references

frequently accessed websites, or websites frequently accessed in the past

books

• AbeBooks -- good source for used, early edition books; unfortunately owned by Amazon
• Project Gutenberg -- free texts of older books
• New York Review of Books -- bi-weekly book reviews publication, and reprinter of classic books
• Pynchon Wiki -- "a literary wiki exploring the novels of Thomas Pynchon"
• The Paris Review -- essays, interviews, stories, poems

information

• JSTOR -- "explore the world’s knowledge, cultures, and ideas"
• NASA -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• TM Fowler -- panoramic maps in Pennsylvania State Archives
• National Weather Service -- exceptionally rich data simply presented with zero ads
• Wikipedia -- "The Free Encyclopedia"

magazines

• The Economist -- "world news, economics, politics, business & finance"
• Foreign Affairs -- foreign policy & international relations
• The New Yorker -- culture notes for aspirational Upper West Siders

music

• ArkivMusic -- good source for classical & jazz CDs
• Harmonia -- early music
• KMFA 89.5 -- "Classically Austin -- on key, and off beat"
• WQED Classical FM 89.3 -- yinzer classical radio
• WRTI 90.1 -- "Your [Philadelphia's] Classical and Jazz Source"

news

• BBC World Service -- live news radio
• Drudge Report -- digital tabloid
• Hacker News -- tech news aggregator and discussion forum
• South China Morning Post -- HK, China, Asia news & opinion
• The Wall Street Journal -- lifestyle news magazine
• ZeroHedge -- "on a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero"

recipes

• Swasthi's Recipes -- "authentic Indian recipes for the modern kitchen"
• Serious Eats -- general good recipes
• The Woks of Life -- "a culinary genealogy"

weblogs

• Achewood -- web comic
• Unmitigated Pedantry -- "a look at history and popular culture"
• Andy Matuschak -- ...
• Astral Codex Ten -- Scott Alexander substack
• Money Stuff -- by Matt Levine
• CRPG Addict -- diaristic "let's play" of historical computer role-playing games
• The Digital Antiquarian -- "a history of computer entertainment and digital culture"
• Freddie deBoer -- substack
• Gwern -- ...
• LessWrong -- rationalist community
• Vern's Reviews -- "On the Films of Cinema"
• rachelbythebay -- "software, technology, sysadmin war stories, and more"
• ribbonfarm -- "constructions in magical thinking" by Venkatesh Rao
• Derek Sivers -- ...
• Slate Star Codex -- Scott Alexander archive
• Stratechery -- tech industry analysis by Ben Thompson