Here are some links from my bookmark file.
Search engines and portals
- Google - my current favorite
- Altavista - past favorite
- Yahoo
- Google Groups - replacement for deja.com
Humor
Best software ever
- Textpad - my favorite text editor
- Netscape - v3.04 was one of the high points of software design; everything since has kinda sucked.
- Gnucleus - a Gnutella client. Replaces Napster as a good source of MP3 files
- Winamp - mp3 player, cool, works right
- win2000 - i kinda hate to say it, but Windows 2000 server is a very nice OS for the home, 'specially with terminal services
- Microsoft Application Center Server - one of the products I worked on at MS
- Realmz Fantasy RPG - a Mac role-playing game from way back
Perl, computers
- ActiveState Perl - Perl is my favorite language. Activestate produces a popular Win32 version of it.
- Why Mozilla Matters (well, i guess it doesn't anymore, but still an interesting article)
- Microsoft Product Security Notification - regular updates on security vulnerabilities in MS software
Music
- The Dent / Tori Amos
- Garbage - I have become a devout Shirley Manson fan and will see her in concert again this December
- Offspring
Stocks
- Yahoo! Finance - best site by far
- Datek / Ameritrade - best trading company IMHO
- 1st Technology
- Tilson Capital Partners, LLC
Miscellaneous
- Would the Real First Amendment Please Stand Up? - an online book by Barry Krusch
- National Drug Control Strategy - outlines US drug fighting policy, for present and near future. Includes data on drug usage trends. because sometimes you need to know this stuff.
- Rules of Contack
Science
- OSU Physics Department - Upper-division Curriculum - the best physics dept in the world
- Nasa Kids
People and places i know, or used to know a long time ago
- Keokuk, Iowa - where I lived from 1981 to 1990
- Corvallis, Oregon - I was born here in 1974, and lived here from 1990 to 1992, and have hung out there ever since
- The University of Texas at Austin - Lived here from '92 to '95
- www.websitevalet.com - uncle Tim's business site
- Tim's personal site
- baby Tyler's pictures and videos
- Emily's site
- Carter's site
- Katherine's site
- Russell's corner
- Eric's attic
- overcoming civilization - my personal story of struggling against addiction
- b52ndengineers.org - Joe's unit in Iraq
Web stuff
- MS XML Documentation
- Searchable Browsable RFC List
- Dr. HTML - a free HTML validator
- w3.org validator - a better free HTML validator
- Firefox built-in validator
Home pages
Recent press
- The Quest to End Game Addiction - wired.com
- Addictions provoked by computer, Internet use - The Michigan Daily
- Gamers submit to great 128-bit digital mother (who comes up with these headlines?)