In dieser Ausgabe von THEFUTURE: Drei Ideen für die Feiertage und das große Best-of der Rubrik »Internet Explorer«.

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Drei Ideen für die Feiertage

• Eintauchen in die virtuelle Kunstausstellung OpenSecret (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), »a six-month long program that explores images of the technological hidden in our apparently ‘open’ society.«

• Endlich Devs (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), Raised by Wolves (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) und The Leftovers (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) bingen.

• Sich in Bücher flüchten, ich mochte sehr »Something New Under the Sun (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)« von Alexandra Kleeman, »No One Is Talking About This (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)« von Patricia Lockwood und »The Old Drift (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)« von Namwali Serpell.

Best of Internet Explorer

—No-Bullshit-Websites

• Open Source Recipes (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) To Be Used in Quarantine During a Global Pandemic

• How Many Plants (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Indoor and House Plants Resource

• ⭐️ Bread for The Busy (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Making bread with consideration of our often hectic schedules.

• Movie of the Night (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) is a movie/series recommendation engine.

—Entdeckungsreisen

• See a satellite tonight (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): No telescope required. Click to search for viewing times at your location.

• Find owls near me! (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) Find owls that have been observed near you.

• Real Life (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) is a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis is more on living.

• Godly (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Astronomically good web design inspiration every single day.

• Books Read By (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): What are the world’s most interesting people reading?

• Gossip’s Web (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): The directory of handmade webpages

• ⭐️ Sounds of the Forest (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Creating a growing soundmap bringing together aural tones and textures from the world’s woodlands.

• Sounds of Earth (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): A collection of ambient sounds of nature.

• Cloud Index (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) ist ein wachsendes Online-Archiv, das Wolkenbilder von Orten fossiler Verbrennung sammelt und präsentiert.

• ThanAverage (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) is a small unscientific investigation into how we value and compare ourselves to each other.

• The Hive Index (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): The internet is full of beautiful communities.

• Weird Spy Satellite Imagery (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). A speculative surveillance bot.

• Travel Remotely (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Walking around, taking in sights, and listening to music.

—Musik

• Needledrop (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Ein Plattenspieler für YouTube-Musik.

• Homesick Sounds (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Play any combination of these sounds to bring the comfort, and discomfort, of working from home.

• lofi.cafe (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Lofi music streams for studying, working and relaxing.

• Harmony of the Spheres (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) is a digital musical instrument which revisits the age.old relationship between music and the cosmos.

• My90sTV (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

• Weird Spot.fyi (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Enter a sentence. Get a playlist.

• ⭐️ Server Room Noise Generator (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Close your eyes. You are surrounded by the electronic brains of the modern world.

—Office & Tools

• JazzKeys (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Sculpt our messages using music.

• Meeting Cost Live (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

• ⭐️ Zoom Escaper (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) allows you to self-sabotage your audio stream, making your presence unbearable to others.

• Busy Simulator (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Feign importance with repeating app sounds!

• Dither Me This (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Use this tool to reduce the file size of an image… but in a stylish old-school way.

• Make WordArt (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Online word art generator.

• Sophisticated Company Name Generator (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Use random English town names to generate your ideal company name. 

• URL Lengthener (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Are you tired of your URLs being just too darn short? Worry no further.

• ShadyURL (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.

• Bored Humans (Öffnet in neuem Fenster): 50 fun artificial intelligence (AI) pages you can use for free.

• Bubble wrap pop (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

Bis nächstes Jahr!

Das war Ausgabe #87 von THEFUTURE (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), dem Newsletter über das wilde Internet und die Zukunft der Medien von Ole Reißmann (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).