Control Geek

The Hacker Quarterly (I've subscribed since about 1986 or so, so I'm sure I'm on a lot of Department of Homeland Security lists now! :-)

Kevin Kelly was one of the founders of Wired magazine, and is author of Out of Control , a great book

This excellent organization forces futurists to put their money where their mouth is

Randy Pausch is the co-founder of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon. He gave a "last" lecture after being diagnosed with pancreas cancer (what my mother died from--it sucks). His inspiring lecture is available at this link.

Phil Plait's Excellent site.

Site for pastafarians.

Site for the "Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranorma

The official site of the great biologist.

Get the real dirt on this "documentary".

A great site about hoaxes.

This is my local excellent skeptics group.

James "the amazing" Randi's web site. Randi works to advance science and critical thinking throughout the world.

A blog related to Todd's book. (Todd's main page below under performers).

Rebecca's skeptical blog site.

The Skeptics Society and Skeptic Magazine homepage.

The best Urban Legends and virus page I've seen.

Interesting site, giving you the "straight dope" on any number of topics.

Richard's site of his excellent and fascinating work. Also check out quirkology.com, and his blog at http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/

This site details victims of non-critical thinking.

Sarah Angliss does some really cool sound stuff.

Lots of culture here in Brooklyn

Derren Brown is an amazing mentalist.

These guys do excellent, and often large scale "improv" public performance events.

Jamy is one of the best slight of hand experts in the world, and a leading skeptic.

"Multimedia Artist" and prankster.

Very interesting artist's collective here in Brooklyn.

Tim Minchin is a hilarious and immensely talented musician and comedian. And, he’s a skeptic!

Go see these guys live!

Todd is an amazing performer, whether doing sideshow feats or sceances.

"Just undo it"

This group builds machines and robots that they allow their audience to operate

I saw this group's performance in NYC in the late 1980's.

High voltage electrical arcs!

This is a bit of an in joke for entertainment lighting people. Thanks to Herrick Goldman for the link.

Clive's interesting and fun technology stuff from Scotland.

Insane pictures of shipwrecks here.

The Darwin Awards

The originators of the diet coke/mentos videos.

Sad but beautiful images of global warming.

Factory Tours around the US.

Very cool real-time space object info.

Host of the Ig Nobel Prize.

A clock made of pictures of humans.

Magazine for stunt players.

Check out the "seasonal air" for your tires!

Really stupid, but real, patents

Important research on Peeps.

A very cool physical periodic table.

World Championship Punkin Chunkin in Delaware.

Very cool real-time tracking of satellites using Google Maps.

Just what it says.

Fun with processed synthetic food.

Very cool site of geo-tagged panoramas.

Amazing videos on perception experiments

Very Cool.