Recommendations variously old and new,
real and virtual, serious and funny.
All links on this page may change with the wind.
WWW links

Computer Related

Graphics Gems - source code, errata
Journal of Graphics Tools - contributing & subscribing
ACM SIGGRAPH - computer graphics conference
discreet - 3ds max, reactor, combustion
Adobe - Photoshop, Ilustrator, Premiere
Macromedia - Dreamweaver
procreate - Painter
Splutterfish - Brazil renderer for 3ds max
Coyote Wind - computer graphics consulting
Final Draft - screenwriter's formatting software


Other

National Address Server - find US postal addresses
Geographic Name Server - find US locations by name
Puget Sound Traffic Server - how the roads are doing
The Unix Specification - UNIX command/library reference
Robert's Perl Tutorial - a great one-stop perl reference
New Yorker Cartoons - irresistible humor
Google - find anything, anywhere
The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Bartleby.com - online reference books
OpenSeason - my informal blog

Real links

References to the non-WWW world.

Fiction

"Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins
"Island of the Sequined Love Nun" by Christopher Moore
"Friend of the Earth" by TC Boyle
"Full Frontal Fiction" edited by J. Murnighan and G. Field
"Timequake" by Kurt Vonnegut
"Man Who Fell In Love With the Moon", by Tom Spanbauer


Non-Fiction

"Building A Bridge to the Eighteenth Century" by Neil Postman
"Zen And and the Art of Writing" by Ray Bradbury
"Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Caldini


Music

"But I'm Happy Now," Electric Bonsai Band
"Dick Hyman Plays Harold Arlen," Dick Hyman
"I Thought You'd Be Taller!", Romanovsky & Phillips
"Sir Henry at Rawlinson End," Vivian Stanshall
"Beauty Based on Science," The Microscopic Septet
"Discover America," Van Dyke Parks
"Boys Want Sex in the Morning," Uncle Bonsai
"Small Change", Tom Waits
"New York City Drag," Lorraine Feather
"The Producers," Broadway Cast Recording
"Don't Look Back," John Lee Hooker


Recent Video/DVD

"Dr. Strangelove," d. Stanley Kubrick, w. Peter George, Stanley Kubrick, & Terry Southern
"Waiting for Guffman," d. Christopher Guest, w. Christopher Guest & Eugene Levy
"Jeeves & Wooster (seasons 1 & 2)", multiple directors and writers
"Rushmore," d. Wes Anderson, w. Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
"Fargo," written and directed by Joel & Ethan Coen
"Galaxy Quest," d. Dean Parisot, w. David Howard & Robert Gordon
"12 Monkeys", d. Terry Gilliam, w. David Webb Peoples & Janet Peoples


Electronic Games

"Zelda Oracle of Seasons", Nintendo (Gameboy Advance)
"Deus Ex," Eidos Interactive (PC)
"SSX," Electronic Arts (Playstation 2)
"Majora's Mask," Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo64)
"Zelda 64: Ocarina of Time," Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo64)
"Spyro 1", "Spyro 2", Insomniac Games (Playstation 1)