Bookmarks

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Social Networks

Various social networks of which I am a member.

Friends

The personal web sites of people whom I consider to be friends.

Blogs

I like blogs. Presumably, so do you. (After all, you’re reading this one, aren’t you?) This section contains links to blogs I like, and hope you will, too.

Web Standards and Design

Links to helpful sites or individual articles articles for learning and implementing good designs that use web standards.

Advocacy

Organisations both online and offline which I publicly recommend and support.

News

Not really an exhaustive list, but a list of some news sites I frequent.

Mac OS X Software

Use a Mac? Good for you! In this section you can find links to sites that offer software for your Mac, or modifications to your existing Mac software or OS.

Dashboard Widgets

Looking for Dashboard widgets? Then check out some of the sites in this section.

Online Comics

Comics are a bit of a passion of mine. Here’s a list of online comics I read regularly.

Online Games

Work got you down? Relax with the help of some of my favourite online games!

Other Funnies

Random pages or articles which I think are funny enough to deserve being in everybody’s bookmark list.

Miscellaneous

Things that don’t really fit in to any of the above categories, but which I still feel deserve attention, can be found in this section.

Social Networks

Facebook

My Facebook profile. I log on at least once a day.

Flickr

My Flickr page, where I post my photos.

Twitter

Although my tweets get posted here as well, you might like getting them from the source.

Tribe

I’m hardly ever on it, but I suppose that has more to do with the fact that I only know one person who is. Add me, and I might log on more.

MySpace

I’m taking an indefinitely-extended haitus from MySpace, logging on only if I need to contact someone for whom I have no other contact info.

Friends

Jay Bazuzi

The personal blog of programmer, father, sailor and friend, Jay Bazuzi.

Bit Rationale

Rationale thought

Chondros, Records, Friends

Julian Garcia's blog about, well, chondros, records and friends.

Cybergeisha

Technology, Video Games, Industrial Music and Other Girly Stuff

Daniel Andrews

The personal weblog of Daniel Andrews, a new media artist in the Atlanta metro area.

Dopefiend.co.uk

The web’s favourite cannabis podcast network.

ephemerons {dot} com

When I lived in Utah for 7 months, I didn’t make many friends. But the few that I did, like Richie Jackson, are definitely a cut above the rest.

fuquad!

Like Sylvia Plath’s Kitchen: Where words go to die.

Travel. 旅行. Spielraum. Recorrido. Voyage. Перемещение. Curso.

So much for vagabonding...

Post’s Posts

My cat’s blog. Yes, you read that right—my cat. He doesn't update it much, though.

Vocino.com

Travis Vocino — Diabolical Super-Villain™

Wesaturtle.net

News and goings-on from the other side of Capitol Hill in Seattle.

Blogs

Airbag

The World’s Safest Website — Greg Storey’s personal weblog.

Anil Dash

Anil Dash is Vice President, Professional Network for Six Apart, Ltd. Dash is a recognized expert on the weblog medium and on the blogging industry, having appeared on television, radio and print in addition to having founded one of the earliest and most popular weblogs on the Internet. In addition, Dash has given presentations around the world speaking about the future of the weblog medium, the relationship between blogs and journalism, and business blogging.

Call Me Fishmeal

“I write software, I’m obsessive-compulsive. I like good stuff. Kittens are fuzzy.”

Authentic Boredom

A savvy blend of marketing and design by Cameron Moll.

Bearskinrug

The professional webspace of illustrator and designer, Kevin Cornell.

The Daily Report

Jeffrey Zeldman presents The Daily Report: web design news & info since 1995.

Daring Fireball

Mac Nerdery, etc. — if you only read one blog about Macs, then John Gruber’s excellent site should be it.

David Galbraith

Scottish, based in New York, former architect at Foster and partners, founder Wists, co-founder: Moreover, co-founder: the Origins Network, co-author RSS 1.0.

FatBits

John Siracusa’s Journal on Ars Technica.

furbo.org

His name is Craig Hockenberry and furbo.org is his place to write for the web.

I Love Typography

iLT is designed to inspire its readers, to make people more aware of the typography that is around them. We really cannot escape typography; it's everywhere: on road signs, shampoo bottles, toothpaste, and even on billboard posters, in books and magazines, online...the list is endless, and the possibilities equally so.

Jane in Progress

Jane Espenson's blog offers great insights on spec script writing.

Jason Santa Maria

Volume Three in a series of inconsequential observations and humourous asides.

Johnaugust.com

A tonne of useful information about screenwriting.

Kottke.org

Home of fine hypertext products.

Life Reboot

If you’re unhappy and you know it, change your life. It’s really that simple.

Linkbunnies

Interesting web stuff for short attention spans.

Mark Simonson’s Notebook

The blog of freelance graphic designer and type designer, Mark Simonson. A great read if you’re into typography.

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

Burns sage, not flags.

Mezzoblue

Design, typography, and the web: live from Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

My Boring-Ass Life

Kevin Smith’s online diary. Shame on you if you don’t know who Kevin Smith is.

passiveagressivenotes.com

Passive-agressive notes from roommates, neighbours, coworkers and strangers.

Possummomma (a.k.a. Atheist in a Minivan)

After being dubbed "that atheist mother" by some of the women in her community, Possummomma decided she would take the idea and run with it.

PostSecret

See a secret… share a secret.

Presentation Zen

Garr Reynolds’ blog on issues related to professional presentation design.

Rebelpixel Productions

Markku Seguerra’s weblog on web design, photography, and other things of interest.

Rogue Librarian

Shooshin’ and stampin’.

Ronald D. Moore

Ron Moore is one of my favourite television writers, probably now most famous for developing the new Battlestar Galactica series on SciFi. He normally blogs at SciFi.com, but in light of the WGA strike, he decided to set up a personal one.

RoughlyDrafted Magazine

“Writing for people who read.”

Signal vs. Noise

A weblog by 37signals about entrepreneurship, design, experience, simplicity, constraints, pop culture, their products, products they like, and more.

SimpleBits

Dan Cederholm’s design blog. What? You mean I actually need to tell you who Dan Cederholm is?

Strange Maps

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been fascinated by maps. This site tickles that part of my brain.

UNEASYsilence

Fun stuff from a group blog in Seattle.

Veerle’s Blog

Apple, Web, and Technology news from Belgium.

Warren Ellis

Creator of many fine stories.

Web Standards and Design

W3C: The World Wide Web Consortium

The organisation that writes the standards.

A List Apart

From pixels to prose, coding to content: A List Apart, for people who make websites.

Designing with Web Standards, by Jeffrey Zeldman

Don’t even think. Just get the book. Now.

css Zen Garden

A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.

Zen Garden, the book

A fantastic book not just on CSS, but also on design in general.

CSS Remix

A fresh blend of the best in CSS web design.

Browser Specs

The importance of browser specs.

the noodle incident

Some web development resources, including the Sane CSS Typography demo that formed the basis of the typography on a warm gun.

CSS Panic Guide

An excellent resource for CSS-based designing.

Little Boxes

Clickable CSS layouts.

Position is Everything

Modern browser rendering bugs explained in detail. It’s the place to go if you want to know what all of IE6/Win’s rendering bugs are.

Alertbox

Jakob Nielsen’s newsletter on web usability.

The Layout Reservoir

Steal these CSS layouts!

Real World Style

CSS layouts, tips, tricks and techniques.

Stylegala

A publication about web design and standards.

Web Standards Awards

Form and function. Combined.

NYPL Online Style Guide

XHTML and CSS basics. Converting from HTML to XHTML.

Advocacy

The Brights

Persons who have a naturalistic worldview should not be culturally stifled or civically marginalised due to society’s extensive supernaturalism. Rather, they ought to be accepted as fellow citizens and full participants in the cultural and political landscape.

WaSP: The Web Standards Project

A grassroots coalition fighting for standards that ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.

No www.

By default, all popular Web browsers assume the HTTP protocol. In doing so, the software prepends the “http://” onto the requested URL and automatically connects to the HTTP server on port 80. Why then do many servers require their websites to communicate through the www subdomain? Mail servers do not require you to send emails to recipient@mail.domain.com. Likewise, web servers should allow access to their pages though the main domain unless a particular subdomain is required. Succinctly, use of the www subdomain is redundant and time consuming to communicate. The Internet, media, and society are all better off without it.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers copyright licenses with a flexible range of protections and freedoms for the creative works of authors, artists, and educators. They have built upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. They are a nonprofit organisation, and all of their tools are free.

Save Orphan Works!

Over the past forty years, Congress has extended the term of existing copyrights 11 times, thereby stopping the flow of creative material into the public domain. The biggest supporters of these laws are individuals and corporations with extremely valuable copyrights that are about to expire (for example, Mickey Mouse). The biggest effect of these laws is to make unavailable an extraordinary range of creative material for next generation’s creators. Just as Walt Disney used the works of the Brothers Grimm to produce some of the best of the Disney stories, so too should the next Walt Disney be able to build upon the stories told by Disney.

But more important than the few valuable copyrights that these extensions protect, this case is about freeing the vast majority of creative work still under copyright that no one seeks to protect—indeed, work which the current copyright owner doesn’t even know he or she owns. Many films from the 1920s and 1930s are decaying in vaults because current copyright holders cannot be identified. Many books and songs published in the early part of the century are unavailable because the cost of finding the copyright owner is just too high. Congress sacrificed all these works, just to protect a few valuable copyrights. But as the Supreme Court has said, “you can’t burn the house to roast the pig”—not even to save The Mouse.

Apostrophe Protection Society

Preserving the correct use of this much abused punctuation mark in all forms of text written in the English language.

News

AppleInsider

One of the best sources of Apple news on the Web.

The Cult of Mac Blog

Wired News’ blog by and for Mac users.

Disinformation

More than just news.

MacDailyNews

Almost as biased as Fox News, but I like it anyway.

MacNN

Apple, iPod and Mac news.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Pretty decent source for Apple-related news. Noticing a trend?

Mac OS X Software

Marathon (using Aleph One) for Dummies

Although the page says it’s about installing Marathon on Windows, you can use the instructions to also get it going on your Mac under OS X. Oh, and don’t use the icons they give; their icons suck. Use these instead. Either way, get it so you can play the best game series ever made!

Open Source Mac

Free, open-source software for Mac OS X.

Pimp My Safari

Pimp My Safari was started as a reaction to the sites cataloguing Firefox extensions. Many excellent plugins for Safari have been developed, but because Safari doesn’t have an official “extension architecture,” many don’t know of these extensions. So if you’re like me and love Safari, you should check out this site.

ResExcellence

Everything you need to customise your Mac OS.

Safari Standardised Feed Icon Installer

The developers of the ever popular Firefox and the Microsoft development team working on IE7 have shaken hands and agreed to use the same icon to indicate the presence of newsfeed functionality. If Mozilla and Microsoft can agree on something, maybe we should get in on it too. To that end, we have created an installer that will replace Safari’s default icon with the icon agreed upon in the Mountain View Accord.

Dashboard Widgets

• Apple’s Dashboard Widgets Site
• Dashboard Exchange
• DashboardExposéd
• Dashboard Widgets
• Widgets @ VersionTracker
• iCal Events, by Ben Kazez

Online Comics

Applegeeks

New comic every Monday and Thursday.

BodyWorld

A new serialised webcomic. Well worth checking out!

Cyanide and Happiness

Comics for people with a dark sense of humour. You know, people like me.

DavidGaddis.com

Read David’s great pantomime comic, “Piercing.”

demian5.com

Home of “When I Am King” and other great online comics.

Dr. McNinja

Chris Hastings’ hilarious comic about a doctor who is also a ninja.

Mac Hall Comics

Created by Matt Boyd and Ian McConville.

Nowhere Girl

Justine Shaw’s wonderful online comic.

Nuklear Power

Home of 8-bit Theatre.

Penny Arcade

Gaming and general nerdery from Seattle.

The Perry Bible Fellowship

A comic strip for you.

Sinfest

Don’t mess with a missionary man.

Sluggy Freelance

Is it not nifty? Worship the comic.

This Modern World

It’s got a blog, too! Web comics and a blog! How can you beat that?

VG Cats

Videogame-related humour, updated Mondays.

xkcd

A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language.

The Zombie Hunters

Jenny Romanchuk's outstanding comic follows a team of zombie hunters as they battle hordes of undead in an attempt to save the last remnants of the human race. Updated every Monday. (And occasionally Thursday.)

Online Games

Avoid the Cubes

Kinda reminds me of Spectre VR.

The Anti-Bush Online Videogame

A fun and fact-filled adventure about the most appalling presidency in the history of the United States.

Bloxorz

Yet another flash game to kill your day.

Falling Sand Game

A highly addictive game, although I’m not sure what I’m doing.

Fly Guy

Trevor Van Meter’s wonderful black and white dream world.

Gravity Pods

Think you’re good at geometry? How about when gravity comes into play?

The Last Stand 2

You can play the original, too, but the sequel is much better. Find your way to the evacuation point in a zombie-filled countryside.

Newsgaming.com

I highly recommend playing “September 12th.”

Notepad Invaders

It’s Space Invaders, but on notebook paper.

Portal

A 2D flash version of Portal. It can get to be pretty difficult in some places, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty fun.

Statetris

Statetris is an interesting game mixing aspects of the popular game 'Tetris' and geography. Instead of positioning the typical Tetris blocks, you position states/countries at their proper location. Fun, challenging and educational!

The Streaking Game

Also by Trevor Van Meter. Avoid security guards while streaking at major events to get attention for your sponsor!

Which-Way Adventure

A bizarre, non sequitur adventure game.

Zombie Infection Simulation

Not actually a game, but still pretty neat. Watch the spread of a zombie infection in a simulated cityscape.

Zombiegrinder 60000

Side-scrolling zombie goodness. But come on, I had you at “zombie.”

Other Funnies

The Best Page in the Universe

Definitely not to be taken seriously, but well worth a read.

LOLsecretz

Lolsecretz is the meeting of two of the internet's most famous memes – PostSecret (the blog where people anonymously confess their deepest darkest secrets) crossed with Lolcat Macros (the phenomenon where people ascribe poorly spelled human emotions to animals). Enjoy!

Office Slang

A glossary of office slang, most of which is real.

Sloganizer.net

Instant slogans.

Strong Bad Email

If you haven’t heard of Strong Bad by now, there’s probably something wrong with you.

Stuff on my Cat

Pictures of things on cats.

Miscellaneous

BugMeNot

Bypass compulsory web registration.

ColorBlender.com

Free colour matching tool. It’s got the best interface of any I’ve seen.

Dropcash

A simple way to organise a fundraiser.

marathon.bungie.org

For the Marathon lover in you.

Neat fonts

Discover free fonts from all over the web.

Pixel Fonts

WebSiteTips’ download site for pixel fonts.

Pixelgirl Presents

Free desktop pictures!