Here is the generic "collection of places Charles goes often." Seems most every personal site on the Internet has some sort of links page, so I might as well follow the crowd. Here goes.

Electronics

• Holtek Semiconductor These guys make a neat mux/demux pair, suitable for RF and IR transmission encoding.
• Jameco, Inc. A Bay Area distributor of lots of electronics goods.
• Mouser Electronics No minimum order, but you pay for shipping.
• National Semiconductor Datasheets, anyone?
• Radio Shack Don't go here. Please.
• Tomi Engdahl's electronics info Information on just about everything. An excellent resource.

Friends

I have more friends than this, I swear. Most of them just don't have web pages.

• Zach Berke He's got a CSU Class of '98 directory thing... neat.
• Eugene Chan Turns out you CAN serve web pages from a Mac.
• Ralph Mcnall One of my friends from North Dorm.
• Chuck Schied One of my suitemates at Mudd. The other two would be listed, but they don't appear to have web pages.
• Ryan White Partner in crime and world domination schemes.

Humor

These sites are funny. Well, they make me laugh, which doesn't really mean they'll be humerous to the population at large.

• The Onion A satirical weekly newspaper
• Brunching Shuttlecocks Funnly litte features, updated daily
• Booty A funny graphic that's better seen than described
• Weird News They say this stuff is true. It's updated weekly either way.

Linux

Want something to waste nearly all of your waking hours on? Try a stable operating system! Linux requires lots of setup and patience. But once it's up, it stays up.

• Corel Linux Corel offers a free version of WP for Linux. Nice of them, isn't it?
• gEDA GNU Electronic Design Automation. Still in alpha, but very promising.
• Linux Applications Useful when you're looking for an app to do a specific task.
• Linux Online A good place to start, with lots of general information.
• Linux Kernel Archives Lots of mirrors holding all Linux kernels.
• metalab.unc.edu The largest Linux archive out there.

Music

Bands I like, places to buy music, and stuff like that.

• Blues Traveler
• CDnow Order stuff online. Save money.
• Dave Matthews Band Notice it's not just "Dave Matthews." There's a band too.
• Guster
• Sarah McLachlan
• TapeTrading.com A great place to find live shows.

Projects

Here's a pretty thorough list of web-based things I've worked on in the past or am currently working on.

• USE The Universal Setlist Engine (a setlist search engine)
• HighlandNet A pretty big Scottish interest site dreamed up by me and my father. I maintained this site for two years. But alas, I have little free time these days, so my dad has taken over.
• pangaea This site. Duh.
• SPIRES SLAC information server. I helped update the HEP database during summer 1998.

Surplus Electronics

Most of these places are in the SF Bay Area. But then again, most will ship things anywhere in the country, so it doesn't really matter. These are all good sources of cheap, neat stuff.

• Bay Area Junk Shops Listed mostly because it contains a reference (not a link, however) to this site
• Alltronics
• All Electronics
• B.G. Micro
• C and H Sales
• American Science & Surplus
• Electronics Information Online
• Excess Solutions
• Haltek Electronics
• Herbach and Rademan
• HSC Electronic Supply
• MECI, Inc.
• RA Enterprises
• Timeline, Inc.
• Weird Stuff Warehouse