| Financial Links |
| The Federal Reserve Bank of New York This is a great place to go to check out daily currency exchange rates or the status of interest rates. |
| Bloomberg The business and finance analysis firm, you can check the U.S. Treasury Yield Curve here, as well as the yield curves for various other nations. |
| ING Direct An online bank which lets you invest in high yield savings accounts. |
| EverBank.com Another online bank, this one's office located in Australia, which specializes in foreign currency investment. You can also buy gold, silver, platinum, and other precious commodities through them. |
| FundAlarm.com A free website which presents lists of the best and worst performing mutual funds for various categories. |
| Treasury Direct Buy newly issued U.S. Treasury bonds and TIPS online directly from the U.S. Treasury, with no commission. |
| Anime Links |
| NarutoFan Everything Naruto, including Manga and Anime downloads. |
| DownloadAnime.Org A great place to get started in downloading free fansubbed anime (yes, this IS LEGAL under Federal statutes, so long as the anime isn't licensed for U.S. Distribution) |
| Baka-Updates A Bit-Torrent file download site for anime. Try the search feature, and you can pretty much find any anime which has been released (and the licensed anime will have disabled download links). |
| Full Metal Panic! Best anime series I have ever seen! My friend says I really am too close of a match to Souske. However, she also says I should cosplay as Gaara from "Naruto". Anyway, the second season (Full Metal Panic!: The Second Raid") is also incredible, as well as Fumoffu. |
| Automotive Links |
| The Telefonica Dakar Rally Forget NASCAR, drag racing, even the new trend of drifting. This is the one and ONLY race you will want to see each year! A 5,000 to 8,000 off-road rally starting in France, the Dakar takes two weeks, and involves everything from motorcycles, ATVs, to giant service trucks like Unimogs and prototype production cars (the Volkswagen Tourag made it's debut in the 2004 Dakar). |
| Unimog Network International Speaking of the Mercedes-Benz Unimog, here is a great resource site for the famous truck. |
| Shelby Automobiles, Inc. Carrol Shelby's company that produces modified Ford Mustangs, as well as his famous A/C Cobra. This site also lists his prior production vehicles, like the Series-1 and the Dodge Viper (never knew that was Shelby's doing, did you?). |
| The Ford GT This is the car I am willing to sell my soul for! |
| Webcomics |
| Megatokyo The most popular of the webcomics, now available through Dark Horse as a graphic novel (in the typical Manga format). |
| Alpha-Shade A sci-fi/fantasy webcomic. It's pretty long so far, but the artwork is good, and so is the plot. |
| Applegeeks The name speaks for itself. Typical webcomic hyjinks with a slant towards Apple and Mac products (more than enough reason for me to read it). |
| Space-Gun Ninjas, zombies, and very crude jokes. If you like Family Guy, you'll probably like this comic. |
| Angry Alien Productions Re-enactments of famous movies done as Flash animations with bunny characters. |
| Ill Will Press This is the site which features Neurotically Yours, the flash animation episodes of a goth college chick and a talking, cynical squirrel. Out of the two, everyone roots for the squirrel. |
| Radio Links |
| Foxhole Radio: Bizzare Labs The foxhole radio was a crude AM receiver built from scrap parts by soldiers in World War II to pick up radio stations in their foxholes (hence the name). |
| Imagination Theater A weekly syndicated radio program which broadcasts and creates modern radio dramas. |
| PhilcoRadio.com A website devoted to 1928-1950 Philco AM radios. The author also offers repair services for these antiques. |
| Firearms and Political Links |
| The Reload Bench The one and only reference you need for cartridge dimensions. |
| Sniper Country A serious reference for the skills and hisotry of military snipers. Yes, the 18+ age requirement and disclaimer are serious. |
| ArmaLite, Inc. The original creators of the AR-15/M-16 rifles before the rights were sold to Colt. |
| Federal Premium Ammunition This is what I prefer to shoot, whether in a rifle or a handgun. |
| Taurus Firearms Taurus is a Brazilian gun manufacturer which has been making firearms for nearly 70 years. They are on the cheaper end of the handgun spectrum, but share a lot of the same tooling as their sister company, Smith and Wesson. If you want to get into handgun hunting, take a look at their Raging Bull series. |
| Springfield Armory This manufacturer offers an accurate recreation of the M1 Garand, as well as several variants of the M1911A1. More importantly, they are one of the few companies that produce a tactical pistol in the new .45 GAP cartridge. |
| Alpha 66 The resistance group formed back in 1961 to fight the Cuban communists. |