• My Academia.edu Website
  • Papers
  • Talks
  • Teaching
• Coverage of Rita from Two Houston Apartments - a blog about Houston's imperfect storm
• Scalar says - a collection of some of the (often offensive) things I say on IRC
• DrJava - a lightweight open-source Java IDE to which I have contributed
• Concutest - the fruits of my research, a framework for testing concurrent programs
  • Concutest Community Project - a community project for sharing concurrency invariants
• DrJava - the light-weight Java IDE that my research group at Rice is developing and to which I'm one of the top contributers
• Summer School on Language-Based Techniques for Concurrent and Distributed Software - a summer school I attended in July 2006

• Sushi - my awesome former roommate, skilled Mech mech student and great photographer, now at Stanford
• Frank Losasso Petterson - Really smart guy, now at Industrial Light & Magic
• 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

• Hermann-Boese-Gymnasium - my high school
  • Wikipedia article about the Hermann-Boese-Gymnasium
• subfornikalorgan - Michael Merker'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.

• 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 GP-Tricks is hopelessly out of date today, of course.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
• 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:
  • Chaotic Arts Archive
  • My Chaotic Arts Team Page

• 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 a 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
• Finnish media in English - since I'm a Finnish citizen but can't speak or read Finnish well at all, I'm dependent on reading Finnish news in English. This is what I've found so far:
  • Virtual Finland - Your Window on Finland
• Ehrensenf - website reviews with a comedic touch (German)
• 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

Here are some feed items that I consider interesting or important enough to share them with my readers: