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Good Office Patterns. Lovely Pictures of Norway. Stephen Hawking lectures. Kill More Trees. Computer Underground Digest. Information on Plastic Kayak and Canoe Hull Materials. Diet Soap #5: “The Unemployment Issue, or the Tragic Emancipation of the Wage Slave.”

Patrick Fitzgerald’s webpage. Aeiou, le blog de flu. 1,358 bad things about the American president. Dead Metaphor. Bostonpunk.org shows page. Sounds to play over phone conversations at sorrygottago.com. Ascii image generation at toogle.com. Energy beam trouble. History: Fiction or Science?

Light pollution in a public square. A place to lock bicycles. A place to park buses. A pond in Botswana.

Orbitz, Expedia, and Travelocity. Priceline. Mobissimo.com searches airfares across online quote providers, including airline ticket consolidators. Consolidator links. Tips on using frequent flier programs at frequentflier.com and howstuffworks.com. Ticket upgrade tips at upgradebuddy.com. Much advice at Edward Hasbrouck’s The Practical Nomad. A guide to sleeping in airports. A Monkeyfilter discussion about cheap plane tickets.

Biro-Web: “Made with Pens.” 100 Random Colors. How to Write Efficient CSS. Mozilla HTML/CSS markup reference.

Google searches mail-order catalogs. JC Whitney, the online version of the magnificent old paper catalog for automobile parts. Edmund Scientific. The Estes model rockets catalog, present-day, and the Estes catalog from 1973. Campmor and REI.

A FAQ on linking databases to Openoffice.org, another FAQ with answers about specific databases, and links to external resources addressing these issues, all at dba.openoffice.org. OpenOffice, ODBC, and MySQL HowTo (PDF). Using Microsoft Access databases in OpenOffice.org. Rick Morris asks “are there any good reasons to choose PostgreSQL over MySQL?” and answers “yes.” Buy Database Design for Mere Mortals by Michael J. Hernandez. MySQL Gotchas and Why Not MySQL? Yet another PostgreSQL vs. MySQL review. How to relate tables and databases with MySQL using phpMyAdmin. phpMyEdit — a phpMyAdmin alternative? The MySQL Manual.

Jukka Korpela on footnotes and endnotes in webpages. You can use OpenOffice.org, which records linked notes in its HTML-editing mode just fine. Don’t forget to count the words in footnotes.

The Text Encoding Initiative: “TEI is an international and interdisciplinary standard that helps libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars represent all kinds of literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching, using an encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent.” Jeffrey Veen on accessible design, with links to examples. Position Is Everything: a CSS site with an emphasis on designing around browser quirks (good links, too). CSS column layouts compatible with Netscape 4.x (and more here, too). How to use CSS to make line spacing consistent when using superscript and subscript characters. Design Detector pulls an extreme CSS stunt.

Coppermine is a package of PHP scripts that lets you serve galleries of images from a server. Coppermine has a FAQ, an online manual, and a forum full of help, as well as an online demo. There’s also a stylesheet guide that helps with changing Coppermine themes.

Sitepoint.com web design forums, including PHP and server discussions. A PHP tutorial at php.net. How web servers work. How domain name servers work. Apache documentation. Using Apache with Windows. “PHP, MySQL, and Images” (William Samplonius). “Binary Data + MySQL + PHP: How to Store Images Directly in the Sql Database” (Florian Dittmer) (but lots of people say this is a bad idea). Webmonkey PHP resources (oldish). Anybrowser.org. Webstandards.org. Anitra Pavka’s accessibility weblog (nicely designed by other measures, too!). Bugmenot: password sharing service. Mailinator: One-use e-mail addresses.