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The Best Things in life are Free
Blender The best free thing ever! Blender is utterly, unbelievably fantastic.Mozilla Firefox A secure, standards-compliant browser, with in-built google, live bookmarking and tabbed browsing. Nice software, in other words. And it imports all your IE stuff for you.
Ubuntu Linux An Operating System to feel good about. Open Source is good for you. I have broken out into unprovoked grinning due to using this software, it's just so much nicer than my previous OS.
The Ur-Quan Masters An impressively comprehensive remake of a well-loved game I never played before. This is to videogames what The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is to novels: hysterical sci-fi with unforgettable wit. Play it, and you too shall appreciate the meaning of Frungy.
Different Every Time
Zero Punctuation Updated every Wednesday, Yahtzee slates a recently released game in incredibly entertaining style.Elfwood Massive online amateur art gallery, with daily pic picks and more stuff than you can probably imagine.
Slashdot If you don't know about this and think you're a geek, you're wrong.
BBC Radio 2 Listen to Britain's most popular radio station online.
Penny Arcade Elitist videogaming swearfest web-comic with undeniable brilliance in the fields of artwork, humour, and wryness. The best webcomic there is.
VG Cats The most brilliantly styled web comic out there - with an unmistakable visual edge, hampered perhaps only by its gut-wrenching sickness.
Nuklear Power (8-bit Theatre) Sprite-art comic featuring vast amounts of stabbity hilarity, and probably the best character writing and plot brilliance on t'internet. You can't fail to love Black Mage.
Shopping
Play Dangerously easy to buy DVDs and games!Dabs Computing equipment etc.
Gameplay.com Apparently hold onto 'old' titles longer than most - fantastic for games more than a couple of months old that have been whipped off the retail scene faster than most of us can react.
ShopTo UK Dedicated games-buying site.
Simply Games SG have delivered on (or before) time every time I've ordered from them... apart from the last time. I'm hoping that disaster was a one-off.
Funnies
The Evil Overlord List The top 100-or-so things you should remember when putting your world-conquering scheme into operation.Engrish.com Japanese mistranslated into not-quite English by people who don't seem to understand either.
Dilbert! Sign up for Daily Dilbert, join the DNRC...
Software Development
XNA C# Starting TutorialsC++ language references and tutorial. Essential.
Python A very cool programming language. Named after Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Java APIs, guides, everything a Java developer could ask for. (Except for a copy of Eclipse)
Python plugin for Eclipse.
NeHe Gamedev.net OpenGL Development
GameTutorials.com Decent guides to starting off programming games, but doesn't contain quite enough info for a full project.
Programmer's heaven Good reference page, with tutorials for just about all languages.
Gaming-Related
ZHQ is still alive! An extensive, dedicated Zelda page which has been running for many years. Includes all the super-pedantic GANNON-BANNING you could possibly desire.History of Hyrule great Zelda content and official artwork collection (and possibly some amazing fanart - if I could only find it.)
Metroid Database Anything and everything you did or didn't want to know about Metroid. A fantastic site.
Speed Demos Archive - Metroid Prime 100% speed run Do you believe Metroid Prime can be completed with 100% items in just under an hour and a half? Neither did I, until I saw this. Some guys have waaay too much free time. Look for other amazing game tricks throughout speeddemosarchive.com. Mario 64 is also impressively conquered.
Metroid 2000 Yup, waay too much time. Want to know how those speedrun guys got the Space Jump so early? Or how to do it in the European version? It's all here. More than you could ever think possible, and probably don't want to try anyway!
Zelda Universe A highly polished looking Zelda site with loads of info and cool pictures.
GameFAQs I give in, and admit it - there are some things in games too annoying not to look up. But if anyone uses a guide for the first playthrough of a Zelda game, they are committing unholy sacrilege, and should be punished.
Art
The Phoenix Requiem The prolific Sarah Ellerton's impressive second graphic novelJulie Dillon The definitive amazing fantasy/manga computer-art gallery.
Sandara.net I found this after browsing Elfwood. The manga-style art is generally brilliant and there are two completely fantastic turtorials: one on Photoshop and one on using watercolour paint.
Silvestris.Net Another personal art page - this one from one of the top artists on Elfwood, S. Silvestris Strand. Has some great Zelda fanart too, and her own intriguing fantasy world concept.
Artoki.co.uk Impressive site and drawings, yet another page linked off Elfwood.
Adele Sessler's homepage, with a huge collection of utterly jaw-dropping fantasy art.
Animé
NARUTO! The best site for all things Naruto. In case I haven't made this clear enough: Naruto is the best animated series I have seen. Peerless. The best thing I've seen on TV in my entire life.Bleach An anime with an excellent starting premise, mythos, plot, characters, and awesomely realised action sequences. Gets very poor after episode 70.
Death Note The most tightly written, cleverly plotted animé to date. It suffers from certain Japanese character clichés, (narcissistic bishounen and hopelessly weak women). However, it has such exquisite drama and an incredible plot that this is just a tiny irritation.
University of Glasgow / Course
Glasgow University Main Page All the University's online services, convoluted into an impenetrable mess.DCS Main Page. Department of Computing Science Lilybank Online
Ethernet My page on Ethernet, aka the Network Communications Technology 4 assessed exercise.
Level 4 modules
First "semester"
Databases and Internet Technology 4
Security & Cryptography 4
Network Comms Technology 4
Computer Architecture 4
Second "semester"
Constraint Programming 4
Artificial Intelligence 4
Advanced Comms 4
Neural Computing 4 - no course page.