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Comics
- Everybody loves Eric Raymond - Stallman, Eric Raymond and Linus Torvalds together? - Dilbert - The life of an engineer in a large technology company (daily) - PhD Comic - A *must* for every phd students (couple of times a week) - xkcd - Stick characters, geek sense of humour... my current favorite (on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) - SinFest - A young man sold his soul to the devil.. (daily) - Calvin & Hobbes - The complete archive with all the strips News
- Reddit - The first page I open in the morning - Slashdot - It used to be the first (for a long time) - Punto Informatico - The best Italian website with computer-related news - Fark - Looking for weird news in the newspapers? - PreSurfer - Your daily dose of diversion Security
- Security conferences - Deadlines and locations of the main security-related academic conferences - HackerGames - A long list of hacking and security related challenges - Phrack - The best ezine ever (closed in July 2005, resurrected in May 2007) - SecurityFocus - The best vulnerability database - OpenRCE - Community that hosts code, blog, papers, and forums about reverse engineering - Packet Storm - One of the best. A lot of tools, advisories, exploits, papers... - Uninformed - Online magazine on security and reverse engineering - Linux Security - News and advisories Music and Movie
- Rotten Tomatoes - Check out what critics say about the movie at the box office (but don't trust too much the American critics :P) - Internet Movie Database - *The* reference site for movies, actors, directors... Also reports the vote of the public (after the first months it usually converges to a reasonable value) - All Music - My reference site for music artists and albums. You find them all. Nice and reliable album reviews - MetaCritic - A lot of critic reviews about movies, books, DVD, music... - Fimsite - Nice website for classic films - PollStar - Who's on tour right now Surf
- WetSand - All the tool you need to check before start waxing your boad. The swell radar is simply the surfer's best friend - Surfline (reports)- Cam and report for your favorite surfing spot (nothing is better that a buddy that check the waves for you in the morning) - Surfline (travel)- Google Map for surfers (does not cover every country) - Surf Atlas - The best place to find a break everywhere in the world (yes, in Italy too) - ASP World Tour - Is Kelly Slater going to win his 9th title? - Santa Barbara Surfing - The local site |
Some of the Blogs I read regularly
- Bruce Schneier - Blog on airport security, ops.. I mean on computer security - Add Xor Rol - Halvar flake's blog (reverse engineering, vuln. analysis) - ha.ckers - RSnake's blog on web security - HexBlog - A blog on binary analysis from the author of IDA Pro - Jeremiah Grossman - Jeremiah's blog on web security - Matasano Chargen - Information security from a team of five big names in the field - nzight - Ero Carrera's blog - TaoSecurity - Richard Bejtlich on network security and forensics (and a lot of reviews of security books) - Gimme Hardware/Software Interface - Virtualization from a VMware engineer - SBarcati - Life in Santa Barbara from a couple of Italian friends - rdist: setuid just for you - Security thoughs from Nate Lawson, the guy that wrote RealSecure - the first commercial IDS - Darknet - Hacking, Penetration Testing and Computer Security Photography
- Portrait Photos - Wonderful collection of portraits. Stunning! - John Cleary Gallery - Fine art photography at its best - Dark Roasted Blend - Collections of nice and weird pictures - FredMiranda - Nice reviews section - DCViews - Useful tables with all the lenses - Tamrod Focal Length Comparison - See the effect of various lens on the image. Very cool - Luminous Landscape - Nice techniques and tutorials - Beautiful Landscape - Alain Briot's landscape photos - Maciej Duczynsky - Nice landscapes portfolio - Dan Merkel - One of the big name in the surf photography - Ocean Driven - Surf picture from a Santa Barbara photographer Computer Science Misc
- Language Timeline - A history of computer languages with a nice graph - NetCraft - Internet statistic (web-servers, OSs, hosting...) - Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi? - You should read this - Internet Archive - The time machine for web pages - Alexa - Top Sites on the Internet - RFC Editor - Everything behind the Internet Misc
- Straighdope - If you wonder which keeps you drier, running through the rain or walking? - SeatGuru - Because 12 hours on a plane is no joke - Wikipedia - The world's largest (and more controversial) encyclopedia. Your second best friend when you need answers (google is still the best) - Juggling Trick Database - For jugglers - Mith Busters - Weird things and interesting experiments (the results from all the tv episodes) - Juggling with balls - Very nice french site (also in english) about Juggling |