first, some thoughts on the importance of linking by olia lialina and by melonking

random page?

personal web

handmade sites by artists, writers, interesting people

link to me?

pick any button!
hotlinking allowed but inadvisable.
(please use alt text)

for more of my personal links,
check out the contact page.

biology

databases

inaturalist - user-submitted species observations
connecticut's notable trees - big and tall and historic trees in CT
conifers.org - the gymnosperm database
wildflowersearch.org - search by location, color, shape, & time
macauley library - animal sounds
wormatlas.org - C. elegans anatomy and behavior
foraminifera database - look up foram species by shell shape
protein data bank - 3D structures of biological molecules

other stuff

wayne's word - natural history textbook in html
roadside wildflowers at full speed - flower ID from moving vehicles
rosalind - problem sets for learning bioinformatics

games & simulators

metazooa - daily taxonomy guessing game
orb.farm - virtual aquarium ecosystem simulation

webcams (non-youtube only)

sea lions in san francisco yosemite falls utqiaġvik sea ice birdfeeders in south wales krill osprey nest in massachusetts

non-biological sciences

list of physical visualizations - chronology of data physicalization
sandgrains.com - microscopic photographs of sand grains
mindat - mineral database
falstad - math and physics applets
eyes on the solar system - NASA's real-time solar system visualizer

Music

listening

WFMU - longest running freeform station in the USA; my friend has a show!
soma FM - 30 channels of commercial-free radio
radio garden - local radio airing around the world
abelian - very low frequency (VLF) live streams
radiooooo.com - so called "musical time machine"

musicians

Arkm Foam Charmaine's Names Cindy Lee F.I.M. glass beach id m theft able NEETS PCoTandy Sidney Gish SLUGBUG Them Airs Wendy Carlos Zach Phillips

making tunes

beepbox - beginner-friendly instrumental tool
estuary - code patterns of musical events
pink trombone - speech synthesis (silly)
wind chime calculator - make your own wind chime from pipes
harmonics explorer - play with sine waves

Visual art

communities

urban sketchers chapter map - art groups that draw on location (IRL)
nature journaling club map - art groups with an ecological focus (IRL)

artists

Anatola Howard Beatrix Urkowitz Ben Cannan Jun Kumaori Leo Fox Louie Zong Max Schwartz millionfish Rodney Alan Greenblat Sophia Foster-Dimino splendidland

a note on page categorization...

the line between the personal sites section and the artist sites section is very blurry. many of the personal sites feature art galleries. many of the artist sites are handmade. to me, sites in the personal section tend to be more freeform and sites in this section tend to be more portfolio-y, but that's not a hard rule. another factor at play is whether or not each site has a banner, and whether that banner is 88x31 or 200x40 pixels. if i've linked your site in a section that bothers you, reach out!