Richard's Bookmarks

Culture

Humour

Polytron
The Daily Howler
How To Deconstruct Almost Anything
The Onion
Network Traffic Ticket
Elbonian appeal
Jim Crammond's Figure 1.

Cartoons

User Friendly
Dilbert
General Protection Fault
FoxTrot
It's Walky
Men In Hats
Sinfest
One of my favourites.
WIGU
Weekdays.
Sluggy Freelance
Diesel Sweeties
Weekdays.
As if
Absurd Notions
Scarygoround
Tuesday to Friday.
Megatokyo
Narbonic
Culture Shocked
Freefall
updated monday, wednesday, friday
Red Meat
Weekly, also appears at The Onion.
Tang's comic
Weekly
Bob The Angry Flower
updated every Friday
Just Another Vice
Last update March 2002. Dead?

Finished Comics

Bobbins
Finished now.
When I Grow Up
Now finished, but the archives are still there
Pentasmal
Krazy Larry
Finished or at least suspended indefinitely
The Parking Lot Is Full
Finished now.

News media

BBC News
Need To Know
The Register
Slashdot

Films

The Princess Bride

Philosophy

Portents of Planning
Lucian Wischik - Research
The Infinity Machine
Tact Filters
Rock-Paper-Scissors-Spock-Lizard
Logic & Fallacies
Fashionable Nonsense
The Skeptic's Dictionary
Why Aristotelian logic does not work - abelard
Logical Positivism
Unskilled and Unaware of it
"How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments"
Transgressing the Boundaries

Music

Sinister Ducks
The bagpipe

Magazines

Audit Bureau of Circulations
Savage Love archive
Slate Magazine

Games

Spark Personality Test

Books

Watchmen annotations
A Few Notes On the Culture

Poetry

Understanding William Blake's "The Tyger"
The Tyger
The Tyger by William Blake
Shel Silverstein -- Hamlet As Told On The Street
Limericks

History

The Heroic Age: The Forum/From Scythia to Camelot
Troy VII and the Historicity of the Trojan War

Beliefs

The Book of Enoch
A noncanonical text
Friday the 13th
The 13th of the month is more likely to fall on a Friday than on any other day of the week: true or false?
Article about Koran research
Alan Greenfield Wicca article

Images

Parroty web browser
Chao picture
Polytron

Language

Use I Before E Except After C
The whole rule.
A Glossary of Hindu terms
ASCII IPA
A phonetic alphabet that uses only ASCII characters
Language Profiles
Descriptions of a selection of languages
Webverbix
Conjugates verbs in lots of different languages
Cool Word: brummagem

Government

Law

European Convention on Human Rights and its Five Protocols
Council of Europe - (ETS No.5) European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Computer Misuse Act 1990 (c. 18)
TSO - Home Page
Defamation Act 1996
Duhaime's Law Dictionary
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
Highway Code
LawRights Free Legal Information for England and Wales - www.lawrights.co.uk

Government Organizations

Home Office

UK patent office software patents page
Should Patents be Granted for Computer Software or Ways of Doing Business?

Political Parties

Liberal Democrats
Conservatives
Labour

Nature

Food safety

Debunking the "Official Aspartame Myth"
NutraSweet safety information

Biology

The Animal Diversity Web
Interactive Frog Dissection
Subcellular life forms

Astronomy

Welcome to the History of the Universe
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Photo album of SK
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

Geology

ODSN Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service

Physics

Usenet Relativity FAQ
General Relativity Tutorial

Maths

The Square Root of Complex Conjugatio
Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe Pi Algorithm

Locales

Physical and virtual places

uk.misc

sk0tzm33t pictures

Cambridge, UK

cam.* FAQ
Cambridge Web Guide
Green End
Diary for Steph
ucam.org

Computing

Computer Software

UNIX

UNIX Software

Primeval C: two very early compilers
Word Documents
Freeware for Solaris
SAMBA
Freeware for Solaris
src.doc /packages
Src2html - Hyperlink a C Source Tree
List of Gnu-software and 1999/2000 problems
IC apache mirror

UNIX Documentation

The Open Group Base Specifications
YA free UNIX standard (registration required)
The Single UNIX Specification, Version 2
UNIX Socket FAQ
Development Tree of Unix Networking Code
Solaris 2 FAQ
comp.lang.c Infrequently Asked Questions
The Unix Programming Resources Page
UXP/V Programmer's Guide: POSIX Conformance V10
Building an OpenBSD port
Large File / File System Support
Online Man Pages
mbox(5)
DJB's man page about the mbox format
Why Content-Length is bad
JWZ rant about an mbox variant
Non-blocking BSD socket connections

Gnome

Gnome API Reference
GTK+ Reference Manual
GLib Reference Manual
GDK Reference Manual

Linux

WhatifLinux.com
Early Linux postings

Debian GNU/Linux

Debian GNU/Linux
Debian bug tracking system

Linux Documentation

Token-Ring mini-HOWTO
Epson Stylus Color 660
Linux Printing
Linux SIG11 FAQ
Linux Documentation Project

Programs

Primeval C: two very early compilers
Word Documents
Freeware for Solaris
SAMBA
Freeware for Solaris
src.doc /packages
Src2html - Hyperlink a C Source Tree
List of Gnu-software and 1999/2000 problems
IC apache mirror

Amazon APUE

Perl

3rd State of the Perl Onion

C

Alan Watson on BCPL
comp.lang.c FAQ
C9x porting supplements
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 N794
Programming in C
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 - C

C++

C++ Libraries
C++ FAQ LITE

Scheme

schemers.org
R5RS
The definition of the Scheme language

Java

The Java Tutorial
Java(TM) Platform Documentation
Java in a Nutshell Example Code

Emacs

Writing portable emacs code

SGML and XML

The SGML Centre
DocBook
XML/EDI Group

World Wide Web

Documentation

A Beginner's Guide to HTML
Mosaic User Authentication Tutorial
Netscape Handbook: Answers to Tough Questions
The NCSA HTTPd Home Page
BrowserWatch
HTML Help
XML FAQ
Cool URIs don't change.
The Common Gateway Interface

Tools

AltaVista UK
Google
Open Directory Project
CritSuite
AltaVista Image Search
AltaVista

About SGML

Algorithms

Hash Functions

Computer Security

http://www.ncipher.com/products/files/papers/anguilla/keyhide2.pdf
Interception capabilities 2000
comp.virus FAQ
IBM Antivirus
Resurrected Duckling

Emulation

Remakes
Emulators FAQ
comp.emulators.misc Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) [1/3]
comp.sys.m68k Frequently Asked Questions
HOWTO: Writing a Computer Emulator
Index of /text/faq/usenet/emulators-faq
BSVC - A Microprocessor Simulation Framework

Computer Games

Ian Bell's Elite pages

Microsoft Windows

sshd - Windows NT Workstation / Server.
FindFirstChangeNotification

Netscape Calendar

Computer Hardware

HINT benchmarking
Intel Instruction Set
TV and Monitor CRT (Picture Tube) Information
SCSI FAQ
Article about RISC

Printers

Epson Stylus Color 660
Linux Printing

Computer Hardware Suppliers

GND
RIVA 128
17in. Monitors
Apple Reseller Locator
DABS
Ascend - Technotes Index
World of Computers Home Page
CEC prices
WOC prices
Scan International
The BT Price List

Computer Networking

Connectivity

ASCEND

ftp://ftp.ascend.com/pub/Doc/Pipeline/Upgrade-Instructions.txt
Documentation Library

CISCO

CISCO
11.3 Docs
11.3 AAA Guidelines
11.3 AAA Reference

RADIUS

Ascend RADIUS Attributes
CISCO RADIUS Attributes

Mail

Exim for Postmasters
draft-ietf-drums-msg-fmt-08
"Reply-To" Munging Considered Harmful
DRUMS

TCP/IP

Path MTU Discovery and Filtering ICMP
n e t s c a n . o r g
Solaris - tuning your TCP/IP stack
RIPE PRIDE tools
LINX Looking Glass
The Public DNS Service
Network Status Page
Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea
DNS LOC
Location information in the DNS
Visual Trace Route

Information

IIANA assigned numbers
Current Internet-Drafts
Whois by Domain
RFC Index

USENET

Tools

Alternative Dejanews
Message-ID search
Maxwell paths

FAQs

Spam FAQ
Godwin's Law

Software

INN source
Andrew's INN Page
Cleanfeed

Cameron Laird's personal notes on DejaNews
USEFOR
Home Office meeting of January 19th
Mib Usenet RKT

LDAP/X500

An LDAP Roadmap & FAQ -- Directory Services Information
Understanding X.500 - The Directory
Microsoft Active Directory help
Active Directory Diagnostics, Troubleshooting, and Recovery

Computing: Texts

The Programmers Stone
a geek, a freak, a squeak
FTP Directory: ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/Old-Funet-Lists/
Gene Spafford's departure
How To Write Unmaintainable Code
HAKMEMC -- HAKMEM Programming hacks in C (NOT proof-read)
The Tao of Programming
Jargon File

Time And Date

Critical Dates
The Millennium Bug -- Reasons not to Panic

The David Korn story is TRUE!
http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
1984-vintage rant on good programming
Insight and spam

Cryptography

Chaffing and Winnowing
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Development Effort
FFIPS 180
Register code competition
International Cryptographic Software Pages for Encryption, Decryption, Cryptanalysis, Steganography, and Related Methods

Computer Graphics

Bezier Curves
More Bezier
AltaVista Image Search

Computing: Toys

Talk to MegaHAL
TechnoSphere III