Bookmark Bar meme

[rbandrews]

The meme, found here, is to post an image of your browser's bookmark bar, with an explanation of what the bookmarks go to.
If your browser does not have a bookmark bar, then go get a better browser.

• Dinnergroup Forums: This is the forum page for the DinnerGroup, which is a group of people at Virginia Tech who used to eat lunch every day at Owens Dining Hall before they all graduated. In a sense, it's a message board for a giant group of my friends. The fact that it's on my bar means that I visit it a lot more than I probably should, because people hardly ever post there, its function being mostly taken over by Livejournal at this point.
  



• Everything2: This is Wikipedia before there was a Wikipedia. It's a very early wiki, where people write articles on everything from how to cook a poached egg to the meaning of the word "limerence" to poems about how much they like each other. I've been reading random nodes every day for years, and I rarely read the same thing twice. Almost every time I look there I find something new, and worth hearing.
  



• Fark: Think of Fark as a clearing house for weird news. If a tanker truck of mayonnaise turns over in New Jersey, or a man creates a thirteen pound gummi bear, Fark will have the story, and a comment thread to go with it. I've been reading this site since 2000, and it's actually my main source of news, which probably explains a lot for some of you.
  



• TotalFark: All the content on Fark is user-submitted, and only some of the links are approved. While most of the things that get passed on are crap or repeats, some are absolute gold. For the nominal fee of five dollars a month, you can see everything that gets submitted, as well as seeing the approved things hours before they hit the main page (and before their servers are killed by tens of thousands of Fark Lite users). I've been pleased with the value there, but it's no replacement for Fark, since there's just so. Many. Links.
  



• Slashdot: Yes, I read Slashdot. If you don't know what Slashdot is, somehow, then it's a tech news site. Occasionally interesting, always worth the five seconds it takes a day to read the headlines.
  



• Pete's Organic Link Farm: Now we get into the good stuff. This guy named Pete Ashton has a weblog. I found him randomly through Making Light, which I've since stopped reading since I really don't care that much about the publishing industry. I don't actually read his weblog, but alongside it he has a list of interesting links he's found, and since we have many interests in common, the links are usually pretty good.
  



• JSC Webmail: I work for SAIC, a government contractor. The contract I work on (the only one I've ever worked on) is for the International Space Station Payloads Office, which is at Johnson Space Center in Houston, my hometown. This is the webmail system for Johnson Space Center. You can't log in, but you can browse the public directories of email addresses. I generally don't enjoy logging in, because the system is Microsoft Exchange's web client, which is absolutely horrible and not very compatible with Safari.
  



• SETS: More work stuff. SETS is the SAIC Electronic Timecard System, which is how I submit the hours I've worked to my employer. Since I actually work from home (since I'm in Virginia, and work is in Houston), I have a link to SETS on my home computer. People who don't work for SAIC can't do much with that link.
  



• BoardGameGeek: One of my hobbies, probably my biggest hobby, is board gaming. BoardGameGeek is a gigantic database of almost every board game ever made. Reviews, rules, variants, articles on strategy and analysis, mostly user-created content. They have a huge library of board game images, a system for managing trading games between users, and a system for users to make lists of related games (even if the relation is only in the twisted mind of the user). If you like board games, at all, you should look around this place. My username is "randrews".
  



• Gmail: My Gmail inbox. Hardly ever use this, but the address is ross.andrews@gmail.com. I'm not sure of they're still doing invites, but if they are and you want one, I have like 40.
  



• Bugmenot: This isn't actually the link; the link is a smart bookmark that gives a Bugmenot login for the current site. Bugmenot is a tool which collects logins for sites that require free registration, so you don't have to give your personal information to websites you don't want to, or spend the five minutes doing so. Useful tool.
  

Comments

[heptadecagram.livejournal.com]

What's the script you use for Bugmenot?

[rbandrews]

I forget where I found it; probably either Bugmenot or some Firefox smart bookmarks site. Being Javascript, smart bookmarks will work in both Firefox and Safari, apparently.

javascript:void(window.open('http://bugmenot.com/view.php?mode=bookmarklet&url='+escape(location),'BugMeNot','location=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=385,height=450'))