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http://www.quotationspage.com/
Useful for appearing to be an intelligent and reflected person.
http://basicinstructions.net/
Useful instructions for getting through daily situations. Or for having a laugh.
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Useful help for understanding scientific (and other) concepts. Pedagogic videos that explain all sorts of school subjects.
Useful for appearing to be an intelligent and reflected person.
http://basicinstructions.net/
Useful instructions for getting through daily situations. Or for having a laugh.
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Useful help for understanding scientific (and other) concepts. Pedagogic videos that explain all sorts of school subjects.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/ Cheap ass games for those sick of the australasian tax.
Will add more later when I remember them.
Will add more later when I remember them.
Very useful sight indeed, it's good that my Physics teacher told me about itJonluw said:
http://www.nzgameshop.com/ for me, good prices on games for New Zealand
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
It saved me from a lot of grief when I didn't want to do simple calculus and differential equations. Learning how to input the equations in text formula is tricky but it is not hard to learn.
It does some other things as well. I sometimes use it for chemistry stuff..
It saved me from a lot of grief when I didn't want to do simple calculus and differential equations. Learning how to input the equations in text formula is tricky but it is not hard to learn.
It does some other things as well. I sometimes use it for chemistry stuff..
9gag.
http://9gag.com
Nine gags each page of user generated content who share their own funny moments, thoughts and ideas, growing more and more popular for each passing day with good reasons.
You're welcome.
http://9gag.com
Nine gags each page of user generated content who share their own funny moments, thoughts and ideas, growing more and more popular for each passing day with good reasons.
You're welcome.
https://duckduckgo.com/
The best search engine around. It has a fluid syntax, doesn't track you, and you can turn off ads (even though they're really tasteful and don't take up much bandwidth). You can also search within websites and various other functions...it basically does everything google does without the invasion of privacy.
The best search engine around. It has a fluid syntax, doesn't track you, and you can turn off ads (even though they're really tasteful and don't take up much bandwidth). You can also search within websites and various other functions...it basically does everything google does without the invasion of privacy.
No one's done it yet so
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
It will waste hours of your time. Don't go on if you have work to do because it is addicting
. I can't really explain a trope so just search your favourite book, film, anime or game and you'll begin to understand.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
It will waste hours of your time. Don't go on if you have work to do because it is addicting
. I can't really explain a trope so just search your favourite book, film, anime or game and you'll begin to understand.
http://www.cplusplus.com/
Damn fine reference for people learning c++, for people who need to remember their old c++, and just for anybody who uses c++ in general.
http://demonssouls.wikidot.com/
Demons souls wiki... For those who don't like to try to defeat a boss (and fail) 15 times before finding out there was a much easier way to take the sucker down.
Those are the ones that spring to mind. Hope that helps somebody
Good idea for a thread, btw.
Damn fine reference for people learning c++, for people who need to remember their old c++, and just for anybody who uses c++ in general.
http://demonssouls.wikidot.com/
Demons souls wiki... For those who don't like to try to defeat a boss (and fail) 15 times before finding out there was a much easier way to take the sucker down.
Those are the ones that spring to mind. Hope that helps somebody
Good idea for a thread, btw.
Behold fellow escapists the wonder of the complaint generator
http://www.pakin.org/complaint
you pretty much type in who you want to complain about (in this case The Ecapist themselves) and it generates a long-winded rant about why they suck. the website has been going since 1994
http://www.pakin.org/complaint
This letter comes to you in the hope that it will find the place in your mind where rationality resides and where decency and sanity, coupled with a healthy sense of anger, will trigger appropriate action. What follows is a call to action for those of us who care?a large enough number to protect our peace, privacy, and safety. What is the milieu in which rude charlatans destroy our culture, our institutions, and our way of life? It is the underworld of conspiracy theory, a subculture in which lackadaisical braggadocios share fantasies of fighting heroically against a huge conspiracy that will rip apart causes that others feel strongly about in a matter of days. Some people think it's a bit extreme of me to spread awareness of the conniving nature of The Escapist Magazine's theatrics?a bit over the top, perhaps. Well, what I ought to remind such people is that I have a message for The Escapist Magazine. My message is that, for the good of us all, it should never vilify our history, character, values, and traditions. It should never even try to do such a mean-spirited thing. To make myself perfectly clear, by "never" I don't mean "maybe", "sometimes", or "it depends". I mean only that ignorance is bliss. This may be why The Escapist Magazine's lieutenants are generally all smiles.
I have frequently criticized The Escapist Magazine's unspoken plan to understate the negative impact of opportunism. It usually addresses my criticisms by accusing me of simplism, commercialism, child molestation, and halitosis. The Escapist Magazine hopes that by delegitimizing me this way, no one will listen to me when I say that egocentric fiends propitiate incorrigible nebbishes for later eventualities. That said, we mustn't lose sight of who the real enemy is: The Escapist Magazine and its misguided chargés d'affaires. A bunch of the worst classes of cold-blooded fence-sitters I've ever seen have recently been accused of poking someone's eyes out. The Escapist Magazine's fingerprints are all over that operation. Even if it turns out that it is not ultimately responsible for instigating it, the sheer amount of its involvement demands answers. For instance, is The Escapist Magazine a professional simpleton or merely a well-meaning amateur? To turn that question around, is it hoping that the readers of this letter won't see the weakness of its argument relative to mine? If I'm not horribly mistaken, there's a painfully simple answer. It regards the way that it has long been making life less pleasant for us. What worries me more than that, however, is that if The Escapist Magazine ever manages to peddle the snake oil of poxy insurrectionism, that's when the defecation will really hit the air conditioning.
The Escapist Magazine is a myth-generating machine. Let me explain. I'm not very conversant with The Escapist Magazine's background. To be quite frank, I don't care to be. I already know enough to state with confidence that were he alive today, Hideki Tojo would be The Escapist Magazine's most trustworthy ally. I can see Tojo joining forces with The Escapist Magazine to help it violate strongly held principles regarding deferral of current satisfaction for long-term gains. After having read this, you may think that infantile, shiftless solipsism is not new. Nevertheless, you should always remember that my imprecations are clearly in defense of decency and human dignity and violate nobody's rights.
I have frequently criticized The Escapist Magazine's unspoken plan to understate the negative impact of opportunism. It usually addresses my criticisms by accusing me of simplism, commercialism, child molestation, and halitosis. The Escapist Magazine hopes that by delegitimizing me this way, no one will listen to me when I say that egocentric fiends propitiate incorrigible nebbishes for later eventualities. That said, we mustn't lose sight of who the real enemy is: The Escapist Magazine and its misguided chargés d'affaires. A bunch of the worst classes of cold-blooded fence-sitters I've ever seen have recently been accused of poking someone's eyes out. The Escapist Magazine's fingerprints are all over that operation. Even if it turns out that it is not ultimately responsible for instigating it, the sheer amount of its involvement demands answers. For instance, is The Escapist Magazine a professional simpleton or merely a well-meaning amateur? To turn that question around, is it hoping that the readers of this letter won't see the weakness of its argument relative to mine? If I'm not horribly mistaken, there's a painfully simple answer. It regards the way that it has long been making life less pleasant for us. What worries me more than that, however, is that if The Escapist Magazine ever manages to peddle the snake oil of poxy insurrectionism, that's when the defecation will really hit the air conditioning.
The Escapist Magazine is a myth-generating machine. Let me explain. I'm not very conversant with The Escapist Magazine's background. To be quite frank, I don't care to be. I already know enough to state with confidence that were he alive today, Hideki Tojo would be The Escapist Magazine's most trustworthy ally. I can see Tojo joining forces with The Escapist Magazine to help it violate strongly held principles regarding deferral of current satisfaction for long-term gains. After having read this, you may think that infantile, shiftless solipsism is not new. Nevertheless, you should always remember that my imprecations are clearly in defense of decency and human dignity and violate nobody's rights.
Throw away emails? What do you mean by that? I assume it's not a service that helps you delete stuff from your inbox.Legit101 said:
Or by throw away emails, do you mean disposable accounts or addresses that you can use to send mail anonymously?
Anyway, here are mine:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov
Daily images of the earth, mostly from space. Often has interesting views of current events. Also has links to the Blue Marble earth imagery that everybody uses now whenever they need an earth texture for a space scene. The damn thing should be a trope by now, like the Wilhelm Scream.
http://seamless.usgs.gov/
Another great place for satellite imagery, shaded relief maps, and digital elevation models.
http://www.ted.com/
Most of you probably are familiar with this one, but for those who aren't, a variety of talks by scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, activists, educators, entertainers, and artists, sharing their ideas on how to make the 21st century a better, brighter, more interesting place, spreading the word about new technologies, or just plain making us laugh or think for 20 minutes at a time. I often listen to these while working.
http://thesciencenetwork.org/
Best known on the internet for their Beyond Belief conferences a few years back. Like TED, but focuses mostly on physics, mathematics, and biology. Kinda hit-and-miss though, depending on what your interests are. Stopped visiting them so much after I found TED.
And cracked, tvtropes, xkcd, penny-arcade, several parts of the Escapist, and bay12games.com, (at least before I discovered minecraft.net), but most of y'all know about those already.
http://www.cracked.com/
Remember to get up once and a while to go to the bathroom and eat. Other than that, prepare to laugh out a lung and be surprised at the same time.
Remember to get up once and a while to go to the bathroom and eat. Other than that, prepare to laugh out a lung and be surprised at the same time.
http://www.blog.lifehacker.com
Always has great posts that I think are entertaining, giving out interesting tips about the most random of scenarios and helpful advice about things that you may never have considered trying.
Always has great posts that I think are entertaining, giving out interesting tips about the most random of scenarios and helpful advice about things that you may never have considered trying.
http://www.tineye.com/
Reverse image search. Perfect for finding better resolution images or the source of an image.
Reverse image search. Perfect for finding better resolution images or the source of an image.
