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Welcome to the English-language homepage of Stephen KALB!

• Webpages:
  • My main homepage
  • My most popular webpages
  • Those I wish I had written
  • Those I would love to see
  • Those by people I know in real life
• Finding stuff on the web
• Why I write world-wide-web pages in Esperanto
• Where to send me email
• What I'm reading right now
• My favorite songs
• Movies I want to see
• Chinese fortunes and UNIX fortunes that I have actually received
• My greed list

I have over 200 webpages, but these have been the most most popular so far during December 2001 (most of them in Esperanto):

1. Modernism
2. I Hack, Therefore I Am *
3. Leonardo da Vinci
4. Saturn
5. Enciklopedio Kalblanda
6. Java widgets *
7. Mexico
8. Egypt
9. My main homepage
10. Neptune

The Ten Best Sites on the Web:

1. Google
2. Yahoo!
3. E2
4. BBC
5. Bibliotheca Augustana
6. Amazon
7. Notebooks
8. wikipedia
9. babelfish
10. IMDB

* available in English

My canonical homepage is in Esperanto. In fact, most of my stuff is in Esperanto, a made-up language that real people from many different countries use and which is 10x easier for a random person anywhere in the world to learn than English or Chinese or any other national language. All that French you learned in high school could have been learned in a few months tops if French were as easy as Esperanto. Think about it. Writing most of my pages in Esperanto may be a bit quixotic, I know, but I have my reasons. (and there are some other good reasons as well).

Bernd Wechner's pages are a good place to start if you want to learn Esperanto or are just curious.

If you don't know Esperanto, don't worry: many of my pages transcend the limits of mere language, while with others, knowledge of any Western tongue -- or even just a solid grounding in the Roman alphabet -- will get you by.

Pages I Wish I Had Written:

a great webpage is not the one with the most frames and winking icons...

listed in order of discovery:

1995 James J. O'Donnell Home Page 1996 Scott's Page of Evil Find the Spam The Semi-Existence of Bryon John McCarthy's Home Page The Robot Wisdom pages Jasper's Main Page WebMuseum Notebooks Great Books Index 1997 HyperDiscordia Personal on-line journals Mars Pathfinder Multi-Cultural Calendar Keith's Book Page: A Reader's Journal suck 1998 Alta Vista's web translator Amazon Books TerraServer 1999 Google joke-o-matic Index Librorum Prohibitorum The Principia Discordia Windows to the Universe One-Hit Wonders List EWTN Voyager's Golden Record Thinking in Java The Long Now A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603

2000 Mark Rosenfelder's Metaverse The Development of the New Testament Canon Latinitas Interretialis Mellonath Daeron Bill Thayer's Web Site Bibliotheca Augustana 2001 Lemuria Babel Urban75 ezine shauny.org wikipedia Everything2 2002 Lilly Tao's Homepage Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics

If you know of these pages already existing somewhere or want help putting them up, please email me!
• Leonardo's Notebooks (complete, or at least Codex Atlanticus)
• Einstein's Desk
• The Etruscan Translation Page
• Cuneiform Library -- original text + translations
• The Fortran code used on-board the Apollo 11 lunar module
• The Whole Earth Catalog *
• ENIAC (written in Java)
• Space Invaders (written in Java)
• The Bernadette Yao Worship Page

* Even though its current on-web incarnation sucks, the hardcopy version of the The Whole Earth Catalog is by far the best designed set of web pages I've ever seen. What it lacks in java widgets and Christmas lights it more than makes up for in wit, coherence, scale, browsability and good design.

Pages of People I Know in the Real World

Books: My Reading List St John's Reading List The Adler List Malaspina's List Index Librorum Prohibitorum Bergen County card catalog Amazon Books Ignatius Press Christian Guide to Fantasy Narnia The Greeks The Bible Shakespeare The Bronte Sisters Le Guin ...

• The Books That Have Influenced Me Most or Like a Lot: Ipema Olsen Piper Wanniski Wong ...

Miscellaneous: Bloody Sunday Paulo Freire The Garage Dwem-O-Rama! Franklin Institute Mahir Central Ask the Builder Who's Who in Colombia

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Created Wed 11 Oct 1995 by Stephen Kalb.

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