James Friesen
James Friesen
James Friesen: Links
Music related sites
- Vintage Synth Explorer
- Look at hundreds of vintage analog synths as well as newer ones. There is a timeline to explore, and each review includes the names of bands that have used that instrument.
- Wendy Carlos
- The home page of Wendy Carlos, famous synthesist, as well as amatuer artist and dabler in the sciences.
- MATRIXSYNTH - everything synth
- A synth blog with lots of articles and pics, many covering the calssic analog beasts that we love and dream about.
Science Sites
- Bigelow Aerospace
- The first private space station is in orbit now! It is a nitrogen filled module as big as a room. Learn all about it, see pics, and even track it on this site.
- Universe Today
- A cool astronomy and science site with stories you can comment on.
- JPL - Mars Rovers
- The mission site for the mars rovers - see cool stuff like the first motion video of a dust devil on another planet!
- JPL - Cassini Saturn Probe
- See rings around Saturn, continents on Titan, shepard moons that form the rings and more.
- KurzweilAI.net
- Ray Kurzweil's site with news and discussion about the accelerating growth of technology in all fields. The AI stands for "Accelerating Intelligence"
- Heavens Above
- A satellite tracking website which provides viewing maps based on your location.
- Real Time Satellite Tracking
- Live satellite tracking on a Google map. This link takes you to Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis I spacecraft, but you can track any satellite.
Services
- Hostbaby
- Webhosting for musicians, or anyone, really, who wants a solid webhosting service with no advertising.
Fun Links
- Akiyoshi's illusion pages
- Hundreds of graphic illusions by Akiyoshi KITAOKA - my favorites are the anomalous motion illusions.
- Julian Beever
- Cool pavement drawings/illusions and other artwork by Julian Beever.
- Muglets
- Paste your face into a goofy animation and make it dance, even send it to your friends.
- Jason the Nerd
- Jason is a self professed computer geek who posts videos in which he adresses the most common computer related issues.