BOOKMARKS regular news | Webdesign | web production | web programming | webshops | History of Web Design | Browser | Flash | Friends & Family | Blogs | blog related | Audio | Literature | Poetry | Transhumanism | Space | Gaming | Science Fiction | Movies | Art | Portals | Magazines | Humor | Comics | anti-religion | t-shirts | Politics | Misc | Juggling | education | DSL & Webhosting | VR | Hardware | Linux | Perl | Template Systems | OSX | Local | meta internet | googlehacking | ren fest regular news: http://news.google.com/ google news http://megarad.com/ some funny, some informative... cool stuff though. http://www.fark.com/ funny farkin' stuff... (photoshop contests daily!) http://www.linesandsplines.com/ typographic design stuff http://www.memepool.com/ funny stuff. every day. http://www.kuro5hin.org/ more tech/culture news. http://slashdot.org news for nerds http://www.alistapart.com/ zine for people who make web sites http://www.writersalminac.org/ a poem a day, and neat writer's facts http://www.aldaily.com/ arts and letters daily (an "intelectual" portal) webdesign: http://www.theroot42.org/ design forums... lots of interesting stuff... http://www.designiskinky.net/ awesome design stuff http://www.undesign.org an article on webdesign biz, from and for designers http://www.xplane.com/xblog/ cool design-oriented blog. http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/ Webmaster's Color Laboratory http://www.pirated-sites.com/ pirated site designs mostly... crazy! http://www.projectcool.com development portal http://www.zeldman.com/ Jeffrey Zeldman's site http://www.alistapart.com/ zine for people who make web sites web production: http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/ mozilla web developer toolbar http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/index.html presentation on using CSS in design http://www.css-discuss.org/ css discussion list, their wiki is especially nice http://www.everythinginmoderation.org/ blog devoted to message board moderation http://developer.apple.com/internet/ mac's developer pages http://www.csszengarden.com/ cool CSS layouts http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ http://centricle.com/tools/favelets/ http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/accessibility-checking-favelets.asp favelets or bookmarklets -- last are accessibility checking specific accessify also has useful tools, including html to JS conversion tool http://www.webmasterworld.com/ nice webmaster news and discussion http://www.richinstyle.com/ stylesheet tutorials http://www.brainjar.com/dhtml/tablesort/ DOM javascript table sorting tutorial http://www.webstandards.org/learn/askw3c/dec2002.html ask the w3c http://diveintoaccessibility.org/ very very interesting article (and how-to) on web accessibility http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html the lynx viewer (lets you view your pages as lynx would see them) http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/ Eric Meyer wrote the oriley CSS book, and is probably the world's expert on the subject. http://www.smokinggun.com/ John Weir's site, javascript tutorials, and some other neat stuff. http://www.w3.org/ World Wide Web Consortium http://www.evolt.org/ web developer community http://www.glish.com/css/ css info... blog style. very cool. http://www.saila.com/usage/layouts/ http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/index.html http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Internet/CSS/Sample_Style_Sheets/Layouts/ http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/ http://www.positioniseverything.net/ http://devedge.netscape.com/central/css/ http://www.endamcg.com/main/templates/ http://www.meryl.net/css/ http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/ http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/index.mhtml http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/ http://www.realworldstyle.com/ http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/ http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/ http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/list-o-matic/ more xhtml/css layout info http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#link-text-images W3's alt tag use for disability faq/how-to http://infocentre.frontend.com/ very cool usability site... with news and stuff. http://www.digital-web.com another web developer magazine http://www.builder.com/Authoring/Xhtml/?tag=st.bl.3881.dir1.f081399 http://www.webreview.com/style/css1/charts/mastergrid.shtml info on xhtml style sheet browser compatibility http://www.netmechanic.com/cobrands/zd_dev/ web tuneup... check your site for spelling errors, etc... http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html a table with hex and various versions of asci characters... http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_9.html the full list of html special characters (in the original DTD) http://www.webstandards.org/ exactly what it sounds like http://www.mun.ca/cc/tsg/smtp-pop.html links to both pop3 standards and SMTP... http://www.Stars.com/ illustrated encyclopedia of web technology http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/ Caching Tutorial (how to make your page cachable) http://www.orbitcycle.com an add agency that seems really simple and easy to work with. http://www.willcam.com/cmat/html/crossref.html Compact Index -- Cross Referenced (1996) http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/htmlguid/index.htm Netscape's Developer Site http://blooberry.com/indexdot/ one of the best and most comprehensive reference sites out there http://www.builder.com/ http://www.webmonkey.com/ http://www.webreference.com/ http://www.w3schools.com/ various & sundry refference sites http://www.addme.com/ add me, a site that adds you to search engines for free... web programming: http://cakephp.org/ cool php framework http://jibbering.com/2002/4/httprequest.html AJAX tutorial http://www.cs.wcupa.edu/~rkline/perl2php/ Perl to PHP translation http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/ cool DOM scripts and hacks http://jmcpherson.org/editing.html article titled: Efficient Editing With vim http://www.perlmonks.org/ guru-style question/answer stuff http://www.perldoc.com/ perl documentation http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/ mysql manual by chapter http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-cptied.html article on using tied variables in perl http://www.opensourcecms.com/ try out various cms before you install them http://www.darkshire.org/~jhkim/programming/zipcodes/ build a zip code lookup app http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/ NMS web scripts -- written by "experts" http://www.zend.com/ http://www.phpcomplete.com/ http://www.faqts.com/ http://www.php.net/support.php more php resources http://www.tcphp.org/ http://archive.npohost.org/tcphp/maillist.html TCPHP & archive http://spunge.mirrors.phpclasses.org/browse.html/browse.html http://www.hotscripts.com/ good resources for php classes: phpclasses.org http://www.php.net source for all things php http://builder.com/Programming/CGI/ss04a.html builder scripting page http://worldwidemart.com/scripts/ Matt's Script Archive http://www.easyjavascript.com/javascript.html javascript examples... good mouseoverstuff http://www.pageresource.com/jscript/index4.htm awesome list of javascript tutorials... http://www.scriptsearch.com/ cool script archive http://www.simian.ca/ http://ismo.sourceforge.net/ http://phrame.itsd.ttu.edu/docs/guide/guide.php http://www.roadsend.com/siteManager/ http://phplib.sf.net/ http://www.phpgroupware.org/ http://free-source.com/files/phpgw-howto.html#2.1 http://lite.midgard-project.org/ http://www.aegir-cms.org/ php frameworks (or CMS) webshops: http://www.kit-coop.org/ local IT coop http://www.612i.com/ http://www.webbadass.com/ http://atomicplaypen.com/ http://www.space150.com/ more local shops http://www.popularfront.com popular front, another local shop http://www.webbyawards.com/main/webby_awards/winner_list.html webby award winners http://www.psoft.net/ site studio creates websites on the fly... http://www.head-space.org http://www.wpdfd.com more web design links... cool stuff. http://www.syntegra.com/ http://risdall.com/ http://www.rla.net/ http://www.zambasolutions.com http://www.rainier.com http://www.imaginet.com http://www.multicorp.net http://www.larsen.com/ http://www.wizmo.com/ http://www.martinwilliams.com/ http://www.zentropypartners.com http://www.ipares.com/ http://www.managementspecialties.com/ http://www.gr.com http://www.collemcvoy.com http://www.nancekivell.com http://www.barr.com http://www.ciceron.com http://www.periscope.com http://www.countrypartners.com http://www.designstein.com/ http://www.bitstream.net http://www.activelogic.com/ http://www.ruckusinteractive.com/ http://www.b-swing.com this is the list featured in City Business (12/00) of top web firms in MN ordered by Revenue http://www.firstgov.gov/Business/Business_Gateway.shtml info on starting your own business http://www.webdeveloperdirectory.com/DM/?cat_id=9141&TITLE=Web+Development&d=113&l=WDD_MN&first=MN list of web developers in minnesota http://www.metronet.lib.mn.us/mn/mn-design.html another list found on metronet History of Web Design: http://jenett.org/ageless/ ageless, a project to list webpages and their owners/designers by their age. http://web.archive.org/ history of the web! viewable even. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dcasteel/web/v1.html Unofficial History and Tradition of Web Page Design http://wdvl.com/Authoring/HTML/Tutorial/history.html History of the Web at the web developers virtual library (wdvl.com) Browser: http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/ mozilla web developer toolbar http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/xultu/ XUL Tutorial http://mpt.phrasewise.com/2003/01/08#a437 http://www.eightlines.com/neil/mozskin/ Creating a skin for mozilla -- tutorial/resources http://www.xulplanet.com/ndeakin/arts/reasons.html 101 things mozilla can do and ie can't http://www.mozillazine.org/ mozilla zine! http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextensions.html.en cool tab functionality adder for mozilla http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ anybrowser campaign...dead, but will doubtless live on... Flash: http://conclaveobscurum.ru/ crazy flash dude http://www.strumaland.com/ more games and stuff... soap bubble http://www.mcad.edu/home/faculty/szyhalski/spl/post/post.html http://www.mcad.edu/home/faculty/szyhalski/spl/amends/amends22.html http://www.mcad.edu/home/faculty/szyhalski/spl/serpents/formula.html http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/artists/dingansich/index.html http://archives.mcad.edu/words-images/alphabet/intro.html artwork by Peter Szyhalski http://homestarrunner.com/ funny...? http://cmart.design.ru/ woah. crazy. http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ hours of mindless fun http://www.warnerbros.com/pages/god_devil/home.jsp more flash movie funniness... search for the Jessie Ventura one... http://www.nosepilot.com weird french flash movie http://2advanced.com another flash masterpiece http://www.koniq.com/fringe/index.htm cool little flash "thingies" http://www.swift-tools.com free flash generator http://www.whoswe.com/ http://www.flashmaster.nu http://www.gabocorp.com http://www.thevoid.co.uk http://www.egomedia.com http://toohot.com http://www.volumeone.com http://www.wddg.com http://www.webagent007.com http://www.theorangeproject.com http://www.shift.jp.org/ more flash cool shit http://www.yugop.com/ http://www.yugop.com/ver2/ awesome flash second is in B&W http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/index.shtml http://www.extremeflash.com/tutorials/ flash tutorials http://www.dack.com/web/flash_evil.html article on how and why flash sucks --also check out the web economy BS generator-- http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html more on how flash sucks, from Jacob Nielsen Friends & Family: http://www.bigwhistlestudios.com/ Daniel and Ilona http://www.unirene.com/ Irene http://www.papermover.com/ Dave's show! http://www.geocities.com/leifswriting/ my friend Leif's travel journals http://phase-iii.us/ erik e's band!!! http://www.kestonandwestdal.com/ John's band http://www.student.carleton.edu/R/reddene/ Erica http://www.livejournal.com/users/chaoticsilly/ Becky P. http://www.seretogis.org/ Chris f. http://www.irish-girl.com/ Meghan... http://corwin.mpls.cx Corwin Brust http://www.robcallahan.com/ this guy rob I met at a party http://stcloudstate.edu/~dokted01/ daphne's domain... http://www.visi.com/~setnes/ Kristopher Setnes http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/6781/ http://www.tc.umn.edu/~barne093/ http://delobi.us/ Alex Barnes http://www.its.caltech.edu/~brumm/ http://greengabbro.net/ Lady Ebola, or Maria http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/roadie/6/ Kate Benson http://www.geocities.com/Paris/1413/index.html Karl Joyce (otherwise known as Kiwi) http://www.chickpages.com/worldbeat/allegro133 http://www.csun.edu/~hnm25590/ Heather May http://www.thetower.org/mahoney/ Brian Mahoney http://www.livejournal.com/users/tikiwho http://drbombay.livejournal.com/ Jason Tucker http://www.tc.umn.edu/~whit0215 Dave Whitaker http://www.bhc.edu/academics/ps/bachelderc/bachelderc.htm Chris Bachelder (my aunt) http://home.earthlink.net/~letlyn/ Lyn Egolf Grider (my stepmom) http://www.modurndae.com/ OZEL http://www.dangrider.com my brother dan Blogs: Blogs of people I know: http://greengabbro.net/ maria's blog http://aquaplanage.livejournal.com/ Peter!!! http://somethingfischy.livejournal.com/ Fisch http://thankyouten.com/ Nate's blog http://www.irish-girl.com/ http://www.moonpost.com/lovenest/ meghan is a former co-worker, and very funny--also WONDERFUL! http://www.waitressdreams.com/ mopsa!!! http://www.livejournal.com/users/tikiwho http://www.livejournal.com/users/drbombay/ http://bombaythoughts.blogspot.com/ My good friend Jason http://www.livejournal.com/users/pmanager Alex the asian-american russian-emigrant! http://pantleg.blogspot.com/ pete's blog http://linecook.textamerica.com/ http://fleshbasket.blogspot.com/ dom's blogs! http://neontaquitos.com/ Julie http://ilonaberry.blogspot.com/ Ilona http://bigwhistlestudios.blogspot.com/ Daniel http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Leif/ Lief, world traveler http://www.lolife.com/blog/ Michael http://amithesta.blogspot.com/ Sarah http://www.andycotter.com/farm/ Bubba http://feliarex.net/ elia http://myheartandme.blogspot.com/ Em http://bl0g.delobi.us/ Delobius http://inamorati.org/ Matt http://www.livejournal.com/users/reiyakittie/ Jen who used to run the juggling booth! http://www.merlinandshalene.com/ Merlin and Shalene http://www.livejournal.com/users/chaoticsilly/ Becky from HS! http://reden.blogspot.com/ Mike from HS! http://www.livejournal.com/users/allegro133/ Heather May http://publicdog.blogspot.com/ Kohout a former coworker http://www.livejournal.com/users/r0ckc4ndy/ Rachael http://www.livejournal.com/users/roody/ Jon from back at the UofMN http://docpop.blogspot.com/ doc pop http://lostlakebear.livejournal.com/ Grant is a former coworker http://nekhochan.blogspot.com/ Holly http://www.livejournal.com/users/riotdorrrk/ Dustin. http://www.livejournal.com/users/ethel/ ethel, who helps run convergence http://www.livejournal.com/users/djnoise/ dj noise http://www.livejournal.com/users/star5/ star 5 http://www.livejournal.com/users/lostbutton/ lost button http://www.livejournal.com/users/otherness/ a voice from far away http://www.livejournal.com/users/viajes/ Katherine http://www.livejournal.com/users/mistoffo/ John http://www.massdistraction.org/weblog/ Sharyn http://davescomedywriting.blogspot.com/ dave! http://coolass.com/ matt claims this is how he's going to put his daughter through college http://asishdash.areyousane.com/blog/ The world according to Dash http://www.grippingimage.com/type/ http://www.grippingimage.com/blog/ http://www.grippingimage.com/thorsday/ http://www.livejournal.com/users/getyourgeekon laura's blogs random blogs I would read regularly if I had time to read random blogs regularly: http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/ steven johnson, media celebrity blogger http://diveintomark.org/ http://www.meyerweb.com/ http://zeldman.com/ http://www.kottke.org/ http://www.sixapart.com/ http://www.paranoidfish.org/notes/ fellow web developers or tech experts http://www.gamegirladvance.com/ gameZZZZ! http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/ robots and stuff! http://www.freewayblogger.com/weblog.htm political, and very good stuff. http://www.metafilter.com/ http://www.memepool.com/ the two best link blogs IMHO http://slashdot.org/ http://www.threadwatch.org/ some fun news type blogs The rest of the good ones I've wanted to bookmark at one point or another: http://www.slashdong.org/ dildoblog! http://buzzmarketingwithblogs.com/ fun blog-related blogging http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/ Scott Adams http://caterina.net/ one of the flickr founders http://aclickinthedark.com/ http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/ Minnesota blogs http://www.idiolect.org.uk/notes/ brain stufff by the author of the book Mind Hacks (I think) http://livingtech.textamerica.com/ http://moonpost.textamerica.com/ http://unirene.textamerica.com/ http://grippingimage.com/blog/ http://jl0r.textamerica.com/ http://kimberry.textamerica.com/ http://puckerup.textamerica.com/ moblogs/photoblogs http://www.nealpollack.com/ a guy who writes for mcsweenys http://www.adamclay.org/mt/ poet adam clay http://www.indymedia.org/ http://twincities.indymedia.org/ independent news/politics http://www.helpblog.com/ interesting concept. get help here! http://www.vagabonding.com/ wow... 1 man trip around the world for a year http://www.citypages.com/weblogs/ journalist blogs... city pages style http://www.planetdan.net/blog/ funny stuff http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/blog.asp william gibson archives http://www.bisso.com/ujg/ Jazzbeau's Gallimaufrey -- linguistics! http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blosxom.cgi intersting blog of some sci fi writer http://www.gamegirladvance.com/ gaming blog http://users2.ev1.net/~file13/blog/ This is quite funny--mostly news comentary. http://www.interconnected.org/home/ http://www.upsideclown.com/ upsideclown is a lit blog http://www.zug.com/ hilarious daily updates http://www.hornbell.com/ was hands down one of the funniest bloggers out there http://www.boingboing.net/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/ http://www.b3ta.com/ http://www.sharpeworld.com/ http://ackackack.com/ http://www.paranoidfish.org/links/ http://memeufacture.com/ http://onlineblog.com/ http://www.paidcontent.org/ http://www.jakeneck.com/ various awesome (mostly) link/news blogs http://www.bloghop.com/ cool blog-linking blog http://botwerks.org/ http://www.milbertus.com/ http://www.ashbykuhlman.net/ http://www.blackbeltjones.com/work/ http://duncan.focuseek.com/ http://www.disobey.com/dnn/ http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/ http://www.daringfireball.net/ http://whatdoiknow.org/ http://mpt.phrasewise.com/ http://www.benhammersley.com/ http://www.gabeanderson.com/life/ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ http://www.jayallen.org/journey/ fun techy blogs http://www.mozillazine.org/weblogs/hyatt/ a safari developer http://lamammals.blogspot.com/ poetry and tech talk (two of my favorite things!) http://www.outofthetrees.co.uk/badger/ http://www.neongreen.com/ http://www.moonpost.com/jack/ http://www.idlewords.com/ http://www.mcgerik.com/scott/ http://www.waxy.org/ http://www.saila.com/columns/lcky/ http://radiofreeblogistan.com/ http://blogs.salon.com/0001437/ http://www.freegorifero.com/weblog/weblog.html http://www.deosil.com/doug/ http://www.utterwonder.com/ http://www.leatheregg.com/ http://www.deeplyshallow.com/ http://www.saltedwound.com/ http://www.poynter.org/tidbits/ http://www.museunlimited.com/ http://www.planxi-mihi.org/ http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com/ http://www.yeahtotally.net/index2.php http://www.instantenemy.com/ http://nervousnero.com/chico/eviltwin.html http://mockerybird.com/cacophobia/ http://highindustrial.com/ http://www.lisawhiteman.com/ http://beartruth.blogspot.com/ http://www.shauny.org/pussycat/ http://feralliving.surreally.com/ http://www.plasticbag.org http://www.vitaflo.com/ http://www.jennyjuice.com/ http://joi.ito.com/ http://amitp.blogspot.com/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydon/ http://www.ericrice.com/journal/ http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/ http://www.djwudi.com/longletter/ http://oblivio.com/ http://somebodydial911.com/ http://www.sidesh0w.com/ http://www.mezzoblue.com/ http://www.stopdesign.com/ http://doc.weblogs.com/ http://a.wholelottanothing.org/ http://www.ventureblog.com/ http://www.livejournal.com/~soggyknickers http://www.rebeccablood.net/ http://www.seanbonner.com/ http://www.livejournal.com/users/puffpastry/ http://danomyte.blogspot.com/ http://www.tonypierce.com/blog/bloggy.htm http://blog.lib.umn.edu/efc/mystery/ http://blog.topix.net/ http://joyrideswithoutmaps.net/ http://www.superherodesigns.com/journal/ misc cool blogs http://www.megnut.com/ this one's fun just because she'll ocassionally post comments in her source code http://www.dollarshort.org/ well written, by one of the posters at movable type. http://fridayfishwrap.blogspot.com MJ http://www.satanslaundromat.com/sl/ http://leoville.textamerica.com/ good photo blogs http://nakedtiny.vaspider.net/ The Naked Tiny--another mpls blogger http://www.xanga.com/homVe.aspx?user=arauten Alyssa Disclaimer: blogs are volitile substances, and links go bad with more rapidity. Don't blame me... (but do send me an email!) blog related: http://www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm blog software breakdown http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ https://blog.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/ulib-directory.cgi stuff about the new UofMN blog services http://blogopoly.blogspot.com/ Blogopoly http://www.richarderiksson.com/movableblog/ movableBLOG http://blogfrocks.com/ blog templates for mt, blogger, and greymatter http://www.bloglines.com/ free web RSS aggregator http://www.brainoff.com/geoblog/ world as blog http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html weblogs: a history and perspective http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/mnblogs/ http://www.ianwhitney.com/mn/home.html minnesota blogs http://www.blogwise.com/ categorised blog directory http://www.davezilla.com/fucked/ fucked weblog http://searchrequests.weblogs.com/ search requests, blog style http://www.blogroots.com/ a site to acompany We Blog, a book on blogs http://portal.eatonweb.com/ an attempt at a comprehensive list of blog links http://www.blogtree.com/ family tree of blogs http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/02/18/index3a.html article about blog tools http://www.blogrolling.com/top.php top 50 blogs at blogrolling.com http://www.corante.com/microcontent/articles/googlebombs.shtml info on googlebombing--source of googlebombsquad http://www.fairvue.com/ home of the bloggies http://www.metafilter.com/ http://metatalk.metafilter.com/ meta filter... good stuff... meta talk is about metafilter, and blogs and stuff too! http://www.timepasstown.com/blogsnob/ sorta like joining a webring, but more ad-like. http://www.powazek.com/wtf/ what the hell is a weblog? http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/ blogdex http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dotcomments-support/ dotcomments-support http://www.theendoffree.com/ chronicling free to fee and beyond SOFTWARE: http://movabletype.org/ movable type is a blogging server side app a plugin with several functions, including a password reset: http://www.nonplus.net/software/mt/MT-Medic.htm MTBlogTimes, creates a bar graph showing what time of day you post http://nilesh.org/mt/blogtimes/ MTWordStats, gives you stats on word usage http://www.paranoidfish.org/projects/mtwordstats/ MTWordCount http://kalsey.com/blog/2002/06/word_count_plugin_for_movable_type.stm MOVABLE TYPE PLUGINS http://www.flipsource.org/ flatfile php weblog software http://www.raelity.org/apps/blosxom/ more bloging software... much like my own instamatic thingy. http://www.rollerweblogger.org/page/project written in java, including some links to others http://wordpress.org/ more blog madness http://www.textpattern.com/ Dean Allen's masterpiece SERVICES: http://www.livejournal.com/ bottom of the barrel http://radio.userland.com/ one of the first http://www.blogger.com the mother ship Audio: http://clevertitlesaresolastsummer.blogspot.com/ http://elbo.ws/ http://www.muchmusic.net/ http://sixeyes.blogspot.com/ http://speedrail.blogspot.com/ http://pogoagogo.blogspot.com/ http://skysoblue.blogspot.com/ music blogs (sometimes posts mp3) http://www.noisedfisk.com/mumweb/ http://www.fat-cat.co.uk/?id=51§ion=1 mum related sites http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ audio editing software http://www.ephpod.com/ program for ipod windows integration http://www.discogs.com/artist/Ulrich_Schnauss discogs seems pretty cool http://magnatune.com/ new record label supporting the creative commons lisence http://www.astralwerks.com/ videos! http://www.wheatmusic.com/ Wheat http://www.musiciansfriend.com/ music stuff to buy http://www.transient.com/ publishers of cosmosis http://goablaze.org/otherResources.html http://www.philosomatika.net/ goa trance feeds http://songfight.com/ woah, crazy, song contests... http://www.digitallyimported.com/ digitally imported radio http://www.limewire.com http://gnute.com someday, these will replace napster http://goatrance.free.fr/ http://www.goablaze.org/ http://www.third-eye.org.uk/trip/albums.html goa reviews, streaming, and another site with some more user reviews (but it seems to be unmaintained anymore) http://www.skint.net/artists/fbs/audio.html whole page of realaudio fatboyslim stuff!!! http://www.stitch.com/cgi-bin/rm.pl cool techno stuff. http://home1.gte.net/clandest/discog.htm disks...of interest... http://www.skinny.com/music/label/sunburn/frameset.html cool webzine... http://www.sunburn.org sunburn music... http://www.netmix.com netmix... http://www.groovetech.com groovetech Literature: http://www.richardkadrey.com/ Richard Kadrey -artist and sometimes sci-fi author http://www.goucher.edu/cwpromo/cwsamples/LittleRed.htm little red riding hood retold http://www.bartleby.com/ great books online! including much TS Elliot, and lots of quotes! http://www.wordspy.com/WAW/quotation-index.asp words on words: more quotes on writing http://www.fictionalley.org/ Harry Potter Fan fiction http://isfdb.tamu.edu/ Internet Speculative Fiction DB http://www.baen.com/library/ Baen Free Book Library http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/ glossary of linguistic terms-- very interesting http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/ http://www.craphound.com/down/ short story an novel by new sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow who started http://boingboing.net/ http://www.haypenny.com/ lit mag -- funny! http://sonewmedia.com/ So New Media publishes independent stuff... it's really cool. http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/ full text of guliver's travels, with a bunch of other crap too! http://www.underground-book.com/ a free hacker book calvino: http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/cal.html brathwaite: http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/post/caribbean/brathwaite/brathwaiteov.html borges: http://rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/borges/ neil stevenson: http://www.hotwired.com/collections/connectivity/2.10_spew_pr.html http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Outlaws/SimoleonCaper.html http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html links discovered here... http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/neal/ homepage: http://www.well.com/user/neal/ http://wwar.com/ a cool directory of magazines, etc. http://euro.net/mark-space/bkVurt.html last two pages of VURT... http://home.earthlink.net/~cranked crank magazzine online... http://www.erinet.com/prass/nanowars/ninsf/n_in_sf.html a nanotechnology in science fiction page... very cool. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=efb+toc&vers=english The Faust Book -- text of the book that predates Gothe's popular version http://www.bb.com/Detail.CFM?TBLBOOK__BOOKID=593 The complete text of Gothe's Faust, translated by somebody... www.bb.com is fairly interesting, I should see what books they have... http://www.theplays.com a site with the full text of shakespeare's plays... each is individually searchable... you'd think the whole site would be searchable, but no... http://www.panix.com/~fluxus/ a great fluxus site (find the quotes, they're good.) http://go.hotwired.com/rgb/io360m HotWired's RGB, a kind-of journal of hypertext art, kinda. http://www.wired.com/wired/3.06/xanadu.html A large informational essay on Ted Nelson http://www.mla.org/main_stl.htm Modern Language Association's documentations style for the Web. http://homepages.go.com/~fowlerl/hagakure/ The Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai Full text, not sure of the translation though. http://www.alibris.com/ http://dogbert.abebooks.com/ http://www.powells.com/ http://amazon.com/ places to look for books Poetry: http://www.mindspring.com/~coffee.spaz/ Molly? http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/komunyakaa/ Yusef Komunyakaa http://www.milkmag.org/ mag http://www.amiribaraka.com/ Amiri Baraka's homepage http://www.nortonpoets.com/dunns.htm Stephne Dunn http://www.ericajong.com/ http://www.ericajong.com/poems/index.html Erica Jong http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/poems/ Kenneth Rexroth http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/%7Emgy8464/chronos.html http://www.lapetitezine.org/MarkYakich.htm Mark Yakich - poet, artist http://www.baophi.com/ Bao Phi is a local poet and writer http://www.digitalprose.com/?node=brokenpoem generative poetry (I should search for more of this) http://www.yomomma.com/poetry.htm this guy, Opus Moreschi -- it's pretty good! http://www.pw.org poets and writers magazine Poems and writers I liked from the writer's almanac: "One Day A Woman" by Miller Williams Transhumanism: http://cognews.com/ cool brain stuff http://www.ibiblio.org/jstrout/uploading/ cool mind uploading information http://www.aleph.se/Trans/ a transhumanist page http://www.extropy.org/eo/articles/ampcog.htm extropy is an interesting subset of transhumanism this is a good article... http://www.juga.com/ Cyber Yugoslavia http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearables/ MIT's wearables page (history and resources) http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/ http://www.futurism.org.uk/futurism.htm a few futurism resources... Space: http://sprite.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod_e/lib/aptree.html APOD (astronomy pic of the day) http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/ logs of astronauts in the space station, and other cool stuff... Gaming: http://singlenesia.com/games/ discordian zen games http://www.igda.org/sex/ blog about sex in video games http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/ games blog! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_variants tetris variants! http://www.kungfuchess.com/ real time chess variant! http://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/chaturang4.html http://www.chessvariants.com/multiplayer.dir/4players.html http://www.chessvariants.com/multiplayer.dir/fourhanded2.html http://www.chessvariants.com/multiplayer.dir/fourhanded3.html http://www.chessvariants.com/books.dir/4handed/index.html a bunch of 4 player chess stuff http://www.gamesinabox.com/ board games for cheap! http://www.gunbound.net/ like worms, but massively multiplayer http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ DOS emulation! http://www.c64.com/ search for, and download old Comodore 64 games! http://www.seanbaby.com/nes.htm fun old NES articles. http://www.endeneu.com/funstuff/nes/ OMG, nude NES!!! http://www.randomterrain.com/gamedesign/index.html collected quotes on game development http://www.gamespy.com/articles/january03/education/ http://www.gamespy.com/articles/january03/education/day1/ gamespy has a nice series dedicated to finding jobs in the gaming industry. http://www.digitpress.com/gameroom/ I could just stare at these pics of gamerooms forever... http://www.game-culture.com/researchers.html list of game researchers... http://www.the-underdogs.org/ site to download old games http://fools-errand.com/ puzzle master guy http://www.gamegirladvance.com/ gaming blog http://gamestudies.org/ game studies -- academic articles on gaming http://www.popcap.com/ best puzzle games online http://www.achaea.com/main.html fun MUD http://www.gamescreenshots.com/ very cool, screenshots of games. http://www.gamefaqs.com/ best game faqs out there. http://www.gamespot.com good review site. I always forget the URL simmilar to http://www.gamestop.com but better. http://www.davesclassics.com videogame emulation site (has been down in the past) http://www.planettribes.com/ planet tribes http://www.shugashack.com shugashack, gaming news daily. http://www.oldmanmurray.com/ old man murray's gaming site http://www.bluesnews.com blue's news http://www.theunderdogs.org/ "abandonware" or older out of print video games. http://www.game-revolution.com/download/emulator/supernes.htm SNES emulation site Science Fiction: http://www.locusmag.com/ Locus Magazine is for science fiction writers http://www.sfwa.org/ http://www.sfwa.org/links/ Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America http://www.sfhomeworld.org/ science fiction museum and hall of fame http://ofcs.rottentomatoes.com/pages/pr/top100scifi OFCS top 100 Sci-fi movies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_films science fiction films http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_in_science_fiction sex in sci-fi Movies: http://www.spiritofbaraka.com/ wow, cinematography! http://daily.greencine.com/ movie blog... from a service a lot like netflix, but with better sellection http://ofcs.rottentomatoes.com/pages/pr/top100scifi OFCS top 100 Sci-fi movies http://www.r2-dvd.org/ http://www.dvdcompare.org.uk/ http://www.lowdvdprices.com/ http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.php DVD purchasing links http://www.nibblebox.com/ http://www.twistedmojo.com more internet film/animation houses.... http://www.samurice.com little rice samuri fights rice ninjas... very funny. http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com Movie news from Harry Knowles (often before everyone else) http://www.moviephone.com for movie information and showtime listings http://www.ifilm.com/ 405 is hillarious. this is a good site though. http://www.atomfilms.com hillarious internet movies http://www.theforce.net/theater star wars fan movies. some of them are awesome. http://www.newgrounds.com/ more funny movies (mostly flash) http://www.tomato.co.uk lower left of flash navigation are the short movies... lots of artsy stuff. http://www.ifilm.com Dave is on here somewhere. Art: http://dpreview.com/ Digital Camera Reviews http://www.spencertunick.com/ massive nudes http://www.kurtwenner.com/ sidewalk art http://illegal-art.org/ cool art, visual, auditory, etc... http://www.ashleywoodartist.com/praxis2/ ashley wood, comic book art type stuff http://www.c4ia.org center for independent artists http://www.1000journals.com/ 1000 journals is simply amazing. http://phoenity.com/ icons... I like the page design too. http://www.insecuritiesproject.com/ photography in airport terminals http://www.dorianart.com/ adult content--borderline porn, but it's good stuff. http://www.explodingdog.com/ blog style art... from suggestions. http://www.mirrorproject.com/ photos of people in mirrors... I should submit some stuff... http://www.coudal.com/tennis.html http://www.jimformation.com/tennis/ photoshop tennis http://www.yhchang.com weird artsy writing... http://www.photographica.org/ a photo blog... interesting. lots of neat links. http://www.muserna.org/ web art http://www.sugati.com cool art experimentations http://www.digitalblasphemy.com some cool 3d wallpapers http://www.deviantart.com deviant art -- desktops etc. http://dmo.deskmod.com/ lots of desktop themes and cool software for windoze http://www.deaddreamer.com/ very cool art stuff portals: http://slashdot.org dunno how to describe it... very cool site. http://www.plastic.com/ a slashdot-like portal, with more "media" focus http://www.cybereditions.com/aldaily/ arts and letters daily (an "intelectual" portal) http://SciTechDaily.com/ scitech daily review is A&L's "tech" counterpart http://netscape.com http://www.yahoo.com http://www.go.com http://www.altavista.com http://www.lycos.com http://www.snap.com http://www.excite.com http://www.miningcompany.com http://about.com misc portals magazines: http://www.jugglezine.com a semi-cool design and living zine http://www.kuro5hin.org more tech/culture news. http://www.firstmonday.org/ Sociological journal of technology, computing and the Internet http://www.feedmag.com feedmag http://www.salon.com salon magazine http://www.slate.com Microsoft's zine http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/ not really a mag, but ZDTV is cool and about technology. http://www.aviary-mag.com/ OSALL is a mag devoted to hacking and shit... http://slashdot.org linux and/or everything news... http://www.mindjack.com/ digital culture crap. ;) Humor: http://www.worlddreambank.org/2/2ORGY.HTM I don't think this is actually supposed to be funny http://www.sexualphysics.com/ hillarious http://www.freepressed.com/ political satire http://www.fatmouse.tk/ FATMOUSE + YOU = FATMOUSE http://www.landoverbaptist.org/ irreverent humor http://www.bash.org/ IRC quotes... very funny stuff on the top 25 http://www.rathergood.com/ rather good indeed! http://www.royaljournal.com/found_art/ found art http://www.plinko.net/404/ awesome site about 404 not found pages... http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/ this re-writes your website using the dialect you select.--one of the coolest things I've ever seen! http://alexchiu.com/ http://www.timecube.com/ http://www.somethingawful.com/askjeffk/ are these for real? who knows? http://www.realhamster.com great spoof of realdoll site. http://www.shortandhappy.com check out the 14 year old girl eppisodes. They're hella funny. http://demonishi.org/regurge1.html internet killed the video star http://www.bbspot.com hillarious (tech?) news. http://www.sisterrandy.com/ Sister Randy... bbc at its best. http://www.pythonline.com the full monty http://FuckedCompany.com/ http://www.netslaves.com/ companies crashing and burning. netslave is a funny blog by some jobless guy in San Fran http://www.gu.uwa.edu.au/users/greg/ zen master greg & the font police http://www.disturbingauctions.com what it sounds like. http://drew.corrupt.net/lp/ lego porn... OMG! http://www.thereverend.com/brick_testament/ and lego bible illustrations!!! http://www.zgeek.com/ http://www.dolphinsex.org/ oh man, this is funny stuff. http://www.theonion.com http://www.theonion.com/archive/archive_kornfeld.html the onion. duh. http://www.seanbaby.com seanbaby... oh. my. god. (that's all that need be said.) http://www.disinfo.com great stuff... http://www.trailervision.com a new movie trailer every week. http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/Texts/TaoOfProgramming/index.html the Tao of Programming http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBHoaxIndex.html not so much funny as just good to know. Look up your email forwards here. http://www.cranial.com/hertes.html the letters are hillarious Comics: http://www.goats.com/ cool. http://cheston.com/pbf/archive.html some of the funniest web comics I've ever seen. http://www.robertvalley.com/ really nice art... pretty interesting too, some burning man comics http://jennworks.com/dicebox/ online novel-kind-of-thing http://www.smallstoriesonline.com/ one of those intellectual comics http://www.catandgirl.com/ http://www.dazeofourlives.com/ a couple of black and white comics http://www.scottmccloud.com/ Scott McCloud wrote Understanding Comics http://www.dorktower.com/ more geeky stuff http://www.dazeofourlives.com/ daze of our lives... excelent stuff. http://sinfest.net/ sinfest... it's great! http://fojar.com/arts.php two great web comics, including isometric. http://www.inktank.com/AT/ http://www.inktank.com/AT/index.cfm?toon=10-04-00 Against Technology--a very funny webcomic http://www.little-gamers.com another gaming comic. http://hubert.retrogames.com/history.htm http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/genesis/game/31239.html all your base links... http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ hillarious robot comic. http://www.penny-arcade.com has really funny comics http://www.e-sheep.com/rusheats/ Rush Limbaugh Eats Everything http://www.e-sheep.com/ very cool web comics... http://www.pvponline.com player vs. player... awesome. anti-religion: http://www.landoverbaptist.org/ irreverent humor http://www.godoffmoney.com/ get your god off my money! http://www.au.org/ Americans United for Separation of Church and State http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nullifidian "The invisible and the non existent look very much alike." http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/evquote.htm http://www.skeptictank.org/ The Skeptic Tank--quotes, links, etc. http://www.infidels.org/ home of 'The Infidel Guy', an atheist talkshow http://www.adherents.com/ religious statistics t-shirts: http://preshrunk.info/ t-shirt blog http://www.threadless.com/ vote for the one you want http://www.nerdyshirts.com/ some good stuff http://www.tshirthell.com/ t-shirt hell -- awesome. http://www.gigashirts.com/ funny stuff. http://www.thinkgeek.com cool geeky ts http://dontpanic.com more cool t-shirts Politics: http://www.earth-policy.org/ interesting environmental articles and info http://www.americanprogress.org/ Progressive ideas for a Strong, Just, and Free America http://action.truemajority.org/ fax your senator/representatives http://www.vote-smart.org/ check out their "key votes" search feature or search for your elected officials http://www.indyvoter.org/ http://www.indyvoter.org/book.html http://www.indyvoter.org/resources2.html League of Indy voters Misc: http://www.versiontracker.com/ software downloads and reviews http://www.surewest.com/wireless/text_messaging/text_pc.php email addresses for various phone cariers. http://www.notproud.com/ anonymous confessions. some are very interesting. http://www.alternet.org/ very interesting political news site http://www.marketingtips.com/newsletter/ site promotional tips. crazy stuff here... http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/generic_frame.html?Elet_car.html More about cooking spices than you'd ever want to know! http://skyscraperpage.com/ all kinds of stats and illustrations about skyscrapers http://www.vrg.org/ The Vegetarian Resource Group http://www.natcap.org/ Interesting book on sustainable living, etc. http://www.kermitage.com/html/epguide/tms/tmsseasons.htm all the season synopsis for the muppet show http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/nlw/ non lethal weapon resource... http://babelfish.altavista.com/ babelfish -- translate! http://www.memepool.com/ funny stuff. every day. http://www.insite-tokyo.com/random/13radiation/select.html health risks of cell phones http://vector.cshl.org/ DNA Learning Center. http://www6.americanexpress.com/smallbusiness/resources/starting/startup/ american express has all sorts of info on starting your own buisness http://www.businessfreebies.com/BusinessStartup.htm links to sites with tips on starting your own buisness http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster?isindex=expansive%26method=exact an interesting backend dictionary worth exploring... http://www.airnet.net/markc quotes, leadership, modivational, and friendship... extensive... http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/thinkers.html visionaries and thinkers online... http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Cybspasy.html cybernetics conference http://satmundi.com/Mail/satinout.htm have to check this out...(art, technology, philosophy) http://tdg.linst.ac.uk/technosphere/index.html technosphere... have to check this out. http://www.edge.org/ Edge, third Culture...digerati...interesting site http://www.tenmax.com/pro.html Teleport pro software site... http://theschwacorporation.com this is _TRULY_ weird... must see from a good computer. http://www.xs4all.nl/~ranx/gameoflife a java "game of life"... the nymphomation is comming! http://www.thehungersite.com Feed someone today. http://storm.sonic.net/dane/geek/ the geek code http://lingua.utdallas.edu/ Lingua Moo http://www.mixnmojo.com/scramm/ an interesting project... http://www.attrition.org/ attrition, a site with hacking news... http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/dictionary.html tech-dictionary http://www.dialpad.com/ dialpad... where you can apparently make long distance calls for free Juggling: http://www.buildingweight.com/ Jay Gilligan http://www.lukaluka.com/eoccj/ The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Club Juggling http://www.ellusionist.com/ self proclaimed best site on the internet for street magic http://www.juggling.org/discussion/ juggling discussion board. http://www.makaimedia.com/swf/games/juggling.asp a fun but pattern-inaccurate flash/shockwave juggling simulator http://www.anthelion.org/ http://www.killingfrenzy.com/PyroSutra/ http://www.iloveraving.com/ various spin-jam links http://www.easily-amused.org/ College for the Easily Amused http://www.theglasslab.com/ cool videos--mostly yoyo stuff http://www.juggle.org/ IJA http://skyjuggler.com/jugit/ The JugIt Virtual Juggler Home Page http://www.jugglingdb.com/ Juggling Information Database http://www.juggling.org/ Juggling Information Service http://www.neverthriving.org/ Minnesota Neverthriving http://www.tcuc.org/ Twin Cities Unicycle Club http://www.unicycling.org/usa/ Unicycle Society of America education: http://ocw.mit.edu/ MIT is putting most of their courses online http://www1.umn.edu/adcs/help/cgifaq.html http://www.go4ville.tc.umn.edu http://studentgroups.tc.umn.edu http://events.tc.umn.edu http://www1.umn.edu/cic http://www.umn.edu/beverage old uofMN links DSL, Webhosting, & DNS info: http://web-hosting.freshdot.com/ http://www.tera-byte.com/ affordable reseller hosting http://www.dslreports.com/forum/dslalt forums (one on starting a WISP) http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/dsl_prod/c600s/cbos/cbosug/03chap01.htm#xtocid116133 information on NAT and "Cisco Broadband OS" http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/dsl_prod/index.htm Cisco's DSL products page http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/701/60.html Information on NAT (in english) http://www.visi.com/apache_manual/vhosts/details_1_2.html an in depth discussion of virtual host matching. http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html a list of accredited domain name registrars VR: http://ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu/~mreaney/ Institute for the Exploration of Virtual Realities (UofKansas) http://www.3d-web.com/ 3d web... mostly their products, but cool samples... info. http://www.3dexpo.com/ "depth charge" is a browser plugin for viewing 3d on the web http://www.3dwm.org/ 3D windows manager... 3D desktop... cool stuff. Hardware: http://www.guru3d.com/ cool 3d info http://www.slickdeals.net/ buy stuff http://www.computer-museum.org/exhibits/lavine/ old computer photos http://radio.weblogs.com/0100676/ weblog of some mac product guy http://dealmac.com cheap mac stuff. (not a catalog) http://www.accessmicro.com/indexprice.phtml their hardware guide is very interesting http://www.pcmech.com hardware support and reviews http://sysdoc.pair.com/ Tom's Hardware Guide http://wholesell.com/ http://www.amberpcusa.com/ cool make-your-own computer places... LINUX: http://WDVL.com/Internet/UNIX/Intro/index.html a unix tutorial for web developers --- nice resource http://burnallgifs.org a cool site with lots of patent/software freedoms issues explained/discussed. http://catalog.com/hopkins/unix-haters/handbook.html unix hating handbook http://slashdot.org/ has lots of info http://www.redhat.com/support http://www.redhat.com/knowledgebase/ http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-6.2-Manual/getting-started-guide/ http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/ http://www.linux-howto.com http://www.linuxdoc.org http://www.linuxnewbie.org misc newbie stuff http://lxr.linux.no linux code cross refferenced Perl: http://www.mathdogs.com/people/mkc/perl-puzzles.html perl puzzles. also some python ones. http://www.codeweb.net/examples/ perl tutorials... http://webreview.com/wr/pub/98/06/12/perl/index.html beginning perl http://webreview.com/wr/pub/98/06/26/perl/index.html beginning forms http://www.sberry.org/mission/sw/cgivars.html list of GCI environmental varriables... http://webreview.com/wr/pub/98/09/04/perl/index.html search portion of database program in Perl (line by line explainations) http://webreview.com/wr/pub/98/10/23/perl/index.html last page of this same database tutorial... http://www1.umn.edu/adcs/help/cgifaq.html cgi at the U Template Systems - php http://drupal.org/ another CMS of some sort http://pear.php.net/manual/en/packages.templates.it.php PEAR's Integrated Template http://smarty.php.net/ smarty template engine http://www.cmsinfo.org/ various CMS stuff http://clueful.com.au/cgi-bin/cmsdirectory/browse/Products%3AFree%20systems huge list of free content management systems (CMS) http://www.zend.com/zend/trick/tricks-nov-2001.php interesting article at Zend about templating systems http://mtpl.sourceforge.net/ MTPL (php Micro Template) http://sourceforge.net/projects/yats/ YATS http://sourceforge.net/projects/htmltmpl/ HTML-TMPL http://www.thewebmasters.net/php/FastTemplate.phtml PHP FastTemplate OSX: http://www.xlab.co.uk/ very cool news blog http://www.unsanity.com/ Unsanity -- osx helper apps and news http://www.westwind.com/reference/OS-X/invisibles.html mac OSX hidden files information http://www.osxgnu.org/software/Email/pine/ pine precompiled good stuff. http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/ Internet Development on OSX (from apple) http://www.macosxapps.com/ cool listing of new apps, and pulls in the some other news feeds, which is really nice. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/37 o'reilly has mac OSX programming tutorials! http://www.macfixit.com http://www.macfixit.com/osx/tilsx.shtml best source for mac info. period. second link is a list of mac TIL articles http://www.macosxcentric.com http://www.macslash.com http://www.macslash.com/articles/01/02/16/041257.shtml more osx news pages third link is a useful article on "packages" http://www.macosx.org some tutorials and stuff... http://www.appleturns.com/ not so much OSX as just apple http://www.macosxhints.com really good reading matterial http://www.info.apple.com/usen/macosx/ apple OSX Support Local: http://www.livejournal.com/community/twin_cities/ twin cities livejournal group http://www.511mn.org/ traffic info and maps http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ buy shit from people http://www.lecirquerouge.com/ burlesque show downtown! http://www.multimayhem.com/ local lan party http://www.tcshowslist.com/ twin cities alternative show list http://www.ufilm.org/ university film society http://www.metronet.lib.mn.us/ metronet http://www.tcuconnect.com/ credit union http://www.mnpig.com/ minnesota internet paintball guide http://www.polstate.com/ local politics. here and elsewhere. http://pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us/ how to find the ballot listings http://www.angelfire.com/mn2/mpls/welcome.htm some guy likes taking pictures of mpls buildings http://www.actionsquad.org/ minneapolis urban adventures http://www.tcwug.org/ http://www.tclug.org/ Twin Cities Wireless/Linux Users Group http://www.cursor.org/twin_cities.asp daily local news stuff.. http://www.thestompinggrounds.com/index.php the stomping grounds... local network gaming http://www.first-avenue.com local club & music venue http://members.toast.net/prthomas/bpr.htm balls performer registry http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/contact/phones-important.html cool phone numbers from minneapolis' webpage http://www.mpls.lib.mn.us/ minneapolis public library http://www.tcigd.com Twin Cities Internet Guide & Directory http://www.metrocouncil.org/transit bus schedule information http://www.dot.state.mn.us/ dept of transportation http://minnesotajobs.com/ http://www.marineonstcroix.com/job/job.htm local job resources meta internet: http://www.nua.ie/surveys web statistics page http://www.netcraft.com http://www.domainsurfer.com netcraft shows server uptimes and OSs & stuff domain surfer just searches domain addreses http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2000/June/colors.html web user statistics... http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm internet latencies by location http://www.chillingeffects.org/ "to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities." http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Berkman Center for Internet and Society http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/pages/Business/Community/ http://www.naima.com/community/ http://content.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990513S0010 http://communitybuilding.com/ web community links from Matt googlehacking: http://www.alexa.com/ google pagerank crap http://dance.efactory.de/ interesting info on the google dance http://google.blogspace.com/ google weblog -- news, blog style http://www.ftrain.com/robot_exclusion_protocol.html parody! http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/google/ study on: localized google search result exclusions http://www.googlefight.com/ pit two google searches against one another! http://www.corante.com/microcontent/articles/googleblog.shtml http://www.corante.com/microcontent/articles/googlebombs.shtml articles about the power of blogs at google http://www.uber.nu/2001/04/06/ the post that coined the phrase google bombing http://www.googlewhack.com/ keeping track of googlewhacks ren fest: http://www.hasselius.com/ dan plays Wilsome http://mrffriends.tripod.com/ local faire site http://www.renfest101.com/ nice fest site. http://www.sirclisto.com/clisto2.html general festy stuff http://www.renfest.com/ lots of fest links, including festival sites by location http://www.renaissancefest.com/minnesota-main.htm minnesota ren fest