Bookmarks
Some random URLs I think worth sharing, for other stuff, just use Google. For the curious, this list is filtered from my Firefox bookmarks with this script.
- Amanye Tenceli - The Writing Systems of Aman - A page dedicated to the beautiful writing systems that in Tolkien’s works derived from the continent of Aman
- Ambrosia - Cinema, Quadrinhos, Animês, Literura, Séries, RPG, Música, Teatro, Televisão e mais…
- Annals of Arda - Annals of Arda
- Astronomy Picture of the Day - Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
- Basics of Space Flight - Participants will identify the range of concepts associated with robotic interplanetary space flight and grasp how they relate to one another.
- Behind the Name - Etymology and History of First Names.
- Cat Facts - Here you will find everything you need to know about cats. Look around and enjoy your stay
- Classic Cat - Classical music directory
- Câmara Municipal de Jaraguá do Sul - Câmara Munipal de Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina
- Darkrising - Digital art and illustration by Alastair Fell, featuring some nice concepts of dark pin-ups.
- Datamancer.net - Technical Art and Steampunk Contraptions - Steampunk & retrofuturist fabrication, technical & computer art, props, contraptions, gadgets, and all manner of assorted nonsense
- Don P. Mitchell - Don P. Mitchell Homepage. Venus, Soviet Space History, Computer Graphics, Science, Etc.
- Elfwood - Science Fiction and Fantasy Art, FanArt & Stories
- Emília Kesheh - Fantasy and horror tales (in portuguese)
- Encyclopedia Astronautica - Encyclopedia Astronautica the most complete resource for space history - rockets spacecraft launch vehicles astronauts cosmonauts spaceflights engines space exploration
- EnigmaCo.de - Three Rotor Enigma Simulation in Flash
- Fitz Kahns vintage Man-Machines animated: Der Mensch als Industriepalast 2009 - Vor mehr als zwei Jahren bloggte ich Fitz Kahns Illustration „Der Mensch als Industriepalast“ aus den
- Furiae - The website of digital artist Enayla, fantasy art and character concepts.
- Gephi, graph exploration and manipulation software - Gephi is an open-source software for visualizing and analysing large networks graphs. Gephi uses a 3D render engine to display graphs in real-time and speed up the exploration. Use Gephi to explore, analyse, spatialise, filter, cluterize, manipulate and export all types of graphs.
- Harry Porter's Relay Computer - The ultimate retrocomputing project: a relay based CPU
- igraph - The igraph library for complex network research
- International Internet Preservation Consortium - The mission of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) is to acquire, preserve and make accessible knowledge and information from the Internet for future generations everywhere, promoting global exchange and international relations.
- invisiblethings.org - Invisible Things
- John Howe - Tolkien-inspired art by John Howe
- JUNG - Java Universal Network/Graph Framework - General framework for the modeling, analysis, and visualization of graphs
- KildClient MUD Client - KildClient is a MUD Client written with the GTK+ windowing toolkit. It supports many common features of other clients, such as triggers, gags, aliases, macros, timers, and much more. But its main feature is the built-in Perl interpreter. You can at any moment execute Perl statements and functions to do things much more powerful than simply sending text the the mud.
- Lambda the Ultimate - A Programming Languages Weblog
- Livros e afins - Um blog divertido sobre leitura - O lado mais prazeroso do livro e dos escritores e outros assuntos culturais. Saiba como encontrar obras grátis para download. Neste blog divido minhas leituras com você.
- Lua Unofficial FAQ - Lua Unofficial Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Middle-earth Tours - A "touristic guide" to the Middle-Earth =)
- MUD Valinor - Valinor is a roleplay MUD focused on the Tolkienian legendarium. It features a strict separation between IC and OOC actions and the system is designed to provide a rich roleplay experience for the PCs and enforce a consistent behavior for the NPCs.
- NASA History Home - NASA History
- Ninfinger Productions: Soviet Space Photos - Soviet Space Photos
- Old Computers - Old, rare, vintage and obsolete computers
- Particle Swarm Optimization - Some references on particle swarm optimization
- philosecurity - Philosecurity is a collection of articles about security, philosophy, and privacy. Written by Sherri Davidoff, Philosecurity explores the impact of technology in our society and the tradeoffs between efficiency and freedom.
- Pro Git - Professional version control - A "open book" about Git
- Producing Open Source Software - Producing Open Source Software is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. The book is released under an open copyright: it is available in bookstores and from the publisher (O'Reilly Media), or you can browse or download it from the site.
- Purr-n-Fur UK - A variety of topics, but all about cats. Sections so far Philately (cats on stamps), Famous Felines, Fabled Felines, Feline Fun, Featuring Felines, Folios, Fans of Felines, Fragments and Flotsam, but there will also be articles on the history of cats, cat lore and anecdotes, cat photos, and links to other cat sites.
- RAMMSTEIN - Offizielle RAMMSTEIN Website
- Software optimization resources. C++ and assembly. Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X - Software optimization manuals for C++ and assembly code. Intel and AMD x86 microprocessors.
Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X. 16, 32 and 64 bit systems. Detailed descriptions of microarchitectures.
- Sputnik - An Extensible Wiki Engine in Lua
- Summary of Dr. Wernher von Braun projects - Summary of Dr. Wernher von Braun projects
- Sylpheed - a lightweight and fast e-mail client - Sylpheed is a simple, lightweight but featureful, and easy-to-use e-mail client (mailer, MUA). Sylpheed runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X. It also supports Windows.
- Ted Nasmith - Web site of Ted Nasmith, Tolkien illustrator and musician. Galleries, news blog, biography, contact information. How to order paintings, prints, books and other products.
- The Digital Imprimatur - How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle
- The Encyclopedia of Arda - An illustrated hypertext encyclopedia of Tolkien's realms and peoples
- The Infinite Cat Project - The Infinite Cat Project is one simply cat looking at another... to infinity. Won't you join us?
- The International Obfuscated C Code Contest - International Obfuscated C Code Contest
- The Memory Hole - A site intended to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known.
- The Messybeast Cat Resource Archive - Not-for-profit resources on cat care, welfare, behaviour, breeding, rescue and general interest. This privately run website is not affiliated to any registry, breed society, veterinary association or welfare society.
- The Ministry of Love: Ingsoc Propaganda - The Ministry of Love: Ingsoc Propaganda
- The Museum of HP Calculators - The Museum of HP Calculators displays and describes older Hewlett-Packard calculators. There are also sections on calculating machines and slide rules as well as sections for buying and selling HP calculators, an HP timeline, collecting information and a software library.
- The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources - English obscure words and etymology resources: online dictionary of weird and unusual words, word lists, technical vocabulary aids, lipograms, and word related essays
- The Programming Language Lua - The Programming Language Lua
- The Underview on 2001: How Was It Done? - On the making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001
- Tolkien Fun (ou nem tanto) - Humor e paródias da obra de Tolkien
- UDESC - Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
- UDESC Joinville - UDESC Joinville - Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas
- Uninformed - Uninformed is a technical outlet for research in areas pertaining to security technologies, reverse engineering, and lowlevel programming. The goal, as the name implies, is to act as a medium for informing the uninformed. The research presented here is simply an example of the evolutionary thought that affects all academic and professional disciplines.
- Vala Programming Language - Vala Programming Language
- Valinor - The best Tolkienian site, ever! (Ok, it's a biased opinion)
- xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
- z3-computer.de - Rebuilding the Konrad Zuse's Z3 computer