larryhammer: Yotsuba Koiwai running, label: "enjoy everything" (enjoy everything)
I’m sure there’s a theme to these links beyond making me go “cool!” but I can’t think of one:

The Navajo Word of the Day is there for when you, inevitably, get around to finally learning Diné. They also have a starter kit ebook + recordings.

The free, rules-light, open-source Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game is perfectly named. (via)

Mapping Cinematic Paths

---L.

Subject quote from Shut Up and Dance, Walk the Moon.
larryhammer: floral print origami penguin, facing left (Default)
Linkies covering future, present, and past:

Interactive tool for exploring how the climate of 70 global cities will likely change in 45 years. (via)

Updated advice about lightning safety when you’re outdoors. Lying down puts you in even more danger than standing up, and other useful nuggets. (via)

51,000 year old art found in Indonesia, oldest yet found. Over 50 thousand years ago, people. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from Sesostris, Lloyd Mifflin.
larryhammer: Yotsuba Koiwai running, label: "enjoy everything" (enjoy everything)
A few links, mainly random. Well, pretty much all random. It includes drums:

From r/MapPorn, a lovely shaded relief map of Manhattan made from USGS LiDAR data. Click through for the full-sized image. (via)

Orcas are still smashing up small European yachts, and we’ve finally worked out why: it’s a fad among teenage orcas. TIL bored teen orcas are just as problematic as bored teen humans. (via)

A huge cache of drum samples free to download and use. Or, yanno, just listen to fascinated as you try to figure out what makes each beat different. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from New York City, Maxwell Bodenheim.
larryhammer: Yotsuba Koiwai running, label: "enjoy everything" (enjoy everything)
Three fun, fun, and fun links:

Quotes from Austen illustrated with nature photos. 😂 😆 🤣 (via a comment to this also excellent post)

Old, but Minnesota DOT announces the winners of the 2022 “Name a Snowplow” contest. I like that they already had a Plowy McPlowFace, but I love that they now have Ctrl Salt Delete. (alt)

Isobaric winds around the world, and other weather data. Play with the hamburger. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from The Safety Dance, Men Without Hats.
larryhammer: Yotsuba Koiwai running, label: "enjoy everything" (enjoy everything)
Let’s just SAY I was writing a Wrath of Khan musical... and let’s just SAY I finished the song where Khan ambushes Kirk’s Enterprise... let’s just SAY—ok here it is.” Spock bop a-loo-bop, a Spock bam-boom. (via)

So someone published a book called Atlas of Remote Islands, subtitled Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will. And so someone else did some extensive armchair traveling, visiting all 50 online: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4. Safe journeys, y’all!

Children’s Fantasy. I would read the HELL out of a novel that’s about the last panel + alt-text.

---L.

Subject quote from Christian Island, Gordon Lightfoot.
larryhammer: a symbol used in a traditional Iceland magic spell of protection (icon of awe)
Linky said the linker, Linky said the linker, Linky and rethinky and a slinky have begun.

Volcanoes and Patagonia, photos by Francisco Negroni featuring volcano lightning. (via)

Alternatives to Heterosexual Pairings, Brought to You By Non-Human Animals, including white-throated sparrows, which have two strictly endogamous moities and so effectively have four sexes. (via)

Detailed map of medieval trade routes. (via, which has more info)

---L.

Subject quote from Autumn Song, W.H. Auden.
larryhammer: Enceladus (the moon, not the mythological being), label: "Enceladus is sexy" (astronomy)
Three useful links:

The myth of force-quitting apps on iOS will save battery life. (via)

Subway-style maps of Roman roads of Britain (via) and US rivers. (via)

A Chart of Cosmic Exploration. OMG WHERE WAS THIS A COUPLE MONTHS AGO WHEN I WAS TRYING TO MEMORIZE ALL THE ROBOTS WHO'VE EXPLORED OTHER PLANETS FOR US? WHY CAN'T I ORDER IT NOW NOW NOW?

---L.

Subject quote from "Harbor," Vienna Teng.
larryhammer: Yotsuba Koiwai running, label: "enjoy everything" (enjoy everything)
Four links for the price of three. Get them while they last!

A portal to over 1600 high-resolution maps of US national parks, monuments, recreation areas, and seashores. Search the whole collection or just start with the curator's favorites. (via)

The white ravens of Vancouver Island. (via)

The consequence of napping. Oh so very yes. (via)

Timelapses of spring flowers blooming and autumn leaves turning. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "To Night," Percy Shelley.
larryhammer: a woman wearing a chain mail hoodie, label: "chain mail is sexy" (chain mail is sexy)
Maps of things:

National Geographic has a website that serves you printable versions of any USGS quad. Each quad is packaged as PDF with a lower resolution index plus four pages that each print on letter-sized paper. (via, with other useful map widgets in the comments)

Generated fantasy world maps. (via)

An illustrated flowchart of which Shakespeare play you should see. (via)

Subject quote from "On the Gorilla Trail," Mary Hastings Bradley (mother of Alice Shledon/James Tiptree).
larryhammer: topless woman lying prone with a poem by Sappho painted on her back, label: "Greek poetry is sexy" (classics)
A new-to-me song variation I rather like:
Rock-a-bye baby in the tree top,
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock.
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fly
And up will go baby into the sky.
Reactions to this are running about 3:1 liking versus finding scary.

Every week, Pop Sonnets posts a new translation of a pop song into an Elizabethan sonnet -- such as "Let It Go," "Don't Stop Believing," and "Baby Got Back." (via)

Deeply researched historical maps. (via)

Kitty-porn, Edo-period woodcuts edition. (via)

---L.

Subject slightly quoted from "Childe Harold's Pilgramage" iii.93.8-9, Byron.
larryhammer: a woman wearing a chain mail hoodie, label: "chain mail is sexy" (chain mail is sexy)
The Five Varieties of Internet Contrarians. (via)

The post is called 40 maps that explain the world, but even they admit they don't explain it all, as there's a sequel list of another 40 -- it's actually an index post for a blog. Not all are equally informative, but there's some interesting ones. (via, I think)

What kind of armor did medieval women warriors really wear? (via, maybe?)

---L.

Subject quote from Iphigenia in Tauris, Johann von Goethe.
larryhammer: a woman wearing a chain mail hoodie, label: "chain mail is sexy" (fantasy)
I forget who asked for this ([livejournal.com profile] mme_hardy?), but I finally found it -- recordings of the poems of One Hundred People, One Poem Each being chanted. (Click a poem link in the left frame, then the first link in the right frame, labeled "Windows Media." )

Phonetic descriptions of seven sounds teenagers make, with a recording of examples. (via)

Forty interesting and sometimes even useful maps, slicing geography and demography into different perspectives. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "all the way," Mikuni Shimokawa. (trans: "the sky has no end because it's the mirror of my heart / every day the colors change as if reflecting it")

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