Links
Last Updated: 25 August 2003 9:42 PM SGT
Personal sites
- David's blog: I.CH.TH.U.S.
- Eugene's blog's address is a secret.
- Francis's blog & site: Infinix.net
- Johnny's blog: Always Look on the Dark Side of Death
- Wenyi's blog: Urban Emotion
- Xiaohui & Yilin's blog: audi alteram partem
- Yixiang's blog: Illumnae.com
- The Ultimate Business Machine: Macs & business.
- 2S05A 2000 message board
- Chinese High
- RJC
- NUS
- IVLE: Or the Integrated Virtual Learning Environment. They need to tweak the acronym a bit so that we can call it by a cute name, something like "eve-ly"? More convenient than saying the 4 letters.
- NUS University Scholars Programme (USP)
News & current affairs
- Channel NewsAsia
- C|Net's News.com: Computers & technology news.
- CNN
- The Economist
- Google News: search for news topics from among "4,000 sources."
- National Review
- New York Times (free registration required)
- Salon
- Scientific American
- Slate
- The Straits Times
- Time Asia
- Today
- Weekly Standard
- Wired News: Technology news.
- Washington Post
Blogs & alternative news sources
(mentioned here)- Andrew Sullivan
- Command-Post: My site of choice in Gulf War II, now also has contributions to articles on North Korea and terrorism.
- Daniel W. Drezner: Politics and economics.
- InstaPundit: By Glenn Reynolds, also functions like a pundit portal.
- Intel Dump: Law and military strategy.
- John and Belle have a Blog
- Lawrence Lessig: The cyberlaw guru.
- Matthew Yglesias: Comments on politics, philosophy... many things. Prolific updates.
- Mickey Kaus's Kausfiles
- OxBlog: "political rantings" of a grad in political theory and two in international relations.
- Salon's Scott Rosenberg
- Slashdot: Computers, technology & science news & rowdy fora.
- Spinsanity: "Countering rhetoric with reason" - their slogan couldn't be better.
- Talking Points Memo: Joshua Marshall, author of the really illuminating Washington Monthly neo-con piece.
- The New Republic staffers
- Unmedia: "Principled pragmatism."
- USS Clueless: The engineer's perspective; also check out his Best Log Entries.
Indispensible sites
- Amazon Books: Book information & reviews.
- Babelfish: translate sites & articles.
- Dictionary.com: self-explanatory.
- IMDB: Movie database.
- NLB OPAC: the National Libraries' catalogue system.
- Thesaurus.com: self-explanatory.
- XE.com: The Universal Currency Converter: convert currencies.
Star Trek
- StarTrek.com: The mother ship. News, episode synopses, pictures, interviews etc.
- Star Trek Hypertext - Jammer's Reviews: comprehensive synopses-cum-reviews of episodes in DS9, Voyager & Enterprise.
- Ex Astris Scientia: Gets its name from the Latin motto of Starfleet Academy (actually ex astris, scientia): from the stars, knowledge. Has comprehensive databases of the starships, "treknology", & much more.
- Wil Wheaton.net: Not really related to Star Trek, except that this guy played Wesley Crusher in TNG, possibly the fans' most hated character. I don't hate him (Wil or Wesley) though.
Japanese dramas
- The Japanese Drama Database: the classic, with the tune of "Once in a Blue Moon" (from With Love) to welcome you.
- JDorama.com: main attraction/turnoff is user forums.
- 日本偶像劇場: Literally Japanese Idols Theatre; in (Traditional) Chinese. Has many more things besides the database of Japanese dramas (劇料庫), like news articles & charts, that I haven't explored yet.
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Mathematics
- Euclid's Elements: With commentaries on each definition, postulate & proposition.
- Heavenly Mathematics: Cultural Astronomy: A very interesting module which I unfortunately won't be taking.
- MacTutor History of Mathematics: Love it for the biographies of mathematicians.
Philosophy
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Collected articles by scholars on various topics about philosophers & philosophy.
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Detailed guide by philosophers, also has a timeline.
- Reason & Persuasion: Website for a module I'm taking. Our readings are Plato's Euthyphro & Meno, two of Descartes's Meditations, J. S. Mill's On Liberty & Isaiah Berlin's Two Concepts of Liberty. Fresh exciting translations with cute illustrations by Dr. Holbo to go.
- The Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies
More good stuff
- ASL's Lego Page (mentioned here)
- The South Park ORD program I mentioned here and here.
- TalkingCock.com: sometimes must relac a bit mah.
- The Web Standards Project
- Woody's Office Watch: newsletter with development news & tips on MS Office. Also see Woody's Windows Watch.
- Wordsmith: new & interesting words.