People

• Alan Kay
  • Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk — and much more: a fascinating interview
• Basis Technology, my friend Carl Hoffman's company
• Bethesda United Methodist Church: My father is minister.
• Blogs
  • Abstract Heresies: Joe Marshall's blog
    • Joe Marshall
  • Adam Bosworth
  • Amit J. Patel's blog
    • Amit's home page
  • Andrew Hyatt, with whom I worked at Intraspect Software
  • Armed and Dangerous: Eric S. Raymond
  • Avi Bryant
  • Ben Darnell: Eclectic Mayhem
  • Bill Clementson
  • Chris Double
  • Chris Rhodes, who works on SBCL, among other things
  • Dan Bricklin
  • Daniel Barlow's diaryon his Cliki web site
  • David Byrne
  • Dilbert Blog, by Scott Adams
  • Faré Rideau's blog
    • Faré Rideau's web site
  • Free Iraqi: I was not living before the 9th of April and now I am, so let me speak!
  • Freedom to Tinker: your freedom to understand, discuss, repair, and modify the technological devices you own, by Ed Felten, a Princeton professor who challenged the DMCA
  • Iraq the Model
  • John Udell, a columnist for Infoworld
  • Kenny Tilton
  • Laurence Gonsalves
  • LemonodorA mostly Lisp weblog, by John Wiseman
  • M.C. Hammer
  • Michael Bostock
  • Michael Yon: a freelance reporter in Iraq
  • Nelson Minar
    • Nelson's home page at the MIT Media Lab
  • Ovidiu Predescu
  • P. Tucker Withington
  • Pascal Costanza
    • Pascal Costanza's Highly Opinionated Guide to Lisp
    • Pascal's home page
  • Phillip J. Eby: Making simple things hard, and complex things impossible
  • Planet Lisp: an aggregation of weblogs related to Lisp
  • Planet Scheme: an aggregation of weblogs related to Scheme
  • Pragmatic Dave
  • Rainer Joswig
    • Lisp News
  • Rao Talasila
  • Scheme Way, by Dominique Boucher
  • Simson Garfinkel
  • Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants: Steve Yegge
  • Stuff White People Like: This blog is devoted to stuff that white people like.
  • Ted Leung
  • Weblogs list on Cliki
  • William Gibson: science fiction author who wrote Neuromancer, etc.
• Brian LaMacchia
• Clay Shirky
  • A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy: an essay about collaborative software and social dynamics
• comedians
  • Anthony Griffith, a stand-up comedian my wife and I saw at Rooster T. Feathers in Sunnyvale. Wow, he is funny! We even met him after the show. Look for him in Charlie's Angels II.
  • Brian Malow's Butseriously.com: rational comedy for an irrational planet
  • Dwight Slade: one of the funniest comics we've seen, also at Rooster T. Feathers
  • Eric Schwartz, A.K.A. Smooth-E
  • Ha Brothers, including Peter Berman, a top-notch comic we saw at Rooster's
  • James P. Connolly: who we've seen at Rooster T. Feathers and in Las Vegas. If I only had some jackets like his.
  • Jim David, another stand-up comedian my wife and I met at Rooster T. Feathers in Sunnyvale. Hilarious!
  • Joe Gleckler, my brother
    • Joe's home page
    • Joe's MySpace page
  • Lord Carrett: Go home, sober up, log on.
  • Mike Pace, yet another stand-up comedian my wife and I met at Rooster T. Feathers in Sunnyvale. Hilarious!
  • Smooth Laughs: Michael Jr., who we also saw at Rooster T. Feathers
  • Todd Glass, another great comedian we saw at Rooster's, long before he appeared on Last Comic Standing. During his performance, he surprised me by calling me up on stage and spanking me! Ouch! I didn't see that coming!
• Dan Gillmor, formerly a columnist for the San Jose Mercury News
• Darius Bacon: a Scheme hacker, among other things
• David LaMacchia
• Doug Engelbart, inventor of the mouse, etc.
• Elmer and Natalya Hung
• Gerry Sussman
• Hal Abelson
• Henry Baker's archive of reserarch papers
• James Rice's home page at Stanford
• Jamie Zawinski
  • JWZ's blog: often interesting, but sometimes repulsive. Caveat lector.
• Joe Armstrong, one of the inventors of the beautiful Erlang programming language
• Joe Pistritto
• John Gilmore, whose page has interesting articles on cryptography, privacy, etc.
• John LeCarré: one of my favorite authors
• Kent Pitman
• Kevin Kelly
  • Recommendo: Cool Tools and Conceptual Trends
• Kleanthes Koniaris: including his excellent essay on how not to dress like a nerd (advice which I, sadly, do not follow)
• Lawrence Lessig
• Martin Fowler: author of the book Refactoring
  • Enterprise Integration Patterns, his new book focused on using message queues to integrate different software systems
    • wiki
• Marvin Minsky, known as the father of artificial intelligence
• Mass Defiance: the award-winning skydiving team my friend Jim Rees is on
• Mike Eisenberg
• Online Fitness Consulting: This is the web site of my top-notch fitness trainer, Mike Tenerowicz.
• Paul Graham, who has written excellent books on Lisp and was a founder of ViaWeb, which became Yahoo Store
  • Y Combinator: a new kind of venture firm that specializes in funding very early stage startups
• Peter Norvig
• Philip Greenspun's pages, including his travel writing and photography and his books on building database-backed web sites
  • Phil's blog
• Richard P. Gabriel, Lisp hacker, poet, and author of the famous "Worse is Better" essay
  • Patterns of Software: PDF file of his book
  • Richard's articles at Java.net
  • Wiki for trial run of Masters of Fine Arts in software, led and inspired by Richard
  • Worse is Better
• Ron Garret, formerly Erann Gat
• Stefan Kozlowski
• Testing Foundations: Brian Marick's site devoted to software testing
  • Brian's blog
• The Pigment Blue: the art of Robert Gage
• Victor Hanson: Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
• Yoga Soul: my teacher Rebecca Snowball's Yoga site
• Yoga Wendy: another of my yoga teachers' web sites