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Questions and Answers

Anyone active on the technology/software blog scene has surely heard of Joel Spolsky and Jeff Attwood . Their fascinating brainchild - a series of free community-driven topical Q&A sites, combine the best of forums, online support and Q&A sites into one very useful offerring. Each site focusses on a particular topic but underlying all is the same engine which gives a familiar feel to all other sites once you know about one. Each site also has a "meta" site where the community discusses how the site should be driven. The flagship site is Stackoverflow - a website for aksing and answering programming questions. There are a host of other sites in various stages of construction and Area 51 has the overview. Some of the more interesting ones ... SuperUser - For powerusers (all OS) ServerFault - For system admins and server users Ubuntu SE - For Ubuntu. This site is beta so the url is likely to change once it gets out of beta.

Best of xkcd

xkcd is IMO the funniest geek comic strip ever... and courtesy of Tech Drive-in here are some real gems. Just 10 of them per link so won't take long to scan :-). Favourite XKCDs - Part 1 Favourite XKCDs - Part 2