Here are my favourite links, arranged by category.
A rogue's gallery of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives, which includes photographs, rewards offered, and information about each one.
My all-time favourite (now captured) was Eric Franklin Rosser. Now, don't get me wrong, the guy was a complete bastard. The reason he stands out is that, on his 'Most Wanted' poster, he is stated to have been "last known to be traveling through Europe on a red 'Apollo' brand motorcycle with a piano attached to it...". Hardly what you'd call 'lying low'...
See further: link 1, link 2, link 3, link 4, link 5, link 6, and link 7.
A warm and very regal welcome to the palace of Wo-Hen Nankan.
The Asian Prince — movie star, musician, playboy. A Prince in search of a Princess, without doubt America's most eligible bachelor.
Only speakers of Mandarin will appreciate the true significance of his name.
Translate stuff.
Yeah.
Chickenhead, the mother of all parody sites. Features include:
NRA Kids:
Welcome to the NRA Kooky Kidz Korner boys and girls! Hope you're packin' heat and lookin' for fun - cuz we're all about playing with high-caliber guns!
Whitehouse.org:
George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States of America, and First Lady Mrs. George W. Bush wish to extend a warm and biblically intimate wartime welcome to WWW.WHITEHOUSE.ORG.
The Animal Defense Militia:
America's only non-neutered animal rights group - 100% pansy-free!
I wonder why coffee tastes so good when you're naked with your family?
Treat yourself to a pictorial introduction to 'Engrish', a dialect of English peculiar to Japan.
Now, be honest, have you ever rated a member of the opposite sex on a scale of 1-10? Of course you have. We all have (except me of course if you're reading this, Darling).
Anyway, to get to the point, 'Am I Hot or Not' is a website where you are confronted with a photo sent in by some person of him/herself, which you rate on a scale of one to ten. Then you see what everyone else gave him/her and move on to the next person. Try it - you'll be there for hours!
One caveat: don't send your photo in, unless you are incredibly good looking (like me, for example) - they're a tough crowd.
Other similar sites are:
Above each photo is a link bearing the title 'Click to date this person'. Yesssssssss...
This site has the neat feature of viewing the Top 100 chests, butts and legs (top 200 legs, actually), a feature which I might add that I never use, but of course you'd know that already.
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Brilliant creator of 'Superfly' and others.
...apart from this one, obviously.
Where the worthwhile worshop. Unsaved unwelcome... Please note - If you do not have the same beliefs as we do, you are going to burn in Hell forever.
Join the congregation of the Landover Baptist Church. Or else.
On 19 September 2001 the Federal Minister for Aged Care the Honourable Bronwyn Bishop MP launched the National Public Toilet Map. The National Public Toilet Map identifies the location of more than 13000 public toilet facilities in Australian towns and cities, including rural areas, and along major travel routes. Useful information is provided about each toilet...
I'm so glad all the tax I'm paying over here is getting put to such good use...
A New Zealand parody news site — well worth a look.
Strong Bad, professional wrestler, answers viewer's emails on his 386.
This page is only worth seeing if you have a sound card and speakers.
Web Xpertz is a bunch of forums where users can ask questions about various aspects of web design, and have them answered by other users.
Of all the forums I have come across, I far prefer Webxpertz — the people are great and know what they're talking about (mostly), and the colour scheme is nice and relaxing (and if you don't like it, you can change it).
If you have any questions about HTML, CSS or JavaScript, I couldn't recommend a better place to go. It's free, easy and fast to join, and it beats searching Google in hope of an answer. I'm a 'Mentor' there, too.
These forums are powered by vBulletin.
A good site, with two JavaScript sub-forums devoted to the W3C DOM and Dynamic drive scripts.
I prefer Web Xpertz though — the people are really great and the colour scheme's a lot better.
These forums are powered by vBulletin.
Another really great group of forums. Still prefer the Web Xpertz colour scheme though.
These forums are powered by vBulletin.
These forums are not really focused on client-side languages, but there is one forum dealing with HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
These forums are powered by vBulletin.
The VB forums are (predictably) mainly focused on Visual Basic, however, there is a single forum that covers most client-side web technologies.
These forums are powered by vBulletin.
Unsurprisingly, these forums centre on DHTML.
Some rather good looking new forums, with a good selection of categories. With a little time (and more members), these forums could be really good.
These forums are powered by phpBB.
If you have a question for which, try how you may, you cannot find an answer, try this newsgroup (accessible via Google newsgroups).
Be warned that response times can be very slow, due to the way the messages are routed through Google.
First, W3 Schools is not affiliated to the W3C. 'W3', as you may be aware, stands for 'World Wide Web', and is the same as the 'www.' at the start of many URLs.
Anyway, W3 Schools offers free tutorials in several markup and programming languages, both client- and server-side.
The tutorials are all presented in exactly the same way, so once you get used to them, they're great. Furthermore, they're supplemented with examples, including (in some cases) the 'TryIt Editor', which allows you to see the results of your code in the browser almost as soon as you type it.
All-up, W3 Schools has 34 separate tutorials and information sections, including tutorials on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (and a separate tutorial on DHTML), VBScript, XML and its derivatives (including XSL, the DOM, DTDs, XML Schema, XPath and WAP), SQL, ASP (and ASP .NET) and others.
If you're interested in learning one of these langauges, W3 Schools is a great place to start — I learnt CSS there, and often used to refer to the JavaScript and HTML tutorials.
I learnt my very first HTML from Page Resource, so I have always regarded it with a certain fondness — and with good reason.
Run by John Pollock, an Administrator at Web Xpertz forums, Page Resource contains some very simple introductory tutorials on HTML, JavaScript, ASP, PHP, Perl, and many other languages commonly found on the web.
If anything, the tutorials are too easy, but this makes them perfect for beginners. If you are keen to learn any of the languages offered, but are daunted by the task, Page Resource's well-written tutorials will allow you to ease in at the shallow end, setting you up with a good foundation so that you can move onto more advanced things later.
Perldoc.com contains all the manual pages that ship with Perl, but in HTML format -- a good, easy-to-read, online reference.
PHP is a easily learnt server-side scripting language, and unlike ASP, it supports all major servers.
At PHP.net one can download the latest version of PHP for free. Then it's just a matter of configuring it to work with your server, and you're off.
The official site, PHP.net contains all the official PHP documentation, which can either be browsed online, or downloaded in an archive.
With good articles and tutorials on CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, ASP and even Java, BrainJar.com is a good learning resource.
The tutorials generally contain a few examples and are usually on the cutting edge so, if you're seeking to build on your existing knowledge, BrainJar might be a good place to look.
Particularly useful for standards evangelists is the way the tutorials specify which code will work in which browser, and whether it is standards-compliant or not.
This isn't a site, but an article by Danny Goodman, author of The JavaScript Bible. It is the best article I have ever read, and is a must-read for those seeking to make the transition to the W3C DOM.
No kidding, Google is one of the best resources for anything, web development included.
The number of times I have successfully resorted to Google for assistance is innumerable (if a number can be innumerable).
Great articles, tutorials and FAQ's on anything to do with web development — server-side and client-side.
Google searches for obscurer points of JavaScript often turn up links to the JavaScript FAQ's, which are superb.
'Gecko' is the engine which drives Mozilla and Netscape. This link is the official Gecko DOM reference, a must for cross-browser development.
The MSDN Library is the definitive resource for all things Microsoft.
Particularly useful for web developers are the following three areas:
Netscape, the browser produced by Sun Microsystems, was browser that brought JavaScript into the world.
Once, Netscape Navigator 4 was the world's most popular browser. Fortunately, this time has passed. However, Netscape browsers are still widely used, so the following areas of the DevEdge site are useful for web developers:
Rather than have a 'reference' per se, Opera has produced a list of all the web specifications it supports -- markup, DOM, CSS, ECMAScript, the works.
This list of supported specifications, plus the specifications themselves, act as a substitute 'Opera reference'.
A handy online reference of all the official Unicode symbols, in PDF format.
The W3C is the body responsible for producing web standards. Particularly pertinent to web development are the following areas:
DOM Level 3 and CSS 3 are, at present, works in progress.
WebFX is a site devoted to cross-browser DHTML, with great scripts for MSIE, Moz and Opera.
As well as articles and a fairly active webboard, there are some amazing DHTML games — this site really shows off what you can do with DHTML.
A site I made about my first car, now sold.