Whoa! A massive archive of old-school user-interface screenshots. As a former user-interface designer, this archive definitely put a smile on my face.
My Retro TVs
My Retro Tvs allows you to watch live television from different decades, as if you were currently living in that time, watching TV as normal.
You can choose any year from the decades starting in the 50s, up to the 2000s.
There are thousands of channels, including cartoons, sports, news, music. (The commercials alone make it worth tuning in.)
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Brik.space
I am going to be spending way too much time on this website! Bring back the weird internet. I love you Brik.space. What weird tool are you going to build?
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Pantry Pants
It made me giggle: Pantry Pants.
Future Me
FutureMe is a quiet little corner of the internet with a simple premise: you write an email to your future self, and the site delivers it later.
You choose the date—months or years from now—type out whatever’s on your mind, and hit send. Then you forget about it. At some point down the line, it shows up in your inbox like a message from a past version of you.
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Red Lipped Bat Fish
This made me giggle. Nature is silly. Did you know the Red-Lipped Batfish is a thing?
The Lonely Funeral Project
“Two decades ago, some poets in the Netherlands decided that people not having anyone attend their funeral was an unacceptable ending for a human life. In 2001, a poet named Bart Droog began attending the funerals of people who had no one to attend them and honoring the dead with a poem based on whatever was known about their life. A year later, Dutch poet and artist Frank Starik took the idea even further, launching The Lonely Funeral project to ensure that someone who cares consciously acknowledges the life of a person who has died.
The idea was to create a network of poets who would find out whatever they could about the person, write a custom poem about their life and read it at their funeral. As of 2018, over 300 “lonely funerals” had been attended by poets in Amsterdam and Antwerp (where Flemish poet Maarten Inghels launched a Lonely Funeral project seven years after Starik’s).”
Read More about The Lonely Funeral
(via this article)
Cassette Label Generator
This Cassette Label Generator lets you make an old-school cassette label from a Spotify playlist. The best part: It comes with a QR code one doesn’t actually have to own a cassette player to listen to it. SO FUN!
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Do Not Panic
This poster by David Schmitt made me smile.
Erwin Wurm
Erwin Wurm’s absurd art makes my heart sing.
No Idea
This No Idea Pigeon poster made me smile.
Painted Rocks
These painted rocks by Elizabeth Salocka delight me to no end.
Global Fridge Poetry
Imagine playing fridge poetry with the world. Enter playhtml.fun/fridge.
Retro Phone for Smartphone
Yep, I’d totally use this.
Play Phrase
Go to PlayPhrase.me and type in a phrase of your choice and it will show you snippets of movies where this phrase is being said. Way cool! I tried, give me cheese please and where’s the butter.
The First Non Generative AI Model (very analog)
Prompt-Brush 1.0 is a project by graphic designer Pablo Delcan that satirizes and challenges the growing field of AI-generated art. In a project he dubbed “the first non-AI generative art model,” Delcan invited the public to submit text prompts, which he then manually illustrated by hand using a brush and black ink. You can buy the result as a book.
Be My Eyes
The level of excitement I feel when I get a call from Be My Eyes and can help a blind person with whatever they need help with, is indescribable. This is the version of the internet I want to revel in.
Be My Eyes connects the blind with seeing humans. I have helped folks with making sure their mustache was trimmed perfectly straight, what color tie to pick, or. where to push a button on an oven. You get the idea.
Leaf Button Cover
Leaf Button Cover. So simple. So sweet. So sold out.
E. Jean Carroll
I had the pleasure to meet E. Jean Carroll last week. What a force. She reminds me of my eccentric aunt Hugi who was my biggest role model of living a courageous, creative life.
Peanuts Tattly
These Peanuts Tattly make me happy.
Ladybugs Tattoo
Probably my favorite Tattly.