Links
General Interest
Little Gamers
Hilarious, though slightly twisted, web comic updated daily from Sweden.
http://www.little-gamers.com
xkcd
A slightly more 'geeky' web comic with general programming humour.
http://www.xkcd.com
Utopia
Utopia is a team game played entirely with plain-text through a browser.
http://games.swirve.com/utopia
About the only social networking site you need.
http://www.facebook.com
Social/Networking Groups
PHP West Midlands
PHP user group with IRC channel and mailing list.
http://www.phpwm.org
Birmingham Linux User Group
Quite a broad interest group for all things Linux and open-source. The group also has an IRC channel, calendar and RSS Planet.
http://sb.lug.org.uk
Brumspace
Open, new-media forum for the Birmingham area.
http://www.brumspace.org
PHP Resources
PHPDeveloper.org
General portal for PHP related resources. The news feed is fairly neutral and covers a comprehensive range of articles from
various blogs.
http://www.phpdeveloper.org
PHP Classes
An essential bookmark for any PHP developer. This site contains class repositories for pretty much anything you could want to do with PHP.
The level of documentation, coding standards and general quality can range vastly between extremes, but its a great place to browse before
committing yourself to custom-coding libraries for simple tasks. Its weekly newsletter is also quite interesting.
http://www.phpclasses.org