XML::RDF

Alternative Internet Searching
Finding good music

Another one from the Moz family - find eating establishments

Search through Blogs for a topic

Google alternatives are out there...

Search the source code of thousands of projects by language, license, etc.

Conduct searches using the url, http://www.a9.com/do a search

This directory site actual powers many of the search engines out there.

Looking for blogs...

This is a fairly decent site for finding stuff when I can't find it on Google.

From the creators of Radio IO - free streaming Internet radio, no adds, no subscriptions!!


One of my past clients used this site... an interesting concept... similar to vivisimo

An offering from down under


Artifacts
This site was considered good, circa 1995. ;) My how things have changed.


Buy Stuff
Search Amazon.com with a simplified results view - very nice.

Another comparative shopping site.

I was trying not to favor the obvious here, but after doing a performance comparison with some of the other comparison shopping sites, Froogle takes the top honors

More comparative shopping.

A comparative shopping site; very nice. I always look for books here before buying


Cluster Computing
This is the lab responsible for turning out the minds responsible for Hive Computing.

This is certainly something to watch. Basically they are proposing transient supercomputers which form for special purposes and once the job has been completed breaks apart. Very interesting concept and worth watching.


Design
There are some fabulous CSS tips and tricks on this site. Simply amazing stuff.


A beautiful site as well as a great resource for learning; See how flexible and elegant CSS can be.


Distributed Systems
Dr. Paprzycki as editor...

Hmmm... BOINC

Dr. Paprzycki editor

Great contributers to Science unite!! Here is my contribution.


Family
My older brother, as goofie as ever, and now with a blog... Look out Internet here he comes! ;)

My Dad, the number one Royce Gilbert on the Internet


For Fun
I wish I was a little more mechanically inclined.


Whenever I really need a good laugh, I go look at pictures of neurotic cats

A very nice site with some great interactive toys on it

I can't wait to get a home, so I can hook it up like this

I remember starving my way through my undergraduate degree; living on barely nothing. I used to go down to Border's Books & Music to study and work on homework. It was on one such trip - when I was at the very bottom of the pit of dispair - that I found a copy of Me Head (Chapter One) sitting on the table. Curiously, I picked it up... and started laughing out loud. The humorous thing is that the authors were sitting a couple of tables away from me - I didn't know that until later. Whenever I need a really good laugh at life I pull my old paper copies out and thumb through them.


Friends, Friends of Friends, and Other People
Yelana's Web Blog...

My old roomate Mark... still in love with his ex and still struggling, somethings never change

I used to work with Saif at Sear's back in the day. He is a graphics artist and has a nice site.

One of my old roller-hockey buddy's site.


Geographic Resources
Full Address map searches, returns lat-longs...

Enter a street address and get an areal photo or topological map of the area

Enter an IP address and get a map of the location

Look for sites near other sites based on Lat-Long pairs...


In Search of Science
The go to for Computer Science papers...

Another good site for searching science

I haven't tried this one yet... I can't vouch for it.

Search through Dissertations, etc.

Since CiteSeer seems to be down lately and I ran across this one...

Computer Science, Electrical Engineering... (subscription required)

Computer Science, Electrical Engineering... (subscription require)


Internet Search
A company dedicated to crawling only... is there a future for this niche market given the feeling that another browser war is about to kick off?


Internet Topology

The company powering the "alternative" browsers of the sites listed here.

Browse differently... I think an interface like this built into the browser would be a nice addition.



Learning
Over 700 course are available, with reading in the form of PDFs - very nice.

Some lectures by the amazing Donald Knuth

Carnegie Mellon's feeble answer to MIT's open courseware program. Over time, Carnegie Mellon may be a contender, but for now they are sub-par.


Life Styles
For you fellow chess fans out there

An interesting site revolving around long-term thinking.

An interesting on site quality of life issues in the modern fast-paced world.

After a couple of months you won't miss it.


Macintosh

Note worthy homemade extended battery for iPod


Music
Just another link I "stole" because someone else discovered it first... :)

Some Creative Common's Licensed bitTorrent feeds


News Sites
Search the news



Open Source
If you have the means, you should be helping these guys protect our digital rights...


Programming
A C++ Wrapper for SQLite by Rob Groves that will save you a ton of work trying to figure out how to make the callbacks work from C++.

A tool for some source code profiling

A C++ wrapper for the pcre library, nice for using Perl compatible regular expressions in C/C++.

A step-by-step guide to Unix Daemons


This is a great little library, allowing programmers to embed a SQL database inside an application without the need for a dedicated service. Source Code and API in C.

Use 'const' correctly in C++

A performance analyzer for Apples

Some advanced techniques for dynamically loading C++ libraries on Linux. Very nice.

It looks like this may be a nice way to handle localization for projects developed in Cocoa


Search the source code of thousands of projects by language, license, etc.

A very nice online STL reference.

Programming forums, ranging from CVS to Mac tips


Science of Networks
A tool for visualizing social networks on IRC channels.


Security

Comes with all the tools you need ;)


Social Networks
This is more of an event oriented social calendar...

This site is getting better and better


Swapping Sites
This is where your crappy Christmas presents are going folks!!

Another Bartering site...


Tools


Web Development
Simply Amazing Java Script Effects

A client side XSLT library done in java script