Society & Culture
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https://jellyfishforest.com/duckyfeet
Duckyfeet is Jessica's personal homepage, version 17, themed around narwhals with a playful old-web aesthetic full of graphics and a tagboard. The 'So long, and thanks for all the fish' farewell quote and narwhal theme give this compact site a charming marine-life personality.
https://mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/texts/Galileo.Nuncius.html
Published by Peter Damerow and Jürgen Renn of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, this page presents an electronic representation of Galileo's complete handwritten notes on motion and mechanics spanning roughly 30 years of his career. The project digitizes approximately 200 loose manuscript sheets tracing the transition from Aristotelian to classical physics, making them accessible as a collaborative research environment for historians of science.
http://evprecording.blogspot.com/
Run by RegManabq, this blog chronicles one person's hands-on investigations into Electronic Voice Phenomenon, the practice of recording supposed ghost voices as explored in the film White Noise. Posts cover EVP recordings, community members like Darren Blanchard's EVP Society, and discussions around the ethics and methods of paranormal audio research.
https://plato-dialogues.org/
Bernard Suzanne's bilingual French-English scholarly site offers a new interpretation of Plato and his dialogues, covering the full range of Platonic works from the Apology to the Laws. The site organizes the dialogues into tetralogies and provides deep philosophical analysis, making it a serious resource for students and enthusiasts of ancient Greek thought.
https://ctgenweb.org/
The CTGenWeb Project is a volunteer-driven genealogy resource dedicated to Connecticut ancestry, offering county-by-county research pages, obituary records, and historical information for all eight Connecticut counties. Part of the larger USGenWeb network, it provides research forms, surname registries, and links to special projects for anyone tracing their Connecticut roots.
https://pilledtexts.com/
Pilledtexts.com is a wide-ranging personal weblog covering philosophy, economics, technology, and military life, written by a Marine who thinks seriously about hyperstition, Tolstoy, fountain pens, and terminal scripting in equal measure. Posts range from dense philosophical essays to practical Hugo static-site tutorials, making it a genuinely eclectic intellectual journal with a distinctly indie-web sensibility.
https://unsm-ento.unl.edu/Egyptian_Sacred_Scarab/egs-text.htm
Curated by Elaine A. Evans of the McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee, this scholarly resource explores the sacred scarab amulet of ancient Egypt in rich detail, covering its religious symbolism, types, ornamentation, and connection to the god Khepri. Featuring museum collection pieces and references to Egyptological sources like Flinders Petrie, it offers an authoritative and accessible look at one of antiquity's most iconic artifacts.
https://members.tripod.com/anand_dange/mylinks.html
Anand Dange's personal link collection brings together an extensive array of Marathi-language websites, Hindi and Marathi music resources, Indian news outlets, and Bay Area practical resources for Indian immigrants. The page serves as a curated gateway to Marathi culture online, including sites for Pu.La. Deshpande, Marathi songs, cricket, and California transit and DMV information.
https://a-chilleus.neocities.org/
Esmé's personal site weaves together naturalistic paganism, creative writing, poetry, and zines, with dedicated sections on the Wheel of the Year and a pagan vade mecum. The site also thoughtfully hosts a curated list of UK trans resources, reflecting the creator's broader values alongside their spiritual and artistic interests.
https://hwc.dougbeal.com/
HWC Seattle is the local Seattle chapter of the Homebrew Website Club, an IndieWeb meetup group organized by Douglas Beal for people interested in building and discussing personal websites. The site lists upcoming events, locations like Wayward Coffeehouse, and invitees for casual evenings of personal site demos and IndieWeb discussions.