Where do you go for inspiration?
April 29, 2024 5:56 AM   Subscribe

My laptop crashed and, with it, my entire RSS reader's links directory, which I had been lovingly cultivating for 10 years. As I rebuild it from scratch, I figured I'd ask this community for some recos.

A couple of my favorites that I've already re-added:

Metafilter of course
Web Curios
It's Nice That
Colossal
Kottke
Moss and Fog

Help me fill it back up with more interesting, arty, thought-provoking, and weird sources of goodness!
posted by missjenny to Grab Bag (15 answers total) 63 users marked this as a favorite
 
Gods and Foolish Grandeur - about fine art
Spoon and Tamago - Japanese design
Unquiet Things - decadence art and perfumes
The Baffler - arts, politics, literature
Messy Nessy Chic - cabinet of curiosities
The Public Domain Review
Aesthetics for Birds
posted by tofu_crouton at 6:19 AM on April 29


Open Culture
Cool Tools
posted by adamrice at 8:35 AM on April 29




Aeon - history & philosophy & stuff
posted by rd45 at 9:51 AM on April 29


Your hard drive may be salvageable. Local homegrown tech support may be able to salvage data.
posted by theora55 at 12:45 PM on April 29 [2 favorites]




Tumblrs all have an RSS feed, including necessary-disorder and woshibai.
Le Chaudron Chromatique has interesting drawings and small roleplaying game supplements.
McMansion Hell
Blobs in Games has algorithm explanations, often interactive and game-related.
Data is Plural
The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things
Leonie Bos posts her art.
The Antti Boman, the blog of the guitarist and vocalist of Demilich. A very funny and honest guy.
Futility Closet
Music for Programming
Matt Sephton posts about video game design and old Mac stuff.
Memex 1.1 is John Naughton's blog. Being a boomer, he has a bit of a boomer perspective, but there's still often interesting links in there.
Bandcamp Daily
Universal Hub, if you're interested in Boston news.
Rest of World is non-US news, albeit from a startups and tech lens.
The Kid Should See This
Set Side B is news about video games from jharris.
404 Media is Internet news.
Scientific American
And most Mastodon servers offer an RSS feed for each user.
posted by ignignokt at 6:03 PM on April 29 [1 favorite]


this isn't happiness (sometimes nsfw)
posted by fridgebuzz at 11:49 PM on April 30 [1 favorite]


Mod note: This awesome recommendations have been highlighted in the Sidebar and Best Of blog, thanks to all shared their sources!
posted by Brandon Blatcher (staff) at 6:55 AM on May 1 [1 favorite]




Bayt Al Fann describe themselves as "a house for everyone, exploring art and culture inspired by Islamic tradition."
posted by rabia.elizabeth at 12:58 PM on May 1


Things Magazine (i am not sure this has an RSS feed, although why wouldn't it? but it also has a pretty spectacular links list in the side bar)

Insanely Useful Websites - sometimes seems to have Tech Bro-itis but mostly is what it says on the tin

Going Medieval - Eleanor Janega's blog

Ex Urbe - Ada Palmer's Blog

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry - Bret Deveraux's blog

Arts and Letters Daily - link blog for art/lit articles.

Also nthing Unquiet Things, Cool Tools, Futility Closet, Atlas Obscura, Aeon, and Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things!
posted by verbminx at 1:28 AM on May 2


One I haven't seen mentioned is The Browser. They provide a daily list of stuff to read and is subscription based. It is meant to be email but they do have RSS (it just doesn't have all their little goodies, like the daily video).
posted by evening at 12:28 PM on May 2


Response by poster: Oh y’all my heart! I see dozens of old favorites I would have forgotten and dozens I’ve never seen before.

✨🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼✨
posted by missjenny at 11:10 AM on May 3 [1 favorite]




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