links

biology

databases

• inaturalist - user-submitted species observations
• connecticut's notable trees - big and tall and historic trees in CT
• conifers.org - the gymnosperm database
• wildflowersearch.org - search by location, color, shape, & time
• macauley library - animal sounds
• wormatlas.org - C. elegans anatomy and behavior
• foraminifera database - look up foram species by shell shape
• protein data bank - 3D structures of biological molecules

other stuff

• wayne's word - natural history textbook in html
• roadside wildflowers at full speed - flower ID from moving vehicles
• rosalind - problem sets for learning bioinformatics

non-biological sciences

• list of physical visualizations - chronology of data physicalization
• sandgrains.com - microscopic photographs of sand grains
• mindat - mineral database
• falstad - math and physics applets
• eyes on the solar system - NASA's real-time solar system visualizer

Music

listening

• WFMU - longest running freeform station in the USA; my friend has a show!
• soma FM - 30 channels of commercial-free radio
• radio garden - local radio airing around the world
• radiooooo.com - so called "musical time machine"

musicians

making tunes

• beepbox - beginner-friendly instrumental tool
• estuary - code patterns of musical events
• pink trombone - speech synthesis (silly)
• wind chime calculator - make your own wind chime from pipes
• harmonics explorer - play with sine waves

Visual art

communities

• urban sketchers chapter map - art groups that draw on location (IRL)
• nature journaling club map - art groups with an ecological focus (IRL)

artists

Computer games

• vimm's lair - emulators, ROMs, manual scans, message board
• death generator - generate fake screenshots from a variety of games
• noclip.website - fly around game levels; mostly nintendo
• the cutting room floor - wiki of cut and unused video game material
• bitsy - very simple and beginner-friendly game engine
• indiepocalypse - monthly game anthology

webcrafting

communities

resources

• mdn web docs - well-written guides for html, css, and javascript
• css tricks - when i search for "(something) css only" i usually end up here
• html cheatsheet - helpful (see also: css cheatsheet)
• css/svg textures - simple patterns, complex patterns, & grainy gradients
• broider - tool for designing simple embroidery-style css borders
• dead link checker - pleeeaaase i am tired of 404s

maps

• open street map - yay open street map <3
• falling fruit - collaborative map of edible plants
• intercity rail map - live data for amtrak (US) and via (CA) trains
• flightradar24 - live air traffic

miscellaneous

• apple rankings - good and bad apples
• anonymous animal - an experience
• i'm making this because a computer cannot - e-zine about AI art
• ursula k. le guin's blog - thoughful discussion, poetry, cat photos
• fueled by clouds & coffee - urban sketcher who started drawing at age 52
• oblique strategies - suggestions to break through creative blocks
• the public domain review - exhibition of interesting historical works
• urban exploration resource - includes a forum and database
• pointer pointer - pointer
• monoskop - wiki for arts, culture, and humanities

further web exploration

directories

• merveilles webring - hand-crafted wikis/portfolios by artists/developers

search engines

• wiby - search engine for "the classic web"
• marginalia - search non-commercial pages (also, similar website finder)
• clew - focuses on writing by independent creators

random page portals

• spore dispersal - my portal! links from this page and more
• moonjump - pages shared on are.na and hackernews
• the forest - submitted sites, mostly portfolios