronounced like goatee.
The purpose of this page is to describe those rules-- to explain the system behind English spelling, the rules that tell you how to pronounce a written word correctly over 85% of the time.
The Rise and Fall of Final Fantasy
A series of articles from the 00s discussing each game in the Final Fantasy series in excruciating detail. I’ve never made it past the very beginning of any of these games (and there's only a few I've even touched), yet I find this series of articles fascinating and have read through the whole thing multiple times. Could not tell you why for the life of me. I think I just enjoy the writing style. Also I guess I'm a video game maker person so I like reading about video game design. ANYWAY worth a read.
Check out their essays on the Mother series as well, which are also great.
Check out their essays on the Mother series as well, which are also great.
♥BALL WITH FEET♥
Paean to that most classic of video game character body plans. Created by thecatamites, most well-known for the inscrutable hit(?) RPG Space Funeral.
The Small Website Discoverability Crisis
An article that inspired me to create this website. It makes the point that small websites are hard to find in the sea of social media and SEO that is the wider internet, yet it's not common for them to link to each other, and we should change that by actually linking small websites together like how the web is supposed to work. I think this is a great idea!
Choice quote:
Choice quote:
It’s a bit strange, almost nobody seems to be doing this. Looking through a sample of personal websites, very few of them has links to other personal websites. A hyperlink isn’t a marriage proposal. It is enough to find some redeeming quality in a website to link to it. It costs nothing, and helps bring traffic to pages that you yourself think deserve it.
If we actually want these small websites to flourish as a healthy community, we need to promote each other much more than we do. It is advertisement, yes, but in earnest. I like it when other people link to my stuff. What sort of hypocrite would I then be if I only ever linked to my own websites?
Satyrs.eu Linkroll
This is one of the pages that inspired me to create this site. It has a lot of interesting stuff to check out for sure! Give it a look.