Bookmarks
- useful sites
- changing
- art
- webstuff
- interesting
- blogs
- vegan
- forums
- amusement
- simplicity
- fat liberation
- boring practicalities
- shopping
- theology
- history
- traveller
Useful sites
- Dreamwidth. Blog site. I have an DW, with mirror/backup accounts at Dreamwidth, Insanejournal and Wordpress.
- Google search engine. It's better to use Blackle, better yet to use GoodSearch.
- Gmail and Hushmail are good email services.
- Babelfish. Translations.
- Dictionary.com. Spellcheck.
- Project Gutenberg. Public domain library.
- Xe. Currency conversions.
- eBay. Auctions.
- PayPal. Payment system.
- Amazon. Bookstore.
- Wayback. A time machine for the internet.
- Britannica & Wikipedia. Encyclopedias. The first is reliable; the second is free.
- About. Information.
- eHow & Instructables. Step by step guides.
- The Guardian, the Observer, RTE & the BBC. News.
- YouTube & Blip FM. Music.
- Wordle
changing
- PostCrossing
- We Are What We Do
- Tetanus Burger
- On Simplicity & Zen Habits. Voluntary simplicity
- EFT
- Lili the low impact living initiative
- Diggers & Dreamers. Communards, baby.
- Off-Grid.net.
- Femina. Feminist search engine.
- Fine Art of Being Come Out To. Very amusing and useful advice.
- Amnesty International. Human rights.
- Greenpeace. Ecology.
- Sea Shepherd Society
- Oxfam. Anti-poverty charity.
- Hunger Site.
Arts & Crafts
- Lindy Kehoe
- Etsy. Handmade items. Lovely and not so lovely things.
- The Full Body Project photography by Leonard Nimoy.
- Lupe Grainne
- Raindrop Kites by Helen Howes.
- Lucy Calhoun
- Jacquie Lawson. Beautiful ecards.
- Get Crafty.
- Rossetti & Ophelia's Mirror. Pre-Raphaelites.
- Michael Whelan.
- GlockGal.
- BodModEzine.
- Pomegranate. Exquisite publications.
- Lizz's Papers
- Craft Creations blank cards and craft materials
- Stampeezee craft materials
Webstuff
- FireFox. The only web browser for me.
- FireFTP. FireFox FTP add-on which is powerful and easy to use.
- Dreamhost. My webhost. I also have used and recommend FutureQuest & Vox Populli.
- W3C. Tools to validate XHTML code.
- WDG. also validates XHTML but has a time-saving option to do the entire site in one go.
- W3. Tools to validate css.
- A List Apart. CSS wisdom.
- Full Moon Graphics. Kitty's supercute free web graphics.
- My palette. A gif with hex codes for looking up colours quickly.
- Tutorialtastic. Jem's site of learning.
- Jemjabella. Jem's php scripts. I use her BellaBuffs script to run my fanlistings and her mail form to power my contact form.
- Bare Bones. HTML primer.
- Lissa Explains It All. Basic HTML site, very useful for beginners. Lots of ads, though.
- Lavasoft. Freeware spy scanning.
- AVG. Freeware antivirus software.
- Tech Support Forum, MajorGeeks, & Tech Support Guy. Computer help.
- W3 Schools. XHTML and CSS tutorials. I particularly like their online code-tester.
- BrowserShots. Run a layout through this site to check it on multiple operating system and browser combinations.
- Bauble. Icons, moodthemes, icon table generator, awesomeness.
- Zen Garden. Shows the possibilities of CSS-based design.
- 1001 Free Fonts & Font 101
- John Dalbey's calendar maker
interesting
- Mary Daly. Sin Big!
- Andrew Vachss. Author of the Burke series.
- MaryMc!
- Lynne Truss.
- Barefoot Doctor.
- Dick Gaughan. Awesome musician.
- Carol's blog
- Mugen's wanderings
- Paula's Choice skincare information
- Ms Magazine
- MP Dunleavey
- Terry Pratchett
- Bad Science
Blogs
- I Blame The Patriarchy. Probably the best blog on the internet.
- Living 400lbs
- Tiger Beatdown. Ladybusiness.
- Hyperbole and a Half. Very funny.
- Kate Harding
- Bree
- Shakesville
- Fat Nutritionist
- Whedonesque
- Big Fat Blog
- Metagrrrl
- The Wild Hunt
- The Fluent Self
- Jezebel
- First Person Singular
- Articles on blogging: Dreamwidth and you, and Fandom and migration (meta on mailing lists, moving journaling sites, and more) by Seperis; Why I love Dreamwidth even before I have an account there, and why you might not by Jiggery-Pokery
vegan & animal rights
- The Vegan RD. Thoughts on being vegan: A dietitian's perspective.
- Post Punk Kitchen
- Sarah Kramer
- Animal Aid
- Ireland's National Exotic Animal Sanctuary
- The Brooke
Forums
- Idle Foundation. Their motto is "Just don't do it!"
- Tribal Living
- Vegan Freaks
- The Fanlistings Network
- Post Punk Kitchen
- Gaughan's Forum and Ceilidh House
- Thorntree
- Classic Vehicles
Amusement
- icanhascheezburger.com
- Bureau of Communication
- Letterheady & Letters of Notes. Interesting letterhead design and interesting letters themselves, respectively.
- Pink Ray Gun. Reviews.
- The Evil Overlord List
- Dilbert
- Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down!
- Wonders of Makeup
- Fark.com
- XKCD
- Cracked
Simplicity
Fat Liberation
- Beth Ditto on being fat
- Why Diets Make You Fatter -- And What to Do About It by Judith Matz
- Dances with Fat. Sample: Stop pretending that it's about my health
- The Full Body Project photography by Leonard Nimoy.
- Why It's Time to Change Our Thinking About Weight: Q and A with Linda Bacon
- The FAQ at the Shapely Prose archive
- Fatshionista
- The Rotund
- The Fat Nutritionist
- So what does fat acceptance mean to me anyway? by Bree
Boring practicalities
- Booking tickets: Musiclee, the Irish Film Institute, Entertainment.ie, Whelan's, tickets.ie, MCD, Christ Church Cathedral, Saint Patrick's Cathedral, the Seamus Ennis Centre, the Project Arts Centre, Draiocht, and the National Concert Hall.
- Banking: RaboDirect & Bank of Ireland
- Local & national transport timetables: CIE
- Telephone: Eircom phone book, Eircom land line & broadband, and Vodafone mobile
- Crap weather bookmarks: Met Eireann, RTE News & Weather, Fingal County Council's water department & twitter
Shopping
- Love Your Peaches. Gorgeous, high quality BBW clothes from a woman-owned company.
- Holy Clothing. Pretty BBW clothes from another woman-owned company.
- Alien Skin clothing.
- Womyns' Ware. A friendly feminist sextoy store, which is also a woman-owned company.
- Amazon. Books, DVDs, deep-fried crack, etc.
- VeganStore & EthicalWares. Cruelty-free goods.
- The Cunning Artificer's Discworld Emporium & PJSM Prints. Retailers of figments of Terry Pratchett's imagination.
- Cassock-u-like. A nifty site that facilitates the sale and/or exchange of liturgical vestments and such.
- Coyote's Corner
- One Angry Girl
Theology
History
- The Irish Georgian Society. A conservation group.
Notes
- How to extract N,N-DMT from Mimosa hostilis
- How to use CSS to make a sticky footer
- Forum on digital art
- How to check if Yahoo is snooping on you
traveller
- Tash
- Gypsy-Traveller.org. "We seek to end racism and discrimination against Gypsies and Travellers, whatever their ethnicity, culture or background, whether settled or mobile, and to protect the right to pursue a nomadic way of life."
- Us on the Bus
- Summer Holiday Conversion
- Conversion of Volvo Plaxton Supreme into a motor home
- Glastonbury Festival 1990 & the travellers
- Traveller Dave. Unbelievably awesome photo archive.
- For sale: