When I was younger I used to love to collect and paint fantasy figurines. In my opinion the finest are made by Mithril Miniatures in Ireland. Their figures are lovingly made, realistically proportioned, and they do an excellent Lord of the Rings range. Check them out at the link below.

Doxygen is a fantastic application which I have just begun using. It allows you to generate documentation for you code based upon some simple tags hidden amongst your source code comments. If you are commenting your code as you work, as I believe a programmer should, then this program is a godsend.
To use you simply comment your code, using C or C++ style comments, but with an extra forward slash or asterix (there are a variety of forms allowed, its a very flexible program). e.g.:

/** This function does this and that...
*/
void myfunction(int i);

and when parsed by the Doxygen application, amongst other things the function is cross-referenced, documented, namespace noted, where it is called and used etc. It appears fully compliant with C++, and tackles classes and template classes and functions without any hitches. It can generate html, LaTeX, xml and more. Simply brilliant...

Go get Doxygen

You probably don't need me to tell you about these. Although I dislike 'cut and paste' programmers, I admit to sneaking a peek at his fullscreen method in OpenGL after running into some problems with my own. The site appears to have a complete and in-depth range of OpenGL tutorials, from the basics of rotating cubes, through texturing, to cel-shading. A mine of information, but please don't just change his comments and pass it off as your own. You'll just look stupid when someone asks you what exactly the
LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM)
function is doing, and you haven't a clue...

Go to NeHe

CVS is a versioning system for programmers to manage source code. Again its free, and very highly recommended. There is a Win32 version on their site, although it might soon be deprecated. If you can't find it drop me a mail and I'll send you mine. CVS is excellent, although needs some time investment to reap benefits. Interestingly, CVS comes packaged with MetroWerks CodeWarrior Pro. Clever guys. You'll need CVS if you are going to work on community code eg at sourceforge etc.

If you like Star wars, you've got to see this. A mammoth task, this is Star Wars done in ASCII art. Unfortunately they haven't yet done the entire film, and some of the dialog is incorrect, but top marks to them, its excellent work, and a good laugh. When I watch it I can hear the film in my head...

Pov-Ray is an excellent and free ray tracing program. It has aged somewhat now, compared to the likes of 3ds max etc, however it is free, and reasonably easy to use, especially for programmers. It ray traces scenes described by a simple to learn scripting language, and can also generate animated frames. I used it for generating the monsters for an early project.

Do you belive that there is an afterlife? Do you belive in magic, spirits, goblins, dreamcatchers, gods, demons, ghosts, elves, dragons, possession by demons, voodoo, reincarnation and/or eternal souls? Well I feel sorry for you. Do you worship an illegitimate jewish carpenter? An ass-riding prophet who lived on his wife's income? Or worst of all, do you believe evil aliens named Thetans from the galaxy of Xenu (?) are living in your mind? Check this out...

Daniel 'Spooger' Pattons site on www.planetunreal.com. Daniel creates textures and fantastic levels for Unreal, which are available for download from his site. It was Daniel who contacted me about creating the convertor from ASE to T3D, and his site is the official release site. Questions about how the convertor interacts with 3ds max, and how to achieve best results using it should be directed towards him. Links to e-mail Spooger can be found on his site.