TECH
  • Jim Campanell is a software genuis, my husband, my coworker/boss, the love of my life.
  • I use Social Fixer to customize my Facebook experience. I LOVE it!
  • c|net news and reviews on things technology.
  • Black Viper a Windows guru. This my go to place for Windows OS tweaks, etc.
SCIENCE
  • Stanford University medical research project. Help scientists studying Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson’s, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer.
  • Scientiific American is a reliable source for the latest in the sciences.
  • National Center for Science Education provides information and advice as the premier institution dedicated to keeping evolution and climate change in the science classroom and to keeping creationism and climate change denial out.
  • Biology Fortified, Inc. (BFI) is an independent educational non-profit organization incorporated in Wisconsin. Our mission is to strengthen the public discussion of issues in biology, with particular emphasis on genetics and genetic engineering in agriculture.
  • The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a nonprofit medical research organization that ranks as one of the nation’s largest philanthropies. HHMI plays a prominent role in advancing biomedical research and science education in the United States.
  • Phylo DNA game. The comparison of the genomes from various species is one of the most fundamental and powerful techniques in molecular Biology. It helps us to decipher our DNA and identify new genes. Though it may appear to be just a game, Phylo is actually a framework for harnessing the computing power of mankind to solve the Multiple Sequence Alignment problem.
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. NINDS strives to pursue the most pressing and promising scientific opportunities. To help shape the direction of stroke research, NINDS has been engaged in a two-year planning process to identify the highest priority research areas for stroke prevention, treatment, and recovery.
  • ASU Origins Project is a transdisciplinary initiative that nurtures research, energizes teaching, and builds partnerships, offering new possibilities for exploring the most fundamental of questions who we are and where we came from. Much of the most exciting research being done today involves exploring questions of origins.
  • Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist with wide research interests, including the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, where his studies include the early universe, the nature of dark matter, general relativity and neutrino astrophysics. He is Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department, and Inaugural Director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University.
  • Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist and one of the world’s foremost writers on language, mind, and human nature. Currently Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, Pinker has also taught at Stanford and MIT. Also a man with AWESOME hair!
  • Stephen Hawking physicist and living legend.
EDUCATION
  • Valore Books sell and rent textbooks. They claim to have the lowest prices online.
  • MIT Open Courseware makes the materials used in the teaching of almost all of MIT's subjects available on the Web, free of charge. With more than 2,000 courses available, OCW is delivering on the promise of open sharing of knowledge.
  • Learn almost anything for free at Kahn Academy
  • Unit Conversion offers a handy weight and mass converter.
  • Edge. To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.
  • Big Think The FU Sessions ia a knowledge forum featuring the ideas, lessons, stories and advice of leading experts from around the world.
PHILOSOPHY
  • Daniel Dennet is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.
  • Sam Harris Mr. Harris is a cofounder and the CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
  • Patricia Churchland explores the impact of scientific developments on our understanding of consciousness, the self, free will, decision making, ethics, learning, and religion and issues concerning the neurobiological basis of consciousness, the self, and free will, as well as on more technical questions concerning to what degree the nervous system is hierarchically organized, how the difficult issue of co-ordination and timing is managed by nervous systems, and what are the mechanisms for the perceptual phenomenon of filling-in.
LITERATURE FRENCH ART MUSIC
  • Rachid Taha is an Algerian singer based in France. His music is influenced by many different styles such as rock, electronic, punk, and raï.
  • Henry Rollins, musical wordsmith.
  • Led Zeppelin. A legendary band.
  • Nine Inch Nails. Trent Reznor hsan't disappointed me yet.
  • Rush. It took me a while to get into this amazing band but I did thanks to Neil Peart, who is amazing.
  • Tool. If you haven't heard of this band, you should check them out. They are one of my all time favorites.
  • Lisa Walecki, talented is too mild of a word to describe her. She is an amazing singer and voice coach. Check out her website.
  • My friend Jeff Silverman is a veteran producer, engineer, songwriter, accomplished musician, singer and music/audio editor and composer for film and tv. He is also a former (LA) Motown staff songwriter.
  • Lois Mac Morris aka Lady Mac has been a family friend for a very long time. She is an amazing guitarist, to say the least. I don't think I've ever seen anyone play the guitar so smoothly and effortlessly. She is a musical gem.
  • My friend, Oliver Tuthill is an accomplished guitarist, singer, award winning songwriter and composer, screenwriter, film producer and actor is now coming full circle with his musical & film career that has evolved over the years.
ENTERTAINMENT
  • My friend, Oliver Tuthill, President of Blue Wood Films, believes in getting his story on the screen by staying faithful to his script and artistic vision, but he does believe in collaboration and hearing out what others working with him feel. He has a history of actively asking for suggestions from his fellow artists and producers, but once production has commenced and everyone is on set, his word as director is decisive.
  • Denver Center of Performing Arts, for quality entertainment.
  • xkcd.com, A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
  • Far Too Cute is a fun project squeezed from the mind of graphic artist Mike Phillips. The toons are just little snippets of random that Mike doodles when relaxing in his "spare" time, in between studying at university, drawing other web comics and completing various other web design and graphic projects.
  • T-Rex Trying, and entertaining us.
  • Google Guitar Gallery just for fun.
CAUSES
  • Help Stanford University scientists studying Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson’s, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer.
  • The AHA Foundation works to protect and defend the rights of women and girls in the West from oppression justified by religion and culture.
  • Responsible Charity In 2008 during a four month backpacking trip through India, our founder and CEO, Hemley Gonzalez, experienced firsthand the abuse and horrible conditions which men and woman were subjected to under a worldwide famous charity that collects millions of dollars from its donors but largely mismanages such donations. Disgusted and disappointed by this experience, he began working in the slums alongside other friends and volunteers who also felt their efforts were positively and effectively changing the lives of those disadvantaged families they came into contact with.
SPIRITUALISM
  • The Church of the Latter-Day Dude (Dudeism) is a religion inspired by The Big Lebowski, Taoism and more.
  • Aayan Hirsi Ali, an outspoken defender of women's rights in Islamic societies, was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. She escaped an arranged marriage by immigrating to the Netherlands in 1992 and served as a member of the Dutch parliament from 2003 to 2006. In parliament, she worked on furthering the integration of non-Western immigrants into Dutch society and defending the rights of women in Dutch Muslim society.
  • Ex-Scientology Kids is designed, owned, and operated by three young women who grew up in Scientology, and later left the Church. We feel that growing up in the Scientology environment is a unique experience that’s almost impossible to comprehend unless you’ve lived it yourself.
  • Operation Clambake undressing the Church of Scientology since 1996. This is a great source for all things Scientology.
PRODUCTS
  • American Science & Surplus offers an eclectic range of products, many with a science or educational tilt to them, others simply handy or amusing.
NEWS MISC SAFETY
  • SexualOffenders.com, is a state by state resource locator, along with a large amount of information from their supporters.