Geek Hierarchy

Which geeks consdier themselves less geeky than other geeks?
http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchartbig.gif

Hierarchy of Monsters

http://threatquality.com/2009/10/28/a-hierarchy-of-monsters/
A thoughtful and hilarious discussion of who would beat who in one-on-one monster fights.

Ladies: yes, this is what guys think about.

fork in the road

http://mademelaugh.com/pixes/fork-in-the-road.jpg
a fork in the road, literally

Atomic Rockets

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3ab.html
I'm not sure exactly what this is, but what an amazing collection of science fiction images and ideas in one place.

Bing/Twitter

http://www.bing.com/twitter
this site keeps track of what people are tweeting about so you can keep your fingers on the pulse of what's really unimportant

Making a graphic image of words

This takes words as text and lays them out in a graphics collage arrangement:
http://www.wordle.net/
You can change the font or colors or layout.
Really great for poetry or inspirational messages.

Pinocchio Paradox

http://gemssty.com/2009/03/01/pinocchio-paradox/

famous failures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT4Fu-XDygw

most crazy site ever?

http://timecube.com/
plus extra points for centering everything

people search and find tool

http://www.123people.com/

buzzword bingo

http://www.betterworkplacenow.com/bingo/
Meeting Attention Enhancement Documentation

view blocked websites

http://ibypass.net/

animated gifs

http://www.gifbin.com/982185

free e-books of P. G. Wodehouse

http://manybooks.net/authors/wodehous.html

coupon for free internet

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3198/3129500936_d2f9c7afdc.jpg
suitable for gift or display

i have both moustache and robot. your argument is invalid

http://yourargumentisinvalid.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/i_have_both_moustache_and_robot.jpg

i wrote this article about unified messaging for Government Computer News

http://gcn.com/Articles/2009/05/04/Unified-messaging-systems.aspx?p=1

warning label generator

http://www.warninglabelgenerator.com/

3d printing

http://www.shapeways.com/

online calculus integration wolfram mathematica

http://integrals.wolfram.com/

identify language of text

http://langid.net/

free audio books

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1

online encyclopedias

http://www.encyclopedia.com/

convert any image to ASCII art

converts images to ASCII characters
http://www.typorganism.com/asciiomatic/

sprint "plug into now" widget

http://now.sprint.com/widget/
like a dashboard on the world

free fonts

here are places to find just the right font you need
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/
http://www.designer-daily.com/30-high-quality-free-fonts-for-professional-designs-1999
http://www.dafont.com/
http://www.1001freefonts.com/

hello my name is inigo montoya you killed my father prepare to die name tag

http://www.horrornews.net/esoterra_cinema/images/1_clip_image028.jpg

music from the tv show heroes

http://www.heroes-france.com/musiques.htm
because i'm not obsessed enough already...

WTF stamp

http://www.flickr.com/photos/passiveaggressive/2363227391/sizes/m/

gmail letter key commands

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/gmail/gmailKeys.html

find misspelled items on ebay

http://www.typobay.co.uk/

list of the 100 best novels

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

theme to the Twilight Zone

http://www.televisiontunes.com/Twilight_Zone.html

i wrote this article about how to become a freelance technical writer

http://www.inkwelleditorial.com/CareerCenter/success/6-9-05.htm

periodic table of video game characters

http://www.iheartchaos.com/sites/default/files/periodic_2.jpg

an article i wrote for GCN on cross-domain identity management (yeah)

http://gcn.com/Articles/2009/02/23/Cross-domain-identity-management.aspx

one trillion dollars

what does one trillion dollars look like?
here's one way to visualize it:
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

Google Tip Jar

http://moderator.appspot.com/#16/e=3cfc
tips on how to do things well, including finance, food, work, travel, and kids

cute overload: for when you need to go Awww!

http://www.cuteoverload.com/

one of my short stories (Feathers) was a finalist in the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction contest

http://www.glimmertrainpress.com/writer/html/finalists.asp?id=74

automatic web page plagiarism checker

http://www.copyscape.com/?results

newspaper front pages

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/
mouse over any location to see the front page of the newspaper for that area

Klingon Night School

http://scifiwire.com/2009/02/learn-klingon-the-easy-way-with-this-nice-old-lady-with-a-mean-batleth.php

free career education tools from Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/education/competencies/allcompetencies.mspx
developing career skills

visualization tools

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_best_tools_for_visualization.php
visualize social networks, music, videos, digg stories, the internet, amazon, thesaurus, twitter, searches, news, data, and so forth

my new favorite keyboard

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/yhinne_snapshot/emoticons.jpg

romantic ideas

http://www.romanticideas.com/love_letters.html

interesting timeline clock

http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf

world of inspiration

inspirational quotes
http://www.worldofinspiration.com/

summaries of philosphers

http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/

pure dumb luck

people escaping catastrophe by sheer luck
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k1PgDhOe0IwtFUPNOT

ambiguous signs from the department of homeland security are funny

http://www.safenow.org/

cartoon: Obama's first day

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/cartoons/01_20_09_inktank/

gallery of images from the hubble space telescope

this is an amazing universe we live in
http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/gallery.html

test of reflexes (and/or a game with sheep)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/sheep/reaction_version5.swf

coupon codes

http://www.retailmenot.com/

LOST encyclopedia

and believe me the TV show LOST really needs an encyclopedia. how else can you sort out Ms. Hawking, Daniel Faraday, John Locke, and Jeremy Bentham?
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

writer's relief blog

this site has tools, pointers, articles, contests, and so forth about writing
http://www.writersreliefblog.com/default.aspx

one of my favorite signs

http://www.pellepelster.de/serendipity/uploads/kurioses/this-sign-has-sharp-edges.jpg

visualizing the tenth dimension

http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php

bacon flowchart

http://flickr.com/photos/fncll/2129889439/

how "good" is that product?

is it healthy?
does it hurt the environment?
does it hurt people?
check it out at:
http://www.goodguide.com/

turn long, incomprehensible urls silly

http://sillyurl.com/

The Marvel Database Strength Scale

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Strength_Scale
Scale based on how much each character can lift, in tons, based on the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, with footnotes.
Because, y'know, sometimes you just need to know how much The Hulk can lift.

this one is similar, but funnier:
http://tomiceng.co.cc/articles/marvel-superheroes-strength-level/

definitions of literary and publishing terms

http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/CategoryView,category,Definitions.aspx

This is my new favorite name: Irida Xheneti

This is my new favorite name: Irida Xheneti
anybody whose initials are a roman numeral has to be cool

tour of Iron Mountain's gigantic underground vaults

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#28454551
music, photos, movies, data, technology, alien spacecraft (oh, you ARE reading this)

World Superhero Registry

http://www.worldsuperheroregistry.com/world_superhero_registry_gallery.htm
so, you know, if you ARE a superhero, this is where you can register

superheroes inserted into old paintings

http://www.worth1000.com/contest.asp?contest_id=22312&display=photoshop&page=5000#entries
these are pretty clever

101 things we've learned from video games

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/101-things-weve-learned-from-videogames/a-20081126162511389033

some of my favorites:

8. Buildings may have crates full of goodies on their roofs, so always check, even if it means riding a motorbike up the fire escape.

9. Enemies, rather than approach you directly, behave like Michael Flatley (of Riverdance fame) on a conveyor belt.

12. Anything in the world can be made from food, wood and gold.

19. If you’re stuck in life and don’t know what to do, simply attempt to use every single item in your possession on your obstacle. If none of them work, go back the way you came. You’ve clearly missed something.

40. Everyone speaks English, including Nazis, aliens and the living dead.

60. World War II infantry jargon included such phrases as “lol”, “n00b” and “OMG HaXXoR!!11!” Modern counter-terrorist SWAT teams use the same phrases.

95. You can probably fit another rocket launcher in your rucksack if you carefully rearrange those four ammo clips and that coke can.

Literary magazine database

http://www.pw.org/search/query?type=literary_magazine

Online fireplace

http://fauxfire.com/