Dear community,

Special Fish needs your support now.

For the entire month of February, I'm asking the community to help keep Special Fish running. I run this site entirely on my own as a working artist, living off my work.

Special Fish depends on users like you for hosting, maintenance, and keeping the site running. Every user costs the site money. If you use Special Fish regularly or just don't want to see it go away, please consider supporting it. A yearly contribution of $40 is suggested (that comes out to $3.33 per month). Supporters pay for users who don't have the means to support the site.

Please consider donating:

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~ Elliott

This message is temporary and will be removed at the end of February. Thank you for reading :)

Brendan @schlagetown

https://www.brendanschlagel.com/, Brooklyn, NY

Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/schlagetown Currently building a platform for people-focused learning on the internet: https://hyperlink.academy/ I run a website where I collect & share all kinds of fascinating books: https://www.antilibrari.es/ Also a small bibliophile community: https://athenaeum.antilibrari.es/ Here's my personal canon: https://www.brendanschlagel.com/canon/ Some favorite things: words, unicode, language, translation creative constraints, oulipo ecology, deep time bookstores, libraries, the internet indie creator economics walking, hiking, exploring
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Books (Favorites)

  • Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  • Le Ton beau de Marot - Douglas Hofstadter
  • Thinking in Systems: A Primer - Donella Meadows
  • His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
  • Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino
  • Autonauts of the Cosmoroute - Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop

Fun Websites

  • https://everything2.com/
  • http://phrontistery.info/
  • http://longnow.org/
  • https://fo.am/
  • https://aworkinglibrary.com/
  • http://worrydream.com/

Books (Antilibrary)

  • From the Tree to the Labyrinth - Umberto Eco
  • Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov
  • Library of Small Catastrophes - Alison C. Rollins
  • Communities of Practice - Etienne Wenger
  • 99 Variations on a Proof - Philip Ording
  • Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - Audre Lorde

projects I'd like to do one day

  • word games for kids and babies
  • more experimental book clubs
  • speculative absurdist ecommerce shop
  • microgrants of some kind
  • creative constraints for poetry and photography
  • rap album about my favorite things
  • cool decks of cards of some kind
  • social space purely in a sql database