Me

• Music
• Book opinions
• Other interests
• I used to maintain the 4-track Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list for home recorders. Now I passed it on, because I wasn't updating it. The new owner hasn't updated it either (except to put his name on it), so pester him!

Links I've Liked

The Gallery of Good Causes

Continued deficit spending is money borrowed from our future as a country. The Concord Coalition is a nonpartisan, grassroots movement to eliminate the deficit and bring entitlements down to a level that's fair to all generations.

For related information, Visit the U.S. National Debt Clock

"EFF [the Electronic Frontier Foundation] and other civil liberties groups ask that a blue ribbon be displayed to show support for the essential human right of free speech, a fundamental building block of free society, affirmed by the U.S. Bill of Rights in 1791, and by the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Nevertheless, legislators and regulators in the US and around the world are intent on telling you what you and your children may read. Please help us teach government that such a decision belongs in your hands, and those of every other Internet user and parent. The Blue Ribbon will be a way to raise awareness of online censorship and freedom issues, from locally to globally." - EFF

Friends' pages

• Anton Ptak, sax player extraordinaire, now works for this wind company.
• 3 Minute Hero, a (now disbanded) ska band with my 'bone buddy Eric Johnson.
• Mark Claypool, a computer science grad-school buddy who's made it into academia
• Jester's Crown, Pete "King" Klimecky's band, a former collegemate
• Matt Trawick, old college buddy and Princeton postdoc fellow.
• The Deadly Nightshade Family Singers, a folk-rock group with wild Otto on accordion.

Hometown (Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Minnesota)

• The bike shop near me, Flanders Brothers.
• Prince, the groovemaster himself: 
• Bryant Lake Bowl, bowling, theater, and music.
• Ball's is Leslie Ball's midnight cabaret. There's always at least one act that is worth the trip, and at least one that is fairly embarrassing or boring.
• Star Tribune is one of the local McMedia papers.
• Utne Reader Online, a well-known "alternative reader", is a Minneapolis special.
• City Pages), a good yet intensely cynical free weekly. In particular, the events page has a complete list of movies and showtimes.
• Twin Cities page, with a musical event page.
• City of Minneapolis home page
• City of St. Paul home page
• Twin Cities Jazz Society home page.
• Minneapolis on the map
• Twin Cities Free-Net
• Conditions and forecast for the Twin Cities

• University Home page
• Class Schedule
• Computer Science department Home page
• The Geometry Center WWW server

• The Oberlin Review, the largest student newspaper.
• Campus Wide Info System web page
• Computer Science Department
• Online application

Social and political organizations and information

• I am a member of the Concord Coalition, a group championing national fiscal responsibility.
• I support the Electronic Frontier Foundation
• I read the RISKS journal, about the risks of computation. It is based on user submissions and high-quality editing.
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility server
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Privacy Digest
• National Public Radio (NPR) page
• Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) page. (Or for email.)
• I don't know a great deal about U.S. firearm policy, but I thought GunFree was interesting, especially their facts and three myths, claiming that the 2nd amendment was not intended to allow any individual the right to bear arms, and citing court decisions. On the other side, Eric Raymond, well-known hacker, believes in his right to bear arms.

Budapesti Mûszaki Egyetem pages

• Process Control Department

Links about the WorldWide Web

• Google knows all
• NetMechanic will check your web page.
• List of USENET FAQs
• The Open Directory Project is a volunteer project to categorize interesting web pages on the web by subject.
• Verify Syntax and Links
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Search Usenet news. Hey, these guys have every post you've ever done.

Amusement

• Tom Tomorrow comix, a dry ironic take on American politics. He tries to bash Democrats and Republicans, but he really takes off the gloves with the Republicans.
• Dilbert
• Computer Animation FAQ
• Travels With Samantha is a hypertext book by an MIT graduate student with many pictures
• Wired, a glitzy techno-mag

Financial pages

• The Motley Fool, investment discussion by Fools.


"The Wise would have you believe that 'A Fool and his money are soon parted.' But in a world where three quarters of all PROFESSIONAL money managers lose to the market averages, year in and year out, how Wise should one aspire to be?"

--The Motley Fool Investment Guide, p.14

Simon & Schuster, 1996

• New York Federal Reserve Bank. Easy-to-read information and interactive tools concerning U.S. bonds and redemption values. Also has the public debt to the penny.
• Public debt to the penny
• Vanguard financial services
• Janus financial services
• Domini social equity index fund.

Education

• The Nature Conservancy seems to have scientifically and politically sound methods of cooperating to preserve important nature all around the world.
• Consumer Information Center, that place that has Saturday-morning ads from Pueblo, Colorado, has all of its booklets online.
• Taming the Automobile is a "paper" on Dutch efforts to take back neighborhoods from cars and give them to people. At the end it discusses applying their concepts to the U.S.
• This century's world temperature trends.
• Census bureau population clock
• Online books page
• Computational Science Education Project (CSEP) e-book is about what applied scientists should know about computers
• Mathematics page in the WWW Virtual Library

Music (including computation and computer audio)

• AI Models of Musical Expression, Gerhard Widmer.
• The New Payola, one New York player's take on the jazz scene.
• Yoshi's, a jazz club in Oakland where I heard Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache band.
• Indiana University's Worldwide Internet Music resources page
• "A Jazz Improvisation Primer" by Marc Sabatella
• GAJOOB Magazine's Do-It-Yourself Recording Artist Netsource
• Pepper Printed Music company

Computer music

• "Humdrum is a set of general-purpose software tools intended to assist music researchers in posing and answering research questions. Humdrum allows researchers to encode, manipulate, and output a wide variety of musically-pertinent representations. The emphasis is on posing and answering questions about music." It represents patterns in ASCII and combines the patterns.
• "RUBATO: An automatic system for time-based performance analysis." Takes digital audio of a known piece, and extracts tempo information about it.
• "Csound is a software synthesis program." Free, from MIT, venerable.
• "OpenMusic is a highly visual environment for the composer on the Macintosh."
• Audio File formats FAQ

Jazz links listed in the Twin Cities Jazz Notes, Vol. 17, No 9.

• Yahoo's Musical Genres listing
• JazzNet, "supported by radio station WNUR-FM at Northwestern University. It offers access to jazz styles, artists, performance schedules, art, education, retailers, jazz labels and other resources."
• Jazz clubs "gives names, addresses and telephone numbers of clubs around the country, organized by state and city."
• BMI "the association of songwriters, composers, and publishers. The tune database is searchable by title or writer."
• Jazz-Net West "what the jazz scene is on the West Coast, with an emphasis on radio station KLON and JazzNow magazine."

I've recently been browsing, and have not yet categorized .. (newest to oldest)

• Salon.com, a great online magazine
• See Lexis-Nexis's P-Trak, where people can look up social security # and get a name! This is a serious privacy issue, and the company incompletely defends their position.
• This link is advertised to be Net Radio, but it's not:Internet Radio.
• House listings are at Cyberhomes and Realtor Information Network.
• Switchboard: Look up someone's address and phone # in the U.S. by their name.
• My bookmarks
• Online Webster's Dictionary
• Vegetarian pages
• ecash (Electronic cash) home page

San Francisco Well gopher

Links I lost interest in but haven't yet thrown away

• A blatantly racist organization
• Oberlin Notes
• Genetic programming of music