Bookmark Shelf
Behold, my bookshelf of webbed sites. A site without links is like a spider without silk, or a hollowed-out husk, much like any flies that meet said spider. I’m always tinkering here, whether I'm adding new links or replacing dead ones with archive.org URLs. Many of my lovely webbed sites are old, and at times downright decrepit. Yet their information remains valuable, even after their time has passed. For best effect, read these in a candlelit chamber with a blanket and a warm drink.
I find these links through hours of link-hopping, crawling, scuttling, and being a bit of a Fraidycat. Who needs an account to follow people when there's this and RSS? I give further credit to this site's directory section, the relics I dredge up from them and to Lutzbug for taking some off my paws for the sake of curation. There's a lot we have in common, but we've gone out of our way to keep our findings seperate; that way you have a more stirring experience. Perhaps open their page in a new tab, for when you're done here?
Section Menu
- Articles
(Mortality, Webmastery) - Fun and Games
(Cats, Spooky) - Further Reading
(ASCII, Horror, Linguistics, Tolkien, Video Games)
Articles and Zines
Mortality
Name | Description |
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Dead Internet Souls | "The internet today is filled with dead souls." |
Death and the Internet | "A number of issues relating to the ‘digital afterlife’ are only now coming to light." |
Deaths of Me | "We die in pieces, in pauses, in all the things we give away just to keep existing." |
How Websites Die | "Our ghosts could live forever, if we help each other." |
Ghost Sites | An old dead site on old dead sites. |
Linkrot, or Website Existentialism | "A broken link can be a loss but it can also be an opportunity." |
Mausoleums of The Web | "For most of us though, our posthumous digital footprint will be far less intentional." |
My Dead Hard Drive Story | Man performs necromancy on a hard drive. |
on writing to exist, and website graveyards | "I believe websites will be future archaeological artefacts." |
Order of the Good Death | A cause for death-positivity, but not in the way you think. |
YOU are the Dead Internet | “You are becoming algorithmically generated content.” |
Webmastery
Name | Description |
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A Guide to Web Curation | "How to actually do it." |
Design Tenets of my Website | "When successful, the website shall transmit a feeling of "unknowable depths" to visitors." |
The Slow Web | "Fast Web is about information. Slow Web is about knowledge." |
This Page is Designed to Last | "It's a small simple step for a complex sociotechnical system." |
Words | "But the most powerful tool on the web is still words." |
Fun Stuff
Cats
Name | Description |
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Cats in Sinks | Randomly generated photos of cats nesting in sinks. |
Cats on Routers | A compilation of cats sitting on routers. |
DAFTPATIENCE's Vintage cat sewing pattern | A tumblr user remakes a midcentury sewing pattern. This is the result. |
Infinite-Cat | Cats watching cats watching cats watching... |
Spooky
Name | Description |
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Monster Breeder | Breed monsters. |
Monster Match | Match monsters to kill them. |
Numbskull | You're helping a skull get back to its body. |
Powder | Chemical reactions. |
TombZone | Custom-made ASCII tombstones. |
Further Reading
ASCII
Name | Description |
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FUNGI | A website full of ASCII mushrooms and other whimsical creatures. |
Unicorn and Butterfly | A webcomic made entirely out of ASCII. |
Horror and Spooky Kitsch
Name | Description |
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Bogleech | A long-running monster review site. |
Classic Horror | The archives of a horror movie review blog. |
Scooby Museum (New!) | A museum of Scooby Doo merchandise. |
The Gallery of Monster Toys | A website dedicated to midcentury monster toys. |
Linguistics
Name | Description |
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Etymonline | An archive of etymology since 2000. |
Onelook Thesaurus | An expansive thesaurus. |
The Phontistery | A glossary of obscure words; going strong since 1996. |
Rare Phrases | A list of comically rare phrases. |
Tolkien
Name | Description |
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Ardalambion | A website dedicated to Tolkien's constructed languages. |
Eldamo | A fanmade lexicon for Tolkien's Elvish language. |
Tolkien Gateway | The biggest encyclopedia for all things Tolkien. |
Video Games
Name | Description |
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Anna's Archive (New!) | An archive of scanned books. I use it to look at Grimtooth's Traps. |
Blood Wiki | A wiki for the Blood games. |
Diablo Wiki | A wiki for the first two Diablo games. |
iFiction (New!) | An archive of interactive fiction games. |
Interactive Fiction Wiki (New!) | A wiki for the Interactive Fiction Genre. |
Petz Site Directory v2 | A big directory for Petz fansites. |
Petz Wiki | An encyclopedia for the Petz series. |
Solution Archive (New!) | An archive of solutions for interactive fiction games. |