Various unsorted links

Dive Into HTML5
http://diveintohtml5.org/table-of-contents.html
Google App Engine forum software: free software hosted for free (used by Skritter)
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/fofou/manifesto.html
Learning Clojure: go back to 6.001
http://www.learningclojure.com/2011/02/advice-to-newbie.html

Chinese font display

When learning Chinese characters, and particularly practicing writing them, as I do with Skritter, I find it helpful to have some models to copy, since part of my motivation in learning to write characters is writing them as elegantly as possible (I've got a long way to go).

This is a nice tool for testing a variety of examples of Chinese writing styles:
http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/calligraphy.html
Sadly you can't link to examples since the form uses POST, see image below.
(need to track down or develop a GET to POST converter for this kind of thing)
An example of text I used was
台北市 大同區 敦煌路 巷 號 之
since I needed to write my address to fill out a paper form for a Taipei road race.

WAZU JAPAN's Gallery of Unicode Fonts has a lot of freely installable Traditional Chinese fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ChineseTraditional.html

I'd like to check out some web-based fonts for Chinese if there are some.

But see this good discussion of the limited set of Chinese fonts:
"Unlike English web designers, who have a relatively wide array of available typographical options, due to a lack of good common typefaces, Chinese web designers are cursed with a very limited number of fonts, of which 宋体 [sòngtǐ aka Mincho aka Song font] is undoubtedly used for more than 95% of the text on any Chinese website."
http://www.kavoir.com/2009/01/what-are-the-chinese-or-mandarin-web-safe-fonts.html

So maybe, for my own private purposes at least, I could put some of the .ttf files listed above online following this recipe:
http://randsco.com/index.php/2009/07/04/p680
I could do this by putting the .ttf files on my server, or even just reference their their current location?
Not sure what the legal/etiquette/practicality issues are with fonts.
(See below for a better solution using the commercial web font provider Fonts.com)

List of free web fonts (including some Japanese ones):
http://webfonts.info/wiki/index.php?title=Fonts_available_for_@font-face_embedding

There is a splendid demonstration of 76 different Traditional Chinese web fonts at Fonts.com
http://webfonts.fonts.com/en-US/Project/ChooseFonts#languages%3DW40%26page%3D1
they also have 144 Simplified Chinese fonts:
http://webfonts.fonts.com/en-US/Project/ChooseFonts#languages%3DW44%26page%3D1

A number of these fonts can be used for free:

Here's a static demonstration:
http://kai.dyndns.org/chinesefonts.html

This dynamic page I made allows you to display arbitrary text in a variety of fonts:
http://kai.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/chinesefonts.pl
That's pretty much what I wanted for study purposes!
http://kai.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/chinesefonts.pl?en=台北市+大同區+敦煌路+巷+號+之

The web fonts are even displayable directly in this blog post. The following lines of font-a-licious Chinese-text are regular selectable and copyable text, not images:

台北市 大同區 敦煌路 巷 號 之

台北市 大同區 敦煌路 巷 號 之

Also, myfontbook is a pretty good web site to see what fonts are on your computer, and look at them all at the same time for an arbitrary text
http://www.myfontbook.com/
(doesn't work on Ubuntu Chrome? works fine on Firefox)

Screenshots of Chinese-tools.com's calligraphy editor:

Screenshots of Chinese-tools.com's calligraphy editor

Update July 19, 2011:
Ancient calligraphy lookup site: http://www.9610.com/zidian/
Examples: 台 北 市 大 同 區 敦 煌 路 巷 號 之
(mentioned on this Skritter forum thread)

Update April 26, 2015:
Arphic has some good Chinese fonts and you can test them online.
Thanks Thomas K.

Chrome extensions I use or have used

BuiltWith Technology Profiler - Version: 1.5

Find out what the website you are visiting is built with using this extension.

Chrome SEO - Version: 0.8

The Google Chrome SEO Extension. All the SEO Stats and Tools you need to make daily SEO easier. The MOST popular Chrome SEO Plugin!

Chrome Sniffer - Version: 0.2.5

Detect web applications and javascript libraries run on browsing website.

ChromeReload - Version: 0.5

Automatically reload a page. Configure how often each page reloads and see a count-down until the next load

Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer (by Google) - Version: 1.5.8 (Disabled)

Automatically previews pdfs, powerpoint presentations, and other documents in Google Docs Viewer.

drag2up - Version: 2.2.1

Drag files to text boxes on any site to upload and share.

FlashBlock - Version: 0.9.31

FlashBlock for Chrome. Block them all, or be selective with the embedded whitelist manager

META SEO inspector - Version: 1.7.8.1 (Disabled)

Useful to inspect the meta data found inside web pages, usually not visible while browsing.

Pendule - Version: 0.0.3

Extended developer tools for Chrome.

Quick Tabs - Version: 2010.6.27

A keyboard centric most recently used (MRU) ordered tab list plugin with search and switch functionality inspired by intelliJ IDEA

Resolution Test - Version: 2.0

An extension for developers to test web pages in different screen resolutions, with an option to define your own resolutions.

rikaikun - Version: 0.8.1

A port of rikaichan for chrome. Translate Japanese by hovering over words.

RSS Subscription Extension (by Google) - Version: 2.1.3

Adds one-click subscription to your toolbar.

Ultimate Chrome Flag - Version: 0.3.7

This extension displays country or region name, Geo, Google PageRank, Alexa Rank and WOT info for the websites you're visiting.

Validity - Version: 1.1.0

Click the icon in the address bar or press Ctrl+Alt+V to validate the current page.

Webpage Screenshot - Version: 5.0

Fast&Simple solution to Save & Share & Print & Edit screenshots of any webpage. Capture to PNG/JPG drawing tools, and sharing features.

YouTube Repeat - Version: 1.0.1

Repeat YouTube videos.

Zhongwen : A Chinese-English Popup Dictionary - Version: 2.0

Chinese popup translator. Great tool for learning Chinese. Supports adding words to Skritter.

Mandarin lessons in Taipei

TLI Taiwan Language Institute - some Survival Chinese course?
http://www.tli.com.tw/EN/branch/luosifu/dept_CN/content.asp?ID=4
2 locations: Roosevelt St. and Shilin

NTNU Shida
http://web.mtc.ntnu.edu.tw/mtcweb/index.php?option=com_guoyu&task=show_information&id=99&menuid=97&lang=en

Chunghua University / CLD Language Center?
http://www.aacircle.com.au/chinese.htm

NTU CLD Language Center
http://ntulcoffice.liberal.ntu.edu.tw/course-en.htm

NCCU
http://mandarin.nccu.edu.tw/english/

discussion of alternatives:
http://www.forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=75190

Forumosa discussion of Taiwan government approved courses (that can give visa):
http://www.forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.php?t=43868
another list, with prices:
http://www.chineselearnonline.com/taiwan

Getting a unicycle in Taiwan

Taiwan makes a lot of unicycles, but it's not that easy to find a place to buy one.

I think I can buy this one by calling and having it delivered:
http://ataabu.myweb.hinet.net/unicycle/26%20m%201500.html (Google translation)
(note: I bought itm less than 50 euros, and it's great!)
I think this is the same one on an auction site:
http://goods.ruten.com.tw/item/show?21011168536194
Another one I looked at:
http://www.unicycle.com.tw/products/index.php?func=detail&sid=19&id=16

OK now the one I want is this 36-inch monster:
http://ataabu.myweb.hinet.net/unicycle/36.html (Google translation)
(costs 3 times more, so I'll wait first to see if I get good at the 26-inch one...)

Other links:
http://www.unicycle.com.tw/news/index.php
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/yl05791523/
Is Torker the same as Taroka? I guess not:
http://www.taroka.com.tw/eng/company.html
http://www.torkerusa.com/bikes/unicycles/2011-unistar-lx
Taiwan unicycling web site (fairly new, little content)
http://163.24.107.141/xoops/htdocs/

Learning about HTML5 etc

Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into HTML5