Biting Tech News
These days it can be a pain keeping current with tech news, and unfortunately it's only getting harder. Seems like you have to slog through the investment news/infomercial wasteland that cnet & zdnet have become, or go to slashdot and hold your nose against the pro-unix stench. Want some white-knuckle tech news by very opinionated and yet objective and knowledgeable writers from all over the world? Get yourself to the Register in the UK.
Kaleidoscope Japan!
The best kaleidoscope site I know of also happens to be a Japanese site, and there is no English. The photos are stunning, however. I emailed the webmaster and was pleasantly surprised to receive a friendly reply. Check it out.
Photo copyright (C) Akinori Nakamura
Be a Capitalist Scum - or at least stop feeding them
Go to the Motley Fool to learn how to get out from under your credit cards, and how a person with limited resources can try to save some money for the future.
Korean Animated Comics (Flash needed)
Vooz features the adventures of Pucca as she eats noodles and forces her love on the mostly game but sometimes clueless Garu. Cute as a button and sometimes boring, but always strangely fascinating.
My favorite one is here.
My Favorite Japanese Upload Board
Henatyoko Desk GIF is very wacky indeed. For those who don't know, upload boards have become rather popular in Japan. These are public places where people can post photos, or in this case, weird, fascinating small animations. The buttons at the bottom with '5's on them are next/previous page buttons.
Since anybody can upload, be careful accessing this site if you're at work. Sometimes they get spammed with porn. Definitely beware offsite links, and maybe keep your mouse near the back button. Check it out!
Kick Microsoft Off your Machine
OK, some of you can't really do that, but if you use a Mac or are running *nix, you can! Do it today. Start with your browser.
Japan As Seen from Knee High
This site is a curiosity. The guy who runs it seems to have a shoe fetish, or maybe a leg fetish. I don't know. Maybe both. (Another possible adult content warning applies here, too!) Regular visitors to my site will know that I have a policy against photographing people in public unless you ask. I don't think this guy asks, and whoever it is might want to find a new hobby, but... the thing is that none of the photos are particularly offensive, and his sense of composition is impeccable. Some of them are weirdly compelling.
Distributed Network Fractal Screen Saver
Aw yeah. This is as geeky as it gets. Forget signing up to use your machine's idle clock cycles to help SETI, and yes, they finally cracked the code on the encryption brute force distributed network. You should use this instead. Groovy eye candy with a five star geek factor. The Electric Sheep Screen Saver. Currently available only for Linux flavors and Mac OS X. Windoze users might at least check out the cool movies.