Links
Here's a small collection of links seperated by topic. Enjoy!
Music
JamBase - Find local live shows
Last.fm - A social music site. It learns what you like, makes awesome recommendations, and you get a personalized radio station. (check out my profile)
Music Brains - A metadatabase w/ some cool downloads like a MP3 tagger
Internet Radio
ROCK.COM - every sub-genre of rock muisc you ever heard of and some you never knew existed
SHOUTcast - all music
Politics
Google News - a tool to stay informed
Punk Voter - a coalition to educate, register, and mobilize progressive voters created by punk bands, musicans, and record labels
Carbon Fund - help the environment by offestting your carbon emissions
Democracy for America - a PAC dedicated to supporting fiscally responsible, socially progressive candidates
Alliance for Justice - a national association working to advance the cause of justice for all Americans
Human Rights Campaign - because everyone deserves equal rights
Greenpeace - a global non-profit organisation dedicated to saving the enviornment
True Majority - a grassroots education and advocacy project
Project Censored - Media Democracy in Action
Professional
Cal Poly, SLO - my college, known for its learn by doing motto
SWE - Society of Women Engineers
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Cal Poly Robotics club - we build cool stuff!
Productivity
D*I*Y Planner - make your own paper planner
Google Docs & Spreadsheets - a web word processor with many nifty features such as allowing mutipule editors, saving to PDF, importing, etc. Great for group projects! (formerly Writley)
BillMonk - an awesome tool for keeping track of shared bills, loaned stuff, etc
Mint - Keep track of all your financial accounts. I love the pretty charts.
30 boxes - A calendar!
I Will Teach You to Be Rich - A blog about doing simple things to get your finances in order. Excelent source of info for those of us who don't want to bother with financial jargon.
Cooking for Engineers - Recipies the way an engineer would do it
Free Awesome Software
Open Office - includes word processor, spreadsheet, presentation creator (think Powerpoint), equation editor and a drawing tool (PC & Mac)
a mix of PC and Mac, because I use both
Desktop Calendar - An awesome little app that puts a calendar on your windows desktop. (PC)
PDF ReDirect - Lets you make a PDF from any application by creating a PDF "printer" accessible from any program. (PC, PDF printing is built into Mac OSX)
The Gimp - Image Editing Program (think Photoshop, but free) (PC & Mac)
Web browser
Firefox - features tab browsing and spell check (PC & Mac)
...and there are a multitude of great extensions
Adblock - make those annoying ads disappear
Nuke Anything Enhanced - Allows you to hide anything on the screen. Great for printing.
Chat
Adium - multiclient (AIM, Trillian, Yahoo, Jabber, etc.) chat program (Mac)
Trillian - multiclient (AIM, Trillian, Yahoo, etc.) chat program (PC)
Amusing Time Eaters
Games
WebSudoku - Sudoku puzzles!
Tonite - a wackamole style game using the numpad
Fake News
Song and Dance
The best of Pitagora Suicchi - Awesome Rube Goldberg machines from a Japanese TV show
Others...
The Funniest - Tickle your funny bone with a few amazing images!
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - providing an alternative intelegent design theory... go pirates!
Deep Thoughts - Featuring such thoughts as, I bet it was pretty hard to pick up girls if you had the Black Death.
Other
The Internet Movie DataBase - anything you want to know about practically any movie ever made
Rotten Tomatoes - movie rating site
Ubran Dictionary - find out what all the in slang means
DARPA Grand Challenge - Autonomous vechile racing for $2 million!
Website
A List Apart - For People Who Make Websites
W3 Schools - A great web site creation resource
Gallery - a photo management system
phpBB - a php based Bulletin Board and/or forum