SCOOTER-RELATED
Scooterbbs.com (often helpful, frequently childish, sometimes hilarious)
Stellaspeed.com (mostly Stella-related, lots of good stuff here)
2strokebuzz (once great, then vanished, now back in action)
Scoot.net (great photo galleries of rallies and more)
Scooterworks' Link Page (lots of good scooter links here)
ANIMAL GROUPS/VEGETARIAN
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (my former employer)
Compassion Over Killing (great D.C. group w/ good campaigns, nice websites)
Factory Farming (good photo resource)
Vegan Outreach (good pamphlets, very factual and comprehensive)
Vegan Action
Compassionate Action for Animals (Nice logo!)
International Vegetarian Union (recipes, etc.)
VeggieDate.com (Because everyone knows that vegetarians taste better :)
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (solid nutritional info, etc)
VEG FOOD
Vegieworld.com (site is as fucked now as it was 5 years ago, but differently!)
VegeCyber Online Store (another sketchy fake-meat-from Taiwan site)
DESIGN
INSTITUTIONS
Minneapolis College of Art + Design (where I studied Art + Design)
Walker Art Center (great modern/contemporary art, kick-ass design dept)
CalArts (I've always been an admirer of the work that comes out of this place)
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
TYPE
PSYOPS (Some solid typefaces here)
FontFont (Lots of nice European-looking faces... cold and calculated)
Lineto (Some good, sturdy, no-nonsense sans-serifs)
Storm Type Foundry (Some nice faces from Czech Republic)
MAGAZINES
Surfstation.lu
Shift.org (Japan)
A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites
Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters
COLORS
SITES I'M MOSTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR
NOTE: I no longer have anything to do w/ the sites I designed at PETA, see my outdated web design portfolio for more acccurate depiction of my work there.
Scooterworks USA (retailer of parts and accessories for Vespa scooters)
Genuine Scooter Company (Home of the Stella scooter among other things)
My Flickr photos (I'm updating this a lot more than this site lately)
My Myspace profile (who doesn't have one? At least mine doesn't have music!)
JUST FOR FUN
Interesting Ideas (roadside stuff, signs, folk art)
Mullets Galore (needs no explanation)
LILEKS (ephemera, postcards, printed matter, humor)
Roadside Peek : Roadside USA
The Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive (poisonous paragraphs, lyrical windmills, etc.)
Sharpeworld Deluxe (good links, found objects, funny bits and features)
Learning Martial Arts (as only Master Bill Bartolone is capable of teaching)
American Movie (Keep up w/ Mike Schank)
PIRATES/FRIENDS
Draplindustries (Aaron James Draplin: Great Friend, Great Designer, Great Man)
BradBerling.com (Another talented MCAD friend; now with regular updates)
Ryno's Super Cool City Web World (Simonson farting around on Geocities)
Blue22.net (MCAD friend Jamie Joseph Pulley)
Absenter (photo site of Chicago design buddy Naz Hamid)
Standardbaggage (the web home of uber-talented friend Mike Jakab)
WeepingWalrus (Arya S. - One of the most inspiring designers I've ever known)
Uncle Felty (friend Matt Partridge's wicked felt designs)
The Wisdom of Doug Dykehouse (The quotes haunt me...and reveal themselves)
IMAGES/SEARCH
Mr. French (French Paper Company)
CSA Images (proud to've worked w/ these guys, they're amazing)
American Memory from the Library of Congress
Graphic Maps, World Atlas and Geography Facts
New Deal Network Photo Gallery
Microsoft TerraServer Image Page (both disturbing and fascinating)
NIHON/JAPANESE
NOTE: many of these pages require japanese-language fonts
ALIVE (Japan's best-known AR group)
LANGUAGE
WWWJDIC: Word Search
AltaVista - World / Translate (not terribly accurate, but interesting and free)
Jim Breen's Japanese Page (another wonderful resource from an expert)
