A variety of neat activities and educational pages.
My goodness. I love this website’s activities and educational pages. I really should be studying right now, but here are a few of my favorites so far.
https://neal.fun/lets-settle-this/
https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/
https://neal.fun/life-checklist/
Plenty more to check out!
I feel like 35 is too young to have completed 51/66 tasks in the life checklist. I’m too young for a midlife crisis (fingers crossed, anyways)!
Yeah, I feel like it’s heavily skewed towards the beginning of life, but tbf I feel like the cool things you do later in life are harder to quantify? Could add things like:
- I’m trying to think of how to quantify a “Have 0 debt” option but like, post mortgage or something.
- Establish a friend group
- Hang out with at least one member of that friend group for 5 / 10 / 15 years
- Go to an interesting location as part of your job (conventions count)
- See a historical human-made artifact in person
- See a legitimate dinosaur bone in person (not cast)
- Visit your country’s capital
- Create a piece of art and enter it into something that has it be viewed by people outside your family / friends
56/74, little better now.
The have 0 debt one in your context would be like “pay off your mortgage” or for mortgage+ “pay off your mortgage early”.
Maybe a “get sued for ethical reasons and win” (refused to allow a small business to defraud me, they tried to sue me and then backed off when they read my defense).
Have a humbling experience with a stranger.
The list also assumes that you’ll have children which isn’t really on the cards for some people (voluntary or involuntary) and cuts out the possibility of doing a huge chunk of that list.
That space elevator was really engaging and interesting!!
I’ve actually seen this used in movies and TV shows.
It’s better than just showing jquery source code or html
www.5minute.games
It’s a list of all the good word games, minigames and puzzles on the internet, and you can customize it to shortlist your favorites and even add new links. I go there every day to link to all my favorites.
…oh, full disclosure: I built it. Though hopefully nobody minds, since there’s no ads or monetization whatsoever.
This is really great! Thank you for this!
You’re welcome. Note the settings button, which gives some nice customization options. Feel free to share it with folks who might also enjoy it. :-)
Bookmarked this! Going to come in handy over the holidays especially. Thank you!!
Every music genre you can think of, and then some. I finally found out what the stuff I like is called.
This is how I found Die Partei, a great obscure German electronica artist
This is unbelievable, thanks for sharing!
The sample for “kids dance party” wasn’t something I ever thought I’d hear again.
zoo.replicate.dev - a bunch of free ai image generation models
snowfl - a search engine for torrents
Something that far too many managers and developers need to see, so they can better understand why their decisions and work completely sucks.
Send to Bottom
Help Bar Descends at the most pain inducing rate possible
Every step of the way has some new frustrating way to confound the user. I was laughing/crying halfway through the process because of how stupidly unfriendly the design was. Just brilliant. Whoever did this is an evil supergenius and/or heavily into BDSM.
Sent it to my partner who wants to get into Ux design, lol
I love and hate this, it really managed to raise my blood pressure.
Ian’s Shoelace Site:
Different ways to lace your shoes.The Phrontistery:
Glossaries of, e.g., obscure words, lost words, etc.The what???
“We” did weird things long ago. We still do, but we used to, too.
Anytime I get new shoes I go to Ian’s Shoelace Site to pick out a new lacing pattern.
And Ian’s Secure Knot is a godsend for winter boots that usually have a bit thicker laces which come undone with a regular knot. Learning that knot is great because it’s as strong as double knotting without needing to pick apart the knot afterwards.
http://wiby.me/ is a cool site. It’s a search engine that only has web 1.0 and web 1.0-styled websites.
I needed Unicode symbols for a story I’m working on. (I want to use them as “magic runes” so I could type them into a document, but without using the standard “runes” that are typically used.)
Shape Catcher let me draw what I was looking for and then get a list of Unicode characters that matched that drawing. It’s not exact so if there’s no perfect Unicode match, it will give you ones that are close. This actually turned out to my benefit as I found shapes I hadn’t considered but which worked nicely for my uses.
As the name suggests, you hang out with a chicken on a raft
10/10 would visit again.
There is a - pretty dead - community, but maybe some of you could revive it: !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca
I use it for background when I need to concentrate.
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The website for the Heaven’s Gate suicide cult is still up, 27 years after they all killed themselves.
I wonder who’s renewing the domain? I guess I could do an ICANN lookup for registrar info, but I’m lazy.
I saw in a documentary that a few of the cult members were ordered to stay alive to keep the site up. Apparently you can email them and talk to them too.
💀 imagine being told as the IT team for the suicide cult that your job is to tirelessly maintain a site and renew the domain and SSL cert for eternity and provide Q&A
Is this like the digital equivalent of a million monkeys with a million typewriters?
Basically, except it’s indexed and searchable. Somewhere in those books, exists the phrase, “dharma curious updooted glitchington on lemmy” probably many times. But also “dharma curious hated glitchingtons post on lemmy” will also be there somewhere.
Wait, it’s already there? I thought they were generating them currently?
Also, it’s searchable? I didn’t notice that. Just hit random. Going to go check it again!
Yeah sorta. It’s apparently an algorithm that can produce every possible page of text, given a number. So it contains a staggering amount of gibberish, plus every page of every book that’s ever been written, and many wildly incorrect, many vaguely correct and one exactly accurate description of the circumstances of your death.
And also “every finite number is contained within PI” but with words.
That statement may be false, a simple explanation is that if you make a number out of π by removing all 9s it will keep the properties of π being infinite and non-repeating but never contain 9.
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PI is not proven to be normal number. It means that those infinite digits repeating may not have uniform distribution, so somewhere far away in PI you can start just getting 1s,2s and 3s for example.
The point is that just because π is infinite it isn’t guaranteed to have any combination of numbers in it
Okay, cool! I had some fun looking for words in the pages. But if I understand it correctly, what we’ll end up with individual words surrounded with gibberish on the pages. You’re never going to get a page full of real words, right?
Every possible page is generated somewhere. I think there’s a checkbox on the search page that fills the rest of the query with spaces.
I thought humanity was the “million monkeys with a million typewriters”
The only sad thing is it doesn’t support https :(
Does it need to?
Yes. What if someone MITMs me and chops off the poor horse’s leg?
If you get to the bottom, there’s a beach ball. Jaaaaames Baxter!
