My brother Zeb's site. You can check out and download a lot of the music he has made.
beesleep.com
Jeff Mission
beatfix.com
Beatfix is the internet version of Mr. Mission. Check out some of his VJ movies and/or DJ sets.
zebbler.com
Peter aka Zebbler has a very impressive web site showing off his VJ and other art skills. Check it out!
seanstevens.com
Zeb Polly
Pals with personal websites:
Pretzel
rangerpretzel.com
All sorts of stuff from Ranger Pretzel, including cool time-lapse Burning Man videos.
Sean Stevens
Zebbler
Sean Stevens has a little website here displaying his awesome blinky art.
Ben Wade
benjiwade.com
Talk about an elaborate website with loads of content! You could spends hours -- if not days -- exploring and admiring Ben's site.
joedpolly.com
Not a pal exactly, but my design business. Contact me if you need any graphic design or video work done. Video now in HD.
bcsbd.com
PJ's site for his Classical Soo Bahk Do martial arts school. Check it out if you live in the Boston area. PJ is a ninja.
Pals with businesses:
Joed Polly design
PJ Steyer
Miss Tess
Tess makes awesome things. Buy them!
misstess.com
Pals with music:
Vermin Street
verminstreet.com
Nick Colangelo runs the music label, Vermin Street, where he releases music from local Boston artists and far away ones too.
ARCUS IMA
media.arcus.org
ARCUS' IMA is short for Internet Media Archive. All of my ARCUS videos are on there, and I'm in charge of updating photos and everything else.
arcus.org
The Arctic Research Consortium of the US is the place I work for, based in my home town of Fairbanks, Alaska.
newsminer.com
I check out my home town's online newspaper, The Fairbanks Daily Newsminer, every so often, to see what's going on.
burningman.com
Joed-related links:
Boston.com
boston.com
I go here all the time to get most of my local Boston news (plus non-local news as well). It is a Boston Globe thing.
Burning Man
Fairbanks Newsminer
I pretty much suggest everyone goes to this temporary art community at least once. I've been five times.
ARCUS
Threadless
threadless.com
This community driven t-shirt company has provided me with 80% of my current torso-based wardrobe.
48hourfilm.com
If you are into making short movies, this is a very fun project. You have 48 hours to make a movie! They go to many cities all over the world.
Weekly Dig
weeklydig.com
Local Boston rag that is usually amusing and/or informative.
The 48 Hour Film Project
imdb.com
Everybody on Earth probably already knows about the Internet Movie Database, but if not, go check it out already.
gizmodo.com
Useful links:
Discogs
discogs.com
Discogs is a very useful website for keeping track of your favorite music artists, and for updating mp3 tags in iTunes.
Gizmodo
IMDb
I go to this site a lot to read about gadgets and dorky computer stuff. It's good fun.
Snopes
snopes.com
Keep up to date on the urban legends of late, because they are amusing, and because nobody likes getting urban legend emails forwarded to them.
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Everybody on Earth probably already knows about Wikipedia too. But that doesn't stop it from being awesome and useful.
Mac Benchmarks
primatelabs.ca
A good site that lists the relative speeds of pretty much every Apple computer since the G3 processor. I call the numbers "speed units" for fun.
Metacritic
metacritic.com
Metacritic averages all the movie critics' movie rating in a weighted and smart way, and gives a number, 0 to 100, for each movie.
Cake Wrecks
cakewrecks.blogspot...
Cake Wrecks is a blog dedicated to horrible and ridiculous cakes. The commentary is half of the hilarity, so read the words too.
dougshaw.com/garfield
Scramble old Garfield panels to make your own three-panel strip. These are often much, much funnier than the source material.
dogblogsf.tumblr.com
Amusing links:
Cute Overload
cuteoverload.com
I don't go to this site every day like Leslie does, but when I do (when Leslie sends me links to it) it is always funny and often fluffy.
Dogblog
Garfield Randomizer
Even if you just kind of like dogs you will find this blog amusing.
garfieldminusgarfield.net
Two Garfield links?! Yes. And this one is a blog where a dude photoshops Garfield out of every strip, to make Jon seem insane.
xkcd.com
Here's another comic. The author claims it's a "webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." Some of them are pretty darn good.
toothpastefordinner.com
Toothpaste for Dinner
XKCD
The art on this webcomic is horrible, but that doesn't stop it from being awesome and pretty much my favorite internet-comic around.
Garfield Minus Garfield