⚡Link Invasion - V5⚡

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Hey friends! Welcome to this week’s edition of The Land of Random.

I’m writing away here, sipping on one of the new Spiced Coca-Colas.

It’s pretty good in my opinion! It’s a Coke - but with raspberry and spice undertones. I’ll buy it again for sure.

It’s time for . . . ANOTHER LINK INVASION.

Why? I gotta get through all these links I’ve been collecting!

If you’re new here - Link Invasions are entire issues dedicated to interesting and curious links.

As we wind down February, and get ready for Spring - I gotta do some Spring Cleaning haha.

I have over 8,000 bookmarks in Raindrop. Yes - 8,000.

I’ve shared a lot of links - but I’m quite certain I haven’t shared EIGHT THOUSAND.

How was your week? I hope it’s been warming up where you live - the Winter chills are beginning to dissipate here. (I couldn’t be happier).

I’ve taken up listening to The Witcher audiobooks. They’re quite good! Worth listening to. Peter Kenny does a fantastic job with narration - I don’t know what other books he’s narrated - but I’m now quite biased.

I’m on the second book - and loving every minute.

Also - if you haven’t gotten a chance yet - check out the trailer for Borderlands. It looks so much fun!

It looks as if they’ll be preserving the humor of the games, rather than making it a serious tale.

Before we hop on into this link invasion - I’d love to get your help with a little survey that I’ve prepared. I try to do this every so often - and see what y’all think!

Let’s dive in, shall we?

ASCII Theater

Obviously, you want to watch movies streamed in literal ASCII characters - why wouldn’t you?

Yakuza Fan Magazines

Apparently, you can buy fan magazines in Japan all about the Yakuza. That’s wild!!! I had no idea of this subculture- or that quite a few Yakuza groups actually give interviews and such for them. Gangster fan clubs - who’d have thought?

A Light In The Woods

A fascinating and highly crafted work of fiction - interactive, and exploratory. It’s reminiscent of some 90’s - early 00’s point and click games.

The Syne is Finally Coming Out!

I’m really excited for this - and want to buy one when I can. It’s a digital display that syncs with album art from Spotify. It looks really slick and cool! Here’s the website.

Lazy Felix - Content Capturing Tool

Grab pictures and files on websites - and save them to the extension. Really neat tool! Save to folders within the extension - rather than wrecking your downloads.

Kingmakers

Even though it’s utterly absurd for this game to exist - I feel the need to play it.

The Ladybird Browser

As Google Search gets worse, and worse - our eyes must turn to alternatives. Ladybird is a project to build an “independent web browser from scratch.” We’re all rooting for ya!

Borrow Stuff?

The borrow app is quite literally what its name entails - an app for borrowing things from your neighbors. Interesting! I do wander what happens when someone “ghosts” after borrowing.

A TV in Your Eye TV

Strap on your Apple Vision Pro and watch TV on a TV in AR. You may smile now but things like this will be the 2008 $2.00 beer-drinking / lighter app craze of AR and VR.

Corru. Observer

Ohhhh you like really mysterious click game websites? This unnerving trippy experience is wild - a perfect way to spend your late night in front of the PC.

Robert Borghezi’s Awesome Website

This website is awesome - brutalist elements, yet fun. Make sure you get on desktop and click on the Twitter, email, and LinkedIn buttons at the bottom for a hilarious surprise.

Greek Lofi

Just when you thought the lofi micro genres couldn’t get any more niche. WELL GUESS WHAT. (There’s a Roman one too)

Browse Internet Artifacts

Behold the ancient relics. Gaze upon their circuitous beauty.

That’s Pinteresting, Ain’t it?

Pinterest is such a fun engine for visual discovery - nothing else like it quite exists on the internet. This is my “things to write about” board where I save particularly fun/interesting/random things. Trying to organize it into a vibe stream of sorts.

I miss the old internet

A link to a manifesto worth of articles about the old internet. Lots of fun and niche blogs to explore.

Goths up Trees

A Tumblr blog that shares photos (and occasional stories) of Goths in trees.

OffPunk

A really interesting twist on RSS readers. Not only is this one for your command line BUT ALSO it’s offline first - meaning that it actively caches urls!

Frequency 2156

A mysterious fictional post-apocalyptic radio. Pretty eerie user generated recordings. Creepy to play in the background haha. Combine with background lofi for additional creepy vibes.

Well, that’s all for this link invasion - see you next time! unless you want to read a bit of an AI conspiracy about why VC’s are so interested in AI advances.

or take the survey!