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Pages, websites, and experiences

• The Public Domain Review
  the thinking man's Atlas Obscura

• Black to play
  the thinking man's chess

• Urbigenous
  Historical essays

• A physics book list
  From Baez's homepage.

• Preprint repositories
  Manuscripts across the world.

• Retraction Watch
  No Majorana fermions in there.

• Global Informality Project
  Wiki of unsaid practices.

• Michael Nielsen's website
  Michael from Mike and Ike fame.

• The HyperTexts
  Nice poetry collections; in particular check out Dorothy Parker's wit, and Abraham Lincoln's poems.

• Radio garden
  Radios across the world

• Crackpot index
  Check your theory of everything here.

• Complexity Zoo
  Do not feed the Gap-P.

• Prof. Dr. style
  Learn CSS from the masters

• Joke papers on arXiv
  Humor in tex files since 2002

• Hellenic Library
  Fragments, often

• Calligrapher AI
  AI can now write poorly

• Divisare
  Pretty architecture shots

• Paper sizes
  How an informational page should be made.

• rest of world
  Truly global

• aeon
  Sometimes very good

• oimo
  Cool physics in the browser

• overpass turbo
  Ever want to know what all the streets in your town are named?

• Compact RF 35s
  The best analog compacts.

• Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
  "not rocket science".

• Michael Butkus Jr. Camera Manual Library
  Collection of analog camera manuals.

• Tenochtitlan in 3D
  The Aztec capital.

• Annoying technology
  Sloppy stuff on iOS.

• Grumpy website
  Sloppy stuff on all OSes.

• What are these teasers called?
  If you know the answer, email me.

• How to write papers
  I wish people read those.

• Elements of style
  Concise and good.

• An internet map
  A small one though.

• matt.sh
  Good python guides and other rants.

• syntaxerror
  A certain someone.

• The ZX Calculus
  Someday I'll get to it.

• Index of Aesthetics
  From Acidgrafix to Zen-X.

• "The American science funding catastrophe"'s comment section
  A miraculously earnest internet conversation.

• Scenius
  Down with "Big Man" history.

Wikipedia pages

• Obsolete occupations
  Alnagers and such.

• Lost works
  The memoirs of Lord Byron, e.g.

• Uncleftish Beholding
  Lump beholding is 100 years this year.

• List of citogenesis incidents
  See xkcd 978.

• Translation of place names in Switzerland
  Did you know Cadenazzo is Kadnetsch in German?

• Chess pieces in all languages
  Pawn in Danish is 'bonde'.

• Interesting Wikipedia articles
  Someone else's Wikipedia pages.

Stories and reading

• Human, all too inhuman
  The rise and fall of hysterical realism.

• KYC and AML
  I had fun reading about banks.

• Care doesn't scale
  Small scale matters.

• Hello stranger
  Conversation went better than expected, always.

• The origin of the research university
  The Germans had a vision.

• Hegel dust
  Kojève's life and legacy.

• The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker
  Xu Lizhi's poetry.

PDFs

• Sample problems from the International Linguistics Olympiad
  You only need to know english and some logic to solve these.

• Cock and Bull about Epic Fantasy
  Fantasy academics' fisticuffs

• Can a biologist fix a radio?
  Somewhat self-deprecating and very funny. Naming is not knowing!

• How to Publish a Scientific Comment in 123 Easy Steps
  The only effective way to refute wrong ideas.

• The Saddest Moment: Byzantine fault tolerance
  Can the blockchain solve this?

• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
  Philosophy of science primer.

• More is Different
  Intensive vs extensive science.

• Margaret Young's diary
  The webring with a single person in it.

Français

• Le cabinet de curiosités
  Curiosités de la langue française.

• Termes régionaux de Suisse romande et de Savoie
  Panosser, etc.

• Liste des glossaires et lexiques
  Comprenant le glossaire de la luge, notamment.

• Atlas historique de Paris à travers les âges
  Companion utile du lecteur de Notre-Dame de Paris (et des Misérables).

• Termes extrêmenent rares
  En toutes les langues.

• Registres de langue
  Langage très familier.

• Netji
  Critique architecturale.

• Argoji
  L'argot dit classique.

• Remacle
  Traduction de livres anciens.

• Radio Olympiades
  Bonne sélection.

• Théâtre classique
  Une quantité de pièces classiques.