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Bookmarks

It's a dump of links I'll be sorting as I go.

ooh.directory: A place to find blogs that interest you.
Wiby: A search directory aimed at classic style "small web" type sites.
Feedbro: My favorite browser plug-in for reading and managing my RSS feeds.
LibreWolf: It's my "internet freedom" web browser of choice. Firefox based.
PortableApps.com: Great for building a USB stick full of useful apps & tools you can plug in and run on any Windows computer.
Paint.net: If you need an easy paint program for Windows that does layers, etc. this one conveniently does the job,
Haiku OS: An interesting free operating system based on BeOS. I gotta try it!
Yunohost: Project to help you install and run your own server on the internet running any of a variety of cool apps.
FreedomBox: Project to let you run cool digital services from a PC running at home.
The Yesterweb: A community that was about the whole "Small Internet" and "Reclaim the Net" thing.
sadgrl.online: She had a ton of resources that helped folks build their own retro web sites.

YouTube Channels

I'm living in the future, which means I watch YouTube more than television or television-like streaming services. Here are some people I watch. I'll be culling this list down to something more reasonable, I promise!

5 Minutes of Retro: Espen Kraft, known for his '80s synth content, has this side channel about retro-tech.
5CELL: I knew this guy from work, he is an IT consultant, but he also has this band.
424 Recording: Mike's channel mostly about recording on old cassette 4-track machines, but also indie rockin' in general.
Adam Millard - The Architect of Games: Fun analysis of mostly video games.
Alex Ball: Vintage synth and studio gear.
AMULETS: A lot of soundscapes using tape loops and various old low-fi gear.
AndyDemos: Andy is very good at demoing FX pedals!
Anyone Can Play Guitar: Adrian is awesome. Instructional guitar focused on post punk or early alternative stuff mostly, but a wide variety.
Astrobiscuit: Great astrophotography channel with a weird kind of "Reality TV" hype production factor.
Astrum: Great Astronomy news.
AudioPilz: Bad Gear - Reviewing the world's most hated audio tools. Fun reviews of drum machines and synths. Dense.
August is Falling: A joke channel by Pat Finnerty where he was trying to make an emo-ish band happen.
Auralnauts: Funny, very well produced nerd content. Star Wars spoof stuff and a lot more.
baremetalHW: This guy restores mostly old Matchbox style cars.
Battles: Battles is an odd, entertaining rock band.
Belinda Carr: She's from Dubai, living in Texas, makes vids about construction materials and technology.
Benn Jordan: A science and music guy.
Blender Guru: That's right, some tutorials on using the 3d program Blender.
Brassified: A channel with trumpet tutorials of well known songs.
Cannot be Tamed: Pam talks about video games she likes.
CCP Games: Creators of the Sci-Fi MMO Eve Online
Central Michigan University Press: My friends are involved in this. In particular, publishing games.
Chris' Tutorials: Video game creation tutorials.
CIRCLE OF TONE: He's about getting tones. Metal centered, but also gothy stuff. He's not happy with music these days.
Clemens Wenners Music: Original material and '80s synth pop covers.
CLOONER: Clooner is the King of Farmington. This is not good rap.
Controlled Voltage Sound Labs: Has a lot of classic drum machine pattern breakdowns.
Cyberattack: Interesting dude, mostly vids about using effect pedals in creative, odd ways.
Damian Bacci: Guitar instruction from a rockabilly, western swing, surf, early rock angle.
Dan Larson: aka "Toy Galaxy" or "Secret Galaxy", this is a fun channel primarily about action figures, but also histories of cartoons and other mostly retro media properties.
Desmond Doom: "Post-Punk / Surf-Goth", he has good original music, and funny/inspirational "How to sound like (artist) in 1 minute" vids.
Dirty School of Skate: Debbie Harry (no, not that one), helps show you how to roller skate, talks skating in general.
discellany: He's into alt/indie/post-punk stuff and has things to say about it.
DistroTube: Derek is all about free and open source, discusses mostly Linux distributions and applications.
DJ Cummerbund: A lot of pretty great song mash-ups.
dopegraffhead | Damu the Fudgemunk: Instrumental hip-hop. Used to follow for his Akai MPC-2000 sets and demos. Old school cool.
Drain Addict: Ollie from around Sydney, Austrailia. He clears blocked drains.
DrewTalks: He reviews gear and packages related to video game emulation.
Ecolinguist: A great channel by a Polish guy about languages. A lot of fun vids of people who speak other languages trying to understand each other.
Espen Kraft: Synths and '80s synth music.
Floyd Steinberg: Mostly a synth music guy. I like his vids about the Yamaha QY70.
Foldable Flight: A YouTuber all about paper airplanes. I met him at the GenCon playtest hall, playtesting his paper airplane racing game.
Gameranx: They mostly make listicles about modern video game subjects, but I like them.
Geography King: Kyle has all kinds of interesting things to say about the geography, cities and parks of North America.
Giraffe Academy: Various instructional material around programing languages and web-tech.
gwEm's gwEmbassy: Mostly synth and drum machine stuff, though guitars and basses make appearances.
Helena's Astrophotography: Helena does cool astrophotograhy, great vibes, super Scottish accent.
Hola Spanish: It's Brenda Romaniello. She's from Argentina, lives in Australia, and teaches you Spanish, mostly speaking Spanish.
Hybrid Calisthenics: Hampton is a friendly guy who steps you through calisthenics, has a program and book, etc.
IcarusLIVES: He reviews FPS games and mods with a focus on Doom and earlier era "Boomer Shooter" style games.
iFanboy: It's a comic books podcast, mostly. Reviews of the current books, and special shows for other media.
InCamera: They show how they execute some amazing visual effects, usually using practical, non-CGI methods.
Jenny Nicholson: She'll make a 20 hour video examining some obscure nerd content, and you'll watch it and love it in its full-on intelligent obsessiveness.
jensen silvio: Guitar song lessons.
Jexus: Made freaky videos with freaky synth sounds way back in the day, he's come back to making somewhat more tame vids these days.
Jface Games: He likes to talk about RPG and board game mechanics.
JP Coovert: He makes RPG maps, but also reviews a lot of indie-RPG stuff with his raspy voice and relentlessly upbeat demeanor.
Julia Galef: She wrote "The Scout Mindset" and is into the philosophy, science, rationality scene.
JustinGuitar: Justin provides mostly basic beginning guitar lessons.
Keen on Keys: Mostly provides slick breakdowns of toy and semi-pro keyboards, impressing you with what they can do.
Ken Andrews: He's the main vocalist for Failure and a producer. Good music production and gear stuff.
Knobs: Guitar FX demo channel. Maybe originated the aesthetic a lot of these channels use.
KOSmusic A guy who does stuff with the Yamaha CS1x keyboard.
Kurt's Comic Review: He talks about comics. He also checks out every comic store wherever he lives and reviews them.
LavenderTowne: It's Haley and she draws and has opinions and instructions around manga-esque art making.
Law Creations: Great down-to-earth guy who makes dioramas and modifies toy figures.
Let's Play All: Great guitar lessons for particular songs.
Lost Lakes: From Ontario on Lake Superior's north shore, kayaking, hiking and camping mostly in the Canadian north.
mac glocky: Covers in the "What if this band did this song?" style.
Macaron Afterparty: A musician who makes a kind of synth music he calls "Archwave", short for "Archive-wave".
markcrilley: He has a lot of tutorials on drawing.
Matt Freeman's Bass Bunker: The bassist of Rancid, mostly showing you how he plays his own awesome songs on the couch.
MIDERA: An electronic artist, does some fun fiddling with ye ol electronic instruments
Midwest Magic Cleaning: He's odd and cleans a lot of hoarder level houses, plus general cleaning/refinishing skills.
Modern Vintage Gamer: This guy has great info about the latest in video game console cracking and emulation.
MonarchsFactory: She just has a wide variety of RPG content. Advice, reviews, whatever.
Mozilla Developer: About web-tech and web programming from a Mozilla/Firefox centric point of view.
Mozilla Thunderbird: You know, the e-mail client.
mrinvisiblehiphop: Mr. Invisible, a hip-hop group, do some cool routines on MPC and other gear.
Ms Mad Lemon: She likes Amiga, tracker music, retro-tech, and making some charmingly independent stuff. She is originally from Egypt I believe.
New Frame Plus: A channel all about video game animation.
Nihn Ly: He describes the rules of tons of sports and competitions, even very obscure ones. He also likes guitars.
Nsima Inyang: Exercise guy who is all about using "Rope Flow" style workouts.
Numberphile: Awesome channel about math!
OtaKing Animation: This guy makes amazing 2d anime styled animations.
Other Record Labels: Tips for running your own record label, promoting music, etc.
Ozzy Man Reviews: He's from Australia and mostly just comments on funny videos, in classic internet fashion.
Pat Finnerty: "What Makes This Song Stink", heartfelt and funny commentary on Gen-X-ish music.
pedal partners: Dreamy shoegaze soundscapes and equipment musing.
polyMATHY: Like, a guy who is all about Latin and Classic Greek and is overall pretty fun.
post 10: He clears drains and culverts, visits abandoned places. New England area. It's a vibe.
Power DX7: A channel full of a lot of Yamaha DX7 style content.
ProGuitarShopDemos: This is where Andy used to demo FX pedals.
Prong Music: It's the channel for Tommy Victor's band, Prong. Not much here.
randy moon: Old web and '90s/2000s trends
Retro Vault: Cult movies.
Retrosoft Studios: They make RetroMania Wrestling, which I wish would come out on GOG.
Reverb: The site that sells music gear, they have decent review or recording technique vids as well.
Rick Beato: Song breakdowns, musician interviews, music theory, commentary on modern popular music
Robot Dog Studios: A music studio recording real bands live in the studio.
Ron Edwards | Adept Play: Everybody remembers the Forge in RPG circles. Some theory, actual play and general RPG talk.
SankeyMagic: Jay Sankey is a magician and this channel teaches plenty of magic tricks.
saveitforparts: A DIY guy interesting in comms gear mostly.
ScorpioMartianus: It's Luke Ranieri's channel where he often talks in Latin or Ancient Greek.
Secret Galaxy: Even more of Dan Larson's coverage of '70s - '90s entertainment properties.
Shaun Overton | DUSTUPS: A guy trying to make a desert forest on some property he bought in Texas.
SHOEGAZER CHANNEL: Does decent tutorials regarding shoegaze music and production.
Signals Music Studio: A guy that covers some decent music theory.
SpaceHey: Nothing much here, but SpaceHey is a MySpace clone made by this young German guy.
Spanish with Qroo Paul: Qroo Paul is from Florida, ex-cop. He gives interesting Spanish lessons from a different point of view.
Sparky Guitar: He does guitar covers that act as decent lessons.
SPVIDZ: This guy mostly is about tips for the Roland SP-404 Mk. 2, but he covers the other models and other sampling gear sometimes.
Steve Hazel (Let's Talk About Math Rock): It's Steve. He currently lives in Korea, lots of instructional vids focusing on Math Rock.
Steve the Bartender: Nice Australian dude who makes mixed drinks and cocktails.
stonefilmsnyc: A lot of in-depth interviews with musicans from the metal, punk and hardcore scenes mainly.
STRANJAH: Broadly an "In the DAW" style electronic music producer with plenty of tricks and tips.
Sunder: Video game reviews and analysis.
Synthesaurus Rex: Synth stuff, but he also makes patches for the Korg Kross 1/2.
SynthMania: It's Paolo. Tons of synth jams and gear reviews & instruction, he also features a lot of his own music.
TechDweeb: Mostly retro emulation and handheld stuff.
The 8-bit Guy: David's awesome channel mostly about retro-computing, but also some tech in general.
The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan: Billy Corgan interviewing musicians, entertainers or whoever he likes.
The Old Net: Not much here. It's the YouTube Channel for The Old Net, which you should check out.
TheDMsCraft: A guy who mostly has vids about making terrain and props for use in your TTRPGs.
TheHappieCat: She made a ton of video game programming content, about the real nitty gritty stuff.
TheSynthFreq: Synth music, a lot of it DX7 based.
Time Rift Arcade: The 8-bit Guy and some partners opened an arcade. Coverage on the machines and restorations, etc.
Dan Larson | Toy Galaxy: Toy Galaxy covers mostly toy figures, but also documentaries about a lot of series and properties.
twooba: She plays guitar. She's like an annoying quirky younger sister.
Underrated: Just some random music discovery.
Veronica Explains: Veronica is into Linux and various old computer stuff.
Verysickbeats: He makes beats with samplers and has tips and tricks about that.
Video Game Animation Study: Very interesting study of video game animation across various games.
VWestlife: A review of all kinds of older electronics technology. Very informative.
Zizaco: Zizaco is into making indie-video game stuff.

RSS Feeds

There are a number of sites I still follow using RSS. I've followed RSS feeds a variety of ways over the years, but currently I read my feeds using Feedbro, a browser plugin that works with most of the web browsers out there. I probably need to cull this list quite a bit. Some of these sites are dead.

Astral Codex Ten:
Everything Studies:
Marginal REVOLUTION:
Overcoming Bias:
Singularity Hub:
Stratechery by Ben Thompson:
kottke.org:
Laughing Squid:
Neatorama:
Neowin News Feed for: All:
Slashdot:
Study Hacks - Decoding Patterns of Success - Cal Newport:
iFanboy - Comic Books:
TED Radio Hour : NPR:
The Trap Set:
This American Life: Ira Glass, NPR, you know.
CSS-Tricks:
It's FOSS News:
Krebs on Security:
Schneier on Security:
Victoria Drake's Blog:
What's Up, Fraidycat?: An internet guy and his idea for a feed reader.
Ethan Persoff, www.ep.tc:
Benjamin Terry's Home Page: It's my home on the web.
He Who Saw The Deep: My friend Andrew's WordPress site for an RPG campaign of ours.
The Littlest Barbarian: My friend Jacque's old blogspot RPG blog.
Readying for Ragnarok: My friend Bill's old blogspot RPG blog.
Street Fighter Paradise: My Neoties site dedicated to Street Fighter: The Storytelling game, where I link to every online resource I know and also host the 20th Anniversary edition of the game.
Street Fighter RPG blog: My friend Rich's old blogspot RPG blog dedicated to Street Fighter.
The Social Catastrophe: An old blogspot blog of mine where I complained about things. It's pretty lame and I should delete the whole thing.
Superhero Necromancer:
Superhero Necromancer Press, LLC:
Tales of Hrimgate:
The Alexandrian:
Banzaidyne IV: A site dedicated to a Heavy Gear D6 conversion.
BARKING ALIEN:
Bat in the Attic:
Batjutsu: An RPG blog and also the individual responsible for the "Warrior's Fist" zine translations, English translations of the Brazilian Street Fighter RPG fan magazine "Punho do Guerreiro".
Bones of Contention:
Buried Treasure:
overview for CardinalXimenes: A feed of Reddit posts from Kevin Crawford, author of OSR games such as Stars / Worlds / Ashes / Cities Without Number.
Comics Madness: Ron Edwards, of GNS theory fame and RPGs such as Sorcerer, Trollbabe, Spione, etc., has this site that is just an old blog where he gives his thoughts about comic books.
Deeper in the Game:
Dungeons & Dutch Ovens:
The Geek Flag:
GROGNARDIA:
GRUBB STREET:
A Knight at the Opera:
The Most Unread Blog on the Internet. Ever.:
Ragged Road:
Rock Paper Shotgun: A news site about video games. It was founded by a set of people and used to have a vibe based on that, but it's been bought and sold a time or two and is just another video game news site now.
Rolltop Indigo: S. John Ross's blog. Known for Risus, fonts he's designed, a number of other RPG products in other game lines, and his promotion of "High Trust" gaming.
Tales to Astound!:
Uzis, Capes & Katanas: An old blogspot blog of mine about RPGs.
Prismatic Wasteland:
Silverarm:
Mindstorm:
Rise Up Comus:
I Cast Light!:
Playful Void:
Mythic Mountain Musings:
Coins and Scrolls:
Monsters and Manuals:
Roll to Doubt:
BASTIONLAND:
The Lizard Man Diaries:
Trilemma Adventures:
The Manse:
Jeffs Gameblog:
Goblin Punch:
B/X BLACKRAZOR:
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...:
Methods and Madness:
The Other Side blog:
Dice Goblin:
The misadventures of Kurt Potts:
Illusory Sensorium:
DB:
FUZZ DUNGEON:
Indre Auge Studio:
Digital Waste of Space:
Fail Forward:
Velocimancer Games:
mushrevolutionary:
Pointless Monument:
Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet:
Idraluna Archives:
VI·VIII·X KUP FANTASY RPG:
Time Extension | Latest Updates:
"maya.land:
Mr. Money Mustache:
Post-Punk.com:
Smells Like Infinite Sadness:
Bloggingheads.tv:
TED Talks Daily (SD video):

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