Links and stuff that I find useful

TABLE OF CONTENTS

E-MAIL

SCHOOL

MATH & SCIENCE

OLDSKOOL HACKING

WORDS WORDS WORDS

MOVIES

BOOKS

STORIES

SOCIAL NETWORKING

COMICS

GAMES

MUSIC

STEAMPUNK

CTHULHU MYTHOS

E-MAIL

Google mail

AOL mail

Napa Valley mail

New Tech mail

MATHEMATICKS AND SCIENCES

Thomas Banchoff, who's done a lot of cool 4D graphing/geometry stuff

Outside In, a video about topology and inversion

Xylocopa, which makes steampunkish jewelry and blocks

Asilomar Math Conference

Speech Accent Archive

Dr Karl's Great Moments in Science

Math v2.12

Mathematics Geneology

Online Encyclopedia of Number Sequences

Abacus

Biography of Napier
Booklet about Merchiston Tower
A Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms

ScienceHack Videos

Science News

Instructables

Bad Archaeology

I WISH I WAS AN OLDSCHOOL HACKER

Introduction to VI

VI for Smarties

a VIM prefs file
another one

List of commands for Terminal

Basilisk, a Macintosh emulator for the Macintosh. Pathetic, isn't it?

Command Line Primer from Apple

Screen, a command line multitasker

Paintings by Magritte

WORDS WORDS WORDS

Dark Roasted Blend--weird and wonderful things

Phrase Finder

Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Principia Discordia with FnordFind!

Things of Interest

Sniggle: the Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia

The Straight Dope

Snopes

Best Flash Animations

That Russian movie Night Watch (and Day Watch?)

That Cat from Outer Space

Flight of the Navigator

Time Bandits

Dial M for Murder

Witness for the Prosecution

Infinity (Feynman biopic)

Little Man Tate

Dark Star

12 Angry Men

Equilibrium

Galaxy Quest

Gone with the Wind

Men In Black

Alien, etc.

Big Lebowski

Mary Poppins

Inherit the Wind

The Seven Samurai (and The Magnificent Seven)

Being There

The Mouse That Roared

The Mouse on the Moon

Dragnet: the movie

Cashback

Buckaroo Banzai

Hellboy

Singularity is Near

Lars and the Real Girl

Martian Child

Nuns on the Run

Abyss

Mad Max and sequels

Office Space again

Back to the Future trilogy

BOOKS I NEED TO READ

List of mathematical fiction

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Journey to the West

Dracula

The Black Widowers by Asimov

Division by Zero

Philogelos, a compendium of jokes from the 4th or 5th century

The Jewish Wars
and
Antiquities of the Jews
by Flavius Josephus

Floor Games by H.G. Wells
Little Wars by H.G. Wells

The Nantucket Series by S.M. Stirling:: Island in the Sea of Time; Against the Tide of Years; On the Oceans of Eternity; (Check out his Emberworld series too?)

The 1632 Series by Eric Flint and others: 1632; 1633; Ring of Fire (anthology); 1634: The Galileo Affair; 1634: The Ram Rebellion; 1635: The Cannon Law; 1634: The Baltic War; 1634: The Bavarian Crisis; The Anaconda Project; Ring of Fire II; 1635: Soldier of Bohemia

Across Realtime by Vernor Vinge: The Peace War; The Ungoverned; Marooned in Realtime; (possibly collected in one volume as Across Realtime)

The Ringworld Series by Larry Niven:: Tales of Known Space (anthology); Neutron Star (anthology); Ringworld; The Ringworld Engineers; The Ringworld Throne; Ringworld's Children

The Age of Unreason by Gregory Keyes:: Newton's Cannon; A Calculus of Angels; Empire of Unreason; The Shadows of God

The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud:: The Amulet of Samarkand; The Golem's Eye; Ptolemy's Gate

STORIES I NEED TO WRITE

Biff Burnsides: Adventures in the Red Guard

Chaos Mage: Master and Apprentice

(The one about the teenage necromanceress in early industrial London accompanied by the Viking draugr--needs title too.)

Superhero stories--The Stranger and the denim lady

Tarmackia: Tarmancer for Hire

Tarmackia: Legend of Buddy

Tarmackia: Tales of the Truckers' Union

Tarmackia: The Lopez Legacy