metalinks
If somebody collects enough collections like this, we can move on up to metametalinks!
finding information
- Wikipedia, the original and still the best online commons
- Sci-Hub; get any paper!
- ZLib; get any book!
- Open Textbook Library from UMN
- wiby, the search engine for the classic web
- Standard eBooks, public domain lit with style (see also Public Domain Review)
- free online courses
- search theses and dissertations and open access theses and dissertations
- how to find public domain art
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datasets and dataset collections
- re3data database of research databases
- political science datasets from ICPSR
- social science data from Stanford and Harvard
- SESHAT global history dataset for anyone trying to fomulate laws of history
- Correlates of War Project
- Varieties of Democracy and IDEA on the health of democracy or whatever
- Standard Cross-Cultural Sample for anyone trying to formulate human universals
- eHRAF ethnographic survey
- Dynamics of Collective Action, on the US activism
- money in elections
- CHES on Europolitics
- EPI's State of Working America data library
organizing information
- Obsidian, a private wiki software
- Anki; free simple flashcards
- create an RSS feed for any website
taking back the web
- uninstalling Google and Facebook
- Practical Privacy: A Guide for Everyone
- IndieWeb
- the Yesterweb, the Indieweb's slacker cousin
- Small Technology Foundation
- Retroshare - create your own intranet
praxis
- Expanding the Commons in urban governance
- start a worker cooperative
webrings
- xxiivv
- XHTML Club - fans of pure HTML
- Yesterweb Ring
RPG
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old-school rules
- How to get started playing old-school D&D for free
- OSR houserules compendium
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specific rulessets and hacks
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old-school blogs
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litcrit
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random tables
- HTML/JS for putting a random button on your website
- autoroll tables (lots of stuff for generic fantasy)
- Iron Arachne's tables for standard fantasy, science fiction, and cyberpunk
- IVMartin
constrained writing
- simplewriter - use only the most common words
- e-prime highligher - use everything but "to be" and its cronies
wizards
Wizards may be charlatans. That's part of the appeal.
- James Kennedy
- Eric Wargo, chronieromancer
- Adam McLean's Alchemy Website
litcrit
- novelization style
- on normativity in Nostalgebraist's The Northern Caves
periodicals
- Logic, left politics + tech
- Palladium, terrible but novel and nearly uncategorizable authoritarian politics
- Strelka, reclaiming Prometheanism for the left
- Salvage, reclaimining dreary anti-Prometheanism for the left I guess
- Works in Progress, likeable neoliberals
material culture
- what would it take to make computers without planned obsolescence?
- things you can make yourself!
immaterial culture
- in praise of Poisson's equation