A virtual design archive built by everyone about everyone for everyone.

Convert any laptop and most chromebooks into a writer deck. A device designed solely for writing. No distractions. No internet. No apps. No games. No social media. Just writing.

A simple online typewriter editor thingie.

A project allowing you to browse Wikipedia as though it were a museum.

A scroller's dream!

This is a list of small, free, or experimental tools that might be useful in building your game / website / interactive project. Although I’ve included ‘standards’, this list has a focus on artful tools and toys that are as fun to use as they are functional. The goal of this list is to enable making outside of closed production ecosystems or walled software gardens.

Patterns to make your own outdoor gear.

I installed a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission of San Francisco. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below.

A Rotary Cell Phone Kit

Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices.

A website and blog about hermits.

On the face of things, we seem to be merely talking about text-based files, containing only the letters of the English Alphabet (and the occasional punctuation mark). On deeper inspection, of course, this isn't quite the case. What this site offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them. The focus is on mid-1980's textfiles and the world as it was then, but even these files are sometime retooled 1960s and 1970s works, and offshoots of this culture exist to this day.

So, so, so, so, so many zines for downloading!