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Exult is an open-source reimplementation (with loads and loads of improvements!) of the Ultima VII game engine that allows Ultima fans to play the game using modern hardware and operating systems.
The 4th big Exult mod to release anything, the Feudal Lands is a big, big mod which will add a whole new world based on the Lands of the Feudal Lords from Ultima I as well as integrating the storyline from both Ultima VII games.
Lazarus
A full remake of Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny using the Dungeon Siege engine. Highly reccomended if you have Dungeon Siege!
The Ultima 6 Project
An in-progress remake of Ultima VI: The False Prophet using the Dungeon Siege engine.
HRUMP
A website dedicated to making high-resolution versions ot the cloth maps that came with Ultima games.
Ultima: The Reconstruction
Hub linking to several Ultima-related patches and mods.
Ultima: Aiera
Another hub linking to all things Ultima.
IT-HE Software
Home of the anti-walkthroughs.
Dino's Ultima Page
Great source of news for all things Ultima.
Ultima VII Babylon
Full italian translations of Ultima VII: Forge of Virtue, of the Black Gate Keyring mod and of Alun Bestor's Quests and Iterations mod and the Sourceforge Island add-on.
The creators of GURPS and of many other great games.
The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, my favorite Roleplaying system.
A veritable trove of quality Open Source software.
C++ Annotations
Comprehensive C++ documentation and a "tutorial" of sorts.
Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide
Comprehensive documentation of the Standard Template Library
MinGW
The Minimalist GNU for Windows is a Windows port of the great GNU Compiler Collection.
A veritable trove of quality Open Source software.
The great open-source browser from the Mozilla Foundation. Get it now and forget about the others!
The GNU Image Manipulation Program, GIMP is a great piece of open source software. The GIMP is a great multi-platform image editor; it has been ported to many OS'es, including Windows and Linux, and has been translated into many languages. The link given in this site is to the official GIMP website; from there, you can find a link for a port to your OS.
A Slackware-based Linux distribution that includes Colinux - a Linux kernel that runs inside Windows.
A freeware text editor for programmers. It features downloadable syntax highlighters for many different programming languages, and even for many scripts.
Reflections on Relativity
An exceedingly good mathematical/phylosophical netbook about Relativity theory. There are also some other good math/physics articles in his homepage.
Bad Astronomy
Phil Plait, aka the Bad Astronomer, runs a website dedicated to fighting nonsense and pseudoscience in astronomy. I must confess that I find the line between nonsense and pseudoscience to be very thin, almost invisible...
Talk.Origins
The web archive for the Talk.Origins newsgroup, it is dedicated to provide mainstream scientific responses about Evolution and the Evolution/creation "controversy".
Intuitor's Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
An attempt by Intuitor to educate the public about how bad movie Physics actually is.
International System of Units
Learn about the International System of Units in NIST's page.
STATS.org
With their own words: "STATS monitors the media to expose the abuse of science and statistics before people are misled and public policy is distorted."
Butterflies and Wheels
A great site dedicated to fighting "pseudoscience that is ideologically and politically motivated", as well as "Epistemic relativism in the humanities" and "Those disciplines or schools of thought whose truth claims are prompted by the political, ideological and moral commitments of their adherents, and the general tendency to judge the veracity of claims about the world in terms of such commitments." The quotes above come directly from their About page .
Skeptic's Dictionary
A great resource explaining "Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions (and how to think critically about them)". The site has several translations, and very good articles.
A Miracle of Science
A Science Fantasy webcomic with a very interesting storyline.
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