Artisanal versions of Twitter and Facebook hope to keep the good while jettisoning the bad.
Shared and commented on all over the place but worth saving here too.
Bookmarks
I wish I had access to The Victorian Web back when I was studying for my Open University Arts Foundation course. This is a great resource.
If you don’t already have the scoop, it’s the search engine that can serve as a complete replacement for Google (and Bing and whatever else you like), except it respects your privacy and security. And while Google does some cool tricks, DuckDuckGo does some even better ones.
I switched over to DuckDuckGo for searches a few months ago. There’s a lot of stuff here I didn’t know about especially “bangs” which look really useful.
This is a brilliant idea.
The defiant soundtrack of Brazil in the late ’60s and early ’70s, including classics by Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes, Tom Zé, and more
Here’s a really nice alternative to the ugly, dark, default Mastodon interface. It makes me want to use the service more.
This is the day that put me off open air festivals for life at a young age. The descriptions here are pretty accurate and the fireworks display at the end was the only highlight of a horrible event.
Chris Aldrich (BoffoSocko)An example using the infamous chicken post kind
I want to create a new post kind for new music (CDs and records) that I buy.