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MUSIC:
Tommy Progressive Progressive rock reviews. I disagree with some reviews (mostly negative ones), but still very good.
Aural Moon a great progrock internet radio station.
Live 365 many more internet radio stations.
Betatron 13 duo with a fine blend of ambient and rock instrumental.
Amptone.com Almost absurd amount of stuff on guitar and tube amp tone, and links to more.
Ram Samudrala music, Free Music Philosophy. Also a huge links page and a "mutating list" DIY-links page.
Guitar Effects Oriented Page Effects FAQ, projects, tube amps.
AMZ Music Projects forum DIY electronics.
Alt.guitar.amps web page FAQs, etc.

MUSIC: INDEPENDENT BANDS/ARTISTS DOWNLOAD SITES
MP3.COM (includes both self-published artists and some label artists)
IUMA "Internet Underground Music Archive"
Audiogalaxy, although I don't like their search function any more
Ampcast
garagebands.com
electronicscene.com Techno, electronic, noise

FREE SOFTWARE:
ULTIMATE PAINT solid art program! Neat "brush" scheme and a great airbrush. Also Ultimate FX and their full registered version.
ENZIP Why steal Winzip? Great interface too.
MUSIC MACHINE Free music making software site.
GIFworks GIF animator

AUDIO:
CD reader plugin for Winamp: reads as data so EQ, plugins work straight from CD. Also allows ripping, etc.

MORE LINKS:
Google Groups Internet newsgroups ("USENET") reading/posting, includes Deja archive back to the beginning. Text only. The REAL internet from before the Web.
DOUG JACKSON Astronomy, science fiction and music with many links.

VIDEO GAMING:
Gamespy Big game site. Latest news. Forums. Source of the popular GameSpy3D multiplayer game finder.
Fileplanet Gamespy's big download site.
Netscape Get the big demos with their Download Manager.
Firing Squad Big game site including hardware reviews.
TEAMSHAMBLER Single-player Quake level reviews and howtos. Extend the game for free almost forever (Now closed, but the best for 3 years thru late '01).
New Quake level review site aiming to take up where Shambler left off.
Retroquake DazDranz More good Quake review sites. (I'll stop there since these 4 Quake sites will link you up to more.)

WEBCOMICS:
E-SHEEP simply amazing!
FLEM2.0 J. Grant's political comic. Go from there to his regular Flem, perhaps the sickest high quality comic on the net, or to Keenspace, a huge comics site.
About a planet of many alien races sort of trying to get along. I just like it.

HUMOR:
Something Awful From the merely obnoxious to the artful (check out the Taco The Wonder Dog flash cartoons) Note: occasional bandwidth problems

READING/BOOKS:
Elf Sternberg Considered an expert on sex and the prolific writer on the Net, Elf's The Journal Entries combine the best of science fiction and erotica. Warning/Promise: this will change the way you think. Page also includes "Your Rights and the Police."

WEB DESIGN/GRAPHICS:
Response-O-Matic response and email forms.
Cooltext custom text generator (jpg) and also buttons and textures.
Flaming Text custom text generator (gif) and also buttons and textures.
Scrounge.org cheap computers and more, including How to create a Web Page.
Beginner's Guide to HTML

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