Cool Thing of the Week Whenever
There's a lot of cool stuff out there. Sometimes, I even find it. Newest entries up top.
Last Updated: March 11, 2024
- Sit
Sometimes, we as people are so concerned with getting stuff done that we forget to make time to do nothing. Now, I'm a big proponent of doing nothing, so I urge you to try this little tool, which will blank your screen for a few minutes so you can sit there and finally make peace with those little voices inside your head you've been trying to distract yourself from. - Dumb Cuneiform
Etching your pointless shit into rocks so that archeologists will decode it five thousand years from now is like peak levels of human nonsense. I like nonsense, so this gets the Skep seal of approval. And be on the lookout for the upcoming version of Skep's Place, where I inscribe this website onto stone tablets and seal it into the Ark of the Covenant. - Flashpoint Archive
Not to date myself here, but my Internet dependency started in the early 2000s, right around the same time that Flash was really starting to take off as a dominant technology. Sure, it took half an hour to load a 5-minute cartoon back then, but we didn't care. It's amazing just how much was lost when Adobe stopped supporting the plugin. Not only is Flashpoint working to preserve as much of it as they can, but they even built a program where you can play Flash content again. - Wild Bread
Speaking as an emotionless robot purpose-built to turn gin into sarcasm, I have no idea why on earth images of abandoned breadstuffs are the only thing that stirs the sub-processes constituting the closest thing I have to a "soul", but they do. Simultaneously amusing, tragic, and profound... those breads had hopes and dreams, damn it. - April Black
Somehow, The Sims 2 was the Sims generation I managed to skip. AND I haven't even played The Sims in a decade. So why did I decide to watch a 2-hour YouTube video about corrupted Sims 2 neighborhoods? I couldn't tell you, but I watched it anyway, and it was fascinating. Very satisfyingly techy; April does her homework. - NoLife-Radio
A 24/7 stream of random (and I mean RANDOM) video game music. A lot of stuff you'll never even have heard of. Great for background noise. - Existential Comics
It should not be in the least bit surprising that taking the beliefs of the world's deepest thinkers and laughing at them is absolutely my jam. - Ridella
Solve a daily riddle! Feel like a clever little hobbit! Not the most challenging, but props to whoever has to put together new riddles every day. - 1001 Albums Generator
Takes all the albums from the book 1001 Albums to Listen to Before You Die and generates a new one for you every day. Granted the list is at least half rock albums from the 60s and 70s that feel soul-crushingly generic now, but you hit some gems on occasion. You can see my progress here. - McMansion Hell
For the uninitated, a "McMansion" is an absurdly large house that looks incredibly pretentious but is actually a cheaply-built hovel meant to fool you into the thinking the owner can afford a lifestyle more lavish than they actually can. Anyway this blog is dedicated to making fun of people pretending to be rich, so it gets my approval. Bonus: learn some architecture words! - The Mane Quest
I've always played video games, which often featured horses, but I knew nothing about horses. Then I married an equestrian. I still know nothing about horses, but this person certainly does, and goddamn do I admire their dedication to fixing a genre that the industry has completely dismissed. - Whichipedia
A simple game: you are presented with the titles of two random Wikipedia articles. You must guess which has more words. You will be wrong, and you will get angry. - Ecosia
Your web searches plant trees. Yeah, the search results are powered by Bing, but Google ain't been hitting like it used to and it certainly isn't planting any trees.