MineZone Wiki

Austin, Texas

• Austin City Connection -- the official City of Austin site
• Austin 360
• CitySearch Austin
• Digital City: Austin
• Yahoo! Austin
• About.com Guide to Austin
• Everything Austin Texas
• Austin Community's Journal -- Austin Livejournal site
• Austin weatherunderground forecast
• Austin Weather Channel forecast
• Austin Bloggers Meta-Blog
• Austin Independent Business Alliance

Friends

• Amanda Vance
• Carlos Tronco
• Chris Gronlund
• Cynthia Griffith
• Doug Melamed
• Julia Stavenhagen
• Sam Jones
• Doug Fowler -- follow Doug's travels
• Dudley Fox -- Dudley's live journal
• Bob Apthorpe
• Jeremy Frank
• Nelson Guda -- includes a photography portfolio
• Tammy West -- Tammy's Wildwood Studios exhibit design business
• Shana Merlin -- check out Shana's improv workshops

Juggling

• Internet Juggling Database -- the latest and greatest in juggling information on the web
• Juggling Information Service -- comprehensive juggling resource
• Texas Juggling Society -- the Austin juggling club
• JuggleStay -- short stay accommodations for travelling jugglers and unicyclers
• Micro Juggling -- coin, pencil, and miscellaneous small object manipulation
• Pentrix -- pen manipulation, maybe not technically juggling, but still very interesting

Improv

• Improv Encyclopedia -- improv comedy resource
• Improv Page -- another improv comedy resource
• YESand -- articles and other information about improv
• Austin Improv
• Improv Everywhere HQ

Photography

• Photo.Net -- a great photography resource and incredible over-all site
• photoSIG -- photo critiques
• ImageStation -- a great site for sharing photos (no disk usage limit)
• Amateur Photography
• panoguide -- guide to panoramic photography
• Photo Friday -- a weekly photo challenge
• phototag -- disposable cameras released into the wild
• Mirror Project -- photos of mirrors and what they reflect

Other Hobbies

• Unicycle Page
• Recreational Dancing in Austin
• Four on the Floor -- Austin swing dance classes
• Bicycling in Austin
• Disc Golf
• Austin Disc Golf
• Rock Climbing
• Volleyball World Wide
• WWW Backgammon Page
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites
• The Magic Cafe -- a magic bulletin board
• Magic Show -- magic tricks and tips

Learning

• University of Texas at Austin
  • University Extension
• Austin Community College
• St. Edward's University
  • SEU Bookstore
• Learn2.Com -- illustrated tutorials on a variety of subjects
• eHow -- tutorials on a variety of subjects
• Globewide Network Academy -- catalog of Internet-based distance learning
• Mentat Wiki -- exploring ways to become a better thinker

Writing

• WritersWeekly.com
• mediabistro.com -- a useful bulletin board for networking with other writers
• Travelwriters.com
• The Travel Writing Portal
• Media Kitty
• Poynter Online -- "everything you need to be a better journalist"
  • Poynter Online - Fifty Writing Tools
• FreelanceWriting.Com
• Absolute Write
• Writing for DOLLARS! -- includes a large database of magazine markets
• Paying Markets -- another large database of magazine markets
• Worldwide Freelance Writer Markets -- yet another database of magazine markets (available after subscribing to email newsletter)
• The Writer Gazette -- various resources for writers
  • The Writer Gazette: Article Listing -- lots of free articles on writing
• Freelance Success -- a (subscribers only) site for writers
• OrganizedWriter.com -- lots of writing links
• Writing Prompts

Reference

• OneLook Dictionaries -- searches for words in several online dictionaries
• Merriam-Webster -- online dictionary and thesaurus
• Visual Thesaurus -- a graphical thesaurus
• Word Count -- a graphical tool for exploring word popularity
• Biography.com -- includes a searchable database of 20,000 biographies
• Who2 -- more biographies and information about famous people
• FindArticles.com -- search magazine articles
• My Virtual Reference Desk -- lots of reference links
• Wikipedia -- a free content encyclopedia

TV

• Kill Your Television -- anti-television resource
• National TV-Turnoff Week -- join in April 25-May 1, 2005
• MyBestBets -- TV recommendations
• Main Page - The TV IV Wiki
• Yahoo TV -- includes local TV listings for Austin
• TV Tome -- episode guides for lots of shows
• epguides.com -- more episode guides
• Television Without Pity -- recaps of television shows
• Upcoming Guests on Late Night Talk Shows
• Rock on TV -- who's playing on TV today?
• TVNow
• Music From TV Commercials -- find out who plays those catchy songs
• Mr. Hat's Hell Hole -- a comprehensive South Park site
• Chef! Home Page -- a page devoted to the British comedy Chef!
• Build Your Own PVR -- information on building your own Personal Video Recorder
• PVRblog -- news about Personal Video Recorders
• tv-all.net -- world-wide TV broadcasts available via broadband

Directory/Mapping Services

• Google Maps
• myGmaps -- customized Gmaps
• quikmaps -- more customized Gmaps
• gMapTrack -- another enhanced interface for Google Maps
• Mapblast!
• Maps On Us
• Maporama.com -- includes maps of Europe
• WorldPages
• BigBook Directory Search
• Zip2
• MapQuest
• Tiger Map Server
• Map Builder -- DIY Google or Yahoo! maps
• Roadlessland.org -- maps of the lands covered by the 2001 Roadless Rule

Q&A

• Welcome to Wondir -- quick answers to questions
• Answerbag.com -- a user-generated collection of frequently-asked questions
• Internet Public Library
• Allexperts.com
• Ask an Expert
• Ask the Expert
• MAD Scientist Network
• Experts Exchange -- funky point system
• Abuzz -- questions are routed to those most knowledgeable on a particular subject
• Ask Jeeves -- another option if the humans aren't answering

Art

• AusTIX -- Austin theater tickets
• No Shame Theatre -- creative experimentation theatre
• An/Exquisite/Corpse -- collaborative surrealist art via the web
• scottmccloud.com -- a great site by the author of Understanding Comics"
• Sketchbook Sessions -- great cartoon and illustration links and the drawing board/forum is excellent
• Blogs Illustrated -- blogs with regular illustration entries
• J.S.G. Boggs -- money artist
• Shag -- tiki art
• Arthur Ganson -- sculpture meets engineering
• Kurt Wenner -- street painter
• Arborsmith Studio -- tree sculpture
• Jane's Addiction -- a directory of folk art environments around the world
• Lowrider.com
• Haring.Com -- pop artist Keith Haring
• Community Bridge -- trompe l'oeil ("fool the eye") mural painting
• RTMark (®™ark)-- intelligent product sabotage
• digitalart.org -- lots of computer generated art
• Stencil Revolution -- examples of stencil art and how to make stencils
• Flounder -- tiki & lowbrow art
• gapingvoid -- business card art

Crafts

• ThriftDeluxe -- learn to make cool stuff
• UniqueProjects -- free plans for a wide variety of unique projects
• craftgrrl's LiveJournal -- more craft ideas
• not martha -- a great blog, including lots of good craft links
• reusablog -- craft projects using recycled materials
• craftster.org
• Sticker Guy! -- a source for inexpensive custom made stickers

Origami

• Money Origami
• Paper CD Case -- origami and technology meet
• OrigamiUSA -- an organization dedicated to the sharing of paperfolding
• Origami -- a great database of diagrams
• Origami Diagrams -- more diagram links

Health

• Dr. Weil -- natural health information
• Healthwise
• Organ Donation -- comprehensive information on organ donation
• Ashtanga Yoga with Sharon Moon -- a great yoga teacher in Austin

Serious Weirdness

• Strange Foreign Objects in Dog Feces
• I Can Eat Glass Project
• Macro Anthropomorphic Animals

People

• Eric Bogosian's Home Page -- actor, playwright
• Kurt Vonnegut -- author
• Michael Moore -- writer, director
• Houdini! -- magician, escape artist
• Penn and Teller -- magicians
• Richard Feynman Online -- scientist

Good Causes

• PledgeBank -- join others in mutual pledges to make the world a better place
• Charity Navigator -- information about many different charities
• Yellow Bike Project -- free loaner bike program in Austin
• Habitat for Humanity
• Austin Habitat for Humanity
• Austin Free-Net
• VoluneteerMatch -- find volunteer opportunities in your neighborhood

Creativity

• Creativity Techniques -- a comprehensive list of creativity techniques
• Map of Creativity -- very cool, flash-based map of creativity sites
• IdeaFlow -- creativity blog
• Innovation Network
• Innovation Tools -- resources for being creative
• Creativity Web
• Creative Think -- creativity tools
  • Creative Whack -- new creativity tip each time you reload the page
• Mind Tools -- includes a great area on improving your memory
• Compendium of idea generation methods

Humor/Fun

• Canonical List of Weird Band Names
• Random Bandname Generator
• Archie McPhee -- novelty catalog
• Rec.Humor.Funny Archive
• Collection of Yo Momma Jokes
• Fade to Black -- one of the funniest websites around
• Dumbentia -- parodies in print
• Answering Machine Audio
• Art of Prank Calls -- RealAudio recordings of prank calls
• George W. Bush's Resume -- funny and scary at the same time

Games

• Card Games Web Site
• BoardgameGeek -- lots of information on board games
• Seattle Cosmic Wiki -- a board game wiki
• Cheapass Games -- cheap and even free games

Comics

• Red Meat
• Sinfest
• Bizarro
• K Chronicles
• Milk and Cheese -- comic book ("Witness the intellectual montage that is Milk and Cheese!")

Google

• Google Weblog -- unofficial Google information and news
• Google Sets -- find sets of items from a few examples
• Googlism -- what does Google think of it?
• GoogleDuel -- compare items and find out which one occurs on more pages on the web

Phone/Fax

• The Phone Company's Remote Printing Service -- free faxing via the Internet
• PhoneSpell -- What does your phone number spell?
• 1-800-555-TELL -- free useful information over the phone
• Phone Scoop -- news and reviews on mobile phones
• Payphone Project -- let your fingers do the walking
• Amabuddy -- comparison shop via your mobile phone
• IYHY.com - Make It Mobile -- makes web pages more usable on mobile phones

Color

• Color Schemer Online -- a useful web page for choosing color schemes
• Color Scheme -- another useful color scheme tool
• colormatch redux
• RGB to Color Name Mapping -- another useful color tool
• ColorBlender.com
• Technicolor Experiment -- another color tool that automatically produces CSS

Miscellaneous Miscellaneous

• USPS Domestic Calculator -- calculate US postage costs
• nervousness.org -- experiments in Land Mail
• 20 things, 20 people, 20 days -- swap art with people
• MEETUP -- meet people from the Internet face-to-face
• Modest Needs --both a charitable organization and a community designed to help people in need
• postcardX -- send people stuff & receive stuff
• Letterboxing North America -- treasure hunting
• Geocaching -- techno-treasure hunting
• gust of simple -- share your simple pleasures
• Ticketstubs -- read about the stories behind ticket stubs
• metacritic -- combined reviews of movies, music, and games
• The Today Page
• Cirque Du Soleil
• BadAds -- combat pervasive advertising
• humanclock -- photos of the time
• Highly Unofficial alt.fan.dr-pepper FAQ
• Shotgun Decree
• The Original Tipping Page -- how much to tip
• Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide -- "I'll Roshambo you for it."
• Free Site -- great source of free stuff
• Infiltration -- information on urban exploration in areas not designed for public usage
• Urban Legends -- the truth of the matter
• Veggie Van -- bio-diesel powered van
• Strawbale Construction Links -- information on building strawbale structures
• Syracuse Cultural Workers
• Universal Life Church
• Lovingyou.com -- romance tips
• Romancetips.com -- lots of romantic date ideas and romance tips
• Global Ideas Bank -- tons of interesting and innovative ideas
• Brightidea.com -- ideas, but poorly organized and poorly edited
• halfbakery -- a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users
• Amanda's Mnemonics Page -- a large collection of memory tricks
• Tacky Postcard Archive
• Human-Languages Page -- comprehensive catalog of language related resources
• BBC - Languages -- online language tutorials
• Language Exchange Community -- practice foreign languages
• Canonical Abbreviation/Acronym List -- every TLA you can think of ('net-based acronyms)
• Acronym Finder -- every kind of acronym
• US Renaissance Festivals
• Where's George -- do you know where that thing's been?!?!
• Anti-Clown Page
• Quotations Page
• Land of Quotes
• Taglines Galore -- more one-liners than you would ever want to read
• Tongue Twister Database
• Grammar Lady Online
• How to Tie a Tie
• Straight Dope
• cartalk.com
• Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
• Practical Jokes
• Cruel Site of the Day
• Progressive Directory
• The Exploratorium
• Useless WWW Pages
• Convert Me -- online unit conversion calculator
• Current Time
• Calendar -- a perpetual calendar
• netLibrary -- a library of ebooks
• RioWorld -- resources for Rio MP3 players
• Zeropaid -- P2P file sharing portal
• After Napster -- more P2P file sharing information
• Slyck -- more P2P file sharing
• Doom9.net -- The Definitive DVD Backup Resource
• Pop vs. Soda Page -- analysis of the "Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy"
• Dr. Weil
• Gizmodo -- gadgets blog
• Engadget -- another blog devoted to gadgets
• Lifehacker -- productivity blog
• kartoo -- visual web search engine
• Creative Commons -- changing the way we think about copyrights
• Creative Commons Search Yahoo! Search
• Common Content -- an catalog of Creative Commons licensed content
• Recomendo -- recommended tools and products from the guy who brought you the Whole Earth Review
• WebSeitz/wikilog -- a blog with lots of interesting info on wikis, blogs, and information
• Mazeguy.net -- ton of smiley icons
• Song Fight! -- weekly battles between many songs all with the same name
• HowStuffWorks -- details explanations of how things work
• Simple Living Network
• Upcoming -- a collaborative event calendar
• Animal Trustees of Austin -- low cost animal spay-neuter services
• Rockbox -- an Open Source replacement firmware for Archos MP3 players
• panoramas.dk -- 360 degree panoramic images
• Japanese Emoticons
• The Random Name Generator
• FreeConference.com -- free teleconferencing
• ideabook.com -- a fantastic resource on graphic design
• St. John Links
• Mediachest.com -- share your media with friends and the Internet
• Rollup.org -- aggregates (rolls up) a number of different RSS sources
• GeoURL -- find out where websites are located
• WhatTheFont -- identify fonts in scanned images
• news search portal -- lots of news links
• Button Maker
• Barbara Sher
• Mayomi -- create mind maps online at this flash site
• Shooting Rubber Bands -- everything you ever wanted to know about shooting rubber bands
• TinyPic -- a free image hosting site
• Threadless -- cool t-shirts
• Made Unique T-shirts -- more t-shirts
• Split Reason -- even more t-shirts
• Syracuse Cultural Workers
• what happens is the news -- weekly hand-written news highlights
• Air America Radio -- "America's Progressive Talk Radio Network"
• TimeBucks -- "trade your own skills and talents for other people’s skills and talents"
• AustinPostcard.com -- an excellent site dedicated to old Austin postcards
• Essential Fonts For Designers -- "300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have"
• ResumeWiki -- "community edited resumes"
• Wordcount -- information about words and their popularity
• Sperling's Best Places -- compare various U.S. cities
• FlyLady.net -- excellent cleaning and organizing tips
• The CSS Playground
• MoneyMutt -- Austin eBay auction drop with low commissions
• Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age
• FreeFlashTutorials.com
• Search Free Fonts -- a searchable database of free fonts
• SuperBorrowNet -- lend and borrow stuff from others around you
• Procrastination Research Group
• Typophile | The Smaller Picture -- a collaboratively designed font
• Guru.com -- a directory of freelancers-for-hire in a variety of fields
• Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists - a free ethics advice/answer service specifically for journalists
• Ourmedia -- free storage and free bandwidth for your media creations
• The Journalist's Toolbox -- useful links for journalists/writers
• ShawGuides -- a directory of learning vacations and conferences
• Buzztracker -- map of world news
• Bicycling in Austin
• Pointment.com -- a tool for setting up appointments
• mambofrog » Color Pallete Tools
• Flashcards -- a large collection of flashcards on a variety of topics
• SYMBOLS.com -- an encyclopedia of signs
• Gefilter Fish -- a collaborative meeting planner
• digg -- user moderated technology news
• gmapPedometer -- a Google Maps application for tracking walking routes
• About CodeCrawler
• GetUsedParts -- used car parts
• Honda Element Owners Club
• idea generation methods -- creativity tools
• IdeaFlow -- even more idea generation methods
• ZabaSearch.com -- excellent utility for finding information about people
• Dontbuyjunk -- compare features of various consumer products
• Online Conversion -- convert just about anything to anything else
• My WikiMap -- a great site for finding low gas prices
• Grid Paper PDFs
• Google Maps Mania -- tons of Google Maps links & tools
• PocketMod -- print free custom one-page organizers
• WikiMatrix -- compare features of various wikis
• Learning Languages -- tips and tricks for learning foreign languages