The Tao of Ryan : Links

Obviously this is not me. He works down the hall as an arm model for gratuitous artsy photos. No, not really.

These are some music files I composed when I was eighteen. Some are better than others. They were formerly Screamtracker III (S3M) files that I converted into 128bit MP3s.

Here is the Phoenix IRCII Script that I wrote also around the time I was eighteen under the alias "Vassago" (which I still use in Materia Magica). It became very popular and for awhile was the widest-used script on IRC, used by thousands of people across the world (I think some people still use it, in fact). Most of the features it offers have since been hard coded into clients like BitchX and mIRC - they even kept some of my formatting styles and names for certain messages. It is no longer supported, but is here for historical value since I have had some requests for it.

These are some sites I like (and therefore you should too), listed in no particular order.

Salon.com is one of the sites I read daily and to which I have a paid subscription. There are a lot of great writers here and it helps keep me informed on a wide variety of subjects so I can sound like I know what I'm talking about.

Sweat Flavored Gummi is a blog in the tradition of funny, and slightly scary (I wouldn't want to meet her in a dark alley) female bloggers. Oh, and she swears like a horny sailor. Fine afternoon reading!

Television Without Pity reviews many popular television shows with a healthy dose of snark.

Rabbit Blog. One of my favorite writers from the now-defunct Suck.Com.

8th Matrix Press, home of Dr. Joseph C. Lisiewski's books and other writings. He's a noted physicist who is also heavily involved in western occultism and is associated with a lot of the major players. He has a refreshing viewpoint about the new age movement and at the undercurrent of spirituality moving through the collective consciousness.

LiveJournal, a cool weblog community. I have a weblog there. The weblog on this site is dynamically pulled from my public entries on LiveJournal.

Materia Magica is a free, text-based multiplayer fantasy world (a MUD, also known as a Multi-User Dimension) that has hundreds of simultaneously-connected players at all times.