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I really enjoyed this. It is very similar to "Please, enough with the dead butterflies!" [0] I'd like to see a list of everything like this. Similar to Awesome

I really enjoyed this. It is very similar to "Please, enough with the dead butterflies!" [0] I'd like to see a list of everything like this. Similar to Awesome falsehood [1] but not quite. 0: https://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/ https://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies... ( HN 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460013 HN 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788356 ) 1: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

Waterluvian 7y ago
Yes!!! I live for these completely pointless obsessions into a topic.
- benatkin 7y ago
  Profile checks out. todays.pointless.click looks good :D I started https://furious.engineering/ https://furious.engineering/ to add random stuff, but so far there's only one which shows the spanish equivalent of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. I think these ones could be added to awesome-falsehoods. I'd love a list that was more centered on this idea, but for now awesome-falsehoods would probably be the best place for it. Maybe a design or visual category?
  - chipaca 7y ago
    why do you have male/female (primero/primera) and then female/male (1ª/1º)?
    - benatkin 7y ago
      Oops, I got it backwards. I'll fix it when i get a chance. Thanks for noticing!
    - dgellow 7y ago
      Just to nitpick: grammatical genders are "masculine" and "feminine" (not male and female)
  - Waterluvian 7y ago
    I had hoped that the internet, beyond the 90s, would be a place where almost everyone has a webpage like ours populated with whatever it is the individual decided was noteworthy. To an extent it's come true in a small subset. But discovery is the hard part. Right now discovery leads you to social media pages full of, for the most part, a low budget substitute for air.
    - kickscondor 7y ago
      I track homemade weblogs and pages - there's actually a lot still going if you know where to look. https://kickscondor.com https://kickscondor.com Thank you for your links, I'll cover them soon in my next 'href hunt'.
      - Waterluvian 7y ago
        Oh God your website is so crusty and 90s. I love it. Thanks for sharing.
      - graphpapa 7y ago
        I too love your website thank you
    - modo_mario 7y ago
      I feel like everyone running a webpage/blog like that should have a somewhat standardised page crosslinking to pages/blogs that person likes to keep track off
      - macintux 7y ago
        Reminds me a bit of the old web ring concept. I like your idea better.
    - specialist 7y ago
      Ya, I also assumed, hoped?, the 80s quirkiness (weird news, dr demento, archie mcphees, zines, and other earnest trivias) would have flourished. Making the jump from BBSes to the web. Instead we got ad funded autobot outrage factories.
- if_by_whisky 7y ago
  This one was pretty pointy if you ask me
- TCSurf 7y ago
  I find this evidence of the autistic mind at work. Normal people understand the scissors aren't meant to be 'closed', they simply mean "Cut" in most circumstances. Most people have better things to do than waste time on some bizarre concept like 'animating emojis like scissors'. But it is a good activity to keep the autistic mind occupied. Makes babysitting a lot easier!
  - abcdef123xyz2 7y ago
    Calm down, it's a bit of fun.
- mrec 7y ago
  If you haven't seen the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group yet, you really should. https://www.horg.com/horg/ https://www.horg.com/horg/
  - kickscondor 7y ago
    Also leads to http://www.mmuseumm.com http://www.mmuseumm.com. Thankyou.
kickscondor 7y ago
I've added these to https://href.cool/Crimes/Simple https://href.cool/Crimes/Simple. Thank ya.
- sillysaurusx 7y ago
  I wish more old www sites were still up. YTMND suffered a server failure. fark.com seems up, but rather a shadow of its former self. Shock sites seem to have mostly gone away or devolved into a sea of ads. (Your site gave a sudden surge of nostalgia, and for some reason those sites were the first to jump to mind.) https://poo.com/ https://poo.com/ is another slice of old www style. It's not a shock site, just a chat site. But it has some funny functionality like a radio you can listen to, and customizing your avatar with various multicolor schemes and blinky text, myspace-style.
  - app4soft 7y ago
    http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/main/e2019.html http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/main/e2019.html is one more old-www-style. Also, many Japanese websites still use old-www-style too.
  - ZWoz 7y ago
    YTMND is up, at least partially. ytmnd.com says: "As of 2019-12-01, YTMNDs and the search are back online." Random example (http://picard.ytmnd.com/ http://picard.ytmnd.com/) works.
  - efreak 7y ago
    How about modernizing the old animated gif/flash sites so they work in modern browsers? I've started on hamster dance[0] and leekspin[1], but the sounds leave something to be desired (hamster dance is more annoying than I remember, and I completely forgot the sound on leekspin). 0: https://efreak.github.io/loopy/hampsterdance/hampdance.html https://efreak.github.io/loopy/hampsterdance/hampdance.html 1: https://efreak.github.io/loopy/leekspin/ https://efreak.github.io/loopy/leekspin/
- specialist 7y ago
  Wow. That DePew story is messed up. Thanks? Agree with others about the old school nostalgia. Never would have occurred to me that someone could or would lip sync to whistling. TIL about PBJ.
avip 7y ago
https://www.boredpanda.com/entomologist-rates-ant-emojis/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic https://www.boredpanda.com/entomologist-rates-ant-emojis/?ut...
- b2ccb2 7y ago
  Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17555842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17555842 Real Source: https://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomologist-rates-ant-emojis https://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomolo...
- madeofpalk 7y ago
  A thread of rating every horse emoji: https://twitter.com/jelenawoehr/status/1191872816372600832?lang=en https://twitter.com/jelenawoehr/status/1191872816372600832?l...
- jagged-chisel 7y ago
  While rating emoji ants: > This is a termite. 10/10
  - SamBam 7y ago
    You missed the -
  - Daneel_ 7y ago
    I think you missed the minus sign there ;)
    - jagged-chisel 7y ago
      I did! I parsed it as a delimiter and completely overlooked it.
darekkay 7y ago
View the HN comment section for some more examples (ants, trains,..). I feel inspired and will most likely write a blog post for the parachute emoji soon.
- darekkay 7y ago
  Done: https://darekkay.com/blog/parachute-emoji/ https://darekkay.com/blog/parachute-emoji/
jamescgrant 7y ago
You inspired me to go hunting around Hacker News and I ended up with this lil' curated list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961222 :)
- benatkin 7y ago
  That's really great! I'm surprised it didn't make it onto the front page. Oh well. I wouldn't have thought so if it had made it, but I think think maybe the name should be changed to something like "Awesome Uncanny Design" or something, and perhaps the logo could be something that evokes the uncanny valley or the twilight zone or something. The current one might make it sound like we want to ban this stuff, which is not the idea. I just want people to be aware of it. It also isn't all crap, so maybe an upside down smiley face would be a more fitting emoji, or a horse, parachute, butterfly, or another example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley Thanks! Not only did you make something I thought should exist, it helped me find the Caddy GitHub issue about cogs which was super interesting.
  - jamescgrant 7y ago
    Yeah, I admit I was stuck on what to name it too! Uncanny evokes a nature of mystery, which I'm not sure is totally approproate here. Haha! I literally just Google'd "something that is attempted but misses the mark", after writing the above paragraph, and I found this article on Wikipedia [1]. It means "tragic flaw" or "to miss the mark". Feels quite apt! Perhaps "Hamartian Design" could work. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamartia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamartia
    - benatkin 7y ago
      Interesting! First I've heard of the term Hamartian. I think it works amazingly. I see you updated the repo. It looks good. I hope it gets noticed and other stuff gets added. Could submit it to https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/ https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/

Waterluvian 7y ago

Yes!!! I live for these completely pointless obsessions into a topic.

benatkin 7y ago
Profile checks out. todays.pointless.click looks good :D I started https://furious.engineering/ https://furious.engineering/ to add random stuff, but so far there's only one which shows the spanish equivalent of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. I think these ones could be added to awesome-falsehoods. I'd love a list that was more centered on this idea, but for now awesome-falsehoods would probably be the best place for it. Maybe a design or visual category?
- chipaca 7y ago
  why do you have male/female (primero/primera) and then female/male (1ª/1º)?
  - benatkin 7y ago
    Oops, I got it backwards. I'll fix it when i get a chance. Thanks for noticing!
  - dgellow 7y ago
    Just to nitpick: grammatical genders are "masculine" and "feminine" (not male and female)
- Waterluvian 7y ago
  I had hoped that the internet, beyond the 90s, would be a place where almost everyone has a webpage like ours populated with whatever it is the individual decided was noteworthy. To an extent it's come true in a small subset. But discovery is the hard part. Right now discovery leads you to social media pages full of, for the most part, a low budget substitute for air.
  - kickscondor 7y ago
    I track homemade weblogs and pages - there's actually a lot still going if you know where to look. https://kickscondor.com https://kickscondor.com Thank you for your links, I'll cover them soon in my next 'href hunt'.
    - Waterluvian 7y ago
      Oh God your website is so crusty and 90s. I love it. Thanks for sharing.
    - graphpapa 7y ago
      I too love your website thank you
  - modo_mario 7y ago
    I feel like everyone running a webpage/blog like that should have a somewhat standardised page crosslinking to pages/blogs that person likes to keep track off
    - macintux 7y ago
      Reminds me a bit of the old web ring concept. I like your idea better.
  - specialist 7y ago
    Ya, I also assumed, hoped?, the 80s quirkiness (weird news, dr demento, archie mcphees, zines, and other earnest trivias) would have flourished. Making the jump from BBSes to the web. Instead we got ad funded autobot outrage factories.
if_by_whisky 7y ago
This one was pretty pointy if you ask me
TCSurf 7y ago
I find this evidence of the autistic mind at work. Normal people understand the scissors aren't meant to be 'closed', they simply mean "Cut" in most circumstances. Most people have better things to do than waste time on some bizarre concept like 'animating emojis like scissors'. But it is a good activity to keep the autistic mind occupied. Makes babysitting a lot easier!
- abcdef123xyz2 7y ago
  Calm down, it's a bit of fun.
mrec 7y ago
If you haven't seen the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group yet, you really should. https://www.horg.com/horg/ https://www.horg.com/horg/
- kickscondor 7y ago
  Also leads to http://www.mmuseumm.com http://www.mmuseumm.com. Thankyou.

kickscondor 7y ago

I've added these to https://href.cool/Crimes/Simple https://href.cool/Crimes/Simple. Thank ya.

sillysaurusx 7y ago
I wish more old www sites were still up. YTMND suffered a server failure. fark.com seems up, but rather a shadow of its former self. Shock sites seem to have mostly gone away or devolved into a sea of ads. (Your site gave a sudden surge of nostalgia, and for some reason those sites were the first to jump to mind.) https://poo.com/ https://poo.com/ is another slice of old www style. It's not a shock site, just a chat site. But it has some funny functionality like a radio you can listen to, and customizing your avatar with various multicolor schemes and blinky text, myspace-style.
- app4soft 7y ago
  http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/main/e2019.html http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/main/e2019.html is one more old-www-style. Also, many Japanese websites still use old-www-style too.
- ZWoz 7y ago
  YTMND is up, at least partially. ytmnd.com says: "As of 2019-12-01, YTMNDs and the search are back online." Random example (http://picard.ytmnd.com/ http://picard.ytmnd.com/) works.
- efreak 7y ago
  How about modernizing the old animated gif/flash sites so they work in modern browsers? I've started on hamster dance[0] and leekspin[1], but the sounds leave something to be desired (hamster dance is more annoying than I remember, and I completely forgot the sound on leekspin). 0: https://efreak.github.io/loopy/hampsterdance/hampdance.html https://efreak.github.io/loopy/hampsterdance/hampdance.html 1: https://efreak.github.io/loopy/leekspin/ https://efreak.github.io/loopy/leekspin/
specialist 7y ago
Wow. That DePew story is messed up. Thanks? Agree with others about the old school nostalgia. Never would have occurred to me that someone could or would lip sync to whistling. TIL about PBJ.

avip 7y ago

https://www.boredpanda.com/entomologist-rates-ant-emojis/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic https://www.boredpanda.com/entomologist-rates-ant-emojis/?ut...

b2ccb2 7y ago
Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17555842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17555842 Real Source: https://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomologist-rates-ant-emojis https://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomolo...
madeofpalk 7y ago
A thread of rating every horse emoji: https://twitter.com/jelenawoehr/status/1191872816372600832?lang=en https://twitter.com/jelenawoehr/status/1191872816372600832?l...
jagged-chisel 7y ago
While rating emoji ants: > This is a termite. 10/10
- SamBam 7y ago
  You missed the -
- Daneel_ 7y ago
  I think you missed the minus sign there ;)
  - jagged-chisel 7y ago
    I did! I parsed it as a delimiter and completely overlooked it.

darekkay 7y ago

View the HN comment section for some more examples (ants, trains,..). I feel inspired and will most likely write a blog post for the parachute emoji soon.

darekkay 7y ago
Done: https://darekkay.com/blog/parachute-emoji/ https://darekkay.com/blog/parachute-emoji/

jamescgrant 7y ago

You inspired me to go hunting around Hacker News and I ended up with this lil' curated list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961222 :)

benatkin 7y ago
That's really great! I'm surprised it didn't make it onto the front page. Oh well. I wouldn't have thought so if it had made it, but I think think maybe the name should be changed to something like "Awesome Uncanny Design" or something, and perhaps the logo could be something that evokes the uncanny valley or the twilight zone or something. The current one might make it sound like we want to ban this stuff, which is not the idea. I just want people to be aware of it. It also isn't all crap, so maybe an upside down smiley face would be a more fitting emoji, or a horse, parachute, butterfly, or another example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley Thanks! Not only did you make something I thought should exist, it helped me find the Caddy GitHub issue about cogs which was super interesting.
- jamescgrant 7y ago
  Yeah, I admit I was stuck on what to name it too! Uncanny evokes a nature of mystery, which I'm not sure is totally approproate here. Haha! I literally just Google'd "something that is attempted but misses the mark", after writing the above paragraph, and I found this article on Wikipedia [1]. It means "tragic flaw" or "to miss the mark". Feels quite apt! Perhaps "Hamartian Design" could work. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamartia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamartia
  - benatkin 7y ago
    Interesting! First I've heard of the term Hamartian. I think it works amazingly. I see you updated the repo. It looks good. I hope it gets noticed and other stuff gets added. Could submit it to https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/ https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/