#href.cool
I use three main tags on this blog:
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hypertext: linking, the Web, the future of it all.
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garage: art and creation, tinkering, zines and books, kind of a junk drawer - sorry!
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elementary: schooling for young kids.
#href.cool
I use three main tags on this blog:
hypertext: linking, the Web, the future of it all.
garage: art and creation, tinkering, zines and books, kind of a junk drawer - sorry!
elementary: schooling for young kids.
Giving you all a first look at my decade summary.
After looking at the AV Club’s list of 100 Internet ‘things’ bad and good - I left feeling that there was so much more to find on the Internet over the past decade. The thought that anyone could make a decade list without Neil C, Nathalie Lawhead or the SCP Foundation wiki… well, that’s not the decade I recall at all!!
People say the Web is dead, but after assembling this list, I’ve realized that all of the great experimental creative work is really still happening here. Yes, there is a lot of YouTube on this list - but usually those vids only serve as a helpful intro to that link. There is still no better way to collaborate than on blogs and wikis. And no better way to easily draw someone into some indefinable art project than to serve it on your own dank .pizza domain name.
I will probably add more later in the week, but I’m done for now. Glad to hear your take on any missing links - I will definitely graft in the ones I connect with. (Also: make your own lists! Would be sweet to see them!)
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Most of these links have been posted recently—some removals as well.
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:
An addition to Tapes/Infinite:
And an addition to Tapes/Vaporwave:
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.
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Dozens of new links, many from Imperica’s ‘web curios’ roundup.
Just as things had a big effect on me last month, such is the discovery of Imperica—particularly its ‘web curios’ posts, which are MASSIVE link roundups like you’ve never seen before. These are exhaustive and tremendously exciting. So, having now read back through the last several months of Imperica, let’s look at the effect on href.cool…
Added to Bodies/Inanimate:
A new category, Bodies/Primitive:
In Games/Dialogue:
In Games/Imagined:
A new one for Real/Paced:
I’ve expanded the Web/Wiki page, by adding a note on h0p3’s Wiki, listing the various wikis branching out from his family.
To Stories/Paneled, an obvious link I neglected to add:
To Stories/Folkmeme:
An obvious omission from Stories/Poems:
Brilliant addition to Tapes/Classic:
AND OF COURSE (to Visuals/Zines):
Forgot this one in Web/Participate:
Also add a link to spoon.nagoya under the Real/Person topic. And a link to Neave.TV, alongside the unlisted YouTube video links.
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Eleven new additions, mostly to ‘Crimes’.
My recent re-discovery of Things Magazine (probably from one of you, don’t recall now) and my own readings on crime-related topics have yielded some links that need to be permanently hung onto.
A new category, Bodies/Food:
Added to Crimes/Simple:
Added to Crimes/Impossible:
Spring-heeled Jack
Article 5m
The impossible leaping skill of this urban legend (ripped from the penny
dreadfuls of the Victorian age) had such a technological flare. Ah, the idea
that an inventor-cobbler with a gas-powered dental retainer could inspire
demonic fear. His attacks lasted a century! (Also at
Wikipedia.)
The Garfield Phones Beach
Mystery Article 1m
Who was sending plastic Garfield telephones up the Iroise coast for 35 years?
To Crimes/Lies:
How Golf Explains
Trump
Article 1m
Well, for a 72-year-old, he’d be a six. Six or seven. So he’s good. He’s a good player. He’s among our best presidents ever to play golf. But he wants the world to think he’s fantastic.
I think the best lies are the ones we all get to be in on.
Added to Tapes/Classic:
Added to Visuals/Film:
"Please Help Me Find the Very Best Strange, Trippy Short Films and
Videos"
Directory 5m
MeFi thread. Turns out to be a good intro to animated shorts and music vids.
(Via Things.)
IT CAME FROM… Blog 5m
Interviews and fantasies re: sci-fi and horror films of yore. What can I say?
It’s like candy floss. (Via Things.)
In Web/Meta:
And a new one for Web/Participate:
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Got damn generosity! Can’t believe you went through all these links, brother. I was watching this go down many weeks ago and just in awe. I mean it’s taken years to collect these links. Now you’re slamming them down like cans of baked beans.
You passed off a bunch of the zine and lit mag stuff to k0sh3k. This got me to pay closer attention to her wiki. Friend-o, I think I’ve bailed on yours to read hers. It’s a trove!
20 May, 2018: Today, h0p3 was wrong… He claimed I had a list of 11 books for him to read, but I only had 10. I even told him there were only 10 on the list, but he was quite sure there were 11. There are only 10, though.
This is XD. Love her quotes collection—it rivals yours. I appreciate the papers she links to, and I’ve liked discovering things like John Ayliff’s site and the Dante’s Inferno Topography. Tell her I’d be interesting in seeing more of her fiction recommendations—not just novels, but any short stories or poems she’s encountered.
(Actually, for both of you: what would you add to href.cool—like given everything else I’ve linked to, what notable omissions are there??)
Oh and I am most intrigued (and grateful) for her pages on homeschooling. For me, this is an ideal. I don’t work in public school because I feel it’s an ideal—it’s just the common experience, so it’s very important. But if every kid could have the freedom to learn at home and have the guidance of their parents—man, that is a dream. I do follow a similar schedule to hers during the summer with my kids. (I must highly recommend Kieran Egan’s The Educated Mind—this book is not some tips-and-tricks book, it backs you out from all that to look at wtf we’re doing. I would bet it’ll confirm some things for her.)
I also love that she says “blargle” just like you. Come on—she writes it in the same way with the same letters. It hits with the same quality.
Feels weird that I’m addressing you rather than her. I figure that if she wants to reply on her wiki, then it’ll be a real conversation. Otherwise, you can just pass on my sentiments. (This is one of the interesting things about this format where we’re openly conversing—not on a forum or on an e-mail list, but just by loose association on the web—this isn’t a conversation where I can sense who’s in on it. Compare this with some of the conversations that your bookwyrm has had lately—with people dropping in and chatting her face off from time to time. She can choose to read this on her own time, listen to it or ignore it, maybe continue it. That such an advantage and I will gladly trade that for the uncertainty of whether it actually ever reaches her.
I also feel a bit like I end up talking about you and Sphyg and the other self-modelers out there, without considering that this is a family effort for you all. And your whole house is doing a bang-up job showing how to participate in each other’s lives in this way.
Can you tell me—am I okay to link to the other wikis in your family? Like on href.cool and on my home page? I feel like they are designed to be a bit more private, but perhaps I’ve invented that.
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Some poems, some surrealists, some nicer margins, who cares.
Quite a few new links and poems added today:
The Tragedy of GJ237b, an unusual role-playing game added to Games/Imagined.
Bukowski’s “16-bit Intel 8088 chip” poem added to Stories/Poems. I’m not an enormous Bukowski fan, but this fits so well. I’d like to highlight it, for now. (Also, I really like the beginning of the Michael Longley poem quoted by @vasta today—although, at some point, I hope to rotate out popular poets for the more underground ones.)
“Hope”, another poem. A section on just simple, uplifting kinds of poems.
“The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered”. A section on angry, tear-your-face-off poems.
The House of Mysticum, a surrealist blog—I think this could become a major subgenre of blogging, if it isn’t already. Added to Supernatural/Texts.
Smash TV—a vaporwave miniseries. Added to Tapes/Vaporwave.
Eleven-Minute Painting. I’m not sure why I’m drawn to this—I also found a number of derivative works and listed them under Visuals/Motion.
Reality Carnival. A long-running link log, along the lines of the links that Joe and Brad are collecting. Added to Web/Links.
I’ve also been improving the themes—trying to get them as nice as possible on all the various browsers and devices out there.
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Huffduffed? Wild!
What happens to the links after they get huffduffed? Do they materialize into ad-hoc minotaurs? The mind reels.
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Webmentions and five new links.
Okay, so I’ve added outgoing Webmentions to Href.cool. This means that sites will be notified if they are linked in any of my categories.
Incidentally, the directory itself has also has Webmentions. So, if you have an Indieweb blog and you want to recommend a link to the directory: make a post containing the link you want to submit and a link to the category page you think it belongs on and I will get the message. I may also choose to list submitted links at the bottom of the page. Or, yeah, you tell me if this is useful to you.
A few new links have been added:
Carlos and Adrián’s Top Gear: Vietnam Special: I discovered this blog in one of my previous HrefHunt! and thought it was relevant to my Bodies/Adventure. The entire Bodies category needs a lot of work.
“The Accidental Room” (2018): Also added to Bodies/Adventure. I felt I should definitely cover camping in strange areas.
“Afternoon of the Sex Children” (2006): This essay was previously a smaller citation in the Bodies/Human area and, after revisiting it, I felt it warranted a quote.
“I Was a Cable Guy” (2018): This recently published article is perfect for the Real/Society page. It’s astonishing and absorbing and helps flesh out an aspect of society that is not well-covered in that section: the private homes of people.
Simon Griffee: Another one from the same HrefHunt!. Linked under Visuals/Images. I love that these links will bubble up as I continue to ponder them as time passes.
I also linked to notepin.co as a possible blogging option.
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My new directory.
Krikey—I’ve been working on this directory for five months! I am not quite happy with all of it. But it functions mostly like I want it to. And the links are fine, as a start.
I will discuss it more over the next few weeks—mostly I just want to get it started so that I can start connecting with Joe, Brad and the rest of the world. Hope you find something you like!
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This page is also at kickssy42x7...onion and on hyper:// and ipns://.
glitchyowl, the future of 'people'.
jack & tals, hipster bait oracles.
maya.land, MAYA DOT LAND.
hypertext 2020 pals: h0p3 level 99 madman + ᛝ ᛝ ᛝ — lucid highly classified scribbles + consummate waifuist chameleon.
yesterweblings: sadness, snufkin, sprite, tonicfunk, siiiimon, shiloh.
surfpals: dang, robin sloan, marijn, nadia eghbal, elliott dot computer, laurel schwulst, subpixel.space (toby), things by j, gyford, also joe jenett (of linkport), brad enslen (of indieseek).
fond friends: jacky.wtf, fogknife, eli, tiv.today, j.greg, box vox, whimsy.space, caesar naples.
constantly: nathalie lawhead, 'web curios' AND waxy
indieweb: .xyz, c.rwr, boffosocko.
nostalgia: geocities.institute, bad cmd, ~jonbell.
true hackers: ccc.de, fffff.at, voja antonić, cnlohr, esoteric.codes.
chips: zeptobars, scargill, 41j.
neil c. "some..."
the world or cate le bon you pick.
all my other links are now at href.cool.
Reply: Allo
Hey thanks for piping up. Your blog is neat—I liked the article on treating your blog like a Moleskine. I think this is why I always have used those dreary, cheap composition books. I can make them a mess.
Your Twitter bio: “I tweet seriously, but mostly for fun.” This is chill. An example to us all.