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• flagrantdisregard - a neat blog. I particularly love his parenting stories. they'll make any other parent laugh out loud.
• Good Morning Silicon Valley - a great tongue-in-cheek daily news summary
• I, Cringley - columnist for PBS
• Improbable Blog - humorous blog by AIR: Annals of Improbable Research
• Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools - great blog of neat stuff: "Cool tools really work. A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true. I am chiefly interested in stuff that is extraordinary, better than similar products, little-known, and reliably useful for an individual or small group. I depend on friends and readers to suggest things they actually use."
• MakeZine - a magazine (and blog) devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks and DIY inspiration
• Metamorph: The Journey Back - what thoughts rattle around in your brain when you're a new mom and a breast cancer patient?
• PhotographyBLOG - brings you the latest and greatest photography news, both film and digital, both global and UK-based
• Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters - if you don't already know it, go check it out...

• BetaChurch - -
• Boyink! - see "The Church Online" category in particular
• Church Marketing Sucks - -
• Heal Your Church Web Site - "Teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteous web design"

• Asa Dotzler - Firefox and more - on the mozilla team
• bobbyvandersluis.com - "a personal website with articles about web design and web production" (his articles are particularly well-written and useful)
• Eric Meyer - *the* css expert
• Jeffrey Zeldman's Daily Report - required reading... but fun too
• Raymond Camden's Blog - covers coldfusion, DW, HomeSite, etc. Ray is on Team Macromedia too.
• TopStyle / FeedDemon Blog - for Nick Bradbury and his XHTML/CSS editor and RSS reader
• Web Standards Project - (WaSP) fights for standards that reduce the cost and complexity of development while increasing the accessibility and long-term viability of any site published on the Web.

• This I Believe - a public dialogue about belief - one essay at a time - "This I Believe is a national media project engaging people in writing, sharing, and discussing the core values and beliefs that guide their daily lives. NPR has aired these three-minute essays on its newsmagazines Morning Edition and All Things Considered every Monday since April 2005. The project is based on the popular 1950s radio series of the same name hosted by Edward R. Murrow."
• This I Believe (on NPR) - See also the main This I Believe.org site for all the submissions and more. This has the subset of them broadcast on NPR.

• Macromedia Support Forums: HomeSite - the user forum for the HomeSite editor
• WebServant.Us - a community forum for Christian website developers (replaces ACWA)

• LangaList - excellent mailing list, the paid Plus version is well worth the price
• The Internet Tourbus Newsletter - a long-running and informative mailing list, good for net beginners and experts alike
• Heroic Stories - By the author of This is True, HS is a free email newsletter of fun, short, true stories of ordinary people performing acts that are heroic to others or that have a strong impact upon others. Free e-mail subscription! Always worth reading, particularly to get your head away from all the other job-related stuff or depressing 'normal' news. Guaranteed non-sappy...
• News of the Weird - News of the Weird is a weekly syndicated column by Chuck Shepherd containing synopses of bizarre news stories reported in various sources and is carried in over 200 newspapers. (no longer published by mailing list, no solely via website)
• This is True - Similar to News of the Weird, a newsletter with true, though funny or bizarre, news stories.
• Lockergnome - another excellent mailing list, getting junk-heavy lately though

• AddAll - my favorite multi-bookstore search site - lets you search and compare multiple online bookstores at once (see my addall search bookmarklets)
• AddAll search bookmarklets - quick browser toolbar bookmarklets to help you search for books quickly and easily
• Baen Free Library - "Baen Books is now making available - for free - a number of its titles in electronic format. Anyone who wishes can read these titles online - no conditions, no strings attached. Or, if you prefer, you can download the books in one of several formats."
• Direct Textbook - Compare Prices on New and Used College Textbooks. Supposedly "the site searches book inventories from 100's of stores, book exchanges and book marketplaces to display price, availability and reviews. Searches not just textbooks but all books."
• Lost Books - a small project to call attention to excellent books that may be missed because they are out of print or otherwise long-'gone.' If you're a SF (speculative fiction/science fiction) reader, check here for ideas for your summer reading list, though you may have to search to find these.
• Mozilla Amazon Browser (MAB) - a XUL app extension for the mozilla browers for doing Amazon searches
• Project Gutenberg - the first and largest single collection of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts) on the internet. Join their volunteer network to contribute to this important archive of public domain works!
• Project Gutenberg: Distributed Proofreaders - a volunteer network that supports the digitization of Public Domain books, primarily for Project Gutenberg. Join in to contribute to this important archive!
• Questia - claims to be "the world's largest online collection of complete books, journals and articles, searchable by word, phrase, title, author, or subject"
• SFF.Net - a site for genre fiction - science fiction, fantasy, horror, romance, mystery, and young adult fiction.
  "SFF Net is a large, bustling online community of authors, publishers, editors, and - above all - readers."
• The SF Site - The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy
• WenSoftware: Book Library - book collection catalog software that I use and recommend
• Abe Books - the "world's largest online marketplace for books. Whether it's new, used, rare, or out-of-print, you can find it here, through our community of over 12,000 independent booksellers from around the globe."
• Alibris - bookstore - good for used, out-of-print and rare books
• BestBookBuys.com - multi-bookstore search
• BookFinder - multi-bookstore search - especially good for used, rare, and antiquarian books
• Chambal - multi-bookstore search - new, used, rare, audio - diff versions of same title...
• ISBN.Nu - multi-bookstore search

• Korval.Com: Home of the Liaden Universe - This site is the center for two of my favorite SF authors; Steve Miller and Sharon Lee. Their liaden universe series is a must-read for any science fiction reader.
• Abbey, Lynn - nc
• Adams, Douglas - author of The HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy series and other great work
• Anthony, Piers - more for young readers, but enjoyable
• Aspin, Robert - nc
• Bova, Ben - nc
• Brin, David - a great author with complex worlds
• Brooks, Terry - nc
• Bujold, Lois McMaster - One of my other favorite SF authors; her books more than any other usually have me alternating between tears in my eyes and laughing out loud.
• Burroughs, Edgar Rice - every boy has read some of his adventures, from Tarzan to Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Card, Orson Scott - Another of my favorite authors, for books like Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Ender's Shadow, and a host of others.
• Cherryh, C.J. - nc
• Cook, Glen - some hilarious fantasy-detective novels
• Donaldson, Stephen R. - (fansite) one of my all-time favorite authors, from the Thomas Covenant series that I've reread dozens of times to his more recent series...
• Foster, Alan Dean - nc
• Francis, Dick (reading group) - One of my all-time favorite authors - he writes books you just seem to glide through. I have all but 2? of his books and most are worn out from rereading... he's also great on audio book, check for the in your library.
• Hall, Adam (Quiller fan site) - favorite spy series, by Elleston Trevor, aka Adam Hall (another I've bought all of)
• Hambly, Barbara - another favorite, I've bought most of what she's written...
• Harrison, Harry - nc
• Heinlein, Robert - a sf classic
• Lackey, Mercedes - nc
• Le Guin, Ursula K. - nc
• Lisle, Holly - nc
• McCaffrey, Anne - generally more for younger readers
• Norton, Andre - nc
• Nye, Jody Lynn - nc
• Pournelle, Jerry - nc
• Saberhagen, Fred - nc
• Viehl, S.L. - nc
• Vinge, Joan D. - nc
• need to find sites for: - Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, C.S. Friedman, Frank Herbert, C.S. Lewis, Robert Ludlum, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, J.R.R. Tolkien.

• Donato Giancola - a realist painter with lots of beautiful work in his gallery. If you are a scifi or fantasy reader you'll be sure to recognize some if it.
• Michael Whelan - Another well known artist in scifi and fantasy circles. The first art book I ever bought was of his work. Beautiful!
• Paul Youll - twin brother to Stephen Youll, and likewise an artist with great interest and skill in scifi and fantasy art
• Stephen Youll - another well-known artist with scifi and fantasy work (including the recent Dune series covers)
• Thomas Peters - another well-known artist with scifi and fantasy work
• dmoz: Arts: Genres: Science Fiction and Fantasy - search for similar art and artists
• dmoz: Arts: Illustration: Science Fiction and Fantasy - search category for art and artists
• dmoz: Arts: Literature: Genres: Science Fiction: Book Imprints: Majors: Cover Art - search for similar art and artists
• dmoz: Arts: Visual Arts: Thematic: Science Fiction and Fantasy: Artists - search for similar art and artists