General

Art

• Pantone is all about color. They have guides that contain tables of color and a matching standardized number. A graphic designer can design something and tell the printer the number of the color and be sure to get it. Well, in theory.

BMW 2002

• BMW 2002 House of Worship
• bimmers.com has a lot of 2002 information.

Food

• Cooking with Patty. Italian food!
• What is in the food you eat?
• The myth about milk
• fatfree.com tells you how to eat right.
• vegetarianrecipe.com has vegetarian recipes.
• Digital Sushi is an awesome sushi resource.
• The Spice Merchant is a place to buy hard-to-find asian food. Despite its name, there are more than spices here.
• Top Secret Recipes has many of the restaurant recipes that you've always wondered about.
• Chili!
• Ramen Recipe Page has ramen recipes.
• Say NO to aspartame!
• Cooking By Numbers tells you what you can make based upon what you have.

Health

• Quackwatch reveals the truth behind non-traditional medical practices.

Interpersonal Communications

• Toastmasters can teach you powerful speaking skills.

Jobs

• Career Resources
• Wage Web

Knowledge

• The Last Word
• The Straight Dope
• How Stuff Works
• How Things Work is like the How Stuff Works site, but many of the topics are more base.
• Resource Central
• Martindale's The Reference Desk
• Worst Case Scenarios can prepare you for the unexpected.
• Text Files has a lot of informative files formated in plain text.
• Behind the Name can tell you what your given name means.
• WannaLearn has links tutorials on a wide variety of subjects.
• wackyuses.com has unusual ways to use standard household products as well and little-known information.
• Visual Quantum Mechanics
• The Internet FAQ Archive has FAQ's about nearly anything you can think of.

News

• CNN is the source for news.
• Nando is a good low-bandwith source for news.
• Newsday.com another low-bandwith site

Patents

• Free Patents Online

Press Releases

• PR Newswire
• Internet wire

Science

• Encyclopedia of Analytical Instrumentation.

Stuff to Buy

• wantads.com has auctions like EBay but also has classifieds.
• iprint.com has stationary such as business cards and labels that you can design online.

Values

• IGC is the home of PeaceNet, EcoNet, WomensNet, and Anti-RacismNet.
• michaelmoore.com

Violin

• How to tune a violin

Computers

80x86 Assembler

• NASM, the netwide assembler.
• The Art of Assembly Language Programming is an online book.

C Stuff

• The C Coders Home Page
• The Standard Function Library is a huge library of portable C routines.
• The SNIPPETS Portable C/C++ Source Code Collection

C++ Stuff

• Thinking in C++ is an online book.

Delphi

• The Delphi Box is a good Delphi starting point.
• Torry's Delphi Pages has lots of components.
• Delphi32 also has a lot of components. They're mostly the same as can be found at Torry's, but they interface is cleaner.
• delphi3000.com is yet another Delphi site. It has many searchable articles.

Downloads

• File Library of Channel 1 has a lot of programmer-oriented tools to download.
• Nonags
• Winfiles

Editors

• EditPlus is the Windows editor that I can't live without. In addition to just being a super editor, it offers FTP access, which means that you can open and edit documents via FTP as if they were on your hard drive. I do the majority of my HTML work using it.
• Vim is the Unix editor that I can't live without. I use it all the time--such as now--when I want to edit something on a Unix box but don't want to, are unable to, or it just doesn't make sense to open EditPlus. Emacs is for pansies.

Fonts

• Font Island has thousands of free fonts.
• The Figlet Server accepts some text and renders it using standard ASCII characters. There are dozens of different styles to choose from.

Games

• Killer List of Videogames has information on old arcade games. Browse this list and stir up some memories.

Interface Design

• The Interface Hall of Shame demonstrates some really bad design. Go there and learn what not to do.
• The Interface Hall of Fame tells you how to do it right.

LCC-Win32

• Official home of LCC-Win32
• The LCC-Win32 Meeting Point

Knowledge

• Trish's Escape from Hardware Hell
• The Guru's Lair is the home of Don Lancaster. This fellow is really bright and keeps on top of all the latest advances in electronics. Unfortunately his site is somewhat ugly and hard to navigate.
• Let's Build a Compiler by Jack Crenshaw is a good free resource for those interested in compiler design.

Linux

• Slackware is in my opinion the very best Linux distribution. What I like about it is what it doesn't do: It doesn't pretend I am a Windows user that is looking into this Linux craze. It doesn't hold my hand with a fancy graphical install. It doesn't assume I will want X to be my primary work envirionment. And it doesn't probe my hardware and prevent itself from installing.
• Dragon Linux is a version of Linux that runs on top of DOS.
• ZipSlack is another version of Linux that runs on top of DOS. Appears to be somewhat more stable but has slightly steeper hardware requirements.
• Lineo embedded Linux.
• procmail is a useful program.
• Real-Time Linux

Tools

• GNU Make Documentation
• GNU Pth. Portable threads. Use them now and save yourself a lot of pain down the road.

News

• Slashdot is news for nerds.
• kuro5hin, technology and culture, from the trenches
• NewsTrolls provides the best tech news out there.
• The Andover News Network
• Ars Technica is the "PC Enthusiast's Resource."
• Linux Today is a good place to stay informed about what is happening in the world of Linux.
• Root Prompt provides general Unix news.

Parallel Port

• Lakeview Research is the home of Jan Axelson's Parallel Port Complete

Programming

• Programmer's Heaven is a massive library of programming related topics.
• SUPER-UX Programmer's Guide has many interesting Unix programming tid-bits. I found it while looking for information on curses.

Stuff to Buy

• Interactive Portables offers low-cost laptop comuters.

Unix

• Unix Programming FAQ
• The Bash Shell
• Bash Prompt HOWTO
• Screen is a virtual terminal manager.
• A very good chapter about shell programming
• DICT is a free dictionary application for Unix. In addition to the engine, their web page also has several dictionaries that can be used by DICT (otherwise it would be near useless). Help configuring it can be found here. I should point out that DICT is not ispell. The dictionaries that are available are not simple spell checkers, but actual dictionaries with word definitions.
• Links is the best text-based browser around. Despite being in this section, it's not Unix-only, but given the alternatives that are available on the Unix platform, this a good placement for it.
• Solaris on Intel
• Obsolyte is dedicated to vintage Unix systems.
• Sunstuff.org is a Sun system information repository.
• Sunhelp.org is another source of Sun info.
• Sunfreeware.com has ready-to-run Solaris freeware..

Web Development

• webpagesthatsuck.com is a great place to get design hints and a good laugh or two.
• The Dingbat Pages has many dingbat-type fonts (fonts which contain images instead of letters and numbers).
• EyeWire has photographs and images.
• Corbis also has photos and images.
• Web Design Clinic is a good source for those nitty gritty web issues. Its section on color is particularily good.
• WebMonkey is another good web design site.
• coolhomepages.com has lots of examples of web pages that are visually appealing.
• useit.com is the place to go to read Jakob Nielsen's thoughts on creating usable websites.
• W3Schools Online Web Tutorials has piles of web-related reference docs.
• Domain name registries around the world

Windows

• Jordan Russell's Software Page has a free install program.
• The Winsock Programmer's FAQ. Top rate stuff.
• System Internals has a pile of free utilities and source code for monitoring various hardware devices on Windows 9x/NT/2000 machines.

Macintosh

• The Macintosh News Network
• MacWorld
• MacAddict
• Mac Rumors: the mac news you care about.
• Mac OS Rumors // The Future of the Macintosh.
• MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion.

Electronics

Circuits

• Harry's Homebrew Homepage has a lot of electronic circuits and informative tidbits.

Motors

• Servo City has many brand name servo motors at low prices.

Entertainment

Humor

• Computer Stupidities documents many funny tech support calls.
• Blackout's Box is an archive of prank phone calls.
• Customers Suck may influence you to treat sales people with more respect.
• The Laffatorium is a humor archive.
• The Dialectizer will give an english web page and interesting vocal slant.
• Useless Webpages takes a humorous look at webpages that really have no reason to exist.

Movies

• IMDb-- The Internet Movie Database.

Television

• Jump the Shark is a site devoted to revealing the moment when a television show hit its low point.

Literature

Reading

• Project Guttenberg is a repository for books that have an expired or relinquished copyright. There are hundreds of volumes for download.
• Recollection Used Books
• Gently Used Books
• Curled Up With a Good Book has book reviews.

Science Fiction

• The SF Site for SF/Fantasy book information.

Words

• Word play
• Aphorisms Galore
• alt.usage.english FAQ file.

Writing

• Merriam-Webster is an online dictionary.
• dictionary.com is another online dictionary.
• Online Dictionary Net has links to not only standard dictionaries like those above, but also dictionaries in other languages, rhyming dictionaries and so on.
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• Nuts & Bolts Resources for Fiction Writers is just what you'd think it is.
• iuniverse.com is a place to get yourself published (for a small fee).
• misc.writing FAQ's
• Some common latin phrases
• Internet Anagram Server

Watches

Places to buy

• Westcoastime offers excellent watches for excellent prices. Howard Marx has a well-deserved reputation for providing outstanding service.
• Reto has many nice watches for sale.

Accessories

• Frei & Borel has a bit of everything, including tools, bands, boxes, and displays.
• GlobalWatchBand.com has a nice assortment of watch bands and bracelets.
• allwatchbands.com. Guess what they sell?
• Watch Prince has Rolex-style and Hirsch bands.
• watchbands.com can get you a genuine factory replacement band.
• watch-band-world.com also sells bands.
• Banda sells them too.
• The Watch Doctor has bands.

Forums

• Watch Central is WatchUSeek's main forum.
• The Invicta Forum is also hosted by WatchUSeek.
• The Poor Man's Watch Forum is a place to talk about watches that cost less than $1000.
• The Seiko & Citizen Forum discusses Seiko and Citizen watches, oddly enough.
• The Military Watch Resource Forum talks about military-style watches.
• New Turfers is about Rolexes.
• The zOwie Omega Forum for those groovy Omega watch discussions.
• TimeZone, the watch site that everyone loves to hate.
• Timex Watch Forum is where you can discuss America's best known brand.

Places

Austin

• Austin 360
• Metropolitan Austin Interactive Network
• Vulcan Video is the Austin source for those hard-to-find videos.
• Austin Restaurants

Portage La Prairie, MB, Canada

• The Daily Graphic is Portage's newspaper.
• Portage Online has additional news.

San Marcos

• San Marcos, TX Official homepage.
• The Daily Record is San Marcos' newspaper.
• Another San Marcos Page
• San Marcos Public Library
• 78666.com
• Historic San Marcos

New Braunfels

• The Herald-Zeitung is New Braunfels' newspaper.