Computer related links

Operating systems

Vim: My favourite text editor. Runs on every platform. Makes you cool! ;) See the stuff page for some colorschemes I made.
The GIMP: The GNU Image Manipulation Program is the most feature-full free program for image manipulation. Version 2.x, in particular, rocks! If you've used Adobe Photoshop, GIMP will feel very familiar.
Mozilla Firefox: The newest incarnation of the Mozilla browsers. A lean, mean, browsing machine. It has the best standards support, that's why I use it when developing my pages. Try it, and you'll never go back.
MPlayer: When it comes to movie playing, there is no better. Period.

Digg: The new Slashdot. Without the dupes and slashvertisements. Power to the people. ;-)
Reddit: Kinda like digg, but not necessarily tech-oriented. They do have an awful lot of LISP stories, though. It could be because the site was made by one of Paul Graham's start-ups.
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Warning, if you are a geek, it creates addiction. ;-)
Wikipedia: The greatest on-line encyclopedia ever to be created. It is created as a wiki so that anyone can contribute. Reeeealy nice! ;)
The Wayback Machine: Have you ever encoutnered a link that just died on you? Has a site just dissappeared? Try the Wayback Machine, maybe you'll find it there. These guys archive the whole internet. (or, at least, they try).

These are people I wish I could have had as teachers. Respect to them.

Paul Graham: I've had lot's of his articles in the readings section. At some point I noticed that I liked every new article, so I figure it's easier to just link to his website, than to mirror everything. :-)
Philip Greenspun: I've first heard of him when our databases teacher made us read one of his SQL tutorials. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that he's also the man behind photo.net. A computer geek and a photo geek, in the same person! What a bargain! ;-)
Joel Spolsky: Joel's "no bullshit" view on software.

deviantART: The site of a community of digital artists. Cool stuff, updated continually.
Stopped Clock: Jakub "jimmac" Steiner's web site.
Linuxart: Garrett LeSage's web site.

The Romanian Mint Rubbing* Association: *mint rubbing (from Romanian "a freca menta") - time and life management technique developed in Romania and practiced by millions of people worldwide.
Despair, inc.: Demotivators - increasing success by lowering expectations.