Doug's Obligatory List O' Links

Admit it:  You have long since gotten the information you were looking for when you opened your web-browser, and now you are surfing idly.  Well, the following pages are from my bookmarks, and I hope that you enjoy them. I have divided them into  useful linksinterestingness, and home pages.  I'm continuing to add to them, so check back here once in a while.


Useful Links

Excellent free software

A free program that plots two and three dimensional functions

Public information

The Big Question, finally answered
Two different red/blue maps projecting the 2004 election: one two (their results are always close, but often different)
Colors! What is the difference between "bisque" and "eggshell"?
A place to find out if the story you heard is true or an urban legend.

My favorite source of interesting web-sites.
A good comprehensive What time is it? site.
I think it is wise to reread the Bill of Rights every year or so.
It is always a good thing to know when the Scrimshaws are going to be performing.
A good bartending guide with a drink recipe search engine.

Shopping

The best place to buy tea
The best place to buy a bow-tie

A truly incredible used CD site (I found several CDs I'd been questing after for years)
A truly incredible used book search engine (I found several books I'd been questing after for years)

Art

Okay, technically art isn't "useful."  But art will get you through times of no online dictionaries better than online dictionaries will get you through times of no art.

Continuously updated random images taken from people's livejournals
Same Difference is a beautiful short story disguised as a comic strip
Achewood is a hilarious, quirky strip about what a guy's stuffed animals do when he is out.

Dick Detzner can be disturbing
Electric Sheep:  Some of these "comix" are truly beautiful.
Allen Mullen's collection of Ascii art. (His OWN work has been removed from the site. That is sad news)
Art Frahm has to be seen to be believed.
Mona Lisa variations.
More Mona Lisa variations.

Even more Mona Lisa stuff including variations.
A nice impressionist gallery
.

Web Design

A good list of free webmaster tools.
An IP address look up thingie.
A truly friendly web-safe color chooser.
The fabulous web-hosting company that I use.
An automatic search engine registration site.
A good example of a website that all should emulate.

Improvisational Theater

(It's as useful as Art, and you don't get paint on your good clothes)

Yesand, an online magazine about improv.
A great list of improv structures.

The Spolin Center, a page which contains another good list of structures, and more.
The New Improv Page, a comprehensive improv resource.
The Old Improv Page, an older comprehensive improv resource.

Fonts

Luc's Font pages. A bunch of links to some specialized font pages..
Chank. Chank is one of the best modern font-artists.  Lots of good free fonts, and interesting rock-star-handwriting fonts.
Esperfonto.  Not the best place to get fonts, but a great place for information about fonts.
Fontalicious.  Many very pretty fonts and a pretty page surrounding them.
Cool Archive. A commercial, soulless page; but very nice free fonts displayed clearly.

Interestingness

Animations

Hyakugojyuuichi! (It's Princess Leia!  The Yodel of life!)
Irrational Exuberance
! (A tribute to Hyakugojyuuichi))
Dance to the evil of the RADISKULL
Creepy goth adventures of August Strindberg
See some nice online animation.
Join David in enjoying the adventures of Homestar and Strongbad
Hail to the Kikkoman!
Learn why monsters eat people
Nina Paley's amazing when she plays with perspective
Two bits of sacreligious fun
See some more nice online animation.

Games and Pastimes

Become an online addict of Settlers of Catan
Play a game that only requires slightly moving one finger
Waste time with bejeweled
Play with globz
Play with some beautiful puzzles.

Talk to a virtual John Lennon.
Play Conway's Life with a nicely done applet
Test your reflexes
Enjoy a great optical illusion


Other neat stuff

Read a very dull blog
Buy fancy clothing for your cat
Find out what google thinks of you
Watch some very funny movies and commercials
Annoy a funny, cynical woman
Read the best page in the universe
Jean Shepard archives are online
Find out how popular a given number is
Enjoy a truly, truly, wonderful hamster site.  (Each paragraph reads like a beautiful poem, and the site itself coheres almost magically.   This is one of my favorite web sites, ever)
Compare apples and oranges
Enjoy modern 19th century humor
Find out what your phone number spells!
Share some hilarious overheard conversations.
.

Analyze the current privacy of your web connection.
Generate a poem, based on any URL.
Learn about CPU overclocking from witty naked women Listen to ragtime
Vomit in fascination at a daily rotting meat experiment

Find a song that mentions your favorite year.
The straight dope is on line!
See the world the way that my cat, Basho saw it.
Track a single dollar bill. (This one is incredible!)

Nuke a city.
Some things are hard to describe.

See what Yahoo! would be like if my people really did run the world.
Learn your cyborg name.
Learn some really interesting lexicography.
Follow the adventures of Tripeman
Mock stupid legal arguments (one of which was seriously espoused by a sister-in-law)

Home Pages

Wives

Laurel Palmer

 

Urbanarchists

Phil Goldberg
Jeff Powell
Bruce Reznick
Ed Ting


Michigginas

sarah-marie belcastro
Serge Elnitsky
Monte Fowler
Tim Harrod
Sean Kinlin
Moira McDermott
Suzy Weekes
Gerry Wuchter


Ibegeblibben

Auntie Mae and Uncle Don
The Council of Doom
Harel Barzilai

Dave Bailey 'n' Jen Simonds
Jill Bernard
Pam Ehli
Marc Gutman
John Hall
LadyJ

Jeff Lamicela
Tom Murphy VII
Scott Steele
Snicklefritz
Bookslut!


Alumni

I have had well over 1,000 students.  Here are some of their pages. (Any ex-student with a web-page who wants a link here should email me)

Cat Cegla
Dave Dash
Adam Englehart
Clara Fitzgerald

The Gold Elf
Laureen Ojalvo
Viet Pham
Larissa Presho

Jeff Rehbein
Suzy Reichel
Erin Rhode
Chris Stark
The UMTYMP page



This page last updated July 19, 2004

The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the page author. The contents of this page have not been reviewed or approved by the good people at dougshaw.com. In fact, even the page author has his doubts about the views and opinions expressed in this page.
© Douglas J. Shaw, 1999, 2000, 2001,2002, 2003, 2004

Back to Main

Doug Code 5/2000: lk sonpb botk o nkce lk eohboimcnu o lifgqb ob xcp cm kvoh vikt cwifb kyknulomg - pbkykm xnogqb