Unsorted
Gary Panter has a website! Let's didn't go, you say?!!
Buy the weird old stuff that's been sitting around the Wow Cool office at the ebay auctions of krebstar9000.
Providence, RI continues to produce amazing art and music. News to you? Check out these sites: Paper Rad | Fort Thunder | Load Records. (This page was edited in July 2002 while listening to Lightning Bolt.)
Lomography explains itself better than I can. Jump on the craze.
a radiohead website. Yes it is that Radiohead. One of the coolest artsy video sites out there.
Brian Ralph is the nicest person I've ever met, and one of the most talented. It's impossible not to love his comix. You've probably seen his strip in the back of Giant Robot Magazine and he has two great books available from Highwater Books that you need to own.
Friends and Family
Fly has a new home on the web.
Ian Lynam's Migraine, as seen at Mumbleboy.
Longtime Wow Cool inspiration and Bay Area Icon Herb Caen's columns in the SF Chronicle are still archived at SF Gate. Check it out.
Early Wow Cool / Tuna Casserole contributor -- Burt Schlatter now doodles with the angels.
Vacuum Siren Black Hole Titan is home to the well rendered Mr. Ion, who was part of the Wow Cool world back in the late eighties. He provided the covers for Tuna Casserole #7, for anyone out there who remembers that old chestnut.
Greta Shred interview from the Cult of The Dead Cow. Greta is a film maker and editor of Mudflap zine. Greta has a home page. Details on her films and other doings. Don't forget to pick up a copy of "Punk Rock Date", Greta's dating game for the Mac.
Sarah Jacobson's Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore. This strange out-of-date site is nice to visit to pretend that Sarah is still here with us. More about the film. Sarah also made the cult classic I Was A Teenage Serial Killer.
Funny Garbage Graff boys make it big.
Armored Baby, the latest going on by the overly talented Sunshine! He uses the web better than alsost any I've seen. More Sunshine!
Lee Worden is a pal
At Flipped Out Records you can order fine records by Beef, and many others.
The Important Stuff ...or so they say.
The Green Parties of North America.
Mobilization for Global Justice The happy protestor's hangout!
Leading Edge This International Research Group helped open my eyes as to how my dentist was ruining my life. Endless data on health, mind control and all sorts of other stuff. This will blow your mind.
The Institute for Public Accuracy
FAIR Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. The creators of the Counterspin program on the Pacifica Radio Network.
Media Filter: A wealth of information from a variety of groups. WW3 Illustrated, Copwatch, NYC's The Shadow, Covert Action Quarterly and several others are featured. Highly recomended.
Nuclear Abolition Network "A secure and livable world for our children and grandchildren and all future generations requires that we achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and redress the environmental degradation and human suffering that is the legacy of fifty years of nuclear weapons testing and production." Site contains a disturbing catalog of nuke accidents. Including one or two in the town I'm typing this from. I used to work with a guy from the Ukraine. He told me about how he used to pick mushrooms from the fields near Chernobyl. Right now I feel about like he must have felt, when he found out how bad things were.
Michael Moore creator of TV Nation:, and the classic Roger and Me just keeps on rockin'.
Left Bank A book distributor. They have a store in Seattle, as well.
The Long Haul Infoshop In Berkeley/Oakland, CA. This was my old neighborhood infoshop. They have more stuff on their www pages than they did in their space. I'm looking to get a listing of infoshops up here, so please let me know of yours (followers of Stalin, Mao and other genocidal freaks, can go fuck yourselves). Dig it.
Real Goods Renewable energy info and products; and, more tools for responsible consumerism
Bullshit you might like
Just for the record...
My WuName is Inebriated Assistant.
My porn star name is Cupid Currybush (beat that!!!) Enjoy wasting time with this fine list of name generators from Yahoo.
A Crash Course on J. G. Ballard "The future will be... boring." Ballard's obsessions have been mine. They may be yours. "Fiction is a branch of neurology"
The Scriptorium I like books, Do you like books? Excellent resources for hopeless fans of Eco, Borges, Pynchon, and the like. And, in case you wondered, a great deal of Semiotic Theory was employed in the creation of this very site. A field that Umberto Eco has contributed a great deal to.
The Ferris Bueller Page! I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign.
Zippy The Pinhead New every day!
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Faust never had it so good.
The E-Zine Archive!
The Flintstones and Hanna Barbera (includes an index of all the H-B shows)
Hal Hartley Sorta like grown up Pete and Pete movies. With some of the same people, even. Very well done.
Faraway, So Close! A whole site dedicated to one, excellent film. A film by Wim Wenders, who is also responsible for Until the End of the World. Also excellent
Survival Research Laboratories Monster trucks for the smart-allecky set.
Andre The Giant Has A Posse Seven feet, four inches. Five hundred and twenty pounds.
Kooks! Lots of kooks. From Computer Gangster God exposer Francis E. Dec, Esquire to the MIT Archive of Useless Research, and a whole lot more.
One of the great inspirations to Wow Cool through the years has been R. Buckminster Fuller. His book I Seem To Be A Verb is a vital manual of revolutionary thought. This site, assembled by a Mr. Gray, presents Fuller's most important work - Synergetics - in its entirety. You can also find links to other great (and more graphically intensive) sites there.
Start The Riot
Phrack. The original hacker source is now on its 54th issue.
The MIT Guide To Lockpicking. This one will open doors for you.
Conspire.com From the authors of The 70 (yes, it was 50, and then 60) Greatest Conspiracies of all time, comes the online guide to said plots. Shake it. (Co-author Jonathan Vankin's Conspiracies, Cover-Ups and Crimes is also highly recomended)
Infiltration The zine about going places that you're not supposed to go.
Mayhem "Destruction of property, Fun activities that could get you in trouble, Practical jokes, Rage, "Research" Or "Science" Featuring Gratuitous Violence, Revenge, Senseless violence, Trespassing, Vandalism, etc."
CCTV WATCH A public database of Closed Circuit TV systems in public spaces. Resist the Panopticon. Wear mirrors. Carry a hammer. Do whatever it takes.
World-O-Force Pirate TV, and much more. A truly strange one.
The Situationist International Text Library contains the full contents of The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem and Debord's The Society of the Spectacle... if you're into that sort of thing.
The Internet Underground.
design geek stuff
House Industries. A most excellent font haus.
Charles Spencer Anderson. A most excellent designer.
Emigre. A well known font place. Their PO Box used to be right next to ours.
Mediamatic. Just go!
Pantone. Its time we all learned a bit more about color!
The XPresso Bar. Resources for the frustrated Quark XPress user.
Typographic. All you need to know about type.
Mac Fontaholics Anonymous New Fonts, Utilities & Links, and much more.
Travel!
Roadside America!
Maps! A large collection of them. At UT Austin.
MapQuest. More maps. Nice interface.
Door-to-door driving instructions from Yahoo. H.E. double toothpicks, I've been using paper maps all this time. We've used it. It works. Note: limited to 1000 miles.
Auto Driveaway Co. "Transporting Vehicles Anywhere Worldwide" The semi-mythical company that will let you use a car, as long as you drive it to a certain spot in the time alotted, has a webpage (they do exist, I've driven for them... sometimes a small deposit is required). Happy trails
Bay Area Transit Information. Now why can't they print a map that is this useful?
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York City. I miss my old commute on the number six local. Sigh. If that isn't enough trains for you, try The Subway Navigator It has subways in over 60 cities. (Also available in French!)
What, you need more trains? The Train Hoppers Space is the last great frontier.
Still more... Hobo Times, America's Journal of Wanderlust.
And now some words of caution... Freight Train Hopping. If you are doing it for kicks, or something, well... what are you, stupid!?!!
Otaku Nation
Music
The Hot Snakes are the current incarnation of the magic that was Pitchfork and Drive Like Jehu. Cool site with art by the awesome Rick Froberg. Guitarist John Reis' Rocket From The Crypt are none to shabby either.
Ogg Vorbis - Free music wants to be free right down to the CODEC!