Carl's page of links!

This is mostly for my own use, so that I have one place to get to my favorite links from wherever I might be on the Web. But you might find stuff that's interesting to you here too, especially if you're interested in any of the following:

FAL: Frequently accessed links.

Game Design: Designing games, especially computer games, especially virtual adventures.

Entertainment: Books, movies, TV, and other diversions.

Magic: The Gathering: Has enough links to deserve its own heading.

Language: Stuff about English and other languages.

Personality: Stuff about being introspective and junk. Interesting for character design.

Community: Information about the Indianapolis area.

On-Line References: Assorted random information.

Frequently Accessed Links

• My Wiki: Which largely supersedes this page, but I can't always remember the URL.
• Here: This page, up on the internet.
• LinkDb: My link directory: under development, administered via PHPMyAdmin.
• Weather: Forecast from NOAA.
• Yahoo! Mail: My webmail account.
• Sir Valence's Domain: My blog. Add a new entry.
• Boardgame Geek
• Reuben Tuesdays: Ratings of local Reuben sandwiches.
• CCPL: Carmel Clay Public Library.

Game Design

• Erasmatazz: Chris Crawford's homepage.
• Anti-Linear Logic: Lee Sheldon's homepage.
• Prairie Arts: Mark Barrett's homepage.
• Thoth: A virtual cardgame engine.
• GameDev.net: The best online game development resource I've found so far.
• CMU ETC: The Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University.
• The Games Journal: A boardgaming monthly.
• IF Competition
• Game Tutorials: Game programming tutorials, looks promising.
• Colossus: Colossus is a Java clone of the boardgame Titan, a turn-based fantasy wargame for 2-6 players.
• Gamasutra: Online companion to Game Developer magazine.
• WorldForge: An open source / freeware multiplayer online game development project.
• Interactive Fiction Archive: The place for text adventures, both playing and creating.
• TADS: A good language for developing interactive fiction.
• Poor Zefron's Almanac: A text adventure I created with TADS.
• Skotos: Some interesting forums here on the nature of adventures.
• Just Adventure: Reviews of adventure games.

Entertainment

• Boardgame Geek
• GameTunnel
• Citadels PBW
• Buffy Guide
• Angel Episode Guide
• Cheapass Gamers: Searching the web to find cheap game deals.
• Monty Python
• Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth: An online Amber DRPG in which I play, by Scott Nolan.
• AddALL: Another book price crawler.
• ISBN.NU: Where to find books.
• The Booklist Center
• SF&F Top 100: The top 100 SF&F novels as rated by people on the Internet.
• Decent Films: Christian (Catholic) movie reviews.
• Internet Movie Database: A plethora of cinematic data.
• NetFlix: DVDs for rent on the Web.
• DVD Overnight: Another way to rent DVDs on the Web.
• Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5: Everything knowable about the best show on TV so far. Or try the Atlanta mirror.
• Lord of the Rings Rules: Expanded rules for the very cool cooperative Lord of the Rings boardgame designed by Reiner Knizia.
• Downtown Comics: Where I go to get comic books.
• Science Toys You can Make with Your Kids
• Prince of Parodies The official home of the Mensa "Weird Al" Yankovic SIG (!)

Magic: The Gathering

• Black Lotus: Edit URL to see any Magic card.
• Official Magic Rulings Summaries
• Rules: Official online rules reference.
• Magic Encyclopedia Updates: Update files for the electronic Magic Encyclopedia.
• M:TG on eBay: A dangerous place to browse.
• Big Fireball: A good place to buy singles, if they have them.
• CollectMart: Not as friendly or inexpensive as Big Fireball, but with an undeniably larger selection.
• Kard Kastle: Another place to buy singles.
• The Wagical Place: Another place to buy singles.
• Blackborder Price List: Crawls the web for card prices and sells at the lowest price.

Language

• US Dialect Survey
• Chris Pound's Language Machines: Random name generators and other goodness.
• The Russian Alphabet: A fun way to learn a little bit of Russian.
• Visual Thesaurus: Java app map of the English Lexicon. Seems to only run with MS Java under IE.
• Dictionary.com: Pretty much what you'd expect.
• Merriam-Webster: Another online word reference.
• The Word Detective: Word origins.
• Babelfish: Online translation service.
• Omniglot: A guide to various writing systems.

Personality

• Kolbe Corp: Test looks interesting, but you have to pay.
• Hale Abbreviated Psych Test: A 4-question Myers-Briggs assessment.
• Personality Correspondences: Correlations between Myers-Briggs, other personality types, and personality disorders.
• Humanmetrics Personality Test: Online Myers-Briggs personality type test.
• The Personality Page: Personality type info.
• Winer Foundation: More personality type info.
• Inner Geek Test: More personality type info, of a different sort.

Community

• Indianapolis Traffic: Courtesy Indianapolis Star
• Reuben Tuesdays: Ratings of local Reuben sandwiches.
• CCPL: Carmel Clay Public Library.
• IMCPL: Indianapolis Marion County Public Library.
• Carmel Clay Schools: Where my kids go to school.
• AntennaWeb: Information on TV antenna selection and reception.
• Zap2It: TV Listings
• DineSite: Diner's guide to Indy restaurants.
• Indianapolis Monthly--Dining: Reviews of Indy restaurants.
• Nuvo--Cuisine Index: More reviews of Indy restaurants.
• Angie's List: Referrals of local service providers.
• Foster Grove: Our homeowners' association.

On-Line References

• How Stuff Works
• Pictures of Places
• Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia.
• QuoteWorld
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Victorinox: Geek heaven.
• Workbike
• Electric Bikes
• Overstock.com: A cheap place to buy stuff.
• Google: My favorite search engine.
• TouchGraph Google Browser
• Smart Pages: On-line phone directory.
• People Finders: Tools for looking for Roger Pavey.
• TUCOWS Archive: Internet software archives.
• WHOIS: Verisign's Internet WHOIS lookup.
• Urban Legends: A place to validate those chain emails everyone sends you.
• Urban Legends Reference at Snopes
• McAfee: A place to validate virus alerts.
• Epinions: Consumer ratings.
• SneakEMail: A place to get email aliases for sending to places that might send you spam.
• CIA World Factbook: With information about various nations.
• Traffic Waves: Fascinating info on what you can do to prevent traffic jams.

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