Against the common wisdom that all web pages strive to perpetuate themselves (yes, even Google), I hereforward provide links to other peculiar text efforts.
Bash: huge collection of often funny quotes from IRC and other chat venues. Geekly designed. You can add your own quotes.
Urban Dictionary: massive slang dictionary. Beautifully designed. Some ads. You can add your own definitions.
WikiQuote: probably the biggest quote collection. From Wikimedia, the creators of Wikipedia. Wiki editing: You can easily add your own quotes and edit those already online.
Everything2: "an online community with a focus to write, publish and edit a quality database of information, insight and humor". Entries are called nodes and you can add your own, but be aware that there are considerable rules and lore to be learned before you do.
Useful programs and add-ons that have something to do either with text or with this website and that just might prove useful...
if you use Windows XP.
Microsoft Clear Type: It is really amazing how this tiny Microsoft extension (they call it a PowerToy) improves readability on LCD monitors, e.g. laptops or flat panel screens.
if you use Mozilla Firefox (but of course you do, right?).
Imagxoj: As I was crafting this lil' website I pined for a better interface to Google Images & Flickr. When I later chanced upon GreaseMonkey, I decided to take matters in my own hands and wrote this script. I hope it's useful.
ScrapBook Firefox Extension: Late 90s, you began to be able to save a webpage to your computer. Well, to be honest, I'm not really sure you weren't able to do it before, but at least I learned how to do it around that time. I thought it mighty cool then, yet never ended up having even the measliest collection; it wasn't really that useful to have webpages buried away here and there in folders.
So here's my praise to this Firefox extension: it has made it useful and worthwile for me to store web pages. Enough said.
Acknowledgements
Thank you links.
Wikipedia: This was my first contact with the concept of a wiki and later became the inspiration for making this website wiki-editable. Lots of sections on this website owe a lot to their counterparts in Wikipedia.
squidfingers/patterns: The patterns in this website were all shamelessly stolen from this collection.
JSwitch: I got the color picker script from here. I redesigned it and made lots of little adjustments and improvements until I got something somewhat acceptable (for now, it still needs improving), but it was all possible only because most of the work had already been done for me.
Amazon.com: Since I live in Mexico, it was often very hard to have direct access to the books I needed for compiling the eemadges. Amazon's Search Inside feature was a lifesaver in such cases. This whole website would be a lot poorer without it.
Colour Lovers: Most of the weirdly named color templates come from this wonderfully specialized website.
Ruby on Rails: What would this page be without it really?
