Links

• Websites I visit regularly or on occasion
  • sites i visit almost every day, important reference sites:
    • 43 Things, The Rainforest Site (visit daily to benefit rainforests...paid for by ad revenues!), Google news, bloglines.com, Minneapolis weather, 89.3 The Current radio station
    • BBC News online, Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper
    • Inform 7 welcome page, manual (and index thereto), examples, recipes, code snippet by Zarf, Cloak of Darkness example; "Informalize" LJ community and wiki
      
      Emily Short at BrassLantern on I7
    • Wikipedia, Yahoo maps, Yahoo directions, Yahoo travel, Yahoo TV, Merriam-Webster online dictionary/thesaurus
  • sites i visit weekly:
    • Netflix
    • eMusic
    • Yahoo movie listings, City Pages
    • The Onion, workingforchange.com (This Modern World, every Tuesday), Tom The Dancing Bug
    • Bob the Angry Flower
  • other frequently visited sites:
    • gmail, Hotmail
    • LiveJournal
    • Minneapolis Public Library
    • Yahoo! Auctions and eBay (where I occasionally add to my coffee mug collection), half.com, powells.com and amazon.com online booksellers
    • Friendster, Orkut
    • bat-girl, pullquote, About Last Night
    • Yahoo! Sports
  • Search engines and Web directories
    Google, AltaVista, Google Usenet search, MiniCrawler, Yahoo, LookSmart, About

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  September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
  
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• Assorted reference sites
  Twin Cities Metro Transit information, US Postal Service ZIP code lookup, Universal Currency Converter, HTML color picker
• Arts and entertainment and assorted interesting links
  • Movies
    Reviews by Roger Ebert and Mike D'Angelo (``The Man Who Viewed Too Much'')
  • Sports
    ESPN online, CBS Sportsline, The Sporting News, RotoWorld fantasy sports news, ESPN baseball player pages, Yahoo! Fantasy Sports
  • Visual arts of all kinds
    Minneapolis Institute of Arts; MN Center for Photography; Slow Wave collective dream diary in comic strip form; Exercises In [Comics] Style; scottmccloud.com; Bad Habits; a remarkable exhibit of color photographs from Russia, circa 1910; a scanned version of the Maze book, by Christopher Manson; Andy Powell, a college classmate of mine; Katherine Veneman, another friend of mine; Diana Madaras, whom I don't know at all but is a cool watercolor painter based in Arizona
  • Popular music
    • CD Baby, online indie-music store
    • garageband.com; GEMM music catalog
    • homepages for the musical artists Beth Sorrentino, Erin McKeown, Ivy, Dance Hall Crashers, The Soviettes, Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives, The Rosenbergs
    • homepages for Susstones Records (a local Minneapolis label) and Unfiltered Records (a label for Ivy and bands connected to it)
    • The Ectophiles' Guide To Good Music, Radio Paradise
  • Interactive fiction and I.F. people
    an introduction to IF for kids (that's useful to uninitiated grownups too); the IF Comp page, for the annual competition; Tril's IF pages (including a best-of list); IF Archive, or the plover.net mirror of the IF Archive, or baf's guide to the IF Archive; IF Ratings
    
    The Colossal Cave Adventure page; Intro to multimedia TADS by Neil K. Guy; a highly wacky Cheese Adventures transcript; Roger Firth's IF links; Grand Text Auto, a group weblog on IF and other interactive media; syllabus for an IF workshop; the ifMUD Hall of Shame; an old-school book on writing adventure games in BASIC
    
    I.F. people's home pages: brasslantern.org (Stephen Granade's IF home page); Adam Cadre, including his page for Academy X and other comics; Andrew Plotkin; Emily Short; Steve Bernard; David Dyte; David Welbourn; Nick Montfort; Sam Kabo Ashwell and his philosophical comic; Jacqueline Lott; A. O. Muniz
    • Math-related links
      a compendium of earliest known uses of some mathematical vocabulary terms
    • Assorted
      Flak Magazine; FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting), The Daily Howler, and Spinsanity, media watch sites; Zen Stories To Tell Your Neighbors; A column from the NCSU student newspaper on productivity that also namedrops Zen; The Little Prince online; Neal Stephenson's home page; Viridian Design; Looney Labs, makers of games like Fluxx and Chrononauts; Funagain Games; Forgotten NY; the official U.S. time; Blue Man Group; Mummenschanz, a performance troupe with distinctive costumes; The 5K web design contest; a Burma Shave fan page; ECards from cartoonbank.com, a Website containing New Yorker cartoons; tinyurl.com and makeashorterlink.com utilities
  • Humor, of varying quality
    the Official Ninja Appreciation Homepage; Two Skulls That Talk comic strip and other distractions; The Fusco Brothers online comic strip; Tablespoons, a poem created by running ``Jabberwocky'' through a spellchecker; amusing quotations from a psychology professor at RPI; the official Rube Goldberg Web Site; the Tandem Story; the guy with a huge orange for a head
    
    
    
  • Unusual and fringe links
    A strangely hypnotic welcome page for zombo.com; a horse, zorse and cows image I grabbed from an article at the BBC news site (dig the middle cow's expression); the Tokyo Penguin Page; NASA Viking raid protocol; Assassinations Foretold in Moby-Dick
    
    
    
  • Words, wordplay and bots
    The Random Log-line Generator; They Fight Crime!; Emily freeform poetry generator; The Random Bar Joke Generator; 20Q.net, a bot that plays 20 questions; an online implementation of the famous Eliza bot; the College Slang Research Project; Scrabble homepage, including online search of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
    
    
    
  • Miscellaneous, not categorized
    ThinkGeek online store; ACME labs; Testicular Cancer | Detection; cursor.org (and its Twin Cities edition)
  
  
  

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