Post a website, entertain me!

Airplane maintenance problems and solutions.

P: Something loose in cockpit.
S: Something tightened in cockpit.

P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.

P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.

Adventure Lookup - a growing database of D&D and Pathfinder modules through history and where you can find them.

MeatMan wrote:
Demyx wrote:
BadKen wrote:
tanstaafl wrote:

The Internet Noise Project

That sounds great until you start thinking about it and wondering if the list of random sites are full of illegal content.

I certainly wouldn't recommend doing this without an up-to-date adblocker and scripting turned off, at the very least.

IMO the important thing to do is the last thing mentioned on the page: Consider using a VPN. That's what I did immediately when the law was passed.

Can we start taking bets on how long before the "ISPs" in US start lobbying for bands on VPNs?

While searching for browser games, I found this. It's one of my all-time favorite platformers that I played a lot on my C64 back in the 80s: Impossible Mission

MeatMan wrote:

While searching for browser games, I found this. It's one of my all-time favorite platformers that I played a lot on my C64 back in the 80s: Impossible Mission

Good find. I played many hours of this on the C64 but never came close to beating the game.

BadKen wrote:

Airplane maintenance problems and solutions.

P: Something loose in cockpit.
S: Something tightened in cockpit.

P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.

P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.

Those were very funny!

Finding the Speed of Light with Marshmallows - A Take-Home Lab

http://www.physics.umd.edu/icpe/news...

pyxistyx wrote:

Adventure Lookup - a growing database of D&D and Pathfinder modules through history and where you can find them.

One of my favorite podcast networks and tabletop RPG communities is called the Gauntlet. They have a bunch of good shows, but they just started a new one called Fear of a Black Dragon. Each episode they do a deep dive into some classic D&D module, talk about what they like about it, how they have used it as inspiration for adventures in other games, and things from other media that relate to that module. I enjoyed the Death Frost Doom episode a lot. If you like PbtA games, their podcasts +1 Forward and Discern Realities are both great.

I really enjoyed The Last Ringbearer, and now I really want to read this story.

NYT 1992: The Executive Computer; 'Mother of All Markets' or a 'Pipe Dream Driven by Greed'?

BURLINGAME, Calif.— Sometime around the middle of this decade no one is sure exactly when -- executives on the go will begin carrying pocket-sized digital communicating devices. And although nobody is exactly sure what features these personal information gizmos will have, what they will cost, what they will look like or what they will be called, hundreds of computer industry officials and investors at the Mobile '92 conference here last week agreed that the devices could become the foundation of the next great fortunes to be made in the personal computer business.

Wow, that's a remarkably prescient article.

It really is. That describes a modern smartphone amazingly well. They get some implementation details wrong, but get the overall goals right (like reading email anywhere, getting directions on a live map, and being able to order pizza.) They didn't think of everything, but they describe most of the functions I consider really key to a modern PDA/smartphone.

It just took longer than they were expecting. Arguably, that vision didn't fully come to pass until the iPhone in 2006, though there were individual pieces scattered across multiple devices.

They were also right about great fortunes being made.

Malor wrote:

It really is. That describes a modern smartphone amazingly well. They get some implementation details wrong, but get the overall goals right (like reading email anywhere, getting directions on a live map, and being able to order pizza.) They didn't think of everything, but they describe most of the functions I consider really key to a modern PDA/smartphone.

It just took longer than they were expecting. Arguably, that vision didn't fully come to pass until the iPhone in 2006, though there were individual pieces scattered across multiple devices.

They were also right about great fortunes being made.

I had all of that on a T-mobile sidekick in 2002. Full web browser, qwerty keyboard, e-mail client, camera plug-in, AIM, Yahoo, and MSN instant message clients, and games. They opened up the Java SDK for it for third-party app developers. I tried to write some games for it myself. It even had a headphone jack! I miss that phone very, very much. It was everything the iPhone would be years ahead of its time.

I love love love the miniature scenes from the pre-CGI episodes, but that article is right, it's a disturbing show. I found Hero of the Rails especially disturbing, with its implications for train psychology.

Gravey wrote:

I love love love the miniature scenes from the pre-CGI episodes, but that article is right, it's a disturbing show. I found Hero of the Rails especially disturbing, with its implications for train psychology.

Yup. I grew up reading it, but after watching a couple of episodes with my daughter and realizing that all the 'characters" are self-obsessed arseholes, and all the lessons it teaches are abysmal, it got taken out of rotation.

When did the New Yorker turn into Cracked?

Well this is an interesting site:

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Those Little Lynton quotes are gold!

@AwfulFantasy has lots of similar turgid prose.

Someone recommend me some interesting, new, or different sites I can revisit occasionally instead of just constantly browsing the same old depressing news and social media:

Here are some examples that I keep in my 'Favorites' feed:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/
https://tedium.co/
https://www.themodernrogue.com/
http://www.todayifoundout.com/
https://www.bathroomreader.com/

MeatMan wrote:

http://flopstarter.com/

Holy cats this is amazing. I love these flops!