References And Linkages

Graphic Design
Communication Arts - A great site for both electronic and print media artists.
Typographic - A nice typography site.

Art Stuff
Ubuweb - Fun art stuff.
Adaweb - Other art stuff.
Levitated.net and Complexification.net - Two great sources of computational beauty from Jared Tarbell.

Webbish Writers
Rudy Rucker - his "Software" is even better than "Dune".
Scott McCloud - yes, our favorite hypothisizer on comics is now hypothesizing about webish writing.
Neal Stephenson - Really fun, with a catalog of styles.

Educational Resources
Instructional Management Systems Project - the future of education on the web.
Turings World and Hyperproof - a great example of educational computing.
Virtual Beadloom - a program I got to create recently to help teach cartesian coordinates. I really enjoy it.
Blackboard - here you can create your own online course with a nice tool for free.
Association for Computing Machinery-The digital library is an awesome resource for brain expanding.

My Folk
My brother Mike's Site - a great dad.
My Mom's Business - she's a CPA.
My lovely girlfriend Meg's site - Artsprite
Benjamin Henry - my friend and colleague. Ben spent a number of years creating educational software with me before he decided to focus on networks and operating systems.
Hoby Ebert - Also my friend and colleague. Hoby is an awesome audio engineer and editor. He's a real pleasure to work with and has his own recording business now.

For the Tool Using Animal - My favored toolset
Macromedia's Flash - for interactive graphics, web animation, and now application interfaces.
Corel now sells Painter and as a result you can't link directly to the product page anymore. Haha :)
Macromedia's Freehand - a good companion to Flash for more controlled vector work.
Microsoft purchased Expression -probably for the nice underlying technology and has posted a free download to it for existing user's. A really nice gesture by them that I really appreciate.
Wacom's Pen Tablets - because you can't draw with a mouse (at least I can't).
JASC's Paint Shop Pro - like Photoshop, but much cheaper, memory efficient and quicker for simple things. You can write python scripts to automate things with it now too
Carrara a 3D animation tool with a wonderfull interface and Swift3D for translation to swf.
I finally saved enough ducats (after about 9 years) to get 3D Studio Max -and I haven't been dissapointed one bit. The particle flow tool is awesome. I'm still a newbie with 3D animation, but I am enjoying learning it.

JRun and Tomcat - two Java Servlet deployment tools that are easy to set up and use. I like the flash remoting feature of JRun and how easy it is to create web services with it.
MySQL - a zippy, free database tool and DeZign for comfortable editing of them..
PHP - like ColdFusion, ASP and JSP, but fast and free with an amazing set of functions.
My favorite XML tools are Tibco's XMLAuthority and XMLInstance
And ActiveState's Komodo for XSLT and Python.
I learned about Perforce last year and really prefer it to wincvs now.
Ultraedit is a great text editor. I'm using it now.
After years of looking for a replacement for Kawa that isn't overly-integrated with expensive tools.
I finally found IDEA, which I love.