Rubenerd's 2005 Bookmarks
These were exported from del.icio.us.
2005-12
- BSQUARE Corporation : Product Catalog :: Adds USB support to Windows NT 4.0, because Microsoft never released a USB driver for the OS. Good to see third parties filling in the gaps
- Warriors of Legend: Interesting book comparing and contrasting Japanese culture and how it compares to the Japan depicted in popular anime series'. The tour would be awesome, anyone have USD2000 handy? ;)
- hyku | blog - commentary by blog consultant Josh Hallett on the utilization of blogs for public relations, marketing, communication & branding and from time-to-time the unsolicited opinion.: Another interesting weblog by a guy called Josh Hallett
- myBittorrent.com - Bittorrent Directory: Another useful site for downloading the larger Linix distros
- Wreaths & More... Designs: If you live in the States, great place for buying wreaths. Site design is very warm and Christmas-ish!
2005-11
- HTML META, REL and REV Tags: Extremely comprehensive listing of current and depreciated meta tags for web pages. Interesting for a read (hey, I'm a nerd!) or useful if you want to implement meta tags yourself
- Death By Caffeine @ Energy Feind: How much caffeine in various drinks and your body mass; calculating how much you would need to kill yourself!
- Presentation Zen: Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic: Comparing Steve Jobs (Apple) and Bill Gates (Micro$oft)'s presentation styles. Interesting reading
- mininova : Search: Fantastic bittorrent site for OSS Linux Distros and software
- Cyberia Weblog: Interesting weblog on technology
- OSx86 Project - Home: OS X for x86 Platform :D
- Macsimum News: Really good Mac news source
- iPodder.org : Podcasts > Categories > By Region > Australia: Australian Podcasts (including The Rubenerd Show!)
- Xiaxue.blogspot.com - Everyone's reading it.: Probably one of the most self-centred, shallow, arrogant ditzes I've ever seen. Good for a laugh.
- Ambrosia Software, Inc. -- utilities/snapzprox: Useful screen capture utility for video and stills (Mac OS X)
- An overview of the Atom 1.0 Syndication Format: IBM always has good documentation
- Ourmedia Buttons & Logos | Ourmedia: I always forget where to find these!
- The Million Dollar Homepage - Own a piece of internet history!: 55 across, 41 down is the Rubenerd Show!
- The Brick Wall - Web Directory: Awesomly (is that a word) designed links page with tons of stuff
- flags 2000 Flags of Australia: All kinds of Australian flags, past and present. Interesting stuff
- Marine Port Authority Singapore - Circulars and Notices: Official Singapore flag specifications dimensions colours etc... fortunately they haven't gone the way of Scotland and declared colour in Pantone!
- Perl 5.8 Documentation - DESCRIPTION: CGI programming in perl
- Recipe 2.7. Generating Random Numbers: Random number generation in Perl
- HTML Character Codes (TnTLuoma.com): Web codes for different printable characters
2005-10
- What teens really think of their bodies: Girls have to worry about their bodies so much these days, I guess these results aren't surprising :(. Our society is screwed up.
- Lakewood Historic Photos - The Lakewood Story: History, Traditions, Values: Intersting photo gallery of a typical 1950s style planned town with all the retro looking architecture!
- $15.95 .com and $59.90 .com.au Domain Name Registration: Cheap URL registration for Australian addresses
- Australia Country Code City Code: Australian city and state telephone codes
- Mrt_lrt_system_map.png (PNG Image, 2600x2100 pixels) - Scaled (39%): REALLY good map of the Singapore MRT (train) network
- Architects For Peace: “Peace is more than the absence of war” - Based in Melbourne, VIC
- Vancouver, BC & Melbourne, VIC - The World's Most Livable Cities: "The Economist's ranking of the world's most livable cities; not a single U.S. city makes the top 10. Australia and Canada dominate"
- Microsoft checks out the iPod way | CNET News.com: Very noble sentiment from Microsoft, I'm actually quite impressed.
- Singer/Songwriter Michael Franks - is author of Popsicle Toes with 18 albums to his credit: Michael Franks - The greatest singer songwriter of all time! IMHO :)
- Streetwise: "Australia's largest range of Mac & iPod products!"
- AppleTalk Australia - Latest News: The Australian Macintosh Community
- Video iPod : Page 6: Dissecting the new 5G iPod (and I still have my 15gb 3G one, haha)
- A Quick Start on DragonFly: "This document covers a number of first steps to take with a newly installed DragonFly system. It assumes some experience with a command line, and moves quickly."
- Window Managers for X: Best website for beginners information on window managers for the X Window System on Linux/BSD/Solaris/AIX/HPUX/UNIX etc!
- The DragonFly BSD Project: Used this version of BSD for about 5 minutes, and I was converted! Now just need pkgsrc from NetBSD :D. Clean, easy to use, lightning fast, small! Linux has nothing on this ;)
- Inferior Design - Features - The Lab - Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Gateway to Science: A reality check on this new-fangled idea of "intelligent design" created by those who don't understand how long BILLIONS of years actually are!
- Dave's Web Site: Dave Hunt's Ourmedia podcast is AWESOME! And no he didn't pay me to say it! This is his homepage with links to his podcast episodes.
- Welcome to John Hurst's Railway Photograph Catalogue!: BEST Australian railway photograph site on the planet
- Would you pay Microsoft to protect Windows?: ZDNet Australia: News: Security: STEP 1: Make a crappy operating system STEP 2: Make programs to fix the problems STEP 3: Charge for the fixes. Idiots.
- Apple Dashboard - Music: Allows you to see who is connected to your iTunes shared library and which songs are being listened to.
- NetBSD/macppc Model Support: Official NetBSD Mac compadibility list
- Asian Open Source Centre :: Malaysian Based Mirror: Fast mirror for OSC in Malaysia, good speeds for Singapore and Australia too
- The Kevin Tan Show: My romm-mates podcast! He's from Singapore, lives in Adelaide in the same uni house, awesome!
- National Anthem Mp3 download - SINGAPORE: National anthems from around the world in MP3, RM and WMV
- National Anthem Mp3 download - AUSTRALIA: National anthems from around the world in MP3, RM and WMV
- Librenix - NetBSD articles: Ultimate resource for NetBSD tips and know-how
- An easy-read and illustrated Guide to SCSI, IEE1394 FireWire and USB.: Useful page about USB wires and hubs
- Apple Dev - Modifying Styles: Modifying CSS on the fly in a client's browser
- Aeroline: Easiest way to get from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, travelled with them several times, good service. And I didn't even get paid to say this.
- Australian International School Singapore: My secondary school in Singapore, was there for a LONG time! Lots of good times, and crappy times too of course, exams and teasing are no fun! Steven Bastian from year 8, BITE ME!
- Ascot State School: My second school, in Brisbane Australia.
- Patterson Lakes Primary School: My first school - Melbourne, Australia... ah the memories!
- WinWorld: Interesting site with history of the graphical user interface (GUI) and links
- The Software Patch - Download site for patches, upgrades, service packs and hardware drivers: MUCH easier to understand than Microsoft/Windows Update, for those still stuck on a Microsoft [piece of crap] operating system. Okay okay, I still have Windows 2000 on a partiton on my Athlon system!
- The Coffee Works - Arabicas Coffee Australia: Coffee tour I went on near Cairns in Queensland, awesome stuff
- .: Tetley Australia Information Site :.: The whole history of tea in Australia, interesting stuff
- Singapore Flags from The World Flag Database
- Australian Flags (Australia) from The World Flag Database
- search.cpan.org: Acme::Don't - The opposite of do: CPAN - The don't statement: anything in that code block, it doesn't do! Pointless AND fun!
- CPAN Perl Module - Acme::Morse::Audible: Instead of prining characters to screen, it generates an audible morse code translation. "Why?" I hear you ask. Why not? ;)
- search.cpan.org: The CPAN Search Site: *THE* place for Perl modules. Sexy stuff
- Ballmer: Trusting Vista, battling Google: ZDNet Australia: Insight: Software: "dealing with open source?". Yeah, open source is just a fad, Microsoft can beat it. Sarcasm.
- How to add a Mac to a Windows network: ZDNet Australia: Insight: Hardware: Great for simple no frills file sharing. If you have iTunes for Win AND Mac you can share music too
- Camino - Mozilla power, Mac style.: Best web browser for the Mac, hands down. Version 0.9 is very sleek, matches the new Mac OS X Tiger interface.
- workchoices.gov.au - Home: Howard's new industrial relations propaganda crap funded by Australian Taxpayers (all $12 million worth). Good for a laugh.
- Fetch Art for iTunes 1.2 – Mac OS X – VersionTracker: Automatically downloads and imports album art into iTunes, very useful
- DockArt 1.0.4 – Mac OS X – VersionTracker: Replaces iTunes icon in the dock with the current album art of the song playing. Ingenious!
- Darknet: Hollywood's war on the digital generation: A blog by JD Lasica that explores the clash between big media and grassroots media.
- Amazon.com: Books: Darknet : Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation: Impossible to put down, brilliant! By JD Lasica (aka: Ourmedia!)
- Lawrence Lessig's Blog: One of the most interesting people out there, his forum at Bloggercon III was brilliant (thank god for IT Conversations!) and his books are eye openers. Definitely worth a look!
- Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software: ZDNet Australia: News: Software: Can you believe this? Most people in Africa couldn't afford even a computer and if they could, they don't have the disposable income to slap on an extra few hundred dollars worth of software on top. What sort of crap does Microsoft think, now their monopo
- Apple to announce iTunes Australia music store next week?: ZDNet Australia: News: Software: Does this mean the iTMS in Australia finally? I'm not holding my breath :(
- Whirlpool - Australian Broadband News: Broadband web forums for the trillions of ISPs Australia now has, phew
- ZDNet Australia: Where Technology Means Business: Awesome site for Australian IT news
- Australian Central Credit Union: For internet banking on my account: BEST INTERNET BANKING I'VE EVER USED
- Welcome to Bank of South Australia: For internet banking on my account
- South Australia Central
- AUSFLAG - OUR OWN FLAG: The fight for a more distinctive Australian flag
- rubenerd | Ourmedia: My page on Ourmedia for The Rubenerd Show
- wx1gdave | Ourmedia: FASCINATING guy, fascinating podcast! And he's on Ourmedia, so it must be good!
- Boyd-Anderson.com: One of my school friends from Singapore
- staticICE :: Australia's comprehensive computer hardware and gadget price comparison search engine: Australian comparison shopping site
- Buy in Australia - Compare prices - Price Comparison - Australia: Australian comparison shopping site
- GetPrice: Australia Price Comparison , Store & Product Reviews: Australian comparison shopping site
- Razor Trader - The most advanced online computer hardware trading site for Australia and New Zealand!: Australian comparison shopping site
- bsdforums.org - FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD Darwin Mac OSX Linux BSD Unix forums, message boards, discussions and news.: Your one stop BSD support shop
- The NetBSD Project: It's used to power the International Space Station, good enough for me! And pkgsrc rules!
- TravelBlog | Visited Countries Map: Click the countries you've been too and it will make a cool map out of them
- Academic year calandar 2005: Lets you know when I'm free
- Old School Internet Animated GIF Images: These animations are so retro! Awesome stuff!
- New Time Radio - Internet Audio Entertainment Links Since 2001: See the stuff that was there BEFORE podcasting... except my show ;)
- World Animated Flags: Big collection of animated GIFs including all the states of Australia
- Crap and Stuff: Another cool NTR show
- The Overnightscape - Talk Radio Underground - NJ / NYC - Podcasting Daily: The show that got me onto New Time Radio!
- The Rubenerd Show - A New Time Radio Podcast from Australia: My favourite (very unbiased view!!!) New Time Radio show and podcast
- Sailor Jupiter Resource Center: Lots of video clips, including several for Mercury... as if Sailor Mercury isn't the best one! She's the one with the little computer ;)
- Migrate to Solaris 10 with Frontline Systems - Sun Microsystems Australia: Interesting comparison between Solaris 10 and Linux
