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These are my bookmarks. Or rather, these are the links that were my
bookmarks until I decided to put them on a webpage instead; my actual
bookmarks are now mostly
Bookmarklets which provide
nifty utilities when browsing the web.
My ‘every day’ links are splatted across the main page, for easy access. They’re the URLs I was typing the most often, so I stuck them there to save on keyboard wear. Most of them are fairly well-known site so the collection probably isn’t very interesting to you, though hopefully it isn’t as patronizing as the seemingly-ubiquitous personal homepages that seem to think they’re proving a service by linking to five big search engines, a couple of auction sites, and all the online newspapers they can find.
Those links are scrunched together to fit lots in a window, and often don’t go to sites’ homepages but directly to the places where the good stuff is. The categories used aren’t supposed to be comprehensive resources — why would I want links to cartoons I don’t find funny or search engines I don’t use? If you want links to all newspapers including the ones I don’t read then what are you doing here? Use a directory; I’m sure they’ll make a much better job of it than I would.
Anyway, the rest of this page is a list of some sites I think I might want to visit again sometime, especially those with hard-to-remember URLs. I used to be somewhat sceptical about the point of doing this — who really wants to read somebody else’s bookmarks?
They’re here for two reasons: firstly so I can get at them whichever computer or browser I happen to be using, and secondly for the benefit of Googlebot — Google treats the entire web as a democracy, and counts links as votes for pages. This seems an excellent system, and I thought I’d vote for things I like.
The links are loosely split into three categories. If you’re just browsing past then the interesting links at the bottom are probably of most erm ... interest. These are to pages which I’ve read once and gone “coo, that’s nice”. They are generally ‘one view’ material, in that seeing them once is the point of them.
The useful links at the top are generally to some kind of service or reference material, things that might not be as enchanting as the ‘interesting’ links but could come in handy in the future. This taxonomy isn’t exact — some of the ‘interesting’ links are to services, but ones I merely found intriguing rather than useful.
In the middle are some fan links. These are only separated out cos they are probably neither interesting nor useful unless you happen to have exactly the same tastes as I do.