{"id":16179,"date":"2022-02-20T16:28:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T16:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=16179"},"modified":"2022-02-20T16:55:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T16:55:33","slug":"sunday-serendipity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/sunday-serendipity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Serendipity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather outside is frightful, but I want to avoid the usual internet distractions.<\/p>\n<p>A while ago I signed up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/vole.wtf\/vmail\/\">Vmail<\/a> newsletter. This is from <a href=\"https:\/\/vole.wtf\/\">VOLE.wtf<\/a> and seems to be put together from stuff submitted by anyone!<\/p>\n<p>One of the items was <a href=\"https:\/\/wilderness.land\/\">Wilderness Land<\/a> a map of links generated from a google spreadsheet which leads to many rabbit hole sites.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"linklist\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.garden\/listen\/\">Radio Garden<\/a> a globe full of radio stations from around the world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/library-of-colors.glitch.me\/\">Library of Colors<\/a> Another site for serendipity, arranged around colour words from page titles.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pasta.guide\/\">Pasta Guide<\/a> Nice an simple site, lots of information without adverts and other distractions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dariusk\/corpora\/tree\/master\/data\/words\">corpora\/data\/words at master \u00b7 dariusk\/corpora<\/a> found via the Library of Colors, lotf of useful looking lists of words.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/james.darpinian.com\/satellites\/\">&#x1f6f0;&#xfe0f; See A Satellite Tonight<\/a>, probably not tonight here given the weather we are having.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Featured image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/internetarchivebookimages\/20520524455\/\">Image from page 130 of &#8220;The Canadian field-naturalist&#8221; (19\u2026 | Flickr<\/a> found via a search for Public Domain photos and the word Serendipity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another favourite source of daily\u00a0serendipity is the <a href=\"https:\/\/pointers.dailywebthing.com\/\">dailywebthing daily pointers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather outside is frightful, but I want to avoid the usual internet distractions. A while ago I signed up for the Vmail newsletter. This is from VOLE.wtf and seems to be put together from stuff submitted by anyone! 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