Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #12 of Finds — the articles, sites, and corners of the web I bookmarked this week:
🌐 Websites / blogs
allaboutcircuits.comLessons in Electric CircuitsTony R. Kuphaldt's free multi-volume electronics textbook, reformatted by All About Circuits — DC, AC, semiconductors, and digital circuits, starting at static electricity and Ohm's law and running through capacitors, inductors, and time constants.
htmldog.comHTML Dog — Tutorials, techniques, examples, and full tag-and-property references for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — quietly maintained out of Edinburgh since 2003, with no framework detours.
a-z-animals.comA-Z AnimalsA wildlife encyclopedia with 2,773 species profiles from aardvark to zorse, browsable by letter, by continent, by conservation status, or by scientific class — extinct oddities like Amphicoelias and Arsinoitherium included.
pdimagearchive.orgPublic Domain Image Archive: Ernst Haeckel70 of Haeckel's plates — radiolarians, medusae, echinoids, the Kunstformen der Natur lithographs — free to download, inside The Public Domain Review's archive you can browse by artist, century, style, theme, or tag.
xkcd.comxkcdRandall Munroe's “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language,” updating Monday, Wednesday, and Friday — the current strip hands a Nobel to the two researchers who did not announce the discovery of microbes on Titan.
theuselesswebindex.comThe Useless Web Index — A catalogue of deliberately pointless websites with a button that fires you at a random one — watch virtual grass grow, spin a virtual fidget spinner, or work through the daily top 10.
🎬 Videos
youtube.comAll of Economics in 20 Minutes — 20 Minute University speed-runs an entire economics curriculum in one sitting — the fastest economics degree you'll ever get.
🌱 Promoted to the wiki: these now live on their topic pages —
Electronics, Web Development, Animals, Art, Comics, Time Wasters, and Economics — so they’re easy to find later.
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