Streaming radio from around the world: Radio Garden
Best language lessons short of full immersion: Language Transfer
https://internet.nl/ that tests a bunch of security related things and gives your server a score. Great for checking a few more boxes.
It’s the weirdest shit I’ve ever seen. Before I get into it, I want to point out that I’ve been using this site for years, since before LLMs were a thing, so this is definitely not generated by AI.
It’s just like, generic outline drawings of things. Objects, people, places, everything.
So sometimes I like to draw, and I need a model to work from for the pose and the proportions, and this site has a ton of them. Child kicking a ball? Yes. Adult man sitting on a bench? Several options to choose from. Woman carrying a box? Three different poses.
Pointing, pushing, protesting, thinking, vacuuming, raising one’s hand to summon a waiter in a restaurant, it’s all there.
I’m sure there’s some kind of industrial use for it, like for diagrams or blueprints or something, but then we get to the descriptions. Like on the page for people carrying boxes, it says:
People lift boxes either in their personal lives or at work. People lift boxes to move residences. Mailmen or delivery truck drivers lift boxes everyday as part of their job. Some jobs may require their applicants to be able to lift a certain weight of box. When lifting boxes, it is important to lift with your knees instead of your back to prevent back injury.
Then there’s always three questions, which they provide answers to. For carrying, those questions are:
What is a carry on bag?
What is carrying capacity?
How much can a horse carry?
Why? Whom is that for?
Under the pictures of elderly people it asks things like “What are the best exercises for maintaining mobility in seniors?” and “How can seniors adapt their homes for safety and accessibility?”
Is this for dolphins? Did a dolphin learn to read English, and they want to understand human society?
I’m struggling to find the weirdest examples, because honestly it’s the breadth as well as the depth. Someone clearly put a ton of work into this, and I love it, but I don’t understand it.
Alright. I figured it out. This is for aliens trying to understand us.
But they’d have written it in alienese. That’s why I say dolphins - without a formal writing system of their own, they’d naturally default to a human one for the purpose of studying humans.
It’s been around for half a century and nobody knows about it. It’s like a world wonder, a modern Library of Alexandria.
There is a modern Library of Alexandria, just fyi, it’s pretty fucking dope.
IIRC, they’ll add new books every year, as older books slowly become Public Domain, so classics like a bunch of Tarzan books (though not all of them, yet) have become available.
Also, for those that don’t get the name: Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press that was much better than existing presses (and pretty new to Europe).
It’s still the same same as it was almost 30 years ago and is an example of both how websites used to look and also shows how much more functional things used to be when implemented well, inspite of modern aesthetic evolutions
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/20018103
Probably the same response I put when someone else asked this 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say nobody, it’s got a cult following, but I think even more should try it
Edit: !youraislopboresme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
I just think it’s neat, so made a community a few days ago
Ferry Halim made Orisinal, a website full of simple and relaxing Flash games that lives again now through various means, I think a combination of HTML5 conversion and Ruffle: https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
Duuuuuuude, I haven’t seen these games in around two decades. Thanks for posting this!
cool websites !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca has quite a lot of them
To figure out what type of adhesive/glue you need to attach x material to y material
Lemmy
The venerable and unexplainable Superbad: https://www.superbad.com/
Ancient wiki-style writing site Everything, older than Wikipedia: https://everything2.com/
The “Earth Edition” of the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: https://h2g2.com/
On of Eyezmaze made the Grow games, which are currently still playable here: https://www.eyezmaze.com/
I’m not saying it’s the coolest, but I made a thing to scratch an itch that others may enjoy. I modeled it after something I found a few decades back that I never found again.
Forgot to mention it is available as a tui too.
cargo install rhuidean-studioI have absolutely no idea what this is or what it’s supposed to do but it’s incredibly fun to poke at
That was fun! 😁
Perfect 4th with linear velocity starts to cascade before they all reconverge with a big bleep. That was my favorite.
The craving of that big bleep is what got me to finally do this. It is so satisfying when they all converge. With multiple subdivisions and the convergence lines on, it is even better.
Oh that is cool! It makes stars and trippy fan blade patterns. It’s neat you can share the link like that to share the patterns too.
It’s like a kaleidoscope that also works for the ears. 😁
Amazing, thanks 🙏🙏🙏
This is fun!
26-year-old image blog Everlasting Blort: https://blort.meepzorp.com/
