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Favorite websites

An annotated list of my favorite places on the net.  Other than SpaceHey of course.  Some of the sites/links are defunct but still good sources of knowledge.  


Brainsturbator


Here I link to the Brainsturbator of old, with many fantastic and memorable articles.  Together with the knowledge of Humpasaur Jones and Skilluminati Research, the mid-to-late 2000s could be more readily navigated.


Miqel.com


Awesome website run by a cool person.  So much stuff here.  Fractal mathematics, futuristic art, outer space.  Praise "Bob"!


Fusion Anomaly


One of my favorites during high school; it gave me something to do other than getting pelted with spit wads for being down with the clown.  I always liked the hyperweb aspect.  I felt super hip browsing this one!


The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension

It used to be at deoxy.org



A very chaotic blend, much like Fusion Anomaly.  This site had a lot of Terence Mckenna and psychedelic lore, random knowledge, very cutting edge website programming for its time, hyperlinks, cool stuff, and quotes.


Reality Carnival


Clifford Pickover is one of my favorite authors with many varied works.  Just like this sprawling website and ever ongoing list of interesting and excellent things.


Technoccult


The archives of Technoccult go deep.  Many interviews and articles for mindful cyborgs and other various mutants.


Post Human Blues


Archive of posts covering the changing of the seasons in the post millenium. 


Phys.org


My usual one-stop shop for most general science news.


The Daily Galaxy


Go-to for space news.


Utopia Online Library


"A collection of texts and interviews exploring possibilites and boundaries of social evolution."


The Huge Entity


2000s blog with lots of random knowledge.  Best way to navigate is to use the archives tab at the bottom. 


Techgnosis


The website of author Erik Davis, and also the title of a classic (and highly recommended) book.


Aleph.se Transhumanist Resources


Anders Sandberg's site about transhumanism was maybe the first I came across.  Includes a lot of links that probably don't work anymore (would recommend using The Wayback Machine). 


H+ Magazine


H+ Magazine was a look at optimistic tech in the early 2010s.


Outside The Light-Cone


Mark Pesce's site with talks, presentations, and interviews.


Dedroidify


Compendium of distilled wisdom.  


Giulio Prisco


Futurist blog posts from the 2000s.  Cosmism, virtual reality, simulation, telepresence and quantum computing.


Lucid Dreamers' Community


I haven't been to this forum in years, but a long time ago it was a special place for me as I was practicing lucid dreaming in the late 90s.  The old version of the site is worth looking up on the Wayback Machine, to check out how awesome the artwork and the design was.  There were even methods for using the site along with lucid dreaming practice, e.g. wake back to bed method where you would actually go log onto the site to see if you in fact were dreaming or awake..  Fun trivia, I came across the band Infected Mushroom on this site, who had just released the Classical Mushroom album.


The Internet Archive


I could not say enough good things about The Internet Archive.  I hope they get a Nobel Prize and billions of dollars in funding for the work they do.  


Mondo 2000


After the original Mondo 2000 magazine series there was the Mondo Globo Network with my favorite series of podcasts in the early 2000s, including Neofiles and the R.U. Sirius Show.  Later came 10 Zen Monkeys and Acceler8or.  Most recently Mondo 2000 has a website.   


The Spirit of the Internet


Lorenzo Hagerty's book about the internet.  Musings on cyberspace and global connectivity, and a primer for newer students of millenial cyberculture.


Coilhouse


Alt-culture blog and magazine which ran from 2007-2012.  Excellent category list.


Hans Moravec


I get into scientists the same way people get into bands.  Hans Moravec is definitely one of them.  A luminary in robotics and AI, his book Mind Children still flips my wig.


Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History


Virtual tour of the natural history museum.


Nick Bostrom's Home Page


Author of the Simulation Argument (https://www.simulation-argument.com/).  Lots of stuff to read here, various papers and PDF downloads.


Larry Carlson


Psychedelic and surreal artwork.  In the past when Flash still ruled the interwebs, there were many awesome interactice art pieces which still resonate.


Paul Laffoley


Official website of the late visionary artist Paul Laffoley.


Educating Earth


Many resources including links to university online courses, lectures and debates, art and more.


Singularity Hub


Science and technology.


Natural Genesis


Source book of cosmic genesis including many citations.


The Center For Integral Science


Links to different papers, journals, and organizations related to integral science.


Inhabitat


Eco-design, sustainability, technology and alternative energy blog. 


wwwwwwwww.jodi.org


No list would be complete without a "weird" site thrown in.  The web used to be resplendent with bizarre websites that seemed to exist for no real purpose other than to bedazzle and amuse.  Some like wwwwwwwww.jodi.org might be held to a high degree as contemporary art. 


Delia Derbyshire


One of my favorite musicians and a huge influence.  Includes annotated discography and links to articles, interviews and more.


The Linux Information Project (LINFO)


Lots of good stuff here.  One of the single best reference sites regarding UNIX/Linux.  Includes definitions, commands, common sytem files etc.


Open Culture


Education and cultural resources.  Includes links to online courses, lectures from famous thinkers, art galleries, movies, textbooks, recordings and more. 


Internet Sacred Text Archive


Religion, mythology, folklore, and esoteric text archive.


Principia Discordia


Read the Principia Discordia; Wherein is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Anything.


Appropedia

 
A sustainability wiki.  Greenhouse designs, permaculture, low tech solutions, water systems, etc. 


Ultra Culture


Contemporary chaos magick, occult and esoteric lore.

 
BOC pages


A comprehensive Boards of Canada wiki for super nerd fans.  Includes all interview text on a single page! 


Music History


Music history blog.


Hip-Hop Radio Archive


Hip-Hop radio show archives.


Cameron's World


A love letter to the GeoCities era web.


Plink


Live interactive multiplayer music.  
 
 
Neatorama


Blog of neat and quirky things from the web.


Fractal Cult


The Fractal Cult Discordian blog.


Roshi Hogan's Teachings of the Tao
 

My favorite Tao blog.  This is where Master Li stories come from!  The entries contain deep profound wisdom.


Documentary Heaven
 

Documentary movies.
 
 
Record Shops


Map of record stores.
 
 
Intermittens

 
Discordian zine.
 
 
Rockbox


Alternative firmware for portable audio players.


Journal of Astrobiology
 
 
Reviews, commentary, and original research.


Green Way Research


Taoism, Tai Chi, Qigong, quotes, wisdom, poetry and more.

 
Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research

 
Consciousness journal system. 
 
 
Frontiers


Open access journals and peer reviewed articles. 
 

Fake Seinfeld Plots


Fake Seinfeld plots and Seinfeld related memes.


Messy Nessy Chic


Obscure history articles, curious things, and more.


Unexplained Mysteries


Articles, news, and forum on things unexplained and mysterious. 


Yoko d'Holbachie

 
Her artwork is amazing! 
 
 
Liar Town USA

 
Home of Apple Cabin Foods and more.
 
 
Wes Cecil


I've been bumping a lot of Wes Cecil YouTube lectures lately.  There's so many more I still need to peep.  The Forgotten Thinkers series is fantastic.  


Anarchivism


Tutorials for archiving media.
 

The Xiph.Org Foundation

 
Free and open source multimedia protocols.
 
 
Postmodernism Generator
 
 
Randomly generate postmodern essays.
 

Robert Anton Wilson 


FNord?

 
NextBigFuture.com
 

Technology, trends, and science news.


Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
 

Over 1500 high quality entries of thinkers, ideas, and schools.      
 
 
The ArchWiki


I've never used Arch Linux.  But the wiki is fantastic!  This is a primary place to find info on various packages, guides and applications, troubleshooting and hardware.  There's a whole bunch of stuff here and the articles are all very high quality and well-written.


Bruce Damer


New site:  https://damer.com

One of my favorite mammals.  Curator of the DigiBarn Computer Museum (https://www.digibarn.com/), origin of life scientist, virtual worlds pioneer and more.


Edge.org
 
 
Longform sprawling articles and conversations with various thinkers.  I discovered this site by coming across Jaron Lanier's "The Myth of AI" piece.  There's a lot to get into here.
  
 
Eric Weisstein's World of Physics


Very handy physics reference including diagrams and equations.  If you dig deeper you will realize that this is merely part of a larger Eric Weisstein's World of Science (https://scienceworld.wolfram.com), and your wig will fly back in amazement.


Insane Clown Posse


Whoop Whoop!  I was Netscape surfing the ICP website back in 1997 on the school Power Macintosh.  Included Letters From Angry Mammas, the Wicked Chat Room, and notes from Jelly Nuts.  ICP has one of the oldest and among the first band websites on the 'net. 


Advanced Civilisation
 

Post-scarcity, automation, design, prototyping, open source medicine, space habitats and more.


Funhouse Radio

https://funhouseradio.com

Novelty songs, weird stuff, oddities and more!


Inspectapedia

https://inspectapedia.com/

Encyclopedia of building & environmental construction, diagnosis, maintenance & repair.


Examine


The best resource for nutritional supplement science. 


Science-Based Medicine


Issues and controversies in science and medicine.




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Kes

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This is great! Thanks for sharing!


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No doubt!

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Lord Byron Silverhand

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Yoooo


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Shadow Bliss

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I love the Internet Archive!


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I recently came across an entire archive of Kmart (department store in the U.S.) cassette tapes of music they would play in the early 1990s. Truly obscure things! The importance of what they do is highly slept on.

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Tom Immortal

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This is awesome, man. Lots of cool stuff. The pomo generator makes me nostalgic lol. SEP is one of my faves.

Speaking of philosophy and the internet, here's an interesting thing you used to be able to do on Wikipedia: Back in the 2000's, you could look up ANY article, then click on the first hyperlinked word to go to another article, then do the same thing on that article, keep doing it and you'd always end up on the article for philosophy (and from there it'd just be a loop between the article for philosophy and the one for reality). I'm not sure when or why this eventually stopped working.


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I never knew about that!

In the past I remember Wikipedia being the best place for philosophy (and math). In the early 2000s this was all new and a much faster way of looking up information.

As time went on I noticed an anti Wikipedia bias because too many people were relying on articles rather than primary sources from an educator point of view I guess. It doesn't seem that media literacy has caught up with the digital age.

I also remember hearing claims that Wikipedia can't be believed because unlike Encyclopedia Britannica there are no experts and you can't believe something anyone can edit. Of course now one can submit a paper to an open access journal (and have it accepted) about gibberish.

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