Links 2026-01-29

I have decided that if I wait to have some big thing to start my blog out with I'm never going to start it at all. So.

I went through another bout of aimless web browsing today, and I found a bunch of interesting looking sites through that. Here's a list of some of them, organized by which sites linked me to which others.

• quinnmaclay.com - The personal site of someone who is, presumably, named Quinn Maclay. Most of this list is a result of me finding sweetfish.site in the singular link blog post on here. They write about interesting stuff and there's a blogroll.
  • sweetfish.site - The personal site of someone named Ayu. The "checkout counter" section specifically is like a monthly log of stuff Ayu saw and liked. I mostly just go there and look at the links sections.
    • ribo.zone "surfing the web's ocean .zones" - Wherein the proprietor of ribo.zone surfs the web for websites under the .zone TLD which share names with zones of the ocean.
      • abyssal.zone - A site where you can either write a short message to "cast into the void," or read messages others have written. When reading others messages, you have the option to either "echo" or "absorb" them, which, I think from the design that absorbing them deletes them?
    • FRUITCRIME - A comic about fruit people solving fruit murder. Haven't read it yet but the concept amuses me and the art style looks cool from what you can see on the Itch page.
    • leaf litter - A link blog (love those). Apparently, on further inspection, it also belongs to the person behind ribo.zone? The site its hosted on, leaflet.pub, looks like a host for link blogs specifically, so I'm gonna have to look in to that more.
      • hyper girl shares hyper links - another leaflet.pub link blog.
      • bird nest - another leaflet.pub link blog (again).
        • quick connect - CONFERENCE SOFTWARE - Music album.
        • wired.com "What Does Palantir Actually Do" - Article.
    • blog.fallible.net "Be Pretentious! Games, Art history, and Dialectics." - Article.
    • martin-fieber.de "Cassette Futurism" - Article about the titular aesthetic, described as "an interpretation of the future, as seen from the (now) past."
    • ultrasciencelabs.com "Why we are still using 88x31 buttons" - Article with a self-explanatory title. The site it's on has a link page!
      • satyrs.eu "Linkroll" - I've been to this specific site before. Not sure why I clicked the link again? There's some neat stuff linked here, and more neat stuff on the rest of the website, including a separate link blog thing.
        • gwern.net "My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s" - Article about ways life has improved since the 1990s, as the title suggests. Sounds like a nice read.
      • Space Insult Generator - Generates strange and bizarre space insults via the classic method of just filling in a template with randomly selected but pre-written chunks of text. Last updated in 1997 apparently!
      • greem.co.uk "Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible?" - A page detailing attempts to nail jelly to a wall. Apparently based on a saying I've never heard anyone say.
      • geouniversal.neocities.org - Neat looking site with a link page (!!! love those things), also a lot more going on but I haven't looked at any of that.
        • billsworld.neocities.org - Not really sure what's going on with this one but like. Look at it. It's computer.
      • pmichaud.com "Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches" - A "mock" (according to ultrasciencelabs.com) science experient.
      • pmichaud.com "Fun with Grapes - A Case Study" - Same as above. Apparently both of these are from 1994!
    • A very specific iteration of the Wikipedia article for "If on a winter's night a traveller" - It's funky. Haven't read it yet but it's safe to say it breaks from the standard wikipedia format a bit.
    • "The I Can Eat Glass Project" - Hosted on Archive.org, this was apparently a project to make a list of how you say "I can eat glass, it doesn't hurt me" in as many languages as possible.
    • pudding.cool "Dicing an Onion the Mathematically Optimal Way - Article about that. The Pudding has some other neat articles I've read before.
    • "The Spilhaus Projection-A World Map according to Fish" - Neato map.
    • IMG_0001 - Apparently for a few years the iPhone camera had a built-in "send to Youtube" button. The videos people uploaded that way tended not to get names besides their default "IMG_XXXX" designations. This site plays random videos with titles matching that format, the majority of which have barely any views. I just watched a koi fish. I just watched someone get hit in the face with a pie.
    • What Else Is On? - Link blog!
    • On The Internet Everybody Knows You Had A Dog - I haven't looked at it at all but I think it's a thing to showcase really old websites people made about their dogs.
    • realbirdfakebird.com - Daily puzzle game about determining which things are real and which aren't. It's like a trivia situation.
    • Eight Clams Control This Polish City’s Water Supply - It's an article about that.

Okay, so. There were more sites I saw than just that. even some that were interesting enough I kind of want to go back and look at them! But. I am writing this very late in the evening and I am just kind of done with it. Goodbye, thank you for your time. Probably not gonna do this again, if I do links like this it's probably going to be stuff I've actually gone through and am sharing because I recommend it. Anyway. Yes. Bye.