BigCalm Links

Links

BigCalm Links

Blogs

Metafilter

Sportsfilter

Missing Matter

Communications From Elsewhere (check out the post-modernist essay generator). Woah.

Bands

Kylie Minogue (limbo site)

Morcheeba

Pet Shop Boys

VB Links

Planet Source Code

Bruce McKinleys HardCore Visual Basic Book Online

Footie!!!

Ormondroyds Virtual Match report - just like the real thing, but with stick figures and a healthy dose of sarcasm.

Soccernet

The Fiver - The Guardian's cynical teatime view of the days football events

Free Fantasy Predictions League

Yahoo fantasy football

Aston Villa Football Club

Search engines

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooogle - wonderful, wondrous; surprising; unexpected; unheard of; mysterious (inexplicable); miraculous. indescribable, inexpressible, inaffable; unutterable, unspeakable.

Webcrawler (old, quite fast)

Does Jeeves EVER know the answer?

Lycos UK

English Language

Word of the day (dictionary.com)

QuoteLand

Every unit of measure you could wish for

Jargon File

True Type Fonts

Microsoft Typography - I normally don't like Microsoft, but their typography information is fantastic.

Unicode Consortium - everything you didn't want to know about diacritic marks.

Language Museum - Contains samples of all languages from Abkhaz to Zulu.

Misc

Diary of a hacker (Read Teslas too)

FAQ Heaven

Hotmail

Streetmap is a good map site

Games

9 to 5 cafe - fun java applet games

The underdogs - for all those ancient computer game fans - Loads of abandonware games including some recent ones such as SWOS

A truly superb Dungeon Master clone written in Java. A work in progress and getting better all the time

Purple SWOS - Sensible World of Soccer Fan site

Rich Sites

RinkWorks (textual funnies)

Eric Raymonds Home Page (author of Jargon file)

The almost legendary bastard operator from hell

Urban Legends fiction and reality. Useful for providing ammo against the "Red Bull gives you cancer" type emails.

Alert Box is a website dedicated to improving the internet. Crammed with opinion that's very well backed up by statistics, it makes fascinating reading - Did you know for example, that users often don't look at the images on a page until the second or third visit?

Local Stuff

I'm a member of the Glee Club - a Birmingham comedy club

Aston Villa Football Club

Telecoms

Intercity Website

Mobile Needs

GSM World

Programming and Maths

gamedev.net is a fantastic resource for wannabee games programmers everywhere.

gameai.com

Math World - the canonical mathematics site

Mathematics Links

Excellent Lecture notes on maths for computer graphics

Amit Patels notes on A*

Java A*

Introduction to Mathematical Graph Theory.

Information relating to NIST and RijnDael

RijnDael Home Page

Cryptography FAQ

Cryptography Introduction

Java Neural Net Source Code

math.com

Software

Lemmy!!!! (a quite superb vi clone for Windows)

Postscript viewer for Windows

Lynx Text-only browser

USENET

HTTP access to newsgroups

Sensible soccer newsgroup

Neural nets newsgroup

sci.crypt is for those who are finding trouble sleeping.

alt.folklore.computers is where computer experts of legend hang out (e.g. ken, dmr).

The flamer's bible (always useful on usenet).

14th November 2003

Jonathan Daniel