News

It's important to keep up with what's happening in the world. (well, it at least allows you to make conversation at dinner) Here are a collection of the links that I regularly use for this purpose:

Click [here] to open all the sites I check each morning (10 windows will open).

• For things that are happening around Oxford:

  • [Daily Information] what's on at the movies, what's for sale, what bands are on, etc.
  • [Mythic Beasts Server Status] are the servers up now? Why can't I check my email?

• For things that are happening around the world:

  • [CNN] the American viewpoint
  • [BBC News] the British viewpoint
  • British newspapers (with apologies to ["Yes Minister"])
    • [Daily Mirror] read by people who think they run the country
    • [Guardian] read by people who think they ought to run the country
    • [Times] read by people who actually do run the country
    • [Financial Times] read by people who own the country
    • [Morning Star] read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country
    • [Telegraph] read by people who think it is
  • the Australian viewpoint
    • [ABC News]
    • [The West Australian] W.A. state newspaper
  • [Google News] automatically collated news from several online sources

• Search engines

  • [Google] Google search
  • [Google BSD] Google search for BSD topics (I run [FreeBSD] on my laptop)
  • [Wikipedia] Wikipedia Free Online Encyclopedia
  • [Wikiquote] Wiki quote database
  • [Vivisimo] clustering search engine, groups like results together
  • [Dogpile] metasearch engine, submits query to several search engines
  • [Web of Knowledge] search for journal articles
  • [Citeseer] search for journal articles

• For the hacker/techie/geek slant on things:

  • [Slashdot] breaking news as it happens, all sorts of science issues
  • [Digg] community driven technology news website
  • [Kuro5hin] technology and culture
  • [NTK] the weekly monthly high-tech sarcastic update for the uk
  • [The Register] a news source on technology issues (UK focus)
  • [CNet] a news source on technology issues (USA focus)
  • [Security Focus] internet security, details on worm/virus outbreaks etc
  • [Open Rights Group] blog on digital rights issues
  • [Groklaw] computer law issues
  • [Electronic Frontier Foundation] digital rights organisation

• For random insanity:

  • [The Onion]
  • [Memepool]
  • [Google Zeitgeist]
  • [BoingBoing]
  • [B3ta]
  • [Fark]