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Friends I Met at Rice
- Sushi - my awesome former roommate,
skilled Mech mech student and great photographer, now at Stanford
- Frank Losasso - Really
smart guy, now at Stanford.
- xiphoris - Justin and I knew each
other before he came to Rice. We just didn't know.
- Rice Wine Society
- not a friend, but a bunch of them, and a way to meet new ones
I'm sure a bunch is missing here, let me know if you feel excluded.
Back Home
- Gymnasium an der Hermann-Boese-Strasse
- my high school
- Cold Coffee - mikel's homepage,
good friend from Bavaria ;-) lotsa fun content
- Impera Online - popular online
"Risk" strategy, game, written by a young programmer and soulmate in Germany
- Thomas Obermaier - pro's website.
Computer Science student, game developer and demo scener.
- Matthias Gall - matt is a Diplom-Informatiker
from the Universtiy of Applied Sciences Südwestfalen, Iserlohn. He's
one of the main culprits at sechsta sinn (see below).
- Olli's Blog - Ei ei ei van Porten.
- Para-Gon - Jan-Christoph's homepage,
artist and classmate at HBG
- husser.de - astrophysicist, programmer,
and friend. He's also got an enviously pretty blog
about South Africa.
- darkvale - Austro-Venezuelan master programmer
- hypotrophy.org - seb is a member
of sechsta sinn who makes German music I sometimes actually like
- Germany Survival Bible - a series of articles about oddities in Germany written by "Spiegel" magazine.
Gamedev
- Elite Ramblings - a few of my
friends and me ranting about coding, life and the rest
- GP-Tricks - at the height of the single-person amateur game development scene, I had a gamedev page too. GP-Tricks is hopelessly out of date today, of course. I also used to run that webring.
- sechsta sinn - an ambitious amateur
group from around Cologne; militant expansionary tendencies yet friendly
- gamedev.ger - website of the #gamedev.ger
IRC channel in which I hang out sometimes
- #c++ - website of the #c++ IRC channel
on DALnet where I serve as an operator
- Games-Net - probably the best German
resource for amateur game developers
- Phobyx - Gerrit's hosting and game
development
- Chaotic Arts - my former gamedev
group
- Since my former group decided to remove some pages that displayed my contributions, I decided to mirror them:
Other
- Piled Higher and Deeper - a grad student comic strip that's so dead-on, it sometimes makes me cry
- Lambda the Ultimate - a programming languages research webblog
- Ghostwriter Circus: The Paul Eckert Website. Published works of the author and neighbor of mine.
- Language Log - a linguistics blog that I find strangely fascinating
- Common Errors in English - I read it for its entertainment value
- German media - I still get a lot of my news from Germany; I feel it's not as commercial as CNN or FoxNews, and it's not just local news as on the broadcast stations
- Tagesschau - German news with internet video feeds; I was raised watching this
- Deutsche Welle - German news in many languages, internet radio feed; the video feed unfortunately isn't available here in the US anymore
- auslandsjournal - weekly TV show with reports from outside Germany; this show was a staple in my childhood TV diet; also has video feeds
- monitor - another investigative journalism program, entire shows available online
- Worse than Failure - curious perversions in information technology
- lifehacker - a blog about using technology for a more productive life
- The Consumerist - a consumer protection blog
- Bargain websites - they help you find lower prices so you can spend more than you planned
- slickdeals - a user-powered deal discussion board
- eDealInfo - moderated deal website, refreshed six times a week
- Gapminder - a web application that lets you explore the relationships among population, income, life expectancy and watch them over time
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