Over three decades, Aadam Jacobs obsessively documented Chicago’s indie rock scene. Today, the future of his roughly 10,000 live recordings is unclear.
From WBEZ: Chicago's Hidden Indie Rock Archive by Monica Eng.
The Homosaurus is an international linked data vocabulary of LGBTQ+ terms. Designed to enhance broad subject term vocabularies, the Homosaurus is a robust and cutting-edge thesaurus that advances the discoverability of LGBTQ+ resources and information.
This week saw the launch of two services that randomly serve up servings of the Small Web / Indie Web. What is the Small or Indie Web? You’re soaking in it!
A Tiny Bell and other personal blogs are part of it. If you like this kind of content, you may want to check out:
IndieBlog.Page which has an Open Random Blog Post button that you can click or add to your browser as an extension. Hit it when you need a fix.
The second such service is by Kagi, a Google competitor you may wish to check out. Theirs is called Kagi Small Web Randomizer. Simply click that link to be taken to a random part of the Small Web. It’s sourced from a curated list.
I hate the man, but POTUSTracker is a very well-designed website not for just tracking Trump physically (where is he?), but his actions and that of his administration. I imagine this information would be useful for concerned citizens, news junkies, and assassins alike.
There is also a Trump Golf Tracker.
In today's WTF:
Heil Honey I'm Home! is a British sitcom, written by Geoff Atkinson and produced in 1990, which was cancelled after one episode. It centres on Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, who live next door to a Jewish couple, Arny and Rosa Goldenstein.
And here's that episode. Truly hard to believe. In 1990!
More on Wikipedia.
Via Metafilter
The companion CD / playlist to my previous Here post. Also from 2003, you can read the original post — A Way of Doing — for details on how it came to be and get its name.
Here's the artwork (rotated 90 degrees to be legible) and playlist so you can recreate it yourself. Youtube playlist is beneath the jump for members.
A member asked me what Alien Tomato is. I used to be a web designer (1994 - 2006) and that was the name of my company.
Wired has the "inside story of the teenager whose swatting calls sent armed police racing into hundreds of schools nationwide—and the private detective who tracked him down": The School Shootings Were Fake. The Terror Was Real by Dhruv Mehrotra Andy Greenberg.
Winners have been announced for the annual Close Up Photography of the Year Awards. Some incredible stuff.
Will Menzies / Loving Embrace
Winners in all categories can be seen on the CUPOTY site.
The best close up photo I've ever taken is probably this one:
