Media

See also Distros#Data_and_media, Platforms#Digital_media, Resources

• http://avp.stackexchange.com/
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudioPreparation

• http://www.fmgem.com/ - ugly but cross service
• http://www.bop.fm/

TV

• http://www.tvcatchup.com/

• BBC iPlayer
  • http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer

• http://www.channel4.com/programmes/4od

• http://www.aljazeera.com/

• http://www.comedycentral.com/

• http://edition.cnn.com/video/?iref=videoglobal
• http://www.msnbc.com/
• http://www.keloland.com/custompages/cbslive/

• http://www.amctv.com/
• http://www.polifilm.co.uk/

• http://mpora.com/ - action sports

• http://www.ovguide.com/

• http://www.zingzing.co.uk/
• http://www.radiotimes.com/

• http://www.mythtv.org/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Disk_Recorder

• http://televisor.com/
• http://www.tvbrowser.org/
• http://trakt.tv/

• http://www.reddit.com/r/CordCutters

• http://tunlr.net/

• https://code.google.com/p/tv-maxe/

Ratings

• http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/

Film

• http://www.slashfilm.com/
• http://scifireviewed.com/

• http://vinepeek.com/

• http://www.random-movie-picker.com/

• http://5000best.com/movies/

• http://www.pixartheory.com/

• http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1kpqh3/for_those_who_are_interested_inside_are/
• http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1upk16/top_rated_films_on_imdb_set_and_shot_in_each/

Telephone

• http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/home-phone-calls

Documents

• http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94889/how-can-i-explain-the-meaning-of-latex-to-my-grandma

Paper

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size

Books

See Writing

Covers

• http://www.librarything.com/services/keys.php
• http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers

• https://developers.google.com/books/docs/static-links
• https://developers.google.com/books/docs/dynamic-links

• http://www.goodreads.com/api

E-books

• http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Main_Page

Free

• http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/

Search

• http://freebooksifter.com/
• http://luzme.com

Software

• http://www.bluegriffon-epubedition.com/BGEE.html

• http://calibre-ebook.com/

Creating

• http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/11/27/my-ebook-build-process-and-some-pdf-epub-and-mobi-tips

Visual novel

• http://www.renpy.org/

Reading

• http://www.spreeder.com/

Comics

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ally_Sloper's_Half_Holiday

• http://www.hasdcdonesomethingstupidtoday.com/

• http://redantsunderneath.tumblr.com/post/60206076080/it-all-starts-with-watchmen-a-history-of-grim-and

Software

• http://www.cdisplayex.com/

Webcomics

• https://www.xkcd.com/
  • http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190
• http://www.smbc-comics.com/

• http://meninhats.com/
• http://explosm.net/
  • http://www.explosm.net/comics/3022/
• http://pbfcomics.com/
• http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/
• http://www.explodingdog.com/
• http://achewood.com/
• http://nonadventures.com/

• http://theoatmeal.com/

• http://www.mnftiu.cc/category/gywo/
• http://thisisindexed.com/

• http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/
• http://oglaf.com/

• http://www.twolumps.net/

• http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/
• http://twitterthecomic.tumblr.com/

• http://www.homeonthestrange.com/
• http://writheandshine.com/
• http://chaoslife.findchaos.com/
• http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/

• http://www.viruscomix.com/subnormality.html
• http://www.freakangels.com/
• http://www.prequeladventure.com/2011/03/prequel-begin/
  • http://www.prequeladventure.com/2012/08/2200/

• http://www.gabbysplayhouse.com/webcomics/
• http://e-merl.com/

Flashcards

• http://ankisrs.net/

Mapping

• http://bmander.github.com/graphserver/

Barcodes

• http://www.davidhampgonsalves.com/2012/11/UPC-EAN-Product-Databases-API-s

• http://zbar.sourceforge.net/

QR Codes

• http://qrcodesdoneright.com/

• http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/create-qr-codes-online-generators-javascript-plugins-code-libraries/

• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4569766

• http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/

• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5330804

• http://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/index.html.en
• https://code.google.com/p/pyqrnative/

• http://miniqr.com/

• http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/26268/qr-code-in-shopping-cart-handle#

• http://www.qrpixel.com/

• http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/november12013/index.html [1]

• http://invx.com/

Good

• http://www.myspace.com/video/new-york-film-academy/they-39-re-made-out-of-meat/41257481
  • http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

Meal-time watching

awesome;

• Ze Frank

letsplay;

• Yogscast: Minecraft/Shadow of Israphel
• HAT Films: Day Z

tv comedy;

• Have I Got a Bit More News for You
• Mock the Week
• The Inbetweeners

misc.;

• http://www.vice.com/video
• http://www.tv-links.eu/tv-shows/

To watch

• Edge of Darkness (bob peck, zotz)
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona (hot and a bit wet, jo)

• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (comedy, james a)
• Emmanuelle (p.a.)

todo; collate lists

News

• http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/12/13/last-fm-to-kill-its-radio-feature-in-many-countries-next-month-making-it-a-paid-feature-in-the-us-uk-and-germany/

Software

• http://www.filebot.net/ - file sorter, sub getter, etc

Archive

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7371725

CD / DVD

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Optical_Disc_Drive

• Xfburn is a simple CD/DVD burning tool based on libburnia libraries. It can blank CD/DVD(-RW)s, burn and create iso images, audio CDs, as well as burn personal compositions of data to either CD or DVD. It Is stable, and under ongoing development.

• cdrdao - writes audio CD-Rs in disc-at-once mode
  • http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/cdrdao1.html

• QPxTool is the linux way to get full control over your CD/DVD drives. It is the Open Source Solution which intends to give you access to all available Quality Checks (Q-Checks) on written and blank media, that are available for your drive. This will help you to find the right media and the optimized writing speed for your hardware, which will increase the chance for a long data lifetime.