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News

• Net Search
  
  • http://www.google.com/
    Google
• Technical
  
  • http://slashdot.org/
    Slashdot, daily news links with a heavily Linux-addicted audience
  • http://www.kuro5hin.org/
    Kuro5hin is a more politically-oriented and less noisy site
  • http://linuxtoday.com/
    LinuxToday, Linux-related news headlines
  • http://kerneltrap.org/
    On all things kernel, Linux, BSDs, HURD
  • http://hup.hu/
    Hungarian Unix Portal, Linux-hírek magyarul belinkelve
  • http://lwn.net/
    Linux Weekly News (its digest form is updated every Thursday)
  • http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/latest.html
    Kernel Traffic, weekly digest of the Linux kernel mailing list (updated every weekend)
  • http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html
    Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram monthly security newsletter (updated on every 15th)
• World
  
  • http://index.hu/
    Index, napilap
  • http://www.cnn.com/
    Cable News Network
  • http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/Diary/diary.html
    Telsa Gwynne's diary (all-round GNOME notable and wife of kernel hacker Alan Cox)
  • http://bigempire.com/filthy/
    The Filthy Critic: outspoken Hollywood-skeptic movie reviews (updated every Monday)
  • http://est.hu/mozi/
    Pesti Est, heti mozimûsor (csütörtökönként frissül)

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Coding

• Java
  
  • http://ibm.com/developer/
    IBM developerWorks, technical articles
  • http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/information/download.html
    The Java Tutorial download (extensive docs, perpetually in work-in-progress stage)
  • http://www.mindview.net/
    "Thinking in Java" by Bruce Eckel is a complete, freely downloadable advanced-level Java tutorial book
  • http://pandonia.canberra.edu.au/java/jini/tutorial/Jini.xml
    Jini tutorial
  • http://javasite.bme.hu/
    Java Felhasználók Társasága a Mûegyetemen
• XML
  
  • http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml
    XML specification (Extensible Markup Language)
    http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/
    XML Schema Part 0: Primer. Gentle but thorough introduction to schemas
    http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath
    XPath specification (XML Path Language)
    http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
    XSLT specification (Extensible Stylesheet Language - Transformations)
  • http://www.projectcool.com/developer/xmlz/index.html
    XML tutorial at Project Cool's XML Zone
• Java and XML Products
  
  • http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/
    Java Development Kit download
  • http://jakarta.apache.org/
    The Jakarta subproject of the Apache Foundation: Ant, Tomcat, Log4J, etc.
    http://xml.apache.org/
    The XML subproject of the Apache Foundation: Xerces, Xalan, Batik, etc.
  • http://sourceforge.net/
    SourceForge hosts many open source projects
  • http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/
    IBM alphaWorks, has much cutting-edge Java alpha-quality software
  • http://www.metamata.com/download/javacc/details.html
    JavaCC, parser generator
• Design
  
  • http://www.holub.com/aiharticles.html
    Allen Holub's Article Index
  • http://joelonsoftware.com/
    Joel on Software Index
    http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000022.html
    Joel Spolsky: Human Task Switches Considered Harmful
  • http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html
    Brian Foote and Joseph W. Yoder: Big Ball of Mud
• HTML
  
  • http://www.jmarshall.com/
    Enormously usable introductions to CGI, HTML, and HTTP (hasn't been updated in a while)
  • http://agy.bgytf.hu/~mogyoros/helpforhtml.html
    UNCHECKED: HTML segítség - kezdôknek, könnyen
  • http://www.htmlib.com/
    Stephen Le Hunte's HTML Reference Library (information-packed, in WinHelp format)
• net
  
  • ftp://ftp.kfki.hu/rfc/
    RFC mirror at KFKI (Central Physics Research Institute of Hungary)
• Graphics
  
  • http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/
    PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Home Site by Greg Roelofs
  • http://www.fsz.bme.hu/~szirmay/
    Computer Graphics Research Group at the Technical University of Budapest
  • http://www.biochemistry.bham.ac.uk/stevew/hp/view/viewers.html
    Links to lots of graphics software, Fractint, etc.

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Hacking Culture

• History
  
  • http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/
    The Jargon File documents early hacking traditions and slang
  • http://www.crash.com/fun/texts/gg2gg.html
    Mikki Halpin and Victoria Maat: A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys
  • http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html
    Jamie Zawinski, of former Netscape and Mozilla.org fame
  • http://www.hotwired.com/collections/connectivity/4.12_mother_earth_pr.html
    Neal Stephenson: Mother Earth Mother Board (travels to several sites along the FLAG optical cable in 1996)
  • http://www.underground-book.com/
    Suelette Dreyfus and Julian Assange: Underground: Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier (full-length book about famous cracking and phreaking incidents)
  • http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/31/back_in_the_day/
    N. Z. Bear: When 300 Baud Was the Bomb (historic reminiscences of the BBS era)
• Free Software and Open Source Software
  
  • http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/
    Philosophy of the GNU Project
  • http://www.catb.org/~esr/
    Eric Raymond, advocate of open source software
  • http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200201/200201.htm#_linuxlog
    Steve Litt: The Natural Resource View of Open Source Profit
  • http://www.pimientolinux.com/peru2ms/villanueva_to_ms.html
    Peruvian congressman Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez's response to a Microsoft letter criticizing the state's commitment to free software
  • http://www.schoolnet.na/pr/msftrelease.html
    Open letter rejecting Microsoft's "software donation" to Namibia by Namibian official Joris Komen

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Bookshelf

• Short Stories
  
  • http://www.thehooligan.com/feature/feature_mar_15.html
    Matt Weatherford (aka The Filthy Critic): Filthy: A Love Story, Chapter One
  • http://bofh.ntk.net/CrashAndBurn.html
    Simon Travaglia: Crash and Burn
    http://bofh.ntk.net/Asecondinthelifeofgod.html
    Simon Travaglia: A Split-Second in the Life of God
  • http://www.theonion.com/onion3734/god_clarifies_dont_kill.html
    God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule
  • http://www.blindwino.com/driverjunk15.html
    Mark Driver: Market Target
  • http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_IF.htm
    If by Rudyard Kipling
  • http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/learn/html/e.8.2.html
    Arthur C. Clarke: Quarantine
• Full-Length Books
  
  • http://www.mek.iif.hu/
    Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár
  • http://digital.library.upenn.edu/
    Searchable index to 19,000+ online books
  • http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/spok/banned-books.html
    Banned books online
  • http://www.mondopolitico.com/library/
    Full text of "1984" and "Animal Farm", among others
  • http://galaxis.telnet.hu/
    Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all five parts, both in English and Hungarian)
  • http://www.csn.ul.ie/~chopper/zen/
    Robert M. Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Entertainment

• Movies
  
  • Catalogs
    
    • http://www.imdb.com/
      Internet Movie Database
    • http://www.allmovie.com/
      All-Movie Guide
  • George Lucas
    
    • http://www.starwars.com/
      The official Star Wars site
    • http://www.teleport-city.com/movies/reviews/bizarro/starwars.html
      Review of the forgotten-for-good Star Wars episode: Star Wars Holiday Special
  • South Park
    
    • http://www.mcglaun.com/spark.htm
      Interesting points on the SPBLU movie - by a conservative guy!
    • http://www.capalert.com/capreports/southpark.htm
      A review on SPBLU, intended as cautionary, but utter cluelessness turned it into hilarious
• Books
  
  • http://www.crichton-official.com/
    The official site of Michael Crichton, a bit disappointing
  • http://www.amazon.com/
    Amazon, the biggest bookstore on the Net
• Music
  
  • Catalogs
    
    • http://www.ubl.com/
      Ultimate Band List - mainly for lyrics
    • http://www.allmusic.com/
      All-Music Guide - details about artists
    • http://lyrics.astraweb.com/
      Lyrics collection
    • http://c.vr9.com/tsld/
      The Song Lyrics Database
    • http://www5.tripnet.se/~djupedal/lyrmany.html
      A link collection to lyrics sites, some not present in UBL
  • Artists
    
    • http://www.jarre.com/
      Official Jean Michel Jarre homepage
    • http://www.toucansolutions.com/oldfield/
      Pat Wigfull's Mike Oldfield page
    • http://www.pinkfloyd.com/
      Unofficial Pink Floyd page
    • http://kispal.mentha.hu/
      Kispál és a Borz hivatalos weboldala
    • http://elevenhold.hu/
      Eleven Hold, Irish pop-grunge stílus
  • MP3
    
    • http://search.mp3.de/
      Mediafind, MP3 and other multimedia formats search engine
    • http://mp3.box.sk/
      Slovakian MP3 search engine
    • http://www.bluemars.org/
      BlueMars: Music for the Space Traveller (a pleasant source of ambient techno)

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Humor

• Computers
  
  • http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/
    Computer Stupidities collection at RinkWorks
  • http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~omri/Humor/
    Omri's Computer Humor Page
  • http://www.ioccc.org/
    International Obfuscated C Code Contest
  • http://www.ionet.net/~timtroyr/funhouse/beer.html
    99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall, printed in 200+ computer languages
  • http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/
    The world's first RFC1149 (IP over Avian Carrier) implementation
  • http://www.theonion.com/onion3636/counterpoint_technology.html
    Point-Counterpoint: My Computer Totally Hates Me! / God, Do I Hate That Bitch
  • http://detonate.net/matrixse/
    Bastardization of The Matrix, Second Edition
  • http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/1/6/184119/0056
    Software Specifications: Theory and Practice
  • http://www.miami.com/herald/special/features/barry/2002/docs/jan06.htm
    Dave Barry: Learning to Love the Computer, Warts and All
  • http://homepage.smc.edu/nestler_andrew/SimpsonsMath.htm
    Andrew Nestler's Guide to Math in "The Simpsons"
• Absurd
  
  • http://mm.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/Lart/
    L'art pour l'art homepage Miskolcon
  • http://www.vein.hu/~csocso/ketsoros/mik96.htm
    Az 1996-os Környezet szakos Mikulásest mûsora
  • http://www.twinkiesproject.com/
    The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project - they even did a Turing test on a cookie!
  • http://totl.net/Rights/
    Declaration ov thee Rights ov Human Beings
  • http://catalog.com/hopkins/text/decon.html
    Chip Morningstar: How to Deconstruct Almost Anything
  • http://www.satirewire.com/news/may02/prizes.shtml
    Scientist Splits Atom, Finds Toy Prize Inside
• Cartoon
  
  • http://www.funpic.hu/
    Gary Larson cartoons in varying picture quality
• Everyday
  
  • http://as-es.netchicken.hu/
    Az Ás-És Brigád feelingekrôl irkálás
  • http://mnytud.arts.klte.hu/szleng/indexzsn.htm
    Index Zsargon rovat - szellemes beszólások
  • http://www.jokes.com/
    Jokes, with "funny rating" and categories
  • http://www.officialdarwinawards.com/
    Darwin awards - on the border of disgusting and funny

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Eye Candy

• Microscopy
  
  • http://www.uq.edu.au/nanoworld/
    Nanoworld - optical and electron microscopy pictures
  • http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/index.html
    Michael Davidson's collection of miniature artwork placed on production microchips' surfaces
  • http://www.chipworks.com/home.html
    Microchip artwork collection at ChipWorks
  • http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/chipfun/graff.htm
    Microchip artwork collection at the National Museum of American History
• Earth and Space
  
  • http://www.hsv.tis.net/space/NASA/Apollo/missions/as11.html
    NASA pics - about old Apollo missions and more
  • http://spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov/Space_Projects/Index.html
    NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
  • http://terraserver.com/
    Satellite images of many Earth locations with 2m resolution, at most
  • http://www.mapquest.com/
    MapQuest, with maps of best quality in the USA and varied in other parts of the world
  • http://www.iit.bme.hu/hungary/budapest/cgi-bin/search
    Kereshetô Budapest-térkép
• Astronomy
  
  • http://supernova.akg.hu/
    AKG csillagászati szakkör, ismeretterjesztô anyagok, képek
  • http://planetary.org/
    The Planetary Society - pics, textual materials
  • http://www.stsci.edu/
    Space Telescope Science Institute - "home" of Hubble Space Telescope
• Webcam
  
  • http://www.leonardsworlds.com/camera.html
    Leonard's "Cam World", list of webcams scattered in the world
  • http://box.nl/~frankhbk/usa.htm
    A list of webcams in the States and Europe
• Fighter Planes
  
  • http://www.boeing.com/
    Boeing
  • http://www.lmasc.lmco.com/
    Lockheed-Martin

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World Views

• Skepticism
  
  • http://www.infidels.org/
    The Secular Web contains book reviews, articles, speeches, public debates, mostly with a skeptic outlook to them
  • http://www.cnn.com/2000/ASIANOW/central/12/07/fringe.electrocute.reut/index.html
    "Electrocuted" man rises from the dead
  • http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/2/20/63351/1173
    "Lesbian Monkeys Prove Darwin Wrong" -- yeah, right
  • http://www.ryerson.ca/~dgrimsha/courses/cps721/
    Artificial Intelligence course material, with some interesting philosophical groundwork thrown in (Searle's Chinese Room, Turing Test, etc.)
  • http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html
    Don Lindsay's skeptic arguments
• Futurism
  
  • http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/13/1420210
    Clay Shirky on the evolution of the Net
  • http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html
    Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
  • http://www.time.com/time/reports/v21/tech/mag_brain.html
    William Gibson: Will We Plug Chips Into Our Brain?
• Law and Society
  
  • http://adbusters.org/magazine/28/usa.html
    Kalle Lasn: Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America(tm) (excerpt)
  • http://www.theage.com.au/news/state/2001/07/02/FFX0ADFPLOC.html
    Melbourne Man Patents the Wheel
  • http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/15/2324253&mode=thread&tid=155
    United States Patent 6,368,227 Granted -- on Sideways Swinging
  • http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,47296,00.html
    Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Republicans Should Back Recording Artists, Consumers
  • http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3642/1/
    Dennis E. Powell: Digital Millennium Rape Act
  • http://www.suck.com/daily/2000/09/08/
    Greg Knauss: Downtime by Law: why and how lawyers influence the Internet
  • http://www.time.com/time/columnist/morrow/article/0,9565,167664,00.html
    On Suing If Your Parents Were Not Given the Chance to Abort You (on a French law that allows this)
  • http://www.baen.com/library/palaver6.htm
    Published author Eric Flint on the demonstrated beneficial effects of a free library
• Social Interactions
  
  • http://www.vandruff.com/art_converse.html
    Conversational Cheap Shots are handy sometimes, better get used to them
  • http://www.time.com/time/interactive/entertainment/gangs_np.html
    Where Does Fantasy End? (Koreans extend online role-playing games into real life violence)
  • http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=54756&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=155&mode=thread&pid=5361751#5362072
    Private emergence of laws? An interesting Slashdot post
• Politics
  
  • http://www.zmag.org/hermanworthit.htm
    Edward S. Herman: "The Price Is Worth It" (on the different media exposure of victims in different parts of the world)

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For Future Reference

• Chaos Theory
  
  • http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
    Craig W. Reynolds' boid simulation (emergent flocking behavior)
  • http://alife.santafe.edu/
    Artificial life-related links (a whole lot of them) at the Santa Fe Institute
    http://www.swarm.org/
    The Swarm Project, universal framework for hierarchical agent-based simulations (mainly for Unix environments)
• Computation and Mathematics
  
  • http://slashdot.org/interviews/99/10/29/0832246.shtml
    Bruce Schneier comments on the current state of cryptography in a Slashdot interview
  • http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~fftw/fft-links.html
    The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West, developed by the MIT LCS Theory of Computation Group
  • http://www.option.hu/spidron/
    Spidrons are interesting plane- and space-filling mathematical constructs, discovered by Erdély Dániel
• Science in General
  
  • http://www.fourmilab.ch/
    Educational site by John Walker, founder of Autodesk, on programming, physics, and more
  • http://www.swin.edu.au/astronomy/pbourke/
    Educational site by Paul Bourke on computer graphics and its mathematics, 3D file formats, fractals, puzzles, and more
  • http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/
    WWW Virtual Library - History of Science, Technology and Medicine Overview
  • http://www.nobel.se/
    Nobel laureates
• Languages
  
  • http://www.yourdictionary.com/
    Robert Beard's "A Web of On-line Dictionaries" - about 600 of them
  • http://www.mobydictionary.com/
    Angol-magyar szótár (mûszaki is)
  • http://szotar.sztaki.hu/angol-magyar
    Magyar-angol és angol-magyar szótár
• Food
  
  • http://soar.berkeley.edu/recipes/
    Searchable Online Archive of Recipes at UC Berkeley

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