Web Design
Biro-Web: “Made with Pens.” 100 Random Colors. How to Write Efficient CSS. Mozilla HTML/CSS markup reference.
Discrete Skills
Tie fishing knots. Make a paper CD case and even print stuff on the back. Pick locks. Learn about diseases at The Centers for Disease Control’s Kids’ Pages. Become an artist. Improve your American Sign Language at The ASL Browser. A dog who can skateboard.
Music
Singing science records. The music of Senator Orrin Hatch. Dialtones: a telesymphony. Copyleft music at Loca Records. A collection of ASCII/MIDI music videos. Largeheartedboy mp3 download links — also Mystery and Misery and Our Lady of Perpetual Obsolescence Vinyl Rescue Mission and Orphanage. Also The Album of the Moment and Fluxblog and Ubuweb and ‘Buked and Scorned. Stairway to Heaven backwards. The Online Guide to Whistling Records. Shooby Taylor, the human horn. The archives of Stunted Development, a weekly radio music show from Richmond, Virginia. Classic Cat: a catalog of 1,500 free-to-download classical pieces. Asian classical music and other Ibiblio music archives. Beware of the Blog at WFMU. Two Hundred and Sixty-Eight Splendid MP3 Weblogs. Webmidifyer: “Reads textual data from any web site and converts it to MIDI music.” Then use Mobile 17 to make that into a cellphone ringtone. The Live Music Archive. Strange Reaction. monkeySARS: “A humble mp3 blog for the socially inept.”
Fauna
Starlings stealing quarters from a car wash. A passenger pigeon page. N’kisi, the joking, telepathic parrot. More parrots with lots to say. Many pages of beautiful fish at the Australian National Oceans Office. Bones is a Redbone Coonhound who has accepted Jesus. Cicadamania.com tracks the emergence of the 2004 Brood X cicadas. Crows at Crows.net and For the Love of Crows.
Photography
Photographer’s Formulary: chemicals for alternative photographic processes. Free-for-use photos at The DHD Multimedia Gallery and Openphoto.net. The Rasterbator makes huge posters out of small images. Eric Etheridge’s Sky Hi: Small Signs gallery. Alec Soth’s Sleeping on the Mississippi gallery. Benjamin Pierce’s photos of Eniac. Photos of abandoned places.
Catalogs
Google searches mail-order catalogs. JC Whitney, the online version of the magnificent old paper catalog for automobile parts. Edmund Scientific. The Estes model rockets catalog, present-day, and the Estes catalog from 1973. Campmor and REI.
Religion
“Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat. Metaphysics is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn’t there. Theology is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn’t there and shouting ‘I found it!’” — Atheists of Silicon Valley. Inevitably, The Church of Euthanasia and Landover Baptist Church. Free deliverance at demonbuster.com. An appearance of the Holy Spirit at a Citgo station in Clarksville, Arkansas. Perhaps Ashtar Sheran has the answer. Christian gifts. A miracle arrangement consultancy. The Official God FAQ. Important information about Hell. Jesus revealed in the clouds. CrossDaily.com’s directory of personal Christian websites — see also fishthe.net. The Jesus Picture. The Jesus Nebula. The Cavalcade of Bad Nativities. Jesus of the Week. Johnny the Baptist,
QuickBooks
QuickBooks User Community at quickbooksusers.com. QuickBooks FAQs at compasspoint.org. QuickBooks User Forum at network54.com. Keystroke shortcuts for QuickBooks. Intelinfo.com’s Best Free QuickBooks Training Materials. alt.comp.software.financial.quickbooks and biz.comp.accounting on Google Groups. QuickBooks forum at Yahoo! Finance.
Capital Circulation
The Tax Foundation provides analyses of tax policy to the American public, including levels of taxation by state and locality and the shape of redistribution of federal taxation among the states (”D.C. Gets $6.44 for Every $1 in Taxes; New Mexico Gets $2.37, New Jersey Only 62 Cents”). Revenuewatch.org “aims to generate and publicize research, information, and advocacy on how revenues” from natural resource sales “are being invested and disbursed and how governments and extraction companies respond to civic demands for accountability.” A Crash Course in Dubyanomics with Robert Barro and Paul Krugman. The impact of the Bush tax cuts considered at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. “Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998,” by Thomas Picketty and Emmanuel Saez (2001). The U.S. Treasury Departnment’s The Debt to the Penny and Who Holds It page. Everbank, an online bank with accounts in sixteen currencies.