And here is a bunch of links, selected by my very own brain.

Stuff changed last: 9. 11. 2026
Links checked & updated last: 6. 11. 2026
YAE = Yet Another Euonym

Search sites:

• DuckDuckGo
  has slowly become the best search engine.
• Google
  still works well for some things, though.
• Wikipedia
  is the most known open-content encyclopedia.
• Wiktionary
  is good for the meanings of words.
• OpenStreetMap
  has a different enough map compared to Google.
• On the GoMap
  is useful for seeing how far you've travelled.
• Wolfram|Alpha
  can do specialized searching-related tasks.
• Ahmia
  can be used to search the Tor network.

Books

I've always been reading lots of stuff, so…

• Project Gutenberg
  has many books in electronic format.

Some of my favourite authors and series are:

• The L-space Web
  tells much about Terry Pratchett and Discworld.
• Iain M. Banks
  has written the Culture series.
• The Dragonriders of Pern
  by Anne McCaffrey.
• Crydee
  is the official homepage of Raymond E. Feist.
• Spider Robinson
  has also written some books that I've enjoyed.

Role-playing games and related stuff:

• Excalibur
  is the university roleplaying club that has eaten up a lot of my time.
  
• Mage: The Ascension
  has possibly the best themes I've ever come across.
• Ars Magica
  is a wizard-oriented game situated in mystic medieval Europe, currently by Atlas Games.
• Exalted
  is a great fantasy superhero-style game with very interesting mythology.
• Earthdawn
  is a solid fantasy-adventure oriented game with a believable world.
• Pathfinder 2nd edition
  is probably the current best incarnation of D&D.
• BESM
  is an generic anime/manga system I've gotten some use out of.
• GURPS
  is interesting but requires dedication as it's mechanically heavy.
  DFRPG is probably better if you just want the fantasy bits.
• The Dungeon World SRD
  is a base I've been using to develop a PbtA hack.
• Solar System
  has the good concept of Keys.
• Fate
  is ok and quite popular.
• Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game
  seems to be a decent OSR game.
• EN World
  has D&D and other rpg news.
• The Official Mystara Homepage
  was somewhat useful to me, as I ran a Mystara campaign for over four years.
• Atomic Rockets
  has lots of info for the sci-fi roleplayer or author.
• MTG Wiki
  is a good source for both recent and upcoming events as well as story material.
• The Hacker Crackdown
  tells about some cyberspace conflicts in the early 90's, including the incredibly stupid raid on Steve Jackson Games.

Finnish rpg stuff:

• Praedor
  is a Finnish game by Ville Vuorela and Petri Hiltunen, slowly turning into an entire media enterprise.
• Ropecon
  is a major Finnish con.
• Alfacon
  is an small, more designer-oriented Finnish rpg event.
• Fantasiapelit
  The Finnish gaming store.
  Puolenkuun Pelit is another one.
• Lohikäärmeen Luola
  is an … interesting Finnish translation of D&D (3rd ed.)
• Suomen Roolipeliseura
  tries to help Finnish roleplayers to organize and help each other.
• Akateemiset pelaajat
  is a Finnish gaming association.
• LOKI
  is a general Finnish rpg-scene blog.
• Ropeblogi
  has a few weekly links to rpg stuff.

Some online cartoon strips I've found:

(Ordered to some extent as to how much I like them. My up-to-date and complete list(s) can be found as the last link in this section; they're actually divided on four pages...)

• Questionable Content
  daily, domestic, sedate pace, with good wordplay and quips.
• Spacetrawler
  is funny but mostly not-nice science fiction. Good stuff.
• xkcd
  A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
• Side Quested
  Visiting fantasy kingdoms and tryig to figure out a big mystery.
• Sluggy Freelance
  is still going. Worship the Comic!
• Megatokyo
  has the story going strong though updating is sometimes slow.
• Freefall
  is a Sci-Fi-style tri-weekly cartoon.
• Something Positive
  isn't. (At least usually.)
• Sleepless Domain
  Darker magical girl life.
• The Order of the Stick
  pokes fun at D&D-cliches and has good story as well.
• Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic (YAE)
  
• Scandinavia and the World
  Adventures of anthropomorphized nordic (and other) countries.
• Kevin & Kell
  is about an multivorous family.
• Bob the Angry Flower
  is quite random.
• Between Failures
  tells the stories of some nerdy store employees and their friends.
• Subnormality
  Lots of words. Angst done well. Also, a sphynx.
• PhD
  Piled Higher & Deeper, a grad student comic.
• Slightly Damned
  has an interesting fantasy world and main trio.
• Cardboard Crack
  Magic: the Gathering themed strips.
• Oglaf
  Almost always funny but usually NSFW.
• Grrl Power
  Superhero antics with trope-aware protagonist.
• Irregular Webcomic!
  certainly is, at least in subject matter.
• Girl Genius
  Astounding tales of mad scientists in a world of yesteryear!
• Spinnerette
  Spider-fan-girl and other interesting superheroes.
  
• Bruno (ended)
  is maybe a bit unusual in it's age and depth. Quite intelligent, great dialogue.
• Digger (ended)
  has a great quirky world. Good black and white art.
• Alice Grove (ended)
  Relaxed & regrown post-apocalyptic.
• Schlock Mercenary (ended)
  has nicely deep storylines and science fiction ponderings.
• A Miracle of Science (ended)
  Culture and memes in a pretty realistic scifi solar system.
• Absurd Notions (ended)
  was about normal life and roleplaying games.
• Okashina Okashi - Strange Candy (ended)
  is straaange.
• Angel Moxie (ended)
  looks a bit strange, but is a very nice magical girl series.
• Queen of Wands (ended)
  was great daily life stuff with a few major flashbacks.
• Little Dee (ended)
  was cute but not mushy or saccharine sweet.
• Zebra Girl (ended)
  A comic about life, change, and spontaneous combustion.
• Wasted Talent (ended)
  Life and engineering.
• Penny and Aggie (ended)
  Teenagers and choices in life.
• Gene Catlow (ended)
  had long story arcs with drama.
• Acid Reflux (ended)
  was a funny, soft fantasy adventure.
• Darkbolt (ended)
  was a weekly action manga-series, with a LONG story.
• Punch an' Pie (ended)
  Trying to figure out adult life.
• Anime News Nina! (ended)
  was a weekly manga series that often had something to do with anime.
• Sabrina Online (ended)
  had maybe three to five strips per month, but is quite good.
• AppleGeeks (ended)
  had an changing art style.
• Angband - Tales from the Pit (ended)
  is actually quite funny, if you just know the computer game.
• The Class Menagerie (ended)
  had a decent arc on the whole. Furry. College setting.
• Ozy & Millie (ended)
  are two nice kids, an fox and a wolf.
• Mac Hall (ended)
  Interesting. Art style as well as other things.
• Avalon (ended)
  life of high-school teenagers in southeastern Ontario.
• RPG World (ended)
  is a comic about a console RPG.
• Bobbins (ended)
  Skirt AND Trousers
  
• Keychain of Creation (quiet)
  is an Exalted-based stick-figure comic, full of Awesome.
• Tsunami Channel (quiet)
  is really good although I can't say exactly why...
• Jackie's Fridge (quiet)
  is actually a less interesting character than the rest.
• Candi (quiet)
  Students, relationships, the squirrel mafia.
• Flaky Pastry (quiet)
  is a slightly less conventional fantasy comic.
• Full Frontal Nerdity (quiet)
  has longer rpg campaign comics and nerdery one-offs.
• Weregeek (quiet)
  has both humorous normal geek life and the stories they create together in rpgs.
• Real Life (quiet)
  isn't actually that real all the time...

Other online comic lists:

• My quickie cartoon list
  
• Keenspot has a few more; my new finds are over there.

Anime and Manga:

• The Encyclopedia at Anime News Network
  is what I used most to look up info on anime series.
• AniDB
  is a popular source for info on series.
• Anime Lyrics
  for when I want to find out about the words.
• HeNTAi is the local university anime club where I hung out at times.
• Crest of the Stars
  and it's follow-up series are probably my favourite anime.
• Yotsuba
  & this line in my link collection
• Haibane Renmei
  is a wistful anime.
• Genshiken
  is anime & manga nerdery.
• Nausicaa.net
  has information about the Ghibli films.

Computer games:

• Nurikabe
  is probably my favourite puzzle game in this group of games.
• Minesweeper
  is a good classic game, even if not always solvable through pure logic.
• slow roads
  endless driving zen
• Waffle
  makes you swap tiles to form six words.
• Luanti
  is a game quite similar to minecraft.
• FreeCiv
  is a free game much like Civilization 1 & 2.
• Vector Racer
  is an interesting turn-based racing game.
• Angband.oook.cz
  contains info on Angband and it's many variants.
• Star Control II
  is another big favourite.
• xpuyopuyo
  is a very simple, and addictive, block-dropping game.
• LBreakout2
  is a good breakout clone.
• UFOpaedia
  has info on the X-COM series, of which the first, the 1994 computer game, is one of the best games of all time.
• Artsoft
  has a nice Boulderdash engine with which you can play it and all it's clones. There's also Mirror Magic, a "guide the beam"-game.
• Project: Starfighter
  is an interesting side-scrolling shooter.
• SteamDB
  has info of games on Steam, which I finally got around to using.

For computer-related words, abbreviations, acronyms or other such:

• The Jargon File
  can help with some older strange words and acronyms.
• The Canonical Abbreviation/Acronym List
  is another list (dunno about the canonical part, myself).
• Acronymfinder
  A search engine.

Other computer stuff:

• Debian
  is the Linux distro I've used most.
• Xubuntu
  is what I'm currently using.
• github
  is the biggest git repository.
• PuTTY
  is a very useful tool for connecting to servers.
• The MDN Web Docs
  are quite useful for understanding html & css details.
• Python
  has it's documentation as well, of course.
  For packages, there's PyPi.
• SQL
  is something I've used more for work.
• JavaScript
  is good enough, and rather popular.
• C/C++ Reference
  has been somewhat useful when coding in those languages.
• cplusplus.com
  has more readable documentation.
• Make
  can be useful for compiling your projects.
• Perldoc
  is pretty comprehensive for basic Perl (and CPAN for the rest).
• Bash Reference Manual
  for the gritty details, Bashguide, Bash Guide for Beginners and Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide for more general advice.
• The HTML Specification
  isn't very useful for a newbie, but complete. The CSS specifications are also useful.
• W3C HTML Validation Service (YAE)
• Regular-Expressions.info (YAE)
• Inkscape
  I've used a lot for character sheets, diagrams and even a few pictures.
• Gimp
  is a useful bitmap drawing program.
• Audacious
  is what I currently listen to music with.
• Irssi
  still works for Irc.
• Geeqie
  is my current image viewer.
• Atril
  is my current pdf viewer (with maybe more info at the source page.

Blogs and other sites with a decent update rate

• Mother Jones
  is a magazine probably more on the left side in politics.
• Out of the Crooked Timber
  of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
• The Guardian
  has a decent news coverage.
• Vox
  has mostly stuff on US politics, more on the left side.
• Slate
  is yet another US lefty site, though a bit more less-political stuff.
• Pluralistic
  Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• In the Pipeline,
  and especially Things I Won't Work With

RPGs, games and adjacent

• The Alexandrian
  writes about gamemastering and reworking adventure modules.
• A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
  mixes academic knowledge with popular history perceptions.
• Ropeblogi
  has a very nice weekly link collection for rpg theory material.
• ars ludi
  has stuff about game design.

Technical and science stuff

• Schneier on Security
  has stuff about computer security.
• Ars Technica
  has usually some interesting technological & nerd news.
• Bad Astronomy
  tells about astronomical facts and some science & geek stuff in general.
  The original page is about stuff depicted wrong in the popular media.
• Do the Math
  will tell you about the energy problems we will have in the near future.

Advice columns and such

• Ask a Manager
  responds to questions about work and workplaces.
• Ask the Pilot
  has all the answers for commercial air travel questions.

Miscellaneous

• Whatever
  is the blog of John Scalzi.
• Charlie's Diary
  is the blog of Charles Stross.
• kottke.prg
  Home of fine hypertext products
• Get Rich Slowly
  is the better way to do so.
• Psychology Today
  has a large number of sometimes useful articles, though often a bit simplistic.
• The Good Men Project
  has better models for manhood.

Youtube or other video content I follow at least somewhat regulary:

• Extra Credits
  started with analyzing computer game design and spread into history and mythology.
• Scishow
  has science news and short videos on all kinds of stuff.
• Crash Course!
  gives longer courses on history, chemistry and biology among other subjects.
• vlogbrothers
  has one video per week per brother. Usually uplifting or topical.
  Hank's channel is also good.
• Tom Scott
  displays curiosities and sometimes gave tech commentary. Lateral is also a good listen.
• Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
  has informative animated videos with birds.
• CGP Grey
  is also informative, if a bit more eclectic.
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
  has in-depth (usually US) political commentary.
• Paul Cheon & TCGplayer
  have videos of MtG games.
• Tolarian Community College
  takes a more analytical approach to the MtG world.
• Lindybeige
  has mostly history & warfare stuff but often decently interesting.
• Gimmeabreakman
  has videos about stuff in and learning Japan.
• wimp.com
  has a daily mix of random nice videos.

Other organizations with even partially useful information:

• The Skeptic's Dictonary
  is about all kinds of stuff not really worth believing in.
• Religious Tolerance
  is an interesting counterpart, with lots of choices to believe in. Probably the best religious site I've come across.
• Snopes
  for when you just can't believe it...
• RationalWiki
  also has some articles on the battles of thoughts.
• The RSA
  seem like a decent bunch. I especially like their RSA Animate-videos.
• How Everything Works
  tells about physics in every-day (and not so every-day) life.
• Khan Academy
  has online courses about lots of stuff.
• The Long Now Foundation
  takes a longer view.
• The Zeitgeist Movement
  advocates a good kind of global change.
• CrimethInc
  seems to be somewhat aligned with my thinking.
• Adbusters
  have some opinions on advertisements.
• Lumen
  has information about online content and legal removal requests.
• Operation Clambake
  has documented many bad deeds of the Church of Scientology.
• The Vaults of Erowid
  Information on Psychoactives
  
• MKaku.org
  has some some interesting thoughts of Dr. Michio Kaku.
• The Internet Movie Database
  usually has enough about movies.

Religious stuff, but slightly different than any of the above ones...

• Chick Publications
  is a strange establishment churning out evangelical tracts, with many faithful followers emulating them.
• The Landover Baptist Church
  is a place where every Proper born-again christian should feel comfortable.
• The Westboro Baptist Church
  has a slightly negative view of homosexuals.
• The ChildCare Action Project
  is a bunch of christian adults reviewing movies. Quite funny.

Other humorous stuff

• Not Always Right
  details the woes of customer service.
• TV Tropes
  actually has entries of film, literature and games as well. Warning: Can easily captivate you for hours.
• The Onion
  America's finest news source
  
• The Darwin Awards
  celebrate the ways people have removed themselves from the genetic pool.
• The Internet Oracle
  can answer your question.
• Computer Stupidities
  lists all kinds of stupid stuff people have done with their computers.
• Gaijin Chronicles
  has amusing stories of a westerner living in Japan.
• Ninja Burger
  Guaranteed delivery in 30 minutes or less, or we commit Seppuku!
• The Tolkien Sarcasm Page
  can be fun if you've read his works.
• Gallery of Regrettable Food
  Examples of requirements in imagination while viewing older cookbook visuals.

Other personal interests

(that didn't quite fit anywhere earlier. Many of these are Finnish.)

• Tracon
  is a local 'con I've worked for a lot, as well as their Hitpoint event.
• Finncon
  is the major Finnish science fiction and fantasy con, held not quite every year.
• BoardGameGeek
  has information on pretty much any and every board game.
• Nozomi
  is the local Aikido club where I've practiced.
• Tampereen Judo (YAE)
  
• Varjojen paratiisi
  Babylon 5 is my favourite science fiction TV-series; this is the main Finnish page.
• Yggdrasil Radio
  is still going for when I want anime music.
• SomaFM
  also has some good music.

Other random pages

• A Math Poem
  (and other things related to Pi)
• Lots of FAQ's
  For answers of all kinds.
• ASCII Art Dictionary and Star Wars Asciimation
  have interesting ASCII art.
• The Weird Al Yankovic official website
  is something I thought I'd include, since I like his music.
• Yankovic!
  is a spoof on the old Yahoo site and related to the previous.

More random pages, in Finnish

• Yle uutiset
  News from the Finnish national public broadcasting company.
• Raamattu
  A Finnish translation of the bible, on the net.
• Suomen Partio
  The Guides and Scouts of Finland
• EFFi
  Electronic Frontier Finland is the Finnish version of EFF.
• Vihreä liitto
  The home pages of the Finnish Green party.
• Piraattipuolue
  The home pages of the Finnish Pirate party.

My Main page, though there's not much anything interesting there.
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