"Very informative blog from world-renowned incense maker KyaraZen.",
},
{
title:"Now Smell This",
feedUrl:"https://nstperfume.com/feed/",
url:"https://nstperfume.com/",
description:
"Now Smell This is a blog about perfume. We've been blogging since 2005. Up until about 2019, the blog was regularly updated and we posted lots of perfume reviews. Now, we do still have daily polls and new fragrance announcements, but it's less comprehensive than it was, and reviews are rare. Many pages (Perfume Houses, Perfumers, etc) are way out of date.",
"Way back when blogs were called e-zines – the mid-90s – we made one called Bardo Burner… Sadly, our day-to-day lives got in the way of that labour of love and we jacked it in after a couple of years. Here we are again, reviving the old name just because, but this time primarily exploring issues related to healthy, sustainable living, which for us is strongly rooted in veganism… you’ll find articles here covering everything from cruelty-free cake and vegan restaurants to yoga and Pilates.",
},
{
title:"Brennan's Weblog",
feedUrl:"https://brennan.day/feed.xml",
url:"https://brennan.day/",
description:
"I write about tech criticism, Indigenous issues, the craft of writing, and whatever I can't stop thinking about.",
description:"Taking a look at Dragon's Blood, Frankincense & Rose, King of Loban, Royal Frankincense, Royal Myrrh, and Sacred Frankincense by Bhagwan Incense."
date:2026-07-31
title:'Bhagwan Incense:Resins'
description:>-
Taking a look at Dragon's Blood, Frankincense & Rose, King of Loban, Royal
Frankincense, Royal Myrrh, and Sacred Frankincense by Bhagwan Incense.
date:2026-07-31T00:00:00.000Z
tags:
- Incense
- Incense Review
synopsis:"Taking a look at Dragon's Blood, Frankincense & Rose, King of Loban, Royal Frankincense, Royal Myrrh, and Sacred Frankincense by Bhagwan Incense."
synopsis:>-
Taking a look at Dragon's Blood, Frankincense & Rose, King of Loban, Royal
Frankincense, Royal Myrrh, and Sacred Frankincense by Bhagwan Incense.
The unlit stick has a citrus / white-musk laundry detergent fragrance. In the burn, the stick is much sweeter, with warm, woody, and vanillic notes sitting beneath bergamot peel, white musk, and raspberry. Unlike some other dragon's blood sticks, I don't get much in the way of baking spice except for an anise-seed note. As the fragrance builds in the room, I do begin to get a sense of the metallic note mentioned in the incense description. Like the actual resin, this stick is complex and rather difficult to describe. Although the fragrance doesn't strike me as wholly similar to its namesake, I expect that it will be similarly divisive.
## Frankincense & Rose
A very true to life frankincense fragrance plus a well balanced hit of rose. The combination is juicy and fruity in the way that rose petals are when heated. There is a green-apple acidity that, with everything else, reminds me of sparkling wine or cider. The fragrance is otherwise relatively straightforward, beside a very subtle floral note that I only notice from up close. Also from up close, I keep thinking that there is something of a sandalwood oil note.
## King of Loban
Although the Bhagwan website states on the product page that this stick is "hand-rolled in a state of happiness and gratitude to the divine by women in rural India," these appear to be (as did sandalwood origins, although I didn't mention it) machine-extruded sticks. Whether or not sticks are hand-rolled—in happiness and gratitude to the divine or otherwise—is something I can not bring myself to care about. I do, however, care whether the information provided by a vendor is accurate and I really wish that Bhagwan would put more focus on this area.
King of Loban is, typically for Bhagwan, soundly in composition territory. Alongside notes of baking spice, vanilla, and turbinado sugar, there is that hard to describe floral-woody complexity that makes Indian incense so unique. But while the stick has character and complexity, the benzoin note remains clear and recognizable. King of Loban is not a one-note reference stick for the material, but if you haven't smelled benzoin before you could absolutely learn to recognize it by burning this incense. The benzoin note isn't quite as vanillic as the benzoin Siam in my collection, so this is perhaps not the stick for you if you're looking for an absolute vanilla bomb. (I wonder whether this is due to the form of benzoin used—absolute, resin, or resinoid—the varietal, or just natural variation. I also have benzoin Sumatra in my collection, but I haven't worked with it nearly enough to be able to identify it from Siam in a burning stick of incense.)
@@ -26,9 +32,11 @@ King of Loban is, typically for Bhagwan, soundly in composition territory. Along
Benzoin is a tricky ingredient. When used in very low quantities, it's sweet, vanillic, and can contain notes of baking spice. When over-dosed, it smells something like burning plastic. (In my sticks, I rarely use more than 5% of the stuff, and I've gone up to 30% with other resins.) In my experience, benzoin-forward sticks often smell like the aforementioned combusting polymer, or they smell cloyingly sweet and artificially spicy, like a craft store near the holidays. Bhagwan's King of Loban steers clear of both avenues, resulting in a well-balanced benzoin stick. It's sweet, rich, powdery, a little spicy, and just complex enough to elevate it beyond a one-note stick while maintaining real benzoin character.
## Royal Frankincense
Smells like real sacra resin on the stick. In the burn, the frankincense comes through beautifully. The resin note feels complete in a way oil-based frankincense fragrances rarely do. Despite the description noting that no other aromatics were added, to me there is something of a buttery sandalwood oil note and a measure of that tart-floral complexity that you often find in Indian incense. It reminds me of Fred Soll's Frankincense and Sandalwood, only not quite as strong, and with the added interest and complexity that comes from Indian perfumery. A very, very nice stick.
## Royal Myrrh
Turpenous licorice, black pepper, and acetone on the stick. Burn is dry-woody, spicy cologne. Masculine. Spruce resin. Perfumey kua vibes, but not especially true to life.
Here are some links to pages and resources that I believe are worth sharing.
## Creative resources
## Creative Resources
### General
* [Creative Commons Search Portal](https://search.creativecommons.org/)—The Creative Commons (CC) Search Portal helps you search CC licensed works across multiple platforms. Includes music, web, images, 3D models, video, and more.
* [Creazilla](https://creazilla.com/)—A huge collection of media files under a Public Domain license including photos, illustrations, scanned art images, vectors, videos, and audio files.
* [Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/)—Free stock photos, illustrations, vector graphics, videos, music and sounds effects.
@@ -17,74 +18,84 @@ Here are some links to pages and resources that I believe are worth sharing.
#### Reference
* [Design Systems Gallery](https://designsystemsrepo.com/design-systems-recent/)
#### Software
* [Converseen](https://converseen.fasterland.net/)—A Batch Image Converter and Resizer Tool for Windows, Linux and macOS
* [darktable](https://www.darktable.org/)—An open source photography workflow application and raw developer
* [digiKam](https://www.digikam.org/)—Open-source digital asset manager and image editor
* [DisplayCAL](https://displaycal.net/)—Display Calibration and Characterization powered by ArgyllCMS
* [G'MIC](https://gmic.eu/)—A Full-Featured Open-Source Framework for Image Processing
* [Glaxnimate](https://glaxnimate.org/)—An open-source vector animation and motion design desktop application
* [Artvee](https://artvee.com/)—Browse and download high-resolution, public domain paintings, posters and illustrations.
* [CocoMaterial](https://cocomaterial.com/)—The Open Source hand-drawn illustration library with 3,293 images.
* [Free and open source icons](https://www.toools.design/free-open-source-icon-libraries)
* [Getty Museum Collection](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/search?open_content=true)
* [Getty Research Collections](https://www.getty.edu/research/collections/search?is_open_content=true)
* [Museo](https://museo.app/)—A visual search engine that connects you with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rijksmuseum, the Harvard Art Museums, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the The Cleveland Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library Digital Collection
* [nappy.co](https://nappy.co/)—Beautiful photos of Black and Brown people, for free.
* [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/artwork-search?download=1)—Search and download from a collection of tens of thousands of artworks.
* [Pexels](https://www.pexels.com/)—The best free stock photos, royalty free images & videos shared by creators
* [Old Book Illustrations](https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/)
* [Pexels](https://www.pexels.com/)—The best free stock photos, royalty free images & videos shared by creators.
* [Public Domain Image Archive](https://pdimagearchive.org/galleries/all/random/desc)—The Public Domain Image Archive is a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse.
* [Smithsonian Open Access](https://www.si.edu/openaccess)—Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images
* [Smithsonian Open Access](https://www.si.edu/openaccess)—Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images.
#### Typefaces
* [Badass Libre Fonts By Womxn](https://www.design-research.be/by-womxn/)
* [Collletttivo](https://www.collletttivo.it/)—An Open-Source type foundry and a network of people promoting the practice of type design through mutual exchange and collaboration
* [coolLabs Fonts](https://fonts.coollabs.io/)—A privacy-friendly drop-in replacement for Google Fonts
* [Cyreal](https://cyreal.org/info/)—A Libre/Opensource foundry with expertise in Latin and Cyrillic scripts
* [Collletttivo](https://www.collletttivo.it/)—An Open-Source type foundry and a network of people promoting the practice of type design through mutual exchange and collaboration.
* [coolLabs Fonts](https://fonts.coollabs.io/)—A privacy-friendly drop-in replacement for Google Fonts.
* [Cyreal](https://cyreal.org/info/)—A Libre/Opensource foundry with expertise in Latin and Cyrillic scripts.
* [Datatype](https://franktisellano.github.io/datatype/)—A font that turns text into charts.
* [Font Library](https://fontlibrary.org/en)
* [FontCDN](https://thomaspark.co/projects/fontcdn/)—A search tool for Google fonts
* [Fontsource](https://fontsource.org/)—An updating monorepo full of self-hostable Open Source fonts bundled into individual NPM packages
* [Fontspace](https://www.fontspace.com/)—Free downloads of 150,000+ legally licensed fonts
* [google-webfonts-helper](https://gwfh.mranftl.com/fonts)—A hassle-free way to self-host google fonts
* [Use & Modify](https://usemodify.com/)—A personal selection of beautiful, classy, punk, professional, incomplete, weird typefaces
* [FontCDN](https://thomaspark.co/projects/fontcdn/)—A search tool for Google fonts.
* [Fontsource](https://fontsource.org/)—An updating monorepo full of self-hostable Open Source fonts bundled into individual NPM packages.
* [Fontspace](https://www.fontspace.com/)—Free downloads of 150,000+ legally licensed fonts.
* [google-webfonts-helper](https://gwfh.mranftl.com/fonts)—A hassle-free way to self-host google fonts.
* [Use & Modify](https://usemodify.com/)—A personal selection of beautiful, classy, punk, professional, incomplete, weird typefaces.
* [freeCodeCamp](https://www.freecodecamp.org/)—Advance your career by learning in-demand skills in Programming, DevOps, Cybersecurity, AI Engineering, and English for Developers
### Credit-bearing courses and degrees
* [freeCodeCamp](https://www.freecodecamp.org/)—Advance your career by learning in-demand skills in Programming, DevOps, Cybersecurity, AI Engineering, and English for Developers.
### Credit-Bearing Courses and Degrees
* [saylor.org Academy](https://learn.saylor.org/)—Learn new skills or earn credit towards a degree using free courses from Saylor Academy
* [Sophia Learning](https://www.sophia.org/)—Online college-level courses for $99 a month, designed to transfer to 100+ partner colleges, reviewed for credit at 1,000+ other colleges and universities
* [University of The People](https://www.uopeople.edu/)—A tuition-free online university, accredited by WSCUC and DEAC
* [Sophia Learning](https://www.sophia.org/)—Online college-level courses for $99 a month, designed to transfer to 100+ partner colleges, reviewed for credit at 1,000+ other colleges and universities.
* [University of The People](https://www.uopeople.edu/)—A tuition-free online university, accredited by WSCUC and DEAC.
### GNU/Linux
* [KillerCoda](https://killercoda.com/)—Interactive environments for tech you study, teach or present
* [Linux Upskill Challenge](https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/)—Learn the skills required to sysadmin a remote Linux server from the command line
* [SadServers](https://sadservers.com/)—Master Linux & DevOps troubleshooting on live servers
* [KillerCoda](https://killercoda.com/)—Interactive environments for tech you study, teach or present.
* [Linux Upskill Challenge](https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/)—Learn the skills required to sysadmin a remote Linux server from the command line.
* [SadServers](https://sadservers.com/)—Master Linux & DevOps troubleshooting on live servers.
### Open Textbooks
* [LibreTexts Commons](https://commons.libretexts.org/)—The LibreText Commons hosts curated Open Educational Resources from all 16 libraries in the LibreVerse in one convenient location
* [Milne Open Textbooks](https://milneopentextbooks.org/)—Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff
* [OER Commons](https://oercommons.org/)—A public digital library of open educational resources
* [Open Textbook Library](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/)—Now offering 1739 open textbooks, the Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network
* [openstax](https://openstax.org/)—The world’s largest publisher of open education resources
### Scots language
* [OpenLearn Create Scots language and culture](https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/index.php?categoryid=382)—This course teaches aspects of Scots, one of the three indigenous languages spoken in Scotland alongside English and Scottish Gaelic
* [Scots Language Center](https://www.scotslanguage.com/pages/view/id/9)—Educational resources relating to the Scots language
* [ScotsHoose Yaldi](https://www.scotshooseyaldi.com/)—Scots language learning and creativity resource for children, young people, teachers and parents
* [LibreTexts Commons](https://commons.libretexts.org/)—The LibreText Commons hosts curated Open Educational Resources from all 16 libraries in the LibreVerse in one convenient location.
* [Milne Open Textbooks](https://milneopentextbooks.org/)—Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
* [OER Commons](https://oercommons.org/)—A public digital library of open educational resources.
* [Open Textbook Library](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/)—Now offering 1739 open textbooks, the Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network.
* [openstax](https://openstax.org/)—The world’s largest publisher of open education resources.
### Scots Language
* [OpenLearn Create Scots language and culture](https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/index.php?categoryid=382)—This course teaches aspects of Scots, one of the three indigenous languages spoken in Scotland alongside English and Scottish Gaelic.
* [Scots Language Center](https://www.scotslanguage.com/pages/view/id/9)—Educational resources relating to the Scots language.
* [ScotsHoose Yaldi](https://www.scotshooseyaldi.com/)—Scots language learning and creativity resource for children, young people, teachers and parents.
## Eleventy resources
* [11tyBundle](https://11tybundle.dev/)—Learn how others are making the most of 11ty, an exceptionally simple, flexible, and performant, open-source static site generator
* [11tyCMS](https://11tycms.com/)—A local, serverless, dependable, and FLOSS CMS for websites made with Eleventy
* [Pagefind](https://pagefind.app/)—A fully static search library that runs after Hugo, Eleventy, Jekyll, Next, Astro, SvelteKit, or any other website framework
## Eleventy Resources
* [11tyBundle](https://11tybundle.dev/)—Learn how others are making the most of 11ty, an exceptionally simple, flexible, and performant, open-source static site generator.
* [11tyCMS](https://11tycms.com/)—A local, serverless, dependable, and FLOSS CMS for websites made with Eleventy.
* [Pagefind](https://pagefind.app/)—A fully static search library that runs after Hugo, Eleventy, Jekyll, Next, Astro, SvelteKit, or any other website framework.
* [Uncharted](https://uncharted.seanlunsford.com/)—A CSS-based chart plugin for Eleventy.
## Free/libre software
* [Free Software Foundation](https://fsf.org)—A nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom
* [GNU](https://gnu.org)—An operating system that is free software—that is, it respects users' freedom
* [KDE](https://kde.org)—An international community developing the world’s finest free and open-source software
## Free/Libre Software
* [Free Software Foundation](https://fsf.org)—A nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom.
* [GNU](https://gnu.org)—An operating system that is free software—that is, it respects users' freedom.
* [KDE](https://kde.org)—An international community developing the world’s finest free and open-source software.
* [switching.software](https://switching.software/)—switching.software aims to educate a non-technical audience on ethical and easy-to-use alternatives to well-known websites, apps and other software.
## Friendly Sites (Those not linked elsewhere on this site)
@@ -93,78 +104,84 @@ Here are some links to pages and resources that I believe are worth sharing.
## Health / Medical
* [smelltrainingapp.com](https://smelltrainingapp.com/)—A free tool from Stockholms Universitet and and Karolinska Institutet to help patients with hyposmia or anosmia improve their sense of smell.
## Indieweb / personal web: discovery
* [Akregator](https://apps.kde.org/akregator/)—A news feed reader available for GNU/Linux and Windows
* [Alligator](https://apps.kde.org/alligator/)—A convergent, cross-platform feed reader, supporting standard RSS/Atom feeds available for GNU/Linux
* [blogroll.org](https://blogroll.org/)—Because blogs are the soul of the web
* [blogs.hn](https://blogs.hn/)—A directory of tech sites, primarily sourced from HackerNews
* [blogscroll.com](https://blogscroll.com/)—An open directory of personal sites and blogs
* [blogsearch.io](https://blogsearch.io/)—A search engine for personal blogs and independent websites
* [Bubbles](https://bubbles.town/)— Somewhere out there, someone wrote a really good blog post today. You'll probably never find it. Google won't show it to you. Social media buried it under engagement bait. Bubbles tries to surface it. Community voting applied to thousands of personal, independent blogs, with identity and discussion routed through the Fediverse.
## Indieweb / Personal Web: Discovery
* [Akregator](https://apps.kde.org/akregator/)—A news feed reader available for GNU/Linux and Windows.
* [Alligator](https://apps.kde.org/alligator/)—A convergent, cross-platform feed reader, supporting standard RSS/Atom feeds available for GNU/Linux.
* [blogroll.org](https://blogroll.org/)—Because blogs are the soul of the web.
* [blogs.hn](https://blogs.hn/)—A directory of tech sites, primarily sourced from HackerNews.
* [blogscroll.com](https://blogscroll.com/)—An open directory of personal sites and blogs.
* [blogsearch.io](https://blogsearch.io/)—A search engine for personal blogs and independent websites.
* [Bubbles](https://bubbles.town/)— Somewhere out there, someone wrote a really good blog post today. You'll probably never find it. Google won't show it to you. Social media buried it under engagement bait. Bubbles tries to surface it. Community voting applied to thousands of personal, independent blogs, with identity and discussion routed through the Fediverse.[^1]
* [Bukmark Club](https://bukmark.club/)—The BUKMARK.CLUB is a collection of websites from across the Internet.
* [Early Web Links](https://earlyweblinks.com/)—Before the internet went corporate, it was weird, wonderful, and deeply personal. People built websites just because they had something to share. This directory is full of sites that bring back that feeling.
* [Feeder](https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder)—An open source feed reader (RSS/Atom/JSONFeed) for Android
* [Feedle](https://feedle.world/)—A search engine for blogs and podcasts
* [FreshRSS](https://www.freshrss.org/cloud-providers.html)—A self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator
* [indieblog.page](https://indieblog.page/)—Discover the indieweb
* [Feeder](https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder)—An open source feed reader (RSS/Atom/JSONFeed) for Android.
* [Feedle](https://feedle.world/)—A search engine for blogs and podcasts.
* [FreshRSS](https://www.freshrss.org/cloud-providers.html)—A self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator.
* [indieblog.page](https://indieblog.page/)—Discover the indieweb.
* [Kagi Smallweb](https://kagi.com/smallweb/)
* [Marginalia Search](https://marginalia-search.com/)—Search that prioritizes non-commercial content
* [Mydora](https://mydora.restorativland.org/)—A continuous streaming player that gives you a deep dive into the lost archives of Myspace Music
* [ooh.directory](https://ooh.directory/)—A collection of 2,358 blogs about every topic
* [Marginalia Search](https://marginalia-search.com/)—Search that prioritizes non-commercial content.
* [Minifeed](https://minifeed.net/)—Minifeed is a curated blog directory, reader, and search engine. The goal is to collect blogs written by real humans, make them discoverable and searchable.
* [RSS Guard](https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard)—Feed reader (podcast player and also Gemini protocol client) which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services
* [searchmysite.net](https://searchmysite.net/)—Search real content by real people from their personal websites
* [Random Blog](https://randomblog.rocks/)—Discover random blogs.
* [RSS Finder](https://lwindolf.github.io/rss-finder/)—Find RSS feeds from popular platforms, by scanning websites, and through search.
* [RSS Guard](https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard)—Feed reader (podcast player and also Gemini protocol client) which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services.
* [searchmysite.net](https://searchmysite.net/)—Search real content by real people from their personal websites.
* [Webring List](https://brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm)—A list of 724 webrings containing a total of 30,918 websites.
* [Wiby](https://wiby.me/)—Search engine for the classic web
* [Wiby](https://wiby.me/)—Search engine for the classic web.
## Indieweb / personal web: resources
## Indieweb / Personal Web: Resources
### Analytics
* [goatcounter.com](https://www.goatcounter.com/)—An open source web analytics platform available as a free donation-supported hosted service or self-hosted app
* [Mochi](https://mochi.meadow.cafe/)—Friendly analytics and webmentions for your little corner of the web
* [goatcounter.com](https://www.goatcounter.com/)—An open source web analytics platform available as a free donation-supported hosted service or self-hosted app.
* [Mochi](https://mochi.meadow.cafe/)—Friendly analytics and webmentions for your little corner of the internet.
### Code Generators
* [Melon's Gallery Maker](https://melonking.net/melon?z=/free/software/gallery-maker)—a micro-static site generator that makes it super easy to share your photos, make gif resource sites and showcase your artworks!
* [MERP Feed Embed](https://merp.ichi.city/feed-embed/)—Embed an atom feed within a static HTML page.
* [Octothorpes](https://octothorp.es/)—Octothorpes are hashtags and backlinks that can be used on regular websites, connecting pages across the open internet regardless of where they're hosted.
* [ichi.city](https://ichi.city/)—a friendly little internet community where you can create your homepage, explore your creativity, and discover other people.
* [Kitty](https://kitty.meadow.cafe/)—A cozy, minimal content platform focused on helping you write & publish without fuss
* [Kitty](https://kitty.meadow.cafe/)—A cozy, minimal content platform focused on helping you write & publish without fuss.
* [neocities.org](https://neocities.org/)—Create your own free website.
Unlimited creativity, zero ads.
* [smol.pub](https://smol.pub/)—Smol Pub is tiny blogging service accessible from Web, Gemini and Gopher.
@@ -174,15 +191,20 @@ Unlimited creativity, zero ads.
* [status.cafe](https://status.cafe/)—status.cafe is a place to share your current status.
## Literature
* [LibriVox](https://librivox.org/)—Free public domain audiobooks read by volunteers from around the world.
* [Queer Liberation Library](https://www.queerliberationlibrary.org/)—Queer Liberation Library (QLL) is fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering diversity of our community.
* [Standard Ebooks](https://standardebooks.org/)—A volunteer-driven effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks.
* [TypeLit.io](https://www.typelit.io/)—Test your typing online by practicing on your favorite literature
* [TypeLit.io](https://www.typelit.io/)—Test your typing online by practicing on your favorite literature.
* [Wee Windaes—A continuum o the Scots Leid](https://wee-windaes.nls.uk/)
## More Links
* [Coyote's Link Hub](https://osteophage.neocities.org/links)—Useful links, essays, compilations and more.
## Music
* [Free Music Archive](https://freemusicarchive.org/home)—Free Music Archive (FMA) offers free access to open licensed, original music by independent artists around the world.
* [Musopen](https://musopen.org/)—Musopen is a 501(c) 3 non-profit working to increase access to music education by providing free music recordings, sheet music, apps, and educational materials.
## Privacy-respecting tools and services
## Privacy-Respecting Tools and Services
* [Autistici](https://www.autistici.org/)—A collective offering free digital services, including:
* Anonymity services
* Blogging
@@ -245,7 +267,7 @@ Unlimited creativity, zero ads.
* Cloud storage
* Git forge
* Libre product publishing
* [searchengine.party](https://searchengine.party/)—Web page for comparing popular search engines across some privacy-centric data points
* [searchengine.party](https://searchengine.party/)—Web page for comparing popular search engines across some privacy-centric data points.
* [sp-codes.de](https://sp-codes.de/en/)—Services run by an individual for general use, including:
* Badges
* Captive portal check
@@ -299,10 +321,8 @@ Unlimited creativity, zero ads.
* Microblogging
* Search
* VPN
## Random cool stuff
## Random Cool Stuff
* [intertapes.net](https://intertapes.net/)—An updating collection of found cassette tapes from different locations. The audio fragments include: voice memos, field recordings, mixtapes, bootlegs and more.
* [Pocket Bird](https://idreesinc.itch.io/pocket-bird)—A pet bird that flies around web pages as you browse. Collect feathers to unlock different birds, and find hats for your bird to wear.
## Sounds & Samples
* [FreeSound](https://freesound.org/)
* [LooperMan](https://www.looperman.com/)
* [SampleSwap](https://sampleswap.org/index.php)
[^1]: It turns out that the developer behind Bubbles.town [used an LLM to categorize blogs](https://brennan.day/floating-up-an-interview-with-the-creator-of-bubbles-town-benjamin-behnke/), even when AI crawlers were specifically disallowed in a blog's [robots.txt](/robots.txt). He has since owned up to the mistake and apologized, but… [oof](/ai).
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