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  1. Wakamai Fondue, the tool that answers the question “what can my font do?”

    Drop a font on it and it shows you lots of info about it, and displays its characters.

  2. Bunny Fonts | Explore Faster & GDPR friendly Fonts

    “…designed as a privacy-friendly drop-in replacement for Google Fonts holding the same API format.” (via @007@mastodon.scot)

  3. Medieval Murder Maps

    Zoomable, scrollable maps of medieval London, York and Oxford with locations and details of murders, deaths, etc. that took place. Nicely done.

  4. The Goldlist Method in a Nutshell by Lýdia Machová (PDF)

    For learning foreign language vocabulary. Sounds like magic.

  5. Metafilter: 20+ years in, you think you know a site | Carrie Tian

    Thoughtful reflections on growing up with the site. (via r/metafiltermeta)

  6. electric minds | virtual community center | profiled community

    Just came across these 1996 quotes about Cyborganic too, which I particularly like for the descriptions of the homes/offices and their ethernet cabling.

  7. Welcome to the Cyborganic Gardens

    Some broken links and images but nice to see it online still.

  8. Communities of innovation: Cyborganic and the birth of networked social media

    PhD dissertation from 2008 by Jennifer Cool. The history of Cyborganic really starts around page 151. Much nostalgia from a distance.

  9. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock | Science fiction books | The Guardian

    I must have read this at the time (2011) but I just came across it again, so.

  10. HOW do the British eat peas? - forks prawns TheBritish | Ask MetaFilter

    Even more entertaining than I expected.

  11. Why haven’t internet creators become superstars?

    By David W. Marx. Part of my puzzlement that, for example, the world of The Guardian feels so entirely separate from internet culture.

  12. Please Please Just Fuck Off With This Bullshit: Lamacq & Whiley & The Lie Of ‘Britpop’

    If you love a good rant, Neil Kulkarni has a good one for you…

  13. Educational Sensational Inspirational Foundational

    “A historical record of foundational web development blog posts.” Some real classics there. (via Go Make Things)

  14. Longplay

    iPhone and iOS app that focuses on playing albums. It’s very nice, and not expensive, but I wish there was a Mac version.

  15. Energy makes time | everything changes

    Very nice but it does assume you know “whatever activity or habit leaves you more energized” that you’re not doing. (via Kottke)

  16. Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager

    Looks like a much nicer alternative to the rather neglected Pinboard. Also run by one person. (via @ianbetteridge@writing.exchange)

  17. I was Russell Crowe’s stooge

    A good read, by Jack Marx, from 2006. (via Kottke)

  18. [MeFi Site Update] August 16th | MetaTalk

    Well put by bepe: “I am left feeling like I’m in a performance art piece or a psychology study or something. … How can it be that increased moderation is the continual goal, as site activity dwindles? It’s like being in an anarchist version of waiting for godot.”

  19. Creator economy platform costs

    Calculator for the costs of newsletter/membership platforms.

  20. a clock where the time is in a song title

    I had this exact idea a few years back and started collating songs to use but only got as far as 1:45am. (via Waxy)

  21. Carl and the cookie and the Web – MetaGrrrl

    Dinah on your pal, Carl, and a cookie.

  22. Patrick Weaver - A Blog Post With Every HTML Element

    A really nice exploratory overview of HTML tags. (via adactio)

  23. SympaLists: Sympa hosting in Europe

    “an open source, scalable, and highly-customizable modern mailing-list manager.” Hosted from €2.30/month.

  24. CrowdView

    Search forums. (via Waxy)

  25. Metamodernism: A Brief Introduction | Notes on Metamodernism

    “…the discourse surrounding metamodernism engages with the resurgence of sincerity, hope, romanticism, affect, and the potential for grand narratives and universal truths, whilst not forfeiting all that we’ve learnt from postmodernism.”

  26. Wayback Downloads | Recover your website for only $11

    Sends you a tidied up package of website pages and assets from the Wayback Machine. (via Ask MetaFilter)

  27. How to Write a Book in Three Days: Lessons from Michael Moorcock | Wet Asphalt

    (via Technovia)

  28. PhD Simulator

    Surprisingly addictive, in a way that I imagine doing an actual PhD isn’t.

  29. The Visual Science Lab / Kirk: Walking around S. Congress Avenue today reveling in the sub-90° weather.

    I always enjoy his Austin photos, and this set gave me major nostalgia for distant visits to South Congress during SXSW.

  30. Joanne O’Leary · I was a coyote: Can you trust a horsewoman? · LRB 29 June 2023

    Interesting review of a book that’s conversations with an Iowan racehorse trainer by Kathryn Scanlan.