Cool sites

HJMT http://hj-mt.com

Of course, he's my best friend! (About him)

Football stuff

The Sweeper podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/7j6UfGCD5EtkdhOZpD55jS?si=7c132bc52ced4956

A truly unique podcast that talks about niche football stories. The world is so interesting!

The City Ground http://www.thecityground.com

Every single data of Forest's entire history in one site.

StadiumDB http://stadiumdb.com/

See all the stadiums of the world!

Football Kit Archive https://www.footballkitarchive.com/

This one has quite a powerful advanced search function.

Historical Kits https://www.historicalkits.co.uk/

An online museum for English and Scottish clubs' shirts. 

Milestone Clubs https://sites.google.com/view/milestoneclubs/

Which club has the historical and geographical records in what country?

The Unofficial Football Club Championship https://www.stevesfootballstats.uk/unofficial_football_club_championship_ufcc.html

What if there was a champion belt for football clubs? The best part is when it gets tossed all the way down to the regional leagues!

Languages/Culture

Babel Matrix https://www.babelmatrix.org/

A collection of European poetry and short literature, mainly from Hungary and its neighboring countries.

Muturzikin http://www.muturzikin.com

Cool personal website of a Basque guy. You can find all the linguistic maps of the world, and everything Basque!

Teletext online https://sites.google.com/view/teletextonline

A link collection of online teletext services from all over Europe. I wasn't the generation to use these but I think the layout designs look cool.

ToLearnFrench https://www.tolearnfrench.com/

You can practice basic French, but the best thing is that you can also find tons of vintage GIFs from the old Internet!

UDHR Audio https://udhr.audio/

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights have been translated into all kinds of languages, and it's an interesting way to compare them.

Hangulize https://hangulize.org/

How would European languages look like when written in Hangul? This site automatically converts by using the National Institute of Korean Language's official rules. It's consistent but even when considering Hangul's own limits, it's not always that faithful to the actual pronounciation though.

Mapologies https://mapologies.com/

Lots of interesting maps!

Art

Bestiary https://bestiary.ca

How medieval people saw animals and imagined monsters!

Budapest Poster https://budapestposter.com/

My art was also heavily inspired by Eastern European posters of the Soviet era. You can browse a catalogue of great posters there.

Koyamori https://maruti-bitamin.tumblr.com/

My favorite watercolour artist, who first inspired me to pick up a brush. She paints fresh ideas inspired by nature.

Jonas Lau Markussen https://jonaslaumarkussen.com/

A cool guy that writes guides and makes art about runestones and Viking art!

Miscellaneous

Digital Typhoon http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/digital-typhoon/index.html.en

Typhoons cause huge trouble here in East Asia every summer. This website has all the data of the world's big bad winds recorded in history.

Magistream https://magistream.com/

A virtual pet collecting website. The random dragons in the right side of this blog are from there. There are so many fun and creative creature designs!

Rundata https://app.raa.se/open/runor or https://rundata.info/

An online database of runestones, which inspired my red dragon signature.

 

Last updated 2025-03-20