First, here are some quasi-intellectual and/or cultural links that
I think are sort of neat:
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| If you've ever wondered why the latest sunrise and earliest sunset don't fall on the shortest day of the year, look here for the best explanation I've ever seen. |
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| Take a tour of The Electric Gallery (an on-line exotic art dealer). | |
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| Check out NAS, the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation program at NASA. | |
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| For awhile I was really into ray-tracing (and still think it's sort of nifty). | |
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| Take a look at NationMaster for a wealth of fascinating sociological and demographic data about countries around the world. | |
Eight years of frustration with the increasingly dogmatic, right-wing zealotry that seems to have swept the nation
through the early Naughts has driven me to drink. Er... I mean... to politics. Here are some of the causes and campaigns with
which I've been involved.
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| Finally a president who can speak more articulately than a parrot, think more coherently than an eggplant, and whose observations about the world don't seem to be in blatant contradiction to what I can trivially observe outside my window. |
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| The San Mateo County Democratic Party, where I headed up the effort to register voters in San Carlos for the presidential election of November 2008. |
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| EQCA, building a state of equality in California. |
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| Now that we've rid California of that abombinable gay marriage, we can turn our attention to expunging those abominable shellfish as well. Praise Jesus! |
While I'm probably more akin to Posh Spice than to Sporty Spice, I am an avid skier, have been known to SCUBA dive or
climb very large rocks now and then, and love to ride just about anything with two wheels.
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| SnoWeb, a guide to conditions around Lake Tahoe. |
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| BARF is a great forum for riding in the San Francisco Bay Area, and BikePics has a huge archive of great motorcycle photos, including some of my own. |
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| Information about mountain biking in the San Francisco Bay area. |
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| A good guide to SCUBA diving. |
Or if you're not into recreation that actually involves any expenditure of energy...
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| Mix up some exotic beverages after consulting this convenient
guide to bartending.
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| Joel Stein has become one of my favorite columnists, for his irreverent wit and pithy obervations about politics and the right-wing nutjobs who seem to be running rampant these days. |
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| For a bit of redneck humor, click here. |
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| If you hate Barney as much as any other person possessing enough neurons to have a synapse, you may find relief here or here. |
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| Have you been seeing stigmata in your bagels? Then perhaps you'll empathize with people who see nuns in pastries. |
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| The Weekly World News warns that your head may blow up at any moment, so for God's sake, stop using your brain and get the facts before it's too late! |
| If the tasteful artwork in the Electric Gallery wasn't your cup of tea, take a look at the Vomitus Maximus Museum instead. |
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| Find the Spam! |
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