- One of the coolest ideas i've heard of in a long time is Banana Ply Paper being made by Papyrus Australia - and strangely enough, the legendary Mitra is doing the biz dev.
- If i ever decide to pick up a musical instrument, a Harmos Steel Guitar would be a very cool one - carbon fiber, Bucky-inspired geometry, and just plain beautiful
- How much pollution do you cause? Buy some carbon offsets
- Flags of the World
- I'm Changing The
Climate! Ask Me How!
- want to know which are the worst SUVs? check fueleconomy.gov
- Is managing programmer like herding cats or like beekeeping?
- Read about Personal Rapid Transit (PRT). I want it.
- Dread History: The African Diaspora, Ethiopianism, and Rastafari
- Visit the Rainforest Information Centre
- Iron Chef is about the only TV show i've found worth watching
- Join the Viridian Design Movement
- Math or Art? KnotPlot and KnotZoo
- Most of Buckminster Fuller's incredible Synergetics is online now
- I encourage you to Know & Enjoy Tropical Fruit
- Cool work at NYU Media Research Lab includes:
- Cool architecture:
- Geometrica, Inc. - beautiful site, amazing product.
- The Monolithic Dome - buildings made from a single piece of reinforced concrete
- Finally a church i like: the Church of Euthanasia. If you think they were just trying to be offensive or funny - well, you're correct - but read this interview - it makes a lot of sense.
- bn.com for books & music (you should still boycott Amazon!)
- The easiest way to Find a Person.
- A group called Circle of Fire took over the
ActiveWorlds
cyberspace.
Their story sounds good:- "The Web is a solitary place. People from around the world can have the same interests, visit the same 2D web page at the same time and have no idea anyone else is there. Circle of Fire is committed to fixing this problem. We are bringing people together with technology and building the 3D Internet. Using our 2D/3D software individuals can collaborate and form communities without borders."
- I used to get most of my news from the WAVE Report
- Kyoko Date, a fascinating virtual idoru (Japanese "idol" celebrity) in 1995, mentioned in this interview with Gibson.
- Discover the SF Cacophony Society.
- Read the interesting history of Lindisfarne.
- Weirdness & Anti-Weirdness: Stones- Stars and Gold & The Skeptical Inquirer.
- I worked for 5 years at a virtual reality software company called Sense8, which was merged into engineering firm EAI in 1998..
- Archie McPhee is a good source of monitor pets.
- Knowledge Revolution's products are fun and educational physics simulation software.
