Dancing Giant Inn - General Links

GENERAL LINKS

Following my brother’s dictum that no website should ever be a dead end, here is the obligatory links page. I will attempt to categorize things in an at least somewhat logical manner. Additional links may be found elsewhere on this site when appropriate. Have fun exploring.…

	Cliff Cramp’s on-line gallery. Both a neighbor and a colleague, Cliff prefers to call himself an illustrator rather than an artist. Either way, he is very skilled … or is it talented?
	Gear Engineering Manufacturing is the machine shop co-owned by my father and his father before him since A.D. 1965.
	John Fletcher’s Grenadier Productions is the home of Liberators!—a war gamer’s guide to the South American wars of independence.
	Jason Van Norman’s homepage and the “official” Section 8 website. You might expect better from a code jockey like my brother, but at least check out Razor’s Reviews.
	The “official” website of Alex Hare. An aspiring screenwriter, Alex is also one of my gaming buddies.

Friends & Family

Here are websites built by people I know personally. If a link to your site belongs here, please let me know.

Organizations & Affiliations

These are the various organizations with which I am a member or am otherwise affiliated.

The American Automobile Association is useful for too many travel-related things to list. I have been a AAA member since about A.D. 1990.
The American Civil Liberties Union works to defend and preserve most of our individual rights and liberties, even the unpopular ones. I became a “card-carrying member” in A.D. 2006.
The California Rifle & Pistol Association defends the right to keep and bear arms and promotes responsible firearms ownership in California. I joined in A.D. 2002.
I graduated from the California State University at Fullerton in A.D. 1997 and joined the staff of the Pollak Library in A.D. 1999.
The Libertarian Party is the only American political party that completely embraces individual freedom and personal responsibility. I registered as a Libertarian in A.D. 2003 and formally joined the party in A.D. 2005.
In addition to promoting marksmanship, firearms safety, and the shooting sports, the National Rifle Association defends the one right the ACLU so studiously overlooks. I became a member in A.D. 2001.

	Atomic Rockets at Project Rho is Winchell Chung’s tongue-in-cheek approach to the very serious topics of spacecraft design, space travel, and interplanetary civilization. There is plenty of useful scientific and technical information here for the interested layman. “So you wanna build a rocket?”
	Baen Books publishes pulpy science-fiction and fantasy novels. To demonstrate that electronic piracy is at worst a nuisance, Baen has set up a free, on-line library for a number of its most popular titles. Read, enjoy, and maybe buy a book.
	Maddox is rude, crude, and often funny as hell, but I doubt he has “The Best Page in the Universe.”
	It is easy to forget that our innocent little planet is still under bombardment by interplanetary debris. The University of New Brunswick’s Earth Impact Database catalogs the confirmed impact sites discovered around the globe.
	EXOSOLAR provides an excellent interactive, Flash-powered star map that displays graphical and textual information about nearby stars and their accompanying planets.
	The Maine Solar House teaches us that many of our energy needs can be met with little more than sunlight.
	The Space Studies Institute carries on the dream of opening the energy and material resources of space for human benefit.
	I used to spend a lot of time at Sword Forum International. Though limited time and changing priorities have diverted my attention, SFI is still a great place for information and lively discussion about swords.
	Since linking to on-line comics seems to be fashionable, here is Unshelved, a strip about a library.
	Information from Wikipedia must be studied critically due to its vulnerability to inaccuracy and vandalism, but it is still a convenient starting point for research. At the very least, this on-line encyclopedia can suggest logical avenues of exploration.

Education & Entertainment

There are a lot of educational and/or entertaining websites out there. Here are a few of my favorites.

“Wherever you go, there you are.”