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AstonShell | Home of the AstonShell alternative shell environment and AltDesk virtual windows manager for Windows computers.
Blizzle | The best skinning software news site in the galaxy. Period. Great news off the press on Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX shells, software, and skinnables.
Iconfactory | Home of fantastic professional icons, iconsets, and other graphics. Also the makers of CandyBar, iPulse and IconBuilder software
Iconico | Makers of Screen Compass, Protractor, Calipers, and Screen Tracing Paper... great skinnable apps to help you in your skinning.
LS-Universe | LS-Universe is a fantastic place to find cutting edge modules and themes for LiteStep, the grand-daddy/mac-daddy of all alternate shells for Windows.
Planet Aston | Planet Aston's got some nifty FLASH tutorials on how to use and skin AstonShell, my favorite alternative interface for Windows.
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Bookshelf
Consider Phlebas
Where James Rollins makes you grit your teeth as your favorite characters are seemingly killed only to pop up safe at the end, Iain Banks pushes your favorite characters through gut-wrenching punishment and still has the sadism to kill ‘em all at the end anyway. Don’t worry, it’s the ride that counts (or at least that’s what I keep telling myself).
Tuesdays with Morrie
Few books touch me so indelibly. Rarer still are true stories that leave a mark or impression on my soul. Tuesday’s with Morrie has done that with rapacious wit, candora, melancholy, but most importantly, truth. Life is to be lived, and fully, not sequestered away seeking money, fame. Life is who you love. This is a book to own. I hope my kids will pick it up off the shelf when they’re old enough and give it a read.
Building Electric Guitars
Great resource read for anyone thinking of building their own electric guitar. Great examples and nice anecdotal information. Tremendously lacking in schematic or diagramatic details, but rich with verbal suggestions. I’d recommend reading this to get an idea before going online and getting more pertinent details. Organization is a bit confusing, but when used as a reference (i.e.: skipping to a needed section) the book still proves its worth.
Ice Hunt
An American arctic research submarine stumbles upon an ice-entombed WWII-era Soviet research base holding a secret so sinister that both countries will do anything to obtain it, or ensure it is never seen by the public eye. Not the traditional action-adventure novel, Ice Hunt adds fantastic character-development, accurate science, a highly unpredictable plot to the exciting non-stop peril. Think of Michael Crichton and Dean R. Koontz on a dose of realism and you get Ice Hunt.
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