Useful Links...
Nifty stuff
AnimeFu Addicted to Anime? Go here.
Bletchley Park Home of ULTRA and COLOSSUS.
Babel Fish Translate websites or snippets of text into other languages.
The Eden Project Home of the worlds biggest biomes.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation Protecting online freedoms and rights.
Monet A site about Claude Monet, my favourite artist.
Pagina oficial de Luis Royo The official Luis Royo page.
Maver The digital art and photo manipulation work of Marco Vernaglione.
Project Gutenberg A repository of public domain writing and publications.
Comics
Calvin and Hobbes I wanna be Calvin. Sigh...
Sluggy Freelance "Is it not nifty? Worship the comic"
Little Gamers Home of teh l337.
User Friendly A hilarious look at the daily insanity that is life at an ISP.
Distributed Computing
Distributed.net Moo.
SETI@home Seach for aliens, 'nuff said.
United Devices Or "How to make money doing this."
Search tools
AltaVista My favourite after Google. Much better since they went back to a lightweight homepage.
FCC ID # Search Very useful for finding out who really made obscure pieces of hardware.
Google Currently the 800-pound gorilla of search engines.
h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Thank-you Douglas Adams, we miss you.
IMDB The Internet Movie DataBase.
Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary Very useful when a printed dictionary is not close to hand.
Online news & commentary
The Daily Aardvark Daily net-news and commentary since 1995.
BBCi Yay, the BBC. the Beeb gives me a warm fuzzy feeling which may have something to do with listening to them years ago on shortwave. (Why yes, there are frequencies outside FM you know...) Excellent coverage and usually less biased than CNN.
Independent Media Center To quote from their site: "Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth." Also waaay better than CNN :-)
Netsurfer Digest One of the net's oldest surviving 'zines. More signal, less noise.
Slashdot News for nerds, stuff that matters.
The Register Biting the hand that feeds I.T.
Open Source stuff
Debian GNU/Linux
LDP The Linux Documentation Project.
Linux.org | Linux.com | Linux HQ
Freshmeat
Apache Serving the World Wide Web.
Ready-to-Run Software Provide support services for the FrontPage Server Extensions on *nix.
Web Authoring
Webmonkey Lotsa stuff here, very useful if you're getting started.
Hodder's HTML manual Covers HTML 4.0, CSS and SSI.
Effective Use of Style Sheets
FlashButtons Generate animated navbars & buttons for your site.
W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (they set the WWW standards.)
RDF Model and Syntax Specification.
WML Wireless Markup Language Introduction.
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