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Last updated: 2010 April 29 13:14
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Favorite links I have and either use regularly or forget the URI when I most need it. This is a growing list, so check back frequently.
There is no order, only copy-pasted links. Well, maybe a subliminal one. Make sure you have javascript enabled for the nifty collapsing bit.
- www.mcae.k12.mn.us
Where I went to learn how to think, create, and be human.- Their blog/events announcements: artseducation.typepad.com
- www.mnartists.org
Minnesota-based artists. Clicky-click. - motifradio.libsyn.com
A podcast that talked to and about experimental art out there. - www.two-artists.com <= on life support… Ain’t been updated since July 2008…?
An art-coop, they include services for artists, all styles… Why are you reading instead of clicking? - www.soapfactory.org
They do shows, like all the time. - www.fromkeetra.com
Interesting art – I like the blood-pillows. I so want one. - Daily Painters Art Gallery
New paintings every day from a wide variety of artists. Very cool. - ConceptArt.org
A place for artists to put their stuff, I love the use of texture and color. It makes me want to get all inked up. Too bad I have no workspace. - deviantart.com
A user-driven art community, 1 part social network, 1 part constantly updating gallery, 1 part store, and ¼ part angsty teenagers with no business getting near a box of coloring pencils and a sheet of paper, much less a scanner. But there’s enough good stuff to offset that, and how else will they learn?
- Urbanfonts
An archive site of free fonts, pay fonts, old fonts and new fonts. Using it’s custom text and categorical breakdown, this is a place to catch some really nice fonts. I have to limit my access otherwise I’ll download everything and need another new hard drive. - DaFont.com
‘Cause having only one font link here makes me feel empty and cold inside, here’s another really nice font site. They have a character break-down that can cheer me up out of the deepest depression. Ah yes, I love fonts! - MyFonts.com
Oh, next paycheck may just disappear into their shopping cart… And out of that shopping cart I shall get really cool fonts. Is my graphics geek showing? - PhotoshopSupport.com
Neat collection of Photoshop tutorials, really nice for yours truly because I keep forgetting how to do things.
- www.wikipedia.com
Learn stuff – I’m not an addict. - www.straightdope.com
Helping to find the truth from the urban legend/campfire story. - www.snopes.com
Another one, but there a couple of researchers.
- www.securityfocus.com
What’s broken in technology now? How can those evil l337 h4x0rs get your system? Read, before it’s too late!!! - www.patrick.fremont.ca.us/src/php/1337/
Didn’t understand that “l337 h4x0rs” bit? Since that last link seemingly died, here’s another: - gizmodo.com
For the newest bestest news on coming technology. Well, okay, it’s just another tech news site… - www.lifehacker.com
Windows, Mac and Linux tech reviews and tips and stuff. I like. - smallnetbuilder.com
Alotta networking stuff, OS-blind (i.e. Windows, Mac, Unix, Linux…) On the detailed side, these articles are good for moderate to experts when they get stuck, or beginners who want to overload their brains and learn on the fast track.
- dvice.com
Formerly Sci-Fi tech, this place has nifty gadgets that really make you wish the ol’ paycheck was a thousand times larger. - engadget.com
Sci-tech and news. Ooh, pretty. - dvice.com
Science and technology from Syfy. Interesting.
- microsoft.com
The 400 pound gorilla. - stardock.com
Neat toys for almost every version of Windows. Some are free!
- apple.com
The 4 pound gorilla, and creators of the i- naming phenomenon and way too much controversy. But I do want an X-serve. - www.panic.com
Neat Mac Shareware, I payed for Transmit and would pay for Coda… *sigh* - iconfactory.com
95% Mac stuff, 5% Windows… Icons, a couple of programs - appleinsider.com
Rumors and heresy on what Steve Jobs is planning… Fun to see how wrong they can be. (Look into the archives for iPhone to see what I mean.)
- www.webmonkey.com
Entry-level and mid-level stuff on HTML, CSS, Javascript… Just about anything on a webserver. Some of it is outdated. - www.alistapart.com
More advanced topics here, like how to get that darn three-column layout to have even-height divs using no tables… - www.csszengarden.com
More a gallery of what can be done with CSS, it’s useful to just look and learn. - Smashing Magazine
Web design and advice web-zine, I like to check it every few months and just browse. Very cool.
- www.interfacelift.com
Windows, Mac, Linux, whatever you have — they have wallpapers, icons, and other graphical goodies for you. - Emerge Desktop
Windows shell (desktop environment/explorer) replacement that looks really nice. Too bad I have such bad luck with such things. - ThemeXP
Windows XP related theming stuff.
- Orisinal Games
Cute games. - ItMadeMyDay.com
Little stories that are funny, surprising, and generally make the day seem a little brighter. - www.givesmehope.com
Sometimes I just need to see happy stories. Our species can be so full of stupid and hate… - www.theonion.com
Parody news, really not real. Check out: tv.theonion.com for video! - Engrish.com
Mistranslations from various Asian languages into English, it wouldn’t be so funny if they weren’t so… Public and wrong. - icanhascheezburger
Kitteh pix capshioned wit LOLers of Fun! Klick u the link naow!- ihasahotdog.com
Dawggies two! - punditkitchen.com
An politishuns!
- ihasahotdog.com
- YouParkLikeAnAsshole.com
Well, it doesn’t really ease your pain… But it lets you know that others are suffering. - passiveaggressivenotes.com
Some of these are funny, and the ways that people go to avoid confrontation. (Thanks, iLoki, for bringing it to my attention.)
- xkcd.com
Just bizzare – geek humor in spades. - explosm.net
Crude, rude, offensive, NSFW, and sometimes just plain bizarre… I like it. - Questionable Content
Bad puns and sex jokes, with a story floating along behind the scenes. If you read carefully, you might actually catch it coming out once and a while. - Diesel Sweeties
All bad puns and sex jokes, pixellated beyond comprehension. I find myself reading it compulsively. - Order of the Stick & Erfworld
Amusing comics that make fun of role-playing games and role-players, and even those who enjoy making fun of role-playing games and gamers. - Able and Baker
Really sarcastic and witty web comic about NASA test animals. - Sinfest
A tongue-in-cheek comic that is so over the top you wonder where the top went. - Bunny
He’s off the wall and kinda weird – read and enjoy. - Clockworks
I find myself appreciating the Steampunk genre, if stories within that setting are told well. This comic could be one of those. - Dresden Codak
A comic that bends the brain, starting out with a storyline and now just doing one-offs. Familiar MO? Yes, but enjoyable all the same. - Girl Genius
The Heterodynes are no more and the evil Baron rules Europa from the skies, hunting down sparks… Or is that all there is to the story? See Agatha, Gil, Tarvek, Zeetha, Krosp I, and even Othar stumble around in steam punk Europa, to save the world?
- www.jkrowling.com/en
J.K.Rowling’s site. Fun with flash. - www.mugglenet.com
Fansite with discussions on what’s in the stories, characters, motivations… And now that book 7 is done, it’s fun to read the old speculations on how the story was going to evolve. Beginning to get a little boring now that the seventh book is being made into a movie. - www.hp-lexicon.org
A cataloguing of all things Potter.Helps if you have a blonde moment and forget what that whozit is .
(I never wore the make-up, but I wear the attitude and philosophy at times.)
- Emilie Autumn
A violindustrialist and hottie. She plays violin (and family), harpsichord, and industrial electronics to make music that is as pretty as she is. Well, if you’re into that thing. I am. Check out the links. You can listen to some of her stuff at VampireFreaks.com & MySpace.com. - Gothic.net
It used to be a big literary site, but they’ve broadened since the submissions have died down. Create an account so you too can be utterly annoyed by the forum trolls. - XtraX Underground
I got some really cool boots here once upon a time. I wish I could afford some of them leather trenchcoats… - Gothic Babe of the Week – sometimes better than half the time it’s NSFW
Some eye-candy is nice.
