Places of interest to wander on the web...
no particular order...
no rhyme or reason.
Use at your own risk.
Hobby related - (you know, that wargaming thing)
The Memoirs of Captain Lucien Verbeek - Jeff Cavender's blog dealing with painting and the SYW.
93 Games Studio - A friend's company and producers of The Swing and Twilight 2013 RPGs
WargamingOnABudget - Matt's YahooGroup for scratchbuilding figs. Dude is a genius! A must see for the "crafty" table top gamer!
Plastic Soldier Review - Best site for figuring out if you want to buy those 1/72nd figs or not!
AnyDice.com - Want to know the bell-curve of a d4 + d6 + d12? Want to know the result set for 19d4? Here's your site.
GettysburgSoldiers - Larry and Justin Reber's site for painted figs and their ACW rules by the same name. Great guys I met at CharCon2010! (Pic here)
Great Hall Games - If you like making your own games and need components, check these guys out. It's where I get mini poker chips and tokens.
Conventions and Organizations
HMGSGL - Great Lakes chapter of the Historical Miniature Gaming Society (HMGS)
MidwestConventions list from the HMGS-GL
ATC - Springfield OH (Mid September) Advance the Colors from the HMGS-GL
CharCon - Charleston WV (Early October)
PentaCon - Forrt Wayne IN (Early November) (electronic sign-up here)
Origins - Columbus OH (Late June - Early July)
GenConIndy - Indianapolis,
IN - (Early August)
Military History and Reference
BritishBattles - A very nice site dedicated to British military history. Particularly good uniform references from Tim Reese as well!
General Interest
CoverBrowser - Cool site with the covers of magazines and comics throughout history. The Life covers are particularly interesting.
RadioReference - Okay, so I'm genetically predisposed to enjoy listening to a police scanner. On this site you can choose a local or distant net for listening. Kind of interesting during big news events.
EmailCheck - Got your first computer? Brand new to email? PLEASE read this guy's site before you send out a single message!!