The Hungry Cyclist We met Tom Kevill Davies on a beach in Guatemala. He was learning to surf with his brother. Little did we know at the time that he had ridden a bicycle across the entire US, down the California coast, through Baja and Mexico. Follow his journey.

MLB.com The official site of Major League Baseball

Oakland A's This is way to keep up with the truly interesting team in the West.

Karen's Blog From New Mexico.

Opa Blog Over 90 years of age and still going strong. He once said that "there are only a few perfect heads in the world, and the rest have hair." Surely this dry wit has served him well over the years.

Paul McKinney's Blog Great window into living in Minneapolis. Snow videos are great!

Ted Ted Ted Three times as good as any other blog website!

Flash Animation

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Flash Kit: A Flash Developers Resource This is a great site for learning Flash, downloading sound files, doing tutorials.

General Data - Guatemala

Guatemala Stove Study (CRECER) The Guatemala Stove Study being done by UC Berkeley and University of Guatemala. Web site by Paul Lyons

Mayan Imports Great place to buy goods made in the Western Highlands of Guatemala.

Old Guatemalan Photos Some pretty amazing photos of Guatemala from the 19th century.

Harp On! Great resource for that instrument that really sucks.

Toots Thielemans The greatest jazz harmonica player - period.

Kids

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6th Grade Math Skill Builders A great portal to online math tutorials and interactive websites.

Dav Pilkey Captain Underpants and more!

PBS Kids

Sport Illustrated For Kids Kai's favorite sport web site. Daily scores and good movies.

craigs list

L & M Electronics L and M Electronics (L&M) is an authorized service center for McIntosh, Bang and Olfsen, Yamaha, Onkyo and Tascam. San Francisco.

The Coming Home Project The Coming Home Project is a non-profit organization devoted to providing compassionate care, support and stress management tools for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their families.

TheSpider Ecommerce, data design, web design, amazing place.

www.californianscount.org Great site about getting people voting in California. Maybe this time our votes will count!

Yahoo Mail

Music

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Bruno Pelletier-Bacquaert Friend from SF who plays jazz.

Monty Alexander The great Monty Alexander whom I have admired since high school.

Mutopia Project Free classical sheet music that you can download.

Salsa SF News about the Latin music world in San Francisco

Stars - The Band Pop band from Canada

Stef Records Great tunes and CDs from the Bay Area

www.braziliangirls.info Great wierd band from N.Y.

www.georgeduke.com George Duke - That funky guy who actually stated off on the trombone.

Teoria Very good site for people to learn theory online.

News

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center for investigative reporting

Left, Right & Center Provocative, up-to-the-minute, alive and witty, KCRW's weekly confrontation over politics, policy and popular culture proves those with impeccable credentials needn't lack personality.

NPR Online- National Public Radio: Great site for current events. You can get it streamed now.

NY Times

SF Gate SF Chroncle online.

The Sun Magazine A great non-profit magazine

truthdig.com to provide you with insightful and accurate reporting on current subjects and on issues that need to be brought to your attention. We want to challenge conventional wisdom.

World Press Still looking into this news source, but it seems like it does not always follow the pack.

Photography

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Shutter Indulgence Great site for California and West Coast photos

www.paulferraris.com The Best Surf Photos of SF Surf on the Web

www.photo.net This is an amazing site by a guy named Phillip Greenspun who seems to have a love/hate relationship with MIT. Here you can find a lot of great high resolution photography from around the world.

Radio Shows

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Cafe LA Great music from Tom Schnabel and KCRW

Harry Shear's Le Show Radio on command. Latests ideas from LA and talk about politics and art. KCRW radio station direct from Santa Monica CA.

KQED Forum - Michael Krasny

Sounds Eclectic Sounds Eclectic with host Nic Harcourt is a weekly two-hour mix from the best of Morning Becomes Eclectic, the daily music program from legendary Los Angeles Public Radio Station KCRW (www.KCRW.com).

This American Life

Google

MSN

Yahoo

Spanish Grammer Lessons Pretty good site for the grammatically challenged.

Surfing California

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blakestah At one time the best site for SF surf. Now it is not updated much.

LOLA Dashboard for San Francisco

Map of Buoy Station - Northern CA

Pacific Waverider great site for surf conditions and predictions

San Francisco Bay Tides, 2008 what goes in, must go out

SF Wind Models Probably the most important link in these surf links. If the wind is light, there is a good possibility for surf.

SF-SAN MATEO COUNTY LOLA FORECAST This is a really good way to see if the waves and wind are going to work out.

Station 46012 - HALF MOON BAY - 24NM South Southwest of San Francisco, CA

Station 46014 - PT ARENA - 19NM North of Point Arena, CA

Station 46026 - SAN FRANCISCO - 18NM West of San Francisco, CA

Station 46042 - MONTEREY - 27NM West of Monterey Bay, CA

Station 46059 - CALIFORNIA - 357NM West of San Francisco, CA

Surf Pulse Early Morning Reports. Good forecasts for San Francisco.

Surfline OB Cam and Report

Surfing Guatemala

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Magic Seaweed - Sipacate-Surf-Report Close to Surf Camp Paredon.

Magic Seaweed - Tilapa-Surf-Report Magic Seaweed is an awesome site! However the star rating really does not apply to Guatemala.

Maya Extreme Best Shop in Guatemala

Tilapa Guatemala Surf Forecast and Surf Reports

http://www.webhost4life.com Very good and cheap web hosting company. Great admin tools.

Web Skills

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4 Guys From Rolla An awesome resource for ASP and ASP.net

A List ApartWeb A List ApartWeb magazine for people who make websites. Fresh every Friday. From some pretty glib folks in the east.

ASP Message Board Great programming message board.

ASP.net Message Board

aspnet101 excellent tutorials

BLITZ Labs, the BLITZ Agency Blog some pretty amazing SEO and Flash stuff

Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

CSS Zen Garden If there is anyone out there doubting CSS, just look at this site. It will make you a believer. It is the same site using user-submitted CSS files - amazing.

Dan Cohen Professor of Media at George Mason University. Pretty smart guy.

dynamicdrive CSS Menus, Ajax, cool stuff

Great Hackers Make the Worst Developers Great Hackers Make the Worst Developers

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents Excellent web person with the best ideas around.

lynda.com Great site for learning CS3, Flash and all kinds of web skills.

Max Design CSS Tutorials and Examples

scriptaculous Web 2.0, Ajax and some pretty amazing stuff for the web.

Stephen Downes Web Crazy guy from Canada

Visual Web Developer

Web Monkey Fairly good place for learning stuff and keeping up with the lastest.

Word Tracker Amazing way to make sure you are using the right terms for your site.