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Onasander

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I just got internet access in my place recently, before I was using my buddies wireless access till he moved out, then for the last few months I've been without cept a occasional jump on someone elses computer to check my email out. I spent all night downloading stuff off of emule, tried to track down the name of the chinese monestary which supposely has records over 5,000 years old (the one near the equally mysterious white pyrimid), and spent the rest of the night on meaningless searches.

 

I need a atlas- a historical-military atlas of the net. The best sites to hit, like UNRV, and my mind isn't fertile enough to find many outstanding sites by googling, so I'll ask you instead, what's your favorite sites to hit on the net?

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...what's your favorite sites to hit on the net?

 

If you're asking about favorite sites in general then I'd say Art & Letters Daily. One of the best things on the 'net if you ask me, a real feast for the mind.

 

I beleive in a little brain rot too... and my gamer side comes out full force when it comes to Penny Arcade

 

Though, for brain candy... I would say the Perses Project... if I am naming it right? You guys know what I am talking about?

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Some of my favorite sites;

 

Tech News

http://www.digg.com/

Webmaster Discussion Forum

http://www.webmasterworld.com/

Matt Cutts Blog (Google`s Chief of Search)

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/

 

BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

ORF (austrian News)

http://www.orf.at/

Google News

http://news.google.com/

 

World Wide Virtual Library (University Florence, Italy)

http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html

World History Blog

http://world-history-blog.blogspot.com/

History News Network

http://hnn.us/

 

del.icio.us (a social bookmarks manager)

http://del.icio.us/

Pandora (your private radio station)

www.pandora.com/

Stumbleupon (Browser extension for discovering new sites)

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

 

to name just a few...

 

cheers

viggen

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Pandora is absolutely amazing! I thank you so much, I have the hardest time finding the music I like, and it's hit my genra.... my genra that I didn't even know exsisted, in two tries! Your amazing, if I was a woman, or gay, I'ld go down on you... but I'm not, so instead accept my gratitude! :ph34r:

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Here's a website i used to enjoy, but seems to have died down over Christmas, you might have to wait until it fires up again: http://www.handmaidenshandbook.com.au/

 

I get most of my sports news from here: http://sports.ninemsn.com.au/

 

This is one of the most fascinating sites summarizing Roman history that i've accessed: http://www.sci.gu.edu.au/~wiseman/Roman/19Maps.html

 

Hope some of those are useful.

 

What sort of connection have you got Onasander? Out here in the outback, just east south-east of nowhere, we're stuck with a dial-up connection. The Telstra company (our main provider for Australia of telephones, internet etc,) boss reckons that in a little while, we'll have wireless broadband country wide, but right now we don't even have normal broadband country wide, so i think he's a bit ambitious

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DSL, I started downloading movies off of eMule yesterday, and am just now getting them! I'm going to have to get dial up as well, we go to Iraq in Oct, but we're also going on 3 one month deployments all over, so I'll have to dial in local off the phoneline there when not trapped out in the field.

 

(The handmaiden isn't working)

 

P.S., Viggen, I went to that stumble search page, I'm just as impressed! You'ved found the cure to the common bore. I'll be sending some paid women your way here soon.

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The only site I spend any great amount of time on, apart from UNRV is-

 

http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/

(that's the forum section, the main site is a daily updated gallery of 64,000+ inages)

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...what's your favorite sites to hit on the net?

 

If you're asking about favorite sites in general then I'd say Art & Letters Daily. One of the best things on the 'net if you ask me, a real feast for the mind.

 

I totally agree--A&L Daily is the best thing on the net. That, UNRV, and the New York Times.

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I tried to thank Viggen for the Virtual Library link and Tobias for the maps -but my post evaporated into the Mercuric Ethers.So I try again-thank you chaps!

 

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ -you probably know , but here it is again !

 

http://www.idler.co.uk/- ironic, scornful, amusing

 

http://www.jelldragon.com/index.htm-interesting items.

 

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/gabrme...htm-interesting military idaes

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I absolutely love Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius site and find it invaluable.

 

His presentation of some of the ancients is far more user friendly than some others (though I do hope he does some more translations.. especially Tacitus) Greek and Latin translations

 

And William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities is just great to have around.

 

Thank You Bill Thayer!

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Bill Thayer has been a great role model for me, the first roman military text I read was his copy of Frontinus, I also enjoyed reading his travel accounts. I WILL have a website like that someday, feel free to contact me then if we ever fall out of touch (because I him I started typing out Mao's Guerrilla Warfare, only to watch some damn communist website put it out before me. I was so sad.)

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