Some links I like!
News Sites
- The Register
- A private-eye standard tech news site, amazing
- The Guardian
- The only newspaper I read daily, left-wing, well-designed, perfect for me
;-)
- The Observer
- The Sunday counterpart of The Guardian
- Slashdot
- Once great geek site, great appart from the message boards
- Need To Know (NTK)
- Great weekly e-mail geek news
Gaming Sites
- Planetarion
- An amazing online real time strategy game, if only I got attacked less
- GameSoc
- Edinburgh University Gameplaying Society, I used to be very active, but
until I have a computer that can run qukae 3d and so on nicely (or even at
all!), I'm just playing with them on Planetarion
- Cool Railway
Simulator
- Got into this a bit recently, strange and different gameplaying experience
Music, Video and DVD Shops
- Blackstar
- My favourite shop on the internet, great customer service, and good prices,
delivery quick too (as long as Royal Mail don't slow it down)
- DC-DVD
- A nice, safe though slightly expensive DVD importer, great for anime and
odd stuff - Uses PHP!
- Play 247
- Fast, cheap mianstream Region 1 DVD importer with nice sidelines in Region
2, Music and Playstation games. Can take a while to ship stuff but given that
they often take 25% off all prices, who cares!
General Shops
- Amazon
- The original e-tailer (or so _they_ say!), great for buying more than two
books or buying stuff that is rare...
- E-Bay
- Great internet auction site, bad on the wallet, great on the collector in
you
Geek Shops
- Copyleft - (New
@ Copyleft)
- My favourite clotes shop, There's nothing better than waking up in the morning,
having a shower and putting on your copy of DeCSS, geek or even <BODY>...
- Dabs
- Great Site to buy computer hardware, free postage on orders that cost enough...
- Ideal Computing
- A great reputable real computer shop, in Edinburgh
- Richer Sounds
- Horrendusly cheap hi-fi equipment, if only I had the money
- Forbidden Planet
- The sci-fi geek's home
- United Publications
- Great site to buy manga cheap
Shop Comparisons
- Big Bots
- Great index of internet shop comparisons
- PC Index
- Find the cheap hardware you need...
Friends Sites
- maniacyak
- Ian Mackay's site of wonder...
- dunkyboy.com
- The home page of my ex-flat mate Duncan Armstrong
- Planet Annabel
- My sister's home page (of sorts)