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HI I SPEND TOO MUCH TIME BROWSING AROUND DUMB SHIT ONLINE INSTEAD OF WORKING.
I thought I'd share some of the hypest shit I found online last month with y'all motherfuckers.
COOL TECH SHIT
- Sans Forgetica - Some design nerds and some behaviourial science nerds got together and were like "yo lets make a font that's designed to help people retain information better". Use it for your study notes or something, I dunno.
- Bypass Paywalls - Stop allowing news companies to hold their content hostage despite listing it openly online with this handy-dandy little addon for Firefox.
- Snap Camera - All of Snapchat's lenses/filters, no longer trapped on mobile devices. Looks like they're making a push for the streamer market with this, which is an interesting idea if nothing else.
- Chunks - I'm a sucker for writing apps that try new and novel approaches to getting the words written, and this is certainly that.
- Witeboard - Start a collaborative online whiteboard that you can invite others to contribute to, no logins required. Handy for game planning or an impromptu D&D scheming session.
- Primitive - One for any Mac users out there. Take a picture, and have this program re-create it in geometric stylings.
COOL ARTICLES
- The Big List of RPG Plots (Rolltop Indigo) - Feeling stuck for game ideas, or maybe needing some inspiration for NaNoWriMo this month? This list has you covered.
- The Replacing Guilt Series (Nate Soares) - This is one that our guy @IntrusivePenDesperateSword linked a couple weeks ago. I've been slowly making my way through it, and I have to admit that Mr Soares speaks a fuck of a lot of sense about those horrible listless feelings modern life can conjure (and how to combat them).
- Why The Future Doesn't Need Us (Wired) - This horribly fucking prescient article was written back in 2000. I wish it was less correct than it is.
- Endgame: How Australian Preppers Are Bugging Out And Hunkering Down (The Guardian) - I know prepper memes are pretty bants, but it's interesting to see an article that isn't just treating these guys as a carnival sideshow and that interviews subjects who aren't just gun-hoarding fuckwits.
- Drug cocktail almost doubles lifespan of worms (Science Daily) - IMMORTAL TRANSHUMAN FUTURE NOW.
- How Horror Changed After WW1 (Lit Hub) - An interesting read on the impact of global conflict on a genre, and topical given that Remembrance Sunday is approaching.
That's all my coolest cool internet shit from this month, chums. If you've got any cool shit of your own you wanna share, feel free to sling some links below.