Beneath the Music from a Farther Room

26. Extremely literary human. Occasionally creative in other fields. Doesn't talk much.

[crippled-peeper]

Scottish guy wearing a kilt . With underwear. he’s on his period

[the-haiku-bot]

Scottish guy wearing

a kilt . With underwear. he’s

on his period

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[monkeyislandtwo]

fonts will be named shit like viscera antique, 16 bit dreams, doctor's orders, bingo condensed, googly, wish you were here

[a-book-of-creatures]

(Science Made Stupid by Tom Weller)

[veritablesunrise]

I thought this was fake. Page 82... And there's more of it!

Transcription: This book is set in 12-point Monotone Bimbo, with chapter headings in Basketball Overextended. Both faces were designed by Adolf Pflüpfl and are characterized by noble, full-bodied proportions with complex, slightly fruity serifs. It was printed by upset lithography on 70-lb. Tropicana Ivory mislaid Cowabunga Slipshod Overcoat. The ink came out of a can.

(Yellow circle icon)

This paper is 100% unrecycled. Whole forests were leveled, thousands of small furry animals left homeless, and vast virgin landscapes devastated, to make this book.

[lostinpacifictimez]

forcing myself to get back into digital art

[existentialterror]

Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience. I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.

[greenjudy]

thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me

[jumpingjacktrash]

ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video

[averixus]

search.marginalia.nu is the search engine you want!

The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.

This is in a sense the opposite of what most major search engines do, they favor modern websites over old-looking ones. Most links you find here will be nearly impossible to find on a regular search engine, as they aren’t sufficiently search engine optimized.

[ashby-santoso]

“It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn’t even know you were looking for. If you search for “Plato”, you might for example end up at the Canterbury Tales. Go looking for the Canterbury Tales, and you may stumble upon Neil Gaiman’s blog.

If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?

I don’t expect this will be the next “big” search engine. This is and will remain a niche tool for a niche audience.“

[ms-demeanor]

i clicked around for a few minutes searching various things and I now have two fourteenth century pie crust recipes and an apple filling recipe i want to try, so thanks!

[ms-demeanor]

it has been twenty minutes and I am deeply in love with this search engine.

INCREDIBLE. I *do* want to know how to test Windows 95 for Y2K Compliance and I am glad that someone is still hosting step by step instructions for that.

[workfornow]

tl;dr: search.marginalia.nu for the old or old looking and just plain serendipitous stuff that google or Duck duck go are gonna not find/bury on the 20th page. For perfectly good reasons, but …

[existentialterror]

My absolute favorite part of having made this post - other than causing people to be introduced to this site - are the people in the tags/comments talking about their interests and stuff they found about their hobbies.

Good luck out there surfing the cyberweb, you crazy cats. I love the shoelace website too - Ian’s Shoelace Site [link], unless there’s another. My personal favorite old-school site is Alysion’s string figure collection [link].

[a-book-of-creatures]

When I return a library book, I make sure to walk there holding it in my hands instead of in my bag. This is enrichment before it gets returned to the cold limbo of the stacks

[a-book-of-creatures]

omg I didn’t realize that

[destinationtoast]

Thank you to all the librarians and library workers chiming in:

(and more in the notes!)

[obscure-entity]

i like the genre of animal photos where you can tell they just dipped their face into a carcass and they dont even care (artistic interpretation)

[obscure-entity]

sequel as a thank you for all the fucked up images everyone has sent

[inkloom]

I started thinking about that one post about how from dogs POV humans are beings that live like 500+ years (because I was petting my dog and I was looking at her like “thirty thousand years of cooperation have led to this. our species have spent 30k years building up to the point where you, child of wolf, descendant of noble hunters and wild things,  would come all the way out of the office and come sit with me in the hopes of letting a souped up monkey rub its paws on you”)

and then I thought about what it must have been like for the first humans to let a fucking wolf, maybe only a few generations from the wild, behold their infant child. Like man can u believe that? Maybe this alliance is only a few years old and sure you’ve seen the wolf’s kids but now you’ve got one of your own. And even though you’ve seen this wolf tear out the throats of creatures that could kill you, this wolf is your family. This wolf is your friend, you love them and they love you and you gotta show ‘em the new kid, look, friend, I had a child. I know you are wild and dangerous, but look at this, my most precious thing, sniff him, give him a lil lick, his children and your children will be bound together for thirty thousand fucking years because I love you

There’s a set of  preserved footprints from 30k years ago that is a young child and a wolf standing side by side can you fucking imagine? Maybe the kid’s mom was like “hey go get some water from the stream, but take the wolf with you. I trust him, he will protect you.”

[kaijuno]

does anyone else remember being terrorized every single commercial break by the madagascar 3 trailer on every single cartoon channel in 2011-2012

[groovinomicon]

fuck you I can hear it

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Someone ought to slap the asshole who sang this upside the head

[asettledsky]

Good news!

[felixcloud6288]

I've survived my first day on Tumblr

Achievements:

Don't shoot! I'm friendly!: Prove you're not a bot

AI dismemberment: Disable algorithm settings

Friends?: Gained a mutual

I recognize you: Follow someone you know from r/Tumblr

MY EYES!: Change the site palette

Great Idea: Reblog a post

They love me: Have a post reblogged

[chrono-meter-r]

Oh boy oh boy you're gonna get a Rare achievement for this one

Containment Breach

[janmisali]

what do you think is the most common specific viewcount on youtube?

there are more videos with zero views

there are more videos with exactly one view

[show results]

Voting ended onMay 22, 2023

[janmisali]

the case for one view: most people probably watch a video after uploading it, at least to make sure it uploaded properly

the case for zero views: a significant number of videos on youtube weren't uploaded by people. there might be more automated uploads that nobody's ever seen than manual uploads that have only been seen once

[afeelgoodblog]

True Friendship…….

[edward-blake-unknown-knight]

R.I.P. brother I hope meet you again

[qiuomg]

[sannartsies]

She made a friend :)

[jumbleytumbles]

GIRL you are GLOWING! GIRL you are RADIOACTIVE! GIRL it's FATAL!

[ferret-on-pancakes]

When your bestie works in the wristwatch factory

[exit-path]

wait hold on i gotta look something up

[exit-path]

what the fuck

[one-time-i-dreamt]

not a dream

Suddenly remembered Corbin Bleu and wanted to see what he was doing now and how he looks now so I looked him up and

THIS WAS ONE OF THE TOP RESULTS AND I HAD TO CLICK ON IT TO SEE WHO THAT IS BECAUSE THAT SURE AS HELL ISN'T CORBIN

IS THAT CORBIN BLEU GENERATED BY AI OR SOMETHING?

AND WHEN I OPENED THE SITE, THE ARTICLE MADE NO SENSE

IS THE ARTICLE AI GENERATED TOO

[one-time-i-dreamt]

??????????????????????

[honeydew-soda]

yeah this is fuckin weird

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Some days I am FARR LAFE

Other days I am ARTH EIFL

[petr1kov]

canon dialogue

[trekheritageposts]

star trek heritage post (May 8th, 2018)

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

“YO ROBOT GET IN MY PUSSY”

[cargopantsman]

[deliriumcrow]

I mean, I'm 44 and just learned that you can pick up an egg yolk. Seems like cursed knowledge to me.

[thegrimmlovely]

I don't like knowing this.

[sufficientlylargen]

Garlic makes your fingertips a little sticky, and specifically has mercaptans in it which bond well to the egg yolk, which is why this works.

Mercaptans are sulfurous hydrocarbons that should not be confused with mercaptains, who are ranked just below mermajors in the mermilitary.