{"id":3238,"date":"2015-10-17T23:30:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T23:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2015-10-17T23:30:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T23:30:28","slug":"single-topic-websites-run-by-grumpy-obsessives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/17\/single-topic-websites-run-by-grumpy-obsessives\/","title":{"rendered":"Single-topic websites run by grumpy obsessives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A\u00a0really amazing list<\/a> on MetaFilter, which I stumbled on entirely by accident. Beware; there are quite a few timesucks on this list \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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A short, randomly chosen excerpt. Merely the tip of the iceberg:
\nPacMan Dossier<\/a>.
\nYarchive<\/a>.
\ndedicated to the knitting of the authentic Doctor Who scarf<\/a>.
\nRatBehavior.org<\/a>.
\nPeacoat dating<\/a>.
\nA history of Argentinian public transport tickets<\/a>.
\nAlan Cooper’s All About Homonyms<\/a>.
\nThe Soda Can Library<\/a>.
\nInternet Pinball Serial Number Database<\/a>
\na four-way listing of railway codes<\/a>
\nFire Lookouts in the Pacific Northwest <\/a>
\nAlloy Artifacts<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.arcade-museum.com\/<\/a>
\nTaxonomic Data of the Breadties of the World<\/a>
\nRob’s Puzzle Page<\/a>
\nThe Guitar Rig Database<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.tapedeck.org\/<\/a>
\nBrand Name Pencils<\/a>
\nPeeron LEGO inventories<\/a>
\n221B Baker St<\/a>
\ntommy westphall’s mind: A MULTIVERSE EXPLORED<\/a>
\nCosmic Baseball<\/a>
\nRailway Telecomms<\/a>
\nFreeCell — General Information and Index of Solutions<\/a><\/p>\n

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“What are some comprehensive one-topic websites maintained by cranky old guys (or gals)?”<\/p>\n

The Old Man and the C Drive – internet websites cranks | Ask MetaFilter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0really amazing list on MetaFilter, which I stumbled on entirely by accident. Beware; there are quite a few timesucks on this list \ud83d\ude09   A short, randomly chosen excerpt. Merely the tip of the iceberg: PacMan Dossier. Yarchive. dedicated to the knitting of the authentic Doctor Who scarf. RatBehavior.org. Peacoat dating. A history of Argentinian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Qe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3240,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions\/3240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}