Welcome to Chris on the Web

Most of this needs to be revised

Most everything on this page is outdated. (This page started out as the very first web page I wrote, back in mid-1994. Conceptually it hasn't changed very much since then...)

My Pages

• My blog.
• Photos of my new car. Well, it's not new, but you get the idea.
• For data, manuscripts, and conference papers, see my political science page.
• My mom is selling some of her David Winter Cottages at good prices.
• My info page, filled with useless trivia about me.
• My resume, filled with even-more-useless trivia about me.
• My academic C.V., with different, but equally-useless, trivia about my academic credentials.
• I admit it: I'm a roadgeek.

World Wide Web CoolPages (tm)

Places I Surf Daily

Usually I'm lordsutch. Sometimes I'm not.

• Advogato (rarely these days... now it seems rather pointless)
• Slashdot (but rarely for the comments)
• Linux Weekly Daily News
• ESPN

Entertainment

TiVo

A TiVo is a personal video recorder. Think of a VCR that uses a hard disk instead of tapes, records shows you like, and allows you to pause live TV. Among other awesome things. Don't watch TV without one.

Movies

• Roger Ebert on Movies -- Reviews and more from the Chicago Sun-Times.
• The Internet Movie Database -- For when you really have to know the other movies the Key Grip from "Independence Day" worked on. Also useful for playing "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon."
• The funniest bit of film criticism I've read in eons, despite the fact it's totally non-PC.
• I suppose I should say what movies I like. So here's a list in no particular (ok, alphabetical) order. But here's a cheap Top Ten, with "high concept" plot summaries:
  1. Lone Star - Examining the secrets of a small Texas town on the Rio Grande.
  2. Secrets and Lies - Examining the secrets of some really messed up people in London.
  3. Fargo - A kidnapping gone bad with a very pregnant cop investigating it.
  4. A Fish Called Wanda - British lawyer gets involved with a band of jewel thieves.
  5. Blood Simple - Woman gets caught cheating on her goofy husband with an almost-equally goofy guy by a psychotic private investigator.
  6. Exotica - Canadian tax inspector hangs out at a strip club.
  7. Four Weddings and a Funeral - English guy with eccentric friends falls in love with gorgeous American woman.
  8. Jackie Brown - Airline stewardess gets busted for running drug money for Samuel L. Jackson with a goofy beard.
  9. The Sweet Hereafter - Canadian lawyer investigates the aftermath of a horrific bus accident, while he deals with demons of his own.
  10. Zero Effect - World's weirdest detective (with sidekick who does most of the real work) investigates what happened to a CEO's keys.
• I just laughed my butt off at Orange County, but I need to reflect in tranquility before putting it on the Top Ten.

Late Night Televison

• CBS Home Page -- Letterman, etc.
• The Tonight Show Home Page -- For those of you who prefer comedy in lesser doses.

Prime-Time Television

• The NYPD Blue Homepage
• The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5, the Internet's best B5 resource.
• You can find out way too much about Seinfeld at Much Ado About Nothing.
• The best sitcom of the 1990s, NewsRadio.
• Perhaps the funniest hour-long show ever, Ed. Ed owns a bowling alley. And he's a lawyer. And everyone he knows is nuts. Like me. Well, one of three is nice...
• Andromeda is about the only science fiction worth watching on TV these days. And it's really an "action" show. Go figure. (Visit Slipstream News for all the latest news.)
• Now and Again (Open Directory links; lamentably cancelled)
• I currently also watch Enterprise (now that I have UPN on DirecTV), The Agency, The Job, Undeclared, and Andy Richter Controls the Universe. I gave up on 24.

Music

You could say I have no taste in music. You could also say that I have rather eclectic tastes. Anyway, here are some of the artists I'm currently listening to:

• Michelle Branch
• Nickelback
• North Mississippi All-Stars
• Pink

The First Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Interesting Internet censorship pages

• HotWired's JournoPorn exposé of the truth behind Time's "CyberPorn" cover story in July 1995.
• Digital Shout, the successor to the Thousand Points of Darkness campaign.
• Evidence that Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) has lost his mind (if he ever had it).
• CNN's coverage of the CDA.
• New Age Comstockery: Exon vs the Internet -- A Cato Institute analysis of Net censorship in the context of book censorship (the Comstock Bill) in the late 1800s.
• Why I oppose Internet censorship.

Other Internet censorship resources

• Voters Telecommunications Watch
• The Center for Democracy and Technology
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation

U.S. Politics

General

• Project Vote Smart, a non-profit, non-partisan group helping voters make informed decisions about candidates.
• CNN/Time AllPolitics, updated news from the campaign trail.

Libertarian Resources

• Take the World's Smallest Political Quiz and find out whether you're a libertarian too. GVU's latest Web survey indicated that more than a third of all Internet users responding were libertarians.
• Read Eric Raymond's FAQ about libertarianism.

Higher Education

• The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) -- Where I currently am working on a PhD in Political Science. A recent victim of site redesign, in which ease of navigation got replaced by pretty pictures. (Oxford, Mississippi)
• The University of Memphis -- My alma mater. (Memphis, Tennessee)
• I have also attended Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, Indiana) and Georgetown University (Washington, DC).

Friends

• My former Scoutmaster, Bob Barrentine, will gladly sell you some software he wrote to help keep track of scout units.
• You'd think I'd have more friends, wouldn't you? (I do, they're just not all that technosavvy, or perhaps they're just not digital exhibitionists :-).

Miscellany

• Rose-Hulman Users of Linux (RHUL).
• GOLUM - Group of Linux Users - Memphis.
• Emacs/W3, the Emacs-based World Wide Web Browser with the best stylesheet support on any platform.
• Cool free browsers: Galeon (based on the Mozilla engine) and Konqueror.

Disclaimer: CoolPage and its plural are not really trademarked by me. No doubt someone else has done already so.