Because they can't, they won't, and they don't bite!
(Thomas C coming and rocking the Sure Sites)

General Interest

If my life was a Zippy cartoon, I would recite the phrase FOUCAULT AND THE POWER RANGERS over and over.
The Library of Congress Information System is on-line. Isn't that cool? Also, here is a link to the On Line Boston Area Library Catalogues.
Going to rent a movie? Why not check out its review in the rec.arts.movies.reviews archive?
Have you read the biography of a mathematician lately?
The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition. All the fun without all the eye-strain! [Apparently you can only access this from inside MIT. Being a nerd has its privileges.]
Every human being should know something about evolutionary biology.
You'll laugh, you'll cry, it's better than Cats: Phillip Greenspun's Travels with Samantha.
Speaking of politics, The Scorched Earth Party is to fascism what the Harlem Globetrotters are to basketball. No, I don't know what that means.
If you liked Somerville Stories, you'll love Ed Gaillard's Prose and Verse.
Fave Page of the Day: Beej's Guide to Network Programming. I really really really wish I had read this before I started writing TCP/IP socket programs.

Friends and relatives with home pages: Chris Colthurst (brother), Brendan Colthurst (brother), Donald Geddis (cousin), Karen MacArthur (good friend), Joel Pratt (friend).
I put together and used to maintain the MIT Math Department Home Page, but they recently took it away from me. Sob.
I am a founding member of the Thursday Night Dinner Group.
Scott Kullberg (sekullbe@mit.edu) was nice enough to type in P. J. O'Rourke's speech to the Cato Institute. It is both funny and a fair approximation to my lack of political beliefs.
Who, who I ask you, is not a REM or They Might Be Giants fan?
Imagine my surprise when a couple of really old (pre pre school) friends of mine put a band together and had a CD released by Warner Bros. The band's name is Wagon and their album, No Kinder Room, has been on my CD player constantly since it came out. Check it out.

Yahoo or Altavista? Answer only on fear of losing your Buddha nature.
I'm ashamed; I'm embarassed; I can no longer be seen in public with my friends, but damn it, I like Slate.
This page will turn you GIFs into transparent GIFs. I've been trying to get people to refer to transparent GIFs as "GIFTs", but so far, it hasn't really caught on.
On my home computer, I run Linux and play Angband too much.
C++ Libraries : you want 'em, we got 'em.
You can never know enough about programming language research. Really.

For all those, like me, who are new to the Boston area, here's a subway guide and metropolitan map, courtesy of those kind folks at BU. Hungry? Well then here's the Boston Restaurant List
Local Computer Retailers:

Thomas Colthurst (thomasc@athena.mit.edu)