A reminder that there are more websites than just Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Tumblr.
Entertainment Links
Art
Cartoons and Comic Strps
- Bloggerasaurus
- Cartoon Brew: cartoon news.
- Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index. Political cartoons from a myriad of sources.
- Dilbert. The best cartoon about working for a tech company ever.
- Drawn!
- Gibbleguts. Around since the 90s; still one of the funniest cartoons on the web.
- Jackson Publick
- John K
- Red Meat. Classic web comic. Milkman Dan.
- Spandex Justice
- User Friendly. Web comic about working for an ISP.
- Superdickery. Superman can be a dick when he wants to.
- Institute of Official Cheer. Comic books.
- Perry Bible Fellowship. Probably the best web comic.
- Strong Bad Email. Web cartoon.
How To and Life Advice
- Better Explained
- Dumb Little Man. Advice for humans. The missing user manual for life.
- How Stuff Works. Learn how stuff works.
- Wonder How To. Learn how to do stuff.
- Snopes. Debunking urban myths. Lost of pop-ups.
- Instructables. Learn how to do it yourself.
- Life Hack. The missing manual for the human mind.
- Make. Make things. Make a robot that service you delicious drinks.
- Photography Blog. Photography and camera information.
Humor Sites
- 30-Second Bunnies Theatre: cartoon bunnies who re-enact famous movies in 30 seconds.
- A Special Thing: a web board for all things comedy.
- Archie McPhee: the best store on earth. Devil Duckies and pirate parafenalia.
- B3ta: if Monty Python was a cheeky web community.
- BBspot: humor, like the Onion, but mostly tech / geek humor.
- Break: more humor that appeals to the 18-35 year old demograpic (and 'grups like me).
- Brian Posehn: comedian. One of the big, organge guys from the Sarah Sliverman show.
- Channel 101: original TV programs for the web.
- Chelsea Handler: funny lady from Jersey.
- College Humor: humor that appeals to the 18-35 year old demographic (or 40-somthing demo like myself)
- Comedy Central: the website for the TV channel devoted to comedy.
- Cracked. If you like College Humor and Break, you'll like Cracked.
- Darwin Awards. People do stupid things. Sometimes they're stupidity removes their stupic genes from the genepool, and humanity, as a species, benefits.
- Dave Attell. A very funny commedian. I really miss his Insomniac TV show.
- David Cross. Another funny commedian.
- Fark. Popular wacky link site.
- George Carlin. Gone, but his comedic legacy lives on.
- Happy Tree Frieds. Dark comedy featuring colorful cartoon creatures.
- Jim Gaffigan. So pale he's translucent. Comedian. Loves Hot Pockets.
- Landover Baptist. Humor.
- Lewis Black. Commedian.
- Louis CK. Commedian.
- Maria Bamford. Comedian. Loves her pugs.
- Modern Drunkard. Humor.
- Patton Oswalt. Comedian.
- Ricky Gervais. British comedian. Creature of the Office TV show.
- Sean Baby. Humor.
Japan
- Japan Probe
- Pink Tentacle
- Tokyo Mango
- Weird Asian News
- J-List. Snacks and wacky stuff from Japan. I love this site.
Gaming
- Game Faqs. Guides for playing video games.
- Game Pro. Video games.
- GameSpot. Video games.
- Game Spy. Video games.
- Game Videos. Videos of video games.
- IGN. Video games.
- Video Game Music Archive.
- Penny Arcade. Web comic.
Music
- Bedazzled!
- Blogio Oddio
- Discogs. Band discographies. Like the IMDB for music.
- Free Music Archive
- Funky 16 Corners
- Last FM. Music website.
- Legends Mangazine. Online music zine I used to write for.
- LP Cover Lover
- Matrixsynth
- Psychotic Leisure Music
- RPM Challenge
- Thrift Store DJ
- Weirdo Music
- WFMU
- Xtabays World
- Meta Cafe. Like YouTube. One of the places I go when I can't find something on YouTube
- NME. Music magazine.
- Pitchfork. Music magazine.
Podcasts
Pop Culture
- canv.as
- 10 Zen Monkeys
- Archie McPhee Blog
- Boing Boing
- Buzz Feed
- Cake Wrecks
- Crazy Weird News
- Cute Overload
- D-Listed
- Dark Roasted Blend
- Everlasting Blort
- I Mockery. Humor.
- Junkyard Clubhouse
- Neato Coolville
- Neatorama
- No Smoking in the Skull Cave
- Pat Lambe
- PCL Linkdump
- Poptique
- Retrocrush. Retro-spectives of popculture.
- Retrospace
- Secret Fun Blog
- Senses Working Overtime
- Something Awful. Humor. Web boards.
- Street Carnage
- Super Punch
- The Consumerist
- The Escapist
- The Onion
- The Total Recall
- Urlesque
- Vice Magazine (nsfw)
- The Smoking Gun.
- Rathergood. Cheeky web animations.
- Roadside America. The ultimate guide to odd and wonderful roadside attractions.
- Weird NJ. Jersey is Weird, yo!
Tech and Science News
- Astronomy Picture of the Day. Space photos.
- Digg. Tech and pop culture link blog.
- Discover Magazine. One of the few magazines I'll buy. I'm a sucker for photoshoped images of black holes.
- Jaxa. Like Nasa, but for Japan.
- Hubble Site. Websie for the Hubble telescope.
- Live Science. Science news.
- NASA.
- National Geographic. A great magazine.
- National Lampoon. Humor website.
- Scientific American. Science!
- Space. Outer-space has a website!
- Space Weather. News about space events.
Videos and Vlogs
- Adult Swim
- Daily Motion
- Everything is Terrible
- Funny or Die
- It’s Jerry Time
- Live Leak. Like YouTube, but edgier.
Shopping
- Stupid. Buy some stupid stuff today!
- Think Geek. Gifts for folks who like technology.
Design Links
Web Design
- 300 images from 1800 sites
- Mezzoblue
- Digital Thread
- Web Page Design for Designers
- How to be a 'web' 'designer' :-)
Photoshop Tricks
- Hands On
- Planet Photoshop
- Lynda - inventor of the web palette :)
- Adobe Design Center
Scalable Vector Graphics
Images
Fonts
UI Design and Usability
- Boxes and Arrows
- GUI Gallery
- UIE
- The Alertbox
- Usable Web
- Web Pages That Suck
- Use-It: Jacob Nielsen, the "king of all web developers"
Customer Respect and Privacy Issues
Software
- Adobe: Photoshop, Flash
- Quark: Pre-press layout
- AlienSkin: Plugins
- Autodesk
- Gimp: image manipulation for Linux freaks
Colors and Web Palette
- Virtual Color Museum
- Color Matters
- Visibone Color Lab
- ZSPC Super Color Chart
- Paul Bourke: colors and shapes...
- Websafe Palette
- Optimizing Web Graphics
- Website Tips Color
Flash
- Swapping HTML with Flash
- Macromedia's Flash Support
- Flashkit
- Swift 3D: 3D for Flash!
- Foulds: still the best!
Video
Cool Designers
- Multimedia Darling
- Fake Pilot
- eBoy: the king of pixel art. Gorgeous stuff. Also see Habbo Hotel.
- Praystation
- Design is Kinky
- Shift
- Netdriver
- One9ine
- Pixel Lab
- The Bran Flakes
- Lerry Carlson: Flash abuser
- ZefranK
Industrial Design
Design links added in the 21st century
- abduzeedo: examples of cool designs and designers
- 12 Standard Screen Patterns
- A List Apart: info from leading web designers
- Ink Scape: free illustration program
- Pixelmator: inexpensive Photoshop alternative for Mac
- 960 grid system: pattern for laying out pages with CSS
Web Development Links
Accessibility
- Accessibility Forum
- Accessible Information Solutions
- Accessify Forum
- Adobe Accessibility
- IBM Accessibility
- Jaws
- Jim Thatcher
- Section 508
- United States Access Board
- WCAG
- Web Accessibility in Mind
- Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
- Window Eyes
Developers
- Andy Budd
- Andy Clarke
- 456 Berea Street
- Bobby van der Sluis
- Cameron Moll
- Clagnut / Richard Rutter
- Dan Cederholm’s Simplebits
- Dan Rubin’s SuperfluousBanter
- Dean Edwards
- Dave Shea’s mezzoblue
- Friends of Ed Books
- Eric Meyer
- Jason Santa Maria
- Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror
- Jeffery Zeldman
- Jeremy Keith
- Mike Davidson
- Simon Collison’s Blog
- Simon Willison
JavaScript
- JavaScript Reguar Expression Methods
- JSON.org
- QuirksMode
- Dojo Toolkit
- GitHub: script.aculo.us Reference
- Google’s AJAX Libraries API
- jQuery
- jQuery plugin: clueTip
- jQuery plugin: jCarousel
- jQuery plugin: jqModal
- jQuery plugin: nyromodal
- jQuery plugin: ThickBox
- Learning jQuery
- MooTools
- Prototype
- script.aculo.us
- Ajaxian
CSS and HTML
- “Got Api” HTML, CSS reference
- Character Entity Reference 1
- Character Entity Reference 2
- Complete CSS Guide
- CSS Discuss Wiki
- CSS Globe
- css Zen Garden
- Dictionary of Meta, Rel and Rev tags
- HTML Dog CSS Properties
- IE 6 Flicker
- MysteryBug
- Position is Everything
- W3C CSS
- W3C HTML
- Web Standards Project
- X/HTML 5 versus XHTML 2
- CSS Frameworks
Web Browsers and Add-ons
- Google Page Speed (FF)
- Ad blocker (FF, for Atlas testing)
- Bookmarklets
- Dust Me Selectors (FF)
- Firebug (FF)
- Firecookie (FF)
- Jesse’s Bookmarklets
- Live HTTP Headers (FF)
- Web Accessibility Toolbar (IE)
- Web Developer Toolbar (FF)
- YSlow (FF)
- Camino
- Dev.Opera
- Firefox Browser
- Google Chrome
- IceCat
- IE Blog
- Internet Exploder
- K-Meleon
- Konqueror
- Mozilla Development Center
- NetFront Browser
- Opera
- Safari
- Surfin’ Safari
- Usage Share of Browsers
- User Agent String
Validation Tools
Search
Tools
- HTML Tidy
- Notepad ++ (Win)
- PeaZip Archiver (Win and Lin)
- PuTTY (Win)
- Xenu Link Checker (Win)
- Yahoo! UI Libary
User Interface
- Advanced Common Sense
- use it: Jakob Nielsen
- User Interface Engineering
- Web Pages That…
- Yahoo! User Interface Blog
Everything Else
- Hacker News (best site of all)
- Web Analytics Association
- Carsonified Events
- dConstruct
- UIE Web App Summit
- Archive of Flash Players
- A List Apart
- Apple Internet & Web Developer Site
- Digital Web
- Dummy Text Generator
- Max Design
- Microsoft Developer Network
- Pixels to EMs
- Smashing Magazine
- Tutorials Point
- Typetester
- W3 Schools
- Web Monkey (it’s back)
- Web Design from Scratch
- Web Developer’s Handbook
- Web Page Development: Best Practices
- Web Site Optimization
- CSS support in Email clients
- Email Checklist
- Email Standards Project
- HTML Email Guide
- Mail Chimp
- Lynda Online Training Library
- O’Reilly School of Technology
- Safari Books Online
- sIFR Documentation
- Netcraft
- Sam Spade Whois
- AppleInsider (news)
- Mac Rumors
- TUAW: iPhone
- Struts
- Sun Developer Network
- Clickz
- DM News
- Webby Awards