Organizations

• The Libertarian Party is my favorite political party, and one of the few that's based on a philosophy.
  
  
• The GNU project is dedicated to the idea that software should not be owned. They put out quite a lot of good free software.
  
  

Products

• Spire makes amazingly high quality carrying cases for notebook computers. Expensive compared to some, but well worth every dime in quality.
  
  
• MouseMitts are a godsend if you suffer from any sort of wrist strain or carpal tunnel. A small company that deserves your support, they make an excellent, well-thought-out product.
  
  
• Road Tools sells the CoolPad, a nice device that sits under your laptop, and simultaneously allows for the dissipation of extra heat and lets you rotate the whole thing 360 degrees.
  
  
• Password Safe is a free Windows program to keep all of your passwords securely. It makes the process of adding new unique passwords for all those assorted web logins a breeze.
  
  

Films

• Koyaanisqatsi is a word with many meanings, the most famous of which is "Life out of balance". A documentary without words, but with a tremendous score by Philip Glass.
  
  
• Run Lola Run is a fantastic German film that comes about as close as any I've ever seen to picturing the way I see the world interacting with itself.
  
  

People

• MJD is a perl programmer. He's got a clue, a fun sense of humor, and an ability to point out the mistakes of the pompous like no one else I've ever seen.
  
  
• JWZ is an old-school hacker and probably responsible for many of the good things to come out of Netscape, in some way or another.
  
  
• Bruce Schneier is one of the world's leading cryptologists and president of Counterpane Systems.
  
  

Other

• The Awful Truth is Michael Moore's latest foray into dealing with being pissed off and helping others do so.