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A modest link-blog.

Sep 2024

Good News Network (GNN)

Since 1997, millions of people have turned to the Good News NetworkĀ® as an antidote to the barrage of negativity experienced in the mainstream media. Because of its long history, staying power, and public trust, GNN is #1 on Google for good news.

www.goodnewsnetwork.org

Sep 2024

Blitzortung - Lightning strikes overview

map.blitzortung.org

Sep 2024

Do not reply - cards by Dan Hon

donotreply.cards

Sep 2024

Ianā€™s Shoelace Site

Fun, fashion & science in the Internet’s #1 website about shoelaces ā€“ and home of the IanĀ Knot, the world’s fastest shoelace knot. If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces ā€“ this is the place

Ian’s Shoelace Site

Sep 2024
Sep 2024

Go Comics!

Hundreds of cartoons for your leisure

www.gocomics.com

Aug 2024

Black Ribbon Day

Black Ribbon Day - Wikipedia

The Black Ribbon Day, officially known in the European Union as the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism and also referred to as the Europe-wide Day of Remembrance for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, is an international day of remembrance for victims of totalitarianism regimes, specifically Stalinist, communist, Nazi and fascist regimes.

Jul 2024

Mystery Group Prowls Town Conducting Mischievous Kindness: Stealing, Restoring & Returning Garden Gnomes

Mischief reigns in a small Canada community after a kipnapping left a manā€™s garden vacant of the ten ceramic garden gnomes that resided there.

Jun 2024

URLy Party Summer Holiday

There will be no, or at least very few posts on URLy.Party during the summer. Posts will resume on September 1.

I wish you all a great summer!

Odd-Egil Auran

Jun 2024

Disk and File Erasure | IT@Cornell

Security Essentials for IT Professionals Articles

it.cornell.edu/security-…

May 2024

Apple Style Guide

The Apple Style guide provides guidelines to help maintain a consistent voice in Apple materials, including documentation, reference materials, training, and user interfaces.

support.apple.com/us-en/gui…

May 2024

Gravatar - Globally Recognized Avatars

Your email address becomes your passport to the digital world, empowering you with complete control over your personal data.

gravatar.com

May 2024

Decimal Degrees to Degrees, Minutes, Seconds converter

www.rapidtables.com/convert/n…

May 2024

Canva

Take your photos further with Canva’s free photo editor. Upload, edit, and share instantly from one place.

www.canva.com/photo-edi…

May 2024

Font Awesome

The easiest way to get icons on your website is with a Kit. It’s your very own custom version of Font Awesome, all bundled up with only the icons, tools, and settings you need.

fontawesome.com/start

May 2024

slash pages

Slash pages are common pages you can add to your website, usually with a standard, root-level slug like /now, /about, or /uses. They tend to describe the individual behind the site and are distinguishing characteristics of the IndieWeb.

H/T: Andrew Canion

slashpages.net

May 2024

Towel Day

In remembrance of the great author Douglas Adams, May 25 is designated as Towel Day.

www.towelday.org

See Louie Mantiaā€™s ā€œDonā€™t Panicā€ artwork by the way.

May 2024

#ShareTheMeal and help children in need with a tap on your smartphone.

ShareTheMeal is a United Nations World Food Programme service

ShareTheMeal here:sharethemeal.org

May 2024

Cartoons of Ralph Ruthe

Fun! (German language).

ruthe.de

May 2024

The Far Side

Visit the official online home of The Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson for your daily dose of Gary’s classic cartoons.

www.thefarside.com

May 2024

NASA Software Catalog

NASA’s Software Catalog offers hundreds of new software programs you can download for free to use in a wide variety of technical applications.

software.nasa.gov

May 2024

Kurzgesagt

We spark curiosity in people about science, humanity and our future on the planet – and the universe we all inhabit. We are fascinated by the world that surrounds us and want to spread our enthusiasm through our work.

kurzgesagt.org

Videos at YouTube: youtube.com/@kurzgesa…

May 2024

UNICODE - Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

The first plane, plane 0, the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), contains characters for almost all modern languages, and a large number of symbols[ā€¦]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(Unicode)#Basic_Multilingual_Plane

May 2024

The Markdown Guide

The Markdown Guide is a free and open-source reference guide that explains how to use Markdown, the simple and easy-to-use markup language you can use to format virtually any document.

www.markdownguide.org

May 2024

The Huberman Lab (Podcast)

Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neurobiology and by courtesy, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford School of Medicine.

www.hubermanlab.com