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It is my goal to keep track here of sites I visit often or find useful for particular purposes.
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Stuff I read frequently, often daily or several times a day.
- Slashdot
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Rarely timely, tech-oriented news regurgitation & discussion site. However, some user comments are interesting and worth reading, and it's a great way to kill lots of time.
- News.com
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Articles supported by obvious 'insights' of various analysts, occasionally interesting and original. Another for the time filler category.
- Salon.com
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Interesting features can be frequently found in the Life, Politics, Sex, and Tech sections.
- User Friendly
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A daily comic strip for techies.
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Stuff I read fairly frequently, more or less once a week.
- SatireWire
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Excellently done satire on current events.
- Segfault
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Geek humour site. Not usually very funny, but some classics can be found here every so often.
- Feed Magazine
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Another site with stuff to read.
- Morons.org
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There are a lot of morons out there. Beware.
- Fucked Company
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Go laugh at some dot coms.
- XXX Passwords
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A weekly dose of free porn.
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Stuff I get around to when I remember and have the time.
- Gamasutra
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Various professional tips and tricks for game programming. Yeah, I like reading about things I'll never get to do (not for money anyways).
- Tom's Hardware
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Guides and reviews of new computer gadgets.
- Sharky Extreme
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I use this mostly to check out memory and CPU prices and the occasional game review.
- Ars Technica
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Very well researched and written technology reviews.
- 2600 Magazine
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The Hacker Quarterly. Essential reading for any aspiring h4x0r.
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Sites you should know about if you're into MP3s. Also assorted movie linkage.
- CDDB
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Web interface to the CD database used by many CD players.
- CDNow
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Less chaotic than CDDB and more suited for quick track list lookups.
- MP3.com
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Lots of amateur 'music', but real gems to be found if you look enough.
- WinMX / eDonkey2000
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Forget Napster.
- WinAmp
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My music player of choice.
- Quintessential Player
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My CD player of choice.
- XMPlay
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My mod player of choice.
- RazorLame
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A LAME front-end, used for encoding MP3 files.
- MP3Tag
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An MP3 ID tag creator that suits my purposes perfectly.
- Discogs
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Catalog and organize your music collection here.
- IMDB
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International Movie Database. If it's not here, they didn't make it.
- Coldspring
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Order some CDs from these guys.
- Relapse
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And these guys too.
- Game Copy World
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Helps your games kick the nasty habit of verifying source media when played. It's just annoying and unnecessary.
- Astalavista
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You're a bad person. Bad!
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Interesting places to go visit, they don't change very often if at all.
- Simon, AKA Bastard Operator From Hell
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Classic hacker folklore, funny as hell.
- Dark Side of the Web
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Links to various 'dark' places for you to visit.
- ASCII pr0n
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Ah, do you remember?
- ZUG
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Various pranks and amusing stories.
- MkzdK
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Just weird, ok?
- Rotten.com
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A collection of some unpleasent materials.
- Black Plague
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This is really unpleasant and perverted. You have been warned.
- Cult of Dead Cow
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The archive site.
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When you need to know technical computer things.
- WhatIs.com
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Invaluable when dealing with technical people.
- Jargon File
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Likewise.
- Index Dot
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A first-rate HTML and CSS reference.
- DHTML, HTML & CSS Reference
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Say what you will about Microsoft, but they produce copious quantities of fairly decent reference material on their products. I mostly use this for the CSS attribute reference.
- File Formats
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A programmer's resource to identifying and working with all kinds of fun file formats software companies spew at us.
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When you need to know things.
- Xrefer
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Search several reference sources at once.
- The English Dictionary
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Invaluable when dealing with snooty people.
- Skeptic's Dictionary
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Invaluable when dealing with idiots.
- Fallacies in Arguments
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It's always entertaining to make fun of people who are full of shit, like the ones above.
- Urban Legends
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Some more weaponry against idiocy.
- Pinball Pasture
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One of the fun things I used do once in a while.
- The WWW Virtual Library
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The starting point for one of the most useful collection of links. A global effort.
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