warblogging.com. Wealth Bondage. UFO Breakfast. Ask Edward Tufte. Jorn Barger’s elegantly neglected Robot Wisdom pages. The Dreyfuss Report is an Iraq-and-national-security-issues weblog. Editor Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s Making Light weblog. Rebecca Blood. Coudal Partners. Die Puny Humans. Languagelog. Plasticbag.org. Thingsmagazine.net. Thinking while Typing. Moonmilk. Jill/txt.
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Link Collections
Artists’ links at Iconomy. Webrary reference links arranged by Dewey Decimal subject. Periodic Table of the Weblogs. Genehack.org. Linkfilter.net. Delicious and Muxway, link sites created by Joshua Schachter of Memepool. A collection of links about creativity and innovation. Cliff Pickover’s Reality Carnival. Justin Hall’s Links.net. Paula Berenstein’s links to image resources.
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Galleries
WPA posters at the Library of Congress. An aging family. Scott Blake’s bar code art. An infrared pornographic movie. Tabloid photographs from The Los Angeles Herald Express, 1936-61. Stone Pages: “Stonehenge, stone circles, dolmens, ancient standing stones, cairns, barrows, hillforts and archaeology of megalithic Europe.” The Chairman Smiles: Posters from the Former Soviet Union, Cuba, and China at the International Institute of Social History. Stefan Landsberger’s Chinese propaganda poster pages. Nico van Hoorn’s Trashlog. Not Fooling Anybody: Poorly executed commercial real estate conversions. Sacramento hijacker weaponry for sale at Goodwill Industries. Nineteenth-Century images of albinism. Anatomical drawings: The dream anatomy gallery at the National Institutes of Health. James Smolka photographs. Michael Kenna photographs. Jon Haddock’s pages at whitelead.com, including senators voting for the Patriot Act and pornographic photographs without figures. Sublimate. Heiropenen.com. The Beinecke Library’s photonegatives collection database.
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Nutrition
How to make Japanese dumplings in 128 steps. Tomatillos. How to grow twenty-six herbs. Onions. The Cheese Diaries. Frost Street, “The culinary adventures of a New York City lawyer,” and The Food Section (also NYC-oriented). Chowhound messages for Manhattan and the Outer Boroughs. Robert Sietsema reviews in the Village Voice. More food weblogs: Noodle Pie, Too Many Chefs, Chocolate and Zucchini, and I Was Just Really Very Hungry. What’s in Rebecca’s Kitchen? The World’s Healthiest Foods.
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Reference
Disinfopedia, “a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests.” The Nonverbal Dictionary. Making Scott’s Pepsi-G Stove and Roy Robinson’s Cat Stove. What Can I Do with Tin Cans? At us-government-torture.com, learn about the government’s directed-energy and neurophone attacks upon the citizenry. Facts on Farts.
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Movies
Order movie tickets online at Fandango.com. Paul Thompson’s Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer’s Disease. The Prelinger Archives — thousands of “ephemeral” films, and hundreds to view online. 24 Hours of US Air Traffic. A real dog attacks a robot dog. A man squishes things in his scanner. Red Alert. Decasia. Many links to movies at Internet Video Magazine. Hungarian television commercials of the 1980s.
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Web
Sitepoint.com web design forums, including PHP and server discussions. A PHP tutorial at php.net. How web servers work. How domain name servers work. Apache documentation. Using Apache with Windows. “PHP, MySQL, and Images” (William Samplonius). “Binary Data + MySQL + PHP: How to Store Images Directly in the Sql Database” (Florian Dittmer) (but lots of people say this is a bad idea). Webmonkey PHP resources (oldish). Anybrowser.org. Webstandards.org. Anitra Pavka’s accessibility weblog (nicely designed by other measures, too!). Bugmenot: password sharing service. Mailinator: One-use e-mail addresses.
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Texts
Justin Kruger and David Dunning, “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.” Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams. “The Social Life of Paper” by Malcolm Gladwell. Read Cory Doctorow’s Eastern Standard Tribe one word at a time. Herman Krieger’s Churches ad Hoc: A Divine Comedy. The world produced half a million Libraries of Congress of print, film, and magnetically or optically stored data in 2002 (double the output in 1999), according to “How Much Information? 2003,” a report by researchers at UC-Berkeley’s School of Information Management and Systems.
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HTML
“The Semantic Web” — Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila in Scientific American, May 2001. Some cogent skepticism about semantic markup. “XHTML 2.0 Considered Harmful” thread at lists.w3c.org. HTML table art. HTML preprocessors: The Dolt and PPWizard. The University of Minnesota-Duluth’s web design reference page, including lots of PHP links.
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Database Frontends
DBDesigner4. MySQL Control Center. phpMyAdmin (seems widely used). DbVisualizer (cross-platform, cross-database). The book on MySQL: Paul DuBois’s MySQL Cookbook.
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CSS
Considerations (beyond the obvious) for choosing when to use id and class attributes, and Mark Newhouse’s Environmental Style essay. Also Tantek Çelik on using only “a touch of class.” Barry Pearson on the history of tables in HTML and deficiencies in CSS positioning. Links to about a thousand websites that get along without layout tables. David Dorward presents an IE hack to enable centering of block elements with CSS. Tableless layout links at allmyfaqs.com. A CSS positioning and box model tutorial at brainjar.com. Styling forms with CSS. Will the browser apply the rule? — A nice chart at centricle.com.
