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Links

Programs:

• Ad-Aware - essential program for ridding yourself of adware, scumware and malware
• AVG - one of the best free anti-virus programs
• Firefox - the best browser
• The Gimp - open source image editor
• Pricelessware - open source software
• Winamp - the media player
• Zone Alarm - firewall for Windows

Paranoia:

• Central Ops - just about everything
• Netcraft - beef on boxes
• ARIN WHOIS Database - fingering IP addresses
• Network Solutions - fingering IP addresses
• RIPE ip - fingering IP addresses
• Webyield ip - fingering IP addresses
• Hotlinking - learn how to stop it
• Generate htaccess and htpasswd files - easy going

Essential reading:

• A Woman of Many Parts - battling with life and cancer
• But she's a girl - techy blog by techy girl
• Chris Lightfoot - Chris tragically passed away recently. He leaves quite a legacy for one so young.
• Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company - dedicated blog on one of the greatest writers of the last century
• The Eldritch Press - public domain books
• The eXile - the alternative Moscow-based magazine
• Journal of a writing man - fine writing from this man
• Mother Jones - alternative news from the states
• The Register - irreverent IT news
• An Unreliable Witness - powerful writing
• The Walled City - blog
• Zannah - blog

Other stuff:

• ElfTrance - cool mixes and fascinating content
• Blogger - probably the easiest way to get online
• Cameraclean - if you have a digital SLR you'll need this
• Creative Commons - protect and share your content
• dive into mark - Mark Pilgrim and his free books
• Electronic Frontier Foundation - defending free cyberspace
• The Free Site - the biggest source of freebies on the Web
• Free Translations - the best there is?
• Earth Calendar - every day is a holiday
• Geekologie - tech blog
• Godchecker - they're all there
• Internet Archive - open source content
• 1337sp34k - Leet the easy way
• The Open Source Shakespeare - amazing searchable database-driven web site
• Sleepbot Environmental Broadcast - music to dream to
• Wikipedia - open source encyclopedia
• WinGuides - tweaking windows

Boring work stuff:

• Analog - the best free stats for analysing log files
• Bravenet - free hosting, big outfit
• DreamHost - good hosts, amazing deals
• Google Analytics - the easiest free stats
• Google PageRank - what makes a page popular in the search engine rankings
• Luminous - web design
• Speedometer - speed check
• SSI Developer - best of its kind?
• Ubuntu - Linux for human beings
• W3C - the Web's governing body
• W3C Accessibility - guidelines for making your site accessible
• Writing for the Web - Jakob Nielsen at useit.com