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Airports

Airports listed by IATA identifier code, with full name, nearest major city, and country.

• ARN
  Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, Stockholm, Sweden.
• BMA
  Stockholm-Bromma Airport, Stockholm, Sweden.
• CPH
  Copenhagen Airport, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• FRA
  Frankfurt International Airport, Frankfurt, Germany.
• ICN
  Incheon International Airport, Seoul, South Korea.
• JFK
  John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, United States.
• MMX
  Malmö-Sturup Airport, Malmö, Sweden.
• NRT
  Narita Airport, Tokyo, Japan.

Airlines

Infrequently flied, alphabetically arranged.

• British Airways
  National carrier, United Kingdom. Flight code: BA. Alliance: oneworld.
  (+) service (-) LHR
• Korean Air
  National carrier, South Korea. Flight code: KE. Alliance: Sky Team.
  (+) ICN (-) nothing
• Lufthansa
  National carrier, Germany. Flight code: LH. Alliance: Star Alliance.
  (+) on time (-) food
• Scandinavian Airlines
  National carrier, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Flight code: SK. Alliance: Star Alliance.
  (+) design (-) no 747s

Air travel resources

Organizations

• IATA - International Air Transport Association
  Trade association for international air transport covering some 280 airlines and 95% of all international scheduled air traffic.

Codes

• AeroTransport Data Bank
  Comrehensive online database with lots of different search alternatives. Click "Airports" to search.
• IATA - Airline Coding Directory
  The official industry source for airline designators, location identifiers and three-digit airline numeric codes. Searchable database. Note: The free service uses a database that is not updated on a regular basis. Access to the updated information requires subscription. In most cases, i.e. for major operators and airports, the information retrieved from the free service will be accurate.
• Orbitz: Airport Code Look-Up
  One very long list with codes sorted by name of nearest city. Save as file and use as an offline alternative to databases.

Language

• Radio Alphabet
  Charlie and friends. The English phonetic alphabet used in aviation, and other radio and telephone communications. Recommended by ITU, and virtually identical to the NATO Phonetic Alphabet.

Safety

• Aviation Safety Network
  Comprehensive resource on airliner accidents and safety issues, with information and statistics dating back to 1952. Includes a large number of CVR/FDR transcripts and recordings.
• AirDisaster.com
  Another good resource for aviation safety related information. Complements Aviation Safety Network. Has the largest airliner accident photo gallery on the internet.

Schedules

• Incheon International Airport > Flight Information
  Arrivals and departures at ICN. Works best in Internet Explorer.
• FlightArrivals.com
  For flights arriving and departing all major U.S. airports.

Seating charts

• Frequent Flyer
  Seating charts for all major airlines.

Language Resources

Dictionaries and Glossaries

• Acronym Finder
  More than 300,000 acronyms and abbreviations.
• Dictionary.com
  Excellent online dictionary. Can also be used to search for synonyms at Thesaurus.com.
• Dictionary of Small Business
  Comprehensive dictionary. Several terms also apply to associations.
• Glossary of Prepress Terms
  Phantoms, orphans and kickers: a small and compact glossary of publishing terms.
• Lexin Svenskt-Engelskt lexikon
  Swedish-English online dictionary. Also translates from English to Swedish.
• Språkbankens konkordanser
  A handy way to search in a number of Swedish language resources, including SAOL.
• WhatIs?com
  Information technology encyclopedia. Search or browse.

Style Guides

• The Economist Style Guide
  A guide based on the style book given to all journalists at The Economist.
• The Elements of Style
  The classic style guide written in 1918 by William Strunk, Jr.

News Resources

Asia

• CNN Asia
• TIME Asia
• The Japan Times
• The Korea Times

Economy

• The Economist
• Far Eastern Economic Review
• Financial Times

Sweden

• Dagens Nyheter
• Sydvenska Dagbladet

Technology

• Business 2.0
• FC Now: The Fast Company Weblog

Photo Resources

• Airliners.net
  Great collection of photos of commercial aircraft. Most of the aircraft photos on larsholst.info are used with kind permission from Airliners.net photographers.
• stock.xchng
  One of the best free stock photo sites with more than 30,000 photos.

Travel resources · general

Transportation

• Subway Navigator
  Maps and searchable routes of a large number of subway networks around the world.

Health matters

• CDC Traveler's Health
  Big sharp needles filled with deadly viruses. Vaccinations are not as bad as they sound, and this is important information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Web Technology News

• Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report
  Jeffrey Zeldman. Web design & technology. Allow the man to set his cookie.
• Wired News
  Legendary magazine, now in XHTML 1.0 Transitional. For geeks.

Web Design and Development Resources

General

• A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites
  Online magazine. Articles on a wide array of topics, simply and effectively organized.
• Digital Web Magazine
  Online magazine focused on professional web designers. Articles, tutorials, interviews, and reviews.
• SitePoint: Empowering Web Developers since 1997.
  Very comprehensive collection of tutorials and articles. Also publishes books on web development.
• WebReference.com
  Reference charts, interviews and articles. Looks bad, but validates.

Accessibility

• Accessify.com
  Good information on accessibility. Frequently updated with comments, links and resources.

Beginner's guides

• NYPL Style Guide
  Excellent beginner's guide to XHTML and CSS basics. Includes succinct and easy-to-understand instructions for converting HTML to XHTML.

Cascading stylesheets (CSS)

• CSS-Discuss
  Fabulous mailing list for CSS design and development. Read the policy. Join.
• CSS-Discuss Wiki
  Fabulous wiki for CSS design and development. Tips, tricks, hacks and facts.
• CSS Enhancements in Internet Explorer 6
  Good explanation of the CSS support in IE6. Includes link to a note on IE5.5 compatibility.
• CSS Panic Guide
  The Swiss Army knife of CSS links.
• Eric Meyer on CSS
  Large variety of well-explained CSS tips and tutorials from the guru.
• Little Boxes
  Comprehensive selection of CSS layouts with source code.
• ⁄* Position Is Everything *⁄
  Browser bugs & Big John. Required reading if you're a serious developer.
• ⁄* Position Is Everything *⁄ 3 Column Complex Layout Demo
  One of the best and certainly the most beautiful three column demos I have seen. Made by Holly Bergevin and showcased by Big John at PositionIsEverything.net.
• Real World Style
  CSS layouts, tips, tricks, and techniques. Includes useful cross-platform font selection guide.

Color tools

• Color Blender
  Blends colors. By Eric Meyer. Save and blend offline.
• Color Scheme
  Color scheme picker. Emulates different kinds of color blindness. By Petr Stanicek (Pixy).
• Webmaster's Color Lab
  Test the 216 websafe colors against each other. Works offline.

(X)HTML

• W3C: HTML
  W3C's HTML hub.
• W3C: XHTML 1.0
  The full specs. High geek factor, low readability factor. Scroll down for table of contents.
• W3C: XHTML 1.1
  The full specs. Reasonably unreadable. Scroll down for table of contents.
• W3: XHTML 1.1 — The XHTML 1.1 Document Type
  Clearly states that b and i belong to the presentation module. They are not deprecated.
• What You Should Know about XHTML 1.1
  Good collection of information for those who wish to jump on the 1.1 bandwagon.
• W3C: Using Ampersands in Attribute Values (and Elsewhere)
  Like it says. A small but crucial detail.
• Alan Wood's Unicode Resources
  Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML, Fonts, Web Browsers and Other Applications.
• Guide to Standards-Compliant XHTML: Forms
  Well-organized and comprehensive. Focused on markup rather than style.
• Webmonkey Reference Special Characters
  ISO codes for special entities (special characters) in (X)HTML.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

• 
  Useful tips from the people behind the most important search engine.
• Search Engine Submission Tips
  Very comprehensible resource from Search Engine Watch.

Miscellaneous

• Guide to Using Images
  All the guide to using images you ever wished for. And then some.
• Hiveware - Enkoder Form
  Encrypts an email address and converts the result to a self evaluating JavaScript. No more spam!
• IP-to-Country
  Find out which country a particular IP address belongs to.
• Netscape DevEdge Dropdown Menus
  Very cleverly coded dropdown menus, based on CSS2 and JavaScript.
• TheCounter.com
  Comprehensive global statistics on web browsers and other user data.
• Web Standards Project, The
  Explaining and advocating the use of Web Standards. Required reading if you use the internet.

Weblogs and personal sites

• 456 Berea Street
• Anne van Kesteren
• Antipixel
• Asterisk*
• Baxley Design
• Big White Guy
• Binary Bonsai
• Biroco Journal
• Brainstorms and Raves
• Chuck Maddox's Watch Blog
• Drowning in the Current
• Enrique Espinosa
• gauperaa
• Hicksdesign
• Hivelogic Narrative, The
• Holovaty.com
• Jeffrey Zeldman
• Jonathon Delacour
• Keith Burgin
• kottke.org
• lancearthur.com
• Laughing Knees
• Living Can Kill You
• Mezzoblue
• MoCo Tokyo
• Overcaffeinated
• Photo Matt
• plasticbag.org
• rebelpixel productions
• Seriocomic
• Simon Willison
• Stopdesign
• Tam I Am
• Tesugen
• the letter – follow your eye
• v-2 Organisation
• Velociphile's Journey into Watches
• William Gibson
• WorldChanging
• Zooiblog

Web browsers

• Mozilla Firefox
  A secure, and standards-compliant browser in a very slim package. Several extensions available for added functionality (select Tools > Extensions). Open source and free.

Miscellaneous

• Resources for debunking Internet hoaxes
  Check here before you forward.