brendans.life

list of fun links on the world wide web

an ever-growing list of things I find on-line

My Presentation(s?)

• October 20, 2025 How Does Flock Work? Presentation (Slides)

Websites

• weather.gov (the best!!)
• Plain Text Sports
• Crouton.net
• Super Dimension Fortress Public Access UNIX System
• neal.fun: quirky online activities made by Neal
• Rescue Kitten Cam
• Internet Live Stats
• Wayback Machine: Internet Archive
• Cornell University ILR School Labor Action Tracker
• Online image dithering tool
• Recommended from my family: Papas Pizzeria Flash Game
• Directory of direct links to delete your online accounts
• Directory of direct links to get your data from online services
• A website that tracks which McDonalds ice cream machines are broken
• Computer monitor refresh rate comparison and test (even more tests on top right of website)
• Wiby: search engine for the classic web
• The Internet Archive: non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
• Be a Kevin.
• ambient.garden (sound on)
• Button Museum
• Street Cat Wiki
• Best of Craigslist (possibility of nsfw)
• The Phrontistery: a collection of obscure words (english only)
• WTF is my IP?!?!??
• Deceptive Patterns Hall of Shame
• sandspiel
• EFF Surveillance Self-Defense
• EFF Street Level Surveillance
• EFF Digital Rights Bytes
• deflock.me

Readings

• Wikipedia: list of oldest confirmed dogs
• Wikipedia: largest organisms
• Wikipedia: list of sexually active popes
• Low Tech Magazine: Keeping Some of the Lights On: Redefining Energy Security
• Why your website should use dithered images
• George Miller: Bridging Higher Education Institutions and Their Surrounding Residential Communities: Can the Historic Mistrust be Overcome?
• Can a social media post change public opinion? Researchers weigh in
• The German tourist who mistook Bangor, Maine for San Francisco and received the red carpet treatment
• Wikipedia: Operation Snow White
• History of San Diego County Outdoor Education
• Why don't schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamentals?
• Wikipedia: Beijing Weather Modification Office
• The Forgotten War on Beepers
• Heat Death of the Internet
• ‘We’re Living in a Nightmare:’ Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
• a brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks
• Wikipedia: Benjamin Lay
• A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies
• Enough with the Bullshit
• United we Watched, Divided we Scrolled
• Study on AI advice-seeking: Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence

Videos

• Top 10 Parking Lots in Bangor, Maine
• Youtube channel with fun history of southwest roadside attractions
• My Chevy Caprice on 24s and I, Ballin at MCDONALDS!!
• Youtube channel covering Northeast history and folklore
• Youtube channel of a guy who digs up fun old stuff in the American Midwest
• MMA but in medieval armor