Random Links

Just a regular day today. I started work on a different program in the lab that determines camera motion between two images.


Some Funny DnD Stories:
The Gazebo
The Head of Vecna
The Ninja Story

A Really Useful Page for Bloggers:
HTML Code Tutorial

Linked Lists

I want to keep a lists page, so I'll make this a memory.

Blogging Resources:
Photobucket
HTML Quoter (for posting HTML code on LJ and the like)
Google
Wikipedia
YouSendIt
HTML Code Tutorial

Programming Resources:
C Library Reference
C++ FAQ / FQA
Hoogle / Haskell Language Specification
Java 5 API
Python Documentation
Common Lisp HyperSpec
W3 Schools
Quirks Mode

Japanese Resources:
WWWJDIC (awesome online dictionary)
Rikaichan (Firefox extension)
Notes on Japanese Grammar
JapanesePod101.com

Firefox Resources:
Themes and Extensions
Greasemonkey
User Scripts
Dive into Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey Compiler
Preferential
Firefox Tweak Guide
Filterset.G

Best of Web 2.0:
Slashdot (Alterslash)
Fark
Reddit
StumbleUpon (my profile)
Riffs (my profile)
Standpoint (my profile)
Del.icio.us (my bookmarks)
Last.fm (my profile)
Pandora
Netvibes
Flickr (my photos)

DDR:
DDR Freak (machine listing)
Orange Lounge Radio
Stepmania

Roleplaying:
The Gazebo
The Head of Vecna
The Ninja Story
Haername Quotes Page
The D&D SRD
Giant in the Playground
Wizards of the Coast Boards
Spirit of the Century SRD

Humor:
The "Tough Guide" Equivalent for Tortall
"Tough Guide" for Console RPGs
Official "Unglued" Card Rulings
Markos's Profile
Improv Everywhere
The Darwin Awards
Book-A-Minute
The Eye of Argon (worst book ever written; hilarious)
Atlanta Nights (second worst; very funny)

Cooking and Food:
Volume to Weight Conversions
Epicurious
Robbie's Recipes
All Recipes
Extratasty
Cookthink
Yelp
Recipezaar

Games and Quizzes:
Philosophers' Games
Googlefight
Orisinal
The Kingdom of Loathing
OKCupid (a huge timesink)
Kongregate

Movies and Animation:
Anime Music Videos
Milk and Cookies
Jib Jab
YouTube
Google Video
Hulu
Sidereel
SurfTheChannel
tvRSS

MTG:
Magic: The Gathering.com
Essential Magic (My Decks)
Blackborder
Magic Workstation
MTGplay
Gatherer

Webcomics I'm Reading:
8-Bit Theater
A Softer World
Abstruse Goose
AmazingSuperPowers
Applegeeks
Basic Instructions
Busted Wonder (concluded)
Chopping Block (still reading archives)
Captain Excelsior (concluded)
Count Your Sheep
Chugworth Academy (slow to update)
Cyanide and Happiness (still reading archives)
Dead Winter
Dinosaur Comics
Dominic Deegan
Dresden Codak (slow to update)
Erfworld
Errant Story
Ever After (on hiatus)
Exploitation Now (concluded)
Full Frontal Nerdity
Home on the Strange (concluded)
I Drew This (concluded-ish)
Irregular Webcomic (still reading archives)
Jesus and Mo
Kagerou
Kidd Radd (concluded)
Mac Hall (concluded)
Marry Me (concluded)
Megatokyo
Minus (concluded)
Misfile
Nodwick
Order of the Stick
Penny Arcade
Pictures for Sad Children
Punch an' Pie
PvP
Queen of Wands (concluded)
Real Life
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Simulated Comic Product
Sinfest
Something Positive
Sore Thumbs
Subnormality
The Zombie Hunters
VG Cats
xkcd

Awesome Books I've Read:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick
Tinker and "The Ukiah Oregon Trilogy" (begins with Alien Taste) by Wen Spencer
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series by Douglas Adams
All of the "Valdemar" series by Mercedes Lackey
All of the "Tortall" and "Circle of Magic" series by Tamora Pierce
"A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket
"Young Wizards" and "Feline Wizards" series by Diane Duane
"Derkholm" and "Howl's Moving Castle" series and The Tough Guide to Fantasy Land by Diana Wynne Jones
"His Dark Materials" series by Philip Pullman
"The Old Kingdom" series by Garth Nix
Shade's Children by Garth Nix
"The Seventh Tower" series by Garth Nix
"The Enchanted Forest Chronicles" series by Patricia C. Wrede
Ella Enchanted and The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
"Diskworld" series by Terry Pratchett (only read some)
Flaming Arrows by Bruce Holland Rogers
"The Pit Dragon Trilogy" by Jane Yolen
Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
"The Apprentice Adept" series by Piers Anthony
Captain Jack Zodiac by Michael Kandel
"The Wayfarer Redemption" Series by Sara Douglass
"The City of Ember" Series by Jeanne DuPrau
Phantoms in the Brain by V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
"Emortality" Series by Brian Stableford (only read some)
"Pendragon" Series by D. J. MacHale
"The Wiz Biz" series by Rick Cook
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglass Hofstatder
"Artemis Fowl" series by Eoin Colfer
The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler
"Nobody Nowhere" series by Donna Williams
"Incarnations of Immortality" series by Pierce Anthony
"Abarat" series by Clive Barker
First Contract by Greg Costikyan
"Probability" trilogy by Nancy Kress (link for first book only)
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller, Jr.
"Keys to the Kingdom" series by Garth Nix (only read some)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Jewish Wisdom by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (ingenious, but takes effort)
Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett
Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters by Kenneth G. Henshall
Effective Java Programming Language Guide by Joshua Bloch
Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler
Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler

Favorite Movies:
Memento
Pi
Requiem for a Dream (link not necessarily work-safe, makes more sense if you've seen the movie)
Fight Club (link not necessarily work-safe, makes more sense if you've seen the movie)
Movies by Miyazaki
Battle Royale
Casshern
The Triplets of Belleville
Old Boy (site is work-safe, movie is NSFA)
Equilibrium
Shaolin Soccer
The Boondock Saints
Shaun of the Dead
Twelve Monkeys
Millenium Actress
Memories
Pulp Fiction
Audition
Resevoir Dogs
Kung Fu Hustle
The End of Suburbia
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Rushmore
Goldfish Memories
Jesus Camp
Tokyo Godfathers
Leon the Professional
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Feel free to comment with suggestions for my lists or suggestions for new lists.