The 88×31 GIF collection – “A collection of 4540 classic 88×31 buttons from the 1990s, 2000s, and today in GIF format.” I was waxing nostalgic about this relic of 90s and aughts internet, and stumbled upon this on the first page of search results.
Author: theslowinternet_1lm2xw
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Manifest for the Anthropos
Manifest for the Anthropos – A thesis project on the Anthropocene and the damages humans have inflicted on the earth. Really, really love the acknowledgements section: “The design of this page was inspired by a series of self-help, alternative religion and conspiracy theory websites made in the late 90s/early 2000s. These websites are in no need of excessive design elements or conceptual references to illustrate their believes.” Here’s one of the aforementioned sites.
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Poolsuite
The Poolsuite – Not sure if this has been established yet, but I clearly have a thing for the old Mac aesthetic. This summer-vibes music experience is designed to look like a vintage Mac desktop. (Also took me a minute to realize the whole thing is spon-con for Vacation sunscreen.) Via Lucy Pham’s Websites That Look Like Desktops.
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Abandoned Blogs
Abandoned Blogs – A somewhat poignant archive/shrine of old blogs that have been long forgotten by their previous writers. Some of these feel like stepping into a time machine or stumbling on somebody’s old diary in an attic.
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Switching.Software
Switching.Software – “Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software.” I’ve been thinking more about switching to alternative, open-source applications and this site provides a really nice starting point for that. Via Archive of Daily Digital Disobedience
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Symphony in Acid
Symphony in Acid – “an interactive website promoting a track Symphony in Acid from the album Unspoken Words by Max Cooper.” Really cool text animation. Via Fuse
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Capitalist Realism
Capitalist Realism
by Mark Fisher
From the publisher:
It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system – a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, film (Children Of Men, Jason Bourne, Supernanny), fiction (Le Guin and Kafka), work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colors all areas of contemporary experience, is anything but realistic and asks how capitalism and its inconsistencies can be challenged. It is a sharp analysis of the post-ideological malaise that suggests that the economics and politics of free market neo-liberalism are givens rather than constructions.
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The Rachel Incident
by Caroline O’Donoghue
Buy on Bookshop.org
From the Publisher:
Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them.
When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at their local bookstore, with the goal that she might seduce him afterwards. But Fred has other desires. So begins a series of secrets and compromises that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred’s glamorous, well-connected, bourgeois wife. Aching with unrequited love, shot through with delicious, sparkling humor, The Rachel Incident is a triumph.
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Archive of Daily Digital Disobedience
Archive of Daily Digital Disobedience – “The Archive of Daily Disobedience celebrates the disobedient use of technology as a creative survival code of our time.” Tips and hacks for divesting from Big Tech and its culture of surveillance. Via Rozina Aamir
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Websites, Done Cheap
Websites, Done Cheap – Affordable web design by Elijah Beaton. I love the takeout menu design.