Some volumes of note in our Library of Babel.
Internet
- Wikipedia - a free encyclopedia editable by everyone
- The Internet Archive - the internet's library dedicating to cataloguing the net.
- Wikidata - structured data project meant to centralize data on Wikimedia projects
Privacy
- The Internet With a Human Face - an insightful essay about the state of the internet
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - group promoting civil rights on the web
- Email Self Defense - a guide on setting up email encryption through PGP
- Linux Crypto by Tom Ryder - a more in-depth guide to using PGP for general purpose cryptography (not just for email) on linux
Websites
- Neocities - free web hosting with no ads. The host for this site
Programming
Serious
- Fabien Sanglard's Website - contains source code reviews and programming related reading recommendations
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - full text of well regarded introductory computer science book
- Thomas E. Dickey's page - location of text based programs such as ncurses, lynx, and xterm
Humorous
- Ed, man!man ed - the last word on the text editor holy war
Math & Science
- Science Hobbyist - website chronicling one amateur scientist's pursuits. Many interesting and weird experiments including drawing holograms by hand and growing mushrooms in phone books
- MacTutor History of Mathematics - lives of the saints
Games
- Bay 12 Games - makers of Dwarf Fortress and the hilarious Liberal Crime Squad (which lives on here)
- Sporcle - trivia games on many subjects
Art
- Vincent Van Gogh Gallery - a comprehensive gallery of the works of Vincent Van Gogh
- Haiku of Kobayashi Issa translated by David G. Lanoue - searchable archive of translations of Haiku by a 18th/19th century Japanese Poet
History
Often grim, but enlightening
- History is a Weapon a voice to serve as a counterpoint to the history in the books, much in the vein of A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Fun on the Net
Fun things across the net that aren't games.
- Wide-band WebSDR - a web-controlled software receiver, based out of a Dutch university. You can listen to shortwave broadcasts. The UI is super cool and the chatbox and users tabs are a good place to find out what others are listening to if you don't want to mess around with tuning
Other Voices
Personal pages from around the web not otherwise linked above.
- fdc@columbia.edu - political notes are interesting, including the account of the 1968 Columbia student uprising