Links
The All Music Guide is a great source for information on just about any kind of music you can think of. It's almost always accurate, and the rock reviews at least are fairly reliable.
Simply put, GameFAQs is one of the best sites for obtaining video game help. The servers are overflowing with FAQs and other guides created by players, for players, for virtually any game you could want a FAQ for.
GameRankings combines game reviews from the most respected and reliable publications and websites, averaging their scores to give an "aggregate" score for each game. A second score is generated that includes smaller or less-reliable sites as well and, shockingly, it's rarely more than 1% off the number generated by the big guys. They occasionally do their own reviews, too, but for the most part, they stick to compilation--grabbing codes, fansites, files, and news article links as well, and giving members points for unearthing them. Good source for people who like to spout off numbers without giving a crap about the actual merits of a game, or, I guess, to look for a secondary source if you suspect your primary is way off on something.
GameSpot is a one of the most comprehensive and popular video game sites around, offering game news, reviews, previews, cheats, guides, movies, and more. The one downfall to the site is that, like most commercial video game sites, there is a subscription, although now, most features and all content are available for free, if you're willing to put up with copious numbers of ads.
The IMDb is another reference site, this one for movies, which includes full credits, quotes, posters, stills, and other crap like that. Information for unreleased projects, particularly video games, is somewhat sketchy, but for what's already out there, it's fairly reliable.
Rotten Tomatoes is a one-stop source for reviews of nearly every movie in theatres, compiling as many as 200 professional reviews for some movies, and based on the percentage that are positive or negative, it generates a score--"fresh" movies have at least 60% critical approval. Their game section is decidedly less extensive, and their methods for determining fresh/rotten are a little questionable, but really, you're there for the movies, and there it most definitely delivers.
SETI@Home is an Internet-community effort to aid in the Search For Extraterrestrial Life by using your computer in its spare cycles to analyze data collected by various radio telescopes around the world. This data is downloaded in packets to your computer, analyzed, and then sent back to the institute.
In addition to its primary purpose--to attempt to answer the question of whether or not we're alone in the universe--this program also serves as an excellent burn-in tool for your new hardware, and can be kept running afterwards to actually help out the search.
ThinkGeek is the site for geek merchandise, including caffeine-loaded (or labelled) products, computer components, PvP and Penny-Arcade merchandise, a rubber-band gun (really), watches, smart-assed clothing, and more. Bow before me, for I am root!
Voodoo is a Calgary-based manufacturer of expensive, but high-quality and high-performance computers. If you have at least US$2000 to drop into a computer (US$1500 for a compact), take a look. Since we don't have that kind of money, we prefer to just admire the craftsmanship of the systems, 'cause they're truly a work of art.
Wotmania: Feed Your WoT Addiction.
This is a huge site devoted to Robert Jordan's The Wheel Of Time series. Since the books have such a huge following, the site is bound to have some worthwhile discussion going on in the forums at any given time. It also sits as one of the most comprehensive online collections of information on the series.
Tired of those crappy laser pointers? Ever wanted one that could burn flesh, melt plastic, cut tape, pop balloons, and shine for 100 miles? Got anywhere from US$250 to US$2000 lying around? Check out Wicked Lasers for your laser pointer needs.
Design And Content © 2003-2007 Stillnoname under a Creative Commons License
This website has been designed to work with Firefox, and Safari, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 7-8.
Internet Explorer 6 is useable, but with some glitches. We encourage you to upgrade your browser.