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Art:
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Web Gallery of Art Virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts, decorative arts and architecture from the 3rd to 19th centuries.
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National Portrait Gallery Contains information on 60,574 works from the National UK Portrait Gallery's collection of over 320,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings, and photographs.
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New York Public Library Picture Collection Online Contains 30,000 high-resolution digital images taken from the New York Public Library's extensive collection of books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, and prints. Most images are pre-1923, and the collection is especially strong in the areas of fashion and natural history.
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ARTSTOR Public Collections Approximately 1m freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as open access images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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ASCII Art Archive An archive of old-school style ASCII artworks.
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Interesting:
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Gems:
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Lite Reading:
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Freedom of Information Act Reading Room Declassified CIA Documents
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Occultopedia Index of the supernatural, unusual phenomena and the occult.
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Twilit Grotto Archives of Western Esoterica
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Zines / Online Magazines:
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ELPiS An online, independent magazine reviving the early internet's spirit, prioritizing creativity, connections, and thoughtful content over algorithms, with topics on the indie web, retro tech, and alternative browsing.
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From The Superhighway A monthly newsletter dedicated to bringing you the best kept secrets of the indie web.
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Databases:
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Open Access Theses and Dissertations Open-access database of both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses.
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The Cutting Room Floor Documentation on unused and cut content from Video Games.
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Article / Journals / Blogposts:
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How To Watch A Movie A brief, introductory guide to film viewing and the duty of the audience.
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Cyber Mausoleums (Or the Argument Against Deletion) The internet is full of dead people if you think about it.
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The Tyranny of the Algorithm: Why Every Coffee Shop Looks the Same From the generic hipster cafe to the 'Instagram wall', the internet has pushed us towards a kind of global ubiquity, and this phenomenon is only going to intensify.
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Harmful Nostalgia (Opinion) We need to bring the better parts of the past to the present, not stay trapped in the past.
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The Occult Way to Copyright (Blog) A tongue in cheek occult story about how to fight piracy with magic.
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Why I Will Never Join Mastodon (or the rest of the Fediverse) (Opinion) Interesting take on social media, no matter the form.
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The Art of Hyperlinking (Opinion) A thoughtful exploration of the art of meaningful hyperlinking, emphasizing organic connections over artificial link collections.
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For You:
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Astrocartography Chart Reader Type of astrology that maps your birth chart against a world map to help identify places that are most meaningful to you.
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Fun:
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Thank You Internet:
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Treasure Chest:
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Internet Privacy:
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How to Block AI Bots from Crawling Your Data An easy way to stop AI bots from stealing your work and violating licenses.
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Let's Decentralize This is a website dedicated to methods of decentralized publishing on the web.
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DigDeeper A blog about privacy and society.
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Browzar Small, disposable privacy browser.
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Have I Been Pwned E-mail data breach check.
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JustDeleteMe Directory of links to delete your account from web services.
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