Linkages

 
Fun Stuff:
 
http://www.goblertoys.com - words fail me.
 
http://www.eeggs.com - Easter eggs!
 
http://www.hoosiertimes.com/cgi-bin/HTdumpdive - why send mushy cards to loved ones when you can send them discarded appliances?
 
http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm - ...there is another side to Britney.
 
 
http://www.onlyinternet.net/awinterrowd/kaiju/gallery/ - helpful guide to historical Godzillas.
 
http://www.disturbingauctions.com - the name says it all.  My fav is the Gator Bride. 
 
http://www.baddesigns.com/examples.html - neat site full of bad user interface examples in the real world (for example, horrid parking ticket machines.)
 
http://www.ruskeys.net/ - Museum of Soviet Synthesizers!
http://oldradio.onego.ru/foy.htm - an online museum for old Soviet radio tech.  You're just not in the Worker's Paradise without your Belarus-59 radiogramophone.
 
http://dir.salon.com/topics/p_smith/index.html - Salon's Ask the Pilot column, written by a myth-dispelling airline pilot.  Useful to point your scared-of-flying friends towards (or perhaps yourself.)
 
 
 
Computer Graphics Stuff: 
 
http://www.accad.ohio-state.edu/~waynec/history/timeline.html - great timeline for computer graphics development.
 
 
http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/ - Ken Perlin's site.  Nifty geeky stuff to play with, needs Java installed.
 
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/workstation/default.asp - this has been the best guide to how to build a PC 3d workstation I have yet to find... ie, WHY you shouldn't use standard PC bits.  Useful to show your employer/finance guy/significant other/whatever when they ask why your requested computer's so expensive.  Oddly enough, this was found on a gamer site... the writer seems to be into medical imaging.
 
http://www.eyeofscience.de/eos2/index2.html - Very, very neat false-color electron microscope imagery. 
 
 
 
SGI Stuff:
 
http://www.sgi.com - the place for all things, er, SGI.  Go here for IRIX updates & the online techpub library.
 
http://sgistuff.g-lenerz.de/index.html- great general info site, covers various hardware & IRIX versions.
 
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~dols0011/sgi - good overview of the whacky number of SGI desktop models.  A lot more light & straightforward than other sources.
 
http://www.reputable.com - What?  Can't justify $500 for an SGI-sourced cdrom drive?  Go here.
 
http://www.microcosmos.co.uk - general SGI resource site.  If you don't have a support contract or have older equipment, this & the site below are good places to get troubleshooting tips.
 
http://www.nekochan.net - SGI-related news/tips/misc info site.
 
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/modelling/sgilogo - ...this is what happens when you get a mathematician to handle your corporate graphic design.
 
http://www.schrotthal.de/sgi - photo collection of SGI machines, old & new.
 
 
 
People I Know:
 
http://www.marketplace.ca/pricklefish - my friend Ariana's spot on the net.  She has a jaunty site with lots of her artwork on display - though she's into Lightwave, but I somehow found forgiveness for her.
 
http://www.meteorz.com - OpenGL programmer buddy's project.  Worth a download if you like arcade-ish action games.
 
http://antiflux.org/~blhue/ - Old high school bud, currently working in some secret university lab on arcane computer science things we'll all probably use every day in 2030.
 
 
 
Gaming-Related Links:
 
http://www.wayoftherodent.com - British online gaming magazine with an old-school 8-bitish slant.  Wacky & wonderfully evocative, if you grew up with a Commodore 64 and watched a lot of the BBC.
 
http://curmudgeongamer.com - Another game review/rant site... more cerebral than most though.
 
http://mobygames.com - Massive cross-indexy game database with very nearly every game & game developer ever.  And look who's there.
 
http://www.gamespot.com/features/btg-daikatana/index.html - Long and nicely-written 40-page article on the troubled development of the Ion Storm game Daikatana.  From 2000, so it's a bit dated, but very informative.
 
 
 
Cold War/Nuclear History Links: 
 
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html - website of the semi-famous Elena, a woman who motorcycles through the Dead Zone around Chernobyl taking photos.  NOTE: it has been pointed out her story(s) may be suspect - the pictures apparently are real/swiped from other sources, so the overall spookiness factor remains.  I still think it's worth linkage.
 
http://www.fas.org - Federation of American Scientists.  If you want specs & reference photos on historical nuclear weapon delivery systems, or to find your house on spysat photos, this is the place to go.
 
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/ - Dryden Aircraft Photo Collection.  Large selection of American X-planes, spacecraft, etc., with selectable download resolutions.  Nice for hi-res wallpaper if you're an aerospace nerd.
 
http://triggur.org/silo/site.html - photo tour of an abandoned American missile silo.
 
http://www.research.att.com/~smb/nsam-160/pal.html - bought a black market nuke & need the activation code?  Start here.
 
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/index.shtml - huuuuge site of a UK group that documents the underground facilities of Cold War Britain.  One pearl I found - the tackiest place in the world to spend a nuclear war.
 
http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html - massive gallery of color photography of the 1960s-era Apollo spacecraft program.   Very extensive & fascinating if you're into that sort of thing.
 
http://www.conelrad.com - Cold War pop-history kinda site.   Weird & creepy & neat.
 
http://srmsc.org/index.shtml - extensive site on the 1970s-era ABM complex in North Dakota.  Quite in-depth; has lots of system descriptions, engineering drawings & photos.
 
 
 
Other Useful Sites: 
 
http://www.theregister.co.uk - my fav computer industry news site.  The wry tone & lack of gushing hype is a wonderful antidote for other tech news sites.
 
http://www.plastic.com - neato news-filter with a great comment system... the signal-to-noise ratio is generally pretty good.
 
(If any of the above links are down please notify me.)
 

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