People

• John Perry Barlow: One of the good guys. He's our digital cowboy philosopher. Drop into his library for a spell.

• Dimitri: Brilliant use of graphics, HTML, and the Net. A Psychedelic Yahoo, if you will.

• Peter Gilstrap: If you don't mind a little blasphemous fun (and who doesn't) check out the hilarious escapades in his Christly Cavalcade.

• Rick Hepting: An impressive, and well-written, homegrown plant catalog.

• Kat McFall: A nicely constructed site featuring some very sharp writing, especially when you consider that the author was born in 84.

• Carl Steadman: You may know him as the father of Suck, but there's a lot more going on in Freedonia (like Placing).

• John Walker: Imagine the founder of Autodesk hanging out somewhere in the Alps. A renaissance mind plus time and distance equals this.

• Jamie Zawinski: The man behind "Mozilla." An entertaining writer, with an interesting list of links.

Friends

• Brad Faegre: An old friend, we met in second grade. He grew up and became a fine artist.

• Scott Figgins: A fellow worker who has begun his great work: the ever-so-wobbly General Strike site.

• John Labovitz: Collector of e-zines, traveler of spheres, programmer of perl, poker of holes. John was one of the true pioneers of web publishing (GNN webmaster, 1993-95).

• Damon Rarey: Artist, writer, publisher, colleague, cohort -- definitely check out his dad's WWII Sketchbook Journal. You'll be glad you did!

• Arsenio Santos: More procrastination from the self-appointed Czar o' Cheese himself. Sharp mind, sharp wit. We don't call him "Arse" for nothing.

• Brian Wilson: He's the human-powered perl programmer. I had the pleasure of working with Brian on a gaggle of online projects. His programming abilities are vast.

Family

• Dan Kalantarian: Me bro. He moved to Pocatello, Idaho for a teaching gig. Naturally, I mailed him my old Alaskan parka. I think he looks like Ditka in this picture.

• Elaine Kalantarian: Me wife. She grew up in Northern Virginia. She thinks there may be some Cherokee blood coursing through her streams. No argument here.

• Harry Kalantarian: Me da. He's Armenian. Born in Georgia (the one on the Black Sea), he immigrated to the US when he was 25. He's coaxing his memoirs out on a Mac.

• Jackie Kalantarian: Me mum. A native Californian, she comes from English, Irish, and Swedish stock. I think a covered wagon was involved at some point.

• Susie Kalantarian: Me sis. She's littler than me, so we call her "Young-E" (I've no idea where the "E" came from...you'd think it would be "Young-S").

Words

• Hypertext Webster Interface: One of the really fine applications available online (actually, this is a web gateway to an Internet line-command dictionary database). If it's down, you can always give Merriam a try.

• Literary Kicks: Levi Asher digs the Beats in this well-written, impressively-researched, and smartly-executed encomium.

• The Jargon File: This online version of The New Hacker's Dictionary is delightful reading. Learn about such things as a "one-banana problem" and the "Infinite-Monkey Theorem."

• The Spam Haiku Archive: This demonstrates what's great about the Web: John Cho publishes everyone's inspiration. (I was deeply honored when my very own spamku received recognition.)

Pictures

• Art Crimes: Graffiti everywhere!

• NASA Photo Gallery: Links to sites with pictures of things spacey. Especially nice is this collection of Shuttle mission earthviews.

• Images: My sandbox. We recently got a digital camera and started playing with it. This is the directory where I keep some of that stuff.

• Poster Art: A collection of Polish poster art (interesting to compare to American movie posters).

• WebMuseum: More classic art than you can shake a mouse at.

Tools

• AltaVista: The search engine of champions. It's got speed, power, and likes to go deep. Read "Help" and groove to the hipness.

• Amazon: Doing a fine job of selling books and music online.

• Eudora: Great email software. Try Eudora Light for free and see if you don't agree.

• The Internet Movie Database: Great "old" database site, especially when you become haunted by one of those nagging movie-related questions.

• Macintouch: A wonderful "little" website for keeping in touch with all things Macintosh.

• Netscape: Use it, or lose it. Doing battle with the billgewater gang has certainly taken its toll, but I still prefer this to the alternative.

• Netscape Palette Colors: Best little site I've found for working with these -- and, incidentally, one of the few websites that makes appropriate use of <frames>.

• RealAudio: Listen while you surf, to things like Le Show (some sample gems: "Little RN Trapped!" and "Ashes on the Water") and Prairie Home Companion.

• Yahoo: Still the best Net directory out there. They understand the medium and it shows in their clean, elegant design. Generally the best place to start any Web foray.