Web Wanderings #16
Rediscover the joy of online exploration! Web Wandering shares a hand-picked selection of the most awesome websites you won't find anywhere else.
It’s time for a new edition of Web Wanderings. As I had to do a lot in the recent weeks, this is a slightly smaller edition. Aside from various needed updates and corrections, I was working on the coming Lifetime subscriptions.
I hope you enjoy the featured website presented here.
This edition is also available on Cloudhiker as a Collection so you can find, like and collect the sites of this Edition: Web Wanderings #16
Color Leap
So, what is this, what looks like a history timeline first but is titled with color? 🤔
Pretty straightforward: art analyzed by decades to find out which colors were popular in those years. What a great site to explore colors through history and maybe find some inspiration for your next piece of art?!
Logical Fallacies
https://www.logicalfallacies.org
Like.. uhm.. everybody heard about the Survivorship Bias, which can also be labeled as a logical fallacy; some situation or reasoning that seems indeed reasonable at first, but is entirely wrong or leads to incorrect results. This website is a great collection of the most common and maybe unknown fallacies, each one presented with an example to make it more clear. A great site to click through, read the short explanations and learn something new today.
Rubiks Cube Solver
https://rubiks-cube-solver.com
The Rubiks Code, invented in 1974 by Ernő Rubik, is a well known toy everyone had, but non had a lot of fun with. At least I don’t know anybody who said: Oohhhh a Rubiks Cube! How nice! And it was pretty late in my life that I learned how do solve one. The rules are pretty easy, yet most people just turn the thing 457 times and still have a damn mixed up color pattern. So, if you have one that you are unable to solve, here’s your chance!
The Playstation 3 Architecture
https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-3/
Hey, finally something for the real techie! - Some tinkerer, maybe
And yes, this is finally a site for the hardware enthusiasts of you. Some deep dive into electronics. And it’s a special one: that of the famous Playstation 3. I never had one, sadly. Or, maybe it’s not so sad, because I had a wonderful childhood full off Tony Hawks Pro Skater session on our beloved Playstation 2. Nevertheless, some people claim that the PS 3 was the last good console. I cannot disagree with that.
Anyway, I did not understand half of the site, yet it was a fascinating overview on the internals of said console. Enjoy!
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Curves and Surfaces
https://ciechanow.ski/curves-and-surfaces
Spoiler: you will find more work of Bartosz Ciechanowski in future episodes. Because this guy is probably one of the best remote-no-talk-only-show-teachers of this world. I have read all of his essays and was always fascinated by how easy things seem to be, although they are indeed not easy concepts. I particularly love the small experiments in each essay, which let you explore how things work and react.
This is the first featured deep dive, which explores the matter of curves, surfaces and the math behind it.
The Great Beyond
https://reallifemag.com/the-great-beyond
Trigger warning: Death
This article is almost 5 years old now, which is quite a time in terms of the internet. Yet it looks like it looked into the future of how social media shapes how we interact with death and mourning. I am part of the /r/cats subreddit, and mourning is a considerable part of this community. Not, because everybody likes dead cats, but because everybody feels with the people posting there. It’s not about fame, but finding relief in the attention other give to your gone buddy. It’s a f**king sad topic, yes. But having people around you who really understand what this situation means to you, might be more help than telling your coworker or best friend, who either never experienced the death of a loved one, or just can’t related with it on a social level. And yet another thing is important: having that post somewhere, or even the profile of a loved one is a pretty special memorial for a wonderful person.
Real-time Guard Simulator
https://absurd.website/guard-simulator
Security Guards are part of every damn action movie, and every real life crime where they are the first to get blamed for a breach. Yet, nobody seems to understand what it means to be a guard - at least only those who are ones themselves. And they can probably tell you how awfully boring the job is. This is where this project of Absurd.Website comes into play. I dare you to just sit there and watch the screen for something to happen. How long will you make it?
ElseWhere
I discovered this wonderful project as it was submitted to Cloudhiker by my fellow dude Shashank Poojari. Props to him for submitting 4851 websites, by the way!
But back to ElseWhere: a global map sprinkled with emoji. The thing is: each emoji is a single emoji represents a landmark, a special place, that someone from around the world shared. It’s there for everybody to read, for 30 days. Then it just vanishes. I left some already, maybe you still find them on the globe?
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Love this curation. The Guard Simulator is genius for illustrating how boring vigilance actually is, and ElseWhere's 30-day vanishing emoji landmarks is such a nice counter to permanant social media. I've been noticing more projects lately that embrace ephemerality instead of arhciving everything forever. Feels kinda refreshing tbh.