Personal Favorites

Links

1. Slashdot – News for Nerds
2. The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe – The BEST podcast on the web
3. Astronomy Cast – A great podcast on astronomy
4. Wu’s Riddles – A cool forum for advanced puzzles
5. JREF – James Randi Educational Foundation – A source of reason on the web
6. The Panda’s Thumb – A very well written blog about evolution
7. The Universe Today

Bands

1. Pink Floyd
2. Grandaddy
3. Porcupine Tree
4. Pixies
5. Grant Lee Buffalo
6. Neil Young
7. ELO
8. Emerson Lake & Palmer
9. Queen
10. Dire Straits

Albums

1. Mighty Joe Moon – Grant Lee Buffalo
2. Meddle – Pink Floyd
3. Under the Western Freeway – Grandaddy
4. Eldorado – ELO
5. Trilogy – Emerson Lake & Palmer
6. Thick as a Brick – Jethro Tull
7. After the Gold Rush – Neil Young
8. Harvest – Neil Young
9. Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
10. On the Sunday of Life – Porcupine Tree
11. 1992 – The Love Album – Carter USM
12. Rust Never Sleeps – Neil Young

Books

1. 1984 – George Orwell
2. How Round is Your Circle
3. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage – Alfred Lansing
4. Scientific American Compilations – Martin Gardner
5. 1089 and all that – David Acheson
6. Flim Flam – James Randi
7. Bad Astronomy – Phil Plait
8. How to Lie with Statistics
9. The Origin of Humankind – Richard Leakey
10. The Blind Watchmaker – Richard Dawkins
11. Climbing Mount Improbable – Richard Dawkins
12. The Code Book – Simon Singh
13. Demon Haunted World – Carl Sagan
14. The Third Chimpanzee – Jared Diamond

Movies

1. The Princess Bride
2. Memento
3. Memories of Murder
4. The Spanish Prisoner
5. House of Games
6. The Empire Strikes Back
7. 12 Angry Men
8. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
9. The Shawshank Redemption
10. The Usual Suspects
11. The Great Escape
12. Aliens
13. Das Boot
14. The Sting
15. El Aura