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General Technology
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The Hacker Quarterly (I've subscribed since about 1986 or so, so I'm sure I'm on a lot of Department of Homeland Security lists now! :-)
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Kevin Kelly was one of the founders of Wired magazine, and is author of Out of Control , a great book
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This excellent organization forces futurists to put their money where their mouth is
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Inspiration
No "succesories" inspiration here--this is the real stuff.-
Randy Pausch is the co-founder of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon. He gave a "last" lecture after being diagnosed with pancreas cancer (what my mother died from--it sucks). His inspiring lecture is available at this link.
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Science and Skepticism
Skepticism is NOT cynicism.-
Phil Plait's Excellent site.
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Site for pastafarians.
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Site for the "Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranorma
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The official site of the great biologist.
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Get the real dirt on this "documentary".
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A great site about hoaxes.
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This is my local excellent skeptics group.
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James "the amazing" Randi's web site. Randi works to advance science and critical thinking throughout the world.
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A blog related to Todd's book. (Todd's main page below under performers).
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Rebecca's skeptical blog site.
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The Skeptics Society and Skeptic Magazine homepage.
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The best Urban Legends and virus page I've seen.
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Interesting site, giving you the "straight dope" on any number of topics.
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Richard's site of his excellent and fascinating work. Also check out quirkology.com, and his blog at http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/
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This site details victims of non-critical thinking.
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Interesting Performers and Performance Groups
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Sarah Angliss does some really cool sound stuff.
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Lots of culture here in Brooklyn
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Derren Brown is an amazing mentalist.
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These guys do excellent, and often large scale "improv" public performance events.
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Jamy is one of the best slight of hand experts in the world, and a leading skeptic.
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"Multimedia Artist" and prankster.
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Very interesting artist's collective here in Brooklyn.
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Tim Minchin is a hilarious and immensely talented musician and comedian. And, he’s a skeptic!
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Go see these guys live!
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Todd is an amazing performer, whether doing sideshow feats or sceances.
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"Just undo it"
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This group builds machines and robots that they allow their audience to operate
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I saw this group's performance in NYC in the late 1980's.
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Fun and Interesting Stuff
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This is a bit of an in joke for entertainment lighting people. Thanks to Herrick Goldman for the link.
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Clive's interesting and fun technology stuff from Scotland.
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Insane pictures of shipwrecks here.
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The Darwin Awards
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The originators of the diet coke/mentos videos.
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Sad but beautiful images of global warming.
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Factory Tours around the US.
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Very cool real-time space object info.
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Host of the Ig Nobel Prize.
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A clock made of pictures of humans.
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Magazine for stunt players.
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Check out the "seasonal air" for your tires!
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Really stupid, but real, patents
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Important research on Peeps.
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A very cool physical periodic table.
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World Championship Punkin Chunkin in Delaware.
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Very cool real-time tracking of satellites using Google Maps.
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Just what it says.
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Fun with processed synthetic food.
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Very cool site of geo-tagged panoramas.
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Amazing videos on perception experiments
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Very Cool.
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About Me
I'm John Huntington, author of Control Systems for Live Entertainment, the first book on show control and entertainment control systems. Through Zircon Designs, I do consulting and design work on entertainment control, show control, and audio systems, but this site contains many non-commercial resources related to entertainment, technology, and anything else I find interesting.
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