Archive for the 'Other Sites' Category

I Think This Site Is Trying To Say Something

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

I think this site is trying to say something, but I am not sure what the message is. (* Profanity warning *) If only there were somewhere I could go to figure out the the context of what they are trying to say….

History Cookbook

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

Cookit, The History Cookbook This is a very nice little site with historical English recipes. Some look very tasty, others less so but it is a nice view on how food has changed over the centuries, at least in England. One obvious difference is the bits we throw away, other than in hot dogs there [...]

A Very Specific Niche

Friday, September 17th, 2010

One of the keys for success on the interwebs is to have a specific niche, mine doesn’t but I don’t always listen to good advice sadly. I have found a site however that is very well targeted indeed, it is Cutting Open an Animal and Crawling Inside to Survive a Storm in the Wild and [...]

Musical Roots

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Boing Boing just ran an excellent series on cultural roots of music and how blind most are to them. It runs fifteen parts, each illustrated by a video and covers country, soul, blues, bluegrass, classical and each is worth watching. I love following the roots of music, as a society we ignore so much excellent [...]

Supernatural Collective Noun Chart

Friday, October 30th, 2009

David Malki of the brilliant Wondermark comic today has an absolutely essential list of supernatural collective nouns. Now when I run a D&D game I will be able to tell the players they are being attacked by an audacity of gargoyles. Remember, knowing is half the battle.

Awesome

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

This is awesome. Two problems, we need an adult sized one and the inside should be red and smell bad.