James's Links Page
This is James's page of links. These are probably of no interest to anyone but him, unless you happen to like the same things as he does...
Sites I Designed
Aliens Stole My Handbag Amazing Convention which took place in 2000.
CardCircle Online greeting cards that bite!
FRINGE Fionna O'Sullivan's Fanzine - written by fionna, webified by me.
Headline Music Agency Music agency booking Irish and international artists concerts across Ireland.
James's Font Page Fonts I designed myself.
James's Guide to Dublin The results of a day in Dublin with a digital camera...
Octocon The National Irish Science Fiction Convention
Pugwash Power-pop band. Go see it! 'Nuff said.
Sproutlore The Now Official Robert Rankin Fan Club
The James White Award Science Fiction short story competition in memory of James White
Zrazy Excellent Dublin-based Jazz band.
Science Fiction Sites
ConNotation The UK, European and World Science Fiction Convention Listing
DiverseBooks news and Reviews and Stuff about Books. SF, Fantasy, Computing, and more.
FTL Web Based Publication about Sciece and Science Fiction
L-Space Web A Terry Pratchett / Discworld Web Site
Locus Online version of Locus Magazine, containing Sci-Fi news and information.
Octarine Somewhat inactive Humorous organisation
Questarian The ultimate GalaxyQuest site!
SciFi.com Everything Science Fiction
SF-Lovers Conventions List Convention listing and science fiction resource
The Geek Hierarchy Where do you fit on the hierarchy?
ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha The Official Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Appreciation Society
My Favourite Sites
Formula1.com Yes, I admit, I'm a closet Formula 1 fan!
SETI@Home The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - on your PC!
Space.com A great place to find the latest happenings outside our atmosphere.
Friends' Websites
Liam's Web Liam Proven: Technology guru and biker dude.
Writing
Quick Story Idea Generator Stuck for a story idea? Generate one at random.
The National Novel Writing Month Annual event to attempt to writ a 50,000 word novel in the month of November.
Fiction
G - the Gravitational Constant A Short Story by Joe Gillespie
Goliath Story by Neil Gaiman set in the Matrix universe
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex A practical analysis of issues facing Clark Kent and Lois Lane
They're made out of Meat A short story by Terry Bisson
Snowboarding
Board-It Live for Winter! Where to board, how to board and what to board on...
Hunter Mountain My last day's boarding in the spring of 2001 was at this great little resort in the Catskill mountains.
Jiminy Peak The first American resort where I snowboarded in March 2001 - small but nice
K2 Snowboards Maker of my Snowboard, the Fat Bob, which I'm extremely fond of...
Pas De La Casa, Andorra The resort where I first went snowboarding in 2000
Serre Chevalier Resort in the French Alps where I spent two weeks in January 2001
Ski Windham American resort in NY state where I spent a very enjoyable day boarding in March 2001
Snowboard Asylum Online shope with cool snowboard selector
Windham Rather nice little resort in New York, where I tried out my new snowboard.
Computer Links
Joel on Software Interesting ideas about the process of software development
Slashdot Discuss the latest technology trends (hint: don't mention Windows)
Think Geek Toys for geeks!
W3C The World Wide Web Consortium
Webmonkey The Web Developer's Resource
Rubiks Cubes
Rubik's Online The official Rubik's cube site
Solving Rubiks Cube for speed How to complete the cube in under 30 seconds!
Robotics and Radio Control
Getting Started in Radio Control Everything you need to know to get started in radio controlled cars, planes and boats.
Radio Controlled Models Information Sheet Information about Radio Control devices
Fun But Pointless!
All Your Bases Cool music video (I know this one wasn't working, but there are lots of mirrors now, so it should be good).
An tInneal Mallachtaí (The Curse Engine) How to be foul and repulsive... in Irish.
Belgium There's no such thing as Belgium...
Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock Find out how rich Bill Gates is at this moment.
Bless This Defender of Freedom Wouldn't it be so easy for something like this to be tacky?
Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics It is a little known fact, that Ms Spears is an expert in semiconductor physics.
Buffy's Swearing Keyboard Go here than type on your keyboard...
Commentary on Attack of the Clones David Brin comments on the latest Star Wars Episode
Cthuugle Search engine for Lovecraft addicts
DanceAround Remember HamsterDance? Well there are a silly nuimber of variations, and I'm not going to list them all individually. And why should I when this site does?
Eric Conveys an Emotion A new emotion every day!
Errorcom Any similarities between this site and a certain telecom company are purely coincidental.
Future Horizons Plasma Sabers - you know you want one!
General James Shields All about my duel with Abe Lincoln...
Jesus Christ Superstore This is wrong... in the best possible way!
Jesus Inspirational Sport Statues This is wrong... so very wrong...
Kung Fu Monsters Online game. Train your monster and fight it against other people's monsters.
Lego Harpsichord Build your own harpsichord... from Lego!
Magic Infinity Ball Valuable decision making tool.
Nigerian Money Scams Ever wonder what would happen if you actually replied to one?
Periodic Table of Science Fiction Sci-Fi can be educational too! Learn interesting facts about a new element each week.
Personalised Action Figures Have an action figure of yourself made!
PinStruck Send voodoo curses over the Internet!
Plumb Design Visual Thesarus Not pointless, a really cool idea! Click on words to explore the language.
Powers of Ten Zoom from ten million light years to subatomic particles... don't blink or you'll miss it!
Reasonably Clever What would you look like as a Lego person?
Robot Frank's Life I asked Frank if he dreams of electric sheep.
Sky Diving Cars (AutoWeek) Drop your car from 13,000 feet!
South Park Character Generator That's right, you too can be in South Park!
Stupid Computer Tricks Lots of daft pictures a computer technitian took of silly things people have done to their computers
The Adopt a Dragon Foundation Lots of dragons in need of friendly homes
The Adventure Game Anyone remember the 80's TV show?
The London Underground An animated comparrison of the Tube in 1933 and today. Very cool.
Turn your phone into a vibrator! One for the girls...
WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com This site is a coalition effort of bloodthirsty hawks and ineffectual doves united in admiration for Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information (currently on administrative leave).
Whassup! About a million variatins of the Budweiser ad!
What kind of Goth are you? I was very relieved to discover I'm "Not Very Goth". As Liam predicted.
Which Great Old One Are? Another one for Cthulu fans!