This post is the first of a series of blog posts containing useful, interesting and sometimes funny links to websites I encounter and consider worthy of sharing with you.

Hence, the title “Random Internet Awesomeness” – or should it rather be “Awesome Internet Randomness? … let’s leave this subject to change :D

However, there is tons of awesome stuff on the internet …

… and a lot of it is actually worth sharing:

• The Aloha Editor – a fully WYSIWIG HTML5 Editor (along with a few mind-blowing demos).
• A complete and fully functional Windows 3.1 emulation in your browser, implemented in HTML and JavaScript.
• A useful step-by-step tutorial for the distributed version control system Mercurial.
• This site generates all kinds of placeholder images for web site development.
• Also for web development: a color scheme designer.
• Need an animated gif to express emotion or emphasize your point? This site features animated gifs for every situation ever!
• Need to ping / trace / lookup your website from various geographic regions? This site covers it.
• Switch to Windows Phone? Here, you can find out which of your favorite mobile apps from other platforms are available on Windows Phone.
• Self control freak – just for fun.
• Are you struggling again and again to get your HTML layout right with CSS? This site tells you when you should give up and and use tables.