Jon's favorite links

Music

• Miscellaneous musical links
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  • The War Against Silence - thoughtful reviews
  • One Reel - procuders of Bumbershoot, Seattle's massive arts festival, and other events (like WOMAD USA)
  • The Ultimate Band List
  • CDNow - Internet CD shopping
  • Columbia House - CD club goes online
  • Ticketmaster - events almost everywhere
  • ICE - new releases magazine
  • Dirty Linen - folk and world music magazine
  • The Mountain - a cool Seattle radio station with an interesting message board where I hang out as "Thoth"
  • Exposé - a music magazine I write for, and ECSP, their concert series
  • The Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock
  • The Progressive Rock Web Site
  • Michael's XG MIDI page - and Yamaha Official XG page
  • Unofficial MU80 page - the great Yamaha MIDI sound module
  • The Theremin page - info about that fascinating instrument
• Some pages about some of my favorite artists
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  • Tori Amos - the queen of interior pianoscapes
  • Adrian Belew - The Twang Bar King
  • Björk - Iceland's number one export
  • Boiled in Lead - my favorite rockin' reelin' world folk punk band
  • Kate Bush
  • Camper Van Beethoven (etc)
  • Elvis Costello
  • Crowded House - Australia/New Zealand's number one export (see Split Enz)
  • Dyed Emotions - OK, so they're friends of mine. Wanna make something of it?
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Gentle Giant - masters of 70s progressive rock counterpoint
  • Peter Hammill - Mr Intense (sorry--link gone AWOL)
  • Jethro Tull (am I an old fart, or what?) (don't answer that question!)
  • Kilgore Trout - this band kicks jazz butt
  • King Crimson - art rock for adventurous people
  • Tony Levin and Papa Bear Records
  • The Loud Family - skewed pop for smart people
  • Youssou N'Dour - Senegal's number one export (another link AWOL)
  • Sam Phillips & T-Bone Burnett - singer and producer extraordinaire
  • Split Enz - Australia/New Zealand's number one export (see Crowded House)
  • Squeeze - ack! where's the link?
  • Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - not that Dave Stewart!
  • They Might Be Giants
  • Richard Thompson - doom & gloom songwriter extraordinaire
  • The Walkabouts - Seattle's number one export (Pearl who?) (link AWOL)
  • XTC - The coolest band in the history of the universe, and don't call me quirky!

TV/Movies

• Star Trek
  • Star Trek - Tim Lynch's DS9 reviews or here for HTML versions
  • Delta Blues - Voyager info
  • Star Trek Archives - a wealth of Trek info
• The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 - awesome pages on the best SF on TV
• The Unofficial Jonny Quest Guide - one of my favorite old cartoons
• Mike Wilson's WHO SPACE Doctor Who Home Page
• The Avengers - the great old British show
• Internet Movie Database
• Coming Attractions - movie rumors etc

Books

• Miscellany
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  • Science Fiction Resource Guide - now updated!
  • Northwest Science Fiction Resources information about conventions, resources for writers, links to clubs, bookstores and many other areas
  • Dark Horse Comics - publishers of cool Star Wars comics, and others too
  • Sinkha - a multimedia novel on CD-ROM (cool graphics)
  • The SF Site - lots of stuff, including Asimov's Magazine and Analog
  • Talebones - a great semi-pro sf magazine
  • ????? - a surprise with my name on it
  • Powell's - the best bookstore there is, with millions of new and used books
• Some authors I like
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  • Greg Bear
  • David Brin
  • C.J.Cherryh - and her own pages
  • Fritz Leiber
  • Barry N. Malzberg
  • Robert Silverberg (my own pages)
  • Sheri Tepper (looking for new site)
  • Jack Vance
  • Gene Wolfe

Computer/internet stuff

• Searching and indexing
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  • Yahoo
  • Lycos
  • HotBot
  • Webcrawler
  • Northwest Navigator - Seattle/NW area index
  • The Mining Co - hosted directories
• Software/shareware
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  • Windows95.com - all the best shareware and drivers
  • Windows95 Annoyances
  • Fontastic - piles of free and share fonts
• Delphi programming
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  • The Delphi Corner
  • Delphi Super Page
  • The Delphi Deli

Personal stuff

• Biography with cats
• The Dinosauria - dinosaurs rule! (or at least they used to)
• Liftoff to Space Exploration - a cool site from NASA
• Mars Pathfinder
• The Rookery: A Penguin Place
• A Froggy Page - lots of frog links and general stuff
• Fire-bellied toads in particular
• The Kool-Aid Archives - more than you thought there was to know about Kool-Aid
• Bar None drink recipes
• Project Vote Smart: Voter's Research Hotline
• The Onion - humor for those not easily offended
• News Flash! Disaster Strikes Mars Mission! Exclusive Photos!
• Do whack a do

Last updated October 21, 2002