====== Bookmarks ====== Links to sites I find interesting or useful. Categories are arbitrary and ambiguous, as is customary with categories. For links of a slightly more personal nature, see the [[links:outerlinks|links of interest]]. page. ===== Open Stuff ===== Resources for openly licensed and public domain texts and media. * [[https://abcnotation.com/search|abc tune search]] * [[https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page|Choral Public Domain Library]] (CPDL) * [[https://www.clevelandart.org/art/collection/search|Cleveland Museum of Art Collection Search]] * [[https://www.bl.uk/collection|Collections - The British Library]] * [[https://comicbookplus.com/|Comic Book Plus]] * [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/about|The Comic Strip Library]] * [[https://creativecommons.org/|Creative Commons]] * [[https://dp.la/|Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)]] * [[http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/|English Ballad Broadside Archive]] * [[http://www.folktunefinder.com/|Folk tune finder]] * [[https://archive.org/index.php|Internet Archive]] * [[https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/searchAdvanced|Library of Congress Advanced Search]] * [[https://librivox.org/|LibriVox]] - "Free public domain audiobooks" * [[https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?showOnly=highlights%7CwithImage%7CopenAccess&offset=0&pageSize=0&sortBy=Relevance&sortOrder=asc&perPage=20&searchField=All|Metropolitan Museum of Art Collections Search]] * [[https://www.oercommons.org/|OER Commons]] - open educational resources * [[https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/|Old Book Illustrations]] * [[https://www.openculture.com/|Open Culture]] * [[https://openstax.org/|OpenStax]] - "Free and flexible textbooks and resources" * [[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/|Perseus Digital Library]] (Tufts University) * [[https://gutenberg.org/|Project Gutenberg]] * [[https://publicdomainreview.org/|Public Domain Review]] * [[https://digital.sciencehistory.org/|Science History Institute Digital Collections]] * [[https://www.si.edu/openaccess|Smithsonian Open Access]] * [[https://mediacommons.unl.edu/luna/servlet/|University of Nebraska- Lincoln Collections]] * [[https://commons.wikimedia.org|WikiMedia Commons]] ===== Arts and Humanities ===== ==== Graphics Software ==== * [[https://www.gimp.org|GIMP]] **G**NU **I**mage **M**anipulation **P**rogram, free and cross-platform * [[https://gmicol.greyc.fr/|G'MICol]] - The G'MIC plugin filters for GIMP, in a web interface. ==== General ==== * [[https://www.blakesociety.org/|The Blake Society]] - includes the downloadable journal //VALA// * [[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebogroup/|Early English Books Online]] * [[https://aalbc.com/content.php?title=Glossary+of+Harlem+Slang+by+Zora+Neale+Hurston|Glossary of Harlem Slang]] by Zora Neale Hurston * [[http://www.isfdb.org/|Internet Speculative Fiction Database]] * [[http://www.luminarium.org/|Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature]] * [[https://www.musicbyblackcomposers.org/|Music by Black Composers]] * [[https://zoamorphosis.com/|Zoamorphosis: The Blake 2.0 Blog]] ==== Writing and Publishing Resources ==== * [[https://www.hsa-haiku.org|Haiku Society of America]] * [[https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/list-of-50-poetic-forms-for-poets|List of 168 Poetic Forms for Poets]] from //Writer's Digest// * [[https://www.rhymezone.com/|RhymeZone Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus]] * [[https://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/|Tanka Society of America]] * [[https://zinewiki.com/wiki/Main_Page|ZineWiki]] - "ZineWiki is an open-source encyclopedia devoted to zines and independent media. It covers the history, production, distribution and culture of the small press." ===== Philosophy and Spirituality ===== * [[https://www.biblegateway.com/|BibleGateway.com]] - search multiple versions/translations of the Bible. * [[https://pantheon.org/|Encyclopedia Mythica]] * [[https://hermetic.com/|The Hermetic Library]] * [[https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page|Myths and Folklore Wiki]] * [[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page|Rational Wiki]] ===== Reference, Research and Information ===== (that don't go elsewhere) * [[https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page|Villains Wiki]] "is dedicated to creating a database of villains from all media." * Surely you already know about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page|Wikipedia]]! * [[https://www.worldcat.org/|WorldCat.org]] - "WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services." ===== Dev/Tech ===== * [[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference|CSS Reference]] at MDN * [[https://godotengine.org/|Godot Engine]] for game developers * [[https://color-hex.org/|Hex Color Codes]] "gives information about colors including color models (RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK, XYZ, Yxy, Hunter Lab and CIE-Lab), Triadic colors, monochromatic colors and analogous colors..." * [[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference|JavaScript Reference]] at MDN * [[https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax|Markdown Syntax Documentation]] * [[https://opensource.com/|OpenSource.com]] * [[https://www.python.org/|Python]] * [[https://twinery.org/|Twine]] - "an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories" ===== Oddenda ===== * [[http://www.mathrecreation.com/?m=1|mathrecreation]] for the true nerd * [[https://pad.riseup.net/|Riseup Pad]] - a place to create private online text documents that self-destruct