Bookmarks collected in several internet surfing experiences. A lot of these are old so I can't remember the real date. Therefore the creation date is when I started to use XBEL to store the bookmarks on my site. Where you can find high-quality picture of posing models; but the site requests a fee and gives just few example images. Nonetheless you can explore thumbnails to see if there are poses or models you, as artist, can be interested to. Then you could also catch some good ideas for your next photographic book! It exists also the male counterpart, just change female into male in the URL. Where you can partecipate with your raytraced images. If you are interested in raytracing here you can find very good, complex or simple images. The context is done by POV (Persistence of Vision) group, but any raytracer can be used. Last time I have seen this site all contexts was closed... If you are using timidity as MIDI player, you would like to get sound patches good enough so that your MIDI can play well... Here you can download some GUS patches. This site contains a lot of informations for everyone who is interested in harmony, music and other related stuffs. Where I have found timidity MIDI player/converter. Licensing your work under some Creative Commons license can be a good and winning choice; the easiest and fastest way to let the knowledge, the art or everything else flow. Since human society is born to share, because sharing is a winning behaviour and increases the chance to survive beyond the "richest" walls, let your works be known all over the world and in the same time protect them from hawks and other beasts. The Free Software Foundation protects "free" (for freedom) software. Don't believe people saying that if you spread a software and give the right to do so, you cannot earn money, or that it is bad for quality and software. They are just kings and queens trying not to sink in the new world era. The GNU tools are what makes your GNU/Linux machine work. The success of a lot of GNU tools and software is a proof of the substantial correctness of the philosophy behind, shared with the Free Software Foundation (GNU seems to be a project under the wings of FSF, but to know the truth just visit their sites) Tools to know things about the Net, people and companies around the Net and so on. Powerful. Steganography, cryptology... It seems the only active part is where you have to solve riddles to pass beyond. It seems the author do not update the site anymore; nevertheless the riddles are funny and you can try them... if you are able. In order to enter you must solve the first riddle :) What a site. Full of scattered informations you can patiently explore. Plenty of text to be read. You can really learn something if you take a look at this. ... should I use an alias for this :) I will do ... A resource to fight hardware vendors that support the monopoly rather than their same hardwares and make the things work. Did you ever try to install GNU/Linux on laptop? Take a look here before (and after). A library, command line tools... to manipulate, create, modify, convert images. You can do beatiful things with this (sometimes I use these tools to create graphics for sites) Does your browser fully support PNG?! A set of tools to modify, convert, create images (similar to Image Magick) Persistance Of Vision Raytracer. A very good and funny raytracer. Modelers (like KPovModeler) exist, and other support softwares too. But you can enjoy the POV language if you can and I assure you that to see a 3D scene emerging from a plain text is astounding. You can take a loot into the code too. A very good graphics program. Forget expensive and good Photoshop: you can do a lot with this free, extensible and powerful software. Both for GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows. It exists a modified version that makes it resembling to Photoshop, if you want not to learn new ways to do the same things. Use these to explore the Web and Internet resources. Uncomplete. Visit Fravia's site (Searchlores) to know more about searching the Internet. Meeting point for the several desktop environments you can find for GNU/Linux. (It seems these specs are not authoritative, but it is a good idea to me to follow them) Specifications you can find here SHOULD be used and supported more widely. A lot of browsers do not respect "the rules", sometime on purpose, sometime not. According to me the most interesting thing is SVG (against Flash?), but it still is not so widely supported. Web and 3D technologies. What about a world like Stephenson's "Snow Crash"? Help and resources about TeX. TeX is a powerful language to typeset. The better known LaTeX is just a macro package for TeX. TeX can seem hard to learn and use at first; but once you learn it you can't do without it. A "must-know" for mathematicians and physicists, since TeX formula typesetting algorythms produce the best look... A lot of scientific works are typeset with TeX. Where you can access the resources for TeX via FTP. Where also Noam Chomsky writes. Italian magazine/newspaper about international events. When they talk about U.N. Resolutions, check always the full text of those Resolutions. Count also how many of these are ignored when they are about USA or other west country... Where you can find legal documents of the European Union