Bookmarks Redux

kdemo posted a pic said Fri, Jun 2nd 2017 at 8:58pm ET

What bookmarks do you use a lot? Funny, quirky, helpful - share your best sites.

It’s been a few years since we checked in on this. Hoping a new audience will share some worthy time-sucking sites. I won’t list the numerous news and chat sites I visit, you can thank me below.

Meh, of course. What else?

I call this “Beyond Shruggies”
http://www.disapprovallook.com/

When you want to see the images, but don’t want to click through the slide show
http://deslide.clusterfake.net/

Scarfolk Council is probably the funniest site I’ve encountered. “For more information please reread.”
https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/

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RiotDemon said Fri, Jun 2nd 2017 at 9:38pm ET:

Www.geekologie.com

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- @RiotDemon - One of my bookmarks too! Their stuff is cool and ridiculous and sometimes sciencey, the writer is very fun.
  
  kdemo said Fri, Jun 2nd 2017 at 9:59pm ET
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- @KDemo I read articles I’m not that interested in just because the writer is awesome.
  
  RiotDemon said Fri, Jun 2nd 2017 at 10:23pm ET
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- @RiotDemon - A good writer can make articles interesting.
  
  kdemo said Sat, Jun 3rd 2017 at 12:19am ET
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Shrdlu said Fri, Jun 2nd 2017 at 9:39pm ET:

Listed in no particular order.

http://xkcd.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/

https://www.eff.org/

http://mustardmuseum.com/

http://www.circleid.com/

http://unixepoch.com/

Okay, okay, I’ll quit.

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- @Shrdlu - Oh yeah, xkcd.com, of course!
  This is going to take a little while to explore, but you reminded me of some others . . .
  
  edit - Some are kind of techie for me, but I’m sure have an audience here.
  Mustard Museum is awesome!
  Not sure if I’ll live long enough to worry about 2038?
  
  kdemo said Fri, Jun 2nd 2017 at 10:01pm ET
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- @Shrdlu
  
  : )
  
  Don’t quit please.
  
  f00l said Fri, Jun 2nd 2017 at 10:48pm ET
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kdemo said Fri, Jun 2nd 2017 at 10:02pm ET:

http://www.theonion.com/

http://theoatmeal.com/

And I love what3words, maybe because I am fascinated by maps
https://map.what3words.com/kicks.pasta.steer

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f00l said Fri, Jun 2nd 2017 at 10:31pm ET:
Great topic, @kdemo!

I’m still in effing Dallas right now, in a spring flash flood, so any serious consciousness will have to wait till later. For now:

Various people have mentioned this one:

http://tvtropes.org/

(Do be sure to open up the example categories and read around on topics.)

(Oh, yeah. Follow a buncha links too.)

Here are a few topics to get started wasting the rest of your life and then some:
Lampshade hanging

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging
Eyes Do Not Belong There

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EyesDoNotBelongThere
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PreAsskickingOneLiner
Moment of Awesome

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome?from=Main.CrowningMomentOfAwesome
Everything’s Better with Princesses

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses
PS
Life goes better if you remember to eat, sleep, go to work, speak to people, pay bills, and occasionally do something besides computer stuff for a min or two.

Don’t forget, OK?

See ya in a few years.
PPS
Despite appearances, snark, pop cultural refs, and addiction potential, TV Tropes is a way serious site about the fundamental elements of story. And stories are fundamental to us. Way fundamental.

Stories are how we, as a species, explain the universe and life and everything to ourselves. And a huge part of how we maintain a sense of internal identity within ourselves. We all have “internal private myth-heavy stories of who and what we are, as individuals”.

The need for story is built in to the brain. If no one is around to tell us one, we will do our own. Starting shortly after the acquisition of words.

Where did think science got started? Likely, in the human desire for stories that are, as far as we can manage, objective, verifiable, and repeatable by the well-equipped and informed listener or reader.

It still works that way, if you throw in a lot of data, statistics, technical jargon, technical concepts, rigorous methods, definitions, and protocols, and lots and lots of math.
Math Tropes

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MathTropes
Writers Cannot Do Math

(In Super-math it may be 32,000. But in regular math, it’s 3,200.)

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WritersCannotDoMath
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- @f00l Thanks, I’ll have to spend some time there.
  
  kdemo said Sat, Jun 3rd 2017 at 12:14am ET
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- @f00l - Oh, yes, this is truly scary. But rewarding. See ya when I dig my way back.
  
  kdemo said Sat, Jun 3rd 2017 at 12:43am ET
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- @KDemo
  
  Periodically we’ll yell and see if you answer.
  
  A quick session takes hours and hours and leaves hundreds of new tabs open
  
  And it’s as fun as Warner Bros cartoons. And under all that, if you want it to be, it’s as serious and profound as all get out.
  PS
  
  A mathematical proof - at any level - is a very special, tightly purposed , rigorous, and method-limited, exact, example of a story.
  PPS: More fun stuff!!!
  
  Face–Heel Turn
  
  http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FaceHeelTurn
  Fridge Logic
  
  “By the time you figure out what was wrong with that, it won’t matter anymore!”
  —Sauron, One Ring to Rule Them All Special Edition
  
  http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FridgeLogic
  f00l said Sat, Jun 3rd 2017 at 2:50am ET
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kdemo said Sat, Jun 3rd 2017 at 12:17am ET:

Hoxton Street Monster Supplies is pretty cool.
https://www.monstersupplies.org/

They have salt made from tears, a vague sense of unease, And most excellent cubed earwax on sale.

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brhfl said Sat, Jun 3rd 2017 at 12:21am ET:

Dinosaur Comics.

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- @brhfl - No gentleman cow?
  
  So great!! I love the incongruity of the site.
  
  kdemo said Sat, Jun 3rd 2017 at 12:40am ET
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kdemo said Sat, Jun 3rd 2017 at 8:20pm ET:

Wanna learn something?
Free classes here:
https://www.edx.org/

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- @KDemo I just signed junior up for a Python class. It will be interesting to see if he follows through.
  
  sammydog01 said Sun, Jun 4th 2017 at 4:29pm ET
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- @KDemo And I just signed up to do Calculus again. For fun. Hmmm.
  
  sammydog01 said Sun, Jun 4th 2017 at 4:46pm ET
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- @sammydog01
  Hey good for you! Is this a “dip toe in the water” thing, or do you have a specific idea of a direction and where to take it all?
  
  f00l said Sun, Jun 4th 2017 at 7:12pm ET
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- @f00l I found some courses that sounded interesting. They all had a knowledge of calculus as a pre- requisite. It’s been almost 40 years. So I thought I’d see if any of it comes back.
  
  sammydog01 said Sun, Jun 4th 2017 at 7:43pm ET
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- @sammydog01
  You gotta have trig and a little analysis to do calc. I have to admit to having forgotten some trig.
  They have all that on Kahn Academy I think.
  
  are you gonna mess with chem again?
  Are you more organic or inorganic?
  
  f00l said Sun, Jun 4th 2017 at 8:12pm ET
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- @sammydog01 - That is so cool! If either of you learns anything, I will feel redeemed!
  Hope it’s good for you.
  
  kdemo said Sun, Jun 4th 2017 at 9:26pm ET
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- @f00l I did physical organic but I’d rather learn something new.
  
  sammydog01 said Mon, Jun 5th 2017 at 4:23pm ET
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- @sammydog01
  Can you give us an idea what you’re curious about at present?
  
  Intrigued.
  
  f00l said Mon, Jun 5th 2017 at 8:11pm ET
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mikibell said Sun, Jun 4th 2017 at 12:05pm ET:

Sorry…mine are mostly food related:

http://rasamalaysia.com/mini-nutella-cheesecake-recipe/

http://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/chinese-food-recipes-you-can-make-in-a-crockpot.html/

https://www.chowhound.com/recipes/alfajores-28373

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- @mikibell - No, that’s great! There are so many cooking sites out there, it’s good to know some of the better ones.
  omg - Nutella cheesecake? You’re killin’ me here.
  
  kdemo said Sun, Jun 4th 2017 at 9:28pm ET
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Shrdlu said Sun, Jun 4th 2017 at 6:18pm ET:

I used to like this:

http://radar.oreilly.com/

but now it’s this (which I like less, because I like words, and less pictures, and less busy stuff):

https://www.oreilly.com/ideas

There’s still these:

https://www.coursera.org/
https://www.worthpoint.com/ (obscure, and fringe)
http://wondermark.com/ (even more obscure, but less fringe)
https://www.nostarch.com/

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- I can’t believe I forgot Cryptome. Sorry, JYA.
  
  https://www.cryptome.org/
  
  Shrdlu said Sun, Jun 4th 2017 at 7:51pm ET
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- @Shrdlu - I jumped right into wondermark - the cartoon is brilliant! Do they change them often? This is the one I read first:
  #1317; In which an Adult has Fantasies
  Permalink to this comic: http://wondermark.com/c1317/
  June 2nd, 2017
  
  Thank you!
  
  kdemo said Sun, Jun 4th 2017 at 9:32pm ET
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- @KDemo Do they (Wondermark) change the cartoons often? To be truthful, I have no idea. They are a now and then thing for me, and always a pleasant surprise (and hideous time sink, because I can’t just stop with the cartoon).
  
  Rather the opposite of Cryptome (which really requires alcohol to read, and maybe popcorn).
  
  Shrdlu said Mon, Jun 5th 2017 at 12:38am ET
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Kidsandliz said Mon, Jun 5th 2017 at 1:20am ET:

From the beyond shruggies you posted there was this:

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- @Kidsandliz - How did I miss the most relevant thing?
  
  kdemo said Mon, Jun 5th 2017 at 10:15pm ET
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- @KDemo Because you wanted to see who actually followed the link and thus leave someone else the most relevant thing to post? (evil grin)
  
  Kidsandliz said Tue, Jun 6th 2017 at 9:44am ET
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Shrdlu said Mon, Jun 5th 2017 at 11:02am ET:

Oh, god, do NOT click on this link. Really. At least pour yourself a cup of coffee, and grab a cookie, or a bit of buttered toast for sustenance. You’ll be trapped for hours.

https://americanliterature.com/authors

Okay, don’t say you weren’t warned.

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  f00l said Mon, Jun 5th 2017 at 2:54pm ET
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- @Shrdlu you are a very very very bad lady!
  
  Btw…they lie…it is more than american literature!!
  
  mikibell said Tue, Jun 6th 2017 at 12:42am ET
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- @mikibell
  That’s a good lie to encounter. ; )
  
  f00l said Tue, Jun 6th 2017 at 10:21am ET
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- @f00l yes, but I will get lost there…although, for some reason, I have read a lot of the “great” Russian novels. I am not sure whose influence caused me to be well read in that area. Although, there are still some to still tackle. Walking into Barnes and Noble is a reminder that I really don’t know much !!
  
  mikibell said Tue, Jun 6th 2017 at 11:31am ET
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