Links
Interesting People
I have communicated or collaborated with:
MenTaLguYNathan J Hurst (njh)
Paul Harrison (pfh)
Don Stewart (dons, every haskeller knows him) — site similarity purely coincidental...
Others:
Paul Graham — author of many good, though lengthy, essaysWouter van Oortmerssen — has an impressive list of languages and projects
News Sites / Forums
Lambda The Ultimate — community blog and forums focused on programming language theory and designAnarchaia — the first and best tumbleblog
Reddit — in particular, the programming reddit
Software I Use & Recommend
Ordered in terms of the product of goodness and unknowness
XMonad — minimalistic window manager written in haskellInkscape — very nice svg-based vector editor
Yaedit — minimalistic text editor written in python
Gimp — bitmap editor
Pidgin — chat client supporting tons of protocols, uniformly; I use it for AIM, MSN, Jabber, and IRC
Ubuntu
Firefox
Comics I Read
Webcomics:
The Last Bus — MenTaLguY's black and white, cliffhanger comicOzy And Millie — anthropomorphic comic by a Washingtonian
XKCD — a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language
Digger — a comic of a digging wombat, with beautiful black and white art; warning, after a few hundred you have to pay for the rest, except for the most recent
Sluggy Freelance — a quirky comic, one of the first webcomics
Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life — robots have replaced humans, emulating all their quirks; infrequent updates
Sinfest
We the Robots — rather new comic
Paper Comics:
Lio — great dark, cute humorFrazz
Get Fuzzy — classic man, cat, and dog - garfield, but better