• Gary Larson comics (This site is not updated)
• Calvin and Hobbes
• Peanut's Page and archives
• Non-Sequitur
• Sherman's Lagoon
• Zits
• Hagar the Horrible
• Dilbert
• Bizzaro
• Garfield Pages Once upon a time, Garfield used to be funny. Nowadays, he's just plain annoying. Its as if the creators are saying: "Its Garfield! Hes been around for more than 20 years! Whatever he says, however inane is funny!". Plus the web-page is getting more irritating and flashy by the day.

• Dave Barry columns from the Miami Herald
• Funny.com (time-pass time)
• The Onion

• Movies
  • Moffit Movies by title and director
  • Movies in the Bay Area
  • The Internet Movie Database and its top 250 movies list
  
  
• Hindi Music
  • Kishore Kumar music
  • Mohd. Rafi music
  • kaustubh.com, a song a day...
  • indianscreen.com Fundu site with lots of old and rare songs.
  • The ITRANS song book (lyrics of more than 5000 hindi songs in devnagri script)
  • Archive of hindi film songs (indexed by various criteria)
  
  
• Like Television and its Popeye cartoons

• AC Transit Information and the system map
• BART time-table
• Yahoo Maps
• Phone listings around the USA
• Object Converter
• Miriam Webster Dictionary

• Science Fiction
  • The Isaac Asimov Home Page
  • Douglas Adams: FAQ
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...on the WWW
  • The HHGTTG's Quote Page
  
  
• Project Guttenberg and related sites
  • The literature.org site and its Author's list
  • Project Gutenberg's Etext Listings and its author's list
  
  
• Sherlock Holmes Stories online
• Mark Twain Site (with almost all e-texts)
• The official Asterix site

• VIM (VI iMproved) My favourite editor. Heres my .vimrc for all of you who care for it. And here are some tarzipped files which go with it. These files have to reside in $HOME/vim, becuase thats where the shortcuts look for them. So do the following with the files:
  1. mkdir ~/vim (if you dont already have this directory)
  2. cp vimdir.tar.gz ~/vim/ (vimdir.tar.gz is the file which you have just downloaded.)
  3. gunzip vimdir.tar.gz
  4. tar xvf vimdir.tar
  Here are some more VIM related stuff:
  • Official vim FTP site
  • The VIM Home Page
  • VIM - Mailing Lists
  • VIM Users page
  • Vim FAQ
  
  
• LaTeX
  The coolest typesetting program. I really dont love the syntax so much though.
  • A latex reference. Curt descriptions of each command.
  • A little more detail than the first. More of a primer.
  
  
• Javascript
  I think that Javascript has altogether been more abused than it deserves to be. Rather better browsers which selectively disable certain features of JS should be made. The current yes/no option is bad. Javascript, when used properly is really useful. Again, death to people who use JS to pop up unwanted windows . Ah well, here are a few links:
  • Tons and tons of javascript examples
  • JS tutorial for programmers
  • Really, really cool JS example
  
  
• GIMP
  GIMP (or the Gnu Image Manipulation Program) is one of the coolest and most powerful freewares that I have ever seen. All of my artwork uses atleast a small part of GIMP. Here are the important links:
  • gimp.org The official GIMP page. Features lots of very useful links for plugins, tutorials, etc, etc.
  • gimp-savvy.com the companion site which features a very very good online book teaching the GIMP and also a huge database of pictures etc.

• CNN and Tech news
• Slash-dot (Crazy computer News)
• Times of India
• The Dawn Pakistan's leading newspaper.

Astronomy Photos

• NASA Image eXchange site
• Nebulae
  • Light and shadow in the Carina Nebula
  • M2-9 butterfly nebula or the Twin jet nebula
  • Star birth in the Orion Nebula
  • Giant "Twisters" in the Lagoon Nebula
• Blackhole at the core of Galaxy NGC 4261
• The "doomed" star Eta Carinae
• Hubble's greatest pics
  For more sites type +"hubble" +"photos" on any search engine and spend hours seeing fantastic photos