Bookmarks for Jonathan Adams

• Family
  • Jonathan Adams, me, my blog, my work blog, and my pictures.
  • Peter Adams, my brother.
• Friends with websites
  • Helen Claudio
  • Tim Elling
  • Patty Lee
  • Wren Montgomery
  • Curtis and Jenny Pehl
• Web logs / News
  • Techie: Bluesnews, Dan's Data, NTK, OS News, slashdot
  • General: Google News, Washington Post
  • Friends: Travis Hime, Frances Schaeffer
  • Authors: Diane Duane, Neil Gaiman
  • Other: Making Light, Cooking for Engineers, Good Math, Bad Math
• Search sites / "Portals"
  • dmoz is better than Yahoo.
  • Froogle, Google's comparison shopper
  • Google caches. If a site goes poof, it might still have the contents.
  • Overture, where you can see capitalism and economics in action.
• Cryptography
  • CounterPane Labs, home to a bunch of information about Cryptography.
  • If you haven't read Applied Cryptography yet, do so.
• Gale, a public-key-crypto-based public and private messaging system.
  • Entering Newbie's Guide to Gale Etiquitte (ENGAGE)
  • Gale mugbook
  • Fugu, a python-based Gale client
• Operating systems
  • EROS, the Extremely Reliable Operating System -- a very nifty capability-based OS.
    Now part of the Systems Research Laboratory at Johns Hopkins
  • Solaris, Sun Microsystem's SVR4 Unix.
    • comp.unix.solaris, the canonical newsgroup, and a.p.t., for multi-threaded programming
    • DTrace, a dynamic tracing framework for Solaris 10 (forum)
    • SMF and FMA, Predictive self healing for Solaris 10 (forum)
    • Zones, System Virtualization for Solaris 10 (forum)
    • blogs.sun.com, where Sun Engineers tell all
  • Linux, a popular Open-Source OS.
    • Kernel Traffic, a weekly summary of activity on the Linux Kernel mailing list
  • MacOS X, the new incarnation of NeXTSTEP.
    • Apple Computer, Inc.
  • MS Windows, currently the best OS for games. <sigh>
• Humourous stuff
  • The Onion
  • Improv Everywhere, adding a little surrealism to daily life
  • The Institute of Official Cheer, for all your ironic-look-at-the-past needs. Part of lileks.com.
  • Curve Ball
  • How to remove a file called -C
  • The Pong FAQ
  • The Brunching Shuttlecocks is full of html- and cgi-based wackiness. Unfortunately, there will be no more updates...
• Web comics, by frequency
  • daily (M-F or M-Su)
    • Angst Technology
    • College Roomies from Hell
    • Kevin & Kell
    • Pearls Before Swine
    • Player vs Player
    • Sinfest
    • Sluggy Freelance
    • Wapsi Square
  • bi-daily (MWF)
    • Gunnerkrigg Court
    • MegaTokyo
    • Penny Arcade
    • Queen of Wands
  • irregularly
    • Alice
    • Eat the Roses
    • Lore Brand Comics
    • Mac Hall
    • PartiallyClips
    • Piled higher and Deeper
    • Real Life
    • xkcd
  • weekly
    • Bob the Angry Flower (Friday)
      • Goes Through Customs (Penrose Tiles!)
      • Fear Soup, and the sequel, Fears
      • Why doesn't Bob hang around with flowers?
      • Plural's
      • Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots
      • Soft War
      • Nobody Wants to be Lectured by an Invisible Cow
      • The Inner Light
      • Competitive Rates
      • Denuded
      • How to be Respected
      • Must See (Submit!)
      • Jetpack!
      • Uh...
    • Cat and Girl (Tuesday)
  • monthly
    • Copper
    • Sabrina Online
• Author's websites:
  • Hatrack River (Orson Scott Card)
  • Homeward (Diane Duane, also Peter Morwood)