The Obligatory Links Page

Various cool things I've come across that you might enjoy too.

Culture:

• The Burning Man Project
• Mary Schmary, a great 4-woman a cappella group, including friend-of-a-friend Desiree.
• The Wonder Woman Page. Only on the Web could it be so easy to find so much about TV shows from my dim childhood. This site settled a very pesky lunchtime debate about the two phases of the show and the transition from WWII drama to modern-day (well, modern-day-70's) spy story.
• My friday nights are occupied by the Friday Night Skate, which has a cool page.
• The Internet Movie Database , the USA (Mississippi) site.
• Women In The Engineering Industry: I just ran across this whilst wandering through some friend's links. It's cool and very good.
• Comics on the Web. Some very good independent stuff. They want money but not much.
• The They Might Be Giants page. <pout>, it seems to have gone away.
• In addition to the other titles, real and imaginary, that I've got (I'm in the market for more, by the way.. willing to trade... ), I'm a fully ordained minister in the Universal Life Church. You can be too, if your browser supports forms. These folks are serious about ordaining everybody.
• .. and speaking of wacko pseudo-religions... the SubGenius site.
• The Classics Page
• Human Languages (ones that evolved by themselves)
• Constructed Languages (spoken by humans but consciously created, like Esperanto). The one that really takes the cake is the language created by the King of Talossa, a soverign nation near Milwakee, WI. The blurb I read said:
  The King was an amateur linguist and was familiar with constructed language projects such as Esperanto and Volapük. In this interest he was inspired by a wonderful book, The Loom of Language by Frederick Bodmer and Lancelot Hogben (New York: 1944).

• Imaginary Languages (not spoken by anybody, but stories have been written about them).
• Insults in a variety of real languages.

Techie Stuff:

• The Persistence Of Vision ray-tracing program has a nice page.
• Dilbert
• Metricom, Inc.: The folks are putting up wireless 3MB/s transceivers on top of lampposts all around the south bay. A Different Kind of Network.
• A collection of info about the network that TCI is setting up around here.
• The Marathon FTP site. A Different Kind of Doom (but better).
• Alta Vista: Wow. These folks index Usenet. All of it. Oh, and the web too. Click here and search the whispers of other people's conversations.
• PGP
  • PGP-Related Utilies and Services
  • PGPacket, a handy perl utility to describe the contents of PGP-encrypted messages. I've been using it to debug my PerlPGP module.
  • Mailcrypt, an incredibly handy Emacs/PGP interface. If you use rmail, this provides a drop-in encrypt/decrypt/signing system.
  • Anonymity, privacy, security.: some info on encrypted remailers
  • The rsa-perl page, including the 3-line t-shirt that's currently being reviewed by the government for a munitions export license. Wacky.
• GNU
  • The GNU Project. A Different Kind of Software.
  • A paper describing the Hurd, the new GNU operating system.
  • CVS, a version control system that runs on top of GNU's RCS.
• Perl: the greatest thing in languages since whitespace
  • A Perl5 page. Also try perl.com.
  • The current Perl5 Bugs database.
  • CPAN: the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, Florida site. There's also the Oklahoma site, and the California (Walnut Creek CD-ROM) site, and Digital's california site. The florida site seems to be the most up to date. Here's the module list.
  • Same place, front page .
  • The CGI.pm module. Very useful.
  • Another module site.
  • Jeffrey Friedl has some great networking-related perl modules. He's in Japan.
  • A security module called Penguin that promises to blow all that Java stuff out of the water. Distributed, authenticated, restrictable Perl.
  • The OpenGL Perl Module, plus the Mesa library that implements OpenGL on non-SGI machines.
• Tcl/Tk. Well, Tk is handy, Tcl is a nuisance-ridden path along the way. PerlTk is much better.
• A great index of Objective-C information.
• DigiCash and their introduction to ecash.
• Somebody's page on cellphone hacking.

Web Stuff:

• Yahoo!, of course. I spent a quarter with these guys in Japan, before they bailed on the PhDs. Cool guys.
• Altavista. Yow. These folks have this page listed although I don't know how they got here. I suspect it's through them that my "FNDC mail" page has gotten so many hits (dozens of hits from all over the world on this one page and one alone). Must be the word 'dominatrix' in the text...
• VRML Specification. Ok, like Wired says, minus several million points for the non-sarcastic use of the phrase Virtual Reality , but the protocols are cool anyway.
• The Dive, a shared-environment project like VRML.
• The HTML-helper mode Beta page. Gives HTML formatting and cookie-insertion to emacs.
• texi2html, which turns TexInfo documents (like most GNU documentation) into HTML.
• Dave Siegel's Tips on page design. This guy knows how to express himself very well. And he has important things to say; a rare combination. A Different Kind of Home Page. I've got a friend who works for him too.
• Dave Siegel's single-pixel transparent gif, very handy for pushing text around when HTML won't give you other ways to do it.
• Kai's Power Tips and Tricks for Photoshop
• The Free Art Site
• Some information on the configuration of my server at best.com
• Some other Lothars I've come across.
• An interesting book called Build A Web Site

Other Stuff:

• Friends of mine have cool pages.
• My friend Jennifer is sailing around the world.
• Have you seen The Spot ? Then go and see The Squat.
• The Saturn page, (not the offical one). A cool car. I have one.
  
• Spatula City! A Different Kind of On-line Mall.
• The Tick! A Different Kind of Superhero.

Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>