Jamie Zawinski's Bookmarks
Starting Points:
- The Asylum's Revolving Door
- An ever-changing list of around ten interesting sites.
- Cool Site of the Day
- Every day another link to a cool site on the Web.
- URouLette
- Spin the wheel and land on a random URL.
- WebCrawler
- This does full text searches of the web.
- CUSI
- Interface to lots of search engines and robots and dictionaries and things.
- Meta-List of What's New pages
- What's New With NCSA Mosaic
- The World Wide Web Worm
- The Mother of All BBSes
- The JumpStation
- EINet Galaxy
- Planet Earth Home Page
- Virtual Tourist
- A geographically based Web organization, with maps.
- Meta-search
- ALIWEB Mirror at IU
- WebWorld
- This is like, kinda stupid.
- NCSA Mosaic Home Page
- WWW FAQ
- XEmacs, formerly Lucid Emacs
- back when it was still cool, that is!
- Emacs W3 Mode home page
- ``But emacs W3 mode already does that.'' -- Bill Perry
Entertainment:
- The Asylum
- Cardiff's Movie Database Browser
- Very very very cool.
- Vampires (oooh, that's scary!)
- The Jargon File
- bianca's SMUT-Shack
- Blade Runner
- Natural Born Killers
- This movie totally rocked.
This host is totally slow.
- Mel's Godzilla Page
- Lots of randomized quotes databases
- Random Stephen Wright Quotes
- MIT Gallery of Hacks
- Some very funny accounts of practical jokes.
- Confession Booth
- Ask Grandma DEATH
- David Letterman
- I don't have time to watch TV, so I read about TV instead.
- Bruce Sterling's home page
- Best of the Web contest
Text and Comics
- Unix Haters Handbook
- (Unix sucks a lot.)
- Zines
- Pointers to all kinds of online self-published ego vehicles.
- WiReD Magazine
- My picture was in it, so it must be cool.
- Axcess Magazine
- bOING bOING
- These guys never ever update their content.
- Netsurfer Digest
- Whole Earth 'Lectronic Magazine
- Who Watches the Watchmen?
- Tank Girl
- Sandman
- Johann's Comics Page
- rec.arts.comics stuff
- The Internet Company Electronic Newsstand
- Some content from real-world magazines; unfortunately, not any interesting ones.
- Dysfunctional Family Circus
- The Simpsons
Music
Stuff to Read:
- Allmusic Gopher Server
- This has a huge amount of information (discographies, some reviews), but it's slow and not very pretty.
- The Ultimate Band List
- Organizes pointers to info about bands, and has forms for letting others update the info. This is the biggest I've seen.
- On-Line Music Database
- Same idea as UBL or Allmusic, but not as big/complete.
- Lyrics at ftp.uwp.edu
- An FTP server with tons of lyrics.
- Top Sampling Groups and Sources
- Gothic (Vample Stat)
- More Gothic (Heather)
- More Gothic (Slin)
- More Gothic (Akasha)
- Random Music Archive #27
- Discographies, FAQs, that kind of thing.
- Random music pointers
- This one has pointers to more than just bands.
- and more of the same
- The Death of Rock 'n' Roll
- Exceprpts from what looks to be a very entertaining book about dead rock stars.
- Uzume Taiko Drum Group Society News
Stuff to Listen To:
- Internet Underground Music Archive
- Lots of songs from unsigned bands. Very cool.
- Virtual Radio Home Page
- Y.A. IUMA.
- Hyperreal
- Techno/ambient/rave stuff. There are a bunch of ~20 minute audio files of dj sets here.
- Mammoth Records
- A small label with a page for each of their bands, including song and video clips.
- American Recordings
- Another record label on the net, with songs.
- Underground Home Page (World Domination Records)
- Sounds directory (alphabetically)
- This is mainly samples from movies and TV, not songs.
- Directory of /pub/multimedia/sun-sounds/movies
- Lots of movie sounds.
- KFJC 89.8
- Foothill College, Los Altos CA.
- KZSU 90.1
- Stanford University, Palo Alto CA.
There are no sound files here, these guys use a higher bandwidth, less interactive distribution mechanism.
Stuff to Buy:
- CD Connection (telnet)
- CD Connection (FTP)
- Basically a mail-order record store that operates over the net. Good selection of domestic stuff.
- CD Europe (telnet)
- Same idea, but imports only. Looks like a really good selection.
- Noteworthy Music
- A record store with a forms-based interface. Not a very large selection as far as I can tell.
- Cleopatra Records 1994 Catalogue
Pictures
- Kaleidospace
- Pixel Pushers Gallery
- (Art)^n Laboratory
- CyberSight Art
- Eye candy
- The Grotesque in Art
- Strange Interactions (John Jacobsen)
- H. P. Lovecraft Image Galery (and other HPL links)
- Graffiti Photos
- MPEGs
- Lots of icons
- Lots of pictures
- Jupiter/Shoemaker-Levy 9
- more jupiter
- more more jupiter
Services:
- WHOIS
- RFCs
- FAQs
- FAQs via WAIS
- Network Statistics (graphs, graphs, graphs)
- Immanent death of the net predicted.
- Webster's Dictionary
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Just a demo.
- CIA World Factbook
- Lock Picking
- Wow, this is really easy!
- The Terrorist's Handbook
- It blowed up reeeeel goooooood!
- Phrack Archives
- Xerox PARC World Map Viewer
- Internet-wide e-mail address searches
- Library of Congress exhibits
- Cybernet
- Project Gutenberg
- Bay Area Transit Information
- Everything you'd want to know about public transit in the SF Bay area (including the fact that if you use public transit, it takes three hours to get from my apartment to my office.)
- Realtime CalTrans Road Conditions
- This is mainly SoCal stuff, but does have live CHP reports of all CA highways.
- AP Wire Service
- CNN Headlines
- English-German Dictionary
- Jeffrey's Japanese/English Dictionary Gateway
Weather:
- National Weather Service
- Weather Maps and Movies
- Interactive Weather Map
- San Francisco Weather
- Australia (maps and things)
Organizations:
- California Web Yellow Pages (lots of organizations)
- Alphabetical list of commercial sites
- NetMarket
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Cygnus Support
- University of California at Berkeley
- Cranberry-Mellon School of Cucumber Science
- The Scotty Fahlman Lisp Hacking Club
- Ridiculing MTV
- The Exploratorium
- Silicon Graphics
- The Defacto Substandard
- Chernobyl
Silliness:
- Those Oceana Flakes
- That Coffee Machine
- The Amazing Fishcam!
- The Amazing Fishcam (JPEG)
- The Mercury Project at USC
- Operate a remote control robot through Mosaic!
- Network 23
- Various Max Headroomery.
- Nutrition and Health!!
- Frog Dissection
- Barney the Big Purple Antichrist
- Coke Machines
- Net.tshirt
- You lack slack, Jack.
- Ben's Lunch Information
- with links to other terribly exciting Lunch Servers on the net!
- Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches
- Say...
- Look, it's trying to talk.
- Telemedia, Networks, and Systems Group
- Demos subtitled ``why it sucks to be behind a firewall.''
- Looking South-Southwest From Hayward, California
- Star Trek: The Next Generation Plot Server v1.1
- Tarot Readings
- Tic Tac Toe
- Hangman
- The Game of Life
- 4x4 Puzzle
- Sneaky Sharp Strikes Again!
- Lite-Brite
- The *real* t.b home page
Stuff What I Did:
- xkeycaps
- A graphical front-end to xmodmap that will protect you from having to re-learn yet another arcane sublanguage every time you find yourself at a new keyboard.
- xscreensaver
- An extensible screen saver and locker, including a bunch of eye candy.
- xdaliclock
- A morphing digital clock.
- audio-tape.ps
- The Mother of All Tape Labelers. This prints j-cards for cassettes, cartridge tapes, 8mm tapes, and DATs, does all kinds of automagic font scaling, and has the ability to include graphics. It is implemented completely in PostScript.
- video-tape.ps
- Prints labels for VHS video cassettes; much simpler.
- The Insidious Big Brother Database
- A rolodex-like database tightly integrated with the Emacs mail and news readers.
- My Music Collection
- Shriekback Discography
- The List
- Steve Koepke's list of Bay Area Shows (tastefully reformatted by yours truly.)
MCOM:
- Mosaic Communications Corporate Propaganda Machine
- Live it, love it, learn it, buy it.
Everything else in this section is internal to Mosaic, you can't get to it from outside.
- Mosaic Home Pages
- Warp (Kipp's machine)
- This is where all the the eng stuff lives.
- Ender (Nathan's machine)
- This is where all the content folks hang out.
- Mosaic Phone List
- jwz's bug list
- Demo Documents
- Demo Documents (forms)
- Specs
- GUI Specs
- NCSA Demo Document
New Stuff:
- nj's Home Page
- WAXweb, Welcome (6577)