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.

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. There's also a bunch of easter eggs you can find.

  Check out my profile!

• Heckscaper aka HALLEY LABS aka em 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 em. Check it out.

• Time Tripper

  A really cool doom wad by em with a great soundtrack and aesthetic. Its really fun. I don't have a lot of experience with doom, but i had a lot of fun, so give it a try.

• 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.

• That heart locket meme creator

  The website that makes those heart locket animations.

• Lyra's ANTONYMPH javascript animation

  Literally the coolest shit i've seen in months. You have to check out their website, or their youtube video showcasing the animation.

  An animation of Vylet Pony's song and music video ANTONYMPH done entirely in the browser using javascipt and popups in a super unique way.

• lyra.horse

  Lyra has made way more cool things than just that ANTONYMPH animation! Check out her blog and a bunch of cool projects like arrupted [yt video], which allows you to manually edit image data to make some cool glitch art using a really cool and intuitive interface.

• "Papers Please" citation generator [gitlab] [homepage]

  Make gifs that look like the papers please MOA citation ticket being printed. Take a look at the rest of Saphire's website for a bunch of other cool projects and their blog!

• Flashpoint

  An archive of flash games made for us suffering post-flash deprecation.

• CrustyWindows

  A collection of bootleg windows ISOs. There is an entire world of hilarious gold that i was never aware of. I found out about this from mea memorydata's youtube videos on bootleg windows and other goofy things like games that come with them. I don't think i've laughed that hard at a youtube video in a while.

• lensdeer

  A really cool site with a really unique desktop environment design. Check out her site for some cool demos (like this cool RGB subpixel font), art, and probably the coolest looking tumblr blog i've ever seen which completely blends into her site.

• HORG — The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group: A Database of Synthetic Taxonomy

  A taxonomy of bread tags, also known as occlupanids. The group aims to research, classify, and organise a taxonomy to describe these creatures. Learn more about occlupanids here, and how you can classify them. Browse the different families, and maybe even identify the species of your occlupanid!

  I've started keeping a little database of the ones i come across :).

• vore microcomputers

  Yep. The people behind the yiffOS linux distribution and the askLyphe search engine currently in development.

• ribo.zone spore dispersal

  A button that will send you to a random cool website! Made by ribo.zone (very cool person with a very cool website). Read their blog post on it as well (and the ribo note).

  It's quite fun to just disperse for a bit and see where it takes you.

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

  An open source 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.

• 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.

• NetNewsWire

  A nice and simple free and open source ios and macos RSS reader. Once i started using RSS i can't go back. It's so simple to set up and i can get updates on people all over the web. I follow the personal sites of a few people and i can just wait for an rss update to know when they've made a new blog post or something.

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 Mirrors: [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.

• Overleaf

  A web LaTeX editor. Sort of like google docs but for LaTeX documents. It's a great place to start out with LaTeX as a beginner because you don't have to go through the process of installing a TeX distribution on your system and they also have great tutorials that i used a lot as i was learning how to use it (and still do), especially because TeX documentation tends to be dense and confusing. They have a feature where multiple people can collaborate on one tex document, but i haven't been in a group where anyone else knows LaTeX and/or wanted to use it for a project (despite my pleas, i just hate working on larger documents on word especially with figures because formatting is a nightmare).

• 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:

  Pahil, K. S., Gilman, M. S. A., Baidin, V., Clairfeuille, T., Mattei, P., Bieniossek, C., Dey, F., Muri, D., Baettig, R., Lobritz, M., Bradley, K., Kruse, A. C., & Kahne, D. (2024). A new antibiotic traps lipopolysaccharide in its intermembrane transporter. Nature, 625(7995), 572–577. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06799-7

  Zampaloni, C., Mattei, P., Bleicher, K., Winther, L., Thäte, C., Bucher, C., Adam, J.-M., Alanine, A., Amrein, K. E., Baidin, V., Bieniossek, C., Bissantz, C., Boess, F., Cantrill, C., Clairfeuille, T., Dey, F., Di Giorgio, P., du Castel, P., Dylus, D., … Bradley, K. A. (2024). A novel antibiotic class targeting the lipopolysaccharide transporter. Nature, 625(7995), 566–571. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06873-0

• The Conversation

  A media site which only publishes articles written by academics and researchers. Great, accessible articles on health, the environment, and science, along with some research reports by academics talking about something they published. They also publish articles on other topics like art and culture, books, economy, politics, etc. Good read on the morning commute, i can just check my rss feed and look for an article that catches my interest (also thank you for offering a different feed for each topic).

• Microbiome Digest

  A blog by microbiologist Elisabeth Bik that posts regular digests of microbiome papers. I first learnt about Bik from my microbiology professor (who also researches the human microbiome) during a lecture on dubious papers when he talked about her work revealing breaches of scientific integrity spotting manipulated images in scientific papers.

  To help me keep up with interesting articles published recently I try to check out her blog along with other newsletters like the Nature Briefing (Microbiology and others) to try to stay aware of things happening outside my particular A. baumannii antibiotic resistance niche. Plus, I really enjoyed that professor's lectures on the human microbiome so the topic just straight up interests me.

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 high school 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 went 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! It comes in light and dark flavours you can switch between, and has a large ecosystem of themes for different programs so you can theme a lot of things you use regularly if you're into that.

• Iosevka font [github]

  The font I use. It's the one I use on this site! It's open source and very customisable! You can pick and choose between different options and individual styles for glyphs on their website, and it will generate a config that you can use to compile your own custom font. It's easier than it sounds. Although chances are they already have a ready-made compiled version for you to download that meets your preferences though.

• 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.

• Pygments

  A python syntax highlighter. The one I use on this website! It takes my code, spits out some HTML, and I just need to include the stylesheet, and that's it. I use the catppuccin colour scheme, so I used the catppuccin python library which provides a pygments style. If i want a new style, or even just to switch over to a dark theme, i can just swap out the stylesheet! Here is a little example:

  #include <stdio.h>
  
  int main()
  {
      printf("Hello, World!\n");
  
      return 0;
  }
  

• RenderCV

  Make a cv from a yaml file. I spent way too long trying to make a nice cv directly in a LaTeX doc using a .cls file i got off someone's website a few years ago so when it came time to update it i kept putting it off. So i looked around and found this project and it was exactly what i was looking for. I can describe my cv in a yaml file (including basic markdown syntax and LaTeX macros) so i still get to use version control and keep it in a neat little folder. Plus, from the documentation it seems like i can extend the LaTeX template it uses and add in my own fields, so i can add some missing features like multi-column bullet lists that i could make in LaTeX alone. But right now i'm quite happy with the normal theme. They also seem to have an overleaf-esque web app but i haven't tried it because they have a nice cli.

• 0DE5

  A cool computer science course made by Kay Lack that i've been following on my (admittedly increasingly dwindling free time and mental energy) free time during honours. I've never had a formal education on computers or programming past introductory programming and data science courses, so I've always wanted to know more about this subject i've been interested in. I saw her videos and got very interested straight away due to her style of teaching and explaining concepts which, in my opinion she does very well.

  Particularly cool are the exercises that she's made to go with the videos. As someone not familiar with programming past python and data stuff with R, i have to say i've even surprised myself with how i've been able to follow along so far in the course. Especially since i took this opportunity to start writing code in C and actually start thinking about things like memory as a concept after writing that off as too difficult/confusing before.

  But yeah, i've had a great time so far, and i must say she's a great teacher :).

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.

• Brain Fag Syndrome

  Literally me.

• 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.

• Boops boops

  A species of seabream with a funny scientific name.

• Dog's Bollocks

  A colon and an em dash: :—. Just has a funny name.

• London Necropolis Railway

  A cemetery train line. Cool logo tho.

• Australia 31–0 American Samoa

  A depressing game of football between the Australian and American Samoan national association football teams in an Oceanian qualifying match for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. It broke the world record for the most goals scored in an international football match (both by a team, and a single player with Archie Thompson scoring 13 goals). This ended up resulting in a change to the tournament format to avoid these unbalanced matches like this. Someone posted highlights to youtube.

• List of citogenesis incidents

  Citogenesis, coined in this xkcd, is the process by which someone makes up something on Wikipedia, completely unsourced, which is then picked up by some writer somewhere and repeated with no further research, whose article is then used as a source to justify the original edit in wikipedia. In other words, a source appears out of nowhere! So your teachers had a point! Check the sources that are being cited in Wikipedia.

• List of unusual units of measurement

  A list of unusual units of measurement, such as a horse (not horsepower), a vee (used in the typesetting program groff/troff), a hammer unit (unit of length in the source engine) (maybe i'm chronically online but i somehow didn't think this would show up lol), a jiffy (apparently used in comp sci), a microfortnight, centipawns (measure of the strength of a chess position), and the micromort and microlife (units of risk used in epidemiology, one in a million chance of death, and a half hour of life expectancy respectively).

• Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain

  Lord Brain (or Baron Brain), was a neurosurgeon, and editor of the journal Brain. He took over as editor of Brain from Henry Head. Brain wrote his thoughts on Head in Brain. Brain also wrote the standard work on neurology, Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System.

  A funny example of nominative determinism. Found out about him from this goofy short video from Medlife Crisis.

• Petrichor and Geosmin

  Another interesting thing I heard from a Hank Green video.

  The smell of rain is known as petrichor. Coined from πέτρᾱ (pétra) meaning 'rock' and ἰχώρ (ikhṓr), the blood of the gods in Greek mythology. This specific term to describe the smell of the earth was coined by Australian researchers Isabel Bear and Dick Thomas in their 1964 paper in Nature, previously described as argillaceous odour.

  The diverse nature of the host materials has led us to propose the name 'petrichor' for this apparently unqie odour which can be regarded as an 'ichor' or 'tenuous essence' derived from rock or stone. This name, unlike the general term 'argillaceous odour', avoids the unwarranted implication that the phenomenon is restricted to clays or argillaceous materials; it does not imply that petrichor is necessarily a fixed chemical entity but rather it denotes an integral odour, variable within a certain easily recognizable osmic latitude. (Bear & Thomas, 1964)

  Geosmin is one of the contributing chemicals to the scent of petrichor, with a distinct musty, earthy odour. It is significant in that it has a very low odour detection threshold for humans, requiring only 4 to 10 ng L^-1 to be detected (orthonasally in water) (Ball et al., 2024).

  References:

  Bear, I. J., & Thomas, R. G. (1964). Nature of Argillaceous Odour. Nature, 201(4923), 993–995. https://doi.org/10.1038/201993a0

  Ball, L., Frey, T., Haag, F., Frank, S., Hoffmann, S., Laska, M., Steinhaus, M., Neuhaus, K., & Krautwurst, D. (2024). Geosmin, a Food- and Water-Deteriorating Sesquiterpenoid and Ambivalent Semiochemical, Activates Evolutionary Conserved Receptor OR11A1. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 72(28), 15865–15874. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.4c01515

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). I'm kinda obsessed with their music and characters. Something about the music and the world of characters really draws me in. Plus they make some other cool stuff like games and DOOM wads that are really cool to. Check them out!

• Vylet Pony [youtube] [bandcamp]

  I love her music. Obsessed with ANTONYMPH and can opener's notebook (the whole album is insanely good but i've still got something to teach you goes especially hard). I can't stop listening to that album recently its the only thing keeping me sane right now.

• sharpiepaws [music site] [youtube]

  Cool person who makes cool mixes and original music. Found them through this hardocre mix and this halley labs mix (i might have an obsession).

• YonKaGor

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.

• Jacadamia
• kekeflipnote

  rats

• Vylet Pony

  Really cute music video. Also fuck cringe culture.

• Kokelek
• Missingshmox
• PixelzwithaZ
• Satoru

  These stickman animations make me nostalgic.

• Can't mention animation and not talk about Vivziepop, Lackadaisy, or GLITCH.
• cheezorg

  Cool animations like this cool animation meme, this cute caramelldansen animation (peak anime culture) and this cute and interesting combined 3d + 2d one set to music that i'm stil wondering how they made the movement look so natural.

• BratwurstsForBreakfast

  LOADSAMONEY!!!!!

• novatea

  Cute animations in a nostalgic style! Zombie girl my beloved.

• zeffdakilla [website]

  Some cute animation memes (check out these too) and songs! They also made a really well made TF2 Meet the Scout pardoy with Rainbow Dash! the animation is really impressive. Make sure to check out their neocities site too!

Youtube

My favourite channels.

Misc:

• randytaylor69
• Melody Nosurname

  

• mea memorydata

  funny computer stuff

• brahkie
• Bake Me Up Buttercup

  A baking channel run by a cute dog fursuiter!

Gaming:

• RTGame

  I want die

• Jerma985
  
• DougDoug
• J1mmy

  Check out By Release!

• Settled
• FUNKe
• Fishtank
• elmaxo
• Bing Soy & 2nd channel
• sketchek
• Valefisk
• Sorbet Cafe

  Best terraria dance-pad player in the world. Also femboy.

• Wexel Radley
• Wirtual

  Watch Wirtual with me.

• The Brickiest Brick

Educational/Fun stuff:

• Medlife Crisis
• BobbyBroccoli

  Great documentary videos. His scientific misconduct videos are great.

• chubbyemu
• The Thought Emporium
• Tom Scott and The Technical Difficulties

  [citation needed]

• 3Blue1Brown
• Religion for Breakfast

  After hs I've retained my interest for religious studies (even though I'm non-religious) and his videos on many different religions have been consistently very interesting and informative.

• Alex O'Connor
• Explosions&Fire and Extractions&Ire

  Cubane 2023!

• NileRed
• styropyro
• The Organic Chemistry Tutor

  Great high school and university level educational chemistry (plus biology and maths) videos. Used his videos in high school and uni when I was having a trouble understanding a concept from class.

• Numberphile and Computerphile
• Stand up Maths
• LiveOverflow
• Langfocus
• Knowing Better
• Philosophy Tube
• Ask a Mortician
• Tasting History with Max Miller
• Tantacrul
• GeoWizard
• brain4breakfast
• Bisqwit
• mitxela
• Mr M History

Anything Else:

• I did a thing
• Boy Boy

  паштет

• friendlyjordies
• wow_mao
• Gattsu
• Bosnian Ape Society
• Life of Boris
• TwoSetViolin
• GMM