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* [https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/TourIntroGen.asp British Library's Tour of Illuminated Manuscripts] | * [https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/TourIntroGen.asp British Library's Tour of Illuminated Manuscripts] | ||
* [https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/collections/ks65hc20t Book of Kells] | * [https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/collections/ks65hc20t Book of Kells] | ||
* [https://www.cartoonmuseum.org/ The Cartoon Museum] | |||
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Revision as of 18:54, 1 January 2021
Books and Literature
- Find connections between your favorite authors at Literature Map
- Theoi is an encyclopedia of Greek gods/goddesses (and Encyclopedia Mythica offers pronunciation guides!)
Comics
- Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
- The Digital Comics Museum features public domain comics from the Golden Age
- Comics Art Museum
- Acme Novelty Library
- William Blake's illuminations
- British Library's Tour of Illuminated Manuscripts
- Book of Kells
- The Cartoon Museum
...About Art
Historical Media
- Find open-source and copyright-free media at CreativeCommons search
- Digital Public Library of America amazing resource of historic materials
- The British Library has digitized many historic texts and images
- Europeana historical documents and lots of art
- Personal record of London Jews in WWI
- Ancient History Encyclopedia is a curated resource with plenty of maps, articles, and images of historical media.
- Northwestern University's collection of posters from WWII
Advertising
- Archive of advertisements, both television and print
- Ad*Access, Duke University's archive of advertisements from 1911-1955
- [AdAge], an online advertising magazine
- Vintage Ad Browser, over 100,000 categorized print ads
Science Materials
- Encyclopedia of Life seeks to collect information and pictures of all forms of life on Earth
Free Education!
- Coursera, (mostly) free online education on any topic
- Academic Earth, free online courses
- The Open Textbook Library at the University of Minnesota
Documentaries and Videos
- Free Documentaries
- SnagFilms lots of free documentaries here, too, as well as low-budget short films to inspire
- TED—always worth your time
- Cinemetrics, an incredible database of cinema data: length, average shot length, number of shots. Also offers free software to measure your own videos
Self-improvement, Organization
- TiddlyWiki, an absurdly simple personal wiki
- Habitica, an online app to help you learn better habits
- Vote Smart provides the voting record and positions of government officials
Game Building
- Mud allows you to create and play immersive, multiplayer, pure-text RPGs
Tech Tools
- Eloquent Javascript, open source textbook on Javascript for beginners and advanced coders.
- Amazing book by Daniel Shiffman on the mathematical principles of nature and how to represent them in code: The Nature of Code
- Daniel Shiffman's Programming from A to Z. Worth your time
- RAW turns spreadsheet data into vector graphics
- Turn your Google Drive folder into a PDF
- Use Git to get your code to others easily tutorial/intro here
- Dirty Markup will clean up your code
Webpage Design
- Don't Fear the Internet is a beautifully clear series of tutorials (written and video) that can guide you in how these webpage things work
- Web design in 4 minutes. It shouldn't work, but this is a really great introduction.
- If you liked that, check out his code on GitHub.
I Like Processing.
- Learn Processing through an interactive book
- Learn Processing (and JavaScript) through a series of outstanding videos here
- Learn Processing through some intro videos
- Processing examples and code
These are Almost Tools.
- Atari 2600 VCS emulator
- Run Windows 95 in your browser
- Castles Made of Castles