Nathan's Humble Homepage

Quote of the moment:

Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection
boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in
the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which
none of us escapes.
    -- E. Haldeman-Julius, "The church Is a Burden, Not a Benefit, In
    Social Life"

Currently playing: In Flames - Whoracle

Not much here right now. If you want to see the really cutting edge stuff, check out my website, Hard Core Hackers. See my resume for my contact information.

Friends

• Richard - My younger brother, and much more of a web artist than I am.
• James Rogers - A good friend who was also a good programming teammate in college; I work with him now.
• Mike Schumacher - Another friend from college who was a roomate and gaming buddy.
• Ryan Glasnap - A physicist who has turned to the dark side of programming, just so he could make a clone of one of his favorite games.
• matt@machination - Matt is really cool, and has far more updates and interesting stuff than I do here.
• Lemn's Pages - The other Matt, aka "Lemnwezl", has a lot of very interesting writings.
• Schlake - Schlake's very different, and has some interesting views on what constitutes a "good" movie.
• Cort - Cort's still a good friend, even though he laid me off. I think maybe he was doing me a favor . . .
• Danny - What can one say about Danny. Hmmm . . .
• Kscott - The all juggling, all hacking, all fire-breathing wonder.

Other People

Other interesting people, who I don't know personally, but I believe are worth mentioning.

• Daniel J. Bernstein
• Paul Graham
• Acts of Gord
• Donald E. Knuth
• Eric S. Raymond
• Olin Shivers
• Richard M. Stallman
• Jamie Zawinski

Other Favorites

• ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union
• ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
• Adbusters - Culture Jammers Headquarters.
• Advogato
• Americans United for Separation of Church and State
• American Atheists
• The Any Browser Campaign
• Atheists in Foxholes - They do exist.
• CDT - The Center for Democracy and Technology.
• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
• Cognitive Liberty - Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics.
• Consumer Reports.org - Published by Consumers Union
• CorpWatch
• CPSR - Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• CSICOP On-line: Scientifically Investigating Paranormal and Fringe Science Claims.
• Debian GNU/Linux - The more I use other operating systems, the more I like Debian GNU/Linux
• Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
• Center for Digital Democracy
• Citizens for Tax Justice
• EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation
• EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center
• IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• The Secular Web
• Federation of American Scientists
• Give.org - Investigate before you donate.
• The GNU Project
• Judicial Watch - Thankfully, these guys are keeping an eye on liberals as well as conservatives.
• Media Transparency - Research where all those "think tanks" and other PR groups get their money from (still looking for one that covers liberal groups as well . . . )
• Opensecrets.org - Money in politics data.
• O'Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf
• PR Watch
• Public Agenda
• Public Eye
• The Center for Public Integrity - hosts Lobby Watch, Windfalls of War, Our Private Legislatures, Outsourcing the Pentagon, and Silent Partners
• Public Knowledge
• SourceWatch - Essential for background checks and establishing bias of any organization.
• Union of Concerned Scientists

You may notice a large number of "liberal" leaning organizations linked to above. I am not a liberal, though I share many progressive values with them. I am not a conservative, though I share some libertarian principles with them. I don't belong to any political party, not even the libertarians or greens. I could be called a non-partisan, although "anti-partisan" might be a more fitting term, because I believe that allying yourself with any one group and not voting your values is destroying this country and dividing the citizenry against itself. Labels are misleading and deceptive. I am for facts and against abuse, especially abuse of power. The major reasons most of the links are to "liberal" places above is that a) Republicans are currently in power b) Politicians (the majority of which are Republican) are abusing their power on scales not seen since Nixon, and c) the sources above tend to be open, honest, truthful, more encompassing, and more civil in tone than any "conservative" "watchdogs" I could find (such as Accuracy in Media and Media Research).

To sum things up: I'm not focusing on conservative wrongs; I'm focusing on egregious and numerous wrongs, no matter who perpetrated them. I don't care what political party someone belongs to; if they lie to the country (whether about reasons to go to war or a blow job), they should not hold a public office, now or ever again.

If you would like to find out whether your chosen political party really is representing your values, try some of the following links:

• Project Vote Smart - Find out how your representatives have voted and see what candidates' positions are on specific issues.
• Political Compass - Essential for anyone who identifies totally with one party - this will show you what party really represents your values.
• World's Smallest Political Quiz - Quick, easy, fairly accurate.
• Easy Voter Guide - Makes registering to vote easy and provides guides to local elections.
• Smart Voter - Similar to Project Vote Smart.

Linux Gaming

• Tux Games - The online store for Linux games.
• Linux Game Publishing
• LINUXGAMES
• The Linux Game Tome
• icculus.org