Bookmarks

Livejournal. Blog site. I have an Livejournal, with mirror/backup accounts at Dreamwidth, Insanejournal and Wordpress.
Google search engine. It's better to use Blackle, better yet to use GoodSearch.
Gmail and Hushmail are good email services.
Babelfish. Translations.
Dictionary.com. Spellcheck.
Project Gutenberg. Public domain library.
Xe. Currency conversions.
eBay. Auctions.
PayPal. Payment system.
Amazon. Bookstore.
Wayback. A time machine for the internet.
Britannica & Wikipedia. Encyclopedias. The first is reliable; the second is free.
About. Information.
eHow & Instructables. Step by step guides.
The Guardian, the Observer, RTE & the BBC. News.
YouTube & Blip FM. Music.

FireFox. The only web browser for me.
FireFTP. FireFox FTP add-on which is powerful and easy to use.
Dreamhost. My webhost. I also recommend FutureQuest & Vox Populli.
W3C. Tools to validate XHTML code.
WDG. also validates XHTML but has a time-saving option to do the entire site in one go.
W3. Tools to validate css.
A List Apart. CSS wisdom.
Full Moon Graphics. Kitty's supercute free web graphics.
My palette. A gif with hex codes for looking up colours quickly.
Tutorialtastic. Jem's site of learning.
Jemjabella. Jem's php scripts. I use her BellaBuffs script to run my fanlistings and her mail form to power my contact form.
Bare Bones. HTML primer.
Lissa Explains It All. Basic HTML site, very useful for beginners. Lots of ads, though.
Lavasoft. Freeware spy scanning.
AVG. Freeware antivirus software.
Tech Support Forum, MajorGeeks, & Tech Support Guy. Computer help.
W3 Schools. XHTML and CSS tutorials. I particularly like their online code-tester.
BrowserShots. Run a layout through this site to check it on multiple operating system and browser combinations.
Bauble. Icons, moodthemes, icon table generator, awesomeness.
Zen Garden. Shows the possibilities of CSS-based design.
1001 Free Fonts & Font 101

Love Your Peaches. Gorgeous, high quality BBW clothes from a woman-owned company.
Holy Clothing. Pretty BBW clothes from another woman-owned company.
Womyns' Ware. A friendly feminist sextoy store, which is also a woman-owned company.
Amazon. Books, DVDs, deep-fried crack, etc.
VeganStore & EthicalWares. Cruelty-free goods.
The Cunning Artificer's Discworld Emporium & PJSM Prints. Retailers of figments of Terry Pratchett's imagination.

The fabulous fanfiction author list.
Elements of Phyle. Hilarious and brilliant grammar guide
Holy Mother Grammatica. Funny fanfiction writing guide
Minotaur. Tips for slash writers from One Who Knows
Renegade Slash Militia's Essential Links for Slash Readers.
How to write sex scenes by Resonant. Even better than the version by Steve Almond.
Arduinna's Rants & Rambles. Essays on fanfictiony stuff.
Fannish Butterfly's Fanfic Peeves.
Cry's article on Point of View.
Shrift's fabulous Polyamorous Recs.
Smallville Slash. Fanfiction archive.
ExWood. Due South fanfiction archive.
Fanfiction Symposium. Columns and meta.
Badfic. How not to write fanfiction.

Bandom overview by the cherishable big enabler iamtheenemy.
The above links to a billion juicy primers and manifestos, including the amazing and hilarious Frank/Gerard manifesto by Bex, which I adore.
missmollyetc's awesome My Chemical Romance primer
Dotcoms Refresh. A bandom newsletter. Great resource.
Hearts Intact. Recs community.
Steph's bandom recs.
Luna-K's Frank/Gerard and Pete/Patrick rec lists.
Panic at the Disco primer

Tash
Gypsy-Traveller.org. "We seek to end racism and discrimination against Gypsies and Travellers, whatever their ethnicity, culture or background, whether settled or mobile, and to protect the right to pursue a nomadic way of life."
Us on the Bus
Summer Holiday Conversion
Conversion of Volvo Plaxton Supreme into a motor home
Glastonbury Festival 1990 & the travellers
Traveller Dave. Unbelievably awesome photo archive.