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Google books provides searching through the full text of participating books
The Online Books Page They claim to have more than 18 000 books. All their books are out of copyright or are listed with the author's permission. All books are in English. Lots of reference books.
Words They have Kipling, Orwell, Poe and more. Short stories, books and verse. And they're all in nice html formatting as well.
Baen free library!
Baen
books is letting those authors who want to put their books on the web to
be read for free.
My own books page has links to the full text of The Big U, Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, In the Beginning was the Command Line, and some short stories by Neal Stephenson.
Bibliotheque Virtuelle texts in French and English.
And of course, Project Gutenberg. A huge repository of out-of-copyright books.
Robert Stockton provides html versions of some books from Project Gutenberg. L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Rice Burroughs, etc.
The Book Depository has anything but: short stories, including some Pratchett short stories that I hadn't seen, plays, and a Gaiman comic! Plus text for Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Systers play.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Various Links Tarred version for offline reading.
Winnie-the-Pooh A.A. Milne. Don't panic, in between the Russian the chapter headings appear in English down the right side of the page.
David Foster Wallace. Unfortunately the "Shipping Out" article, which is my favourite isn't available, but his article about David Lynch and Lost Highway is here on a David Lynch fan site.
Carlos Castaneda sections of his books.
Bartleby.com Important reference books online. Various dictionaries, an encyclopedia, quotations, Shakespeare, King James Bible, Strunk and White, and Gray's Anatomy.
Fight Club script. If you don't like this version, try this and click on anything that's 101k long.
Screenplay of Trainspotting "People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored..."
Hellblazer #141 Shoot by Warren Ellis. Apparently Time-Warner didn't want to publish this after Columbine. It's a story about school shootings.
General prologue of the Canterbury Tales
Short stories in the archive of scifi.com
One person's life reading list
Mark Weston's list of recently read books
Universal Donor's book list and reviews
Ted.com A collection of videos of talks (all about 20 minutes or less) given at the TED conference. Features Dennett, Dawkins, and lots of great science talks.
Bad Astronomy: debunks astronomical misconceptions and hoaxes as well as doing some writing about real astronomy. Moon landing hoax: I actually met someone last year who told me with a straight face she wasn't convinced that people actually landed on the moon. And she wasn't wearing a tinfoil hat, either.
Carpe Diem Society of BC: a secular humanist club.
The Stevenson College Core Course ("Self and Society") list of texts.
Interview with Marjoe Gortner. Marjoe is the star of the documentary "Marjoe," which shows him plying his trade as a very successful evangelical preacher while behind the scenes he explains the tricks to what he does. It won an Oscar when it came out in 1972 and is a lot of fun to watch. Filmmaker Sarah Kernochan about bringing the movie to light again and getting it released on DVD.
Hidden From History: Kevin Annett is a former Minister in the Anglican Church who was expelled from the church for bringing attention to the abuse that the Native people in his ministry in Port Alberni had suffered in the residential schools that were run by the Anglican Church and the Canadian government. This is part of a shameful Canada-wide history of forcing Native kids to go to these schools were they were subjected to every imaginable abuse: mental, sexual, and physical abuse including murder, as well as very bad health conditions and what a number of people insist was the deliberate spread of tuberculosis between the children. See the Wikipedia as well on Canadian residential school system. Watch the full length documentary online: Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide, winner of the "Best International Documentary (Feature)" at the NY Independent Film Festival, Los Angeles, in March 2007.
Canadians for the Separation of Church and State (and Religious Tolerance.org on Overview of Church/State Separation in Canada)
For those of us who read Robert Heinlein and thought that the "witch" in "thou shalt not suffer a witch" etc. was mistranslated from a word meaning "poisoner" (poisoner of wells, no less), here's a short article on the subject.
Exhaustive critique of Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins's Left Behind series of post-rapture fiction by the Slacktivist.
You can surf forever through Everything2.com
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My Boot by Craig Mitchell. This is a really enjoyable (unfinished) online novel. The original site seems to have gone now, so three cheers for the internet archive.
Barely Change from a Twenty A first chapter.
e-sheep Comics.
If you haven't already seen Soda play you have to try it.
Lileks.com Be sure to check out The Institute for Official Cheer for all kinds of historical pop culture including The Gallery of Regrettable Food. Plus the weird and wonderful study of the effects of celery on loose elastic a.k.a. The Problematic Underwear Collection a.k.a. Celery + Gravity = Art.
Adherents.com: religion in literature
Science Fiction citations for the OED a call to root through your bookshelf and contribute dates and quotes.
The Crumb Museum Robert Crumb cartoons.
The consensus seems to be that this person took an official tour instead of motorcycling in, but still worth seeing is this page about what Chernobyl looks like now. Here's a good factual (apparently) article about the accident.
Jesse Wiedel's favourite art
"Problem, necessary, result" from The Art of Instructional Design
Science Creative Quarterly - note the truth
Slowtwitch: A lot of triathlon-related information. I came in via an article on bike steering geometry, then moved on to race apparel, both in the tech centre section. I've also been reading articles in the swim centre section. Now I'm absorbed by the backpage.
Beginner Triathlete Kind of an ugly site and it pushes registration, which I find annoying, but they have some beginner training programs and advice.
Article about how to use heart rate measurements in training.
Trail calculator - "trail" is a measure of how much your bicycle wants to continue in a straight line and is determined by your head tube angle and fork rake or fork offset. You could just use trigonometry to figure it out, but for the lazy, here's a calculator.
A fact much bandied about by people in the gym is that muscle weighs more than fat. In case you were wondering how much more: looks like about 13%, according to the values given here.
Road rash treatment Haven't had to use this info yet, but it looks like good advice.
Harris Cyclery Lots of good mechanical information.
Rec.bicycles faq A fearsome amount of information. I've hardly looked at it.
Joe Reger's experiment on fluid loss on a 180-k bike ride.
Recreational rides around Victoria
calorie requirements estimator
Philip Greenspun My own set of links for his site:
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Decisive Moments - a blog by a bike racer
Elizabeth Miller is a Dracula scholar
Now Smell This perfume blog
The following sites are all photography by people I know:
Atomic Photography
Daniel German
Kerry Swartz - I live right
close to the gas station he's photographed in "Fairfield fillup". It
reminds me of the Todd Hido photograph on this page.
The Internet Archive wayback machine. Fill in a url and see archived older versions of it.
Thinking Machine online chess program. The difficulty isn't adjustable, which is annoying, but there's a neat visualization feature that shows the moves that the program is considering.
A Tango Fusion music page
Some more history, in Dutch, of the Van Emden family in Surinam
Buddhanet Buddha Dharma Education Association Inc.
Paul Graham Essays on programming and other subjects. Some of my favourites are Taste for makers and Why nerds are unpopular.
"When there is some real external test of skill, it isn't painful to be at the bottom of the hierarchy. A rookie on a football team doesn't resent the skill of the veteran; he hopes to be like him one day and is happy to have the chance to learn from him.... Court hierarchies are another thing entirely. This type of society debases anyone who enters it.... This is the sort of society that gets created by default in American secondary schools. And it happens because these schools have no real purpose beyond keeping the kids all in one place for a certain number of hours each day."
- Why nerds are unpopular
The New Hacker's
Dictionary
The text is old, and hacker culture has been diluted and is no
longer the underground phenomenon it was, but this remains a great
description of the culture. For some more recent examinations of
geekery, see Microserfs and the incomparable Cryptonomicon.
Excellent html lessons can be found at this handy site.
The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
cvshome.org documentation page
How to use CVS without going insane a few useful CVS recipes.
Linux Cookbook: I haven't actually used this much, but it seems like a useful site.
Canadian English explained "college", "zed", "tuque", Canadian spelling and vocabulary.
Canadian raising and other oddities
A thoughtful explanation of the Canadian "eh" and its uses.
Gert Florijn's language resources page.
Common English Errors Note especially the spelling test.
Learning German Through Fairy Tales If you already speak some German, this is a good way to practice.
Anguish Languish I first saw "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" in the Whole Earth Catalogue, and once I got it, I thought it was pretty funny. More at Kevin Rice's Anguish Languish Page
Latin phrases Die dulci fruere. See also the book Latin for all occasions (Amazon), which has more latin phrases for everyday occasions.
Doonesbury online ... xkcd ... Penny Arcade ... Goats ... Sinfest - Whatever You Want ... Lethal Doses ... PVP
Paddling humour: Dave's International Scale of River Difficulty and The Song of the Burrito Beast: a tribute to Hunter S. Thompson's Song of the Sausage Creature
The definitive 500-question version of the purity test.
Bofh.ntk.net: Bloke's Page and The Bastard Operator From Hell
Acts of Gord "Go now, and read of The Gord, and know that he has walked the path of the Game Store Owner, and that he has suffered for all of us."
