Bookmark Shelf
Behold, my bookshelf of webbed sites. 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. 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. 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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. |