Slashdot thread on good web site design. Very useful, especially if, like me, you are clue deficient in this area.

Slashdot | What Makes a Good Web Design?

The secret to designing great games. While this is the Diablo II review, it's undoubtedly relevant to most other "Crack Games" such as EverQuest. Anyone know of any scientific research around this subject matter?

"The actual gameplay still consists almost exclusively of killing monsters to gain treasure and experience points. Since your character constantly gains more and more formidable abilities and weaponry, that relatively simple style of play proves to be just as addictive as it was in the original Diablo and in other games that have since exploited the same formula. It's difficult to extract yourself from a game that always keeps you on the verge of being rewarded for another achievement. "

GameSpot: PC Reviews: Diablo II Review

Marker for when I finally get around to programming again. Need to review this...

Designing secure software

This guy just seems cool.

Joel on Software

Read it. Guarantee!

TCP/IP or Security Mutha? Read This!

Now that shit is cool. Take anywhere keyboard with no keyboard. Now, all we need is for it to be programmable and use chording!

Senseboard Technologies AB

Good read on XML. Here as a reference page.

XML & Databases

Use a real filesystem!

developerWorks: Linux | Open source projects : Advanced filesystem implementor's guide

Socket Programming FAQ. Looks like it stays pretty up-to-date as well.

Unix Socket FAQ

Reasonable. And looks like it's been updated regularly for 6 years, which is pretty good for this kind of collection. Usually these go to rot at some point.

Davin's collection of unix programming links