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links

Me

  • del.icio.us - My del.icio.us page contains most of these links and more, fully tagged and searchable.
  • DeviantArt - Select fractals and photographs of mine.
  • Flickr - A repository of snapshots I've taken, fully tagged and searchable.
  • Zazzle - Purchase high quality prints of many of my fractals in a variety of sizes and paper options.  "The artist will be compensated";  I'll get a small cut of the purchase price.

Friends

  • Avena Wellness Center - A holistic medical practice located in northeast Connecticut.
  • I Ought to be Working - A scary smart bioengineer who blogs about cooking.  Drool inducing pictures.
  • Mike Wheels Blog - This guy used to teach middle school Spanish to idiots like me and now he races bikes and drives a Zamboni.  Life gets better over time.
  • South Harden Strategery - Another middle school friend, this badass chick who owns a JCW Mini and works at the NIH.

BMW 2002

  • Vendors listed here are simply ones that I have used, have had good experiences with, and would generally recommend to others.  No paid endorsements.
  • Aardvarc Racing - This guy talked me out of giving him a few hundred bucks.  That's an honest seller.
  • Autohous Arizona - A trove of new parts at reasonable prices.
  • Ireland Engineering - I've gotten a lot of performance parts from these guys and have had good results and great communication.
  • BMW 2002 FAQ - Unbelievably useful fount of knowledge about the BMW 2002 and similar models.  The forums have guided my restoration more than all other sources combined.
  • Pierce Manifolds - Parts and information for Weber carburetors.
  • BMW Parts Numbers Tutorial - Parts guys will treat you a lot better over the phone if you can properly read off a BMW part number.
  • RealOEM - Parts diagrams and numbers.

Fractals

  • "Anatomy" of the Mandelbrot and Julia Sets - The mathematics of the M- and J-sets described and illustrated.
  • Fractals, Chaos - An amazingly comprehensive, well illustrated, and easily read detailing of pretty much everything fractal and/or chaotic.
  • Fractovia - Nice fractal resource, with a long list of fractal rendering software.
  • Gallery of Computation - Beautiful works of art from simple code utilizing fractal rules.
  • Infinite Fractal Loop - Fractals around the web.
  • UltraFractal - The premier fractal rendering software.

Comics

  • Achewood - Simply the best webcomic. It helps if you "know" the characters, so you're rewarded for reading many of them.  But if you start reading the archives, you might as well set aside a few hours.  And the best part:  the main characters all have blogs.
  • Boy on a Stick and Slither - Pure optimism sits down and chats with pure cynicism.
  • Diesel Sweeties
  • Dilbert
  • Doonesbury
  • Leisure Town - Simply fantastic.
  • Perry Bible Fellowship - Deliciously dark humor.
  • Penny Arcade - The finger on the pulse of the gaming community.
  • Piled Higher and Deeper - The dark truth about graduate student life.  All you can do is laugh.
  • PvP
  • Scary Go Round

Weblogs

  • BoingBoing - Irreverent, occasionally activist, mostly useless, great fun.
  • Digg - The signal:noise ratio of Digg is abysmal, but it's so amazingly active that interesting stuff pops up frequently.
  • Lifehacker
  • Jalopnik - Indescribably fantastic.
  • MAKE Magazine - Online counterpart to the wonderfully fun MAKE Magazine.
  • Metafilter - Posts vary from incredibly informative and in-depth to trashy flash animations.
  • Waxy.org Links - Not a blog as much as a string of random links.

Technology, etc.

  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Every day a new, beautiful picture of this planet and far, far beyond.
  • MIT OpenCourseWare - "Free" online MIT classes.
  • Slashdot - Though it has waned in recent years, Slashdot remains the definitive geek watering hole online.
  • VersionTracker - Tons of software.
  • Wikipedia - Fantastic (and often accurate) online encyclopedia.

Podcasts

  • The Diane Rehm Show - This is the best current-events talk radio show on the airwaves.
  • It's JerryTime! - "True Tales from the Life of Jerry"
  • Savage Love - The once a week out-loud version of Dan Savage's sex advice column.
  • This American Life - "That show by those hipster know-it-alls who talk about how fascinating ordinary people are."
  • This Week in Tech - Hosted by Leo Laporte, this freeform roundtable discusses the week's technology news.  Fun, informative, insightful.  One of the only podcasts I never miss.
  • Tiki Bar TV - "Forbidden Cocktails in a Swank Pad"
  • You Look Nice Today - A Journal of Emotional Hygiene

Misc Fun and Useful Websites

  • Babelfish - Translate between languages, sometimes with success.
  • Fark - Irreverent links and crude commentary.
  • Internet Movie Database
  • The Onion
  • PubMed - Indexed scientific papers.
  • Unit Converter - Unbelievable handy.