Links! For a long time I had no links on my page, reasoning that it is better to *be* a cool site than to have lots of *links* to cool sites. But, I'm over that now. Here's some places I enjoy visiting:

Sites I visit several times a week

http://www.yahoo.com/ I check this to see what's going on in the world

http://www.mindtickler.com/ The website of my friend Mark. Lots of cool & interesting stuff, it is worth a visit.

http://www.andrewsullivan.com/ My favorite political blogger. Andrew is a tortured conservative - like me - who also found W too unpalatable for a vote in '04.

http://www.fareedzakaria.com/ Zakaria is (among other things) a writer for international affairs for Newsweek magazine. I think he is 100% pure genius. I have his book The Future of Freedom too, and I recommend it highly.

http://www.universetoday.com/ Universe Today - space news from around the Internet, updated every weekday.

http://www.space.com/ Another space-news site. I check space.com and universetoday.com daily.

Astronomy related:

 

http://www.tethers.com/ - My new favorite inner solar system transportation technique. Check it out, tethers are almost propellant-free, scalable, and incrementally deployable.

http://www.marssociety.com/ The Mars Direct homepage. If you haven't yet read Zubrin's compelling book The Case For Mars yet, log off, run (don't walk) to your local bookstore, and buy it. I was against the idea of a manned mission until I read this book. The link covers some of the same material, but you need the book.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/ Check out what's happening on Cassini these days, one of the most interesting missions ever.

http://www.asi.org/asi_index.html The Artemis Society - join now and you just might get to go to the Moon someday! They seem fairly serious and realistic about it, unlike, say, the First Millenial Foundation.

 

Recreational Mathematics:

http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/packing.html Some other packing results, with pictures and metrics.

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/recmath.html If it's not in David Eppstein's huge list of rec math links, it doesn't exist. This site is even so cool that it has a couple links back to various places in my site.

Miscellaneous:

http://www.aad.org/SkinCancerNews/WhatIsSkinCancer/index.html I recently had a melanoma cut out of me, here's what to look for on you. No, I don't get a lot of sun, and I'm not terribly light-skinned. It can happen to you.

http://www.domes.com/ One of these days, we're going to live in a Geodesic dome, and I may get it from here. If you're interested, they have lists of public "dome raisings", try to attend one in your area, it's a kick.

http://www.domeplans.com/ Another dome site - a great resource for the do-it-yourself-er.

http://www.earthship.org/ Unless, that is, I decide I'd like to build one of these beauties! Earthships appeal to the latent granola in me. If there was a community starting up in my current area, I'd *seriously* consider it.

 

http://www.juggling.org/ I've been meaning to put my own juggling page up for years, and until I do, a link to *the* juggling page will have to suffice.