Linkthrough #1, Jan, 26, 2010 Time to change the way these updates look, easier on the eye, right? Here we go, updates and comments and everything in the same list thing, much easier... This update was done twice btw, started in the end of 2009, resumed at the end of January 2010, so double comments may appear for specific sites. :) Next update will be a major reorganization, I don't even visit half of these pages anymore, or a third, or a fourth ... and so fourth. - CyberDevil --------------------------------------- 1 GENERAL --------------------------------------- ANIME - Vote for the "Cutest Anime Girl 2009" at All Anime. My vote's for Mio. - Anime Planet has a new Christmas style theme, beautiful! - Where did Anime Research come from? It's on the list, but I really can't recall ever having been there before, maybe they have a completely brand new layout ... good site, though. - Woah, Anime Suki keeps growing, last time I checked the site each download marked around 20-50 seeds, tops, now each one is waaay above the hundreds. Has ANime finally seen its great breakthrough? Maybe so. - New layout for Anime Tribe, a really slick metallic Javascript-based theme. - Just realized Anime Woot is a bit too dark, need a revamp. - Anime Zen seems to have a slightly remade layout. - Quoted: "arlongpark.net being reloaded... ", page is empty. - Anime Paper has a new fresh layut update too, just in time for Christmas! - Dattebayo keeps at it, read the "ZOMGWBLOGOINURBLEACHWTFBBQ!" post to find out all about the subliminal Warner Bros logo in the latest sub of Bleach. - DBZ episode spiffing up their selection and CSS styling. - Gendou opened up a Poll section, feel like answering some questions? Check it out! - DHTML snow at Kenchi Anime site, same script I used on my own last Christmas, haha, might bring it back this year. Watcha think? - Slightly new layout for Kenchi Anime Forever - Woo, scarywater still GOING STRONG! They keep it oldskool, first anime download site I found, haven't downloaded anything from them in forever though, ah, the nostalgia! - My Anime List is GROWING, can't say it's as big as Anime News Network yet, but a bit too damn close!! - Btw, as of the new year Anime List has a real fresh new layout! - Anime Tribe has been down for a while now, removed. ARTISTRIES - Check out the Depthcore exhibitions! New! - Can't believe how much new art keeps flowing into DA each DAY! - Slightly new layout for Eye Fetch, looks good. - If you like style, checkout Vector Art, great new galleries. - Zlope looks better than ever, but where the hell did their logo disappear too? Love the gradient menu. COMMUNITIES - Bout time Hi5 spiffed up their layout! Much faster, too. - Twitter has majorly redesigned their start page as well, whole different way of displaying content. Instead of a complete list it's now a search and category tactic, great bandwidth saver, and clutterless-er too. - Man, ZelloMesh hasn't been updated in ages, can't it die soon so I can get rid of it? Or be reborn so I can start playing around there again? Blergh ... - Woo, Merry New Year update on Zellomesh! It lives! :D ETCETERAL - IMDBs top 250s needs some debugging. - Couple of months later, the list is gone. --------------------------------------- 2 PEOPLE --------------------------------------- ARTISTS - New intro quotes for Banksys great site, sucky SEO; whatever though. - Bankys site is updated again, new intro image, looks good. BLOGGERS * New active/inactive sections, seems like it's needed. Actually, fuck that, inactive bloggers will just be deleted from now on. - Andrey Preston is definitely not active ... who is he anyway? The founder of suprnova.org, you know, that legendary website that gathered together ALL torrents in one place! They had to shut down a few years back, it felt like the end of a beautiful era, and then Torrent Spy had to shut down, and then the Mega Nova founder died, and then The Pirate Bay were sued, and then Mini Nova had to get rid of all illegal content. ThePirateBay still haven't died though, BANZAI! Andrej was once an idol of mine, but now, hmm, I'll leave him in the list just for the memory. - Amy Baldwin & Björn Larsson aren't very active either. I think I have the wrong blog for big buddy bear too, could you send me the correct one in a minutze?! - Broken Kode has a new layout, looks great, very minimal and swift, not the best navigation but WTH, it's creative. - Brad Isaacs blog has been added, Persistence Unlimited, great place. - Got rid of Buddy Bears blog, it hasn't been updated in two years anyway, what was the title of the one he did post to now? Have to ask ... - Rid of Andrey’s blog too, two years of inactivity is getting on my nerves a bit. Is he dead? GROUPS - Google is FRESH, just check out those nice new Ajax effects when you search! Looks awesome. That, is why I don't go BING. - Capitalized TPB initials. Good choice huh? - Checkout the MiniNova blog, BIG disaster, HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of torrents just blown away. Tragedy, another torrent site bites the dust. Read the blog for more info. - The Pirate Bay finds another loophole in the law, magnet links instead of trackers. Reduces bandwidth and complies with the current kinky governmental guidelines on torrent indexing. They say it's time for the revolution, this is it, the change, the new, the almighty! A bunch of other changes made too, read their blog for more info. - Pingdom has a great blog, added. - KK Online is out, I wonder why I even added them in the first place ... - Mininova is out MUSICIANS - RJ seems to be having some trouble with his site CSS stylesheets ... they don't seem to exist. Bummer, looks ass-ugly. Been this way through three reloads, so it can't be me. - RJs site is back up. NEWGROUNDERS - I used to think the Pox Bow was a fun site, so what happened? It just doesn't entertain me anymore... maybe because I'm not very active at NG ATM. Maybe I've lost the NG strain of comedy sense. O_o --------------------------------------- 3 RESOURCES --------------------------------------- ARTICLES - New layout for articlr, looks good. - Easy Articles is unavailable due to unscheduled database maintenance. Sorry for the inconvenience. - Find Articles have switched name to BNet: http://www.bnet.com. New layout, new everything! Looks great. CRACKS - Hmm, are there ANY good UNmlaicious crack/serial sites out there? Took me ages to find a couple of decent ones to replace Astalavista. - So what happened to AltaLaVista? It dissapeared, so lets say Hasta la vista to Alta La Vista! Now it's a site dedicated towards hacking and security instead, bummer, there's that serial database blown to smithereens. - AstaLaVista has been moved to a new section: Hacking. It's still a good site. - Game crack site added, as well as Serials Ws DOOM - Geocities is GONE and with that, Mr Rockets DOOM page (and my own, though it wasn't linked to, it's a shame) - Woah, the creator of skulltag was deceived by his staff and had his website stolen, and he won't be getting it back either, shit truly does happen. O_o - New Doom has retired, only the forum remains as an archive, thus a bunch of great websites hosted by them are gone from the list. xDoom one of them. Actually, site isn't down, only specific hosted sites, their URLs redirect to the forums. - zDaemon is down for a while, hope it comes back. FLASH - Cartoonsmart & Kirupa both have new fresh layouts! - New layout for Shockwave too, a redesign, actually. FONTS - 1000 Free Fonts have a nice new layout, Abstract Fonts restyled their CSS, but Urban Fonts have the greatest redesign of them all! ICONS - New layout for Icon Archive. Looks good! GAME DEVELOPERS - Rockstar Games, Bungie & Team 17 redesigns. - I know I should add a new other great ones, can't remember their names though, bummer. GAME RESOURCES - New section! Also, Game Copy World. JAPAN - J-List also went and redesigned their website. - Tokyo Toshi is currently looking very pale and blank (no content), lets see if that changes or if I'll have to delete them from the listings... - Tokyo Toshi is gone. MISC - Woops! Duplicate! Leos Icon Archive is OUT OF HERE!! - Yeah, Leos Icon Archive is gone, seems like I already posted about that. - FotoPic redesign. Yay. - Pixel2Life looking great, big redesign undergone. - PN Flash Games is gone. - ShyGuy Kingdom and VG Maps redesigns, woot. MOVIES - Movies, Spike & Yahoo Movies upgraded. Great. MUSIC - Yahoo, Spike, Last FM, Lolo & Ultimate Guitar have new layouts. Nice! - Something is about to happen. Says LoopKit - SoundPedia is GONE! NG - Medals? Anyone? Checkout ng-medals.com PHP - I think Hq should be HQ, so there. - New design for ScriptMe. PHPBB - Smartor Mods upgraded. - I admire sites like phpBB platinum, that stay forever without needing to change layouts or anything and still remain relevent. SCRIPTS - The Script Club has Gone. :( - Bunch of new layouts. SMILIES - My Smilies.com is down. I sent them an email, maybe taking over? :P - New layout for Planet Smilies! - Dragons smiles is down, removed. TORRENTS - Litebay is suddenly even lighter than it was before! Looks great! - Goddammit MiniNova! What happened to you!!! Star removed, it's a shame, end of an era, start of the next game. - NForce has retired, another (good) torrent site bites the dust. Forums still remain, the rest have been retained. - Piratebits is GONE! Another (good) torrent site bites the dust. - Bitsnoop.com added, great search engine. - So is http://openbittorrent.com/ TRACKMANIA - New section! One site added, TrackMania forums, they have links to all other useful resources. - More to be added later, but I think I should reorganize everything instead, the whole links section. WALLPAPER - Bleeding Soul, leading wallpaper site, though slightly illegal, has dissapeared from he surface of the earth! - Still gone, so the whole Wallpaper section is going down for a while. WEBBINGS - Invisionize has a new layout! Nice - System Crasher still under construction, been a long long time now, when will they ever return? WIKI - PB Wiki is blasted away, no longer free. Goodbye PB Wiki! - PB Wiki now redirect to PB Works, good site, but not of interest anymore. - Wikipedia summed up donations much faster than last year this year. WORDS - New layout for Encyclopedia Obscura - Urban Dictionary celebrates 10 years! - New layout too ^ --------------------------------------- 4 SERVICES --------------------------------------- BLOGGING - New layouts for Aeonity, Blogglovin, Blogsome & MyTypes. - Live Journal celebrating 10 years! IMAGES - Pictiger is gone, removed. - Over half of all file hosting/image hosting sites have tweaked layouts! Nice! Almost all look Web2.0 now. ;) MUSIC - Blip, Garage Band, MTV (I was going to write MP3, lmao), Music & Slice The Pie - new layouts! P2P - New LimeWire client. - FrostWire is new too. ETC - Woah, really not much happening with them services overall. --------------------------------------- 5 WEBHOSTING --------------------------------------- WEBHOSTING STUFF - Bravenet.net seems to have become Bravenet.com... or did I just type it wrong earlier? - Spark Haven is down, and with it a section. WEBSPACE FREE - Fi.st merged with SiteFrost (it's SiteFrost now) - OxyHost is gone! - Viper 1 is gone! - Freezooka is gone! - Geocities is gone!! - Izo Host is gone! --------------------------------------- 6 ENTERTAINMENT --------------------------------------- COMICS - "As we Were" seems to be gone. - Sic Productions has moved on, from comics, to something else. - RWWR is down. So down it seems it might not even have existed in the first place, was this newborn link a typo only?! - Strange Someone is gone like the morning dawn. - thingpart.html is the new Think Part link, there. Actually it was a typo, the previous one. - Woah, so many new comics, layouts, etc, it would take me a full day just to read through and list the updates, fuck that. Here's some empty --------------------------------------------------------------s for you for all of the updates, in one line, to save space. - Weebl comic removed, there really isn't much comic anyway. GAMES - New layout for A Game! Nice! - Abandonias new layout is new ... but not nice. WTF where they thinking anyway?! - Game Revolutions new layout looks great! - Game Crash's new layout looks great - Game Sheeps new layout is funky! - Game Spots new layout is fresh! - Game 121 looks better than before! - Fun Flash Games and Free Online Games both look ice now! - FlashFlash Revolution is GONE. - Goriya Revamped! - Triglav has a new layout too. - Wall of Game looks a shitload nicer! JOKES - AhaJokes is gone, sad. Haven't been there in like five years, but they were a good site way back when. - Laugh Net underwent a big redesign, looks good! HENTAI - ALL hentai sites have new layouts! Aint that something?! LINK DUMPS - FMF relayouted, looks good. VIRAL MEDIA - Moved Double Agent here, they didn't belong under articles. - 13GB tweaked their layout. - Bored tweaked their layout. - Other than a shitload of new content, not much news.