Links Page Template, multicolumn & categorized

I was looking for a way to get the links (bookmarks) on a page in columns under several link categories, but couldn’t find it, so I figured it out myself. The idea is:

Page Title

Category 1
LinkCat1 LinkCat1 LinkCat1
LinkCat1 LinkCat1 LinkCat1, etc.

Category 2
LinkCat2 LinkCat2 LinkCat2
LinkCat2 LinkCat2 LinkCat2, etc.

Page template:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Links Page
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="content">
	<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
	<div class="entry">

<table width="100%" align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<?php
$showlinks = '';
$cols = 3; // set the number of cols
$taxonomy = 'link_category';
$args ='';
$terms = get_terms( $taxonomy, $args );
if ($terms) {
	foreach($terms as $term) {
		if ($term->count > 0) {
			$bookmarks = get_bookmarks( array(
							'orderby'        => 'name',
							'order'          => 'ASC',
							'category_name' => $term->name) );
			$showlinks .= '<tr><td colspan="' . $cols . '"><h4>' . $term->name . '</h4></td></tr>' . "\n";

			$i = 0; // set counter to zero
				$showlinks .= '<tr>' . "\n";
			// loop through our returned bookmarks
			foreach ($bookmarks as $bm) {
				$i++; // increment counter
				$showlinks .= '<td width="33%">';
			 	$showlinks .= sprintf( '<a class="relatedlink" href="%s">%s</a><br />', $bm->link_url, __($bm->link_name) );
				$showlinks .= '</td>' . "\n";

				// if counter is dividable by the number of cols, close the row
				if ( ( $i % $cols ) == 0 ) {
					$showlinks .= '</tr>' . "\n";
					$showlinks .= '<tr>' . "\n";

				}
			}
			$showlinks .= '</tr>' . "\n"; // close initial (or last) row
			// space between categories:
			$showlinks .= '<tr><td colspan="3">&nbsp;</td></tr>' . "\n";
		}
 	}
}
echo $showlinks;
?>
</table>
	</div>
</div>

<?php get_sidebar("page"); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

You can adjust the args for get_terms and get_bookmarks to your liking, and of course style the table. Enjoy!