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This page will contain links to various sites and pages that I frequent, or find interesting or entertaining. Writing mostly for my own benefit, and hope that some might get some benefit or knowledge from it. If anyone has any suggestions for the page, feel free to Contact me
Social Sites
Most of us use at least ONE social network online. These are the ones I bother with. Or can at least remember. :DFORUMS
- Whirlpool
- EzeeLinux
EzeeTalk
- Linux
Mint Forums
- Debian User Forums
- Ubuntu forums
- PCLinuxOS Forums
- Overclockers Australia Forums
- 5
Earths Forum
Shopping
Online shopping is great, no snooty sales staff, and no retards wasting my time. Plus, I get it all delivered to the door. And yes, I love books. :)- Booko - is a price comparison engine for books with an emphasis on Australian buyers.
- ThriftBooks
- Gumtree.com.au
is a free classified advertising service.
- eBay - an online shopping and auction site
- AliExpress
- mycomicshop.com
- Ronald Books
- Book Depository - is
the fastest growing bookseller in Europe, with free delivery
worldwide to over 100 countries.
- Fishpond - a full-scale
online bookstore. It also sells DVDs, music CDs, games, and
gaming software, as well as toys.
- AbeBooks - is an online
marketplace for books. Many books listed are used, many are
rare or out of print, and a growing number of are new books.
- Booktopia - is an Australian online bookshop
- Boomerang Books -Australia's Online Independent Bookstore
- Better Read Than Dead
- Angus &
Robertson - Selling books to Australians since 1886
- Powell's City of Books
- Basement Books
- Kinokuniya Books
- E-book stores - This page lists where you can purchase eBooks.
- ManyBook.net - The Best Free
eBooks!
- Amazon.com.au
- BetterWorldBooks
- The Book Grocer
- CDKeyPrices - We compare the Internets most trusted CD Key Stores to help you buy cheap steam keys. Our CD Key Finder also tracks prices for Xbox One Game Keys & PS4 Game Keys.
- HumbleBundle.com
- FANATICAL - Top games, exclusive game bundles, unbelievable value
- Static Ice - Finding you the best tech deals from 202 Australian stores
- Shopbot.com.au - where Australians compare prices
- GetPrice.com.au - We compare prices across all of your favourite products.
- TeeFury - Cool t-shirts.
Torrent Sites and help
This is pretty self-explanatory. Torrents are useful for downloading all manner of files, from the latest linux distros, to the latest episodes of tv series, anime, audio books, etc. And no, not all torrents are "piracy" (which is only a stupid, scarier name for "copyright infringement" anyway).- Demonoid
- limetorrents.cc
- TORREN FUNK
- MagnetDL
- Open Bitorrent Public Tracker
- Tokyo Toshokan - A BitTorrent Library for Japanese Media
- 1337X
- TORRENTDOWNLOADS
Amusing
Assorted funny and amusing stuff I've stumbled across. Feel free to suggest me more.- Not Always Right : Funny and Stupid Customer Quotes
- Texts From Last Night
- Go Away!
- Funny Bumper Stickers
- Fail Blog - Making you feel better about yourself every day.
- Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger
Web-comics
- Carbon Dating
- nuklear power presents: 8-bit Theater
- something positive
- Sluggy Freelance
- JL8
- Super
Stupor
Free Stuff
Who doesn't like free stuff? :)- Librivox - free public domain audiobooks
- Manage
Multiple Cloud Drives in One Platform - FREE App for Sync,
Transfer, Backup and Manage Files across Cloud Drives.
- donotlink.it - Whenever you link a website, its position in search engines is strengthened. Sometimes you want to post a link to a website without improving its rank. This is where donotlink.it comes in.
- Inspired
by donotlink.com, this website allows skeptics, bloggers,
journalists, and friends on Facebook to link to scams,
pseudoscience, misinformation, etc. without improving the
search engine position of the site they are discussing.
- Free ebooks - Project Gutenberg
- The Legal 500 ebooks
- the
Internet Classics Archive - Bringing the wisdom of the
classics to the Internet since 1994.
- Open
Culture - The best free cultural and educational media on
the web
- List of freeware and other releases from The Windows Club
- Free addons for IceCat/Firefox
- The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows!
- Open Source Windows: A simple list of the best free and open-source software for windows.
- AnalogX
- has some very nifty, yet remakably small apps that can
be quite useful.
- Ninite Easy PC Setup - Silent Unattended Install Multiple Programs At Once
- Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.
- STEAL THIS BOOK
- Wikipedia
- ibiblio - The Public's Library and Digital Archive
- NASA TV
- University of Oxford - Philosophy for Beginners
- M.I.T. Open Courseware - Introduction To Biology
- Guerrilla Mail - Disposable Temporary E-Mail Address
- Icecream Apps - Free & Tasty Software!
- Transperth Journey Planner
- Best online videos (wimp.com)
- Iron Spider - web design and resource centre
- Aerogramme Writers' Studio - Books and Writing
- The Writer's Circle
- The Literacy Site Blog
- The Jack kirby Effect - The Journal of the Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center
- Skeptoid - Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomenon
Linux and I.T. stuff
- Distrowatch
- tuxmachines.org - Do you waddle the waddle?
- Tom's Hardware
- ';--have
i been pwned? Check if you have an account that has been
compromised in a data breach
- NoobsLab
| Ubuntu/Linux News, Reviews, Tutorials, Apps
- How to get and install Linux games - Full tutorial - A.K.A. Everything you wanted to know about Linux games
- Dedoimedo
- offers the most detailed guides and articles on a wide range
of topics, including Linux and Windows, security,
virtualization, hardware, and so much more. Step by step, laced
with humor and wit. There's something for everyone, from newbies
to experts.
- Linux Mint - The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.
- PCLinuxOS - is a free easy to use Linux-based Operating System for x86 desktops or laptops.
- PCLinuxOS
Magazine is a free, independent, community produced magazine
dedicated to the PCLinuxOS family of operating systems.
- FOSS Force - is a news site offering insight into the goings on in the IT world, focusing on the interests of the Open Source community
- Jupiter Broadcasting
- Darren Yates - Freelance IT Journalist
- 8GadgetPack - Use gadgets in Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10
- Web UPD8
- TechDirt - the Techdirt blog uses a proven economic framework to analyze and offer insight into news stories about changes in government policy, technology and legal issues that affect companies' ability to innovate and grow.
- Basics of Backups
- HTML Goodies
News Sites
- Google News - Comprehensive, up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
- Snopes
is the internet’s definitive fact-checking resource.
- The Guardian
- BBC News Front Page
- Newsweek
- Digg - The Latest News, Headlines, Videos and Images
- reddit: the front page of the internet
- LifeHacker.com.au
- How-To
Geek
- WikiLeaks
- Common Dreams - Breaking News and views for the Progressive Community
- Information Clearing House - News You Won't Find on CC or FOX News
- Democracy Now!
- AntiWar.com
- Your best source for antiwar news, viewpoints, and activities
- Welcome to news.sciencemag.org, the award-winning daily news site of the journal Science.
- Nature Reviews Disease Primers
- SPACE.com
- ViralNova - Your Stories Delivered Daily
- Internet Evolution - The macrosite for news, analysis, and opinion about the future of the internet.
- Slashdot:
News for nerds, stuff that matters
- the Onion - America's Finest News Source
- Popular Mechanics
- The Consumerist - Shoppers bite back
- I HATE HATE!!!
- DC Comics
- Marvel Comics
- Image Comics
- ValiantFans.com
- The
Five Earths Project is the go-to site for Golden Age, Silver
Age, and Pre-Crisis DC Comics fan fiction!
- Sankaku Complex - Anime, Manga, and games, observed from Japan.
- Star Destroyer.net
- i am bored - Loads of viral videos, games, memes, lists and social networking for when you're bored. Updated every day, so visit often
Religion, Atheism, etc
- Evil Bible.com - Fighting Against Immorality in the Bible
- Ten Common Myths About Atheists
- What
is
God? An Objective Overview of Different Views and Ideologies
- The
Historical
Evidence For Jesus
- Lists
of deities
- If
there
is no God, where did everything come from?
- Church
and State - challenging religious privilege in public life
- No, Jesus Did Not Soften the Old Testament – In Fact He Did the Opposite
- The
Bible
is Fiction: A Collection of Evidence
- Answers in Reason
- What
is so Bad about Christianity?
- Our Founding Fathers Were NOT Christians.
- The Skeptics Annointed Bible
- God is Imaginary - 50 Simple Proofs
- TheReligionofPeace.com - the politically incorrect truth about ISLAM, one really messed up religion
- Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers - Providing community for atheists, humanists, and other nontheists in the military.
- Jesus Myth - The Case Against Historical Christ
- Liars For jesus - The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History
- WikiIslam - The Online Resource on Atheism
- No Beliefs.com - for Freethinkers
- Atheist Republic - provides opportunities for non-believers around the world to gather with like-minded people, share their views and also provide each other with tools to better express themselves online and offline.
- God is imaginary - It is easy to prove to yourself that God is imaginary. The evidence is all around you. Here are 50 simple proofs
- The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party
- Archeology is Demolishing the History of the Bible
- BibleTrash.com
- Atheist Republic provides valuable news, resources and a medium for atheists to freely express themselves in a variety of ways, including discussion forums, blogs and image macros of thought-provoking, funny or inspirational quotes.
- Betty Bowers - America's Best Christian
- Did Jesus Exist or Is It All a Myth?
- The Mythic Origins of Christianity: True or False?
- Jesus Who? The Historical Record Gives No Clue
- Michael Sherlock Author - Atheist & Freethought Blog
- NoBeliefs.com for Freethinkers.
- Fires of Hell : Medieval Fear and Loathing of Red Hair
- Victims Of The Christian Faith - How many people have been killed by Christians since Biblical times?
- How local wise-women who carried on ancient traditions were exterminated by Christianity
- Cosmic Skeptic
- The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense founded on the Christian religion
- The Horrors of the Church and Its Holy Inquisition
- If God is not real, why do so many intelligent people believe in God?
- Ancient history suggests that atheism is as natural to humans as religion
- What is so Bad about Christianity?
- The Bible’s Ungodly Origins
- Debunking the creationist myth that mutations don’t produce new and useful information
- Christian Atrocities: Three Centuries Of Pagan Persecution
- Christians
Point
Fingers at Atheists to Cover Growing Corruption in Church
- Understanding Evolution - your one-stop source for information on evolution
- not
just a theory . com
- The emergence of humans
- Lines
of
evidence: The science of evolution
- The TalkOrigins Archive - Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy
- Irreducible
Complexity
Demystified
- Evolution as theory and fact
- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - What does it mean to be human?
- Geological and taphonomic context for the new hominin species Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa
- Hoyle's fallacy, also known as the Junkyard tornado, describes a hypothetical tornado that passes through a hypothetical junkyard resulting in chaos.
- The
Tornado
in the Junkyard
GMOs
- DangeroursTalk.net - Defending Truth, shedding ignorance. Genetically Modified Organism Myths Debunked
- Top Five Myths Of Genetically Modified Seeds, Busted
- Why The Asbestos Gambit Fails
- Blowing
smoke:
Annihilating fallacious comparisons of biotech scientists to
tobacco company lobbyists.
- 10 Bullsh*t Arguments Against GMOs - Read this before you hate on them.
- No, Farmers Don’t Want to Save Seeds
- In 80% farmer-suicides due to debt, loans from banks, not moneylenders
- Destroying the Anti-GMO Narrative
- No,
Glyphosate
Is Not a Threat to Bees
- GMO
crops
have been increasing yield for 20 years, with more progress
ahead
- Don't Like Monsanto? Then You Should Be Pro-GMO, Not Anti. Here's Why.
- Organic Farms Use More Land And Don't Decrease Carbon Footprint
- Whole
Food
Blues: Why Organic Agriculture May Not Be So Sustainable
- GMO's - Pros and Cons
- A refutation of the IFRT’s “10 Reasons to Avoid GMOs”
- Six Reasons Organic is NOT The Most Environmentally Friendly Way To Farm
- Why activists, but few farmers, complain they can’t save patented seeds
- There
Are
No Antibiotics In Your Meat. Now Stop.
- Organic Farming Can Feed the World?
- Why
Does
Everyone Hate Monsanto?
- How
land-inefficient
is organic agriculture?
- Is Monsanto Evil? (Franklin Veaux's answer, with sources)
- The Foodie Farmer - The Costs of GMO Labeling
- Food, Farming, and Biotechnology
- Mutagenesis
- Genetic Literacy Project - Agricultural and human biotechnology are reshaping farming, food and medicine. The GLP explores the intersection of DNA research and real world applications of genetics with media and policy to disentangle science from ideology.
- Mythbusting 101: Organic Farming > Conventional Agriculture
- We Love GMOs And Vaccines
- With 2000+ global studies affirming safety, GM foods among most analyzed subjects in science
- 10 studies proving GMOs are harmful? Not if science matters
- Farm to boardroom: US organic industry dominated by mega corporations
- Organic crops use carcinogenic pesticides.
- The Debate About GMO Safety Is Over, Thanks To A New Trillion-Meal Study
- Chemical-free food? No such thing
- Why Organic Advocates Should Love GMOs
- Biotech Crops Use Less Pesticide: Study Rebuts Perennial Anti-GMO Activist Lie
- But, the rest of the world bans GMOs, right?
- Genetically Engineered crops and seed saving myths.
- THE CREDIBLE HULK - Pro-Science Skeptical Activist, Musician & Polymath Autodidact Promoting Science Education & Smashing Pseudoscience & Denialism
- Labels for GMO Foods Are a Bad Idea
- Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods
- Genetic modification - How is it done?
- A Meta-Analysis of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops
- How Much Glyphosate is Sprayed on Our Crops?
- Commission publishes compendium of results of EU funded research on genetically modified crops
- The Debate About GMO Safety Is Over, Thanks To A New Trillion-Meal Study
- Shill gambit - The shill gambit is a type of ad hominem and poisoning the well wherein one party dismisses the other's arguments by proclaiming them to be on the payroll of some agency.
- Dear American anti-GMO activists: no, the EU does not ban GMOs – and they love importing them
- Addressing Claims About GMOs in Food Babe’s New Book
- GMO Answers - WE ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT GMOS
- Letter: Science shows GMOs not dangerous to eat
- Hero of Neil Young’s anti-GMO doc ‘Seeding Fear’ is confessed thief
- Percy Schmeiser is a Canadian farmer specializing in canola. In 1998, he devised a way to obtain and use Roundup Ready seeds (i.e. seeds genetically engineered to withstand sprayings with the herbicide glyphosate) without paying the legally required licensing fees. However, he was found out and sued for patent infingement by Monsanto. Despite two appeals, he lost in the Supreme Court of Canada.
- Unhealthy Fixation - The war against genetically modified organisms is full of fearmongering, errors, and fraud. Labeling them will not make you safer.
- Why do seeds have patents? Are GM seeds the only patented seeds?
- Is the GMO Labeling Movement Just a Long Con to Get You to Buy Organic?
- GE Seed Patents, Cross-Contamination, and the Trouble with Cyborg Super Shills from the Future
- Genetically Engineered crops and seed saving myths.
- GMOs and Patents: Part 3 – Lawsuits for inadvertent contamination
- About those harsher herbicides that glyphosate helped replace:
- The Truth About Glyphosate and Wheat
- No, GM crops aren’t drenched in chemicals.
- Despite the hype, there’s still no bee-pocalypse
- GMO science facts – your one stop shop
- BUT, THE REST OF THE WORLD BANS GMOS; RIGHT?
- Environmental impacts of genetically modified (GM) crop use 1996–2013: Impacts on pesticide use and carbon emissions
- Environmental impacts of genetically modified (GM) crop use 1996–2015: Impacts on pesticide use and carbon emissions
- Long-term trends in the intensity and relative toxicity of herbicide use.
- Long-term
trends
in the intensity and relative toxicity of herbicide use
- GMOs, food and pesticides 101: No chemical “flood” but yields are rising
- Challenging myths: Yes, seeds that grow organic food are often patented
- On the International Monsanto Tribunal
- Allergic to Bullshit: Why Genetically Engineered foods do not present a unique allergen threat
- Industrial agriculture, not GMO cotton, root of India farmer suicide problem
- The
tiresome
discussion of initial GMO expectations
- A Science Enthusiast - Just A Guy Who Loves Science
- 25
myths
and bad arguments about climate change
- The
97%
consensus on global warming
- Retraction
Watch - Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific
process
- 8
Signs You’re Not the Environmentalist You Think You Are
- It
Is
Not Possible to Get the Flu From a Flu Shot - This video
explains why.
- Retractionwatch
- Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
- 5
reasons why anecdotes are totally worthless
- Planets and How They Formed
- Simulating the First Stars in the Universe
- Origin
of
the Elements
- Global
warming
isn’t natural, and here’s how we know
- A
guide to detecting bogus scientific journals
- The
Logic of Science
- Academics Review - Testing popular claims against peer-reviewed science
- Science Alert
- Science-Based Medicine - Exploring Issues and Controversies in Science and Medicine
- Naturopathic Diaries - Confessions of a Naturopathic Doctor
- Phys.org™ (formerly Physorg.com) is a leading web-based science, research and technology news service which covers a full range of topics.
- Medical Xpress is a web-based medical and health news service that is part of the renowned Science X network.
- Examining The Gender Spectrum With A Reproductive Biologist
- What Happened in the Seconds, Hours, Weeks After the Dino-Killing Asteroid Hit Earth?
- Aspartame – Truth vs Fiction
- Study of 1.3 Million Kids Reveals Vaccines Aren't Associated with Autism
- The Autism-Vaccine Myth
- Measles May Weaken Immune System For Years
- CONSEQUENCES OF NOT VACCINATING A CHILD–MEASLES COMPLICATIONS
- VAXXED REVIEW – MY PERSONAL TAKE ON THAT FRAUDUMENTARY
- 86 Research Papers Allegedly Supporting the Vaccine-Autism Link: Paper #6 A positive association found between autism prevalence and childhood vaccination uptake across the U.S. population.
- Why haven’t we cured cancer yet?
- Does Sugar Really Make Children Hyper?
- The Effect of Sugar on Behavior or Cognition in Children
- Thorough, not thoroughly fabricated: The truth about global temperature data
- The presence of a chemical is not the same as presence of risk
- 5 simple chemistry facts that everyone should understand before talking about science
- 6 reasons why anti-vaccers are wrong that “being sick is good”
- Evolution doesn’t give organisms what they need
- 15 Common Anti-Vaccine Arguments and Why They are a Load of Crap
- Argument
by
Vaccine Package Inserts – they’re not infallible
- Measles is not better than autism: Debunking anti-vaccine arguments
- Naturally Occurring Toxins in Vegetables and Fruits
- Myth: No Studies Compare the Health of Unvaccinated and Vaccinated People
- How Alex Jones Uses Fear of the Government to Sell Diet Supplements
- Flu vaccine ingredients – not so scary using simple math
- Why we vaccinate – debunking flu vaccine myths in 25 easy steps
- Debunking myths about Dr. Paul Offit MD
- Cancer rates are increasing in the USA–another myth debunked
- Andrew Wakefield discredited – a collection of his attacks on vaccines
- Scientific consensus on GMO safety and climate change
- Big Pharma and development of drugs – debunking myths
- Treating depression with acupuncture - evidence is lacking
- Bad vaccine statistics – real math is hard
- The twisted illogical gambits of the antivaccination cult
- Dumb Asses and Vaccines
- Pseudoscience and logical fallacies in geology
- Anti-GMO activist changes his mind–what does it really mean
- Scientific consensus – collective opinion of scientists
- Bill Gates vaccinations in Africa – antivaccine hatred
- Americans are ignorant fools about evolution
- High fructose corn syrup–myth versus science
- Vaccine open-mindedness – confessions of a science nerd
- Vaccines saved lives – scientific evidence
- Artificial sweeteners linked to obesity–poor evidence
- Acidic blood causes cancer – time to demolish a myth
- Vaccine preventable diseases – much scarier than vaccines
- Controversial T. Rex Soft Tissue Find Finally Explained
- Anti-vaxxer group furious after study they funded debunks vaccine-autism link
- 75 studies that show no link between vaccines and autism UPDATED to 107
- Debunking anti-vaccine arguments: VAERS, package inserts, and the VICP do not prove that vaccines are dangerous
- Equal Pay Day Revisited: Why The Gender Pay Gap Is Still A Myth
- The Biggest Myth About the Gender Wage Gap
- Harvard prof. takes down gender wage gap myth
- Brian Hooker proves Andrew Wakefield wrong about vaccines and autism
- A Threat, Not a Theory - It’s simply not true that as wages go up, jobs go down. But trickle-downers need people to believe it.
- Anti-vaxxers, do you know the difference between an element and a compound?
- Antifluoridation Bad Science
- Fluoride In Water Does Not Lower IQ
- CDC
Study:
More Men than Women Victims of Partner Abuse
- Facts and Statistics on Domestic Violence at-a-Glance
- Debunking 25 arguments against climate change in 5 sentences or less (each)
- No one thought that Galileo was crazy, and everyone in Columbus’s day knew that the earth was round
- The Ultimate Environmental Cataclysm: Asteroid and Comet Impacts and their Effects on Climate
- Bisphenol A Myths - Because it has been used to make products for more than 50 years, bisphenol A has been the subject of extensive scientific study and evaluation. However, certain allegations about bisphenol A (BPA) that lack a sound scientific basis continue to be made in the media
- Where are GMOs grown and banned?
- 5 reasons why anecdotes are totally worthless
- 12 bad reasons for rejecting scientific studies
- Cost Effectiveness of Vaccines
- Setting the record straight: Debunking ALL the flu vaccine myths
- Every Single Flu Vaccine Myth, Debunked
- New Research Confirms Guns on College Campuses Are Dangerous
- If
cannabis
and vitamin B17 kill cancer, why aren’t they approved by the
FDA? Let me explain
Assorted Conspiracy Bullshit Debunkings
- Contrail Science - The Science and Pseudo-Science of Contrails and Chemtrails
- Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax
- Apollo
11
- Those hoax myths debunked
- The Right’s Second Amendment Lies
- Conspiracy theorists - 10 characteristics of conspiracy theorists
- Questions
and
Answers about the NIST WTC Towers Investigation
- Questions
and
Answers about the NIST WTC 7 Investigation (09/17/2010, ARCHIVE,
incorporated into 9/19/2011 update)
- Debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists Claims with Simple Google Searches
- 10 Reasons Why Hidden Cancer Cure Conspiracy Theories Fail. – The Credible Hulk
- WDBJ Virginia Shooting: Hoax Theories Debunked
- Debunked: Chemtrail Plane Interior (Ballast Barrels)
- Debunking Denialism - Defending science against the forces of irrationality
- THE EUROPEAN SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL DID NOT CONCLUDE 9/11 WAS A ‘CONTROLLED DEMOLITION’
- Report
Highlights
How Guns Flow Into New York From States With Weaker Laws
Critical Thinking Sites/Blogs, etc
- Neurologica Blog (Steven Novella, MD)
- Welcome to RationalWiki!
- the Skeptic's Dictionary - Exploring Strange Beleifs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions since 1994
- what's the harm?
- Science
or not? Separating science from nonsense
Vaccine Nonsense Debunked
Homosexuality
- Study finds epigenetics, not genetics, underlies homosexuality
- Genome-wide scan demonstrates significant linkage for male sexual orientation
- Largest study of gay brothers homes in on ‘gay genes’
- Study: Homophobes May Be Hidden Homosexuals
- Prenatal hormones and sexual orientation
- Epigenetic
Shaping
of Sociosexual Interactions — From Plants to Humans - Chapter
Eight – The Biological Basis of Human Sexual Orientation: Is
There a Role for Epigenetics?