Zero Point Information

Links

A collection of useful websites.

Personal Web Presence

Dreamwidth
A blog with a built-in social network. Useful for everything from first drafts of RPG reviews to commentary of current affairs, drifting through a wide swathe of pointless ramblings, in-jokes, and commentary on geek media on the way. The blog used to be run at Livejournal, and still exists as a mirror at the same username.
Twitter
Despite posing as a "microblogging" service, Twitter is somewhere between a Chan-esque forum and a slowed-down IRC channel, notable mostly for the ability to select who you read on a per-person rather than a per-channel basis. Most really trivial updates go here.

I've been known to use other services, including Ning-based social networks, del.icio.us for social bookmarking, and the like. I don't have the discipline to keep using them, so I don't list them here. Likewise, I have neither Facebook or Myspace because they don't offer anything I need.

Roleplaying Resources

White Wolf Game Studios
The publisher of most of my roleplaying-related writing, and the online home of the World of Darkness.
Mob United Media
Malcolm Sheppard's design house is the publisher of Æternal Legends, as well as offering an ethical approach to publishing creator-owned roleplaying games.
Machine Age Productions
Machine Age Productions is David A. Hill Jr.'s studio for all his roleplaying work, including Maschine Zeit and Amaranthine.
RPG.net
Love it or hate it, RPG.net is the largest roleplaying-related site on the internet. In addition to an excellent reviews database, the real highs (and lows) come from the extensive forums.

Other Writers

Jess Hartley
Jess Hartley is a novelist, writer, and freelance writer/editor in the gaming industry.
TerribleMinds
Chuck Wendig is another writer, and occasional developer of RPGs.
BlackHatMatt
Matt McFarland is yet another writer and developer working in the gaming industry.
Filamena
Filamena Young is still another writer, though she doesn't confine herself to just the gaming industry
John Heron Project
Wood is a freelance writer, poet, and occasional nerd. He's Welsh, but we don't hold that against him.

Tools

Scrivener
Scrivener is to writers what vi or emacs is to programmers: a fully-featured suite that keeps all parts of a draft and all research materials together, and has a whole bunch of tools to help write everything from radio plays to comic books to good old fashioned books. I hate to be without it.
vim
When programming, I won't settle for anything else. Not technically a modal editor, vim builds text files using a set of commands.
CSS Reference
An invaluable reference manual to all standard CSS properties.
XHTML Reference
An invaluable reference manual to XHTML elements and attributes.
MaxDesign
A useful selection of tutorials for getting the most out of CSS.
Blueprint
Blueprint is a flexible, massively useful CSS framework.
Last updated on 2011-04-09