Links
Animal Rights
Vegan.com
One of the most serious injustices in the world today is the extreme cruelty to animals, which goes either unnoticed or ignored. The greatest action to you can take to lessen this violence is to become actively informed, and go vegan. Choose compassion.
BARC
The Body of Animal Rights Campaigners is the group at UCF. We will soon be entering our third year in commission. I am the creator of the current website, so go check it out! If you attend UCF, or are in the Central Florida area, join our mailing list. Hope to see you there!
P&G Kills
Proctor and Gamble is a massive distribution and manufacturing conglomerate, responsible for such product lines as Tide, Iams, Crest, and Vicks. They are also the most abusive company towards animals. P&G refuses to stop its cruel and antiquated testing methods, even though safe and cost-effective alternatives are used by over 600 companies that produce similar products. Please don't support this company, they're responsible for the needless slaughter of thousands of animals.
Comedy
Toothpaste for Dinner
I honestly do not know how to describe this website, besides saying that it is definitely my kind of humor. I own two of the TFD shirts, and am subcribed to his mailing list. The author, Drew, is a very interesting guy. Go try it out!
Olde English
Hilarious sketch comedy by some of the students at Bard College. My favorite is called bathroom (second favorite is called 1945). A couple of them did a complete film in 48 hours, take a look at that fine piece of cinema, too.
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
An open letter to the Kansas School Board (and any others whom believe intelligent design should be taught in the public education system) calls for the equal treatment of the theory of the Flying Spaghetti Monster with the alternative theory of Intelligent Design, and evolution. The conclusion is as follows: "I think we can all look forward to the time when these three theories are given equal time in our science classrooms across the country, and eventually the world; One third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence."
Real Ultimate Power
The Official Ninja Webpage: REAL Ultimate Power!!!!
Facts:
1. Ninjas are mammals.
2. Ninjas fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.
This website is cool, and by cool, I mean totally sweet.
Dane Cook
He's one of my favorite comedian. I saw him perform the last time he came to the Orlando area. Hopefully he'll come back soon! His website has a lot of video and audio, so go spend a few hours laughing. Buy his DVDs and CDs too!
I Threw Up
Implied regurgitation. It's a site that is "an experimental appropriation image campaign." Essentially, they sell stickers of talk bubbles saying "I threw up." People take these, affix them to a picture or graffiti, and send in pictures of them. Note: this is not actually about throwing up.
Odd Todd
Dry humor about unemployment. Yes, there is enough material there to make several flash animations. Check out a day in the life of the laidoff Odd Todd.
Communal
Social networking site made specifically for college students and alumni. Very well constructed and maintained site, unlike other networking sites. It gets better everyday, so join now!
1000 Journals
"One thousand journals are traveling from hand to hand throughout the world. Those who find them will add their stories and drawings, and then pass the journal along in an ongoing collaborative art form. This is an experiment, and you are part of it."
Communimage
A massive online canvas, growing every second. A collaborative artistic effort, on an overwhelmingly large scale. Add a any small image from your collection to the project to become a part of it all.
Live Journal
A creative, dynamic database of user-developed content. Not really a web-log site. Not really a publication machine. Not really a mass-mailing system. Yet, it's all three. A new form of communication.
Jones Soda
To be honest, I'm not really a big fan of the actual beverage. However, I think the concept is brilliant. Fans submit photos, they publish the photos on the bottle labels. Like I said, brilliant.
Deals
Deal News
Deal News is one of the largest sources for current deals across the nation. It's sorted into several subsites, including: Deal Mac, Deal RAM, Deal Ink, and Deal Coupon.
Slick Deals
Slick Deals focuses on 3 to 6 great deals per day. They have an RSS feed that makes it easy to stay up to date with their postings.
Nerd Books
Want to learn more about Java, C++, PHP, Perl, Macs, VBA, .NET, AJAX, JavaScript, and more? Want to even know what those are? This is the website for you to buy the books you need to learn.
Woot
One deal per amazing deal per day. This deal site is all about quality over quantity. Occasionally, there are days with many items, one after the other, called "Woot Offs!"
Information
Google is your source for finding information about anything and everything. It has grown to so much more with services like Google Earth (and Maps), Froogle, Gmail, Google Video, etc.
Craigslist
Craigslist is a host to free classified advertisements for the internet. With over 3 billion page views per month, it is one of the largest and most popular websites in the world.
Wikipedia
Publicly editable source of information regarding anything and everything. Of course, since it is publicly editable, it's not perfectly reliable, but it does provide a host of information.
Media
The Daily Show
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart provides social commentary on the day's events. It's where I get more of the news, than I probably should. Earlier this year, Nielsen ratings showed that the viewers of the Daily Show had a greater percentage of college degrees and a higher income in comparison to news watchers. It makes you think, in other words.
The Colbert Report
Colbert, an ex-reporter for the Daily Show, now has his own late night "news" show. The Daily Show is to CNN, as the Colbert Report is to the O'Reilly Factor. This is a highly satirical show. Colbert plays an ultra conservative character, that serves to mock "his own kind." You may have heard about his character roasting the president at the White House Correspondents' dinner.
IMPACT Press
IMPACT Press is a nonprofit, quarterly, socio-political magazine that features aggressive journalism, biting commentary and a healthy dose of satire. It's an international magazine run by a good friend Craig Mazer.
Slashdot
Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters. As with many of my links, if you aren't into technology, this may not be a link you'll care about. Slashdot offers summaries of a couple dozen articles about technology. There are competitors, but Slashdot offers commentary from many professionals in the industry.
Adbusters
A magazine that focuses on culture jamming. Culture jamming is act of transforming existing mass media to produce negative commentary about itself, using the original medium's communication method.
Technology
Firefox
As a web developer, I have grown to loathe having to cater of Microsoft Internet Explorer. IE has a complete disregard for web standards. That why I recommend getting the free alternative called Firefox. If you're on a Mac, you already have Safari. Either of these will be suitable for obeying web standards, and providing a lot more features than IE currently does.
NASA
Despite underfunding, NASA continues to create some of the most innovative and scientifically interesting technology. My favorite center, by repuration, might be the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for there very well executed projects that seem conceptually impossible.
Apple Computers
Apple's Macintosh computers provides serious and adaptable technology with via clean, intuitive user interfaces. I own two Apple Computers: one iMac, one PowerBook. I'd love to own a MacBook Pro, if someone would like to buy me one! Haha.
iTunes
iTunes is a very cleanly designed media player with the best online media store built-in. You can buy music, tv shows, and download free podcasts through iTunes. I use this application on a daily basis; it's great!
Weblogs
The Daily WTF
"Curious Perversions in Information Technology." Being in the technology industry, when examining coworkers' (or, more likely, ex-coworkers') code, you occasionally come across practices that make you want to run away from the project. This is a website dedicated to spotlighting one of these per workday.
xkcd
"A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." Updated Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Creative, subtle humor makes the world go 'round. Watch it to help it become more popular!
The Joy of Tech
"The Joy of Tech... laughter is the best tech support." Satirical web comic about Apple, technology, and current events. This comic was practically made for me, haha!
Google Blog
For all of the latest and greatest information regarding the release of new Google technology, there's only one spot to go to, Google Blog. Straight from the source, Google itself. As they release any new technology or big update, there's immediately a post to this blog.
