How come all the best sites on the internet are all by individuals (or perhaps an individual with spouse or pet)?

...and what can be done about it?


~2000ish version

Some great sites and others, without taking away your pleasure in deciding which is which.

Actually I am missing the best. I did visit it, (it's probably your site,) but I forgot to note the url. Email me the url.

All of these bear repeated visits to find all the good stuff. I list some representative links at each. Rather than waste words explaining why, click on...

Arranged arbitrarily

Philip Greenspun, with dog
photo.net/philg/ Original books, photography, community, Web-database book and software.
reading matter photo.net/philg/reading.html
Travels with Samantha photo.net/samantha/travels-with-samantha.html
review of Travels with Lizbeth by Lars Eighner.
SQL for Web Nerds photo.net/sql/
welfare reform proposal for discussion
community photo.net/wtr/thebook/community.html
free services http://photo.net/philg/services.html; e.g. automatic notification when street cleaning is to occur in your neighborhood.
Tuition-free MIT http://photo.net/philg/school/tuition-free-mit.html

Rich Geib; I think he has a dog, if I recall rightly
www.rjgeib.com/ ....
www.rjgeib.com/biography/credo/credo.html.
Inner City School Teacher Blues real life reporting.
Should this be filtered from the internet so children don't get exposed to its alcohol theme?
OPEN LETTER TO MY DAD: RONALD W. CRAM
thoughts

Cosma Shalizi, no dog apparent
bactra.org did have a cat at one point
physics, liturature, skepticism

Paul Lutus
www.arachnoid.com;
www.arachnoid.com/careware

Nick Bostrom
www.hedweb.com/nickb/ transhumanist stuff

Dave Pearce
www.hedweb.com "The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. "This project is ambitious but technically feasible."

(I can't get behind anyone whose goal is to abolish all suffering. However, if your goal is to reduce unnecessary suffering, an agenda which is very different, then I am on your side.)

Eric Eldred
eldred.ne.mediaone.net/ Eldritch Press
Free books, no ads. Copyright law litigation, for the protection of the public domain.

John and Mary Mark Ockerbloom, mutual spousuousity.
digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ Online Book page, and
.... www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/women/writers.html A Celebration of Women Writers

Kristina Lerman
tweedledee.ucsb.edu/~kris/ translations from the Russian, Kapuchin; nonlinear pattern formation (non-equilibrium thermodynamics). Not sure about a dog; has a husband (damn).

Gipson Arnold
members.tripod.com/~garnold/ some digitized books

Carol Moore
www.kreative.net/carolmooreConsciousness and community.
www.kreative.net/carolmoore/waco-photos.html Lots of ideas.

John McCarthy
home lots of AI research
"Progress and its Sustainability" eco-antialarmism
Internat Inst for Nuclear Explosions proposal. more explosions, fewer bombs. ( "It is not a bomb, it is a device which is exploding." )

Jay Hanson
www.dieoff.org
pretty high quality eco-alarmism

Only individuals can have individuality.