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How Not to Ruin Your Life. A great article by Ben Stein on getting ahead in your career. #
How to Whistle. By MetaFilter. #
How To Build A Computer A very informative "wiki-book." #
Essential freeware for the PC. A nice list. #
EBook911.com A slew of O'Reilly books. I don't know how long this will be up (besides the fact that most of the books are several years old.) Still, a great resource. #
Food for Thought. A great compilation of technical-related articles. #
Faking the Lomo Effect with Photoshop. The Lomo effect creates brightly-colored, highly saturated photos with darkened borders. #
A to Z Guide To Online Music Downloads. Extensive collection of links to the best music downloads. #
The best reader-submitted WinXP tips. #
Overcoming Procrastination Through the Pull Method. #
What's in your Firefox? The must-have add-ons for the popular web browser. #
Get Rich Slowly! A good compendium of financial advice. #
Hacking Your TiVo. Ryan has some excellent resources on this as well. #
A Field Guide to Chess Tactics. #
How to Become an Early Riser. #
Everything You Thought You Knew About Grilling Is Wrong. #
Minimizing Your Telephone Bill. #
Top 100 American Speeches. With transcription and audio where available. #
Weapons Respawn Times in Halo 2 Multiplayer Maps. #
Halo 2 Legendary Walkthrough. This is a very detailed and interesting website (if you like Halo 2). Expect to see a great deal of the plasma pistol / battle rifle combo. And videos accompany every tactical maneuver, which is much more helpful than you would expect. #
How to start a blog. This had a lot of useful information. #
Mad Physics. Physics experiments. #
IT Conversations. MP3 broadcasts of IT-related talks and discussions. #
How to Blog Safely. Some tips on the do's and don'ts of blogging and working. #
The Free (and 99.9% foolproof) way of ridding your computer of nasties. #
Ourmedia. This is an interesting new development. Free... everything. #
Feynman's Lectures on Physics. If someone can PLEASE find me a faster mirror to this, I will be eternally grateful. #
File Taxes for Free. But be careful, TurboTax will try to charge you along the way. #
How to clean anything. I dedicate this entry to my daughter. #
Best Hacking Tools and Tutorials. #
FontLeech.com. The best free fonts on the web. #
Frequently Asked Questions About Microsoft Excel. For an Excel ignoramus like me, this is useful. #
The Most Useful Web Sites for Reporters. #
World War 2 Pictures In Color. This is a fantastic gallery of images. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in WWII history. #
How to Interview Potential Employers. #
How to maintain a healthy Windows System. #
Useful Household Tips. Scotch tape to ferret out splinters, spray non-stick into Tupperware before adding tomato-based products, and many other words of wisdom. #
Ten Things Your Real Estate Broker Won't Tell You. #
Classic Cat. The free classical music directory #
Move over Mapquest. There's a new map guy in town. #
NameVoyager. A fantastic Java applet that allows you to search for baby names and visualize trends. #
How to Cut. Onions, Tomatoes, et. al. #
Halo 2 Guide to Trick Jumping. This series of WMV videos highlights jumping tricks for navigating the maps of Halo 2 boards. Extraordinarily useful if you play the game regularly. #
FindSounds. Search engine for sounds and instrument samples. #
Mobdex. Book Classics in Ebook format. You can also read your favorite books a few pages at a time through RSS. #
Online Civil War Maps. The Library of Congress has provided an extensive database of maps. #
Google SMS Google continues to surprise me with innovative and useful search functions. Send a text message to 46645 (GOOGL) with a simple search string as the body and Google will reply with the search results. #
News you choose. The why, what, and wherefore of blogging, RSS, or XML. #
Password generator bookmarklet. Put this bookmarklet in your toolbar, and you'll only have to remember but one password ever again. A unique password for every site you visit is created from an MD5 hash of the URL and your master password. So passwords on insecure sites can never be compromised as each is different. This is fantastic. #
Latin Phrases. viz. timeo Danaos et dona ferentis #
Local Google. Leverage Google's search capabilities for your local area. This is my new "Yellow Pages." #
50 Best Websites This is a fantastic list to add to your bookmarks collection. #