[ news.bbc.co.uk ]
What it says.
UK IT news site.
[ www.ntk.net ]
"*the* weekly fortnightly monthly apparently abandoned tech update for the UK."
[ boingboing.net ]
"A directory of wonderful things".
[ slashdot.org ]
"News for nerds, stuff that matters."
[ digg.org ]
Tech news website where the stories with the most votes make the front page. Quality of stories and apparent literacy of those submitting them varies. Far too many stories have exclamations marks on the end of the titles. Comments generally best ignored.
US tech/lifestyle type magazine.
[ www.dilbert.com ]
The cubical dwelling engineer as featured in countless newspapers. Was adapted to a short a short lived TV show.
[ www.ucomics.com/calvinandhobbes ]
Calvin, is forever six years old, hates going to school, tidying up his room, and all those other things that are such a drag when you're young. (or older). Hobbes is his tiger, though Hobbes would dispute the ownership. People other than Calvin see Hobbes as a stuffed toy. from Calvin's point of view he is real - someone with whom he can have adventures and play games they make up as they go along. That or annoy Susie Derkins. Who he most definitely doesn't like. Not even a little. She's a girl and so is by default gross and slimy.
Web comic about two gamers who got stuck in Japan. Not just a bunch of stand alone strips, but an actual story. The plot doesn't move very fast though - imagine reading one a graphic novel of unknown length at the rate of two to three pages a week.
Heavily gaming orientated web comic. The strips are often rather obscure unless you read the associated news but usually funny anyway. Especially the one about dogs and Witches. !language may offend!
Web comic. As the name suggests, gaming influenced. Watch out for the cute ninjas. !language may offend!
[ www.sinfest.net ]
Web comic. Characters include a boy, a girl, a pig, God, The Devil, some Angels, a cat and a dog. !language may offend!
Web comic by a guy who likes Macs.
Web comic about a Bunny.
[ xkcd.com ]
A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language.
[ alistapart.com ]
For People Who Make Websites.
[ www.williamgibsonbooks.com ]
The guy oft credited with inventing the cyber punk genre. Also wrote a couple of X-Files episodes.
[ www.terrypratchettbooks.com ]
Probably best known for his long running Discworld series.
[ www.michaelmarshallsmith.com ]
'...a dark labyrinth of a book: shocking, moving and surreal. Violent, outrageous and witty - sometimes simultaneously...' read the quote on the back of his first novel Only Forward. So I bought it. Turned out to be one of those books where you feel like you've just discovered this amazing new world. He also publishes stuff that leans more to the horror genre under the name Michael Marshall.
The woman who brought the world Harry Potter. Which you may or may not consider to be a good thing.
[ www.coupland.com ]
Hard to describe. Girlfriend in a Coma will make you say 'well that's unusual' just when you least expect it. Nothing happens in Generation X but it really doesn't matter.
Now sadly deceased, Douglas Adams gave the world, amongst other things, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A trilogy in five parts with more than that number of variants, sadly including that movie they made recently. His site contains a java version of the Hitch Hiker's text adventure game originally released in 1984. If you can work out how on earth you get the Babel Fish let me know.
Publishes Sci-Fi under the name Iain M Banks and [just] Fi under Iain Banks.
[ www.j-cg.co.uk ]
The quote on the copy of ReMix I have says 'William Gibson meets Quentin Tarantino'. Which is a pretty good description. The Arabesk novels are not so Tarantino.
modified:26th November 2007