Websites that don't suck
Finances
- Motley Fool - Financial advice for beginners.
Games
- Crayon Physics - Solve 2D puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.
- Half Life 2 - Worthy sequel to Half Life.
- Mind Rover - Build a robot and program its artificial intelligence to compete against other peoples’ creations.
- Portal - Solve puzzles by creating wormholes and relying on conservation of momentum.
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.
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.
Programming
- Cplusplus - My favorite resource for C++ code.
- Mind Rover - Build a robot and program its artificial intelligence to compete against other peoples’ creations.
- Python - A beautifully simplistic and useful language.
- Stack Overflow - A question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers.
Science
- Astronomy Picture of the Day - Hauntingly beautiful, updated frequently.
- Bad Astronomy - Phil Plait is a brilliant and witty astronomer who debunks astronomical misconceptions.
- 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!
- 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.
- Talk Origins - LOTS of insightful, well-researched articles about evolution.
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics - A brilliant and quirky introduction to fundamental physics.
