Neotoma's Midden

In a week / two weeks / month / sometime before I grow old and die, I’ll be launching a new version of this site.

My earliest memory of surfing the web was when I searched for a guide to making my own video games.

Cabel Sasser - Wes Cook and the Incredible McDonalds Mural Indie game dev shares his adventure investigating the life and work of Wes Cook, greatest muralist to be on display at a McDonalds - Cabel Sasser Helping a Bear Get Unstuck from a Bin You may be t…

Cooking at home is a skill of cooking well–making something delicious, impressive, and deriving joy from the process of cooking–without needing to spend, plan, or care that much.

Ziporyn on Mythic Worlds A lecture on how the Daodejing ironically points out the unnoticeable gaps in our attention, and how everthing is capable of fitting into or emerging from those gaps - Brook Ziporyn Luis Alvarado-Chile Sintetica New age synth from…

History of the theme from RoboCop 3 for the Game Boy Interview with Jonathan Dunn, who made a wistful, pensive track for a Robocop game - Damien McFerran One thing I appreciate is the interviewer asks Jonathan Dunn about Chef Boyardee, an edgelord animator

Hypertext Tv Browse personal websites like an analog tv Frinkiac Slick search engine for finding frames of Simmpsons episodes based on closed captioning data.

Shrine of a Mall Ninja Origin story of the phrase Mall Ninja and a look into how hilarious Internet Forums were - gecko45 Viagr Aboys People used to go insane over cool stuff, man.

god, it’s true isn’t It?

Coherence is anything intelligible or readable at all (ok bear with me lol).

Papers Stop motion animation that keeps the same characters, grids, and newspapers in focus as the peripheral text flashes across new days - yoshinao satoh Yoshinao Satoh's Animation Collection of Stop Motion animation, often with accompanying music - Yos…

To steal Christtt’s coined term, Digital mulch is a style of music and graphic design that uses corrupted and low-quality digital records as material for an over-stimulating collages.

Objectionable.net Collection of works and teachings (many of which public and free!)

Coffee at this coffee house is $5 with refills.

The clouds form overhead like outstretched fingers hovering over the lake like a chef testing the heat of a burner.

Generate Utopia - Death's Dynamic Shroud and Galen Tipton Glitchy hypersampled internet footage, which Christtt described as digital mulch lol - deaths-dynamic-shroud Michel Gondry's Music Videos Collection of filmmaker Michel Gondry’s music videos Around…

Spritely Institute is a non-profit research org that’s been experimenting with a new web protocol for so-called “Object Capabilities”, and have made a really cool web library called “Goblins” that’s meant to address the problems ActivityPub websites like…

Super Mario Crossover Remake of Super Mario, but with characters from other retro games.

Games.

Simon Tatham's Puzzles Free, fast, and addictive collection of wonderful logic puzzles - Simon Tatham Jmtb02: Flash Game Postmortem John Cooney, creator of the Achievement Unlocked games, Retrospective on the rise and fall of flash games on the Internet -…

One month ago from time of writing, Alasdair MacIntyre passed away.

Big Game Home Video Sketch comedy with a great storytelling and cliche evasion - Big Game Home Video Personal favorites: Coolerz Forgetatron Dinner party Generating Riddles for a Generated World How Mark Johnson designed procedurally generated riddles and…

In Being and Ambiguity, Ziporyn centers the ontology of Omnicentrism around coherence.

Radio-browser.info Community driven index of radio stations available online Consumer Aesthetic Research Institute Art project naming and curating aesthetic trends in 90s-00s consumer culture - cari Western Humorous short animation about a western showdown

If you are a novice wizard, you probably sound like this: “Please please please teach me the orb of imprisonment, sir.

Handwritten Blog Handwritten notes with embedded hyperlinks.

I published this on a separate site a few years ago.

William Cronon's 2012 AHA Address Cronon’s excellent address on the need for storytelling to complement, not oppose, academic history - William Cronon Attention, Observation Are.na Channel Curated list of pdfs and websites focused on interesting ways of d…

Given, you know, the whole thing going on, I don’t want an online presence without some political stance.

Old Man on the River Bank Apophatic reflection on having lived a life of shifting desires - George Seferis Kraus - Crush on Ice Looks like an Eyewitness documentary intro for a magical crystals episode. - Kraus I haven’t watched all of his music videos, b…

MSSV.net Game Reviews Adrian Hon’s blog, reviews of interesting games an immersive art - Adrian Hon Snodgrass - After Experience Taught Me Divisional couplets about violence and existence - WD Snodgrass Seferis Epiphany 1937 “I’ve kept a rein on my life…”…

A single calendar is used to track many events.

Several months ago I mentioned in a bookmark for a scaling jigsaw game that you could make a daily challenge out of the wikimedia images if you made them into scaling jigsaws.

Legend - Hart Crane As silent as a mirror is believed / Realities plunge in silence by… - hart crane I love the disruptive flow of clauses.

When my hand hurts does our hand hurt?

The Hush House is the library in the occult game Book of Hours.

The season is upon us fellow ghouls!

Marcell Jankovics - Sisyphus Sisyphus told as a swirl on a sketchbook - Marcell Jankovics Paul de Jong - This Is Who I Am Remix of thrift store finds, creating a delightful farce - Paul de Jong Found from the description page of Saucy Postal’s excellent v…

Old Book Illustrations Collection of illustrations form old books now in the public domain Their monkeys are not to be overlooked.

Koyaanisqatsi - Ending scene Somber choral track set to this scene of space flight that I had to watch like three times in a row.

A friend of mine shared Agnes Callard’s 2022 class UChicago Aims of Education some months after it was published on YouTube.

As rats in tunnels knot their tails And gasses build in beachéd whales As hair breaks down in gurgling drains And thickened blood blockades the brain As mother centipede curls meat Of soft larvae within her feet And grease from piglets film the pot The st…

I have been most blessed!

Sometimes if you’re lucky a Wikipedia page will have weird drama hidden in its revision or talk page.

Internet Story Found-footage video of a murder mystery set in the backdrop of 2011 YouTube. 5 star ratings, a riddle, and everything in between. - Adam Butcher Brian showed me this video when I was in middle school and it blew my mind.

One of the more frustrating parts of my job right now is delivering estimations that suck, updating estimations when I don’t know anything new, and being held to the estimations I hate.

Wizard People, Dear Reader ‘Book on tape’ redubbing of the first Harry Potter movie.

We Distribute News site covering free software, particularly Activity pub and decentralized social media Barns Worth Burning Web directory with an experimental layout.

Brodinski - Cant Help Myself Sad old man is benjamin-buttoned by a black goo Goaccess - Web Log Analyzer View your webserver’s logs in aggregate!

If you have talked to me recently, I’ve probably mentioned I’m in the middle of reading the Daoist text the Zhuangzi.