luis a. r. fernandez

cool software

Mozilla, very good browser. Particularly its lightweight incarnation Phoenix, my personal favourite.

Verse, networking protocol for 3D. Kind of difficult to put into words. Its original authors Emil Brink and Eskil Steenberg make a better job at it right here.

Native win32 ports of GNU tools. diff, patch, wget, the works. All win32 native, no funky DLLs. Precious stuff if you are into MS Windows but like to contribute to OSS projects.

The recently GPL'ed Blender 3D modelling software. Supports multiple platforms. It features: python scripting, quite a productive interface and all the whizzbang of a modern modeller. Not quite up to snuff in a few areas, but it's improving.

Most software produced by the Jakarta Project is absolutely fantastic. Most Java developers around use software from Jakarta at one time or another. Things like Ant, Log4J, Struts, Tomcat and Velocity are the Java developer's darlings.

worthy causes

Indymedia - news brought to you by the people that make them happen.
Free Software Foundation - to keep the biosphere of software in equilibrium providing the four basic freedoms for software users.

miscellaneous

Sinfest daily strip - we all have a favourite comic strip on the net, this is the one I like.

people doing cool stuff

Random Studios - cool collective and design studio with people in Barcelona and Buenos Aires doing neat random based work on the web.
Gramophone Records - these guys make Amsterdam beat funky one night every month.
Microjocs - developers of some really cool games for mobile phones.
Malmo Exploding Plastic Project - (no link yet) art and entertainment amongst friends in the Malmo area (Sweden).

demoscene

Pouet.net - All the flames, all the news and most productions for many platforms, biggest demoscene resource so far.
Orange Juice - The benchmark on demoscene news.
Nectarine scene radio - All the demoscene classics net-streamed 'round the clock.
Concept - the last demogroup I worked with ('till Nov 2001).