Links

OK, you got me. This is really just a bookmark page that I use. But others may find some of these topics interesting. A number of these are even repeats from other areas of my site, collected here for convenience.

Cool

The Hamster Dance
Poetry
How Things Work
Sparklers
Dangerous Stuff
Search Engine Concepts
Seattle traffic
A guide to hackers

Search engines

Hotbot: a very nice search-every-web-page engine
Alta Vista: an alternative to hotbot
Metacrawler: queries a large number of other search engines for info
FTP Search: searches FTP sites for files

Gaming

Blue's News: the must-read daily news source for Quake
QuakeLab Q&A: great problem/answer section for map editing

Programming

C++ standard: yes, the official spec for C++. Great bedtime reading
C Programming: a fascinating page with lots of info on the C language
The Quake Documentation Project: scads of info on various specs of Quake
ICSA Texts: great hacker-culture reading
BSP FAQ: detailed explanations of the BSP tree algorithm
BSP Algorithms: algorithms for processing a Quake-style BSP tree

Friends

James Peter: My brother-in-law's picture page

Misc

Seattle Weather Forecast: direct from IntelliCast
The Weather Channel: everyone's favorite TV channel, now on the web
Yahoo Weather: a third dose of weather
ETRG: Internet statistics... interesting