sj's Realm - Bookmarks

sj's Realm - Bookmarks

Accomodation:

ApartmentGuide -- look up rentals within the US by state/area/city
Palo Alto Online: Classifieds -- useful resource for Silicon Valley accomodation
See also: jobs

Airlines:

Aer Lingus -- the Irish national airline
Ryanair -- the cheaper less worldwide Irish airline
Southwest Airlines -- good cheap budget US airline covering primarily the west coast
Delta Air Lines -- a good larger US airline
United Air Lines -- a useful US airline whose impressive SF maintenance centre I have toured
Continental Airlines -- another US airline; generally expensive (even with a $100 voucher like I have...)
American Airlines -- yet another US airline
US Airways -- ...and another
British Airways -- the UK's national airline
TWA -- ...and another US airline
Virgin Atlantic -- good service, individual screen/entertainment centre for every seat, cheap
See also: travel

Auctions:

BidnBuy -- Irish-based auction site which for some odd reason uses Sterling as its currency
eBid -- fully Irish auction site
eBay -- the original auction site
c|net Auctions -- another one
uBid -- yet another one
Mercata -- an inverse-auction site; the more people bid, the lower the price gets
mobshop -- another inverse-auction site; includes DVD movies
AfterNIC -- domain auctions
GreatDomains.com -- another domain auction site
See also: dvd, money, shopping, web/network services

Books:

Amazon.com -- the best on-line bookstore's US version
Amazon.co.uk -- the best on-line bookstore's UK version
Barnes & Noble -- another good on-line bookstore
"In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- by Neal Stephenson
"Mother Earth Mother Board" -- by Neal Stephenson
BooksPrice.com -- Multiple Book Price Comparison
See also: shopping

Car Rental:

Europcar -- European car rental company
Hertz -- one of the international giants
Avis -- another of the giants
Enterprise -- a smaller company which allows for drivers under the age of 25 (unlike the giants), US/Canada only
Alamo -- another rather large company
Dollar -- cheaper, perhaps? Perhaps not. Don't assume -- check prices before you hire
See also: travel

Communications:

PhoneNetUK -- UK phone book on-line
Golden Pages -- Irish phone book on-line (residential too, not just businesses)
YellowPages.com -- find US businesses
WhitePages.com -- find US residential numbers
AnyWho -- find phone numbers, e-mail addresses, URLs, fax numbers, toll-free numbers and addresses
Go2Call -- make free IP-to-phone calls from anywhere to the UK & Ireland
See also: e-mail, mobile phones, web/network services

DVD:

7th Zone -- loads of DVD info and miscellaneous stuff
DVD Update -- DVD pricing information for Europe
DVD Region Patches -- DVD region patches for DVD-ROM drives
The Firmware Page -- firmware updates/patches for region lock, etc.
DVD Coupon Post -- excellent source for bargins and coupons for DVDs and more
Mark's DVD Page -- reviews of R2 discs and comments on DVD news
Reel.com -- a good place to buy Region 1 DVDs
DVD Review -- web site of the UK magazine; "up-to-date news and reviews"
UK DVD Music and Video Store -- London-based outfit that sells DVDs, CDs, MiniDiscs, games and videos
Movietyme USA -- a UK-based company which sells R1 DVDs
DVD Empire -- another R1 DVD store, supposedly one of the largest catalogues
DVD Street -- UK R2 store with reviews and trivia for each movie
DVD Plus -- UK store; supposedly has a friendly refund/return policy; refuses to sell "overpriced" DVDs
DVD Club -- a site which links in to the cheapest of the on-line stores for each movie using affiliate links
All Star DVD -- cheap 50% off sale on lots of big titles, but nasty shipping costs ($3/DVD in the USA)
Play247 -- UK (Jersey) -based store which sells R1 DVDs as well as R2 DVDs, and at good prices with free EU shipping
See also: auctions, entertainment, movies, shopping

E-mail:

Mail.com -- free e-mail addresses for web or forwarding with the option to pay for POP access
SoftHome -- free POP accounts
EntertainmentPortal -- free web mail addresses
See also: communications, web/network services

Entertainment:

Entertainment Ireland -- a great Irish entertainment guide/resource
WOW! -- "What's on Where", another Irish entertainment guide/resource
See also: dvd, events, films on-line, humour, movies, music, shopping

Events:

Linux World Conference & Expo -- does this need any explanation?
ticketmaster.com -- for tickets to concerts, events, etc. in the USA
Ticketmaster Ireland -- for tickets to concerts, events, etc. in Ireland
NetSec '00 -- a Network Security conference in San Francisco
Touring With Scissors -- Weird Al's tour dates
See also: entertainment, linux, music

Films On-line:

George Lucas in Love -- Star Wars meets Shakespeare in Love
Computer Boy -- a parody of The Matrix
See also: entertainment, movies

Finding Things:

AltaVista -- the top search engine
Yahoo! -- the original web directory
MetaCrawler -- a meta-search-engine (it searches the search engines)
Google -- nice search engine with good intelligent search capabilities
Lycos -- another good search engine
HotBot -- a search engine from the people at Wired magazine
Infoseek -- another popular search engine
WebCrawler -- one of the venerable old search engines
Excite -- yet another search engine
EL.com -- Essential Links: Portal to the Internet
Mamma -- another meta-search engine with the slogan "The Mother of All Search Engines"
Ask Jeeves -- a search engine with an emphasis on Natural Language Processing
See also: web/network services

Flowers:

1-800-Flowers.com -- order flowers and gifts on-line (service ok but not wonderful)
FTD.com -- "flower bouquets and gifts for all occasions" (service unknown)
Flowers Express -- an alternative smaller vendor, perhaps? (service unknown)
See also: shopping

Food and Drink:

Webvan -- order groceries on-line and have them delivered to your home/office
Joseph Schmidt Confections -- superb chocolates, truffles, etc.
See also: restaurants, shopping

Games:

Linux Games -- "Even Penguins Like To Have Fun"
Halflife.net -- one of the best Half-Life resource sites
The Gaming Depot -- Abandonware: a new concept to me; legally shaky
Sega X -- a sega site run in part by a friend of mine
Parsec -- a most impressive non-commercial 3D shooter; CFQ: commercial quality freeware
See also: software

Geek:

Copyleft -- this is a good place to go to buy your geek apparel
ThinkGeek -- cool on-line store for geek toys, gadgets, clothing and more!
See also: hardware, linux, programming/scripting, shopping, software

Hardware:

Today Only -- Special one-day-only offers from Scan.co.uk (sometimes very good, but check the "SADP")
Dell (Ireland) -- very nice PCs
The Dell Store (IE) -- a good place to buy a nice computer in Ireland
Gateway -- the other mail-order PC supplier in Ireland
3Com -- nice modems and switches
Cisco -- nice routers
Tom's Hardware Guide -- a great computer hardware review and information site
KillerApp -- find and compare prices on computer hardware
See also: geek, shopping, software

Hosting:

NoMonthlyFees -- lifetime web hosting for a once-off fee
Freeservers -- slow and banners added to all pages, however free even for domain hosting
Speedhost -- fairly cheap and fast web hosting service for pretty reasonable monthly fees
WebHosters.com -- search for the right web hosting company/package for your needs
See also: web/network services

Humour:

Humour Archive -- humourous items aplenty
User Friendly -- a cartoon set in an ISP (brilliant!)
The Onion -- weekly humourous pseudo-newspaper (bizarre and often hillarious)
Dilbert Zone -- the on-line home of the popular comic strip
The Editing Room -- parody scripts of all sorts of movies
Urban Dragons -- the comic strip (about... guess what... Dragons! :)
cr0bar's The Matrix -- a parody of... you've guessed it... The Matrix
Movie-A-Minute -- ultra-condensed movie scripts (parody)
See also: entertainment, movies, music

Jobs:

Dice.com -- a great tech jobs site
HotJobs -- strangely-named jobs site
JobFinder.ie -- Irish jobs site
JobDirect -- a students-orientated jobs site
Monster International -- information on finding jobs and relocating to/from the US
CareerBuilder -- a job site which also focuses on improving your career
HeadHunter -- post your résumé, search for jobs
Techies.com -- jobs for techies
Catalyst Recruiting -- a site which claims to specialise in matching students to small companies
How Do European Techies Go America? -- article on Slashdot about moving to the States
See also: accomodation

Linux:

Red Hat -- the top Linux distribution
Debian -- the GNU/Linux distribution with the most dedication to Free Software
Mandrake -- a Linux distribution based on Red Hat (RH with sugar [and a few bugs] on top)
www.linux.ie -- Irish Linux information, news and issues, links and useful software (home of ILUG)
Freshmeat -- practically every new bit of Linux software gets announced here
cdrecord -- useful info on the UNIX CD writing software by the scary-looking Jörg Schilling
KernelNewbies.org -- Linux kernel info for newbie kernel hackers (no, not crackers :P)
See also: events, geek, programming, shopping, software

Miscellaneous:

TurboMonkey.com -- my brother's site; miscellaneous weirdness
SixDegrees -- a community built around the "six degrees of separation" concept
KYZO -- "The World's only Pizza based File Server"
The On-line Pot Plant -- a computer in a pot plant
Spoken Language Systems -- cool speech interactive projects from MIT
See also: all sections

Mobile Phones:

Esat Digifone -- the best Irish mobile phone operator
Eircell -- the other one
Nokia -- really nice mobile phones
mtn*sms -- send SMS messages free from this web site (will send to Digifone but not Eircell)
Cellomania -- bundles of fun with your Nokia mobile phone
Club Nokia -- goodies for Nokia phone owners
B.B.'s Nokia Pages -- packed with useful information about IR and so on
7110.com -- information, discussion, etc. about the new Nokia 7110 WAP-enabled GSM phone
eSMS -- SMS to e-mail solutions
WAPmap -- the world's first WAP search engine
CellMania.com -- buy phones 'n' stuff in the USA; browse reviews of phones/providers by consumers
Quios.com -- SMS-related services, etc.
MicroMelody -- lots of ringtones for your mobile phone
YourMobile -- free ringtones, SMS'd to your phone instantaneously
See also: communications

Money:

Euro Exchange Rates -- from the European Central Bank (ECB)
Euro/IEP exchange rates -- Aertel page 154
The "Full" Universal Currency Converter -- useful for the holidays or those mail orders over the 'net
Bloomberg Currency Calculator
AIB -- Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c., one of the two biggest Irish banks
Bank of Ireland -- the other of the two biggest Irish banks
See also: auctions, shopping, travel

Movies:

IMDb -- the Internet Movie Database (The on-line movie reference)
Films '96+ -- my movie reviews site
Dublin Cinema Guide -- listings for Dublin city-centre cinemas
IrishCinema.com -- run by a friend of mine; useful for anyone in or wishing to get into the Irish movie business
The Matrix -- "you have to see it for yourself"
MyMovies -- movie trailers and information
SF Gate: Movies -- movie reviews and information on theatres and showtimes in San Francisco
Moviefone.com -- movie information and bookings from the 777-FILM people
See also: dvd, entertainment, films on-line, humour

Music:

CDNow -- a good place to find CDs
Weird Al -- the funniest man on two legs (if, indeed, he does have two legs)
Tom Lehrer -- the best musical satirist the world has ever known!
The Corrs Online -- one of the best web sites about The Corrs, an excellent Irish group
Celine Online -- the Official Céline Dion Website
The Corrs Community -- a Corrs fan site with sections maintained by various Corrs fans
"It's All About the Pentiums" -- the website of the Weird Al song; has a nice joke intel theme!
See also: entertainment, events

News/Information:

Ireland.com -- the news/information and portal site run by The Irish Times
Slashdot -- "News for nerds. Stuff that matters."
CNN -- the website of the Central News Network; a useful resource
See also: reference

Programming/Scripting:

JavaSoft -- Sun's wonderful Java division
Java @ O'Reilly -- books and info on Java from O'Reilly
FreeCode -- totally free code in assorted languages!
Brainf*** -- a bizarre programming language with only 8 commands; sick :)
C/C++ Tutorial -- what the title says; haven't looked through it
Beej's Guide to Network Programming -- a really good primer on sockets in C
CVS - Concurrent Versions System -- good document on CVS
The CVS Book -- a large portion of a book on CVS free on-line
See also: geek, linux, reference, software, web design, web programming

Reference:

CIA Publications -- publications including the World Factbook by the famous intelligence agency
whatis.com -- a useful site if you want to look up the meaning of a computing acronym
Dictionary.com -- a nice dictionary site which searches several different dictionaries
Merriam-Webster -- a pretty good on-line dictionary plus thesaurus, word of the day, word games, etc.
Thesaurus.com -- on-line version of Roget's Thesaurus
Acronym Lookup -- hosted at UCC, in Ireland
How Stuff Works -- almost anything you could ask about science or engineering (and more) answered
ICT Virtual Library -- a collection of useful CS/ICT links from the Trinity College Dublin CS department
ISO Country Codes -- Ever wondered what country ZA is? Or CX? Here's your answers
IANA Root-Zone Whois Index by TLD Code -- information on registries for ccTLDs
ROT-13 Decoder and Encoder -- the title says it all; simple web interface
USNO Time Service -- formerly "The Directorate of Time", a great source of time info of all kinds
The Hacker FAQ -- what a hacker is, and what a hacker isn't, explained for the uninformed & geek alike
See also: news/information

Restaurants:

Pizz'a Chicago -- excellent pizza place in San Jose and other locations inc. SF
Luigi Malone's -- a very pleasant place to eat (and cheap) in Dublin and some other locations
T.G.I. Friday's -- really good American food restaraunt chain; great service
Outback Steakhouse -- g'day! Fancy some good pseudo-Aussie food? Here's where to go
Morton's of Chicago -- an outstanding steak restaurant
La Fondue -- an excellent fondue restaurant
See also: food and drink

Shopping:

DealTime -- search for the best prices on everything from computers to garden furniture to ice cream
AltaVista Shopping.com -- find the cheapest on-line store for whatever you want to buy
Sameday.com -- free same day delivery (US) on all sorts of stuff, but you pay in non-discounted prices
See also: auctions, books, dvd, entertainment, flowers, food and drink, geek, hardware, money, software, travel

Software:

CheapBytes -- an excellent place to buy Linux CDs
Tucows -- the ultimate collection of winsock software
Adobe -- writers of excellent graphics applications
Microsoft -- the root of all that is evil
Netscape -- criminally, they've let their browser become crap compared to Microsoft's Internet Exploder
GMT -- The Generic Mapping Tools
See also: games, geek, hardware, linux, programming/scripting

Travel:

usitNOW -- Union of Students in Ireland Travel web site
Irish Rail -- schedules, fares and information on suburban and national routes
MapQuest -- maps of the US and some other places; can locate addresses and helps plan routes
TransitInfo.org -- great SF Bay Area public transit information site
Lowestfare.com -- a site that helps you find the lowest fares including air fares
Travelscape.com -- another site that claims to find you the lowest fares and hotel rates
ITN -- Internet Travel Network; yet another flight/accomodation, etc. bookings site
Cheapflights -- cheap flights from the UK to international destinations
Travelocity -- another travel search; allows finding of cheapest fares, with subsequent selection of available dates
Priceline -- bid on flights and other stuff
Expedia -- the Evil Empire's travel search/booking service
Trip.com -- another travel booking site, but this one also provides an on-line flight tracking system
CheapTickets -- another airfare reservations site
TravelNow -- reservations for flights, hotels, cars, trains and cruises
Terra Galleria -- on-line galleries of travel, adventure, and nature photography on selected topics
QIXO -- an air-fare meta-search engine
tripadvisor -- "Unbiased reviews of hotels, resorts and vacations"
See also: airlines, car rental, money, shopping

Web Design:

WebMonkey -- information on all sorts of web content creation (HTML, scripting, etc.)
SiteInspector -- check web pages for HTML, load time, dead links, spelling, etc.
W3C -- the world-wide web consortium; specs and information
Special Characters (ISO Entities) -- a list of special characters and codes to get them in HTML
HTML Goodies -- lots of web design tutorials, HTML and otherwise
Grantastic Designs -- graphic design, web design and online marketting tips
See also: programming/scripting, reference, software, web programming

Web/Network Services:

DynDNS -- a free dynamic DNS service
usuck.com -- Provider of weird URL redirectors
Network Solutions -- the .com/.org/.net people pretending not to be InterNIC
dotster -- v. cheap domain registrations
See also: auctions, e-mail, finding things, hosting

Web Programming:

PHP -- great web scripting language, especially good when used with MySQL
PHPbuilder.com -- another nice PHP info site
The CGI Resource Index -- a categorised list of CGI resources on the web
JavaScript Reference -- Netscape's Online JavaScript Reference Manual
JavaScript.com -- "The Definitive JavaScript Resource"
JavaScripts.com -- claims to be the largest JavaScript repository on-line
Choosing the right server-side scripting language -- an article from IBM developerWorks
Server Side Includes -- a chapter on SSI from the O'Reilly book CGI Programming
See also: programming/scripting, reference, software, web design

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Contents:

Accomodation:

Airlines:

Auctions:

Books:

Car Rental:

Communications:

DVD:

E-mail:

Entertainment:

Events:

Films On-line:

Finding Things:

Flowers:

Food and Drink:

Games:

Geek:

Hardware:

Hosting:

Humour:

Jobs:

Linux:

Miscellaneous:

Mobile Phones:

Money:

Movies:

Music:

News/Information:

Programming/Scripting:

Reference:

Restaurants:

Shopping:

Software:

Travel:

Web Design:

Web/Network Services:

Web Programming: