Links, Bookmarks, and Favorites

Here are some sites that I frequent or have found interesting.

Web Comics

Some of these have been running for years. Click on the banners[1] below to explore some web comics:

Unsorted

Random sites that I havn't organised yet.

RevK®'s ramblings
Nathan's Toasty Technology Page
Web Design Museum: Discover Forgotten Trends in Web Design
The Old Net
ALTEXXANET: Free Public Internet Services
Welcome to Netscape
Higher Intellect: a searchable database of over 750,000 text files on a variety of subjects
Homestar Runner: Everybody! Everybody!

Search Engines

British Search Engines - A collection of search engines with quick forms to search against each

More Random Sites

OMGWTFBBQ!: Tech articles, vintage computing, networking & security.
Bash.Org
Slashdot
Hack A Day
UKHA
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition (h2g2)

Operatings Systems

Software

Firefox UI Fix/Tweaks - I need to write an article on this. These styles help fix the UI disaster that Firefox has gone down, allowing tweaking the look and feel, getting back coloured icons and removing rounded edges ect.
Below is a screenshot of what I was able to tweak very quicky in Firefox 108.0.1:

Website Building Things

These sites might be usefull if you are buliding websites.

spycolor.com - Colour code conversion tools.
svgminify.com helpes optimise Inkscape SVG files and reduce their size ready for publishing. SVG files are new to me. I made a SVG file to show external hyperlinks in Inkscape based on the one used by Wikipedia, and this site helped remove all the unnecessary design crud ready for publishing.

Usenet

Eternal September offers free access to text-only usenet groups.
NewsDemon offers paid access to usenet. In addition to standard monthly subscriptions, these guys offer a never-expiring one-time purchase account based on the amount of data transfered. For light use and text groups, their smallest subscription should last a while. I bought a block account and it came with a free copy of Newsbin Pro too, so if binaries are your thing and you're running Windows, this might be usefull.
olduse.net - Go back in time and read early usenet in 'real-time' as it happened 40 years ago.
Pan - News reader software

Gone 404

These sites have gone offline since I originally linked to them. They point to archive.org now.

(www.thinkgeek.com) - Stuff For Nerds
F@NBOY$ (www.fanboys-online.com) - Web Comic

Last Updated: 15 January, 2023

[1]: Web buttons and banners used to be all the rage, and some sites provided their own for people to share and use. I made all these banners in Macromedia Fireworks 8 as a homage to the sites they link to, using their logos and artwork; I'm sure that comes under fair-use, right? I used the standard half-banner size of 234 x 60px. I considered making the more traditional buttons (88 x 31px) like the W3C ones at the bottom of my pages, but I decided they were a tad too small and wanted bigger: I tried the full banner size first, at 468 x 60px but with the site design as-is I could only get one banner on each line, so the half banner was chosen to allow more banners per line. [Return]