What’s cool? I know where the town is

And I tag ’em in pinboard and run good old trusty RSS through Feed2JS (alas no more as of 2022, now using WordPress RSS block). These also get posted (via IFTTT) #cogdogcooltech to Mastodon (the tag is dead in birdspace). Enjoy the Coolness

  • 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 […]
  • The historical tech tree is a project by Étienne Fortier-Dubois to visualize the entire history of technologies, inventions, and (some) discoveries, from prehistory to today. Unlike other visualizations of the sort, the tree emphasizes the connections between technologies: prerequisites, improvements, inspirations, and so on. These connections allow viewers to understand […]
  • 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 […]
  • Videos explaining the fediverse by FediHost, approproately hosted in PeerTube. Get Federated!
  • Back in summer 2022, Philip Shane, the director of an upcoming documentary about the computer game series Myst, posted a video on Kickstarter. He was up at the headquarters of Cyan, the developers of Myst, and the Cyan team had dug hundreds of video tapes out of their storage room, […]
  • Quick Response codes (or QR codes) are everywhere these days, from restaurant menus and product packaging to tombstones and tattoos. They are a type of 2D barcode invented in Japan in the 1990s and released patent-free, meaning anyone can generate and use them without restriction. But how do they work? […]
  • This QR code generator works entirely in your browser. No data is sent to any server. just say pfffft to bit.ly h/t https://jrdingwall.ca/blogwall/just-a-qr-code/
  • Over 1,000,000 users create high quality replicas of their voice by deploying the most cutting-edge AI voice cloning model. Use your own voice data to gain unparalleled control over synthetic speech  and capture human emotion in stunning detail. Create natural sounding AI Voices with just 10 seconds of data. The […]
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Featured Image: My cool photo (cropped for better fit as blog top image)

2012/366/15 It's Cool Here
2012/366/15 It’s Cool Here flickr photo by cogdogblog shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license