Websites for fun and profit

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Art and Fashion

• Crave Painting

  Tutorials for drawing/painting excercises.

• Fashion History Timeline

  Focuses mostly on western fashion but goes back centuries.

• Human Anatomy Fundamentals

  ...Nuff said.

• KCI Digital Archives

  The Kyoto Costume Institute's archive of historical clothing.

• SketchDaily

  A stock image reference website.

Educational

• Food Timeline

  A history of food in human culture.

• FSI Languages Courses

  Resources for learning modern languages.

• Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies

  Classic Classics.

• HandSpeak

  An ASL dictionary with video tutorials.

• Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

  Interested in learning incredibly niche things about cultures?

• Lexicity

  Resources for learning ancient languages.

• MIT OpenCourseWare

  MIT's open access course materials.

• Paul's Online Notes

  Notes for Algebra up through to Differential Equations. Literally saved my grade when I was taking Calc.

Emulation

• BlueMaxima's Flashpoint

  Adobe Flash emulator.

• DeSmuMe

  My personal fav DS emulator.

• Emulation Generall Wiki

  Links to emulators for a variety of consoles.

Fiction

• Night on the Galactic Railroad

  A 1985 animated movie based on the 1934 novel of the same name. One of my favorite movies of all time.

• Scarfolk Council

  A satirical look at 1970s England. Also has a book which is quite good. Reader be wary, disturbing content ahead.

Food and Drink

• Cocktail Flow

  Cocktail recipe site. No blurbs, just the instructions. Also includes non-alcoholic drinks and smoothies.

• Sandwich Tribunal.

  Sandwich reviews.

Music

• album of the day

  Listen to a randomly selected album every day.

Personal Sites and Just-For-Fun

• Bonnibel's Graphic Collection

  A collection of web graphics on neocities.

• bugman123

  Personal site of Paul Nylander. Some cool math and art stuff.

• Geohashing

  The sweet-spot between getting out of the house and faking your own death, never to be seen again.

• Illusions and Visual Phenomena

  Optical illusion demos and explanations.

• Inspiral Web

  Online sprirograph! Remember those?

• Peter's Evil Overlord List

  A helpful guide to not getting your ass kicked by the hero.

• Pun Generator

  Self-Explanitory

• The Gallery of Regrettable Food

  Vintage recipes. Mistakes were made.

• The Text Archives: Text Art

  Full of fun little text art creatures.

• Tree of Life Explorer

  A fun, interactive tree of species and evolution.

Photography and Stock Photos

• Pexels

  Stock photos.

• Pixabay

  More stock photos.

• Same Energy

  A visual search engine. Note that CC-BY searching must be turned on if you want free-to-use photos.

• Unsplash

  You know her, you love her, she's the number 1 site for pretty photos to make edits out of.

Writing

• Chaotic Shiny

  A variety of writing- and gaming-related generators.