🔗 Finds #23

Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #23 of Finds — the articles, sites, and corners of the web I bookmarked this week:

📄 Articles

theyshootpictures.comThe 1,000 Greatest FilmsBill Georgaris aggregates 17,747 critics' lists and ballots into a single ranking, updated every New Year's Day — Citizen Kane at 1, Vertigo at 2. Each entry carries its year, cast, a critic's quote, and the names of the directors who voted for it.

aesthetics.fandom.comDark Academia — The Aesthetics Wiki on tweed, candlelit libraries and romanticised Latin, traced back through Byron and the Shelleys to Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Refreshingly, it also runs a Criticisms section — on the Eurocentrism, and on aestheticising sleep deprivation.

🌐 Websites / blogs

tryhackme.comTryHackMeOver 1,000 browser-based labs that teach attack and defence on deliberately broken machines, with 8.4 million registered learners. The beginner path, Cyber Security 101, is 14 modules and 56 hands-on labs — about 46 hours from nothing to a footing.

cheffatty.comChef FattySeattle cook Charles's 175 tested weeknight Asian recipes, with a Food Science section attached that explains the why. Its wok buying guide is the pitch: a $17 wok is the same steel as a $189 one, and here's what you're overpaying for.

threewordphrase.comThree Word Phrase — Ryan Pequin's scratchy black-and-white four-panellers, 301 of them in the archive: “Busy Wizard”, “President Bird Returns”, “Sad Bear is Hungry”. Every strip is hand-lettered, and every character commits far too hard to a very bad idea.

📚 From Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.orgInteger sequence — The doorway to the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, where Fibonacci files as A000045. The good bit: computable sequences are countable while integer sequences are not, so almost every sequence that exists can never be produced by any algorithm.

📺 From YouTube

youtube.comCGP Grey — 7 million subscribers, 195 videos, mostly on flags, borders, zip codes and voting systems. He called Minnesota's flag the worst in the country; Minnesota redesigned it, and he made a video reviewing the replacement.

🌱 Promoted to the wiki: these now live on their topic pages — Films, Culture, Security, Food, Comics, Mathematics, and General Knowledge — so they’re easy to find later. 🗂️ Catch up on past issues.