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Links

Circles

I thank 阿月隆 (Azuki Taka) of Ebishuumai Hanten for allowing me to translate 星の降る丘 (Hoshi no Furu Oka) and providing help in the process.
A circle with good Negima ADV games.
The home of the addictive Ragnarok Battle Offline game.
Smoked cheese? Nyoro~n
Negima doujinshi circle with lots of nice art.
The group that produces Narcissu.
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Pros

HP of 天野こずえ (Amano Kozue), master of はひ, あらあら禁止, でっかいおせわです, and ARIA.
The famous softhouse responsible for Kanon, AIR, and CLANNAD, as well as Planetarian, Tomoyo ~After~, and Little Busters.
The parent company of Leaf.
Another famous softhouse, which gave us To Heart, うたわれるもの (Utawarerumono), Comic Party, and many more.
The doujin circle turned pro that produced 月姫 (Tsukihime) in it's old days, then Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Hollow Ataraxia, and with another group, Melty Blood.
The creators of Wind -a breath of heart-, はるのあしおと (Haru no Ashioto), Bittersweet Fools, ef, and others. Also the inspiration for No Name Losers and insani.
The softhouse that made Shuffle!, Tick Tack, Soul Link, Kleenex Tissue (character in Judgement Chime), and puts orange arrows all over the place.
Creators of Scarlett, 麻雀 (Mahjong, a MJ game / visual novel), ラムネ (Ramune), みずいろ (Mizuiro), and many others.
The HP of manga creator 赤松健 (Akamatsu Ken), mastermind behind Love Hina and 魔法先生ネギま！ (Mahou Sensei Negima!)
The official SOS団 (SOS-dan) website, created by Kyon.
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News

Visual novel news and mirrors, coordinated internationally.
The prime resource for the latest anime in Japan and airing times.
The nyanko's corner
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A popular website for reviewd of visual novels.
A popular manga, anime, game, novel, and midi search engine, as well as the home of Miss Surfersparadise
A site with reviews of free Dating sims and ADV/Visual Novels.
An incompleat list of many NScripter games and approvimate playtimes, compiled by Shii.
A popular choice for hosting game downloads, part of the Vector software library.
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Game Engines

Zalas's listing of known visual novel formats with techinical contact info.
insani's NScripter resource with builds of ONScripter that support 1-byte characters.
Haeleth's RealLive SDK
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Fansites

The SOS団 (SOS-dan) main HP.
The TAFL-approved 宮崎のどか (Miyazaki Nodoka) fanlisting
The missing Ayuki fanbase
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Events

An anime convention at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA.
An anime convention at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC
The largest doujin event in Japan, which takes place twice a year at Tokyo Big Sight.
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J-E Translation

The 2006 freeware visual novel translation festival.
The most active visual novel translation group, involved in projects such as minori's Wind -a breath of heart-, Key's planetarian 〜ちいさなほしのゆめ〜 (Planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~), and stage-nana's Narcissu
A one-man operation working on Key's Kanon, stage-nana's Narcissu Side 2nd, among other things.
The home of TYPE-MOON game translations
The most dramatic translation group, involved mainly with Wind -a breath of heart- related projects and game openings.
A manga translation group dedicated to 天野こずえ (Amano Kozue) works.
The parent group of mirror moon, which is focuses on.
Light novel translation group currently working on the 涼宮ハルヒ (Suzumiya Haruhi) and ゼロの使い魔 (Zero no Tsukaima) series
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Webcomics

A nice webcomic from a Japanese person.
A webcomic about work at an ISP...
Dan Kim's webcomics site, home of T42R, Nana's Every Life, H.H., and others.
The adventures of Fighter, Black Mage, Thief, Red Mage, and White Mage in 8-bit glory.
A Videogame-oriented webcomic.
A webcomic gone commercial about Piro and Largo stuck in Japan.
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Resources

Jom Breen's WWWJDIC server, a very good E-J and J-E dictionary featuring word translation, standard dictionary, kanji lookups through many methonds including multiradical, SKIP code, and handwriting.
Excite's BizLingo E-J and J-E free translation service.
As usual, a beta. Uses the SysTrans engine
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Miscelaneous

Cyanoacry's HP
Kaori's HP
moe.imouto.org danbooru run by Dovac and cyan.
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Technologies (no closed source)

XHTML 1.1 specification
CSS 2.1 specification
PHP: Hypertext Processor, a scripting language orinted towards web development
PostgreSQL, a freely available SQL database
NetBSD Operationg System
Gentoo Linux distribution
Lighttpd, a lightweight http server
OpenHazuki, a project to create an international free wireless network
Qmail, Dan Bernstein's secure MTA
SpamAssassin, the Apache project spam filter
ClamAV, a virus scanning program
Courier-IMAP, a maildir-oriented IMAP server
ezmlm, a mailing list manager built for Qmail
Bitlbee, an IRC server interface for AIM, MSN, Jabber, and other protocols
The security man's HP.
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