- Shawn-McCarthy :: Shawn McCarthy's homesite. 15.04.2009
amusing
- Choosing a Girlfriend :: "Lucky for you, all women fall neatly into one of these ten varieties." (via) 25.08.2005
- Costello Buying A Computer :: Read this out loud and the chuckles will come naturally. [via] 26.04.2005
- Cute Overload :: Best. Website. EVER. Enough cute to kill you. 25.05.2006
- Fail Blog :: Funniness! Part of the ICanHasCheezburger network. I don't think I would've been especially amused by these a few years ago, but I think my humor's evolving :) I'm also a fan of the lolcats and charts (graph jam). 25.11.2008
- Hedonistica: Pleasure Yourself :: [via] 09.06.2005
- kittenwar.com :: too cute!! (via) 25.08.2005
- List of weapons that don't exist, but should :: I dunno about "should", but nonetheless... (via) 18.08.2005
- Snails are faster than ADSL :: "The system called SNAP (SNAil-based data transfer Protocol), uses biological carriers, and, for the first time, taking advantages of the unique merits of the wheel for data transfer." 27.04.2005
- Star Trek Inspirational Posters :: "EXPENDABILITY Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Ensign Ricky are beaming down to the planet. Guess who's not coming back." [via] 11.08.2006
- The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster :: [via] 28.04.2005
- Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It... :: [via] 28.04.2005
cool
- 1000 journals :: "One thousand journals are traveling from hand to hand throughout the world." [via] 18.06.2005
- art.com artPad :: draw and send! draw and send!! [via Alberto via Watson] 09.06.2005
- Birthday Calculator :: [via] 10.06.2005
- Bitty Browser :: "It's like Picture-in-Picture for the Web." [via] 11.08.2005
- breedArt :: [via] 09.06.2005
- BumpTop :: "BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world." It's cool! Probably not the shortest of learning curves, but nonetheless.. Even more fun than ObjectDock. 03.07.2006
- colr.org :: A site for playing with colors. 25.04.2005
- NameVoyager :: "The Ultimate Field Guide to Names." This is one of the coolest things ever. "Explore the sea of names, letter by letter...watch trends rise and fall, and dive in deeper to see your favorite name's place in the historical tides." 25.04.2005
- NaNoWriMo :: "National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30." [via] 03.06.2005
- personalworldmap.org :: "The main purpose of the Personal World Map is to give awareness of your actual position in the world in relation to other places by taking into account the "effort" you need to get to a certain destination." [via] 25.07.2005
- Photosynth :: "Ever wondered what it would be like to walk through your digital photos in 3D or see what hundreds of other people shot at the same location?" Very, very cool. 'Guess our digital cameras would have to register exact longitudes and latitudes via satellite. 02.08.2006
- Pixelfest: group artwork :: A "group artwork project". This is a simple and great idea. Making a pretty picture. One pixel at a time. Go add yours. 25.04.2005
- PostSecret :: See and share secrets written on postcards. 25.04.2005
- Pride Parade on flickr :: "wow" to the scenes, but also the photography. 27.06.2006
- The Animal Game :: "The Animal Game learns from its mistakes! If I cannot guess the animal you are thinking of, you can teach the game how to guess your animal." This is ridiculously cool. 25.04.2005
- Where the hell is Matt :: Matt is dancing-around-the-world-awesomeness. 25.06.2006
games
- Fly the Copter game :: "You think it's easy flying a radio-controlled helicopter into somebody's head." I am surprisingly terrible at this game. My high score is only 842. You try. 30.08.2006
- Kongregate :: Play free games online. (Let me know if you want my screenname -- it'll let you know my favorite games.) 29.05.2008
interactive
- Astrology and Horoscopes :: Whether you believe in astrology or not, it's fun to see the explanations for your character, and you can usually be a reasonable judge as to wat applies to you and what doesn't. This site offers a pretty thorough service. It's happy. :) [via Ake] 25.06.2006
- Draw a pig personality test :: Have your personality analyzed by drawing a pig. Come on.. you're at least a ltitle bit curious. 25.04.2005
- Harmonizing Horses :: Pure fun every time. Go spend hours on this. 25.04.2005
- isnoop.net's fridge: magnetic poetry :: "Play with my magnetic words." 19.06.2005
- South Park Studio :: Make your own/self South Park characters. [via] 14.05.2005
- Squares 2 game :: Fun little game by Gavin Shapiro. You're after black squares only! 25.04.2005
mainstream
- Antiochians.org :: "Be ashamed to let it die." Community site for Antiochians :: Antioch College stakeholders/affiliates. 25.06.2007
- Beyond the Future :: Articles/Live Q&A series from the Washington Post. The 'Radical Evolution' segment was an interesting read. 21.06.2006
- DAH-1500i by MobiBlu: tiny cube mp3 player :: screen, radio, USB recharge, long battery life... yay. offhandedly the only setbacks i see are that the USB charging adaptor is not attached to it, and that the largest size is 1gb. still, for such a tiny lil thing, it's pretty thorough. few other brief articles on the device: I4U, MobileWhack, MobileWhack review, Anything But iPod 04.02.2006
- Das Keyboard - UberGeeks Only :: "It's really for geeks," said Daniel Guermeur, the creator. "They can already touch-type without looking. They feel a little bit superior. The keyboard is a statement." "Introducing Das Keyboard, a precision keyboard that says who you are." No labels on weighted keys. Cuz you're just that cool. [via] 30.05.2005
- EBay Said to Be in Talks to Acquire Skype :: Ebay's in talks to buy Skype.. (via) 09.09.2005
- Etsy :: "Your place to buy and sell all things handmade." 12.08.2009
- Google Holiday Logos :: Pretty 10.09.2005
- Macromedia + Adobe :: So, Macromedia and Adobe are combining into one company. That should be fun. 25.04.2005
- Nintendo wii :: Ignoring the name, the new Nintendo, supposedly due by about mid November 2006 looks so so much fun! Motion-sensoring controllers! (could actually get a workout, playing video games) Reasonable pricetag. Designed to be a video *gaming* system, rather than a media center. [via Tread] Also read. 04.06.2006
- Star Wars: Episode III Easter Egg Hunt :: "Here's a list of some of those little must-see moments that you may have missed. Consult this list the next time you go see Episode III and count how many you can spot." 03.06.2005
- Zach Braff :: Zach Braff's homesite. :) 25.06.2006
media
- ASCII Movies :: Movies. In ASCII. Wow. 25.04.2005
- Get Perpendicular :: It's technically about storage technology.. but it's really about the dancing computer parts. 25.04.2005
- Ping Pong - Matrix Style :: 日テレ チャンネル The Japanese can turn anything crazy. This video is frickin' amazing. 25.04.2005
- Rachel Gets Fruity! :: For all boys. [via] 09.06.2005
- Store Wars :: [via Jason__] Join the Organic Rebellion 30.05.2005
- The End of the World :: The End of the World as illustrated through flash. An old funness. [via] 14.05.2005
- xiao xiao 3 - Stick Fight Video :: My favorite stick figure fighting video. Reunited with it via Stick Page [via Gene] 28.05.2005
mine
music
- Blogmusik :: Virtual "iPod"... mp3s ... yay! :) [via] 14.09.2006
- Last.fm :: "Listen with Last.fm and fuel the social music revolution. It's easy. What are *you* listening to?" track what you and your friends are listening to, find others with similar musical tastes and in turn find new artists and music that you'll love. Been playing with audioscrobbler (former domain) and last.fm for a while but only recently discovered and downloaded the full app.. accompanies my usual music player and scrobbles my music, offers album art and other information, etc. I like it. [I'm here] 30.08.2006
- liveplasma :: Music/movies search and discovery engine. Tres cool. "Look for your favorite bands, movies or directors to obtain a map that details other potential interests 25.04.2005
- music vid: A Million Ways to be Cruel :: [via Austin] a very fun music video. very very fun. 15.08.2005
- OverClocked ReMix :: Unofficial Game Music Arrangement Community; "dedicated to reviving the video and computer game music of yesterday, and reinterpreting that of today, with new technology & capabilities." [via] 25.04.2005
- Pandora :: (The Music Genome Project.) Does a remarkable job of extrapolating music you're likely to like, based on the music you already do like and don't like. Web-based player. Thumbs up. (There are ways now to save off the songs to your harddrive, but not built into this player.) 01.06.2006
- Predixis MusicMagic :: could call it MusicMatch -- very nicely takes your existing playlist and generates short playlists (user defined lengths and tweaks) that fit together in terms of song-style.. and seemingly in terms of general mood and sound of the songs. however it does it, it works very nicely. can get it as a plugin for your winamp (that's how i found it), or download the full player with complete management/tweaking controls for defining the magic that creates your playlists. [post] 04.02.2006
- Radio.blog.club :: Your playlist --> radio on your blog [via] 14.05.2005
- Schuyler Fisk :: Schuyler Fisk's homepage. Beautiful voice, music.. and the site's published with Textpattern :) She definitely gets extra cool points for that. 09.09.2006
- Songbird Media Player :: "Songbird is a yet to be release desktop media player which integrates many different music and media services. For now they are only their site is showing support for Sony Connect, eMusic, Insound, and Odeo, but I believe that they plan to make other services available when it is released. The program is based on the Firfox browser and is being programmed by the some of the team from Winamp and Y! Music Engine." [via] 04.02.2006
- SongMeanings :: My song lyrics site of choice (besides my own, which is not nearly the same thing). 20.09.2006
- thesixtyone :: "Everything good about new music minus everything MTV turned in to." [via] [mine] It's like a social video game with music and points. What's not to be addicted to? 23.07.2008
- Uvumi :: Music! Community, new artists, listening, happiness. 02.03.2010
people
prose
- 101 Zen Stories :: stories from Paul Reps' compilation, 'Zen Flesh, Zen Bones' 25.04.2005
- monochrom micro graphic novel :: Four graphics, infinite possible stories. Read and write. 25.04.2005
resources
- 43 Folders :: "A bunch of tricks, hacks & other cool stuff." 14.05.2005
- Anything But iPod :: from the About: "Apple makes a half decent mp3 player. ...However, I feel that there are better choices available. There are other MP3 players out there that are easier to use, that give you more for your money and still have style and class. The problem is many people do not know what else is available. ...This is why this web site was started, to show people their alternatives and to educate them so they are able to make their own informed decisions." 04.02.2006
- Autostitch :: Autostitch is awesome. "Autostitch™ is the world's first fully automatic 2D image stitcher." 11.11.2007
- BlinkList :: My favorite bookmarking site/resource. Blink your sites and keep them private or public; find other useful/interesting sites blinked by others. Blink = happy. [mine] 24.08.2006
- Brilliant Button Maker :: A better (elaborated) button maker for those 'steal my buttons' buttons. [via] 04.05.2005
- Calendar Magic :: "If you are a calendar person this is entertaining and informative [freeware] software." Pretty much every sort of calendar/date calculator you might think of... check out the screenshot. [via U.Lim] 24.06.2005
- Cheap Gas :: Find cheap gasoline. [via] Google Maps app links through Gas Buddy to show prices in a given area. 29.07.2005
- dafont :: Hooray for accessible fonts! Yay! :) :) 30.09.2006
- Del.icio.us tools :: Quick Online Tips: Absolutely Del.icio.us -- Complete Tool Collection 25.04.2005
- Delocator :: Enter a zip code # to find a non-coprorate cafe near you. 25.04.2005
- DevListing :: Pin the good items, unpin the bad ones. Easy as that!" DevListingis a pretty spiffy resource directory. [via klchong] 06.05.2008
- digg :: User-submitted links and stories. Nice community/popularity-based information, entertainment, and general internet linkage. 08.09.2005
- Disposable email :: Jetable Anti-Spam solution. Create a temporary email address that lives for only for 24-hours to 8-days. [via] 14.05.2005
- dodgeball :: "mobile social software" I misunderstood, actually... i thought they'd locate you via your cellphone and let you/friends know that you're near each other. But it doesn't work that way. it's just a natural accessory for the extremely social butterfly. 08.09.2005
- Email Address Encoder :: "This form will allow you to encode your e-mail address through the use of Character Entities, transforming your ascii email address into its equivalent decimal entity." 15.06.2005
- Essential Fonts For Designers :: "300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have" [via] 26.06.2005
- Fabric Care Symbols :: Translations for those little pictures on your clothing tags that supposedly tell you how to wash/care for your garments. [via] 25.04.2005
- File Hippo :: "All the latest Betas, New Releases... plus the Old Versions!" One stop spot for necessary software. 04.08.2006
- filehippo :: "Download free software." One of my favoritest sites ever. Fun, straightforward, most of the best software gathered in one place for happy access. 30.10.2007
- Flickr tools: official and additional :: Quick Online Tips: The Great Flickr Tools Collection 25.04.2005
- Kana Chameleon :: Quick and dirty kana conversion from romaji. Awesome Japanese language translation resource. Thanks Gary! 02.06.2005
- Lifehacker :: "Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done." One of my favoritest sites and overall extremely useful. 30.10.2007
- meebo :: "web based IM that lets you log into your IM networks from any computer with a browser and internet connection with no firewall issues." it's excellent. 03.08.2006
- Multimap :: "Online maps to everywhere" [via] 18.06.2005
- Omniglot :: "Writing systems and languages of the world." Very, very interesting and useful resource. e.g. Khmer alphabet 20.02.2008
- Picasa :: "The easy way to find, edit, and share your photos." The best application for generally managing, organizing, viewing, uploading photos on your computer 09.09.2008
- Picasa Web Albums :: "Picasa Web Albums is designed to help users post and share their photos quickly and easily on the Web." Now with impressive face recognition. Far better than Flickr is many ways as an online photo album. 09.09.2008
- Polaroid-o-nizer :: "Polaroid-onize your digital photos" [via Mark] 19.06.2005
- Rotten Tomatoes :: "Movies and Games, Reviews and Previews." A very useable and thorough movie review site. 05.07.2005
- RSSTop55 :: RSS feed and weblog directories 25.04.2005
sitestosee
- beatnikpad :: Neil Lee's homesite. A long time very very favorite. 07.04.2005
- conbinibento :: Jeff's Tokyo-based homesite. 12.04.2005
- deltatangobravo :: I like it. 07.04.2005
- Digitalink New Media & Web Agency :: it's pretty. 19.08.2005
- dooce :: Heather Armstrong's seemingly-unbarred homesite. 07.04.2005
- dyske :: Worthwhile collection of assorted essays. 07.04.2005
- joshuaink :: John Oxton's homesite 07.04.2005
- Kitta :: homesite of Nikita. a comfy site. 25.08.2005
- kottke :: Jason Kottke's homesite 07.04.2005
- MrsJenni :: Jenni's homesite. A virgo rooster too. 14.05.2005
- My Mean Girl :: Chris Rhee's blog about his girlfriend Annie. so cute. [via] 09.06.2005
- notpretty :: veryworthwhile. 07.04.2005
- Pixel Meadow :: homesite of Chris McLeod. niceness. 25.08.2005
- Shtuff :: James; web-architect; great guy. 28.05.2005
- Sidulus Minimus :: The home site of Sir Hans. #61. Minimus overtook the blue "littlest star" design, I've come to be okay with that. 01.07.2005
social
- GoodReads :: "It's what [you and] your friends are reading." 29.05.2008
- Ping.fm :: "Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap. ...you can just post once, and be done with it." 24.09.2008
- Pownce :: "Pownce is a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You can send just about anything: music, photos, messages, links, events, and more." 24.09.2008
- Twitter :: "What are you doing?" It's like a cross or hybrid of collected of away/status messages (such as we use on AIM or Facebook) / text messaging / mini-blogging. Find me if you're on there. 02.07.2008
stuff
- Hot Links :: a collection of popular links... 25.07.2005
- World Jump Day :: *shrug* it's a fun thought anyway. [via] 03.07.2005
text*
- TextBook :: Textpattern Documentation, currently in Wiki form 01.05.2005
- Textdrive :: Real webhosting. 01.05.2005
- Textpattern :: Everyone's favorite CMS. 01.05.2005
- Textpattern Forums :: The community home of the Textpattern. 01.05.2005
- Txp Magazine :: Relevant Textpattern news and features regarding everyone's favorite CMS/community. 25.04.2005
- Textpattern Resources :: A directory of plugins, tutorials, templates, and other resources for and by the Textpattern Community. 01.05.2005
webcomics
- Ctrl Alt Del - Tragically l337 :: A favorite webcomic. Centered around obsessive gamers. So funny. Even though I'm quite thoroughly out of the videogaming loop, all the references to various games are still hilarious, and the interactions of the characters are dear. And there's a penguin. 16.05.2005
- PBF :: adorable comics and pretty art. 09.06.2005
- Questionable Content :: I love this webcomic.. 'wonder how I didn't know of it sooner. Music, people, anthropc. 16.05.2005
- Red Vs Blue :: Video spoofs of the game Halo, these care hilarious even if you've never played the game. At least read their FAQ.. and aspire to watch their Lopez episode. 16.05.2005
- Striptease :: A webcomic strip about characters who write comics. 16.05.2005
- xkcd :: "A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." 18.10.2007
webdevelopment
- Whatever:hover :: This was key on old ferrydust. [via] 05.06.2005
- CSS Dropdown and Popout Menus :: "Semantically correct Horizontal CSS Dropdown Menu." 05.06.2005
- css Zen Garden :: "The Beauty in CSS Design: A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design." 25.04.2005
- FavIcon from Pics :: This very handy tool is a long-time favorite of mine. Use it to easily create a favicon.ico for your website. 25.04.2005
- IE7 :: This is incredible software. Add it server side and have your website load (more) correctly for those viewers who still use Internet Explorer. "IE7 loads and parses all style sheets into a form that Explorer can understand." 25.04.2005
- Nifty Corners :: "Nifty Corners are a combination of CSS and Javascript to get rounded corners without images." A lot of great sites being built with this these days. I'll probably try my hand at it eventually too. 25.04.2005
- TiddlyWiki :: "a reusable non-linear personal web notebook" .. a terribly cool dynamic wiki CMS 25.07.2005
- wellvetted.com :: "inspirational gathering"... "a unique list of monthly favourite websites from a wide range of top quality design inspirational sites." [via] 10.05.2005
wiredfriends
- amitvaria :: Amit Varia's homesite. 25.04.2005
- Chris' Webbie :: My dear cuz' Christo's homesite. 14.05.2005
- cnostaw :: Cnostaw's xanga site 07.04.2005
- compooter :: Andrew's homesite 07.04.2005
- Daniel Tiger :: Arik's online home. 08.07.2007
- EmperorMe :: Victor's xanga site 14.05.2005
- Felix's blog :: Felix has a blog! Now I can find out what's been going on in his life for the past...mm... is it almost 10 years!? Pretty impressive. Gotta go read it and catch up. 13.12.2005
- Junhoe :: So cuz Junhoe is finally online with his own homesite. What fun! :) 14.05.2005
- Kölner Blog Büro :: Alexandra Labudda's site. 25.04.2005
- manfre :: Michael Manfre's homesite 07.04.2005
- moae :: Musings of an Engineer: Mark Norton's homesite 07.04.2005
- mrndn :: Amit's site-to-be. Currently his adored ngallery. 26.07.2005
- Nate's Xanga :: Nate and I met at Sea Trails... years years ago... evidence he'll walk his talk. OMNA pending.. 13.06.2005
- Neokai :: E-Kai's Xanga site 14.08.2006
- Patrick :: Patrick's blog; life and times currently in Japan. 05.06.2005
- siliu :: Michael Pan's homesite. 07.04.2005
- Simply Ann :: Ann Daramola's homesite 11.05.2005
- Smadness :: John's photo site. 18.05.2005
- TeresaBabyJoao :: Teresa and Joao made a baby. Holy @$&*(@ that's so awesome. Two of the best people ever made a whole new one. So awesome. 07.11.2006
- TwitchyChino :: Twitchy Chino in Cairo 12.04.2008
- wilshire|one :: Leafy: Rob Sable's emerald homesite 07.04.2005
- YupItSean :: Sean's xanga homesite 14.09.2006
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