Href.cool is my personal directory to the Web. It contains one hidden directory inside of it—and I’m working on two more (one on ‘antimisanthropy’ and another on ‘fake computers’.) In the meantime, I have some casual updates.

Added to Games/Dialogue:

• The Missing Quests Blog 5m
  Plumbing the depths of itch.io. Like try the write-up on Golf: Become Human—a golf/adventure game where you play a human turned golfball on a vaporwave course.

• All the Meeples of the Rainbow Blog 5m
  Lavish pics of board game pieces. Full, detailed feelings on new games. I tend to agree with her. Her being Steph Hodge.

• Stately Play Blog 5m
  This blog sprung from the Pocket Tactics blog—covers mostly mobile board games. (I’m a huge fan of Race for the Galaxy—and the mobile version came from Keldon’s homebrew AI. This blog is on the lookout for games in that vein.)

To Web/Wiki, I added an essential link—that of chameleon’s wiki. (Who today has introduced me to a sick term: birdsite.hell in reference to Twitter.)

Removed link to Susan Engel (susan-engel.com) in Real/Learning—DNS doesn’t resolve.

New category Real/Thoughts:

• Meaningness Wiki ∞
  David Chapman (who also brought us Buddhism for Vampires)—to simply call Meaningness a ‘book’ or a ‘metablog’ or a Buddhist resource is to discount that this is a formidable work that seems to both tackle the question “What is life?” and to catalog its author’s every thought. It also sets a precedent for drafting in public that I’ve begun to see on the other links in Web/Wiki.

• Visakan Veerasamy Page ∞
  This site goes real deep—you have no idea. But you might get an idea if you survey the bookmarks page (which is an impressive collection—feels similar to href.cool) or the @1000wordvomits page (dump of interesting, meandering essays) or his master list of his own Twitter threads, which is just much better than it sounds. Generous work.

• Nadia Eghbal Blog 1h
  Started with the brilliant ‘The tyranny of ideas’. Stayed for ‘Reclaiming public life’ and ‘The independent researcher’. Essays to snack on. (See also: The Modern Essay by Virginia Woolf. That’s what Nadia does.)

• Ribbonfarm Blog ∞
  Venkatesh Rao and friends write long articles, some of which form ‘blogchains’—a continuous riff on a subject. (Via Nadia E.)

The link for ‘Sleepingfish’ in Stories/Brief has changed to http://www.calamaripress.com/SF/.

The link to ‘HIGH END CUSTOMIZABLE SAUNA EXPERIENCE’ in Stories/Hypertext has changed to http://slimedaughter.com/games/twine/sauna/.

An addition to Tapes/Classic:

• Radio Soulwax Mixtape 1h
  These are pretty popular—but whatever, credit to these Belgians for keeping such an ambitious project on a sheet of matte black hypertext.

An addition to Tapes/Infinite:

• Every Noise at Once Directory 1m
  ‘…an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 3,295 genres by Spotify as of 2019-08-03. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.’

And an addition to Tapes/Vaporwave:

• Poolside FM Page 1m
  Vaporware, too, actually. (See also: foreignrap.)

Bunch of new links under Visuals/Motion:

• Uno Moralez Page 1m
  The danky monochrome GIFs of Uno—who is actually Russian. (See also: the LiveJournal, maybe the best Tumblr ever. Oh wait—there’s that too.)

• A new way of spinning up spontaneous YouTube vids: Incognitube; or, Forgotify for Spotify tracks that have never been listened to.

New link in Web/Meta to: WWWTXT—quotes from Usenet, CompuServe and such. Cool design.

Removed link to Typegram (tgr.am) in Web/Participate—DNS won’t resolve.