Christian
English Standard Version - www.gnpcb.org/esv - this is my weapon of choice for English Bibles.
Gereja Kristen Pelita - www.pelita.org - this is our current church, an Indonesian student church at UNSW. It’s part of FOCUS.
Christ Church Gladesville - christchurch.org.au - our former church.
Church Missionary Society NSW - www.cms.org.au - supporting missionaries all over the world; Sydney Anglicans’ usual weapon of choice for mission.
Desiring God - www.desiringgod.org - John Piper’s site for sermons, papers and all sorts of other goodies.
Sydney Anglicans - www.sydneyanglicans.net - a great site from the Anglican Media people. They’ve also just launched HQ, available to anyone in ministry.
Moore Theological College - www.moore.edu.au - Currently in 3rd year at Moore.
Anglican Church League - www.acl.asn.au - nothing like the Australian Rugby League.
Faith By Hearing - faithbyhearing.wordpress.com - tons of mp3s of classic preachers, like Jonathan Edwards, Richard Baxter and others.
The Sola Panel - solapanel.org - evangelical Christian blog, sponsored by Matthias Media.
Ministry Resources
Biblical Preaching - biblicalpreaching.net - if you preach, read this.
dave miers dot com - www.davemiers.com - Dave is a designer, writer and speaker - an all round Renaissance man. If you need a website built for church, or an advertising banner, or a guest speaker (particularly for youth events), Dave is your man.
CreativeMYK - creativemyk.com - imaging stuff for churches: original artwork, logos, photos, ppt slides. Lots of native formats, like .ai, .psd, .eps etc.
Re^son - reason.mu - great music resources for churches (especially small ones). Also check out Dan G’s blog.
Baby Stuff
BabyCentre - www.babycenter.com.au - really useful site with bulletins providing week-by-week pregnancy and baby development information.
Raising Children - raisingchildren.net.au - government sponsored website with parenting tips for babies and children up to 8 years.
Australian Breastfeeding Association - www.breastfeeding.asn.au - everything you could ever want to know about breastfeeding. WARNING - information overload! Also, very focussed on baby-directed feeding.
The Boswell Bunch - www.boswellbunch.com/simone/ - 6 children worth of experience and very down-to-earth easy advice.
Rookie Moms - www.rookiemoms.com - two geeky girls’ guide to the first year of motherhood (and beyond). Entertaining and has lots of great ideas.
Productivity etc
43 Folders - www.43folders.com - plenty of useful tips on how to do more work in less time.
Lifehack - www.lifehack.org - ‘lifehacking’ is the term used to describe general productivity, covering everything from how to get particularly difficult stains out of your best business shirt, to automation software for your daily tasks, to urban survival kits in small packages. Pretty cool.
Lifehacker - www.lifehacker.com - “Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don’t live to geek; geek to live.”
Tech & Mac
Whirlpool - www.whirlpool.net.au - independent Australian broadband and technology site.
Static Ice - www.staticice.com - if you’re in the market for some new electronic gizmo, check prices Australia-wide here. I never buy anything without using this site.
Daring Fireball - daringfireball.net - John Gruber’s excellent tech blog. Mac-centric.
Apple Australia - www.apple.com.au Mac OS X Hints - www.macosxhints.com
Accordance Bible Software - www.accordancebible.com
Omnigroup - www.omnigroup.com - outstanding software for the Mac. We use OmniOutliner Pro, Omnigraffle Pro and Omnifocus.
Good People
Impact (One World) - impactoneworld.org - Ali’s charity, raising support for Australians making an impact overseas.
Humour
Ze Frank - www.zefrank.com - Ze is a New York-based comic, political commentator and performance artist.
XKCD - www.xkcd.com - jokes for nerds.
Reference
Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org - one of the most useful (and most used) reference sites on the web. Look up anything. It may not always be accurate, though.
Google Maps - maps.google.com.au - thank God we don’t have to rely on Whereis.
Entertainment
Movies.com - movies.go.com/reviews - an excellent ‘meta’ critic site for the latest movies.
AtEase - www.ateaseweb.com - everything you ever wanted to know about Radiohead. Updated frequently.
Design/Imaging
Stock Exchange - www.sxc.hu - an excellent royalty free stock photography site (much better than Google Images).
Deviant Art - www.deviantart.com - excellent digital art from around the world; a massive collection.
Mandolux - mandolux.com - outstanding desktop images, sampled to various sizes and available for monitor spanning.
