Every day. Without hope, without despair.
“Intra protects you from DNS manipulation, a cyber attack used to block access to news sites, social media platforms and messaging apps.”
An app from Google’s Jigsaw Team that incorporates encrypted DNS lookups that come stock in 9 into older versions of Android. Not as good as using a VPN, but better than nothing.
The website design for Tao Tajima’s site is well done. Interesting work on it too.
The Oblique Strategies constitute a set of over 100 cards, each of which is a suggestion of a course of action or thinking to assist in creative situations. These famous cards have been used by many artists and creative people all over the world since their initial publication. Fifth edition 2001.
“Havocscope provides information and threat intelligence on the global black market. Due to the ability of transnational threats to cause financial losses and social harms, key statistics and data about the illegal economy is provided to help mitigate this risk. The information about the black market has been collected from government agencies, academic studies, media reports, and reported data from our sources.”
Adventures Outlined is a Dungeons & Dragons coloring book illustrated by Todd James.
“Tired of telemarketers calling your landline or mobile?
Now there’s a way to fight back!
We provide friendly, patient robots that talk to these rude telemarketers for you. They love to chit-chat, and will often keep nasty callers engaged for several minutes.
By keeping the bad guys busy, you keep them from pestering other innocent people, and you hit them where it hurts most…their wallets…because no matter how hard they try, our robots won’t ever buy anything.
“Of all the things you can read on the internet, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is one of the only good ones. In perpetual conversation with itself, ever growing and expanding—perhaps threatening, in its accumulated obsessions, to become self-aware—this index of the fantastic documents possible pasts and futures alike.”
—M.H. Rowe. “The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is the Best Place on the Internet
Self-Referential, Argumentative, and Never Dispassionate.” Lithub.com. August 16, 2018.
M.H. Rowe’s article is a love letter to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. The whole thing is fantastic. If you aren’t interested in diving in after reading it, you’re never going to be.
My favorite entry, thus far, is infodumps. Also, I appreciated the reminder to read Ted Chiang on my first dive in.
