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F O R U M S |
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| Tech Forums | The forum I turn to for all of my technical/computer related support. Seems like there's always some issue or another with at least one of the multiple PCs in my house and when exhausted the internet trying to find a solution on my own, this is where I turn for help. They cover pretty much everything, which is great because it saves you from having to join 5 different forums for 5 different aspects of computer operation. |
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G A M E S |
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| Cubefield | This is fun. You have to steer the little triangle ship thingy through the cube fields. If you hit a cube, you die. See how far you can go! |
| Fancy Pants Adventure | Leap, run and bounce Mr. Fancy Pants throughout several levels, collecting little spirals along the way. The design is so simple, it's awesome. Trash 'dem spiders! |
| Milpa | I really enjoy this one. It's basically just a sequence game (i.e.; match up the objects in strings of three or more to eliminate them), but the way it's executed is kind of neat. You have to flip-flop the strings of vegetables around to eliminate them before the hungry skull takes a bite out of your crops. The trickiest part is getting enough points to move on to the next level! |
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W E B C O M I C S |
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| F@NBOY$ | A gaming webcomic, though, even if you aren't a gamer, it's usually still funny. ^_~ |
| How It Should Have Ended | The webcomic is good, but when you're done with that, click on their logo at the top of the page and go to the main site. The do Flash shorts spoofing movies by redoing the ending with, "...how it should have ended!" Some of my favorites are: Willy Wonka, A Look Back At It's A Wonderful Life, PotC: Dead Man's Chest and Spider-Man 3! |
| Joe Loves Crappy Movies | Joe loves crappy movies. He especially loves making fun of them. |
| Matriculated | A comic about college life. |
| Rob & Elliot | About two guys and their troubles. One works and one stays at home and does nothing all day. Not updated very often, but still funny. |
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P E T S T U F F |
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| Dog of the Day | This site features a picture and story about different dog every day! A couple of my dogs, Rob Roy and Annie Grace, were on here last year. You can also view the Cat of the Day and the Pet of the Day! |
| The Animal Rescue Site | Go here and click on the purple button. Several companies and charities provide money for food that goes to homeless animals based on how many people click on this button and visit the site. I try to visit every day. ^_^ |
| Crossroads Animal Rescue | This is one of the rescue groups I used to work with. Helped found and was on the board of this one, but am just a volunteer now and still doing their web site (which I built). If you look under 'Adopted Dogs', you'll find Nicki, Kasay, Kobe, Gus and Boomer, Jack and Tolliver, some of my foster doggies (we ended up keeping Kobe)! |
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G R A P H I C S |
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| GRSites | This large site has a whole ton of nice, tiling background textures. If you find one you like, but want it in a different color, you can simply change the shade. They have loads of other stuff too, fonts, sound effects, buttons, graphics. The background on my fanfic pages came from this site as well as the background on our forum! |
| Iron Ivy Designs | There are lots of beautiful web page sets in here of all colors and themes that are fun just looking at. |
| Photobucket | Need a place to host your images online? I highly recommend Photobucket! They're reliable, easy to use and very generous with space. They allow a wide variety of media file types to be uploaded. |
| ImageShack | Another free image hosting site! If you have a Photobucket account, but need a host for images larger than 250KB, use ImageShack! They allow up to 1024KB! They're login/account setup is a little tricky at first. Just remember to save the confirmation email they send you with the link after you sign up. ^_~ |
| ImageShack | Yet another free image hosting site. |
| Fractyl Images | Lots of cool fractyl art for wallpapers and other use. |
| Stock Xchng | Enormous, free stock photo site. |
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F O N T S |
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| DaFont | Hundreds of awesome and unique fonts for free-download! |
| Free Fonts | TONS of free fonts. ^_^ |
| Font Foundry | More very awesome and unique fonts. |
| Dan Smith's Fantasy Fonts for Windows | Lots of celtic, mystic, rune-type fonts. |
| Fontage | More cool fonts of all types. |
| Fontennium | All kinds of fonts. |
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M I S C . |
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| ActionCat | This site has a lot of cute kitty eCards and postcards you can send. They always have new ones for the holidays. They have some non-cat selections as well. |
| Break the Chain | Have you ever gotten some of those emails with stories and/or pictures that maybe seemed a little bizarre or far-fetched? Or even if they did sound believable, go to this site for the real scoop. They can either discredit the chain email or give you the true facts about the story. If you have the time, check those emails before sending them on. And if you find that they're not everything they seem to be, at least let the people you pass it on to know, or include a link to the story on that particular email from Break the Chain. ^_~ |
| Homestar Runner | Never heard of Homestar, Strong Bad or their site? Get with it! They are some of the most popular web-based Flash animated characters out there! Check 'em out! No seriously, check 'em out. There's a new Strong Bad Email almost every week, where Strong Bad answers one email from a fan. The toons are just hilarious. ^_^ |
| Magical Aussie | This is Girithostien's (Giri's) site! Lots of piccies and info about one of our dear, resident Aussies. ^_^ You go, Giri! |
| Moonlight Walkin' | This is SaraS' web site! Links, quotes, pics... go visit! |
| etheREALITY | This is Luthien Black's (Lu's) web site! Spiffy design, icons, brushes, icon-making resources, icons, links and icons. ^_~ |
| Shirley Rousseau Murphy | The web site for one of my favorite authors, Shirley Rousseau Murphy. Her main thing is the Joe Grey mystery series, but she's written some other fantasy stuff as well. Highly recommended! |
| Download.com | Obviously... downloads!!! Lots of neat programs and stuff here. Lots you have to pay for, but if you're willing to sift through the stuff, you can find free things too! I got my wallpaper changer from this site. ^_~ Very cool. |
| Clan Shaw | The Scottish Clan of Shaw! I have Shaw relatives on my mother's side, so if I really dug, I could probably trace my line back to some of the Shaws in Scotland. =) |
| Dolphy's Disney Den | I love looking at her stuff. If you're a fan of Disney animation, particularly the style used in The Lion King, you MUST check out this site. Wish I could draw like that. ^_^ |
| Big Bunny | Hilarious Flash web-toons based on a big... pink... bunny. Crunchy. ^_~ |
| Answers That Work | A web site where you can find out about the tasks/programs that can be found in Windows Task Manager. Have you ever gone in there and seen something that you didn't recognize or found suspicious? More often than not, you can find it here and see whether or not it's good, bad or even necessary. |
| Windows Process Library | Tried the above site, but couldn't find the task you were looking for? Try this one! |
| Independence Veterinary Clinic | The vet where I used to work. |
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L O T R |
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| Rolozo Tolkien | This site is filled to the brim with Tolkien art, both from the brilliant, classic artists like Alan Lee (one of whose works is the background for this site) and John Howe and from newer or unrecognized artists. Some of this stuff is awesome. I spent hours looking through all the pictures. It's a Tolkien art fan paradise! |
| Darth Screen Capture | TONS of LotR screencaps for those of you too lazy to cap your own. ^_~ Just kidding. Plenty of great caps, all around 720x300 or so. |
| The Encyclopedia of Arda | I don't know what I'd do without this site. It's a truly awesome LotR encyclopedia and I don't think there's ever been a time when I've gone and not been able to find the information I was looking for. ^_~ I've always wanted to create my own encyclopedia of sorts, but until I get around to it (if that ever happens), the EoA is a splendid site to have bookmarked. |
| Ship of Dreams | Not only one of the bigger LotR wallpaper sites out there, you'll even find wallpapers for more of the less popular characters. |
| The Golden Wood | Wallpapers, icons, winamp skins... |
| Shadows of Twilight | An Elrond fan site. |
| White Arrows of Lórien | A Legolas and Haldir fan site. |