Animation
Tutorials
Music/Sound
Movies
Home Theater
Alternative Energy
Education
Computers
Games
Miscellaneous
Search Engines

LINKS

Animation

• NewTek - Makers of Lightwave 3D.
• Flay - Excellent Lightwave resource.
• CG Channel - Excellent 3D Animation resource.
• Kinetix - Makers of 3D Studio Max.
• Softimage
• Industrial Light & Magic
• Digital Domain - James Cameron and Stan Winston's Animation Company.
• P I X A R Animation Studios - The makers of Toy Story.

Tutorials

• Toronto Lightwave User Group - A few nice tutorials in the breakdown and theory area.
• Flay - Excellent Lightwave resource with many tutorial links.

Music/Sound

• Alesis - Makers of cool music gear.   And, in particular, the QS8 with its 64 voice, 88 weighted hammer action keys, and 4 channel effects processor.  Oooh, Aaah!
• Musicians Friend - Distributor of name brand music hardware.
• Steinberg - Makers of Cubase VST Music Software and Rebirth.
• Cakewalk - Makers of Cakewalk music sequencing software.
• Sonic Foundry - Makers of Acid remixing software.

Movies

• The Internet Movie Database - A huge database of all movies (Past/Present/Upcoming).
• James Cameron - One of my favorite movie makers (The Abyss, Aliens, Terminator I & II).
• Star Wars - Enough said.
• The Matrix - One of the coolest movies I've seen in a long time.

Home Theater

• Cybertheatre - Good info source for Home Theater and DVD.
• Pioneer
• DVD File - A useful site for DVD release dates, news, and rumors.
• DVD Express - Great place to order DVD's.
• DVD Empire - Another place to order DVD's.
• Cinema Disc - Yet another place for DVD's.
• Net Flix - Interesting mail-order rental store (go figure)

Alternative Energy

• Hydrogen - as an energy source.
• Electro-Mechanical Flywheel Batteries
• Alternative energy resources

Education

• Discovery Channel
• Mars Pathfinder Status/Images

Computers

• Pricewatch - Computer component street prices.
• Linux - Unix based free operating system.
• BeOS - High performance alternative operating system designed for rich media.
• Oracle - Developer of large scale RDMS software, and the software we use at the U of I.
• XML - Resources for learning about and using XML technology.

Games

• Magic: The Gathering - An intriguing card game from Wizards of the Coast that my friend Andre made me play.

Miscellaneous

• eBay - Online Trading System- Click here for items I am currently selling on eBay.
• Enneagrams - Personality Test
• Websters - On-Line Dictionary and Thesaurus and the Word of the Day
• Language Translator - Translate To/From English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian
• Maps - Locate any street address
• Wheel Deals - Automotive Classifieds in the inland northwest.
• Moscow - Weather Forecast for Moscow, Idaho
• Spokane - Weather Forecast for Spokane, Washington
• Atom Films - Independent film and animation repository
• Analogx - Some useful utilities for music, programming and such
• U of I Swim Schedule

Search Engines

• MetaCrawler - Was a good engine, now bought out.
• AltaVista - Fairly good search engine.
• Google - Excellent search engine, one of the biggest databases.