Randomness: Part One

The former "Utterly and Completely Random Remaining Links post" that used to be found at this link has been expanded and split into two parts for easier searching since it got so big. Generally speaking, the division is as follows:

The first part (this one) now has all the links about the world itself and thinks to do in it, broken down into the following groupings: survival, moving about (maps, travel and vehicles), information on the sun/moon/stars, various calendars and conversions between them, communicating with others (accents, pronunciation and languages), plants and animals and various databases about them, and various places on the web to find things to read and listen to.

The second part contains all the search sites (scientific and general non-google places); places to find articles, books, and more; library, museum and cultural collections; recipe, food and drink sites; random place related sites; building and homes info and terms; people and their shapes and sizes; things to consider regarding sex and writing sex scenes; "writers' guides to..." type links; lots of artists resources; and, last but not least, uncategorized random links.

Random Useful/Life/Survival Skills (separated into apocalypse/wilderness, criminal, and general random groupings):

Apocalypse, Non-Modern/Without Tools Setting, or Wilderness Survival Skills:
How to make a bow and arrow
tumblr post with pictures of someone making their own bow and arrows (wayback machine link)
huge masterpost of bow and arrow links (multiple techniques to make and use bows and arrows and how to treat injuries caused by them)

How to open a can without a can opener (video- basically rub the top of a can on a concrete surface over+over for a minute and then squeeze)

How to Start a Fire With Your Bare Hands in the Wilderness - two different methods (video)
Articles demonstrating ways to light a fire without a match: here, here or this wayback machine link here
How to make a Dakota Fire Hole and a video showing how hard it is to see from further away - the Dakota Fire Hole is 'an underground fire that is ideal for heat, stealth camping, and high winds'
How to make a oil lamp out of an orange
How to make a 19th Century Button Lamp - as written about in 'The Long Winter' (also demonstrated in this video)

What to do if you fall through the ice also an article with educational video on what to do
Surviving an earthquake information (wayback machine link)
A huge list of Survival Guide links (archive.org link)
US Army Field Manual for Survival - clickable table of contents (wayback machine link) published 2002
US Air Force Survival Manual (via archive.org)
The Survivor Library: "how to survive and prosper without modern technology" has a huge library of PDFs to download ranging in subjects from archery to shoemaking and much, much more.
Survival: Items With Multiple Uses aka some basic items to make sure you have when trying to survive an apocalypse or natural disaster and how to use them
Survive Nature guides for being stuck on a island, in the jungle, in the forest, in the ocean/open water, in the desert, and in the snow/extreme cold. (wayback machine link)

Celestial Navigation & Land Navigation – Navigation without a Compass (wayback machine link)
Telling Time Without A Clock: Scandinavian Daymarks

The Hobo Hammock - how to make a hammock out of a rope and blanket (video)
How to Build a Survival Shelter
Seven Primitive Survival Shelters That Could Save Your Life (wayback machine link)

eugeniomonesma-documentales - Eugenio Monesma's documentaries youtube channel, over 800 videos documenting traditional and mostly lost/forgotten skills and techniques like cordage and cloth making, traditional cooking and baking techniques, building construction, etc
nomadarchitecture - Nomad Architecture's channel, numerous videos exploring the architectures, crafts and traditions of indigenous nomadic people.

Lockpicking, Breaking and Entering, and Other Criminal Skills:
How to Pick a Lock: Beginner's Guide With Animations
What is Lock Bumping: A Detailed Introduction
How to Pick a Lock with a Bobby Pin: Guide & Animations
Picking a Lock Without a Tension Wrench
How to open a door with a credit card
How to pick a lock with hairpins (video)
Pick a lock with a paperclip (video)
Anything you ever wanted to know about picking various locks: LockPickingLawyer's youtube channel
Roguish's Lockpicking Masterpost (links on historical and modern locks and how to pick them and guides and tools to do so)
How Emergency Responders break through locked doors (an response to an ask with basic info and a link to a video demonstrating it, see notes for additional information)
If the door’s locked, try the wall (excerpt from A Burglar’s Guide to the City)
How to Unlock a Car With a Shoelace
The Official Evil Overlord Handbook
How to disappear completely
Just Delete Me - "A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services."
Simple trick to avoid being caught on CCTV/video cameras (also interesting reading is the possibility of a more complicated method that makes you look like someone else to the camera)

Random and/or Useful Life Skills (fixing, mending, securing, or repairing stuff):
Huge guide to knots (pdf)
Shoelace Knots "If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces, “Ian's Shoelace Site” is the place!"
Animated Knots - "the web’s premiere site for learning how to tie knots of any kind" (boating, fishing, climbing, and surgical knots as well as how to tie a tie)
Ifixit - a wiki-based site that teaches people how to fix almost anything via user created repair manuals.
Restart Wiki - tips and advice for mending appliances and gadgets.
This to That gives you how to glue any two surfaces together
DIY clothing repair guide (10 page pdf from University of Kentucky)
University of Illinois Extension's Stain Solutions a searchable index of every stain known to man and stain removal solutions for each. (wayback machine link)

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook

The Whole Earth Catalog "an American counterculture magazine and product catalog published 1968-1998. The magazine featured essays and articles, but was primarily focused on product reviews. The editorial focus was on self-sufficiency, ecology, alternative education, “do it yourself,” and holism, featuring the slogan “access to tools.”" (article about it)

How to land an airplane if you are not a pilot (wayback machine link)

Getting From Here to There Resources and Links (including both historical and modern maps and travel; information on trains, cars, boat and ships; weather and how it affects travel and more):

maps (historical):
ORBIS: Interactive Map of the Roman World - from Stanford University- calculates costs and time of travel via numerous different historical routes. ("It's a little like Oregon Trail meets Civilization, only without the dysentery and with infinitely more historical and comparative data.")
David Rumsey Map Collection - over 84k historical maps and images from around the world (for example, check out the largest early world map, from 1587, here) Now with a Text-on-Maps search engine
Royal Museums Greenwich map collection
Library of Congress Map Collection has thousands of maps from different eras and places (including this 19th century Japanese wood block world map shows the countries of the world, their people, and distances from Japan or this 1602 map of Africa)
Franco Novacco Map Collection at the Newberry library (digitized collection of over 750 maps printed in Italy during the 16th and 17th centuries)
18th-Century Maps of Central Europe
19th-Century Maps of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia
Animated gif of the states and continental territories of the US, 1790-1960 (wayback machine link) and as a rebloggable tumblr post
Soviet Military Topographic Maps of Britain and the World (and an article about it)
The History of Cartography (published by The University of Chicago Press, several volumes available online for free. Contains numerous historical maps as well as general cartographical history)
Open Access Maps at NY Public Library "more than 20,000 cartographic works as high resolution downloads"
University of Texas' Perry-Castañeda Library Historical Maps Collection divided into different regions of the world, most maps date from the 1800s-early 1900s but some are earlier

A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America by Christopher Colles, published 1789 (scanned copy via Library of Congress, 84 images)
The American military pocket atlas; being an approved collection of correct maps, both general and particular; of the British colonies; especially those which now are, or probably may be the theatre of war published 1776 (scanned copy via Library of Congress, 10 images)

maps (modern) and travel (general):
University of Texas' Perry-Castañeda Library Maps Collection divided into topographic, thematic, and regional groupings
NASA's Time-lapse Global Maps - various maps showing change in a variety of factors like snow cover, land surface temperature, rainfall, ice cover etc.
Flood Map see how the world would change if sea levels rose or fell.
Find cities with similar climate - Comparison of the climate of 6k cities in the world.
Rome2Rio - "Discover how to get anywhere by plane, train, bus, ferry & car" (directions from anywhere to anywhere else)
How Far is it Between (distance between two places as a crow flies or via land transport)
Distance Calculator site provides directions and distances within countries and between countries and provides other info like Nearest Airport Search and Postal Codes
TravelTime "Unlimited travel time calculations for a life that isn’t linear"
Converting Addresses to/from Latitude/Longitude/Altitude in One Step
Map/Location tools US only, historic and modern city, state, county maps and more

travel (historical), particularly via trains:
Rate of travel across the US at different times in the 1800s (wayback machine link)
A 1914 and a 2016 map for long it would take to travel from London to various parts of the world (wayback machine link)
Rail maps from several different countries, and more specifically, Mapping London
The Online Collection of Historical Transport Timetables and Maps from around the World
Guide to luxury rail travel pre-WWII
Explorion.net - collection of historical travelogues, full texts of classic books, journals of discovery and personal adventures of famous authors and historical figures (wayback machine link)
Bradshaw's Railway Manual, Shareholders' Guide and Official Directory - 1867 manual for the railways lines and telegraphs, complete guide and timetables for UK, "Continental", Africa, "Australasia", "British North America", India, Southern & Central America, US, West Indies and "Auxiliary Associations" (via google book, search there for more, random selection of other Bradshaw's are at archive.org here)
19th Century London and Victorian Transport (articles on the underground, the horse bus and more)

What it was like to drive a car in the 1890s (video)
The Official Automobile Blue Book 1901 - use, care, maintenance, racing rules and general laws regarding automobiles around the world (scanned copy, via HathiTrust)

travel via ship and various ship related links (modern and historical):
Ship Information Post types, rigging, movement and more
Ship Information - Infographics with types of ships, parts of the ship, wind directions, and sides of boats
Beaufort wind scale table with descriptive terms for wind as well as effects observed at sea and land (the wiki has photos of sea conditions and warning flags, scan of a chart with illustrations of the effects here or here)
Ships & Travel in the 19th century (wayback machine link)
Whalinghistory.org maps, scanned logbooks and searchable databases of numerous countries' whaling voyages
ports.com - calculate a sea voyage (alter the knots to adjust for modern or older ships, site currently down)
Sea distance calculator or another sea distance calculator
ShipIndex.org: a vessel research database "ShipIndex.org simplifies vessel research. Whether you’re a genealogist, a maritime historian, a researcher, or just curious, we can help you learn more about the ships that interest you. " (free access to 150,000 citations, subscribe to access 3+million)

The Gibson Shipwreck Collection over 500 photos taken 1870’s-1970s. (article about it)

weather:
Weather Around the World- Find travel weather, climate averages, forecasts, current conditions and normals for 41,997 cities worldwide
Ocean Temperatures Around the World- Find out the real time temperature of sea water in more than 12000 cities and resorts around the world.
Historic weather station data (UK, data dates from when specific weather stations opened)
The Old Farmer's Almanac Weather History Archive (1,300 weather stations in cities across the United States and Canada)
WeatherSpark's The Weather Year Round Anywhere on Earth (also has an interactive map and past and historical weather)
A visualization of current global weather conditions
Weather Underground look up current and historical weather from around the world

Accents, Communicating, Dialects, Languages and Pronunciation :
The Speech Accent archive
British accents and dialects From the British Library "Listen to speakers from across the UK and explore the differences and similarities between our linguistic varieties, accents and dialects with our expert commentary" (currently offline due to a cyber attack)
The International Dialects of English Archive
Howjsay a free online talking pronunciation dictionary for English (both UK and US pronunciations)
Forvo: The Pronunciation Dictionary - millions of words and phrases pronounced in their original language ("6 million words pronounced in over 390 languages – all created and maintained by native speakers.")
Lexicity, "the first and only comprehensive index for ancient language resources on the internet" (wayback machine link)
Spread the Sign European Sign Language Centre's searchable collection of signs from different sign languages around the world.
learn morse code in a minute
International Morse Code Translator (translates to or from Morse Code and then will play it for you in audio, light pulses or vibration if desired)
1901 Commercial Code Book (thousands of single word codes that would be used in place of phrases when sending telegrams to save money, tumblr post about the practice)
Lexilogos multiple language online dictionaries and keyboards
Omniglot "The online encyclopedia of writing system and languages" and it's Multilingual pages with Useful phrases, numerals, numbers, color/date/family/time/weather/etc word lists in multiple languages.

The Sun, Moon, Sky, Calendars and Converting between them
Sun and Moon data sunrise/sunset times, lunar phases, etc for any year between 1700 and 2100.
Moon Locator will provide moon's location and appearance in the sky after being provided longitude, latitude and a time
Figures in the Sky Displays and compares "28 different "sky cultures" to see differences and similarities in the shapes they've seen in the night sky."
Interactive Sky Chart (set any date between 1600 to 2400 and latitude and longitude, more info here)
NASA's Image and Video Library (over 140k images and other resources, searchable and completely free)
NASA's Exoplanet Archive "an online astronomical exoplanet and stellar catalog and data service that collates and cross-correlates astronomical data and information on exoplanets and their host stars, and provides tools to work with these data."

Computing Sunrise and Sunset in One Step
Day of the Week Calculator Enter a date to calculate the day of the week for an historic or future year (Gregorian calendar)
Date Calculator: Add or Subtract from a date
Jewish Calendar Conversions in One Step
Muslim Calendar Conversions in One Step
Converting between Julian and Gregorian Calendar (and when each country switched over)
Ancient Egyptian Calendar (basic info and converting between Ancient Egyptian and Gregorian calendars)
Moon Calendar (phases of the moon day by day from 1900-2100
Moon Phase Calendar
Six Millennium Catalog of Phases of the Moon
Determining Time between Two Events in One Step

Plants, Animals, Oceans and Forests
Cornell Labs' Macaulay Wildlife Media Collection - a scientific archive of natural history audio, video, and photographs. (Audio and sometimes video clips of over 10k species of birds and another 2k of amphibians, fishes, mammals and more)
FeatherBase over 14k photographs of feathers from more than 1.7k species of birds
University of Puget Sound's Wing and Tail Image Collection (over 3k images)
Avibase - The World Bird Database "Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 50 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information for 20,000 regions, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more."
Birds of North America "Field Guide for all the Birds of North America"
African Bird Image Database (AFBID) "contains over 25,000 freely available images of more than 2,300 bird species."
Xeno-canto "a website for sharing recordings of wildlife sounds from all across the world" (can narrow search by location, species and more)
California Herps "A Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of California" (and around the world)
World Spider Catalog
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository a repository of image references for accurately identified animal species, hundreds of photos taken at various zoos and animal sanctuaries already uploaded with more to come
Ecology Asia "over 1000 species of vertebrate from Southeast Asia comprising around 300 species of reptile, 150 amphibians, 450 birds, 230 mammals and 125 fishes."
South Africa's Kruger National Park Guides its various guides to African nature include: mammals, bird, trees, grass, flowers and reptiles

USDA's Plants Database "provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories." (US only, but great for checking to see what grows where)
Wildflower Search identifies wildflowers within the US, can search by location, elevation, season, color, leaf, etc
FloraFinder "FloraFinder helps you identify North American Plants"
Patagonia Wildflowers identifies wildflowers in Patagonia,, can search by location, elevation, season, color, leaf, etc
Plants of the World Online
The African Plants Portal "a unique access point to millions of primary biodiversity records of plants from African countries"
FloraVeg.EU "an online database of European vegetation, habitats and flora data"
Flora of China "brief descriptions, identification keys, essential synonymy, phenology, provincial distribution in China, brief statements on extra-Chinese distribution, and remarks regarding the circumscription of problematic taxa" of China's many plant species in common English/Latin name, Chinese and Pinyin. Also, Chinese Plant Names and Moss Flora of China.
Types of Forests Around the World - three informative blog posts: 1, 2 and 3 (wayback machine links)
MushroomExpert information on over 1300 species of mushrooms in North America
Tree.fm - listen to various forests from around the world.

Curious what animals and plants exists in a specific place? Google "{place name} inaturalist" for a detailed lists of everything that lives there. (this seems to work better than just going to inaturalist for some reason)

The Deep Sea scroll down to see what resides at different levels of the ocean's depths
interactive globe of ancient Earth (see how the Earth looked at various points from 750 million years ago to today, including the ability to see where a modern city would have existed, if it existed)

The Dinosaur Database "The internet's largest dinosaur database... This site is built with PaleoDB, a scientific database assembled by hundreds of paleontologists over the past two decades."

Things to read and listen to:

Newspaper Archive sites:
Fulton History one man's project to digitize old newspapers (originally NY, then US and Canada and beyond {dates range 1751-2015} and make them freely available on the web. Over 44million pages and more added every day. (Alternative search is currently down)
Chronicling America - "Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963" (free)
Google News Archive Search links to newspaper archives around the world
The British Newspaper Archive - (requires registering and offers three free articles before charging fees, however searches are free and provides small blurb about each article)
Historic Australian Newspapers (free)
Welsh Newspapers Online - a free resource from the National Library of Wales
Papers Past Digitization of New Zealand and Pacific newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries
National Library of Ireland's Digital Collection - Newspapers, manuscripts, books and more
(For specific place newspapers also try looking for a historical society in that city/county/area, for example, many 19th century Brooklyn newspapers can be found at the Brooklyn Historical Society's website along with historic maps, films and more)

Magazine Archives:
Scientific American - a popular science magazine "notable for its long history of presenting science monthly to an educated but not necessarily scientific public" (collection contains only the issues published from 1845-1909)
The Strand Magazine: scanned copies of the first 72 issues at HathiTrust and assorted collection at Internet archive
Popular Mechanics (assorted issues from 1900s-2010s)
Life Magazine (only issues from 1936-1972)
Time Magazine's Vault Excepts, photos and articles from 1920s-today; Time Magazine at the internet archive 1923-2014
Sports Illustrated archives of issues from 1959-today
Saturday Evening Post 1829-2014
Illustrated London News 1842-2003
Ladies' Home Journal 1884-2014
Harper's Bazaar 1867-2016
Cosmopolitan 1886-2016
Glamour 1939-2016

The Whole Earth Publications Index Includes the Whole Earth Catalogue (counterculture magazine that pioneered the US hippie and commune movement, providing 'access to tools' to 'do it yourself', 1968-1988), CoEvolution Quarterly (1974-1984), the Whole Earth Software Review, the Whole Earth Software Review (1984-5), the Whole Earth Review (the result of merging CoEvolution Quarterly and the Whole Earth Software Review (1985-1996), Whole Earth Magazine (a continuation of Whole Earth Review, 1997-2002) and various special publications. (article about it)

Archive.org's collection of over 100 different digitized magazines and monthly publications The Magazine Rack (1800s-today, containing magazines in multiple languages from many different countries)
The Online Books Page's hundreds of results from searching for magazines "The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet"

Historical catalogues and catalogue collections:
The Grocers' Hand-Book and Directory - "an alphabetical treatment of terms important to grocers" including details as to what to stock, how, and the difficulties and differences in items (1883 ed, ed. Artemas Ward, archive.org)
Clearance Sale and Grocery Catalogue Illustrated catalog featuring men's, women's, and children's clothing and accessories, home decor, furniture, everyday goods, and food. (1922)
Complete Fashionable Outfits for Men, Woman and Children from the Plymouth Clothing House Fall 1899 edition (illustrated catalog featuring descriptions and prices)
Artistic and Practical Homes for the Average Man (1922) pictures and floor plans
New Ideas in Concrete Houses: 100 Designs with Floor Plans (1908)
American Dwellings (1910) pictures and floor plans
Illustrated catalog of goods for sale at Leachman's Supply House (Oct 1896, in English, German and Norwegian)
J. M. Davis Mercantile Company's The House of Quality & Low Prices. Catalog No. 37 "Illustrated trade catalog featuring men's and women's clothing and accessories, home decor, furniture, and everyday goods." (1916)
The Vintage Christmas Catalog Archive 100+ US and Canadian Christmas catalogs from stores like Sears, JC Penny, FAO Schwarz and more dating from 1930 to 2017
Catalogs & Wishbooks 346 Vintage Christmas Wish Books and Retail Department Store Catalogs (from Sears, Montgomery Ward and JCPenney)
Ikea Catalog Collection 70 years of digitized Ikea catalogues (site in Swedish)
Argos catalogues - pdf scans of various catalogues from 1974-1999
Radio Shack Catalogs (regular catalog from 1939-2011, computer catalogs from 1977-1992)

Old Magazine Articles - "the effort of one old magazine enthusiast in particular who believes deeply that today's readers of history can learn a good deal from the old periodicals." (PDFs of numerous old articles dating from 1800s-1900s ranging in topics from history, sports, environment, suffrage, war and much, much more)

Dime Novels, Penny Dreadfuls, and Other Fiction Collections:
Archives and General Collections:
Nickels and Dimes - collection of nearly 13k "dime" novels published in the US from 1860-1930.
The Monash University Yellow-Back Collection 12 "yellow-backs" (cheaply published books with yellowy, unbleached paper and covers) ranging from 1858's 'A handbook of gymnastics' to 1902's 'Common objects of the microscope' to Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, scanned and able to be read online.)
Emory University's Yellowback Collection (numerous digitized yellowbacks, available to download and read as a PDF.)
Archive.org's Yellowbacks over 1200 available
McGill Library’s Chapbook Collection Over 900 18th and 19th C English-language chapbooks (short, cheaply made book or pamphlet) from England, Scotland, Ireland and the US
The Pulp Magazine Archive (collection of assorted pulps and mags that have been uploaded to archive.org including Amazing Stories Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, New Worlds Science Fiction Magazine, Science Fantasy, Science Wonder Stories, Twilight Zone Magazine, Weird Tales Magazine and many many more)
The Gardner Francis Fox Library Classic Pulps Collection
Pulp Magazines Project The Pulp Magazines Project is an open-access digital archive dedicated to the study and preservation of one of the twentieth century's most influential literary & artistic forms: the all-fiction pulpwood magazine. It now contains over 400 individual issues, representing 85 different titles from the United States, England, and Australia
Dieselpunk Industries: Pulp Magazine Library (numerous varied scanned pulp magazines)
Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy "this collection has over 80,000 items that range from pulp magazines to role-playing game books. The items that have been digitized are mostly novels published up until the 1950s."
The Westminster Detective Library "The mission of the Westminster Detective Library to catalog and make available online all the short fiction dealing with detectives and detection published in the United States before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1891)."
Arthur Conan Doyle Collection "one of the world's leading research collections devoted to the author of Sherlock Holmes. Its 25,000+ items include a range of Doyle’s fiction and non-fiction — as well as parodies and pastiches related to Sherlock Holmes." (includes numerous scanned publications of Holmes stories in other languages)
Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books thousands of children's books from the 1700's through early 1900s (mostly English, but many French and a few in other languages as well)
Luminist Archives thousands of magazines, periodicals, pulps and fanzines. The collections include occult, counterculture, Scifi/Fantasy, comic books and more (presented as PDFs to be read online or DLed)
Digital Comic Museum "We are the best site for downloading FREE public domain Golden Age Comics. All files here have been researched by our staff and users to make sure they are copyright free and in the public domain." (must create free account to DL)

Collections of runs from specific magazines/pulps (some picked out from above collections, some not):
Dime Mystery Magazine (1933-1949, PDFs to DL or read online)
Ghost Stories (pulp mag, supernatural fantasy and occult fiction mixed with semi-fiction or pseudo-fact articles, 1926-1932, PDFs to DL or read online)
Science Fantasy (British fantasy and science fiction magazine, 1950-1966, PDFs to DL or read online)
Analog Science Fiction and Fact bimonthly literary magazine, 1960-2015
Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine (the 1949-1959 issues)
Weird Tales Magazine (1923-1954 issues)

Vintage Recorded Music/Radio Theater:
UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive "a digital collection of more than 10,000 cylinder recordings... to download or stream online for free."
The Great 78 Project its goal is to "digitize 78rpm discs for preservation, research, and discovery" with the hopes of completely digitizing a more than 400,000-piece virtual record collection (streaming via archive.org)
The National Jukebox via The US Library of Congress a collection of "more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925" available for streaming.
Old Radio World "Welcome to Old Radio World! Here you will find some of the most popular radio programs of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s" (vast collection of streamable comedy, detective, drama, mystery, music, sci-fi shows and more)
Classic Mystery Radio "Classic Mystery Radio is dedicated to bringing you free high-quality entertainment in the form of vintage mystery, suspense, detective, and dramatic radio programs."
The Mercury Theatre on the Air all surviving episodes of Orson Wells' 1938 show, including The War of the Worlds

Radio Around the World (current stations):
Radio Garden is the radio equivalent to google earth, just zoom into a place and give a listen.
Radiooooo "The Musical Time Machine" (similar to Radio Garden but offers music from different decades as well, note- recently began requiring account creation to use)
Worldradiomap "the radio map of the world. Now you can listen to the live broadcast of all FM and AM radio stations from major cities around the world. Just select a city on the map, review the full frequency list and click on the station name to listen online."
RadioGuide.fm "RADIOGUIDE.FM provides the pleasure of listening to online radio stations all over the world." (also available as an app)
The Radio Stream Directory - FMStream's "aim is to create a fast and easy radio stream player for the most common browsers and formats independent from any app or plugin {and has} a large database focusing on the real stream sources, checking bitrates and sample rates." (can search by program, country, language and more)

Random Audio Related Sites:
Purrli - the online cat purr generator
myNoise Generator generators ranging from coffee shop or rain, to gregorian chants and signing bowls, etc
Noises Online - "make use of the noises you like to mask the noises you dislike....you can pick the sounds you like the best. You can adjust their relative levels to achieve perfectly well-balanced background noise to boost your productivity, increase your focus, deepen your meditation session, or fall asleep at night."
A Soft Murmur - "A Soft Murmur is an online background noise generator designed to help you relax, focus, and tune out unpleasant sounds from your environment."

Songfacts database of song information, lyrics, etc searchable by artist, subject, categories, etc
Every Noise at Once "Every Noise at Once was a long-running attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 6,291 genre-shaped distinctions. Click anything to hear an example of what it sounds like. Click the » on a genre to see a map of its artists." (no longer being updated but still works)


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