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My Other Sites
- Animation from Scratch, a separate blog I write about making 2D animation myself
- Brent's Software, featuring programs I've written
- Cooking with CK, an online video blog featuring recipes and cooking tips in under ten minutes
- My Classes, a series of classes I teach about online culture and building websites
- Your Online Life, articles on all the latest web technologies and trends
Forums
Comics
- Daily
- MWF
- Weekly
- Whenever
Social Networking
Blogs
Languages
- Mahalo - How to Speak Mandarin Chinese for Beginners
- Mandarin Chinese Vocabulary Guide — mouse over to hear common Mandarin words and phrases
Miscellaneous
Sites I may visit occasionally.
- The Accidental Creative
- Akihabara Channel - Akihabara Map
- Anime News Network
- Anime Releases — what's coming out soon
- Anime Suki — anime torrents
- Bash — screwy IRC conversations
- Benjamin Zander on music and passion — the greatest 20-minute talk on classical music and life in general I've ever seen.
- Campfire — business group messaging
- CSS Cheat Sheet
- D&D 4th Edition Character Sheets
- D&D 4th Edition Monster Creator
- Digitally Imported — online electronica music station, with lots of genres
- Dog Park USA — find a local dog park in the USA
- Dragging and dropping table rows in Javascript
- Fark — offbeat news
- Flickr Advanced Search — very useful for finding striking photos for your blog or presentation
- FlyLady.net — intensely practical advice for cleaning your home
- Google Docs — convenient online word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation apps
- Google Optimization Tips
- The Guide to Sound Effects — How to make your own sound effects
- HandBrake — DVD to MPEG converter
- How to Tune a Guitar
- IE NetRenderer — see how a website looks in various versions of Internet Explorer
- Instructables — how to make lots of weird, interesting things
- Introduction to Pointers — a thorough, detailed introduction to C language pointers. Geeky but fantastic.
- Joy of Baking - Basic Ingredients — with volume-to-weight conversions for many common ingredients
- Kingdom of Loathing — a parody RPG of stick figures and sabre-toothed limes
- Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins
- Matt - Multi Account Twitter Tweeter — Update multiple Twitter accounts from one site
- MechQuest — an in-browser flash game of battling mecha
- Metropolis — English-language online magazine about modern Japanese culture
- Opera Web Standards Curriculum — a series of online lessons in following web standards
- Pandora — enter your favorite bands or songs, and Pandora will play other songs you should like
- Partners In Rhyme — royalty-free, free sound effects and music loops
- Primps — caption any photo
- Print Free Graph Paper — In various sizes and types
- RCRD LBL — an online record label that publishes DRM-free MP3s
- SimplyNoise — plays white noise at whatever volume you set, so you can mask out annoying background noises.
- Tailsteak — a webcomic and fiction project
- Vinnie Veritas — artist who makes awesome short animations set in a funky modern/fantasy world (Hoy te amo is my favorite)
- Walt Ribeiro's Daily Music Lesson
- The Weather Underground