All the links you could ever need!
Note: This page was initially just a way for me to store my links so that they wouldn't be deleted every time the computer was reformatted, and is still just as badly set up :) I'm not really updating it any more.
You can see a more extensive set of links at my complete links page. Yes, this is the short list!
People I know (or have at least met)
- Perth SF:
- Swancon: A large convention
- GhengisCon: A small convention.
- UniSFA: The UWA sff club.
- Fables and Reflections A sf/f fanzine.
- Angriest Movie revues.
Useful and sometimes interesting
Databases and other collections of information:- Urban Legends Reference Page Find out whether little Timmy really benefits if you forward this 20 times..
- Internet Movie Database Helluva lot of information!
- Urban Dictionary Helped me learn the meanings of "Bling-bling" and "glomp!".
- Locus Online S.F. magazine.
- The Guardian
- Religious Tolerence A fair attempt at open-minded rational information and discussion on religion or the lack thereof.
- The Brights People with a "naturalistic" worldview.
- Butterflies and Wheels
- Cheapass Games Cheap,original and occasionally actually good
- Traffic Waves A very interesting article.
- Escher and the Droste effect
- Eta Carniae A cool picture of a star exploding!
- PolyKarbon Tutorials on drawing cartoons/manga with computers.
- Implicit Association Test Tests your subconscious biases.
Web-comics
Strips:- Bob The Angry Flower
- Penny Arcade
- Schlock Mercenary Space mercenaries with real physics!
Practically graphic novels (only free!):
- Return To Sender I am currently infatuated with this comic :)
- Sea of Insanity Greek gods and angst.
- Electric Manga Very pretty,interesting fantasy/manga style thing.
Really interesting use of the medium: Finished! Thus safe to read if you simply can't read any more each day. (Assuming you have time to read the archives...)
- Unicorn Jelly Not as simple and harmless as it looks.
- No Headroom Sort of like Bladerunner, but funny. Well, not really.
- Mnemesis A cool version of the afterlife. It was free when I read it!
- Strings of Fate Act 1 You can just stop there, I did.
- Demonology 101 Demons and highschool. Not as scary as it sounds.
- Bite Me! (Subscription only) Revolutionary vampires! (Funny rather than gory)
- Small Stories I really liked "Same Difference".
Amusing (Warning, may also make you think)
- Really good satire: Satirewire, BBspot,The Onion.
- Rinkworks A wide range of fun stuff.
- The editing room Better than movie-a-minute!
- The Internet Oracle
- The Daily Whale Epigrams.
Entertaining but not neccesarily just humourous
- Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy No, not the book. An actual guide!
- Stumbleupon When you're bored takes you to a random site it thinks you'll like. Pretty cool! Needs Mozilla though.
- Annotated Sandman Unfortunately only the very beginning of the series.
- Hamlet Text Adventure
- Online Scrabble Yay!
- Infocom Games Playable Online They have the original Hitchhikers text adventure!
- Bookworm game Warning, this is VERY addictive!
- Nation States Like a Tamgotchi based on politics. Kinda.
- iSketch Online pictionary. Sooo addictive!
One Hit Wonders
- How to annoy your roommate
- So you want to be Evil
- Political compass What, you're left libertarian too?
- Rules of Thumb
- Geek Chart
- Crib notes for the Turing test
- Human Virus Scanner
- Condensed Silmarillion
