LINKS
Christian
Amazon Outreach - the missionary organization that we travelled with to the Amazon last year. Park Cites Baptist Church - Our local church. Well, not quite so local anymore, but we still attend every Sunday. Dr. Dennison is a man who doesn't leave his brain at the door when speaking of Christianity. Using his God given intellect he presents compelling evidence to support his faith and he inspires others to find the objective truth which exists, whether people believe it or not. God Issues -- Dr. Dennison's daily thoughts on God after reading the daily news... One Place - the name says it all. One place to go to which brings together a multitude of Christian ministry podcasts as well as a good deal of devotionals and other text resources.
Online Comics
PVP - Scott Kurtz's web comic phenom. Now a monthly title by Image Comics. Demonology 101 - This may be a bit strange, seeing as how I have a lot of Christian links up above, but this is a great online comic book. Five volumes chronicle the adventures of Raven (a young half human/half demon) and her friends involving high school and other forces of evil. Arioch's Well of Souls - featuring Outsider - Jim Francis is great illustrator who incorporates 3D ships and locales into this slowly evolving Sci-Fi tale. Usually a new page up every week. Now if I could be just a little bit like that, I'd be doing great.
Reading
Bright Weavings -- The authorized website of the fantastic Canadian author, Guy Gavriel Kay. From the Fionavar Tapestry Trilogy to his latest, Ysabel, Kay is a master at high fantasy, poetry and historical fiction.
Art
Sijun Forums - Discussions about digital art, including the excellent speedpainting thread. Conceptart.org - a collection of professional artists and their work. Fantasy Art of Elfwood - an absolutely huge amount of artwork from, well, a lot of different people. Tony DiTerlizzi - the website of this great illustrator. Alex Ross - a phenomenal comic book artist/painter. Realistic paintings of iconic super heroes. Adam Hughes - Known primarily for his portrayal of buxom females on comic book covers, look beyond that to see his command of human anatomy, value and composition. Fantastic. Frank Cho - Another comic book artist known for his amazing handling of the female form. And monkeys. Don't forget the monkeys. Aimo! - I first ran across her artwork gracing the forums on KotOR Fan Media and I continue to be amazed at how she can capture emotion and movement with simple, graceful linework.
Podcasts
Here are the podcasts I tend to listen to on a weekly basis.
Diggnation - the weekly podcast reviewing the week's top stories on the social news site, Digg.com. I first saw Kevin Rose when he was on TechTV with Patrick Norton and Leo Laporte and I am happy to see he has found a new home (of his own making to boot). Alex Albrecht joins him as they discuss the news of the week while imbiding the beer of the week. (A warning: depending on how much beer has been ingested prior taping the show, there can be some coarse language.) This Week In Tech - I really liked TechTV's The Screen Savers before it was trashed by the merger of G4 and TechTV, and so I am glad I can still get my weekly fix from the show's former hosts of Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton. Not only that, but John Dvorak, a regular columnist at PC Magazine, joins them as well. I had no idea the tech community was so inbred :) but its great to see them all in one place. There are always other guest hosts joining them as they go through the top tech news of the week. Great podcast. The Signal - The original Firefly/Serenity podcast, originally made to bring back the too-soon-cancelled Josh Whedon show Firefly. It was successful in helping to bring back Firefly to the big screen in the form of Serenity. It now continues to help bring about the Big Damn Trilogy that Firefly fans (like myself) would love to see. Let me just say this -- if you have never watched an episode of Firefly go onto Netflix and rent the DVDs or head over to Best Buy to pick up the show. Serenity was good, but the television show is even better. If you had to watch only one episode I would watch the pilot episode (also title Serenity) or check out Our Mrs Reynolds. An amazing show. Firefly Talk - Ok, one more Firefly podcast. :) In many ways I enjoy this podcast more than The Signal, only because it doesn't deal with the guerilla marketing of Firefly and Serenity, but instead focuses on the love of the show itself. An episode will have pre-recorded panel sessions and various conventions, articles written by fans discussing themes and characters of the show, Firefly news, and fan-answered question of the week. A professsionally done podcast.