Cool Links

Here are some random links I saved while browsing the internet. There's stuff here that I found useful, or interesting, or just cool.

Btw I got this idea from Korsse's page.

Directory:

The Web
Wikipedia
Artists I like
Youtube

The Web

Fun Stuff

Jerma Joke Tracker
Someone made a website to track the jokes made in every Jerma stream. It tracks every +2 and -2 in his chat and visualises them as a line graph.
Joel G's Website
He has a neat website where you can create your own character. Theres also a bunch of easter eggs you can find.
Heckscaper aka HALLEY LABS aka Emma Essex
The homepage of one of my favourite musicians. Its a really neat site. You can find their music here. They also a have an archive of their old music here.
悪魔の悪夢: AR EK-QUA ER SETA
A cool game by Emma Essex. Check it out.
Bing Soy's Website
The Bing Soy from Australian TF2 uncletopia servers. See his TF2 stuff on his site, among a lot of other things. He also does youtube.
Uncletopia
TF2 uncletopia servers. One of the few good community servers in AU that I can still play on. In the last few months or so the bot problem has been so bad in Australia that I can't play Valve's casual anymore.
Free Smiley (archive.org)
While the original www.free-smiley-faces.de website is down, there's an archive of its gifs on archive.org.
Prequel Adventure
A fun interactive webcomic :).
The Lackadaisy webcomic
Read the webcomic here and watch the incredible animation on youtube!
Windowkill
A cool game which uses multiple moving windows in a very creative way. Do check it out.

Neocities Stuff

cryptidize's Internet Guide link list
A list of useful links by cryptidize. Expanded from their original 'Fuck It, Internet Guide' tumblr post into a full page on their site.

Misc. Stuff

Ted the Caver
The classic creepypasta.
Home advantage without crowds
Football teams still have a home advantage without crowds.
midis2jam2
A FOSS MIDI visualiser that can visualise your MIDI files as actual instruments being played. Its a remaster of the original MIDIJam.
Maia's Website
We all know Maia by now.
Flashpoint
An archive of flash games made for us suffering post-flash deprecation.
Camillagate Transcript
Sorry for exposing everyone's eyes to this.
Megascatterbomb's TF2 cheater database
A database made by megascatterbomb documenting TF2 cheaters him and his friends found while playing on Australian servers.
Christian Bumper Stickers
A strange group of American christians which will send you free christian bumper stickers.
xkcd font
A font made to look like the xkcd comics. Made by the IPython maintainers.

Academic Stuff

Educational things.

Dr. David Malloch's Mycology Web Pages
A brilliant resource for microbiology students. Dr. Malloch's book on moulds is especially great, and his mould identification keys are very useful.
Zotero
Not really a 'cool link', but I just really like Zotero. Its a great open source citation manager/tool. I have no idea how people do research without it. It also has great \(\LaTeX\) integration.
Sci-Hub Mirrors: [1] [2] [3]
A shadow library which provides free access to scholarly journal articles. It was created by Alexandra Elbakyan. If you don't have a university library to access research papers and books from, or your university does not subscribe to the journal you need to get a paper from, its invaluable. One of my favourite channels Medlife Crisis made a great video talking about the issue of academic publishers paywalling researchers' articles and interviewed Elbakyan.
Library Genesis Mirror [1]
A shadow library which provides access to academic papers, and books.
Roche's Biochemical Pathways Posters (PDF)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4446230

Roche made two biochemical pathway posters, a Metabolic Pathway poster and a Cellular and Molecular Processes poster. After some looking, I found a PDF version on the Zenodo database under its DOI.
The RESB Protein Data Bank
A database of protein structures. They have a great 3D protein structure viewer if you don't have the software to view protein structures on your computer. Here's the human coagulation factor VIII (PDB DOI: 10.2210/pdb6MF2/pdb).
colorbrewer2
An open source tool to make good colour schemes for data visualisations.
Data to Viz
A catalogue of various data visualisations and how to make them in R.
The R Graph Gallery
Another R graph catalogue.
Crossref
A database of academic journal articles, books, datasets, etc. If you have a DOI, PMID, title, or a citation, you can use this database to find the article from that data. Its useful to look for journal articles from a bibliography where a DOI isn't linked.
Unofficial \(\LaTeX2e\) Reference Manual
An Unofficial manual for \(\LaTeX2e\). Great for looking up macros or specifics on how to use \(\LaTeX\).
Comprehensive list of \(\LaTeX\) symbols
A comprehensive list of \(\LaTeX\) symbols. If you don't know how to type a symbol, chances are you'll find it here with the macro and/or package you need listed here.
Zotero CSL Style Repository
A repository of bibliography and citation styles in CSL format. Chances are someone has already made a CSL specification for the style you're looking for. If thy haven't, you can find a similar one and edit it to your needs.
Visual CSL Editor
An great CSL editor for editing bibliography styles in a CSL format.
Nocebo effects with antidepressant clinical drug trial placebos
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2007.01.010

A case report on a patient experiencing very strong nocebo effects when taking a large dose of a placebo during a suicide attempt. he was participating in a clinical trial of an antidepressant, and attempted suicide using the placebo he was assigned. As he believed it was the active drug, he attempted to overdose on the placebo to commit suicide and experienced very strong negative symptoms. After being told that the drug he took was actually a placebo the symptoms quickly abated. This case report was featured in Medlife Crisis' video on placebo. I found it really interesting so I decided to link the case report here.
botany4u.neocities.org
A cool neocities botany page.
The Nib — Repeat After Me
A great comic on the replication crisis we're facing in science right now.
Retraction Watch
A blog keeping track of retracted papers and hijacked journals.
Word\(\TeX\) — A WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool
Made by Tom Wildenhain. A fun video and MS Word template that aims to emulate \(\LaTeX\). See also his PowerPoint Turing machine.
Histology @ Yale
A great Histology resource.
Babe wake up, new antibiotic mechanism just dropped [web archive]
The antibiotic (called Zosurabalpin) works by inhibiting lipopolysaccharide transport proteins in the membrane of gram-negative bacteria. Gram-negative bacteria have lipopolysaccharide (LPS) complexes embedded on their outer membrane. When LPSs are made in the cell, specific transport proteins move them to the outside of the cell from the cell cytoplasm. Inhibiting these proteins will be very damaging to gram-negative bacteria. This class of antibiotics targets these proteins in Acinetobacter. What's very exciting about this is it targets Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (dubbed CRAB), a World Health Organisation Priority 1 pathogen for which new antibiotics are urgently needed.

Read the articles:
Zampaloni, C., Mattei, P., Bleicher, K. et al. A novel antibiotic class targeting the lipopolysaccharide transporter. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06873-0
Pahil, K.S., Gilman, M.S.A., Baidin, V. et al. A new antibiotic traps lipopolysaccharide in its intermembrane transporter. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06799-7

Code Stuff

Donald E. Knuth's Home Page
The home page of Donald E. Knuth, known for The Art of Computer Programming [wiki] and for creating \(\TeX\) and METAFONT.
\(\KaTeX\)
A very fast open source javascript library which displays mathematics. Uses \(\LaTeX\) notation and aims to emulate \(\LaTeX\) math typesetting. I prefer it over MathJax.

Example (some hs homework): Let \(a>0\) be any positive integer. Prove \(E(a+X) = a + E(X)\).

Proof. Let \(\displaystyle E(X) = \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{x_i}{n}\). \[ \begin{align*} E(a + X) &= \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{a_i+x_i}{n}\\ &= \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{a_i}{n} + \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{x_i}{n}\\ &= \frac{na}{n} + \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{x_i}{n}\\ &= a + E(X) \end{align*} \]
\(\square\)
Homebrew
A package manager for mac. I got sucked in to using macs from high school, where we all had to get macs, so I ended up sticking with it. After starting to use a package manager I never west back. The convenience and simplicity is just great.
Scoop
On windows I use scoop as my package manager.
gitignore.io
A tool which generates a gitignore file ready for you to use depending on your OS, programming language, environment, etc.
Catppuccin Theme
The colour theme I use. It's the one I use on this site!
Regexr
Tool to help visualise regex expressions.
grep.app
Search open source git repos.
Ruffle
An open source flash emulator for the web
Project Euler
A growing collection of math/programming problems
QOI
A very efficient image format. I learned about it from this video by Reducible.
The Fuck
Corrects spelling error in your previous console command by suggesting what you meant to write. Just invoke the fuck command after you misspelled.

Wikipedia

Thorazine
An advertisement for Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), an ℞ only antipsychotic medication. It functions primarily by antagonising D2 dopamine receptors, causing decreased neural activity. It was the first antipsychotic medicine sold on the market. The advertisement linked here is particularly cool.
United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls
A famous and funny case name in US court.
Dicksonia antarctica
A native Australian fern with a very amusing name.
London Necropolis Railway
A cemetery train line. Cool logo tho.

Artists I Like

Visual Art

Stedilnik (some NSFW)
An artist I really like. Especially Carol and Buffy the haematology vampire bat <3. Although I like all of their characters but those are my favourites.
Doover
Cool art and some cool cars :).

Music

HALLEY LABS aka msx aka LAPFOX TRAX, Renard Queenston, etc.
Heckscaper's youtube channels. (plus their old channel LAPFOX TRAX)
usedcvnt
Tigran Hamasyan

Animation

Jaiden Animations
Been watching her content since I was first on the internet.
kitty0706
The legend.
Mittens
ceno0
pootis engage
Fortress Films
Of Emesis Blue fame.
lolripk
Lesbian scout.
Corax
MythicalWater
crab
Also cool terraria animation.
Kelpilox
Cute animations.
TomSka
Piemations
Joel G
Spine_apples
Chipflake
Hannah Daigle
Only Jerry
SirloinBurgers
Found their channel through their Jerma animations and had to watch their other animation videos. Their animation exercise videos are incredible. I'm sure an animation artist can better appreciate the technical skill on show better than I can.
SoapOpera46
nya~ rawr...
YAOI_FANN1
Oh dear god.
Damita K.N
Made this incredibly cute stop-motion animation on paper.
Terenry
Been obsessed with this AMV recently.
kekeflipnote
rats
Vylet Pony
Really cute music video. Also fuck cringe culture.
Kokelek
Missingshmox
PixelzwithaZ
YonKaGor
Satoru
These stickman animations make me nostalgic.
Can't mention animation and not talk about Vivziepop, Lackadaisy, or GLITCH.