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alternative energy, appropriate tech, de-growth, building technology

Build-It-Solar "Plans, tools and information to help you build renewable energy and conservation projects." Everything energy conservation under the sun. 'The Energy Conservation', 'Solar Space Heating' and 'Sunspaces and Solar Greenhouses' sections under the 'Projects' menu have some of my favorite articles and build logs.

Removing Freeways - Restoring Cities This site presents a series of short articles on freeway removal projects around the world. Lots of great historical detail.

Greenhomebuilding.com "Welcome to greenhomebuilding.com where you can find a wide range of information about sustainable architecture and natural building."

Flying Concrete Sculpted, organic buildings made with lightweight concrete.

Low Tech Magazine "Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices. "

computing

Total Commander "... is a Shareware file manager for Windows® 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10/11, and Windows® 3.1." I use the mobile version to browse samba shares on my home LAN server from my phone.

Q4OS "fast and friendly, desktop oriented operating system based on Debian Linux. Providing a set of dedicated utilities and specific optimizations, combined with a focus on getting a productive system easily. This makes it ideal for people who want to get a working environment tailored to individual needs and preferences. From this perspective, Q4OS is suitable for both newcomers as well as experienced computer users." I installed Q4OS on my wife's old Core 2 Duo laptop and it runs great under the Trinity Desktop environment. It reminds me of when I was using Red Hat at college back around the turn of the century.

Haiku OS "Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful." I haven't done a full install of Haiku (yet) but I have run it as a VM and from a live USB. The fastest 'modern' OS install and boot I've encountered.

Windows 98 Plus pack wallpaper IDE Cable Prototype #2 Prototype rounded IDE cables with integrated power. I used pages like this as a refernce for my own case-mods and it remians as a nice example of what case modding was like at the turn of the century. In the late 90's and early 00's it was very DIY, very hands on - modifying cables, cutting and modifying cases for additional cooling, hacking together lighting with component LEDs and CCFL tubes, custom paint jobs, water cooling setups built from scratch with custom-machined components- it was experimental, weird, and fun. I still see some case mods that embrace the spirit of weirdness, but the experimental nature of the early stuff has largly gonr away.

The DigiBarn Computer Museum "seeks to capture personal stories and track technological evolution through a large collection of vintage computer systems, manuals, videos, interviews, and other fossil relics of the 'Cambrian explosion' of personal computing that ignited in 1975."

the red hill hardware guide cpu index A historical CPU guide covering 30 years from 1971 through 2001.

How to build a version of WearComp6 The 'WearComp' is a wearable computer project by Steve Mann that started in the 70's and was developed over several iterations through the 90s. I highly recommend clicking through the many articles and links on the site. It's a deep dive into augmented reality, human-machine interaction, and their role in society. From the abstract on this paper "... it later evolved into a more diverse apparatus and methodology, combining machine vision and computer graphics, in a wearable tether-less apparatus, useful in day-to-day living. Personal imaging, at the intersection of art, science, and technology, has given rise to a new outlook on photography, videography, augmented reality, and `mediated reality', as well as new theories of human perception and human-machine interaction." For a full listing of Steve's current and past work check here http://wearcam.org/ or here https://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann/

K6-2+/K6-III+ CPU System And Motherboard Compatibility List

Total Hardware 1999 Also known as TH99; a mid-to-late 90's compilation of jumper settings for thousands of computing devices. Before the days of plug and play IRQ (and sometimes DMA and I/O address) assignments on expansion cards had to be manually set via jumpers or DIP switches. Jumpers settings also controlled CPU voltage, bus frequency, CPU clock multipliers and more on motherboards. I ran Windows NT4 for some time in the late 90's, and having jumper settings on hand was super useful when running an OS without PnP support. I kept a copy of the TH99 ASCII version burned to CD for offline use. There are various mirrors of the original TH99 like http://www.uncreativelabs.de/th99/ floating around.

The Retro Web project A refresh of TH99 with search functionality and is currently actively updated with new hardware. Manuals, drivers, and BIOS images are also hosted.

Higher Intellect Vintage Wiki Retro computing resources primarily dating before 2005

Myth TV "MythTV is a Free Open Source software digital video recorder (DVR) project distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. It has been under heavy development since 2002"

design inspiration

Fonts in Use is a great website for finding what fonts are used on album covers, book covers, movie promos, etc...

esoterica, writing, art, music, photography, anime, games

Nailing Jelly to the Wall "We've all heard the old saying "it's like nailing jelly to a wall" to describe a task that is very difficult or impossible. But is our view of the difficulty of this task justified? Has anybody actually tried nailing jelly to a wall? In this experiment I attempt to establish, one way or the other, the validity of the old proverb. "

The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things "or those with a taste for the peculiar, The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things is an imaginary museum that explores the strange place between art and curiosities. The museum celebrates the odd, the creative, the spooky and the eccentric. It values the special magic that draws people toward weird and wonderful things, and believe it can be used to foster more creativity, compassion and curiosity in the world."

GEOUNIVERSAL - "everywhere is space ... earth ... the sky ... and inward ... toward the universe" A collection of photography, radio, space, and web projects. Excellent links, immaculate vibes.

Dr. Nostromo's Home Page "Est. 1995... and still updated daily ... Crawl into the mind of a hobbyist for awhile." Creator of the "To Be King" adventure game, Dr. Nostromo's site has movie reviews, an MST2K episode guide, prog rock music playlists, and more.

Coffee-Anyone "The Original Computer Coffeehouse in 1986 and have continued ... for over 30 year of on line operation. We started selling coffee and teas on line before the internet, on services like Compuserve, Genie, Delphi and Prodigy. We are located in the San Francisco Bay area, an import location for green coffee beans and home of some of the best roasters in the world. All of our coffees are of the highest grade (Species Arabica AA & A). Your order is filled directly from our roaster, all of our custom blends are made to your order, giving you the freshest coffee available."

the corporation Creating fresh, modern humor product since the turn of the last century.

Paint Toys "A small playground of creative canvases to bring out your creative side with a few beautiful limitations inspired by the art world! "

The Useless Web "The Useless Web... because some websites, we just couldn't do without." Games, puzzles, nonsense, optical illusions

Eric Harshbarger's LEGO® Website Professional LEGO Sculpting and Mosaic Building

Ian's Shoelace Site "Fun, fashion & science in the Internet's #1 website about shoelaces – and home of the Ian Knot, the world's fastest shoelace knot. If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces – this is the place!"

Tux Gallery A nice collection of Tux images grouped by theme

Ninja Burger You WILL experience the Ninja Burger difference!

Superbad An experimental 90's net-art project created by Ben Benjamin. I used to surf the web by typing "insert random word or phrase here".com into my browser address bar. You used to be able to find a lot of fun oddball sites that way. I stumbled across superbad during one of these surfing sessions.

Iowa Ghost Towns Stories, information, maps all related to small and ghost towns in Iowa

Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches Reflecting the Internet's early roots in research and educational circles, many early personal websites were built by nerdy folks with research and education backgrounds. Naturally one early trend to emerge was that of the "mock" science experiment. That is, doing something silly, documenting it tongue-in-cheek fashion as a lab report.

Fun with Grapes - A Case Study Another example of a "science experiment for fun". I immediately had to try replicating this experiment this after bumping into this page. I still occasionally make plasma this way for the heck of it.

Lawmune's Netspace From the Cornell Anime Club. For a while one of the few resources on the net documenting The Daicon III and IV Opening Animations.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

sschock2.com All things System Shock 2 Mods, fan art, fan stories, and tips.

Incompetech Inc. Royalty free music and graph paper generators.

Action Squad Minneapolis Urban Adventures "In a nutshell, Action Squad explores. This generally occurs late at night, to aid in avoiding other people, particularly those with badges and funny blue uniforms. We climb buildings, sneak into factories, crawl through all kinds of tunnels, spelunk old brewery caves, poke around abandoned buildings, and run across the rooftops."

DANIEL ROZIN INTERACTIVE ART Interactive mechanical and software mirrors, sculpture, video painting. I first encountered his 'Wooden Mirror' on a .edu pubnix site - https://itp.nyu.edu/~danny/mirror.html - which has been defunct for a while.

gardens & growing

butterfly in the garden American Dahila Society The American Dahlia Society is organized to promote and encourage the development of and appreciation of the dahlia through educational and research activities and by supporting the local dahlia societies.

Welcome to Chocolate Flower Farm! A specialty plant nursery specializing in rare, dark colored plants & flowers.

CoffeeResearch.org "Founded in 1999, CoffeeResearch.org was the first Web site dedicated to coffee education with comprehensive coverage on coffee, espresso, coffee brewing, coffee agriculture, coffee science, and the coffee markets."

Tim's Square Foot Gardening Page "Hello, my name is Tim Beckman and welcome to my Square Foot Gardening Web Page."

Rock Dust Local "Rock Dust, BioChar and Inputs for Regenerative Agriculture, Biologic Farming, Enhanced Rock Weathering and Remineralization"

Beautiful Land Products "Manufactures professional grade germination and growing mixes for commercial and organic growers, and provides a full line of soil amendments, horticultural supplies, and a variety of native plants."

internet radio

KURE Ames Alternative The student-run radio station at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. The station serves the Iowa State community, Ames, and surrounding areas.

Human Borg Repellent One Radio Immaculate Y2K futurism. Like a winamp visualizer fused with a rave flyer.

Music for Programming();

function musicFor(task = 'programming') { return 'A series of mixes intended for listening while ${task} to focus the brain and inspire the mind.'; }

soma fm "Over 30 unique channels of listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio broadcasting to the world." The Groove Salad (now Groove Salad Classic) channel has been my go-to for 20 years.

Third Rock - America's Space Station "Discovery powers the work of NASA. It also drives music lovers to the Internet in search of something less ordinary. The two came together in 2011 with the launch of NASA’s Third Rock Radio, produced and published by Houston-based RFC Media LLC under a Space Act Agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington DC."

Systrum System "Systrum Sistum (SSR) is a not-for-profit online radio dedicated to left-field electronic and ambient music."

KFMG "VKFMG-LP is a Low Power community radio station, broadcasting to the city of Des Moines, and suburbs, at 98.9 FM with studios and offices donated by and located in Mainframe Studios at 9th and Keo streets in downtown Des Moines, IA. KFMG is owned and operated by The Des Moines Community Radio Foundation"

Internet Radio for Vintage Computers

lego, robotics

Orion Robots Wiki LEGO Mindstorms Adder-Subtractor Drive model.

Denis Cousineau Good resource for RCX based robotics builds. Mechanisms, programming, adder-subtractor drive, LEGO based turing machines.

LEO & LEGO LEGO Town models, trains, Technic idea book

Philo's Home Page robotics with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® and VEX robotics®, LDraw CAD system and panoramic photography.

brickOS is an alternative operating system for the Lego Mindstorms RCX Controller.

Eurobricks 'The last guide you'll need for Repairing Lego 9v wires and Mindstorms sensors' Forum post discussion linking to a YouTube video by BatteryPoweredBricks with info on sourcing wire for and repairing old LEGO 9 volt wire sets. My own wire set from my old RCX have all disintegrated. Rebuilding them has been added to my project list.

linkrolls & directories

Ratcatcher "My own web directory. I try to link to top-level sites where I think the whole website is worth taking the time to look through — ‘evergreen’ rather than ‘deciduous’ content. A few of the sites haven’t been updated in years, but the stuff that’s on them means they’re still worth reading." Inspiration for my own linkroll page.

Web Surfing by John Shutt "this page is honestly no more than a hotlist with delusions of grandure: when I find a URL that I want to hang on to, for whatever reason, I (usually) put it here. Making it globally available being one way for me to contribute to WebCulture. Since I'd be putting in the effort to maintain my "hotlist" anyway, I can get the satisfaction of contributing at little-to-no extra cost (in theory). " John put in the extra effort to timestamp his links with date of most recent URL change and most recent verification of function.

Mx Tynehorne’s Cabinet of Hypertext Curiosities "Welcome, weary traveller, to the illustrious Mx Tynehorne’s cabinet of hypertext curiosities!" An eclectic mix of topics and sites, worth a stroll.

gfiles.neocities.org Links to archived government documents, U.S. and international.

Website Review "Welcome to the card catalog of website reviews: a website review page and an homage to the DEC VT320 terminals running DYNIX found in public libraries in the 90s." A well organized directory. The interface mimics the look and feel of a terminal. Links are rated/ranked - I don't see that often.

GEOUNIVERSAL . : . LINKS A wide variety of links, lots of hobbytronics, RF and radio DIY, survival, permaculture, space, astronomy, physics

model making, hobbytronics

Tomytec and Other N-Gauge Power Chassis Dimensions Page hosted on TrainWeb with detailed measurements and info on Tomytec and other powered chassis. Very useful for scratch and kitbash builds.

Club N Caldes The Open N Digital Team; Lots of DCC conversions, Arduino, turtorials, hobbytronics. N scale, but lots of this will apply to HO as well, and since I'm modelling mixed gauge (HO and HOn30) the DCC conversions will apply to any N scale stuff I adapt to HOn30.

Plaza Japan "Plaza Japan has become one of the world’s leading online sources of rare and authentic Japanese action figures, model kits, toys, and puzzles. Located in Osaka, Japan, we are committed to providing the best new products from top-selling Japanese brands to fans worldwide." Source for Tomytec, Kato, and Greenmax brand powered chassis.

Tomytec and Other N-Gauge Power Chassis Dimensions "This is a listing of Tomytec and other power chassis. They are useful for powering not only the rolling stock for which they were intended, but other trolleys, trams, railcars and various "critters" that are scratchbuilt or sold as shells. Their various basic features and dimensions are provided to aid modelers in determining the most suitable power chassis for their needs."

My Model Railroad Melvin Perry's model railroading blogspot site. Good info on electronics, especially miniature lighting. Nice kitbashing and scratchbuilding. Contains large inline images

Simple Automated Point to Point Model Railroad Instructable by KushagraK7. Automated train control using infrared sensors and an H bridge motor controller. Built for n scale, but could be adapted to HO with a higher motor supply voltage.

Journal of Model Railroad Design Model railroad track plans from Robert Chant. Multiple scales, good source for small shelf layouts and narrow gauge.

Team Track Models Downloadable, printable paper models in multiple scales.

TransportPaperModels "A site containing paper models of vehicles and scenery for paper modellers in general." Great source for vehicle models.

orchids

Carnivorous Plant Nursery "If you are looking for activities, classroom resources, games and gifts or carnivorous plants, let Carnivorous Plant Nursery supply your needs for venus flytraps, sundews, pitcher plants, butterworts, bog orchids and many more carnivorous plants." Source for "bog orchids" various native orchid species.

Here but Not Orchid, aroid, and houseplant care and culture. Orchid hybridizing and flasking, advanced culture for indoor growers.

The Orchid Mall© is a listing of links to various informational and commercial sources about orchids.

Central Iowa Orchid Society The Central Iowa Orchid Society (CIOS) was formed December 5, 1960, in Des Moines, Iowa as a non-profit society. Membership is available to all individuals who show a sincere interest in orchid culture and preservation. I'm the current president.

Paramount Orchids A commercial grower in British Columbia with a large catalog of orchids in a variety of genera. Their plant lists are a good ID resource for plants common in the nursery trade especially Oncidium intergenerics that you might encounter in grocery stores, floral shops, or home centers.

OrchidRoots A user supported orchid lookup tool that provides user supplied images and parentage information.

RHS International Orchid Register The registrar of orchid hybrids. Good resource for hybridizers.

papercraft

Origamee: Origami by Meenakshi Design gallery by Meenakshi Mukerji. Also has links to resources and folding instructions. Interesting Geometric models.

Steves Paper "Making cool stuff with paper" Wide range of models, sculpture, and origami.

Origami USA We are the American national society devoted to origami, the art of paperfolding. ... Our website is the place to find diagrams to fold from, shop for origami books, paper, and downloadable diagrams, and find events from our calendar such as our fantastic Conventions that bring folders together from all over the world." Great resources, especially for moderate to advanced folds. I've been playing with origami on an off for decades. I've recently been intrigued by origami orchid models.

Pat's Planes "This website is a resource to everyone with any level of interest in paper airplanes. For those that are here just for just wanting to learn how to fold some new paper airplane styles to serious students interested in learning the science of flight. Perhaps even someone looking for science fair material for paper airplanes."

BlueGrassRoots 'An Amateur’s Guide to Collecting, Building, & Flying Whitewings Paper Airplanes' - a nicely written article on WhiteWings collecting. I built and flew a whitewings collection in the early 90's, I think it was one of the balsa+paper gliders volumes. I don't remember which. I do remember they were a blast to fly. Currently wondering if I can find a kit on evil-bay and make templates I can cut on the laser.

Welcome to the secret paper plane page Scans of 10 Whitewings plans for "research"

sca, ren faire, garb

a pensive wizard Ravensgard Medieval Homepage Articles on everything Medieval- culture, clothes, art, crafts, and more. I recommend browsing around the site. The homepage is a little slice of mid 90's design.

Examples of Renaissance Faire booth construction and ideas design/inspo ideas

Gode Cookery "is an award-winning medieval history website dedicated to the food & feasts of the Middle Ages & Renaissance"

DARC "is composed of people interested in using living history to research aspects of life in Northern Europe during the Viking Age."

Medieval Pavilion Resources "plans, links and articles on tents, furniture, food, costuming, The Society for Creative Anachronism, and other period interests."

PastTimes on the Web "a newsletter published for the advancement of arts and sciences in the SCA and for the personal amusement of House Barra"

utilities & resources

Resistor Color Code Calculator

CODE SNIPPETS A wide variety of coding guides, including stuff for web development. I ran into an issue with getting Composer installed on my Dreamhost hosted site so I could run Drupal 10 installs.

Datenstrom Yellow Extensions List Yellow is a site generation system that uses PHP to convert markdown files into HTML. Site structure and content is based on files and folders- no database involved. Ultrasciencelabs.com is built with Datenstrom Yellow.

/CSS/ - a guide for the unglued. A sweet little slice of early 2000's CSS design tutorials and resources. When transitioning from table layouts to the CSS box model was new, exciting, and fraught with peril - browser support for web standards was piecemeal at best, and IE hacks were king. Many of the resource links still function and offer a window into the wonder and danger of making a box appear consistently in two different web browsers. Seriously. It was stupid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors

compart Great resource for drilling down in the unicode charset for finding specific characters or groups of characters. Useful for subsetting fonts or using the CSS unicdode-range rule

Font Subsetter Do you use a custom web font? Wish it was smaller? This tool lets you create a subset of a font. Especially useful if you don't need full language and special character support (headings, simple single language blogs, etc...)

cloudconvert An online file converter with a wide format support. I use it to convert TTF fonts to WOFF format. No ad spam, signups, or trackers

FontDrop! How many characters does this font include? Who designed it? Which version is it? What about the copyright? FontDrop! reads and shows what’s in your font file.

Notepad++ "Notepad++ is a free (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GNU General Public License." My go-to for writing code in Windows.

Betty's Graphics I found my website background here then used Gimp to modify the image to fit the theme for each section of the site. I use the Photos app in Windows 10 for resize and compression- it's been the best compression tool I've found so far. But I haven't tested very many. I'm thinking about giving RIOT a go.

vintage audio, audio equipment design and repair

Antique Airwaves AntiqueAirwaves.com is a web directory for finding information on collecting and history of vacuum tube radios, crystal radios, and vintage transistor radios. Also information about radio restoration, parts sources, vintage Phonographs, tube amplifiers, vacuum tubes and tube testers, and vintage test equipment.

classicaudio.com "High Fidelity Art ™ From The 1970's Luxman Marantz McIntosh Nakamichi Pioneer Sansui Yamaha & More...Since 1998" Good resource for information on classic audio equipment. They buy, restore, and sell used vintage audio equipment, and host want/sale ads for individuals. Currently active

Tapeheads.Net "THE premier site to talk and learn about all things tape, audio and music."

The Walkman Archive Great resource for portable and component cassette player repair, info, guides, etc...

HiFi Audio Design Projects, design notes, and calculators for speaker, crossover, and filter design.

Elliott Sound Products A wide array of audio and electronics articles. I refer to the Passive Crossover Design articles frequently

Tube CAD Journal "over 550 posts and to over 50 articles on amplifiers, tube-based preamps, crossovers, headphone amplifiers, single-ended amplifiers, push-pull amplifiers, Circlotron circuit design, hybrid amplifiers, cascade circuits, White cathode followers, grounded-cathode amplifiers, tube series regulators and shunt regulators, the Aikido amplifier, transformer coupling, DACs and tubes — and hundreds of vacuum tube circuits that use 6SN7s to 300Bs, all explained in careful detail." I came across this site when hunting for 3-way passive crossover designs, and found this novel approach dubbed a Broskie series shunt crossover.

the web

A look at search engines with their own indexes "With that in mind, I decided to test and catalog all the different indexing search engines I could find. I prioritized breadth over depth, and encourage readers to try the engines out themselves if they’d like more information."

ByteMoth 'Zero-Bullshit Web Browsing' - "The current state of the web? Total bullshit. If you're tired of dealing with stupid ads, tracking, ads with sound, scripts that make the page lag, and ads that deliver malware, here's a few tips on how to avoid them." Tools and resources for getting past the B.S.

Web Design Museum "The main goal of the Web Design Museum project is the mapping of past trends in web design that have been prevalent on the Internet from the creation of the first web site in 1991 until the mid-2000s. Our goal is to preserve the creative legacy of millennium web designers for future generations, because Internet users in 2030 will have little idea how unique the design of 2003 web sites was."

Tasty Bits from the Technology Front "Tasty Bits from the Technology Front was a pioneering email and Web newsletter that alerted a discriminating readership to bellwethers in computer and communications technology, with special attention to commerce on the Internet. The TBTF Log was an early weblog-style experiment in rapid news dissemination."

History of the Web "It’s an evolving timeline that charts the web’s history .. It’s a twice-monthly newsletter you can sign up for"

wiby.me"The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet. In addition, Wiby helps vintage computers to continue browsing the web, as pages indexed are more suitable for their performance." I've found some real gems with this search. Will be adding my faves to the linkroll

Marginalia Search Engine "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed." I find myself using this more and more as A.I. fueled SEO spam increasingly takes over my results from mainstream search tools.

Ecosia Search We use all our profits for climate action, with the majority going into tree-planting projects around the world.

Waxy.org "a place for writing, research, and explorations of the web. Frequent topics include internet culture, copyright and fair use, online community, independent and experimental media, and the intersection of art and technology"

woodworking

Meyer Wood Designs Ikebana or flower arranger vases, sculpture, utensils, sushi trays

An engineer's approach to Woodworking Matthias Wandel's woodworking website. Plans, jigs, templates, projects.

Spirals By Steven Artwork by Steve Garrison based on spirals, helix, gears and other mathematical shapes.

Home with Herm Woodturning, Woodworking and Music by Herman de Vries.

Blood and Sawdust "The official web site of the semi-fictional Great Snoring Centre for Historical Woodworking and Outdoor Woodcrafts. Tom Rettie, Proprietor."

Johnson Wood Products "has provided customers with quality gunstock blanks since 1960. We continue to offer quality wood products including gunstocks, bowl squares, carving and turning blanks and special cuttings to our customers today."

about

backup CDs I've maintained a collection of burned data CDs for over twenty years.¹ It might seem silly, but thanks to optical storage I've had reliable, original copies of my bookmarks stretching back through the mid 90s. Sadly, many links are now defunct, but there are enough still functioning to provide a taste of the web pre-2008 or so. More Web 1.0 than 2.0. Many of these sites haven't been updated for years, but they're still fun or useful. All of their designs have remained relatively unchanged since I first bookmarked them. These are my 'Legacy Links' look for the CD drive icon:

At any rate, any links added to the roll will be selected not just for their interest/usefulness but also their 'smallness'.² I'll do my best to flag sites that might be on the 'heavy' side- large inline images, ads, social links, etc... Happy surfing!

Why? Isn't physical media dead? Optical drives obsolete? Nope. Optical data storage is still the most affordable long-term personal backup solution for moderate amounts of data. My case of old discs is computer agnostic, needs no passwords or logins, and isn't at the mercy of a remote/cloud service that may or more likely won't be around in another thirty years. ↩︎
The small web is beautiful A great short essay on what makes a website "small". ↩︎

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