News

• Canoe - Weird News section – weird and amusing news
• Chillicothe Gazette – the paper for the town where I live
• SanFrancisco Gate Bondage File – more weird and amusing news
• The Register – IT news with a sarcastic slant

Programming

• C/C++ Reference
• C Reference
• IBM DeveloperWorks – IBM’s resource for developers
• JDBC Tutorial – tutorial on JDBC from Sun
• Java Tutorials - Tutorials on Java from Sun
• Tech Books For Free

Blogs

• Christopher Hawkins – an insightful software developer
• Eric Sink's Weblog – another interesting and insightful developer as well as founder of the AbiWord project
• Joel on Software – interesting essays on the software business
• Karyl’s Blog – what can I say?  She’s my favorite fruitloop
• Technical Careers @ Microsoft – yes, they’re recruiters from Microsoft, but they do have a lot of good advice for job seekers in general

Humor

• Apple Geeks - Updated Mon and Thurs
• Ctrl-Alt-Del
• Devil's Panties
• General Protection Fault - Updated Daily
• Least I Could Do - Updated Daily (not exactly safe for work)
• Megatokyo - Updated Mon, Wed, Fri
• Neurotically Yours - Updated Periodically (also not exactly safe for work)
• Random Axe of Kindness – no longer updated, but really amusing at times
• Sinfest - Updated Daily (sort of)
• User Friendly - Updated Daily

Online Stores

• Computer Geeks – electronics outlet mall.  Occasionally have really good prices
• Dead Men Tell No Tales – Buy pirate stuff.  You know you want to =]
• Fitz's Rootbeer – My favorite restaurant in St Louis.  World’s best root beer, and they ship it by the case
• Museum Replicas – Museum (and combat) quality weapons and armor
• Superior Martial Arts – Martial Arts store.  REALLY good service.
• Surplus Computers – another electronics outlet mall.
• WorldStock – hand crafted items from all over the world

Downloads and Software

• Apache Derby – also known as Cloudscape.  Embeddable java database
• Eclipse – Open Source IDE
• Fedora – My general Linux distro of choice
• FreshMeat – updates on open source software daily
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition – free version of SQL Server
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express
• Open CD – open source applications for Windows
• Oracle – free software from Oracle including their 10g express edition database
• PostgreSQL – Yet another good open source database

Music

• Cactus Pears – Athens area band.  Unfortunately, they seem to have broken up

• Dave Chisolm Band – Rockin Blues from Ohio
• OverClocked ReMix – Video Game music remixes
• Red Dahlia – Athens area band.  formerly Planet 12
• Red Wanting Blue – They started out on my campus and now play all over the place =]

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