Brent P. Newhall's Blog

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This is Brent P. Newhall's blog. You're looking at a stand-alone page; my blog is on a number of topics.

• All
• Cooking
• Miscellaneous
• Reviews
• Self-Improvement
• Teaching
• Tech
• Writing

More about me:

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• Anime
• Links
• Contact

My projects:

• Your Online Life
  In-depth articles about the latest web tech and trends
• Cooking with CK
  Easy video recipes in under 10 minutes
• Otaku, No Video
  A conversational podcast about anime, with friends

 

Recently Read:

	Write Away by Elizabeth George
	The Not So Big House by Sarah Susanka
	Unplugged Play by Bobbi Conner
	Try Rebooting Yourself by Scott Adams

 

Recently Seen:

	WALL-E (Pixar)
	Magic Kitchen (Chi-Ngai Lee)
	Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir, Robin Williams)

My Other Sites

• Animation from Scratch, a separate blog I write about making 2D animation myself
• Brent's Software, featuring programs I've written
• Cooking with CK, an online video blog featuring recipes and cooking tips in under ten minutes
• My Classes, a series of classes I teach about online culture and building websites
• Your Online Life, articles on all the latest web technologies and trends

Forums

• The Acccidental Creative
• Getting Things Done Forum
• Kindle Forum
• LibraryThing

Comics

• Daily
• North World
• Starslip Crisis
• User Friendly
• Wapsi Square
• MWF
• Flipside
• Freefall
• Penny Arcade
• Shortpacked!
• xkcd
• Weekly
• The Abominable Charles Christopher
• Minus
• No Need For Bushido!
• Whenever
• dead winter
• Lagend
• Megatokyo
• The Perry Bible Fellowship
• Tsunami Channel

Social Networking

• del.icio.us
• Facebook
• FriendFeed
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Pownce

Blogs

• Gaping Void
• Lileks's Bleats
• p1k3
• Seth Godin's Blog
• Shin Saalon Muyo!

Languages

• Mahalo - How to Speak Mandarin Chinese for Beginners
• Mandarin Chinese Vocabulary Guide — mouse over to hear common Mandarin words and phrases

Miscellaneous

Sites I visit occasionally.

• The Accidental Creative
• Akihabara Channel - Akihabara Map
• Anime News Network
• Anime Releases — what's coming out soon
• Anime Suki — anime torrents
• Bash — screwy IRC conversations
• Fark — offbeat news
• FlyLady.net — intensely practical advice for cleaning your home
• HandBrake — DVD to MPEG converter
• How to Tune a Guitar
• Instructables — How to make lots of weird, interesting things
• Joy of Baking - Basic Ingredients — with volume-to-weight conversions for many common ingredients
• Kingdom of Loathing — a parody RPG of stick figures and sabre-toothed limes
• MechQuest — an in-browser flash game of battling mecha
• Metropolis — English-language online magazine about modern Japanese culture
• Tailsteak — a webcomic and fiction project
• Vinnie Veritas — artist who makes awesome short animations set in a funky modern/fantasy world (Hoy te amo is my favorite)
• The Weather Underground

Recorded For History

Worth visiting at least once, depending on your interests.

• Benjamin Zander on music and passion — The greatest 20-minute talk on classical music and life in general I've ever seen.
• The Guide to Sound Effects — How to make your own sound effects
• Introduction to Pointers — A thorough, detailed introducing to C language pointers. Geeky but fantastic.
• Partners In Rhyme — Royalty-free, free sound effects and music loops