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[katallison]

planetalyx asked some questions about bookmarks--what do you have, how do you sort them, what do you have that's cool?



God, my bookmarks are a dog's breakfast. Part of the problem is I go back and forth between IE and Mozilla and have similar but not identical bookmark lists on each. I also tend to bookmark on whim and sort rarely. But some general categories, and cool representative items from each:

Fannish stuff -- I actually don't bookmark very many fanfic pages, because I tend to use others' links pages--notably, torch's. What I do tend to keep here are people's on-line vid links (because they're harder to re-find if I misplace them), and some basic resources like the due South episode transcripts and the BuffyGuide.

Story Research -- Stuff relevant to whatever story I'm working on. I still haven't deleted the folder of stuff I bookmarked for End of the Road, which has ... ::counting:: ... 79 links it it, dear God. Including everything I could find about Inuvik; journals and photos of peoples' trips up the Dempster Highway or the Mackenzie River; news stories on the Gustafson Lake conflict; lots of stuff on hypothermia and cold-weather survival, arctic camping gear, dog sleds, Inuit names; lots of RCMP sites. A cool link in here is Equipped to Survive, which provides detailed and knowledgeable evaluations of every possible component of survival kits and equipment.

Web Design -- HTML and CSS guides, graphics and font sites, etc. A few that get used a lot are:
More Crayons, for color picking.
CSS Panic Guide -- lots of links to excellent CSS resources.
CSS Ain't Rocket ScienceMuch goodness here, especially the bookmarklets that let you experiment with CSS.
Brainstorms and Raves -- lots of general web design links and info.

General Reference -- Stuff I use all the time, like Twin Cities bus maps/schedules, and US/metric conversions, and dictionaries, thesauri, etc. Nothing really all that fascinating in here.

Photography -- Boy howdy, these really need updating. Good sites here for researching digital cameras, like Steve's Digicams and Digital Photography Review, and some sites by photographers I like, e.g. Quarlo and Eric Alba. Masters of Photography is an ugly site but a wonderful resource for the classic photographers.

Blogs -- All the non-fannish blogs I follow on a regular basis. Among my perennial favorites:
Mimi Smartypants; the one, the only, the indispensable.
Kottke; everyone else reads Kottke, why should I be different? I like his new sideblog, and his links.
Kung Fu Grippe, especially for his blogroll, which has led me to many fine and interesting folk.

And finally, the nine items that live on my toolbar folder; my LJ friends page, Google, the National Weather Service page for Minneapolis, the local newspaper, MetaFilter, Buffistas, Zap2It (TV listings), the Shockwave Daily Jigsaw (which I usually do in the morning after reading e-mail and LJ), and Amazon (which I use much more as a reference tool, looking up product reviews, specs, etc., than for shopping).

But man, there's a ton of uncategorized general cool crap in my bookmarks, like Euh?, and Everlasting Blort, and SegPlay, and and and ... I really need to get things sorted out, eh.

Comments

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

Hey, I use Amazon as a reference tool, and I use it at work, where I have access to OCLC, a for-money nationwide database of library holdings, and Worldcat. It's very handy, and more user-friendly.*g*

[planetalyx.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'd completely forgotten this, but I started using Amazon as the first-stop on book questions after I saw one of the librarians at VPL using it to answer a question I had about an interlibrary loan.

[jess-ka.livejournal.com]

Heh, I use Amazon for book referencing, too. All the time.

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

The useful thing that it does is provide a list of possibles, in case the library user has the author, title, or both confused.:-)

[planetalyx.livejournal.com]

Yep. And very handy for finding ISBNs too. I do this a lot--go into bookstores in search of research materials and then write ISBNs into the Palmpilot rather than actual titles/authors. It's quicker, and I don't misspell anything.