Google Very accurate search engine with newsgroup and image search features.

AltaVisa Another search engine.

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Online dictionary and thesaurus.

Babelfish Translate web pages between several languages.

Netsplit Internet chat search engine

FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages Read Unix manual pages over the web.

Maps Street maps for U.S., Canada.

White Pages People finder. Microsoft knows where you live.

Adobe PDF Conversion Convert Adobe PDF documents to more easily readable HTML.

BBC World News News from across the pond.

Google News Searchable collection of news articles with today's most popular displayed

Christian Science Monitor A good news source with short, in-depth essays.

Canadian Broadcasting Centre Canadian news source.

Inter-Press Service News source concentrating on Third World nations.

Governing U.S. State-level political news headlines.

The Street Business news.

The Note ABC News's real news page, separate from the gossip section they call their news page.

Conservative News Politics with a heavy Republican slant and numerous factual inaccuracies.

The Mojo Wire Mother Jones populist newsmagazine. Weekly.

Tom Paine Leftist magazine.

Capitol Hill Blue Rumour-mongering political newsmagazine.

Soldiers for the Truth Military newsmagazine.

Defense Tech Current events focusing on U.S. military and foreign relations.

Plastic Discussion and links to news articles.

The Ethical Spectacle Essays on culture. Monthly.

The Memory Hole Information that some would rather see disappear.

Editor and Publisher Campaign Desk Fact Check Professional news analysis.

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Media Matters Daily Howler Liberal-slanted media analysis.

Spinsanity The inaccuracies and inanities of political rhetoric exposed.

Fark Weird News from all around.

Boing Boing Weblog with interesting news

Brickbats Odd news from Reason Magazine.

Slashdot News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.

Linux Today Daily Linux news.

Ars Technica Anandtech Tom's Hardware Tech news and hardware reviews.

Gizmodo Review of new gadgets and technology.

Techdirt Slashdot clone.

Kuro5hin Slashdot clone with story moderation.

zIWETHEY Techie discussion forum.

Advogato Slashdot clone, geared heavily towards the open-source community.

O'Reilly Network News for developers and computing professionals.

Scripting News Weblog master's weblog.

The Register Neat computer tabloid.

Cryptome Legal matters involving computer technology and censorship.

Politechbot Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list archive.

Root Prompt Unix news and tutorials.

Solaris Central News regarding Sun's Solaris OS.

Fresh Meat Unix software release announcements.

Linux Weekly News Weekly Linux news. Thursdays.

Need To Know Weekly tech news.

BetaNews News about upcoming software programs.

RISKS-FORUM Digest The risks of having technology in our lives.

Stupid Security Poorly thought out security measures.

Daemon News News focused on the BSD systems. Updated monthly.

CIAC Department of Energy's security website.

CERT Computer Emergency Response Team's security reports.

Drop Slashdot clone.

A List Apart Weekly web developers' magazine.

Circuit Cellar Hard-core technology enthusiast magazine.

Daypop Top 40 What's on the minds of webloggers.

OverLawyered Chronicling corruption in the American legal system. Updates daily.

Dynamist Economist's views on politics and current events.

Talking Points Memo Eschaton Liberals' views on politics and current events.

Live From the Nuke Free Zone Political and technophilic writings from the Left Coast.

Three Way News Conservative and mainstream news coupled with liberal opinion.

Pigdog Journal Weird news and essays reported with an uncouth flair.

Utne Web Watch Overview of an interesting link. Updates every few days.

Printers too smart for dumb jobs Modern printers can't.

Destroy Him Utterly Man convicted of making terrorist threats about "Tom Cruise missile".

Doctor Driven From Home By Vigilantes One of the dangers of illiteracy.

Buy a Flight Manual, Get a Grand Jury Subpoena Pilot subpoenaed after buying a B-737 manual.

Bash.org Amusing logs from Internet Relay Chat.

The Shark Tank Horror stories from the IT industry

Customers Suck Disgruntled employees' weblog.

Dave Barry Famous humourist's weekly column.

The UsenetInternet Oracle Keep up on the latest Oracularities.

The Brunching Shuttlecock Hilarious essays, games, reviews.

The Onion The Best Source of Newsworthy Items in our Great Republic.

Ironic Times Another Onion clone.

Cruel Site of the Day Satire of "Cool Site of the Day" sites.

Humorix Slashdot parody.

FuckedCompany Tracking the death-destined dot-coms.

memepool.com Weird and interesting links.

RHF The latest jokes from the newsgroup rec.humor.funny.

Uber Short random essays. Weekdays.

Ludicrous Speed! An amusing weblog.

RouterGod Humour magazine for network technicians.

Critical Miss Role-playing humour magazine.

Worth 1000 Image-editing contests.

The IRC Bible Biblical passages translated into IRC conversations.

Satire Wire Another Onion clone.

Web Comic Finds Constantly searching for good web comics.

The Daily WTF Daily examples of bad programming.

This Is Broken Pointing out badly designed products and advertisements.

The White House Brilliant parody of the White House website.

Illuminated Site of the Week Reviews of amusing and odd web sites.

Sluggy Freelance Worship the comic.

Ozy and Millie Consistently funny strip about childhood life.

Angst Technology Strip about a wacky software company.

Nick Anderson David Horsey Powerfully pointed political cartoons.

The Boondocks Suburbia, paranoia, and political humour.

Foxtrot Another good mainstream strip.

User Friendly Popular geeky strip.

Absurd Notions Strip about a group of young apartment-dwelling RPG fans. Stale

Avalon A very good strip about high school life. Daily. Stale

Kevin & Kell Strip about an "alternative marriage": A wolf and a rabbit.

Goats This strip is weird, and mostly about beer.

Elf Life Nice fantasy strip. Daily.

Sinfest Very raw humour, consistently effective. Daily.

Clan of the Cats A woman learns of her family's curse. Daily.

Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan A troupe of ruffians makes do in this fantasy strip.

Fate Martyr Sapheire The last male of his race swept up in a prophecy he wants none of. Daily, good artwork. Stale

Real Life A strip based on the author's real life. Daily.

Life's So Rad Another strip based on the author's real life.

As If! 80's high school retrospective.

Help Desk A look at the software industry from the tech support desk.

Adventurers! Very funny satire on Final Fantasy/Dragon Quest type games.

Acid Reflux A young goddess explores her hand-me-down universe. Stale

The Wandering Ones Survival in a postapocalyptic world. Daily.

Shadowfall Futuristic espionage drama.

Get With The Program A set of wackos staff an extremely incompetent software company.

Piled Higher and Deeper A strip about college life.

The Cyantia Chronicles An amazing output of several furry comics by a single author and artist.

Bruno the Bandit The stories of a medieval ruffian. Good artwork and quite funny. MWF

Freefall Great futuristic strip. MWF

Casey and Andy Two misfits raise havoc in this gag strip. MWF.

The Flipside Fantasy comic. MWF

Vagrant Vivian A slightly twisted fantasy. MWF

Wapsi Square Comic about the lives of a few friends. MWF

El Goonish Shive Highly imaginative and amusing strip. MWF

RPG World Another Final Fantasy parody comic. SuWF.

Deathworld This is one twisted strip, has matured greatly over the years. Mondays and Thursdays.

Kelen Fantasy strip about students and teachers at a college of magic. Mondays and Fridays.

Angels Fanservice-rich comic about all-female starfighter wing. Mondays and Fridays.

Space Losers Naive humans' adventures in outer space. Mondays and Fridays.

MegaTokyo Two American otaku/gamer/nerds in Japan. TTh.

Killroy and Tina A young Earth woman is bound to the galaxy's most feared villain. Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Return to Sender Letters from nowhere give instructions that lead to tragedy. Sundays. Stale

Ninth Elsewhere A conglomerate of muses attempts to influence human imagination. Mondays.

Mynarski Forest Strip about some troublemaking forest creatures. Mondays.

Eversummer Eve Magical mystery manga. Mondays.

Nine Stitches The adventures of a time-traveling witch. Thursdays. Stale

Zebra Girl When Satanic rituals go bad. Fridays.

Kagerou Colourful fantasy comic.

Spell Shocked Goofball fox goes through magic school without learning or using any magic. Twice monthly.

Waylay Amusing tales of fantasy and morality.

Full Frontal Nerdity Strip about role-playing and other geeky topics.

Copper Beautiful and imaginative single-page adventures.

Kid Radd A comic making fun of old 8-bit video games.

Loserz

Queen of Wands

Mac Hall Amusing strip about gaming and slacking.

Dicebox The lives of two friends in the future. Good artwork.

Hunter's Moon An interplanetary war spills out into a neighbouring star system.

Nowhere Girl A young woman struggles with her life amid hints of great change.

Buttlord GT Crude, amusing parody of Dragon Ball Z.

Sabrina Online Furry about an Amiga-loving skunk and friends. Updated monthly.

Two Lumps The lives of a pair of housecats.

Spamusement Absurd cartoons based on lines from spam e-mails the author received.

Trouble Windows Translations Computer operating systems portrayed as cartoon girls.

Radioactive Panda The misadventures of mad scientists.

Sea of Insanity

Medium Large

Cascade Failure

The Japanese Beetle Slacker superhero, odd villians, nice artwork. Ended

Ancient Messages A single family is is duty-bound to save the world from demons. Ended

The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce's great work of cynicism.

CAT-SCAN The famous Cat Scan contest.

Diary of an AOL User. Classic of Internet humour.

Wolfstone&Ellickson Discourage Frivolous Lawsuits Funny story about Apple and Carl Sagan.

Quotes of H. L. Mencken Some of the most memorable quotes came from this man.

Quotes of Dorothy Parker Another oft-quoted writer.

Sysadmin Price List I'll fix your computer, but that's gonna cost ya...

The Complete Guide To Cows Cow ASCII art. MooOooOoo

A Grandchild's Guide to using Grandpa's Computer If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port...

Computers in Movies Hollywood's take on technology.

The Prozac-Pez World Wide Web Site What if Prozac were dispensed by Pez dispensors?

IADL Archive #410 This picture rocks.

Satanic Sysadmins Sysadmins that worship Satan. Great logo.

Mr. T vs. Hackers Hackers sucked rocks, Mr T. just rocks, the script kiddie fools get what they deserve.

cr0bar's Matrix parody The Matrix for geeks.

House is Prepared for Space Invaders Partisan politics has never been so fun.

Buffer Overflow in Maruchan Instant Lunch "This seems to effect Cup O' Noodles too..." Mirror

Happy Face Crater The otherface on Mars.

The Illustrated Guide to Breaking Your Computer How Not To Install Computer Hardware How to destroy your hardware.

Suckdot Slashdot parody.

Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide Dangerous substance responsible for thousands of deaths annually.

Mothers Insisting on Licensed Tools It's For The Children!

Windows NT vs. CP/M Yet another rigged benchmark.

Linux Quotes An archive of humourous quotes about Linux.

404 A poetic 404 error message.

Windows for Telepaths Some jabs at Microsoft, courtesy of the Oracle.

Stupid Tech Support Tales of underqualified line jockeys.

Layman's Guide to Operating System Security DilDog's response to Slashdot interview question.

libhello How to make portable software.

Flame Warriors The different kinds of flamers occupying discussion groups.

Funny Pics for Online Use Graphical examples of the bad logic you find on Internet forums.

UNIXUX Funny advertisement for the Unix Hater's Handbook.

Microsoft Pie o/` Bye, bye to your system uptime o/`

Tales for the l33t Romeo and Juliet for script kiddies. SWF

Star Wars Gangsta Rap We Got Death Star! SWF

The Everloading Story Neverending Story this ain't. SWF

Fight #3 o/` Kung fu fightin' o/` SWF

CRAP Media Analysis Report on The Holy Bible The Book of Genesis A couple CAP-style reports on the Bible.

FlexNet An ISP with a BOFH support policy. This is not a joke.

Interface Hall of Shame There is some funny stuff out there.

NT Myths Hyper-inaccuracy of Microsoft's Linux Myths page aimed back at them.

Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass The joys of chemistry.

Silly Molecules Some oddly and nigh-vulgarly named things you may run across in chemistry.

Tim's Chemistry Exam If you can't pass your quiz, the next best thing is to be a smartaleck.

Jesus Christ Superstore Religious action figures. Offensive to everyone.

The Web Page From Hell The frames! Augh!

UCSD Math Club Fun and Games Some math jokes.

Server 54, Where Are You? If Novell can't get an ad campaign out of this, they deserve to go under. (They couldn't)

The Invisible Pink Unicorn Are you a believer?

E-Mail attachments: the DENIAL OF SERVICE Exploitation Tool of Choice Parody of Steve Gibson's overblown writing style.

Assassinations Foretold in Moby Dick Mocking the idea of a "Bible Code".

Worst Cars of the Millenium Former owners offer hilarious comments on their junkers.

The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches Hilariously accurate.

Suicide Squid Squiddies What happens when someone makes a typo on Usenet.

The Head of Vecna Hoax precious D&D artifact makes for hilarious tale.

Sidewinder on the Loose The plane lands, the plane stops, the missile doesn't...

Software War How goes the war? Updates about twice a year.

Flo Control Feline biometric security system.

The Credentialing Con The tale of Zoe D. Katze, PhD.

The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation What if Abe Lincoln used a slideshow?

The List of Arguments Hundreds of proofs of God's existence.

Libertarianism in One Lesson Learn all about this great philosophy.

The Propaganda Remix Project World War 2 posters updated for the War on Terrorism.

American Crusade Trading Cards War on Terrorism trading cards! Collect 'em all!

666bios The CMOS setup utility from hell.

The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Cliches Categorized by plausability, overuse, racism, sexism, and whether Star Trek did it.

Skippy's List The 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the US army.

100 Top April Fools' Day Hoaxes Some of the more ingenious pranks played on April 1.

The Dead Documents "The History of the BBS User" was just the beginning.

The YucksDigest Humour digests.

0xDEADBEEF Jokes and culture mailing list archive.

Wacky Packages Great parodies of popular product packages and advertising.

BLAZEMONGER THE FASTEST GAME EVER WRITTEN!!

The Stephen Ratliff Misting Archive Mocking a fanfic writer's work in MST3k style.

The Food Court Clever anime and movie parodies.

Nerds 'R' Us Engineering humour.

Vigor A vi editor with a paperclip assistant. This is a real program.

The Most Useless Pi Algorithm Sheer brilliance. This man would make an excellent Congressman.

The End of the Internet Don't fall off.

$95,093.35!!! This guy recieved a legal "fake" $95,093.35 check, and decided to deposit it..

Hello? In the middle of the Mojave Desert, 15 miles from the nearest highway, was this phone booth...

Spatula City Home of the Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything.

CSH Coke Machine Networked cola machines at the RIT CS house.

The Adopt a Dragon Foundation Aww, they're so cuuute!

HitlerCities The fascist-growing community on the Web!

Home Despot Everything you need for do-it-yourself dictatorship.

Villain Supply Everything you need to be an evil mastermind.

NetLore A comprehensive site about hype and hoaxes.

The AFU & Urban Legends Archive The alt.folklore.urban archive.

Snopes An entertaining list of legends and hoaxes.

WWW For The Clueless A short and basic introduction to the Web.

Zen and the Art of the Internet A classic guide to the Internet for newbies.

RFC 1855 An etiquette guide for the Internet.

How to Write Like a Wanker Sarcastic guide to poor Internet etiquette.

Country Code Index A list of top level domains.

ascii/bin ftp explained What it says. I get asked this far too often.

FTP FAQ Some info on Anonymous FTP.

Communicator's Command Line Options Hidden Mozilla Tips Useful things that can be done with Netscape's browsers.

Telnet to POP port See what your email client does behind the scenes.

Daryl's TCP/IP Primer An introduction to how the Internet works.

Digital Certificates and Encryption The what and why of secure web sites.

MIME links All that Content-type stuff.

Unicode Chart The Internet's character set.

IP to Long IP Converter Translate hostnames into decimal and octal IP addresses.

Network Time Servers Where to go to set your computer's clock using NTP.

Internet FAQ Consortium FAQs are excellent, FAQs are good, not everybody reads 'em, but everybody should.

The ZumaBot's Tale An interesting piece of 'net history.

Good Times Hoax FAQ Before Microsoft Outlook, you could not get a virus from e-mail.

The New Hacker's Dictionary Bookmark this and read it.

Net Culture Archive The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Net Culture archive.

The Lycos 50 Commentary on popular search engine terms. Weekly.

Attention Fat Bastards! A short essay on corporate versus net culture.

Miracles, An epic of Transformation Or, "Boy, did my jobs suck".

CAUCE The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email.

The Library Protecting your systems from abuse.

The Story of Nadine The life of a nonexistant e-mail account.

The Hacker Purity Test I'm "computer illiterate" =(

The Hacker FAQ How to care for your hacker.

Anarchism Triumphant An essay against software copyright.

USENIX the Advanced Computing Association and System Administrator's Guild(SAGE).

Clue Train All Aboard!

My Secret Weapon A CEO better understands modern technology through his childrens' experience.

Journal Of Applied Misanthropology Alex Haley versus Nazi Sluts.

DogCow Answer Page Moof!

The great +ORC hunt The search for a cracker.

The Principia Discordia Hail Eris!

Final Exam Some thoughtful questions regarding the future of computing.

The Right To Read Where our IP laws might take us.

CYA for System Administrators Basic legal advice for sysadmins.

Negotiating for Nerds Things to keep in mind when job-seeking.

Declaration of the Independance of Cyberspace Written in, uh, Microsoft Word.

Unix as Literature Command-line culture.

Management by In-Flight Magazine Why PHBs order working systems replaced with non.

Foil the Filters Jeffery Pollock's tale Glaring examples of the inaccuracies of filtering software.

The Natural Life Cycle of Mailing Lists A look at the evolution of communities.

You Are Forbidden to Read This Resale, reading aloud of public domain book forbidden. Mirror

Characterizing People as Non-Linear, First-Order Components and still delivering software, anyway.

Admin Horror Stories rm -rf * .o

Gloatware Programs that interfere with your ability to use your computer.

Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval Usenet software standards of excellence.

RFC-Ignorant Publicly humiliating sites that fail to comply with Internet standards of accountability.

Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Spam The first unsolicited mass e-mailing, and current anti-spam solutions.

NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML Creating Your First HTML Document The XHTML Language and Design Sourcebook HTML 4.0 Reference Learn XHTML By Learning XML Guides to learning HTML.

Differences with HTML 4 How to convert from older versions of HTML

HTML validator Check a web page for errors.

Web Authoring FAQ Answers to common Web design novices' questions.

How to Read W3C Specifications Learn to understand the web's standards documents.

Web Pages That Suck Morons In Web Space! Learn how not to design web pages.

Campaign for a Non Browser Specific WWW Your web pages should work in any browser.

The Web Standards Project Standards are a Good Thing[tm].

Dogma W4 Concepts for well-structured site design.

Flash is Evil Reasons not to implement in Flash what can be done in HMTL.

Web Reference WebMonkey Informative articles for web developers.

Demoronizer HTML Tidy Tools to clean up error-prone program-generated HTML. Tidy is more up to date.

PHP3 Introduction Devshed's intro into the server-side scripting language PHP.

gif2png PNG Tips Don't take the chance of being liable for patent infringement.

DjVu A lossy file format which may replace JPEG.

The Future of Web Design Acronyms to be aware of.

IE7 An Intenet Explorer module/stylesheet which improves IE6's CSS support.

The HTML Terrorist's Handbook Evil ways to annoy NS/IE 3.x users. Stale

HT Dig Free site search engine utility.

PHP Session Management How to keep track of your users with PHP/ODBC.

CGI Coding How to process input from a Web browser.

UnCGI A library for accessing CGI input with a C program.

WebDAV HTTP extensions to make managing websites easier.

XHTML 2 The future of HTML, not yet implemented in any browser.

Apache FAQ Many answers about this popular web server.

Installing PHP, MySQL, and Apache on Win98 Practice webmastering before delving into Unix.

Using .htaccess Comprehensive guide to .htaccess Using .htaccess Configure an Apache-based website by directory.

mod_rewrite URL Rewriting Guide A powerful feature of Apache.

Robot Exclusion Standard How to keep polite robots from viewing portions of your site.

Enabling modDAV on Apache How to configure web site user management with the Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol.

Complete CSS Guide CSS1 Reference CSS2 Reference The mystical incantations of Cascading Style Sheets.

CSS2 Tests Abridged Guide to CSS2 Support CSS2 browser compatibility table.

CSS Bug Ring Web developers tracking bugs in browsers' CSS implementations.

Pure CSS Menus Create dropdown menus without using Javascript.

The CSS Anarchist's Handbook Part 2 Methods of misusing cascading style sheets.

Scripting For The 6.0 Browsers Basics of Document Object Model.

ppk's Javascript Section Solutions to common Javascript problems and incompatibilities.

Events -- Browser compatibility Javascript events browser compatibility table.

Mission Impossible: Mouse Position How to detect the mouse position with Javascript

DOM CSS Interface How to access CSS styles from Javascript.

Javascript 2.0 Proposal ECMAScript 4.0 Proposal What to expect in the next version of Javascript.

Linux Programming Newbie Introductory programming texts, with a good list of useful tools.

How To Write Unmaintainable Code Then see the alternative.

Algorithms and Data Structure Implementations Implementations of common algorithms.

What I Hate About Your Programming Language Upsides and downsides of different languages.

Automatically configuring software to the runtime environment Code to find the max and min int and float values on any system.

Hello, World! The Hello World program in various languages.

99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall In various languages.

Object Orientation Examples in C and C++ And in a couple dozen other languages, including a DOS batch file.

PDF for the Server How to write programs to create PDF files.

GUI Toolkits for the X Window System Overview of GTK, Qt, FOX, FLTK, and WxWindows.

Writing Cross-Platform Software Tips on how to do this.

Computer Language Shootout Scorecard Benchmarks of language implementation performance.

Ground Zero Guide to C Programming in C Unix System Calls and Subroutines using C The lingua franca of programming languages.

Bulletproof Integer Input using strtol() For newbies: How to input ints from the keyboard.

Optimization of Computer Programs in C How to write better-performing code.

Getting Started with POSIX Threads Threaded programming tutorial.

Embedding Python How to put Python scripting into a C application.

Gnu C Extensions The Free Software Foundation's incompatible extensions to the C language.

Writing Programs with Ncurses Library for text terminal screen handling.

Query Object Framework A query generator.

Diet Libc A version of the standard C library optimized for small file size.

GetOpts Library for easily handling command-line arguments.

C++ Manual A good reference for C++.

Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide An intro to the C++ STL.

Template Metaprograms Programs run at compile-time to improve performance.

Fast Light Tool Kit A free GUI toolkit for X, OpenGL and Win32.

Programming with WxWindows WxDesigner Guide to and tools for the WxWindows cross-platform GUI library.

Robert's Perl Tutorial Intro to the popular hackers' language.

Comprehensive Perl Archive Network Documentation and modulesfor doing anything in Perl.

Perl Monks Perl tips, tricks, and support.

GD::Graph Create chart graphics with Perl.

Objective C Guide to the language commonly used in NEXT and OS X.

Ruby Programming Guide to programming in the Ruby language.

Python Documentation Instructions for using the popular scripting language.

Squeak The Joy of Smalltalk Introduction to Squeak A Smalltalk-compatible language.

AutoLisp Function List Reference of functions available to AutoCAD's scripting environment.

Techniques and Algorithms A few algorithms implemented in Lisp.

Linux Assembly Guides to programming in assembly language.

Assembly Gems Algorithms in assembly code.

Random Programming Languages Insane and downright evil languages.

Database Normalization for the Average Jane and Joe A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms Overview of relational database design theory.

PostgreSQL HOWTO Guide to using, installing, and administering a Postgres database.

PostgreSQL/Access FAQ Using MS Access to connect to a PostgreSQL database.

Comparison of Oracle, MySQL, and Postgress DBMs Comparison of common top, bottom, and midrange databases.

Designing a report in Oracle Examples of Oracle's report formatting syntax.

Getting Started with SQL Part 2 Introduction to databases.

SQL Zoo SQL references and introductory guides.

XML Links XML Fundamentals Links to information on Extensible Markup Language.

DTD Generator XML Utilities Useful tools for building XML DTDs and schemas.

XML Security Library A programming library to support XML Signature and XML Encryption.

SRAVUG Sonoma County ArcView/ArcGIS Users' Group

Grass GIS Free Geographical Information System software.

Mapserver Free web-based internet map server with PHP, Perl, WMS support.

Free GIS Site with links to free GIS software.

Shapelib Library for accessing ESRI shapefiles and DBF data tables.

OpenGIS Specifications The standards for GIS.

SDE, SDO, and SpatialWare for OpenGIS Review of database implementations for GIS.

Review of Operating Systems There are a lot of them.

Operating Systems Comparison More detailed survey of operating systems.

Network Operating System Comparison Emphasis on NT and Linux

Unix commands and Netware equivalents Quick notes for those learning Unix from Netware.

Windows 95 Downloads Windows 98 Downloads Patch your system.

Windows Annoyances Awesome Windows site with plenty of tips and tricks.

Dos 7 Commands The command line is still the quickest way to get things done.

Batch File MiniFAQ Links to several sites with batch programming information.

'95 Registry &Etc... Registry hacking guide.

Regedit.com Site with registry hacking info.

How to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 98 Infoworld article gives detailed directions.

Peer to Peer Networking Document Local mirror of Steven Putnam's doc on Win95 file sharing. Mirror

TVDog's Internet Archive How to get a DOS box hooked up to the Internet.

Computing.Net Forums -- Windows9x A bulletin board for Win9x users.

Windows 95 Tips Some ways to tweak Windows.

Missing Files Windows sometimes forgets to install some driver files.

Disabling Windows File Protection Microsoft declares Notepad a vital operating system component.

$TMPDIR Get pipes to work in bash.

Windows 2000 Hints & Tips Tips for Win2k users. Gone

How to Pronounce Linux From the man himself.

Linux Tutorial Good tutorial to get familiar with Linux. Read it if you're interested.

Basic Unix Commands How to use a shell account.

The Unix Programming Environment Welcome to Unix. Here's your accordion.

Rute A comprehensive guide to Linux.

The FreeBSD Browser Browse the Unix filesystem and read documentation on each step.

Inside the GNOME 2.4 Desktop Deep Inside KDE 3.2 Reviews of the two most advanced Unix desktop environments.

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Free Desktop Standards There is a method to the madness.

North Bay Linux Users Group Every 2nd Tuesday of the month, 7:30 PM, O'Reilly building, Sebastapol.

Unix Rosetta Stone Differences in common operations.

Linux From Scratch Guide for hardcore Linux users.

100 Good Linux Websites Sluggy is a Linux site?

File Compression Tool Guide How to uncompress DOS, Windows, and Mac files in Linux.

Window Manager Roundup The different pretty pointyclicky interfaces available for Linux.

Gnome Install Order Gnome Administration Guide Instructions for installing and running Gnome.

Optimizing KDE How to install KDE and make it run faster.

Setting up Samba 3.x Setting up Linux to serve NetBIOS shares.

Frank's Corner Guides to using the Wine Win32 libraries to run Windows applications on Unix.

Running Windows Applications on FreeBSD Using the Wine Windows-compatibility layer on Unix.

Emacs for vi users Common Emacs commands, many of which also work from the shell.

Inferno A cutting-edge operating system.

Introduction to GoboLinux Reasons behind a non-standard directory tree outlay.

Open Source Desktop Technology Roadmap The future direction of Unix desktops.

Using and Customizing Knoppix A guide to the Knoppix Linux test CD distribution.

Access Control Lists Using a more advanced permissions system.

SELinux Fedora Core 3 FAQ Using the US National Security Agency's security-enhanced Linux features in Redhat's product.

Secure Shell Filesystem Kernel module to mount remote filesystems through SSH.

The Case for Linux in Universities Broad overview of the state of Linux in 2002.

Geeks bet big on Open Source What people who know the technologies available choose, and why.

Comparing Windows ME and Linux ZD: Suse 7 a better desktop system than Windows ME. Gone

Beyond Windows 98 SBC: Mandrake 7.2 equal of Windows XP. Mandrake at 8.0 when magazine shipped.

Windows to Linux Conversion Reasons and methods of converting.

Should your business use Linux? Andrew Grygus's essay.

The Best Windows File Server: Linux! ZDNET tests NT against Linux with reverse-engineered Samba.

Advantages of the Linux Community More good evangelism from Paul Ferris.

1997 Infoworld Award for Best Technical Support in the Computer Industry And the winner is...

Linux in the Enterprise A collection of accounts of Linux being used for major applications.

Linux: It's not Microsoft Linux advocacy by lawyers, for laywers.

Linux Responds to 911 Call Emergency-line dispatchers find Windows's frequent crashing unacceptable.

Firm Takes Linux Route to Computing Much lower cost a factor.

Kicking the Windows Habit Try carrot sticks or lifesavers.

Making a High School Intranet One teacher's experience.

Linux is more popular than sex Believe it or not...

The Economics of Open Source and Free Software Why do people share the source code to their programs? PDF

Open Source and These United States Why open source is good for the .mil.

The Future of Open Source And IP, and computing in general.

Two Case Studies of Open Source Development How open-source development works.

A Microsoft Guy Tackles Linux Includes chart of alternative software

Be Bits Archive of downloadable BeOS programs.

The Be Book Developing for the BeOS environment.

BeKaffe Java-like language for BeOS.

Arougthopher's BeZilla Build Page A Mozilla port to the BeOS.

BeWine Wine and X11 ports for BeOS.

Top 75 Security Tools The most popular security tools.

Beginning Security Inoshiro's intro to security: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Know Your Enemy Tools and methodologies of the script kiddie. Parts 1, 2, 3

Cracked! It happens to everyone eventually. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Attrition.org Mirror Mirror of vandalized web sites, with OS statistics. Stale

German Government recommends immediate actions for a secured Internet Recommended security measures.

Security issues of Auto-Upgrades Are auto-updates a vector for trojans?

Freenet Development Page An idea for a free sturdy encrypted network that would be difficult for the government to censor or take down.

Technical Whitepapers and Publications A bunch of security essays.

DShield Site that tracks the most active port-scanning IPs and target ports.

Securing an Unpatchable Webserver When the vendor wontfix the program, you have to fix the data.

Hardening OpenBSD Removing unneeded services from Unix.

Open Office Freely downloadable alternative to Microsoft or Corel Office.

Mozilla Netscape's open-source web browser and e-mail client projects. See the latest bugs.

GIMP Windows-native GTK and GIMP Image editor comparable to Adobe Photoshop.

Rekall Revealed A free clone of Microsoft Access.

AbiWord A free clone of Microsoft Word.

Dia Diagramming and flowchart creation software.

XNView A good program for simply viewing images.

QCad Free Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software.

Sodipodi Vector drawing program.

X-Chat A good Internet Relay Chat client.

Image Magick Command-line utilities for editing images.

Bzip Free, multiplatform, better compression than gzip.

Amaya The w3's web browser and HTML editor.

w3m A better text-based web browser than Lynx.

VideoLAN Free video software for multiple operating systems.

TightVNC VNC+xinetd Howto Free remote connectivity server and client software.

Celestia 3D space simulation software.

Distributed.net Help with the OGR cracking project.

Bootdisk.com Free boot disk images.

DummyNet Bandwidth-throttling software.

RDesktop An X Window System based NT Terminal Server client.

djbdns A Look at djbdns Setup Guide Alternative to BIND, with security guarantee.

Lyx Lyx Tips Program for producing professionally formatted documents.

SED FAQ FAQ about the powerful non-interactive text editor.

xpdf Extremely fast reader for Adobe PDF documents.

GnuCash Financial software for Gnome.

Anjuta An IDEfor Unix.

Kernel Toys Power Toys Useful utilities such as WinTop and TweakUI.

WinZip A good archive extraction utility.

K-Meleon Small, fast web browser based on Gecko engine.

Pegasus Eudora The Bat Free e-mail clients.

MINGW and MingSys GNUWin32 Native Win32 ports of GNU toolset and libraries.

Dev-C++ A free IDE for Windows.

PuTTY A free secure shellclient for Windows, with SCPaddon.

iXplorer WinSCP SCP frontends. Don't use FTP to upload files!

SiSoft Sandra A very good diagnostic program. Find out everything about your system.

Pirch A nice Internet Relay Chatclient.

Adobe Acrobat Reader Portable Document Format, equally unsupported on any system.

Zone Alarm Firewall software for Windows. Can make your system unstable.

GnuWin2 The Open CD Open-source programs for Windows.

Live Journal Keep a diary.

Full ZX-81 Chess in 1K A complete chess program in 672 bytes.

Enabling High Performance Data Transfers Quite technical.

trigjava Learn about sines, cosines, and tangents. Java

Euclid's Elements The fundamentals of geometry.

Periodic Table of the Elements Pictorial Periodic Table The stuff that makes up stuff.

Unicode Test Page Does your browser support it?

RAID.edu Intro to different RAID levels.

Dinosauricon An encyclopedia of dinosaurs and the Mesozoic time period.

No Cat Network A local wireless cooperative and links to 802.11binfo.

Ping Graphs See how healthy PacBell's DSL service is.

Data from Old Domain Surveys What it says. Old host tables are neat.

ResExcellence An archive of OS X tips.

Secure Mac A Macintosh security site.

Itchan's Computer Buying Tips A small guide of things to keep in mind when buying a computer.

Unix Hardware Buyer HOWTO A large guide of things to keep in mind when buying a computer.

Wotsit Information on computer file formats.

Phrack Magazine Indescribable.

OpenNIC A new Top Level Domain name server. Another one.

How Sword Making Works The manufacture of pointy things.

Getting Started with LDAP LDAP Roadmap Introduction to directory services.

DVD Players Compatibility List Feature list of many DVD players.

Reiser4 Concept document for next generation file system.

x2 Archive of technical documents.

Etherkiller Devices to fry networking equipment.

Mesopotamian Mathematics How math was done in ancient times.

HAKMEM What's Special About This Number? Lots of interesting mathematical stuff.

LART A low-powered computer.

Internet Relay Chat networks Popularity statistics on chat networks and other information.

Configuring Spanning Tree A guide to the Spanning Tree Protocol used by switches.

Configuring VTP and Virtual LANs A guide to VLANs and VLAN Trunk Protocol.

Management of Internet Names and Addresses Copies of NSI's agreements with the Department of Commerce.

ZyNOS Cl Command List Router commands for Zyxel routers.

YAML Reference Card Hint sheet for Yet Another Markup Language, an alternative to XML.

Everything 2 Wikipedia User-contributed encyclopedias.

Online Etymology Dictionary Learn how words attained their meaning.

CIA World Factbook 2001 Country Study Guide Political and geographical information about the world's countries.

Historical Atlas of the 20th Century Maps and information on the last century's governments and major events.

The Elements of Style William Strunk's guide to the written English language.

Evaluation of information sources Logical Fallacies Upgrade your bullshit detector.

Propoganda Analysis Another BS detector upgrade.

The McDonald's Case As usual, the media lied.

Student Press Law Center Got a school newspaper?

ASCII Chart A chart of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

Today's Date and Time Next time someone asks what time it is...

Nikola Tesla An article about some of the scientist's inventions.

SSN Frequently Asked Questions FAQ about Social Security Numbers.

TEXTFILES An archive of text files.

Internet Wiretap An E-text archive.

Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter See whether your OS Sucks or Rules.

How to Decode a Bar Code Information on UPC barcodes.

Network Information Center Eugene Kashpureff's page on Internet structure.

Mike's at the Yard Where to find the best hamburgers in Sonoma County.

Haze Grey and Underway A great site about modern naval history.

The Reluctant Gourmet Cooking site for beginners, with recipies such as "Mashed Potatoes"

Recent Earthquakes in California See if you should begin looking into beachfront property in Nevada.

Universal Currency Converter Planet-wide, at least. Currency exchange calculator.

A Questionairre Sci-fi author asks about fundamentals of philosophy.

Flags of the World History about various nations' flags.

Encyclopedia Mythica An index of ancient mythology.

Readability Test Calculate Gunning-Fog readability scores for a web page.

The War Scholar A timeline of all wars in recorded human history.

Political Maps of Europe Maps of historical national boundaries.

Early British Kingdoms History of Britain in the first millenium AD.

Articles on Ancient History A collection of articles on ancient Rome, Greece, Egypt, Persia, and other classical Western nations.

The History Net Old war stories.

Evolution of Alphabets History of western languages.

De Imperatoribus Romanis Histories of the Roman emperors.

Textkit Guides to learning ancient Greek and Latin.

Antitrust in the Internet Age Prof. Felton's links to information about the 3 U.S. vs. Microsoft trials.

June 6 Letter Microsoft demands Compaq support MSN and IE or lose license to sell Windows. Mirror

Microsoft plans Stealth Blitz to Mend Its Image Local mirror of the Astroturf report. Mirror

Microsoft lobbying campaign backfires Microsoft caught sending faked grassroots letters again.

Microsoft calls video demo a "simulation" Faked video introduced as evidence in trial. Mirror

Examining the Windows AARD Detection Code How Microsoft screwed DR-DOS.

He Who Controls the Bootloader How Microsoft prevented Be from being able to give away their OS for free.

Microsoft Hall of Innovation Microsoft claims many technologies as their own, but is it really their idea? Stale

Microsoft Knew About, Ignored Problem MS ignored bug limiting W2k to 51 clients.

Overseas Invasion The Business Software Alliance forces unlicensed software users into MS-only solutions.

Halloween MS lays plans to attack hobbyists by destroying the Internet's established standards.

Microsoft Pays $200 For Mentioning Its Tools Bribes paid to educators who promote Microsoft.

Who Are You Gonna Sue Today? Not Microsoft.

Toshiba/Microsoft Saga How the "Refund Day" craziness got started.

Novell Advantage over W2k Novell tires of MS's FUD and lies, responds with some of its own.

Obligatory Microsoft Article Simon Cozens puts it simply: It's all about the standards.

Dirty Tricks The Blue Mountain story is an excellent example of Microsoft's product leveraging.

Windows 2000: Blueprint for Domination Methods that Microsoft is using to leverage Windows 2000. PDF

Why You Might Decide To Run Away From W2K "The new OS carries a hefty price."

Common Sense about Windows 2000 A more balanced article. Consider pros, cons, alternatives.

Microsoft: A Proven Danger to National Security Richard Forno's hostile essay. PDF

Bill Gates: No bugs in MS Software Portion of infamous interview with Juergen Scriba.

Microsoft leans on political levers Article about MS's PR department.

From MSWord to MSWorld How Microsoft came to dominance, and predictions for the future.

W2K at Center of Security Storm Microsoft tries to break Kerberos, Biometrics API.

Microsoft Licensing Confuses Consumers MS charges some customers twice for one copy of Windows.

The Dweebspeak Primer: Moody A piece attacking columnist Fred Moody's pro-Microsoft positions.

Microsoft Lacks Motivation To Change Security Being a monopoly, why fix?

MSN Turns Users Into Spammers Ads covertly attached to outgoing change of address notices.

Microsoft to Oracle: Cease and Desist Competitor says their products are better, Microsoft threatens to sue.

The Microsoft Method of Reducing TCO 23 AS/400 servers vs. 1200 NT and a year of labor before giving up.

Microsoft limits users' unlimited free support Read the contract to see what you're buying.

Microsoft Patents ASF Format VirtualDub forced to remove support.

Active Directory Fix to Require Significant Upgrade Microsoft won't release bugfix to W2k customers.

Can Your Palm Do That? Yes. Can your WinCE device? No. MS claims opposite in ads.

Nifty Prizes from Microsoft Computer makers asked to send MS any orders requesting systems without Windows.

Smart Tags IE to add links to other peoples' web content, directing users to Microsoft's properties.

Microsoft-AOL talks end MS demanded AOL drop support of competitor Real's multimedia format.

Silenced By Microsoft? Popular Infoworld columnist wonders why he was fired shortly after speaking out againt Microsoft.

The Scoble Story Weblogger stops updating his site after predicting Linux/Mac .NET ports.

WSJ on Windows Activation Logic bomb shuts down XP after 30 days if you don't register with Microsoft.

MS/Intel Exclusion MS makes deal to not support AMD's 3dx technology in exchange for Intel not supporting Java.

A Punitive Puppeteer FrontPage 2002 license forbids making a site that disparages MS or its partners.

Microsoft Disseminates False Statements About Novell Fallacious ads sent to Novell customers. Mirror

Open source advocate gets telling off Microsoft contacts employers of persons who publicly support its competition.

Microsoft Timeline History of the Microsoft case back to 1990.

Pathetic Witnesses Microsoft's witnesses openly admit to illegal business practices.

Microsoft Make-up Microsoft Insider publishes false story about Mac user switching to Windows.

What makes IE so fast? Microsoft breaks TCP standards to keep IE/IIS connections open.

Netcraft Web Server Survey What's the most popular web server? Not IIS by a long shot.

Internet Operating System Counter What's the most popular server OS? Not NT. Stale

Defacements by OS Microsoft sites defaced far more often than would be inferred from market share. Stale

Linux vs NT as Web Server c't tests show IIS good at serving static pages, poor at dynamic content. Stale

How to Run a Microsoft-Free Shop Do you have to be drunk to run Windows?

Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus Unix A blasting report on NT's failings.

Web server availability From c't: NT has twice the downtime of more established server OSes.

How do Linux and NT compare in real life? Bloor Research runs both systems side by side for a year.

Linux 2.0, Linux 2.2, and Windows NT4 TCP stack evaluations What it says.

Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water Could give new meaning to "mission critical".

Nuke Software MS SQL Server 6.5 drops Russian nuclear tracking records.

Robust Windows? Some highly visible examples of Windows's stability in production environments.

Providing Reliable NT Desktop Services by Avoiding NT Server Lucent(nee AT&T Bell Labs)'s howto.

Close the Windows on Virus-Prone Outlook The single greatest security hole on most corporate networks. Mirror

Remember Ed Curry Nerd martyr refused to lie about NT's security certification.

The Right Tool for the Right Job NT admin rants about it.

Pentagon Cracks Down on PowerPoint Bloated Office documents clog DoD networks.

Word Documents Reasons to avoid sending documents in Microsoft Word format.

Just Say No to Microsoft The Alternative Analogs of Windows software in Linux Alternatives to Microsoft and Windows-only software.

Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum A case that evidence was destroyed or covered up after Waco.

Disinformation All sorts of odd stuff.

Groom Lake How this officially nonexistant U.S. Air Force base has changed over 30 years.

Seperatist, Paramilitary, Military, Intelligence, and Aid Organizations Websites of undesirables.

European Commission Report European Commission declares that Echelon does exist.

The Technologies of Political Control Description of surveillance technologies.

Culture, Communication, and Control "Why is the NSA spying on Amnesty and Christian Aid?"

Zip's World Asst. Sysop of Physics BBS.

Elvine Keebler's homepage.

Mussolini's HomePage Another friend of mine. Too bad Phiefer disbanded.

Patrick Stewart's Neck of the Woods IRC friend, and an even bigger Hell Fighter nut than me.

Priomh IRC friend Primis's personal weblog.

Between A Rock and A Hard Place IRC friend J-Rock's weblog.

Error Jake's page.

Alan Cox Programmer's diary.

Thor's Page of Recalcitrancy Gamer's page, funny videogame lookalikes section.

Douglas Winslow A cool hacker with a great sense of humour.

WonkoSlice Geek's blog.

John C. Dvorak's Universal Home Page and Personal Portal Tech columnist's page.

Maddox "The best page in the universe." Sarcastic and hilarious.

Pharyngula Biologist's blog.

Sclerotic Rings Former science fiction writer Paul Riddell's blog.

Jamie Zawinski Former Netscape hacker's website. Read his blog, if you dare.

Richard Lederer's Verbivore Anguished English author, History According to Student Bloopers assembler's site.

WilWheaton.net Infamous Star Trek actor's homepage and weblog.

Dr. Travis E. Doom Yes, there really is a guy named Dr. Doom.

Deoxyribonucleic Autonomous Zone Some weirdo's home page. It rocks.

Art Bell Famous conspiracy-theory radio talk show host.

the .plan Home of the irc.twits file.

"Weird" Al Yankovic Funny parodist.

Computer Recycling Center If you're looking for an old Pentium, they've got 'em.

Internet Magic "Nearly free"web hosting services.

Sonoma County Proudly serving the public interest.

Thomas Information on U.S. House bills.

Your Congress Learn about the representatives of the United States.

Open Government Information Awareness A repository of information about the United States government.

Skeleton Closet Your favourite politician is a corrupt bastard.

Lying in Ponds Tracking partisan bias in the media.

Constitutional Conflicts A good resource for learning about the United States Constitution.

Gerrymandering and Redistricting Fraud History and examples of gerrymandering.

Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville's examination of the United States government and political culture.

Liberalism Resurgent Liberal International Leftist philosophy.

Conjuring with the People An in-depth essay on the American militia movement. PDF

Iowa Electronic Markets Heck, people are already buying the government.

California Secretary of State Lots of political, electoral information.

ABAG: Bay Area Cities Links to SF Bay Area cities' web pages.

City of Petaluma, CA Home Page The city of Petaluma's web page.

Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus A contract may not forbid the buyer of IP from reselling it.

The Riots of '99 Monkeybagel's account of the Seattle protests.

Encryption Expert Renounces U.S. Citizenship Laws would have made his job illegal.

Thomas Jefferson Center's Muzzle Awards For outstanding efforts to restrict free speech.

Digital Millenium Copyright Act Read the law that everybody hates.

Trademark Dilution Info on the Trademark Dilution act of 1995.

U.S. Trademark Law The law regarding trademarks in the U.S.

The Six Lesson School-Teacher What children are taught in the U.S. school system.

What Every American Should Know About Copyright Explanation of this important issue.

Treaty of Tripoli "the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion"

What Really Happened in Florida BBC report on fraud in the 2000 Presidential election.

Judicial Seminars How Big Business corrupts judges with fascist-feudalist propoganda.

Religion Selector Compare your beliefs with those of several religions.

Comparison of Christian Beliefs in U.S., Other Countries '91 multinational religious survey results.

The Thomas Jefferson Bible The tale of Jesus as edited by one of the United States' founders.

The Skeptic's Annotated Bible A good biblical resource.

Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research - Public Opinion Poll Hidden in the numbers: over 90% of Palestinians demand the eventual complete destruction of Israel.

Ten tips against anti-Semitism How some criticisms of Israel can become racist.

Top 100 American Speeches of the 20th Century Historically notable speeches.

Selective Intelligence The Stovepipe Cheney and the 'Raw' Intelligence Report cast doubt on Iraq-Al Qaeda Connection War After the War How US intelligence mismanagement led to the Iraq war of 2003.

Steve Jackson Games vs. the SS Role-playing game company raided in 1990.

Chilling Effects Site tracking the law's intrusion into the once-anarchic Internet.

Firehead Censored Information Archive Documents that are illegal to own in some countries.

GeoCensored Web page host chases down critics, deletes their sites from other companies' servers.

Master Kwahraw Military trial declared Internet Chat to be a tool used to break into other peoples' computers.

DeCSS Central A history of the controversial DeCSS program. BladeEnc author writes opinion piece. Read Openlaw's FAQ

Sore Hands Man fired from job for seeking medical attention for on-the-job injury, sues employer, wins, writes about it, then gets sued by former employer for writing about it.

DoubleClick Double-Crosses the Net Ad company using cookies to match browsers with names, addresses.

Webtrack/Smartfilter in Utah Schools and Libraries "On the day that this report was released, Smartfilter began banning censorware.org under ... every category"

Symantec Threatens Legal Action over I-Gear Report Maker of "Norton" products doesn't like Peacefire's product review.

Judge orders CP codebreaker site shut down Two crypto researchers reverse-engineer Cyber Patrol and publish a report, Mattel sues, wins. Robinl's page has more information. Co-author Skala clears up rumors in a CPBreak FAQ.

Terminix Consumer Alert Pest control company sues critic for unauthorized use of its name.

Campaign Against Internet Censorship in Britain Site deleted after net.kook Godfrey threatens lawsuit.

Montery Bay BMW Riders Arai Letter Helmet-maker threatens to sue fans for directing potential customers to them. Nice response from the group.

AOL calls guns porno Gun dealers have their websites deleted without warning, declared obscenity by AOL.

Internet Patents are Changing the Rules Informative article about patents.

Slashdot Bitchslap Attempt to curb bad moderation hits several innocents.

Microsoft bans E-Bay Software Sales EBay changes all negative feedback comments to "Neutral". Gone

Real Audio spies on customers Fourth post down.

The Coming Storm Essay on trusted devices and the frictions between Internet and conventional media.

Big Lies ESR's short piece about Napster and DeCSS.

Intel Vs. Schwartz Background info on the Randal Schwartz case. More balanced site.

Gag Order lifted for annoy.com Company forbidden from speaking about lawsuit for a year.

Thoughts It really happened as described. His name is Dmitry Sklyarov.

A Martyr For Distributed Computing Systems administrator faces 30 years jail and $400,000 fine for running harmless distributed.net client.

Microsot Shuts Down Lik-Sang Company made add-ons to consoles that allowed running imported and independently developed software

Big Blue & Cousins 15 year old PC users group threatened by British Broadcasting Corporation. Gone

Ajax.org Website threatened by Colgate-Palmolive for using the name of a 2000-year-dead Greek hero.

Roadkills R Us Website threatened by Toys R Us.

Archie Comics fights parent for domain Man bought domain name to honor baby daughter.

Leonardo International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology Famous 30 year old art institue hit by police raid, $1m lawsuit due to its appearing in the results of a search engine search for "Leonardo".

corinthians.com bible-quoting owner loses to Brazil soccer team WIPO strips man of his domain name.

WIPO case D2000-0996 *-sucks domains ruled to be confusingly similar to trademarks.

Nissan Motors vs Nissan Computer Corp. Nissan Motors sues a man named Nissan.

NSI Flawed Domain Name Policy Page Stories of DNS monopoly's dispute policy.

Rough Justice An essay on the state of affairs in domain name disputes.

How is a Domain Name Like a Cow? Good essay on domain name disputes.

RFC 1591 The Internet's policy on domain names.

Deciphering Anime Cultural issues for those unfamiliar with the art form.

The Laws of Anime Anime cliche list.

Anime Web Turnpike Links to Anime sites.

Rei's Anime Page Copious essays, descriptions, links to other Anime resource sites.

Teach Yourself Japanese Okay, you hard-core otaku. Knock yourself out.

Laws of Anime Physics On the lighter side, a list of cliches in popular anime.

Astronomy Picture of the Day National Geographic Picture of the Day Earth Science Picture of the Day Oooh, purty.

The Empire That Was Russia Restored colour photographs predating the First World War.

16 Colour Movies Short animated GIF movies in 16 colours.

Say Hello To iMac Helloooo, iMac!

The LWN Penguin Gallery Variations of Larry Ewing's Tux design.

What Schizophrenia does to your mind Freaky.

Joke Wallpaper Funny computer background images.

Find the Black Dot Uhh.. Uh...

Zoom Quilt (mirror) A series of intertwined images by different artists.

Controversial Jack The original Controversial Jack story on Impromanga.

Gallery of CSS Descramblers Is wearing a politically incorrect T-Shirt illegal in the States now?

Project Gutenberg A project to convert every classic work of literature into electronic format.

Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution Essays by a bunch of famous hackers.

The Hacker Crackdown Bruce Sterling's book about the [cr|h]acker crackdown of the early 1990s.

The Programmers' Stone Hacker philosophy.

The Hacker's Diet Hacking your way to a healthy body.

Pepys's Diary Weblog version of Sameul Pepys's famous journal.

ImproFanfic A site with several ongoing fanfics and some originals.

The Couch A collection of Anime fanfics.

Mr. T Vs Everything Links to all of the "Mr. T Vs. ..." stories.

Magical Troubleshooting Crossover Fighting Tournament BETA Very funny fanfic.

Asuka Hits Her Thumb With A Hammer This NGE fanfic might be better placed under Informative Links.

Going Out: Movies What movies are playing in Sonoma County.

Yahoo TV What's on the tube.

Internet Movie Database A wealth of information pn almost every movie ever produced

Rotten Tomatoes Summarized film reviews from many sources.

Mr Cranky Rates the Movies Movie critic with a scale of 1-4 bombs.

Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 Summaries of every B5 episode.

Hardware Wars The classic low-budget Star Wars parody.

TROOPS Kevin Rubio's funny COPS/Star Wars crossover.

Censored Cartoons Classic cartoons edited due to changing public sentiments.

Kawaii Radio JPop and anime soundtracks.

Radio Free Mars (stream) Music and weirdness from 8PM-2AM

Red Ferret's Music Page Links to "1 million free and legal music tracks".

Music Plasma See connections between different artists.

Ogg Vorbis An open audio format designed to compete with the patented mp3.

The Problem With Music Steve Albini's essay on the music industry.

Major Label Contract Clause Critique An examination of music industry contracts.

Encyclopaedia Metallica Everything you wanted to know about the band.

The Minibosses Band that does covers of old NES game music.

Webcasting: Doing It Legally The legal hassles involved in running Internet radio.

Underdogs Reviewing old and unpopular game titles, and often finding gems.

Cheap Ass Games Maker of kickass tabletop games such as Ben Hvrt and Give Me The Brain.

XEvil Run around and kill everything. Fun.

Space Empires III Very well done shareware space strategy game.

Little Fighter 2 Fun Windows fighting game similar to Double Dragon.

Freeciv A free Civilization II clone.

Hell Fighter Excellent top-down space fighter game.

PS's HellFighter stuff Battle Repository, Glossary, HF Mailing List FAQ

Phorus Blue's Zone 66 clone.

Mountain King Studios Galactix authors still making new games.

DOS Games Archive Shareware games that run on MS-DOS.

The Ur-Quan Masters PC port of Star Control 2

TacOps 4 An incredibly in-depth simulator of modern military tactics.

Lacosta's Tanarus Page Plenty of information about Tanarus.

Zophar's Translation Hacks A list of SNES game translations.

Doom as a tool for System Administration Blow away processes with a shotgun!

tty Quake Now you can play Quake from a text terminal!

Civ2 Maps Some good maps for Civ2.

How Stella Got Her Groove Back Building a portable Atari 2600.

cshoot A public domain text-based shooter.

BOFH excuse server Instant Bastard Operator From Hell style excuses.

Kosh Instant Vorlon wisdom.

Warehouse 23 What's in that box?

Postmodernism Generator Randomly generated fancy-sounding but meaningless essays.

Rotten Flesh Randomly generated parody of Fresh Meat

HeroMachine Build your own superhero. SWF

South Park Studio South Park style character generator.

Morse Code Translator ..-. ..- -.-. -.- -.-- --- ..-

Fun Stuff at PressAnyKey How dense are you? Take the Densa quiz!

Gamebutton Arcade 1-dimensional Javascript games.

The Barney Fun Page One of the oldest and greatest games on the Web.

The War in Heaven My Goddy can beat up your Goddy.

Browser Wars Face off your web browser against other users in a game of Connect-Four!

Rescue the Princess A simple, entertaining adventure game.

A Maze And that it is.

Furious George and the Cross-Country Crime Spree Commit atrocities across the U.S. Cookies

intergalactics Neat strategy game. Java

New Grounds Some very disturbing Flash games. Adults only. SWF

Little Fluffy Daily review of Web games.

Morning Sunshine Some very well done Flash games and demos. SWF

Moby Games Comprehensive database of video games, platforms, and release dates.

Gamer Jargon Index Dictionary of gamer terms.

Zany Video Game Quotes Having played many of the games involved, I love this site.

The Official Dopefish Home Page The Dopefish Lives!

Knee Deep in a Dream The story of the infamously late game Daikatana.

Dave's Video Game Classics/Vintage Gaming Network Info about old games and old-game emulators.

How To Hurt The Hackers Designing games to rebuff cheaters.

AYBABTU Timeline of the Zero Wing fad.

Organization for the Preservation of Classic Forms of Gaming Fan site for late '80s/early '90s games and their descendants.

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