Site of the day

[gozpel]

All of us find funny sites online, please share them.

I have one, it's called Ancient Code: https://www.ancient-code.com/

Prepare your foil hats and read on. So much to read there.

Any topic or matter is ok, as long as it have something that lasts for 3 minutes.

 

[Bamspeedy]

Not funny, but interesting:

http://www.wisconsinshipwrecks.org/Home

Found it when wiki lists were incomplete, or only listing the more notable ones. Was looking up a wreck I read about in the local paper many years ago but can't find the article anymore as article is in the archives behind a paywall. Didn't remember the name of the ship, so I was really frustrated with google, but I finally found it, the ship was the J.S. :

http://www.wisconsinshipwrecks.org/Vessel/Details/776?region=Index

I remembered from the article there was some remnants in shallow water and I couldn't figure out why it wasn't marked on maps and explored more (and I remember finding a scuba diving enthusiast forum where a guy talked of finding a box with what looked like gems in a shipwreck and was trying to figure out a way to open it since the box was too heavy to raise out of the water, though he may have been talking of another wreck because he just gave a general area, not a specific location or ship).
Now because of this site I have a clearer understanding of why this wreck isn't mentioned much. It burned to the waterline (the rest of it towed to shore), then the boilers were removed years later. So there would be little left of it.
Fire is believed to be started by the guy who was locked up, who (from another source) says he was locked up for being drunk and disorderly. He was one of the three fatalaties, luckily the other 1000+ passengers made it to safety since it happened on a river and not an ocean.

Tried looking up Minnesota and Iowa shipwrecks, but their websites aren't as cool (or non-existant). But I did find Minnesota's deadliest 'shipwreck' is the one of the least known (one reason is because the ship didn't actually sink and was used again later).

http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-history-most-deadly-shipwreck-is-least-known/284224171/

 

[Broken_Erika]

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

 

[Bootstoots]

Uncyclopedia has a couple of good articles, but mostly it's a morass of "Obama was born on Pluto in 3087 BC when SPACE JESUS cloned himself!!!!11". They have an article called "How to be funny and not just stupid" seemingly designed to address this, but nobody follows it, and attempts to make articles funnier and less stupid tend to be reverted to the stupid version by editors who like stupid better.

The best article hands down is: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Vladimir_Putin
This one is also decent: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Quantum_economics

 

[Thorgalaeg]

https://www.marinetraffic.com

World ship traffic in real time with info on every ship.

 

[warpus]

https://ninite.com/

Very handy for after a fresh windows install, when you want to install all the usual apps.

This site will install all the latest versions of all the freeware you want, according to your exact specifications, and it will bypass all the toobars bs, etc. Very handy

Oh, this is supposed to be funny sites? Well, in that case

http://weirdorconfusing.com/

If you are looking for a joke gift for someone, this site could help

 

[Synobun]

Have you guys heard of http://forums.civfanatics.com? It's one of the better websites out there today.

 

[Lexicus]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage

Welcome to the Jedi Archives

 

[gozpel]

Synsensa? Did you do this???? I posted this on the Elder Scrolls Forums and it appeared here????

I thought you were retired!

 

[Broken_Erika]

Have you guys heard of http://forums.civfanatics.com? It's one of the better websites out there today.

Pffffffffft! I never post there!
The height of elegant and intellectual discourse
https://apolyton.net/forum/miscellaneous/off-topic
And for some trustworthy news
https://www.theonion.com/

 

[Lexicus]

https://www.chess.com

what it says on the tin

 

[rah]

https://ninite.com/

Very handy for after a fresh windows install, when you want to install all the usual apps.

This site will install all the latest versions of all the freeware you want, according to your exact specifications, and it will bypass all the toobars bs, etc. Very handy

Oh, this is supposed to be funny sites? Well, in that case

http://weirdorconfusing.com/

If you are looking for a joke gift for someone, this site could help

Yeah, our internal tech support guys recommend ninite all the time.

 

[Narz]

https://www.chess.com

what it says on the tin

You should try http://lichess.org . I still have my chess.com account but lichess is better in almost every way & it's 100% free, open-source & ad-free.

I actually opened this thread to post about it.

I did a rambling video on some of it's features here