Hello,
nice to create one more topic, which seems neccessary

let's say, beginner (like me) opens a crypto challenge and sees nothing, but some numbers, which doesn't make any sense... what should he/she do? open google of course and waste their time searching for something... the problem that it is real time wasting and in 90% cases - unsuccessful. why? because beginners don't even know from where they could start (it's not only about cryptos).

so, i think you could write in this topic websites that may be somehow related to "Bright Shadows" challenges, even if not directly, but still, those that may contain REALLY useful information just to make sense for those, who don't have it.

i will personally give one address from myself, to those beginners, who probably registered in this site accidentally but still may be interested to know something
www.w3schools.com

looking forward for your posts

Try googling for: LANAKI Crypto Course Lessons

EDIT: http://www.und.nodak.edu/org/crypto/crypto/lanaki.crypt.class/lessons/

And ofcourse A Challengers Handbook by Caesum.

www.omniglot.com - good website about languages. very interesting one, btw

http://www.hackits.de/tutorials/eng/tuts/stego.html - some basic stego stuff

Wikipedia - great resource for many things

translating website
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
be carefull once i translated "i do not like" to russia, i translated it back to english and it said: "i do like"

http://www.bright-shadows.net/tutorials/tbs_wiwa.txt

yeah babelfish isn't perfect .. You know madonna's latest song 'Sorry' where in the beginning she says she's, well, sorry in 5 languages or so ... The dutch part isn't "I'm sorry" but "I'm sad"... Another babelfish error.