Interesting Sites

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The governing body for the world wide web. Their mission is: to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web. This goal is accomplished primarily through the creation of Web standards and guidelines.

Wikipedia described as the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. This is a powerful online encyclopedia that allows it's participating users to submit or revise articles, thus keeping information as relevant as possible.

Derek Allard Derek Allard is a CodeIgniter and ExpressionEngine developer who blogs about PHP, Javascript, standards and other web related goodies.

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect our fundamental rights regardless of technology; to educate the press, policymakers and the general public about civil liberties issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those liberties.

Open Source Software

Firefox is a standards compliant web browser that allows you to surf faster, safer (no more popups )and more efficiently than any other product out there.

Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before. When paired with Firefox these two package represent the leading edge in standards compliant internet technology.

GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for all major operating systems.

Inkscape is an open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG).

The Open CD project is a collection of high quality open source software. The programs run in Windows and cover the most common tasks such as word processing, presentations, e-mail, web browsing, web design, and image manipulation.

Fun Sites

Slashdot News For Nerds

Player vs. Player (PVP) This online Comics answers the question "What if nerds ruled the world?" Hilariously written and drawn by Scott Kurtz.