Miscellany Links

Links that lead to off-site topics that have not been categorized elsewhere on this site or fit into multiple categories.

• My top most frequented big-name sites. See Alexa.com for site rankings.
  1. Google.com. Search, News, Maps, Mail, etc. See also my section on Google.
  2. Wikipedia.com. Free public-built encyclopedia. See also my section on Wikipedia.
  3. Yahoo.com. Portal, Mail, Groups, etc.
  4. Various dictionaries and references like The Free Dictionary [thefreedictionary.com]
  5. Amazon.com. Shop.
  6. Various news sites like BBC.co.uk, CNN.com, and C-SPAN.org
  7. Weather.com.
  8. IMDB.com. Internet Movie Database.
  9. MSDN Library [msdn.microsoft.com/library]. And Microsoft.com too.
• Blogs, Solo-Blogger. This list is shamefully out of date. See Technorati.com to search blogs.
  • BadNewsHughes.blogspot.com. BS.
  • BuzzMachine.com. By Jeff Jarvis "... former TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday Editor of the NY Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner".
  • Cheskin.com. They've got some blogs there too.
  • CriticalViewer.com.
  • Defective Yeti [DefectiveYeti.com]. By Matthew Baldwin.
  • Gene Expression. By "Razib" and "Godless". "all about the connection between humanity's genetic substrate and the emergent social organization that we see all around us".
  • GeekMan.com.
  • Grow a brain [growabrain.typepad.com]. By Hanan Levin.
  • HighClearing.com. Unqualified Offerings. By Jim Henley.
  • Impearls.blogspot.com. By Michael McNeil. He uses big words a lot.
  • Joi.Ito.com. By Joichi Ito.
  • Kottke.org. By Jason Kottke. "special interest in clear, simple, user-centered design, microcontent, and the writable web."
  • MargaretCho.com/blog/. Yes, that Asian comedian.
  • OnFocus.com. By Paul Bausch, a web application freelance contractor. Pictures, diary, etc.
  • PhilosoRaptor. By Winston Smith.
  • RobotWisdom.com. By Jorn Barger who is credited with coining the word "weblog".
  • Sam's Archive. By Sam Hughes, a bloke.
  • Shirky.com. By Clay Shirky. "Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source".
  • Silicon Avatar. By Stephan Kitz. He's also a programmer but it's the ordinary goofy content that we like.
  • Tuckle.net
  • TheDoctorWithin.com. By Tim O'Shea. More like articles than blogging. Holistic medicine.
  • WhateverISay.com. By Katie. Free styling.
  • w-uh.com. By Ole Eichhorn. Techie and misc.
  • Yule Heibel [blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/]. Very textured.
• Blogs, Multi-Blogger
  • Boing Boing.net. A handful of of bloggers.
  • Disenchanted [disenchanted.com]. "A non-linear editorial".
  • MetaFilter.com. One of the best public multi-blogger sites.
  • MonkeyFilter.com. 'MonkeyFilter is a Metafilter clone, only with more bananas and less flinging.'
  • OmniNerd.com. 'the universal search for truth given new life in cyberspace.'
  • Slashdot.org. Science, Technology, and Computer news via a multi-blogger, open source minded community.
  • WindsOfChange.net
• Miscellany
  • Creax.com. 'CREAX helps innovate products, services and processes in a systematic way, producing sustainable benefit and reduced technical and financial risk.'
    • An inspirational list of creativity and innovation resources
  • DeathOnline.net. 'Throughout the world, death and the rituals that surround it are steeped in taboos. Death is celebrated, embraced and feared. Around death and the dead, cultures put in place diverse restrictions and practices associated with clothing, food and ritual. This website explores what happens to us when we die and the different ways we deal with death.'
  • Dennis's Web Site. By Dennis J. Halnon. A number of personal explorations into history and philosophy.
  • LearnInFeedom.org. "This site is about learning in freedom, taking responsibility for your own learning."
  • LifeHack.org. 'Daily digest and pointer on productivity, getting things done and lifehacks'
  • Primitivism [primitivism.com]. 'Primitivism is the pursuit of ways of life running counter to the development of technology, its alienating antecedents, and the ensemble of changes wrought by both. This site is an exploration into primitivist theory, as well as various works that contribute to an understanding of the tendency.'
  • The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation [actsofkindness.org].
  • TinyPic.com. Park pictures or videos with them for free and without registering. Owned by the similar photobucket.com which is also free but requires you to register.
  • Vonage.com. 'The broadband phone company'
  • WorldChanging.com. "Models, Tools, and Ideas for Building a Better Future"

2007-10-29 23:55:28Z