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Here are some categorised links I personally find amusing, educative, thought provoking or somehow just very bizarre.

Music

Magyar Posse
A Finnish band that plays absolutely fantastic music
Velvet Desperados
Very good Finnish prog-rock band
Bo Hansson
One of the great Hammond players
Yes
Why not!
King Crimson
Very original and legendary prog rock band
Genesis
One of the greatest prog bands ever
Van Der Graaf Generator
German prog band
Gentle Giant
Wonderful and melodic prog rock
Pink Floyd
Legendary prog band
Brian Eno
Inventor of ambient music, and much more...
Isao Tomita
Interesting Japanese electronic music maker
Kraftwerk
Legendary pioneers of electronic pop music
Tangerine Dream
Legendary electronic music
Aphex Twin
Ingenious and original electronic music creator
Squarepusher
Wonderfully original drum & bass
Future Sound Of London
Legendary british electronic music creators
Cinematic Orchestra
Very good mixture of ambient and Jazz
David Sylvian
Poetic and beautiful music
Cypress Hill
The only rap band I can really listen to
Laurie Anderson
Interesting multimedia artist and musician
Massive Attack
Very moody electronic music
Jon Hassell
Very original and tribal music
Brand X
Prog band where Phil Collins played drums
Emerson Lake & Palmer
One of the great prog -bands
Tom Waits
Very distinctive music and Tom's very distinctive person as well
Rammstein
Just about the only 'heavy' band I can listen to
Mike Patton
Wonderful and twisted singer


Software

Rhinoceros 3D
Absolutely fabulous NURBS 3D CAD modeler
Maxwell Render
Impressive new 3D renderer
V-Ray
Superb 3D GI renderer
Brazil rs
Another superb 3D GI renderer
HDR Shop
Create or edit HDR images
Font Thing
Lovely TTF Font manager for Windows
3D Mark
Famous Finnish 3D-benchmark
Aquamark 3
Good 3D-benchmark
Flamingo
Good quality general 3D renderer
SiSoft SANDRA
Excellent general PC-benchmark
APAC
Lossless audio compression!? Yes, it's possible.
SidPlay
Hear those classic C64 game tunes on your PC!
Clic
Free icon creator


Art

Cyland
Cyland is a media art lab located in St. Petersburg


3D graphics and design

Naulapaa.com
Finnish designer Heikki Naulapää
Neilblevins.com
Very educative site if you are interested in 3D graphics
Boring3d.com
Insanely fun 3D images!
Paul Debevec
Very interesting graphics research.


2D graphics

Vesa Lempiäinen
The best Finnish airbrush illustrator
H.R. Giger
Father of the Alien
Goodbrush.com
Wonderful paintings by Craig Mullins
Dylancolestudio.com
Amazing art by Dylan Cole
Dark Scenario
A bit dark but interesting images
Syd Mead
Famous futurist. Just say 'Bladerunner'!


Computer games

Trackmania United Forever
One of the best racing game ever gets better!
Portal
Now why didn't anyone think of this before?
Switchball
Remember Marble Madness? Get the same kicks with this game!
Gears of War
Intense and fabulous TPS
Crysis
How realistic looking can an FPS get? Crysis real!
Bioshock
Unbelievably good tactical FPS with wonderful 30's mood
S.T.A.L.K.E.R
Fantastic tactical FPS with a great mood
Cold Fear
Wonderfully moody horror FPS
Call Of Duty 2
Fantastic war FPS game
TrackMania United
More extremely fun car racing!
TrackMania Sunrise
Extremely fun car racing game
Quake 4
Another part in the legendary Quake series
F.E.A.R
Excellent and scary FPS
Aliens vs Predator
Very good and scary FPS
Aliens vs Predator 2
Good FPS with good graphics
Delta
The best shoot-em-up game there ever was on C64!
Deus Ex
Marvellous strategic FPS with excellent story
Deus Ex - Invisible War
The story continues... with much improved graphics
Doom 3
Scariest game ever? Yes sir!
Fallout
One of the best computer RPG:s ever made
Fallout 2
Even more better than the first was
FarCry
Wonderful FPS with 'free environment' and great graphics
Grim Fandango
One of the most underrated games ever!
Half-Life
Exceptionally well balanced FPS
Half-Life 2
The best FPS game released in 2004
Halo
Nice and innovative FPS
Homeworld
Beautiful space combat strategy
Homeworld 2
Even more beautiful space combat strategy
Max Payne
Great and quite original Finnish FPS
Max Payne 2
Max's adventures continue
System Shock 2
Scary space RPG/FPS game. Very underrated!
The Longest Journey
Marvellous adventure game!
Paradroid
One of the best games ever made, now on PC!
Quake 2
One of the legendary ID games
Quake 3
Fun FPS game
Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Return to a real classic
Unreal
This was a nice FPS, a bit old now though
Unreal II
Great graphics and a nice FPS game


Fün stüff

pyyno.temppeli.org
Pyynö the rabbit's site, sorry but only in Finnish
WIRED
The best magazine from U.S.A?
Rathergood.com
Fun Flash works from Joel Veich
JibJab.com
Fun Flash animations
NiceCupOfTeaAndASitdown.com
The name says it all :)
Hoogerbrugge.com
Have no idea what it is, but I love it...
Anorakzone.com
Some classic TV series, and other stuff...
ptech.wsj.com
Walt Mossberg's site
www.zzap64.co.uk
Legendary C64 magazine
www.smart.co.uk/dreams
Terry Gilliam Fanzine
Urinal.net
Maybe a bit disgusting but we go to these places every day...
www.tompeters.com
Tom Peters's site
Poject Gutenberg
Free books online
Chris Cunningham
Interesting filmmaker, very good music videos
EEggs.com
Things that are around but we don't see'em
Ren & Stimpy
One of the funniest cartoon charcters ever!