Welcome to another installment of cool things for cool people. I’ve got a mix of cool things for you to check out this month. Don’t forget you can submit your own cool thing using the cool things form!
Surviving Strangehollow for 5E+
Love D&D? Love fantastical art? Take a look at Surviving Strangehollow, based on the beautiful artworks of Emily Hare on Kickstarter. Fund this campaign to receive the game, as well as all kinds of crowdfunding goodies. Live now!
“Hunted” Pin Set – Part of Pintopia 2
On my illustrative side I’m part of Pintopia 2 this year with the “Hunted” pin set! I’ll be looking towards gathering funds for a two enamel pin set. Get a dose of story, and learn about the trapping and hunting of native wolves in the United States. Some portion of proceeds go to a good cause! Backers who back this and my partner for Pintopia will also receive two special collaboration pins.
10 Minute Email
Need an email address for, oh, I don’t know, only about 10 minutes? 10 Minute Mail will get you there. Helpful for signing up for freebies, discount codes, etc. Once your ten minutes are up, the email address goes away forever.
“The Grannies” Red Dead Redemption 2 Mini Documentary
Friends go on an adventure in Red Dead Online as roving pack “The Grannies.” They “break” the game by going around the invisible wall borders of the map into uncharted territory. An interesting sixteen minute watch on YouTube if you’re interested in game design and development! The players travel to decreasingly lower resolution maps and explore what’s out there.
Harnessing the power of a desert
In How the UN is Holding Back the Sahara Desert on Youtube, Andrew Millison reviews the land recovery project as part of the Great Green Wall of Africa. The efforts of this project are to help prevent the expansion of the Sahara Desert to the south.
Thomas Steeles unearths the origins of the world’s most hated font, Comic Sans
Why does everyone hate the font Comic Sans? Where does it come from? What started this massive hatred for this font? Take a look in this article detailing the when, where, why, and how. You have to purchase to read the whole thing (it’s a book!) but the beginning had me hooked for sure.
Interactive map shows user submitted queer significant points
Queeringthemap.com is an interactive user-submitted map that shows significant queer experiences based on locations. Fun to explore the various queer experiences as submitted by users ranging from people actively looking for hookups (“Any one wanna meet up here. gay m here”), to the poetic (“You were my first crush on a girl and still the strongest ever, i think. We had sleepovers where we would kiss and then you would stop and say you were straight before you kept going, and you kept coming over just to do that. i’m glad you’ve accepted who you are now. i was so afraid of pushing it but i always wish we did more.”)
Librum Prodigiosum – A Monster Encyclopedia!
A neat library of monsters… The description reads “Within these pages lurk horrors beyond your wildest imaginings.
This definitive book of the bizarre covers more than 2,500 monsters, ghosts, aliens, demons, cryptids, bogeymen and mythical beasts from across the world, and features over 850 incredible illustrations from a talented team of international artists.”
Listen to a random forest in the world
Tree.fm delivers to you a random audio file from a forest in the world somewhere. Try it out!
Glitter Graphics brings the old web back
Need to make a glitter graphic? How about cryptic text? Maybe some rainbow? This old web-style generator has got your back.
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