This page has a similar function to the Blogroll, but for things that are not necessarily regularly updated. There may be a few stray pages here that would actually belong in the blogroll, but no biggie.
100 Thai Dishes to Eat in Bangkok
Endless recipes which you may be inspired to attempt at home. Can you name 100 Thai dishes? Why not?
1001tracklists
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Ælfrics Grammatik und Glossar
Ælfric’s Latin grammar. A fantastic bit o’ book learnin’ from tenth-century England.
Bergwelten
A very detailed website of every possible hike in Switzerland and beyond.
Cambridge Music Technologies (Mike Senior)
My favourite mix engineer has a wealth of resources online.
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China Media Project
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CircuitLab
Simulate building your own electrical circuits in this online editor. Very swish.
CJVlang
A website dedicated to translation of Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian and Vietnamese. Contains an extensive and entertaining section on translations of Harry Potter, which has received regular updates for the past twenty years.
Digital Library of Northern Thai Manuscripts
Searchable by text type, script, language, illustration, etc. Many beautiful manuscripts from various temples.
Digitizing Vietnam: Tinh Hoa Văn Học Và Ngôn Ngữ Việt Nam
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Early Tibet
A rich vein of historical/religious/magical/linguistic bloggery pertaining to early Tibet, Buddhism, the Silk Road, etc.
Etymology Maps
A subreddit populated by mapmakers with too much time on their hands, perhaps. If you like very detailed maps of the different words for ‘beer’ in different countries, with etymological information, this is for you.
Forwards (Forverts)
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From Nand to Tetris
A wonderful idea for a course in building a computer from the ground up, which I have never followed but hope to one day. ‘Nand’ refers to a type of logic gate which is a fundamental building block in computers.
Geoff Jordan blog
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GNU malware
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I Am Almoost Beshytten
An Elizabethan-era English phrasebook full of fighting and sexual talk. For the swearier Elizabethan gentleman. A treasure. “He is the veryest coward that euer pyst.”
Indigenous Bridges
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International Linguistics Olympiad
I have never seen any linguist mention this, including when I was studying. A shame, because the many puzzles contained here are fascinating, challenging and very well-thought-through. The puzzles are also all suitable for non-linguists: like newspaper puzzle pages, but better.
Irish pronunciation site
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Khoái Nhị Trà
A very well-written blog, in Vietnamese and English, by somebody very concerned about academic standards in Vietnam, and who has a certain predilection for things Chinese. You feel you are in capable hands here.
La collection Pangloss
An incredible collection of annotated wordlists from languages around the world, of scientific standard. I have mainly been interested in the many resources for languages of Vietnam, provided by Michel Ferlus and others.
Linguistica Indica
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Lishogi
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List of Thai Ingredients
One of those Wikipedia pages which is a joy to stumble across. Very detailed list of Thai ingredients, with photos and names in Thai script.
The Lucian of Samosata Project
What it sounds like. A collection of works by the closest Ancient Greek writer to a Swift, Twain, or Mencken.
Mark Curtis
I think of Curtis as the English Chomsky, at least in political terms. I am surprised he isn’t better known; in fact, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone mention him. He is very knowledgeable and thorough. He first came to my attention through his lengthy demonstration of British involvement in the Vietnam War, which has flown under the radar to say the least. (I may regret this next sentence.) We can’t all be lamenting the plight of Yemenis our every waking hour, but it’s nice to know that there are people who are.
Mekong Review
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MIT Metal
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pantip.com
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The Pāḷi Tipiṭaka
The entire Pāḷi Buddhist canon, in different scripts. A fine resource.
Perseus Digital Library
The daddy of classical resources. If anything was written in Ancient Greece or Rome, it’s probably here, with every word linked to a dictionary and, often, an English translation. (Similar things exist for Chinese, for the Pali Canon, and for other languages, which I should link to on this page in future.)
Remix Packs
A wondrous Russian website with a nice complement of track stems. Track stems are individual tracks from mixed songs (as opposed to raw tracks, pre-mixing). So if you just want that Michael Jackson vocal on its own, you might find it here. Also, though, there are lots of stems from smaller artists, and there are many remix competitions always running, often with quite impressive prizes. I will enter one soon (in 2020 or 2021)—well, either there or on OC Remix, an old favourite.
repl.it
A swish, no-nonsense place to write, share and test code online, in many different programming languages. When you share your code with somebody else, it automatically creates a fork when they start editing.
Resources for Learning Pali
Enjoyably snarky, as well as very informative on one of my favourite subjects, the use of SE Asian scripts to write Pali. “I continue to meet Western PhD candidates who cannot pronounce “Theravada” correctly. I would imagine that if no-one in their PhD program has informed them that θɛrəvɑdə is wrong, their thesis examiner may owe them a refund.” Not only snarky, but funny: “If you have ‘grown up’ on Romanized Pali, imagining that you would hear the langauge (in Asia) the way it looks on the printed page of European editions, you may well wonder how it is possible to undertand Pali chanting at all; the answer is that it is quite easy, provided you have already memorized the passage being recited.” … “Pali and Sanskrit must be forgiven such idiosyncrasies as they’ve developed during their long period of retirement in Cambodia.”
Richard Sproat
A multitalented computational linguist, with side interests in e.g. Asian writing systems and the decipherment of undeciphered scripts. A scholar in the true sense of the word. Website full of interesting tidbits.
Rogue Classicism
I haven’t investigated this too much, but it looks like a well-written, entertaining blog on the classical world, with vast archives. In fact, every day, there are lists of links to seemingly anything relevant to the classical world that has appeared online.
Saigoneer
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Scarfolk
A satirical website, although what exactly it satirizes is unclear. Set in an alternate 70s Britain, with extremely well done artefacts (posters, books, government campaign materials) posted that reflect this very dark world. Maybe a bit like the League of Gentlemen (or even David Firth?) in tone, although I don’t like the League of Gentlemen, but I do like Scarfolk.
Sino-Platonic Papers
Victor Mair’s long-running series which publishes papers on sundry topics relating to Chinese and Chinese-influence language, thought, religion, etc. Worth a browse even for the non-scholar.
Sixth Tone
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Syntacticus
Treebanks for ancient languages. Impressive.
Taigi TV: Taigi Words
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Tạp Chí Triết Học Và Tư Tưởng
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A Thesaurus of Old English
An excellent Old English thesaurus, laid out in WordNet style, that is to say, organized hierarchically into semantic fields. Worth it for a sense of how well-developed the OE conceptual world was.
A Thread of Lunacy
Ed Chang’s very detailed biography, in installments, of the life and career of Allan Holdsworth. With copious musical annotations. Now available in book form.
TV Tropes
Another old classic that has been around for twenty years or more. Detailed, often hilarious analysis of every trope occurring in TV shows, music, video games, etc. With dozens of examples for each trope. Read it, you’ll see what I mean (and start using the word ‘trope’ more).
Velominati
I am not a hardcore cyclist, but I enjoy reading about the pet peeves of hardcore cyclists.
Vietcetera
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Vietnam Coracle
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Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation
The best online collection of pre-nineteenth-century Vietnamese written materials. Many digitized manuscripts, English translations, introductory material and other resources. The project itself is so longer active (their goals having been achieved), but the edifice remains, thankfully.
What’s On Weibo
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Wuxiaworld
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