Useful links
Sites I've worked on
- Hint Online a Cameroonian charity working in education, health, skills development and job creation.
- Oneironaut an online comic which I originally built for my MA project, and hope to one day finish episode 2...
- Roman Provincial Coinage Online The Ashmolean Museum's online database of roman provincal coinage, based on the ten most important and accessible collections in the world.
- Transits of Venus A virtual collection of historical objects related to the Transits of Venus which I built for The Museum of the History of science, university of Oxford.
- Vindolanda Tablets Online an online database of the British Museum's collection of Vindolanda tablets - Britain's largest collection of Roman correspondance, found at the fort at Vindolanda, just south of Hadrian's Wall
News and Sport
- (The mighty) Swindon Town FC page on BBC Sport all the latest exciting news from the County Ground, possibly...
- all africa - African news site
- BBC Football BBC Football news
- BBC News BBC News homepage
- Guardian Football Guardian Unlimited Football
Family and Friends
- 27 Months Blog of Bill Zimmerman, our first Whiteman friend in Buea
- Camerooned Brian, our Peace Corps friend in Cameroon
- guinea swerve travel blog of an ex peace corps volunteer we bumped into
- Richorama Richard Astbury's blog (my brother-in-law)
- The Life and Times of a Heather My Wife's blog
- Transversality Robert O'Toole's blog
Blogs
- Before Thirty blog outlining one young man's quest to do stuff before he's thirty.
- Blurbomat the Prince Consort of The Queen of Too-Much-Information
- Dooce The Queen of Too-Much-Information
- Kottke.org link-tastic blog
- Nee Naw - blog of an Emergency Medical Dispatcher for London Ambulance Service. Very interesting...
- Siren Voices paramedic blog
- Untold True Story some guy's blog in Canada (my brother-in-law's, friend's, ex-girlfriend's brother - really)
Music
- BBC 6 Music Excellent digital radio station
- DJ Shadow he the Man
- Quannum home of excellent Hip Hop
- R.E.M. the Official website of Athens' finest
Film and Telly
- 100 greatest movie posters one to debate endlessly
- Albert Rosenfield wiki entry on Albert Rosenfield
- Kevin Smith's top ten films of 2006 I didn't get to the cinema much that year, so here's a list of catching up I have to do
- Kubrick film art Kubrick film art
- The 25 best movies you've never seen allegedly
General creative stuff
- football depicted in ancient chinese scrolls
- Hamish McDonald - painter
- Jim Houser - mere inches an exhibition of paintings
- long lasting art prints that last 10,000 years...
- Make something cool everyday - another one of those "I wish I could/would do this" moments
- Ogigraphics some guys artwork website I stumbled over, annoying Flash-based site, but good artwork.
Useful
- Foyer Du marin, Douala contact page for the Foyer Du marin, Douala
- Snopes.com true story or urban legend? Check here before you spam all your mates.
- Wikipedia just one of the best things ever (unless you're a teacher, and have to mark 36 wiki-plagiarised essays five nights a week...)
- wikiquote A quote-focused wiki project, v. good.
Shopping
Oxford links (are you local)
- Daily Info Genral info site for Oxford, paper version has been around for years, but it still amazes me that they got the url...
- Oxford University contact look-up v. useful
Funny, Intertesting, or maybe Just Plain Weird...
- animated bayeaux tapestry - not seen this - I'm saving to until I get back to a high-speed connection
- I can has cheesburger - lolcats
- itmademyday.com
- Pimp That Snack very amusing site, documenting people's attempt to produce super-size versions of snacks and confectionary.
- PostSecret a collection of secrets posted in on postcards - a quite wonderfully intriguing site.
- The Infinite Cat Project just like it says on the (cat) tin
Web and IT stuff
- 40 essential drupal modules Nick Lewis gives an overview of some top top Drupal modules.
- audience analysis - excellent resources on audience analysis for websites from JISC
- boagworld.com podcast about web design
- Browser Sandbox - Run any browser from the web
- character encoding - useful page on character encoding
- colorsuckr.com - cool colour picking tool
- colour contrast checker - for checking background and stroke colour-combinations for accessibility
- CSS compatability and Internet Explorer - Microsoft article detailing the CSS compliance of various versions of IE
- flickr blog code generator s'good this
- fontso free font site
- free web dev resources Free Resources for the Web Worker Who Works on the Web
- how to create a transparent gradient in Illustrator not nearly as easy as you might expect from the industry standard application on its umpteenth version developed by software giant...
- IE only stylesheet selectors
- mac rumours - buyers guide just in case you happen to want to buy anything and want to avoid just missing a new release...
- MySQL zoo on handling dtaes Useful info on handling dates in MySQL
- netrender generate screenshots of a webpage rendered in different browsers, good for testing in IE6, etc...
- owl visitor admin
- php cheat sheets useful cheta sheets at scottklarr.com
- php.net home of php - very useful site
- pick a font - good free font downloads site
- squeekmachine useful code tip site for MySQL/PHP (and other stuff)
- tips on crimping ethernet cables orange, orange-white, etc...
- typography.com - good typography-related site (as if you couldn't guess...)
- webdesignwall website about web design - it looks good and it validates, can't be all bad...
- Your website: what you want to say and what you need to say - xkcd hits the nail on the head.
e-Learning
- Learning Tecnologies Group part of Oxford University Computing Services
For House and Home...
- Ikea damn them...
Other...
- An app a day some guy building an application a day for thirty days, most of which are of niche interest, nutter...
- The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online - excellent
