Websites that don't suck
Finances
- Motley Fool - High quality financial advice for beginners.
Games
- Far Cry - Amazing physics and graphics, impressive A.I. and non-linear gameplay.
- Half Life 2 - Sequel to Half Life. Both games are incredible.
- Mind Rover - Build a robot and program its artificial intelligence to compete against other peoples’ creations.
Humor
- How to destroy the Earth - Very funny take on an otherwise kind of somber subject.
- Jessica Hagy’s index cards - Hilarious and thought-provoking
- Questionable Content - Entertaining, long-running story arcs. It’s interesting to see the art improve dramatically over the years.
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Witty and slightly twisted.
- The Parking Lot Is Full - Demented and twisted humor. You’ve been warned.
- xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language.
News and Forums
- Digg - Stories are voted to the front page rather than chosen by editors
- Fark - News stories are submitted with witty, provocative headlines- chaos ensues in the discussions.
- Slashdot - News for nerds, and the democratically moderated discussions that result.
Philosophy
- Bible Gateway - A user-friendly way to search the Bible– KJV, NIV, many other versions.
- Skeptic’s Annotated Bible - Bible, Quran, Book of Mormon– but not as you’ve seen them before. Each book’s passages are indexed according to type, so it’s easy to find what you’re looking for.
Politics
- Momentary Fascinations - Compelling and insightful articles about programming, politics and a lot more.
- Paul Graham - A programmer with the rare talent to write excellent essays on a wide variety of topics.
Programming
- Cplusplus - My favorite resource for C++ code.
- Mind Rover - Build a robot and program its artificial intelligence to compete against other peoples’ creations.
- Momentary Fascinations - Compelling and insightful articles about programming, politics and a lot more.
- Paul Graham - A programmer with the rare talent to write excellent essays on a wide variety of topics.
- Python - A beautifully simplistic and useful language.
Science
- Astronomy Picture of the Day - Hauntingly beautiful, updated frequently.
- Bad Astronomy - Phil Plait is a brilliant and witty astronomer who debunks astronomical misconceptions.
- Erowid - The most informative and impartial drug information resource I’ve found. Includes hundreds of experience reports regarding most drugs.
- Folding@Home - Run this in the background to help biologists understand protein folding, cure diseases, etc.
- Greg Egan - My favorite science fiction author’s website is stunningly entertaining and educational- check out the applets gallery!
- How to destroy the Earth - Very funny take on an otherwise kind of somber subject.
- John Cramer’s AV Column - I think Cramer’s articles about cutting-edge physics led me to switch to physics in college. They’re THAT good.
- Slashdot - News for nerds, and the democratically moderated discussions that result.
- Talk Origins - LOTS of insightful, well-researched articles about evolution.
Shopping
- Newegg - My favorite computer store. Low prices, fast shipping, reliable service, high quality reviews of most computer parts.
- Think Geek - Geeky toys and scientific marvels.
Third-Party Software
- Folding@Home - Run this in the background to help biologists understand protein folding, cure diseases, etc.
- Ubuntu - Very high quality operating system. Free and easy to try- just download and burn a CD or request a free CD in the mail. Then put the CD in the drive and reboot- you can try Ubuntu without changing your system AT ALL.
- VLC Media Player - Excellent free and open source video player
- Wordpress - Dumb Scientist is built on this excellent open source blog software package.
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