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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by zichy »

* C3TV, the Chaos Computer Club media library with hundreds of conference talks: https://media.ccc.de

* Art of the Title, in-depth analyses of movie title sequences: http://www.artofthetitle.com

* Damn Interesting, it's damn interesting: https://www.damninteresting.com

* LEGO subreddit, do I need to say more? https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by hexane360 »

Things I won't work with: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2011/11/11/thi...

Accident reconstruction/investigation videos. NTSB, CSB, and OSHA have some really in-depth ones: https://youtu.be/tMsjJWJFBbA https://youtu.be/gDTqrRpa_ac?list=PLUXYDid45duP-lg8Kh_hSw841...

Also, +1 for TV Tropes

Edit: Also, http://www.scp-wiki.net/ has some classics.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by qwertyuiop924 »

yoodenvranx wrote: post #72

1) There is a Wiki for almost everything you can imagine. I am pretty sure you can spend whole weekens just clicking around in some random GoT, LotR or Harry Potter wiki 1.1) My current favorite is reading about the Warhammer 40k universe: ( http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Warhammer_40k_Wiki and http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Main_Page ) 2) reddit.com is a never ending source of entertainment if you know how to u…

For 40k, it's hard to go wrong with 1d4chan, the offical wiki of 4chan's /tg/, and home to such legendary tales as Ruby Quest, Love Can Bloom, The Golem's Garden, The Hamlet of Tyranny, Drew The Litch, The Millenial King, the Dread Gazebo, and the now legendary tale of Old Man Henderson, as well as a wealth of bizarre invented games, even weirder settings, and 40k and tabletop related content.

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Post by stinkytaco »

yoodenvranx wrote: post #72

1) There is a Wiki for almost everything you can imagine. I am pretty sure you can spend whole weekens just clicking around in some random GoT, LotR or Harry Potter wiki 1.1) My current favorite is reading about the Warhammer 40k universe: ( http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Warhammer_40k_Wiki and http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Main_Page ) 2) reddit.com is a never ending source of entertainment if you know how to u…

On 1: http://gravityfalls.wikia.com/wiki/Gravity_Falls_Wiki

I watched this show with my kid and man, can you go down a rabbit hole. I've seen some community wiki's but I think this one takes the cake for me.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by DamnInteresting »

tunap wrote: post #9

damninteresting.com is where I 1st read about the Great Molasses Flood, amongst a slew of other bizarre non-fictional events & people. The wordsmiths make the bizarre accounts even more damn intetesting. edit: link https://www.damninteresting.com/

The finest compliment is that which the utterer is unaware the recipient can hear (or, more appropriately, 'see,' but that doesn't sound stuffy enough). Thanks for the kind words!

Relatedly, "stuffy enough" is fun to say.

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