Well, I think they're interesting...

(How many links do you typically have to follow before you find something that's decently interesting? This devolves into a couple major areas. First, how much good stuff is out there, and how much boring crap? Second, how easily amused are you?) I regret to note that I'm easily amused; but that, too, is relative...

In any case, here are some people and things that I think worthy of note:

• The weird wild realm of Paghat the Ratgirl.
  Paghat's Garden Pages Index may also be of interest to you, if you're reading this.

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• Don Simpson, a rather extraordinary artist.

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• Susan Stepney, differently remarkable, with lots of interesting bibliography and... well, go see for yourself.

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• Raphael Carter's site is quite something; the Honeyguide Web log is notable, but if you ignore any of it, you're missing some excellent work. I am particularly taken by the photography...

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• DeAnza College's page of links to information on ceramics. (Well, that's what it used to be. As of early June, 1999, it's an announcement for an upcoming Web-only ceramics show.)

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• Kathie Hodge's superb listing of mycology resources on the Net, (or, if that link fails, try this one) and another interesting mycological (etc.) page -- check out the Clitocybe listing, for example.

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• Cynbe's Humongous Hotlist. It's quite reasonably large, and definitely interesting.

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• Check out Spidra Webster. She gives good intellectual bandwidth, and I think that's pretty important.

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• Australasian gamelans I play in Seattle City Gamelan (which doesn't have a Web page...yet...), and I love gamelan music of all sorts. (I love lots of other music too. Even write music, on occasion. Haven't got any of it up here yet, though.)

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• Leigh Ann Hussey's Homepage. She calls it The Brazen Hussey Spoke Shack and Miscellaneous Arcana Repository.

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• Bill Dortch's place Bill used to run Ahab's HTML Reference, but he's too busy now; here is a little handy thing he has done since.

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• Wanna learn more about HTML? Here's the reference that Bill Dortch is currently commending.

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• Do you cook? Interested in odd and "different" cuisines? Check out Asian American Kashrus Services. This reference courtesy the estimable Scott Scidmore.

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• Here's our local traffic map, for those of you who are not in the Seattle area but are interested in it, or who just want to see a nifty Web page. It's quite good.

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• Remember, you can find lots of good stuff by looking for it on any of the big search engines. If you want to try a slightly wackier tack, try this one: A random selection from what they're looking up right now on Magellan.

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A (Very) Few Commercial Pages

Here are just a few commercial and semicommercial links that I think are worth having. (Mostly, I figure that commercial stuff can be ignored, or you can find it when you need it; these, however, are special to me for one reason or another.)

• Shire Books is a small and thoroughly eclectic publisher. I own their book on reading Cuneiform.

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• Fungi Perfecti, owned by Paul Stamets, is a premier supplier of cultures, books, and kits for growing your own shiitake, maitake, and other superb edibles. Western Biologicals, owned by Bill Chalmers, is another fine culture source, but I can't find a Web page for them. They should be in the phonebook, though... sure enough:

  Western Biologicals Ltd
  PO Box 283
  Aldergrove, BC V4W 3G9
  
  Phone: (604) 856-3339

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• MycoInfo, the first online journal devoted to mycology. (To give you an example, here's a link that Brian McNett, the Webmaster, just added on 8 June, 1999: A pictorial key to the genus Laccaria.)

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• The Glass Museum, in New Zealand.

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