Links to useful, informative or bizarre Web pages:

Comic Strips

XKCD

Maker Sites and Forums

• Make magazine
• Instructables
• Dorkbot Bristol
• 6502.org
• XGameStation
• Brass Goggles
• Drainspotting
• UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum
• Let's Make Robots!

Geek Things

• DIY Calculator
• DIY PCB Router
• Mechanically Scanned Display
• Bob Blick's Propeller Clock and many other projects
• Nixie Tube and Mechanically Scanned Clocks
• LeapSecond.com, HP Frequency Standards and Nixie clocks
• A Tribute to HP Test Equipment Power Switches
• Virtual Apollo Guidance Computer
• Mister Transistors Historic Semiconductors
• The Antique Chip Collector's Page
• Frank's Electron Tube Pages
• 405 Alive
• CPU World
• Angry Kitchen Appliances simulated 7-segment displays
• RetroThing vintage gadgets and technology

Electronics

• IC Photos
• IC Die Photography by William Blair
• Small Battery Company
• FPGA for Fun
• FPGA Arcade
• Homebrew CPU
• Big Mess o' Wires A Homebrew CPU
• MyCPU Project
• Mike's Electric Stuff with all sorts of Nixie tubes
• Nixie Tubes and Magic Eye Tubes
• Philbrick Archive, Op-Amp pioneer
• Web51, a web server with Ethernet on an 8051
• Beyond Logic, all about microcontrollers and interfacing
• Arduino, very popular Atmel AVR based microcontroller board (link to the forum)
• Sanguino, another Atmel AVR based microcontroller board (ATmega644P)
• Uzebox Atmel AVR based video game machine (ATmega644)
• Mignon Game Kit, an Atmel-based handheld game machine
• Chalkroach, an Atmel ATmega32-based microcontroller board
• MIDIbox OPL3 Module, a PIC-based MIDI FM synthesiser
• CadSoft, home of Eagle CAD
• DipTrace, another PCB design tool
• FreePCB, an Open Source PCB design tool for Windows
• KiCAD PCB design
• Osmond PCB CAD for Mac OS
• Front Panel Express Europe
• Microwave connector reference
• British Amateur Electronics Club
• FTDI USB-to-serial and USB-to-parallel chips
• EDTP embedded ethernet devices
• Speech Chips, including the SP0256 allophone chip
• AY-3-8910 Homepage
• Sound generators of the 1980s home computers

Robotics

• Cybot information by Mike Stracey
• Cybot information by Nigel Goodwin
• Robotic F.A.C.E. at the MIT Media Lab
• Society of Robots (mentions use of carbon fibre)
• Robot-Crawler (6 legs) with PlayStation controller
• Cody's Robot Optical Motion Sensor #1 (CROMS-1)
• Seattle Robotics Society (Washington, USA)
• Dallas Personal Robotics Group (Texas, USA)
• Connecticut Robotics Society
• Twin Cities Robotics Group (Minnesota, USA)
• Boise Robotics Group (Idaho, USA)
• Chibots (Chicago Area Robotics Group)
• LEGO Robotics Group of Ann Arbor (Michigan, USA)
• Central Jersey Robotics Group (New Jersey, USA)
• Triangle Amateur Robotics (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA)
• Portland Area Robotics Society (Oregon, USA)
• Christchurch Robotics Group (New Zealand)
• Arrick Robotics' list of robot clubs
• Simple DC Motor Controller from the Seattle Robotics Society
• Artificial Mouse Project featuring whisker sensors
• Chuck's Robotics Notebook by Chuck McManis
• Homebuilt ROV

Software

• memtest86, A Stand-alone Memory Diagnostic
• Memtest86+, An Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool
• POV-Ray, The Persistence of Vision Raytracer
• Mozilla
• Opera Web Browser
• PuTTY, A Free Telnet/SSH Client
• Subversion version control system
• Tobi Oetiker's Open Source Projects, RRDtool and mrtg
• IrfanView Image Viewer
• NetStumbler
• Kismet
• The Wireshark Network Analyzer
• Freesco, an open source router and firewall
• FloppyFW, an router and firewall on a floppy disk
• RealVNC
• TightVNC
• VideoLAN, home of the VLC Media Player
• Audacity
• Nels Anderson's Mahjongg
• Nano VM Java for the AVR
• Autostitch photo panorama stitching software

Networking

• LinkedIn
• LiveJournal
• Facebook
• Friends Reunited
• Genes Reunited
• Friendster
• Orkut

Books and Publishers

• The Art of Electronics
• Walt Jung's Website, author of the IC Op Amp Cookbook, the IC Timer Cookbook and many others
• O'Reilly
• Amazon UK
• Abebooks UK
• Alibris UK
• Book Crossing
• BookBrain.co.uk
• Book Barn
• Lindsay's Technical Books, sold in the UK by Camden Miniature Steam Services

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• Wikipedia
• Dictionary.com
• Thesaurus
• Acronym Finder
• Acronym Attic
• World Atlas of Maps, Flags and Geography Facts and Figures
• Urban Dictionary
• Uncyclopedia
• Microwave Encyclopedia

Maps

• Google Maps
• The Ordnance Survey
• StreetMap
• MultiMap
• Maporama
• Bristol & Bath Cycle Map
• Geograph British Isles - photograph every grid square!
• GPS Drawing
• GPS Visualizer
• Geocaching
• HostIP IP address geolocation
• Frappr
• Make magazine's map on Frappr
• Tek scope collectors' map on Frappr
• Suzuki owners' map on Frappr

Museums

• Science Museum, London
• The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
• The Exploratory
• Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) Museum of Technology
• Cathode Ray Tube Museum
• Connected Earth BT museum of communication
• Centre for Computing History in Haverhill, Suffolk

Bristol Stuff

• Bristol City Council
• Stoke Gifford Parish Council
• Marine Current Turbines designed in Stoke Gifford
• Visit Bristol (Bristol Tourism and Conference Bureau)
• Venue magazine
• Trade-It
• This is Bristol
• Bristol Science Café
• Bristol Museums
• Bristol Filton Aerodrome
• Weather Station Data for Horfield/Filton, Bristol, UK
• IET Bristol
• BCS Bristol
• Libraries West, including Bristol library catalogues
• Bristol Active Social Club
• Bristol Tours
• Bristol History
• About Bristol, Pictorial Tours of Bristol
• Seven Secret Wonders Of Bristol
• Bristol Rail: history of railways in and around Bristol
• Bristol Industrial Archaeological Society
• South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group

Bristol Events

• An Adventure In Technology 28th February 2009
• Bristol Jack in the Green (and also here) 2nd May 2009
• Bristol Design Festival 5th-11th June 2009
• Bristol Microcar Club 3rd-5th July 2009
• Great Western Mini Day 19th July 2009
• Weston Super Helidays 24th-26th July 2009
• Bristol Balloon Fiesta 6th-9th August 2009
• Bristol Model Engineers Annual Exhibition 21st-23rd August 2009
• Bristol International Kite Festival 12th-13th September 2009
• Bristol Doors Open Day 12th September 2009

Web-Museums

• EB5AGV's Test Equipment Collection
• Heathkit Museum
• CPU Shack museum of microprocessors
• Atari Archives, including the Creative Computing archive
• The Canon Camera Museum
• Total Rewind
• Rewind Museum
• The Museum of HP Calculators
• HP Computer Museum
• Kenneth Kuhn's HP Museum
• HP Memory Project
• 8-Track Heaven
• Jim's Computer Garage
• Quadruplex Park, the museum of broadcast technology
• The Museum of RetroTechnology
• Virtual Valve Museum
• The Vintage Technology Association, featuring lots of display technologies
• Alistair's Collection of Luigi Colani's Designs

Technical Specifications and Info

• USB - Universal Serial Bus
• IMC - Internet Mail Consortium - including the vCard specification
• PNG - Portable Network Graphics
• IrDA - Infra-Red Data Association
• IEEE 1394 - Also known as FireWire
• Visual Elements - a hypertext version of the Periodic Table

Engineering

• Animated Engines
• Stirling Engines
• Rusty Iron Workshop, old stationary engines, tractors and machinery
• Homebrew Touch Probe
• Anodising Aluminium at home
• Dan's Workshop: advanced home workshop projects
• Morse Tapers for mounting drills and chucks
• Story of Paxman Diesels
• Internal Fire Museum of Power
• Hammerite
• Handy list of Paint Solvents
• WD-40
• The Duct Tape Guys
• Colchester Lathes
• Jubilee Clips
• Online Graph Paper and Grid Paper (PDFs)

Fonts and Typography

• Font Freak
• Fontage
• Cool Archive
• Acid Fonts
• The Font Ring
• Webring for the Font Obsessed

Well, I like them, anyway...

• The Theatre Organ Home Page - mentions Leslie speakers
• New Yankee Workshop featuring Norm Abram
• The Severn Bore page

Bizarre

• More information about pencils than you can shake a stick at
• Do Not Sleep
• The Official 5.25" Disk Sleeve Archive
• The Dialectizer