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[Blogs]

Alec's Blog (submitted by sffubs at 20:18:29 BST on Wednesday 27th August, 2003)

Jeremy's Blog (submitted by sffubs at 20:37:35 BST on Wednesday 27th August, 2003)

Kim Jong Il - One of the funniest blogs I've read in a while. (submitted by sffubs at 00:01:08 BST on Sunday 18th July, 2004)

Martin's Blog (submitted by sffubs at 20:31:08 BST on Wednesday 27th August, 2003)

Strobist - LESS GEAR • MORE BRAIN • BETTER LIGHT (submitted by sffubs at 10:44:30 BST on Thursday 28th June, 2007)

[Campaigns]

CAMRA - Drink real beer! (submitted by sffubs at 10:33:52 GMT on Saturday 20th December, 2003)

Downhill Battle - Fight the RIAA. (submitted by sffubs at 10:32:52 GMT on Saturday 20th December, 2003)

Life After The Oil Crash - A (paranoid?) view of civilization's dependence on oil. (submitted by sffubs at 16:49:00 BST on Tuesday 30th March, 2004)

No Software Patents (submitted by sffubs at 20:39:45 GMT on Tuesday 23rd November, 2004)

Punch Madeley - Get Richard Madeley to change his name to Punch. (submitted by sffubs at 12:06:36 GMT on Wednesday 14th January, 2004)

Reclaim The Public Domain (submitted by sffubs at 17:16:12 GMT on Monday 17th January, 2005)

[Cool]

Feed Some Cats (submitted by sffubs at 13:55:17 GMT on Tuesday 15th February, 2005)

Home Made Pulse Jets - Some guy who builds pulse jets for a hobby, and uses them for projects such as go-karts and cruise missiles. (submitted by sffubs at 09:59:11 GMT on Wednesday 10th December, 2003)

[Entertainment]

B3ta (submitted by sffubs at 20:31:21 GMT on Thursday 27th November, 2003)

BBSpot - "Satire for smart people." (submitted by sffubs at 10:57:40 BST on Thursday 16th October, 2003)

Dilbert! - Everyone's favourite geek comic strip! (submitted by Flapper at 23:53:16 GMT on Sunday 2nd November, 2003)

Garfield - All the Garfield comics written to date. (submitted by sffubs at 18:30:58 BST on Saturday 30th August, 2003)

Nothing So Strange - A film, and collection of resources, about the assasination of Bill Gates on 2/12/1999. (submitted by sffubs at 01:42:13 GMT on Tuesday 13th January, 2004)

The Onion - "America's finest news source." (submitted by sffubs at 14:34:11 BST on Thursday 16th October, 2003)

Zookeeper (submitted by sffubs at 15:56:54 GMT on Tuesday 18th January, 2005)

Zyrex Pics - A large collection of pictures, both old and new (submitted by sffubs at 16:18:37 GMT on Sunday 15th February, 2004)

[Funny Stuff]

1-D Tetris - The easiest game on the internet. Don't forget to press down. (submitted by sffubs at 19:25:34 GMT on Wednesday 16th March, 2005)

Badger, Mushroom, Snake (submitted by sffubs at 11:50:05 GMT on Sunday 25th January, 2004)

bash.org - The IRC Quote Database. (submitted by sffubs at 15:21:19 BST on Friday 24th October, 2003)

command.com (submitted by sffubs at 17:15:28 BST on Friday 24th October, 2003)

Conese - If you haven't seen the original then you won't get this. Don't go and see the original if you haven't already. It isn't worth it. (submitted by sffubs at 20:41:05 BST on Wednesday 27th August, 2003)

Fun With Airdusters (submitted by sffubs at 23:48:23 GMT on Sunday 2nd November, 2003)

God Hates Shrimp (submitted by sffubs at 20:22:25 GMT on Sunday 29th February, 2004)

Limecat - Limecat is not pleased. (submitted by sffubs at 14:13:03 GMT on Sunday 11th January, 2004)

Skittlebrau (submitted by sffubs at 09:37:23 BST on Wednesday 15th October, 2003)

Stick RPG (submitted by pav at 19:44:23 BST on Saturday 18th October, 2003)

The Brick Testament (submitted by sffubs at 20:08:46 GMT on Wednesday 14th January, 2004)

The Infinite Cat Project - Cats looking at cats looking at cats looking at... (submitted by sffubs at 22:15:18 GMT on Sunday 20th March, 2005)

[Google Bombs]

French Military Victories - Search google for French Military Victories, click "I'm feeling lucky." (submitted by sffubs at 09:57:52 GMT on Sunday 18th January, 2004)

Linux, Software Development, Technology - Linux, Software Development, Technology. Codder's homepage. (submitted by phil at 10:09:11 GMT on Tuesday 27th November, 2007)

Litigious Bastards - Make sure google knows! (submitted by sffubs at 18:48:39 BST on Monday 29th March, 2004)

Miserable Failure - Try an "I'm Feeling Lucky" on "Miserable Failure" (submitted by sffubs at 11:14:38 GMT on Friday 23rd January, 2004)

Pedant (submitted by phil at 21:36:53 BST on Tuesday 11th May, 2004)

Phil Wise - Phil Wise's home page (submitted by phil at 13:18:40 GMT on Tuesday 1st November, 2011)

Prudence Emma Staite - Emma (Prudence) is a friend who makes arty things out of chocolate. (submitted by phil at 21:32:48 BST on Thursday 20th May, 2004)

Pugs - Perl6 in Haskell (because Perl is a dog) - Why on earth would anyone want to know about the toy dog breed? (submitted by phil at 09:37:21 BST on Friday 13th June, 2008)

Weapons Of Mass Destruction - Search for Weapons Of Mass Destruction in Google, and click "I'm feeling lucky." (submitted by sffubs at 09:56:32 GMT on Sunday 18th January, 2004)

[Hardware]

Crucial Memory - The best combination of price, reliability and service I have come across yet from a memory manufacturer. (submitted by sffubs at 19:56:46 BST on Tuesday 9th September, 2003)

Draytek - Half the time, this site is served through a Vigor2200 router. Very highly recommended. (submitted by sffubs at 23:54:18 GMT on Monday 15th December, 2003)

Mini ITX - VIA's Eden CPUs have to be one of the most useful things around. Mini-itx.com is dedicated to projects based around this platform. (This page is being served by a mini-itx system) (submitted by sffubs at 23:27:55 BST on Thursday 28th August, 2003)

RFID Zapper - Simple, low cost design for a gadget that destroys RFID tags. (submitted by sffubs at 11:56:12 GMT on Friday 6th January, 2006)

[Homepages]

All About Dave (submitted by sffubs at 19:03:44 GMT on Monday 8th March, 2004)

Chris' Minimalist Page (submitted by sffubs at 22:02:32 GMT on Saturday 13th December, 2003)

Edwin Hayward - Liam's Edwin Hayward, the wayward bear. (submitted by sffubs at 14:11:12 GMT on Saturday 13th March, 2004)

Fatshady - Jeremy's Brother's site. (submitted by sffubs at 22:13:54 GMT on Saturday 13th December, 2003)

Jeremy's Music (submitted by sffubs at 10:56:35 GMT on Saturday 21st February, 2004)

Jim's Page - Some of Jim's Trillian plugins. (submitted by sffubs at 20:43:31 BST on Tuesday 11th May, 2004)

Lazy Photography (submitted by sffubs at 21:52:46 BST on Tuesday 26th May, 2009)

Liam's Website - Liam's website (work in progress). (submitted by sffubs at 14:09:28 GMT on Saturday 13th March, 2004)

Mark's Site - The exploits of Debian Mark. (submitted by sffubs at 00:24:27 GMT on Sunday 29th February, 2004)

Octomonkey (submitted by sffubs at 12:24:04 BST on Thursday 13th May, 2004)

Pav's Site - The more technology, the better. (submitted by sffubs at 19:05:36 BST on Monday 12th April, 2004)

Pedants Reunited (submitted by sffubs at 15:38:51 BST on Sunday 9th May, 2004)

Phil's CL Page (submitted by sffubs at 22:05:55 GMT on Saturday 13th December, 2003)

Phil's Free Thinkers Page (submitted by sffubs at 22:07:36 GMT on Saturday 13th December, 2003)

The Rat Hole - Throw money down cajun-rat's rat hole. (submitted by sffubs at 10:02:07 BST on Friday 14th May, 2004)

[News]

BBC News (submitted by sffubs at 13:33:19 BST on Monday 13th October, 2003)

New Scientist - Science and technology news. (submitted by sffubs at 00:41:54 GMT on Sunday 29th February, 2004)

Slashdot - The latest science and technology news, stolen from other websites. (submitted by sffubs at 13:34:56 BST on Monday 13th October, 2003)

Syndic8 - An excellent source for syndicated news headlines. (submitted by sffubs at 09:09:38 GMT on Monday 24th November, 2003)

[Other Elsies]

Elsie and Borden Cheese (submitted by sffubs at 08:49:11 GMT on Thursday 6th January, 2005)

Elsie, Michigan (submitted by sffubs at 08:51:07 GMT on Thursday 6th January, 2005)

[Services]

Allofmp3 - Possibly legal Russian music download service. Charges $0.01/MB and allows you to choose the format and bitrate. (submitted by sffubs at 02:31:47 GMT on Friday 12th March, 2004)

Churchill Friends - Liam's ex-Churchillians website. Still under development. (submitted by sffubs at 13:18:11 GMT on Tuesday 2nd March, 2004)

Cynthia Says Accessibility Tester - An automated website tester that checks for conformance to W3C and US Gov accessibility guidelines. (submitted by sffubs at 14:22:31 BST on Saturday 15th May, 2004)

DynDNS - These people redirect my domain name to whatever IP I happen to be running on. This site couldn't run without them. (submitted by sffubs at 11:15:41 GMT on Sunday 14th December, 2003)

Fastmail - Fastmail is my favourite email provider to date - imap support, large inbox & integration with hotmail. (submitted by sffubs at 11:14:26 GMT on Sunday 14th December, 2003)

Gostats - Free hit counter, with some nice graphs etc. (submitted by sffubs at 13:33:44 GMT on Sunday 14th December, 2003)

hostip.info - A community project to geolocate IP addresses. (submitted by sffubs at 13:49:08 GMT on Saturday 27th March, 2004)

LiveJournal.com - The most widely used blogging site. Has a lot of excellent features, including built-in RSS feeds, for easy syndication. (submitted by sffubs at 00:16:29 GMT on Thursday 25th December, 2003)

VOIP User - A UK-based VOIP service that provides both inbound and outbound services (submitted by sffubs at 17:14:34 GMT on Friday 21st January, 2005)

[Software: Operating Systems]

Gentoo Linux - A "from-source" Linux distribution with a very neat set of tools. Currently running my laptop. (submitted by sffubs at 10:20:43 GMT on Wednesday 17th March, 2004)

Knoppix - Live Linux on a CD - just boot up and off you go. (submitted by sffubs at 11:04:41 GMT on Sunday 15th February, 2004)

Slackware - The very best linux distro I have found yet. (submitted by sffubs at 11:03:39 GMT on Sunday 15th February, 2004)

[Software: Programming]

Eclipse - Probably the best open source development environment. Plugins available for most programming languages. (submitted by sffubs at 23:37:30 GMT on Tuesday 30th December, 2003)

Greenlets - Micro-threading in a python module. (submitted by sffubs at 11:17:00 GMT on Saturday 26th February, 2005)

gthreadless - gthreadless integrates twisted with greenlets to let you write synchronous-looking code which executes asynchronously. (Available from twisted CVS) (submitted by sffubs at 11:19:35 GMT on Saturday 26th February, 2005)

IPython - An enhanced interactive python shell. (submitted by sffubs at 17:40:40 GMT on Wednesday 11th January, 2006)

Lxml - An easy-to-use Python binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. (submitted by sffubs at 21:41:04 BST on Wednesday 1st June, 2005)

Pyrex - A Python-like language for writing Python extension modules. (submitted by sffubs at 17:39:10 GMT on Wednesday 11th January, 2006)

Python - A really great language, comes with batteries included. (submitted by sffubs at 11:13:40 GMT on Saturday 26th February, 2005)

Python Typecheck - Optional typechecking for python 2.4. (submitted by sffubs at 13:39:29 GMT on Friday 6th January, 2006)

Twisted - An asynchronous networked application framework. (submitted by sffubs at 11:15:04 GMT on Saturday 26th February, 2005)

Vim - My favourite text editor, for more reasons than there is space here. Don't forget to buy one of the mugs :) (submitted by sffubs at 21:47:23 BST on Saturday 30th August, 2003)

[Software: Servers]

Apache HTTP Server - The most widely used, the most flexible, and arguably the best web server around. (submitted by sffubs at 23:30:05 BST on Thursday 28th August, 2003)

mod-xslt - XSLT output filtering for apache2. As used here. (submitted by sffubs at 11:57:11 BST on Monday 1st September, 2003)

Postgresql - My favourite database server at the moment. Fast enough for me, easy to use, and more flexible than MySQL. (submitted by sffubs at 23:31:27 BST on Thursday 28th August, 2003)

[Software: Web Browsers]

Galeon - My favourite browser of the minute, based on Mozilla. (submitted by sffubs at 14:30:30 BST on Wednesday 15th October, 2003)

Liferea - An excellent news reader for Linux. Perfect for browsing the RSS feeds provided by silentelsie. (submitted by sffubs at 16:08:02 BST on Monday 19th April, 2004)

Mozilla - Probably the most popular "alternative" browser. The core components of Mozilla are used to power many other web browsers too. (submitted by sffubs at 14:29:37 BST on Wednesday 15th October, 2003)

Mozilla Firefox - The new name for Mozilla Firebird (Phoenix) - an extensible version of Mozilla (submitted by sffubs at 23:57:11 GMT on Sunday 15th February, 2004)

Opera Software - Probably the fastest browser around. The free version has ads on it. (submitted by sffubs at 14:27:55 BST on Wednesday 15th October, 2003)

[Talk]

[Useful]

Janet Bandwidth Usage for CHURCHILL College - Check your daily bandwidth usage. No really. Go on. (submitted by Flapper at 23:58:41 GMT on Sunday 2nd November, 2003)

LenPal's Bartending Guide - Cocktail recipie database. (submitted by sffubs at 15:37:45 GMT on Friday 16th January, 2004)

Wikipedia - The free encyclopedia. (submitted by sffubs at 12:11:42 GMT on Monday 22nd December, 2003)

[Website Design]

Buttons In HTML/CSS - How to make buttons without using images. (submitted by sffubs at 15:41:33 GMT on Sunday 18th January, 2004)

PHP - PHP is _the_ website scripting language, which forms the basis of this site. (submitted by sffubs at 20:32:12 BST on Wednesday 27th August, 2003)

Position Is Everything - A very good CSS resource that I used to help me with the layout of this site. (submitted by sffubs at 21:31:13 BST on Wednesday 27th August, 2003)

W3Schools - Although rather Microsoft-centric, they have a set of good tutorials on XHTML, XML and XSLT. (submitted by sffubs at 20:33:47 BST on Wednesday 27th August, 2003)

World Wide Web Consortium - These people are responsible for defining and maintaining the standards that make the web run smoothly. Their website provides useful info into making your site standards-compliant. (submitted by sffubs at 23:33:46 BST on Thursday 28th August, 2003)