Recommended Links

• Timothy McSweeey's Internet Tendency. I like this a lot. Phrases like "with subject matters ranging from murder mysteries in Indian villages to pirate adventures and life on the moon, it's like it's produced by a troop of Boy Scouts." and "throw it across the room" spring to mind. Beautiful web design too.

News and Info:

• Slashdot, very addictive once you get into it.
  
• ZZZ Online have a selection of tech' related stories.
  
• The Register have a more computer and business focus to their news.
  
• The Evil Gerald, probably the best journalism in the Irish press.

GNU-Linux:

• Linux Gazette is a good online monthly Linux magazine.
  
• Linux Weekly News is a weekly Linux site, more focused on news. Good for security info.
  
• Debian my preferred Linux distribution (although SuSE is pretty good too).
  

Useful:

• Hammer Node Free DNS
• Python The best programming language you have never used. Try it, you might like it.
  
• Digital camera information. Especially useful for Linux users.
  
• Software for Linux users of the Aiptek pencam and compatible cameras.
• FLI/FLC Animation Format guide. This is the animation format produced by ABAQUS FE software.
  
• GaelSpell is a helper for anyone who writes as Gaeilge but cannot spell.

Miscellany:

• Ashbourne Donaghmore Parish, also available at http://www.ashdon.cjb.net/
  
• Brain Food a really gloomy website about why we are all doomed. Some of the articles are genuinely interesting though.
  
• The Ordering Comics website operated by Warren Ellis contains recommendations for comics/books you should pre-order. Look at WE's own website and see if you want to take this man's advice.
  
• Spook is a very unusual website. Hard to describe, probably art.
  
• How to make tiny ELF executables. Speaks for itself.
  
• How to write unmaintainable code: This is really very funny. Deserves reading.