Links

Here are a few of my favorite websites:

Blogs

SIGPWNED Here, stupid. One of the best sites on the internet. Really.
Gorgeous Earth Amateurs’ perspectives on the world. A photoblog run by my best friend Arpit Dave.
Arpit’s Blog Arpit’s personal blog on life or something like it.
 

News Sites

BBC News News from the BBC. I prefer it to most domestic news sources for reasons you can probably imagine.
Reddit A social network news aggregator. Alternately fascinating and hilarious.
Digg Another social news aggregator. Digg used to be mostly tech news, but I think it’s jumped the shark. Still good for a laugh, though. Stay classy, Digg.
Slashdot IT news and other stuff. An oldie but a goodie. Always vote for the Cowboy Neal option.
Fark It’s not news, its fark.com. Your dog wants steak.
The Onion Best fake news on the internets.
 

Open Source Software

Ubuntu Home of the best desktop Linux distro in existence. If you’re interested in giving linux a try, visit the download page to find out how. (Hint: It’s really easy.)
Firefox The best damn internet browser, period. There was some bloat through the 2.x series, but 3.x is doing a lot to fix it. Way better than Internet Exploder.
Drupal The homepage of the Content Management System SIGPWNED is built on top of. I’m actually quite impressed by Drupal. Keep up the good work, guys!
Emacs The best text editor/operating system on the planet. Let the flame war commence.
The Gimp Really excellent photo-editing application. Actually not a character from Pulp Fiction.
Audacity The best open-source audio editing program. Better than SoundForge by far, even if “better” just means “cheaper”.
 

Software and Technology

Google This site needs no introduction. The best search engine on the internet, period. I use it daily.
Coding Horror Jeff Atwood’s blog on “programming and human factors”. Top notch articles on programming especially, although maybe I just don’t like human factors.
The Daily WTF War stories from the front lines of IT. I appreciate the irony of reading other people’s war stories from the front lines of IT as I sit on the front lines of IT.
 

Web Comics

Penny Arcade One of my favorite web comics. I roll twenties.
xkcd Another one of my favorite web comics. What is the square root of <3 indeed, Mr. Monroe.
Diesel Sweeties Yet another good web comic. Not as good as Penny Arcade or xkcd, but it posts every day and it’s better than working.
Perry Bible Fellowship Beautifully-drawn webcomic. Very insightful, and quite funny if you don’t mind dark comedy. Now “semi-retired,” though, so new posts are very infrequent.
SinFest I don’t visit it often, but I read a lot when I go. Monica is hawt.
VGCats Really well-drawn comic. Kind of hit and miss content-wise, though.
 

Cooking

AllRecipes One of the best recipe and cooking websites on the internet. Bar none. Please let me know if you find a good recipe for blueberry muffins!
 

Other

Coast to Coast AM Official website of the late-night AM radio show Coast to Coast with George Noory. Way out there, but sometimes interesting and always great for a laugh.