Fun links

Here are some links that I find interesting. I’m also posting them here for safekeeping.

AnyDice – dice probability calculator

Archives of Nethys – a free compendium of official materials for Pathfinder 1e, Pathfinder 2e, and Starfinder

Arisbe – resources on the life and work of Charles Sanders Peirce

Awesome Critical Tech Reading List – “an opinionated reading list for the critical programmer”

Awesome Falsehood – “a curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in”

The Bible and Critical Theory – publishes peer-reviewed articles about critical theory and biblical studies

Biblical Bibliographies and Related Material – useful biblical studies resources maintained by Charles Conroy

Blue Labyrinths – an online magazine of essays focusing on literature, philosophy, and lots of theory

Boatmurdered – a particularly epic and hilarious Dwarf Fortress Let’s Play

The Collective for Radical Death Studies – “an international, professional organization formed to decolonize Death studies and radicalize death practice”

Comics With Problems – scans of strange historic comics

Commens – digital companion to Peirce

Critical Times – open access critical theory journal

Databyss – freeform word processor and note-taking system

ETANA – open access sources on the ancient Near East

Forum for Philosophy – podcasts on science, politics, and culture from a philosophical perspective

Free Vintage Illustrations – curated vintage illustrations in the public domain

Giffyglyph – some homebrew supplements I like for D&D 5e

The Gnostic Society Library – primary documents, audio lectures, and notes, pertaining to the Gnostic tradition

The H. P. Lovecraft Archive – writings of Lovecraft and the other work inspired by them

Hampton Institute – proletarian socialist think tank

The Hermetic Library – open access occultism, especially Hermeticism and Thelema

Inscriptions – journal of the Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz

International Socialist Review – archive of this now-defunct journal of socialist issues

Introduction to Critical Theory – Dino Felluga’s very old website with various modules on critical theory concepts

Larry Hurtado’s Blog Archived – archived posts from a leading scholar of early Christology and textual criticism

lew.la – web tools for Discord, reddit, YouTube, and more

LiBER – Linear B documents from Knossos, Mycenae, Tiryns, and Midea (with more to come)

List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies – open access journals dating from the 18th century now available digitally

Marcion – software for studying Gnostic and early Christian texts

Mark Fisher ReBlog – a tumblr archive of various articles and essays by Mark Fisher

The Monster Network – researchers with an interest in monsters and the monstrous

The New Centre for Research and Practice – educational group providing seminars for independent scholars and learners

The New Inquiry – online magazine of social issues

Nietzschemanteion – divination with Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

No Subject – encyclopedia of Lacanian psychoanalysis

Notes from Below – socialist publication dedicated to workers’ inquiry

Nursing Clio – collaborative blog on gender and medicine

Online Die Roller – by Brock Jones

Open Yale Courses – free, open access introductory courses from Yale University

OSINT Framework – open source intelligence tools

The Posthumanities Hub – “platform for postdisciplinary humanities and more-than-human humanities”

Queer Death Studies Network – network of researchers studying ways of “‘queering’ traditional ways of approaching death”

Reading the China Dream – translated writings by “establishment” Chinese intellectuals

Refuge in Grief – resources for people struggling with grief and anxiety

Return to Cinder – database and index of many motifs and authors, focusing on and inspired by Jacques Derrida

Reusable Art – same as Free Vintage Illustrations

Sea Green Zines – zine review blog

Signo – topics in applied semiotics

TheTorah.com – Torah study informed by academic scholarship

The Yellow Car Game – “official” site with rules

Zine Making – a Wikibooks guide

Zines 101 – zines about making zines

Last updated May 6, 2021