Howard Gibson's Fun Links
Here are places I like to go on the web.
- Salon
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Online magazine
- The Bulwark
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Another online magazine
- blogTO
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All about stuff in Toronto.
- Slashdot
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Mostly Linux and UNIX stuff.
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The Register
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Mostly computer news, plus the latest
BOFH
articles.
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The Straight Dope
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Apparently, Cecil Adams knows everything.
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Engineering Tips
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This is a forum for engineers.
You can log in and ask technical questions.
You can be helpful and answer some of the questions
if you know what you are talking about.
I am user drawoh.
This is connected with
Engineering.com.
A very similar site is
SimpliEngineering,
where I am user RevDesigner.
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Machine Design
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Magazine.
I have been reading this for a long time.
There also is
Design News.
- Seth Godin
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Marketing Guru's blog site.
Great articles.
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Web Pages That Suck
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Vincent Flanders. Learn good design by looking at bad design.
The website has not been updated lately.
The URL
WebSitesThatSuck.com
also works.
His
Facebook page
is active and fun.
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Urban Legends Reference Page
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Check out
http://www.snopes.com
before you pass around those weird, unbelievable stories.
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Annals of Improbable Results
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This was intended to be the successor to the
Journal of Irreproducible Results, the "Journal of results that
cannot, or should not be reproduced."
The JIR is still around.
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Project Gutenburg
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This is a project to create digital copies of old, public domain
books.
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WW2 Aircraft.net
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Airplanes are fun!
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