Bookmarks

• useful sites
• changing
• art
• webstuff
• interesting
• blogs
• forums
• amusement
• boring practicalities
• shopping
• notes
• fanfiction
• bandom
• supernatural
• traveller

Useful sites

• Dreamwidth. Blog site. I have an DW, 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.
• Wordle

changing

• PostCrossing
• We Are What We Do
• On Simplicity & Zen Habits. Voluntary simplicity
• Lili the low impact living initiative
• Diggers & Dreamers. Communards, baby.
• Off-Grid.net.
• Femina. Feminist search engine.
• Fine Art of Being Come Out To. Very amusing and useful advice.
• Amnesty International. Human rights.
• Greenpeace. Ecology.
• Sea Shepherd Society
• Oxfam. Anti-poverty charity.
• Hunger Site.

Art

• Etsy. Handmade items.
• Jacquie Lawson. Beautiful ecards.
• Get Crafty.
• Rossetti & Ophelia's Mirror. Pre-Raphaelites.
• Michael Whelan.
• GlockGal.
• BodModEzine.
• Pomegranate. Exquisite publications.
• Lizz's Papers.

Webstuff

• FireFox. The only web browser for me.
• FireFTP. FireFox FTP add-on which is powerful and easy to use.
• Dreamhost. My webhost. I also have used and 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
• John Dalbey's calendar maker

interesting

• Mary Daly. Sin Big!
• Andrew Vachss. Author of the Burke series.
• MaryMc!
• Lynne Truss.
• Barefoot Doctor.
• Dick Gaughan. Awesome musician.
• Carol's blog
• Mugen's wanderings
• Paula's Choice skincare information
• Ms Magazine
• MP Dunleavey
• Terry Pratchett
• Bad Science

Blogs

• I Blame The Patriarchy. Probably the best blog on the internet.
• Shakesville
• Living 400lbs
• Shapely Prose
• Jezebel
• Fat Nutritionist
• Whedonesque
• Big Fat Blog
• Metagrrrl
• The Wild Hunt
• The Fluent Self
• Articles on blogging: Dreamwidth and you, and Fandom and migration (meta on mailing lists, moving journaling sites, and more) by Seperis; Why I love Dreamwidth even before I have an account there, and why you might not by Jiggery-Pokery

Forums

• Idle Foundation. Their motto is "Just don't do it!"
• Tribal Living
• UKH
• Shapely Prose's forums
• Vegan Freaks
• The Fanlistings Network
• Post Punk Kitchen
• Gaughan's Forum and Ceilidh House
• Thorntree

Amusement

• icanhascheezburger.com
• Letterheady & Letters of Notes. Interesting letterhead design and interesting letters themselves, respectively.
• Pink Ray Gun. Reviews.
• The Evil Overlord List
• Dilbert
• Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down!
• Wonders of Makeup
• Fark.com
• XKCD

Boring practicalities

• Gig, theatre, cinema, concert listings: Entertainment.ie, Whelan's, tickets.ie, MCD, Christ Church Cathedral, Saint Patrick's Cathedral, the Seamus Ennis Centre, Project Arts Centre, Draiocht, and the National Concert Hall.
• Banking: RaboDirect & Bank of Ireland
• CIE transport transport timetables
• Eircom phone listings
• Vodafone phone site

Shopping

• 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.
• Cassock-u-like. A nifty site that facilitates the sale and/or exchange of liturgical vestments and such.

Notes

• How to extract N,N-DMT from Mimosa hostilis
• How to use CSS to make a sticky footer
• Forum on digital art
• How to check if Yahoo is snooping on you

Fanfiction

• The fabulous fanfiction author list. Authors I personally think are well worth reading.
• Elements of Phyle. Hilarious and brilliant grammar guide.
• Holy Mother Grammatica. Funny fanfiction writing guide.
• Minotaur. Tips for slash writers from One Who Knows, now sadly passed away.
• Renegade Slash Militia's Essential Links for Slash Readers
• Thamiris' Sexed-Up Grammar Guide
• How to write sex scenes by Resonant. Even better than the version by Steve Almond.
• Arduinna's Rants & Rambles. Various essays on fanfictiony stuff.
• Fannish Butterfly's Fanfic Peeves.
• Cry's article on Point of View
• List of Fan-fiction Kinks, Tropes, and Cliches
• How to post fanfiction on livejournal
• The Interrupter: Blending Action and Dialog Dynamically
• Letting Punctuation Do Its Job: The Dash, The Ellipse, and a Bit on the Semi-Colon
• 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

• 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

Supernatural

• SN_Slash lj comm
• Wincest lj comm
• SPN Newsletter lj comm
• Sinful Desire archive
• Sam/Dean Archive

traveller

• 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.
• For sale:
  • Gypsy Caravans
  • Gypsy Waggons
  • Traveller Homes
  • Classics
  • Classic Buses

 

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