Rainbow!

Well, I was sorting out my bookmarks the other day and came across a folder of things I meant to look at from the balloon race, so I thought I’d share them with you. I’ve put them into alphabetical order by sort-of-subject… you’ll get the idea (I hope).

Art, Design & Photography

• Chris Charles - photos I can imagine hanging on my walls…
• Hexapus Doodle Book - blog of cartoons, some touching, some arty, some a bit creepy!
• Jan Peter Thompson - student designer with some interesting projects.
• Munkeybars - designer Patrick Barba’s portfolio.
• Phase Six creative - Canadian design consultancy.
• Richard Wild, photographer - very interesting arty photographs that kind of remind me of Helmut Newton at times.

Computing

• 8 bit hero - gaming, 80s style.
• 48k awards - oldskool celebrity pixel art.

Environment and living

• Green upgrader - an excellent blog about living a more eco-friendly lifestyle.

Games

• Reverse Breakout - it will melted your brains…

Humour

• Coin Stack Challenge - well, it made me laugh.
• Survive animal attack - cute cartoons with an educational message. Well worth ten minutes of your time.
• Top Ten Literal Album Covers - why? Just why? Did nobody have any better ideas? A great site celebrating the record biz’s lack of imagination…
• Top Fourteen Oddest Celebrity Childrens’ Books - and boy are some of these odd!!!
• Your parents are lying to you - top “facts” parents tell children that are as fake as a nine-bob note…

Management

• Synyx - leadership and management development.

Shopping

• Cheap Bargains.org - does just what it says on the tin.
• Sell Student Books - second-hand textbooks for sale. What a great idea!

Travel

• Scuba Diving in Egypt - been to Sharm-el-Sheikh, can recommend it, and this looks a great site for info if you’ve never been.

Web

• Dave Keen - developer for hire, with a nicely designed site.
• Internet Alphabet - nice A-Z of web sites. Worth printing and pinning on the wall!
• Simple Content - a nice looking site promoting their CMS product.

I’ve got more but I got bored. Maybe next time

It’s always nice, when using a new operating system in a virtual machine, to have some apps to look at in it.  So I thought I’d compile a list of some, where to get them, and the usual suspects: OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird and Opera.  Here, then, after a quick scan through my bookmarks is all that I can find.  Use and enjoy. (more…)