People:

• Rowland's still got the Ebright Commune's site up and running. It's still quite a lot like this one -- a fair amount of miscellany -- though it's far more media-centric than my own site (the book and album reviews here notwithstanding).
• Elson and Eliza run Rocket Bureau, which actually is (in contrast to this one) an aesthetically pleasing and clever site. I have no idea what "Totally Calzone" means....
• My former bandmates, now known as Stone Blue (and, as I understand it, playing with a somewhat different sound) have a site up and going, maintained by Rowland.
• Another ex-bandmate -- and drummer extraordinare -- Pat Rideaux is now playing in Zen. I even worked with Lyle's girlfriend (at the time) for one miserable day at (ugh...) Voter Revolt.
• Alex Campbell has played some mean guitar in a whole lot of Long Beach-area bands over the years (including one of mine). He's put together the Subspecies site, a collection of things musical, philosophical, social, and commercial.
• I bumped into Renee Canada ages ago on the Dar Williams mailing list; she's since become one of my favorite people to talk to about things musical and literary.
• I met Noah Wardrip-Fruin in (gulp) fourth grade. He's gone on to become quite significant in this medium, teaching non-linear media at NYU and such. More than anyone from my (distant, anyhow) past, I keep bumping into him online.
• World History and Comparative Cultures: A Thematic Analysis is a wonderful textbook written by the man who pointed me in the right direction intellectually, Steve Wallech. If you're doing any introductory instruction in the area(s), I highly recommend looking into text as a possibility. It explains a lot of complex information very lucidly. And maybe we can get the damned thing back in print.
• Cosma's Home Page has a load of interesting stuff on it. I don't agree with him that often, but he's got a broad intelligence that makes what he has to say worth a damn.
• Bradford McCormick is an intensely intelligent fellow who works in the ever-narrowing chasm between Computer Science and Social Science, albeit with an orientation to applying all of this good stuff to education. If you're feeling ambitious, check out his dissertation, The Social Matrix of Supervision of Psychotherapy.

Future Culture:

• Alias is the great listmom.
• MC is a "dungeon master in leather SM gear, spikes everywhere, tattooed & pierced, ready to tie down, fist & whip your partner with a squid while listening to Laibach at full volume."
• Dave Fisher cites Richard Hell and Imhotep as influences.
• Dwayne Jones-Evans has a nice big collection of stuff online that helps the lazier among us feel good about ourselves, as he hasn't touched the damn site site '97.
• Evan Kirchhoff is (co-)running Comrade Software these days. Worth noting is his letter of recommendation from J.P..
• Miromi is...well...one of a kind.
• Mike New's got his own collection of stuff online, including a bunch of visual evidence that not all people who're a little geeky are homely (no, fortunately, my mug isn't represented).
• Deb Richardson remains wonderfully artistic, but has gone on to become important, founding the Open Source Writers Group and LinuxChix.
• Greg Ritter welcomed me to FC years and years ago with a "Welcome to my killfile, twit" after a short argument about the future of intellectual property. In the interest of fairness, he's also the first FCer to have given me feedback on this site.
• I don't think Fran and I have agreed on anything in recorded history, but I find her wholly admirable, nevertheless.
• Taylor, even in this room, is a CSS/DHTML savant.

Reference and Online Style:

• Google is still the best search engine out there for most purposes.
• The two best online dictionaries/thesauri, as far as I've seen, are Dictionary.com and yourDictionary.com.
• Altavista's Babelfish.
• Yahoo's Currency Converter.
• If you're looking for writing tips, the Writer's Handbook at the University of Wisconsin Writing Center is as good a place as any to start. To boot, they've got great information on documentation in all the major styles.
• APA Style online.

References for Bassists:

• Bass Player is probably the premiere magazine for bassists. At the very least, it's the one with the best market penetration. My endorsement: I read it cover to cover every month. Their web site isn't too bad, either.
• Bass Frontiers is the up-and-comer. The magazine's getting really good and they may have the best web presence of all the bass publications that exist outside of this medium.
• Bassics is the third of the triumvirate of big bass magazines out there. Their web site's showing steady improvement.
• The Bottom Line is a wonderful mailing list. It's where great ones like Tony Levin and less great ones like...well...me...can compare notes.
• The Bass Gear Review Page has a ton of user-submitted information on a variety of gear.
• Billy Sheehan is the undisputed (okay, not particularly disputed) king of straight-ahead bass pyrotechnics.
• Bunny Brunel is on the cutting edge of contemporary jazz bass. An inspiration to us all.

More music links:

• The Internet Underground Music Archive.
• Replacing the much-missed National Midnight Star, there is now a real, genuinely useful official Rush site.
• Tom Neff does a wonderful job with his Dar Williams site. It's clear, concise, and has lots of good information on the latest and greatest folk songstress (I like her, anyhow).
• The War Against Silence is a repository of some of the best rock criticism I've ever read. Glenn McDonald has a tremendous grasp of the history of popular music, including the esoterica of progressive music. I like him more than Lester Bangs, let's say. In a review of Marillion's "Afraid of Sunlight," he also rips out what I think is the greatest quote in the history of rock criticism.
• The Canterbury music scene is documented in great detail on Calyx. Great resources on Soft Machine, Gong, and their offshoots.

Sabermetrics:

• The SABR Home Page.
• The definitive index of baseball information available online is John Skilton's Baseball Links.
• James Furtado has assembled a fine site, The Baseball Think Factory, which, bravely enough, includes a link back to this part of the online world.
• Baseball Engineering.
• Baseball Prospectus.
• The High Boskage House Baseball Pages
• A curious International Baseball and Softball page.

Other sites that are actually about something:

• After having diligently slaved away at UCLA, studying History and Sociology, I'm back for a second round as a grad student.
• View Askew Productions. Kevin Smith might be the best filmmaker at work today.
• A map of traffic in the Greater Los Angeles area. If you want to see some of the world's worst traffic documented on an ongoing basis, this is the place...you'll find me in the worst of it, up by where the 405 and 10 meet.