Linkage: Resources
Chinese Fighting Muffin's Flash Guides-- Well written, easy-to-understand guides to working with Macromedia Flash in a web environment. And the "Guide For Clients" should be given to anyone tat wants to hire/assign work to a graphic designer of ANY kind, whether it's Flash, graphic design, or a web designer.
Deep Fried Live-- Award winning site that features the animated cooking show "Deep Fried LIVE!" hosted by Tako the Octopus-- every episode not only has plenty of comic mayhem and mishaps (usually happening to poor Tako), but each episode goes in-depth on how to make everything from beer-battered chicken to pumpkin flan in easy-to-follow recipes. The site even goes into the science behind good cooking.
Easter Eggs-- No, no, no. Not like the dyed kind. The term "Easter Egg", means any amusing tidbit that creators hid in their creations. They could be in computer software, movies, music, art, books, or even your watch. There are thousands of them, and they can be quite entertaining, if you know where to look. And thanks to this guide, now you do.
Font Mania!-- Feed your font fetish here, baby!
Iron Fans-- A huge multimedia and fan-centric site uniting Iron Chef fans across the US and Canada. It's constantly updated with the latest in Iron Chef news, and is crammed with sound, video, and text links. It also has a very active Iron Chef Fan Message Board.
Live Journal-- One of the fore-runners of the whole web journal explosion, Live Journal is an Open-Source journalling community where you can find everything from the typical angst-filled teen diary entries to support communities and everything in-between. And since it's free, anyone can start up their own easy-to-update journal if they want.
MetaFilter-- known as MeFi to its members, is a community weblog whose purpose is to share and discuss interesting links.
Snopes: The Urban Legends Reference Page--Whether you want to see if the latest e-mail forward has any validity to it, or the latest rumor you heard was true, or just want to read some good old fashioned urban legend debunking, Snopes is the place to go to see the light of truth shining onto the darkness of Stuff That Might Be Made Up.
Webmonkey-- Spun off from Lycos and Wired, this site features hundreds of articles and how-to's on how to do nearly everything related to the web: HTML basics, web design, databases, JavaScript programming... all written in a relaxed, easy-to-understand format.
What Time Is It?-- If you're in the United States, you can check this site and see exactly what time it is, where you are in the country, and what time zone you're located at.