Cool Tech

Flickypedia helps you put Flickr photos on Wikimedia Commons. You need a Wikimedia Commons account to use it. h/t https://social.ds106.us/@weblearning/115045403968481325

Two-hundred years of trailblazing research has taken place on our campuses. In a time of rapid and far-reaching transformation, the future of research presents opportunities for important change. With the goal of imagining this exciting time to come, the Digital Time Capsule brings together over 50 of McGill’s top researchers […]

This is a community driven effort (like wikipedia) with the aim of collecting as many internet radio and TV stations as possible. Any help is appreciated! Free for ALL! Data license: public domain, software license: GPL, server software: open source Open API for usage in own apps Everyone is free […]

Starting in 1881, Andrew Carnegie funded the construction of more than 2,500 libraries worldwide. Use this mapping tool to locate and learn about the nearly 1,700 Carnegie Libraries that were built in the United States. This map, which is based on primary sources and archival records, is a project of […]

Get ready for something cooler than cool. It looks simple, from the directions, and some crude drawing tools (colors and pen size), you are asked to draw a fish facing right. As you draw, some magic AI is giving you a score of how probable your drawing looks like a […]

What if you could search every visible word on New York City’s streets? This is possible because media artist Yufeng Zhao fed millions of publicly-available panoramas from Google Street View into a computer program that transcribes text within the images (anyone can access these Street View images; you don’t even […]

Buzz is a small Javascript library that helps you to easily include and manage sounds in your websites using the HTML5 audio tag. It degrades silently on non-modern browsers.

No Time to Discourse is a speculative atlas that explores climate disaster across North America through interactive mapping and generative flash fiction. About the Project Explore North America, from the East Coast to the West Coast, from the tundra of Northern Canada to the southern tip of Florida. No disaster […]

Web version emulator of 1984 text adventure game, play from the perspective of the shark. h/t https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-36-moon-rice-mountaineering-in-high/

Weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests to protect your website! Anubis is a Web AI Firewall Utility that weighs the soul of your connection using one or more challenges in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots. This program is designed to help protect the small internet from […]

This graph features atmospheric CO2 levels that combine measurements from as far back as 800,000 years up to the present day with an atmospheric temperature overlay option. The graph is customizable and can be resized, printed, or pasted into your website. This is a free service, but we do ask […]

Indieart.support is managed by independent artists. We have been entrusted with the valuable artist directory curated from 2022-2024 by the operator of Radio Free Fedi. For the moment our goal is to continue to maintain this directory, and to add discovery features to help artists be found by listeners, readers, […]

Features for institutional instances of Mastodon Mastodon is a widely used open-source social media platform and the best alternative to the big tech text-based social media. This proposal aims to enhance its suitability for institutional use deploying their own server by introducing features such as customizable branding and landing pages, […]

Radiooooo is a project born in 2013, dreamt up by a little family of friends, both djs and music lovers, who decided to share their record collections and the fruit of many years of research, for all to enjoy. « Sharing and discovering», « curiosity and pleasure » these are […]

wanderer is a self-hosted trail database. You can upload your recorded tracks or create new ones and add various metadata to build an easily searchable catalogue. Manage your trails Plan new routes Extensive map integration and visualization Share trails with other people and explore theirs Advanced filter and search functionality […]

Want a Google search, and literally nothing else? Start here. Brought to you by Tedium, the dorks that brought you &udm=14.

3D model hosting for the Fediverse! This is the flagship public instance for the Manyfold project, a self-hosted 3D print file hosting and management tool. It is provided as-is, without guarantees, as a service to the community.

Welcome to Questionopoly! This is a game to help you develop research questions for a social science, education research project. I made this as a board game first for my MEd students as part of their research methods course. The aim was to prevent them from going down research rabbit […]

Create, issue, and verify digital credentials in a decentralized, secure, and community-driven ecosystem. h/t https://social.coop/@dajb/114669333190280293

A collaboration between TED Countdown and Fine Acts, Artists for Climate started as a global open call that sought digital illustrations targeting climate change, with a focus on hope and solutions. The project received 2,222 submissions by 1,432 artists from 95 countries. The outstanding work of a total of 50 […]