Commercial

• 99 Designs: crowdsourced graphic design
• American Science & Surplus
• Ascent Technology, Inc., a software company founded by MIT AI Lab hackers
• Ashford.com, watch-sellers
• Association of Shareware Professionals
• Banking and Investment
  • Charles Schwab
  • First Republic Bank
  • Mark Twain Bank: Internet and e-cash banking
  • Security First Network Bank
• Beau Ties Ltd: Bow Ties & Neckties for Tie Connoisseurs
• Big Five Software, the company which published my TRS-80 video game, Weerd, in the early 1980s
  • Giant List of Classic Game Programmers: I'm listed here because of Weerd.
  • Weerd: Look for my game, Weerd, on this page.
    • Review in Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games
• Big Yellow business directory
• Bill Monk: for tracking borrowing of money and things between friends
• Books
  • ABE: Advanced Book Exchange Inc.: buy and sell used books
  • Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, which has an on-line service for finding used books
  • DealPilot: Comparison shop for books, music, and movies
  • Fatbrain.com, formerly known as Computer Literacy
    • eMatter, a service through which authors are paid when readers download their work
  • ISBN.nu: compare prices on books ordered on-line
  • MX Book Finder
  • O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., publishers of computer books, etc.
  • Quantum Books
  • WordsWorth Books
• Bow Tie Club: Makers of the finest silk bow ties since 1994
• Bulb Store Inc.in Sunnyvale, CA
• Cafe Press: Have T-shirts, etc. made from artwork you provide, then sell them through Cafe Press.
• Carroll and Graf, who will be publishing Quiller Balalaika soon
• Custom Ink: Design custom T-shirts, etc. on the web, then have them made.
• Customatix: design your own shoes
• CyberCash
• Cycorp
• Dale Carnegie: business training classes
• Despair, Inc., makers of de-motivational posters
• DigiCash
• eBay
  • Half.com
• Edmund Scientific
• Eleganza: Art Reproductions, Sculpture Reproductions
• Erwin Sattler, a modern maker of mechanical clocks in Munich
• Everything USB
• Financial Engines: Nobel prize-winning economist William F. Sharpe's financial advice company
• G. Scatchard Lamps: handcrafted in Underhill, Vermont
• Gateway 2000
• German Motor Specialist
• Gleckler Construction: some other people who have the same last name as I do
• Hire A Chef: I haven't tried this, but it sounds terrific.
• House Mouse Designs: stationery, etc. from Vermont with drawings of cute mice getting into mischief. My wife loves House Mouse.
• InterMute, software which filters out Internet ads, etc.
• Inventables, Our Marketplace helps vendors of materials and technologies market their products to people who are looking to solve sourcing problems.
• Jane's Information Group
• L.L. Bean
• Lightning Source: publishing on demand
• Lulu: Self-publish books, magazines, and other media.
• MacRumors Buyer's Guide
• Microsoft
• Mohler, Nixon, and Williams, CPAs
• Multimedia Newsstand
• Network computers
  • Cidco, makers of a simple email appliance
  • Infogear, makers of a simple email appliance
• NoMachine: who make the NX X compression system
• Novica: buy direct from craftspeople around the world
• Open Market
• Open Table, a nice way to make restaurant reservations
• Oracle Corporation, where I worked from 1993-1996
  • Falcons nesting on one of Oracle's headquarters buildings
• Pak-Lite Company: official web site for Pak-Lite LED flashlights
• PayPal.com, which allows you to securely send money to any email user in the U.S.
• Photo Stamps: put your own photos on real stamps
• Photos
  • Kodak Easyshare Gallery: Upload photos, then share them and print them.
  • Tabblo: professionally designed templates and powerful editing tools to compose online photo albums
• Playful Invention Company, makers of "Pico Cricket," which came out of Mitch Resnick's group's research at the MIT Media Lab
• Price Watch, a service that helps you find the best price for computer products
• Qualcomm, makers cell phones, Eudora email software, etc.
• Radio Shack
• Radsoft, an interesting site with many tiny but useful Windows programs
• Real Audio
• Shipping
  • Airborne Express
  • Federal Express
  • Simple Tracking: Use RSS to track packages shipped via DHL, FedEx, UPS, and USPS.
  • UPS: United Parcel Service
• SlawinskyWest Coast Auctioneers
• Smarthome.com, who sell X10 remote control devices, etc.
• Sprint PCScell phone service
• Sterling Capital
• Stottler Henke Associates, Inc.: AI consulting for government and industry
• Sun Microsystems
• Sylvan Learning Systems
  • Book Adventure, a reading site for kids sponsored by Sylvan
• Tellme: build voice-activated computer programs using a free service
• Thomas Weisel Partners
• TimeDomain, who make chips that support radio transmission and reception through a time-interval-based encoding instead of a frequency-based encoding
• Trusted Information Systems
• U.S. Cavalry: world's finest military and adventure equipment
• Unica
• USB Stuff
• Used Computer Mall
• Visa
• VMWare, a product that lets you run two operating systems (e.g. Linux and Windows 98) at the same time
• Waiters on Wheels
• Watercourse Way: hot tubs and massages in Palo Alto, CA
• WebAxxs.net, who host my web site
• Webley, an automated telephone, email, and fax assistant
• World-Wide Waiter
• X-treme Geek: Cool products for your X-treme geek lifestyle
• Xerox PARC(Palo Alto Research Center)
  • Xerox PARC public seminars schedule(some seminars are available for viewing over the Internet)
• Yahoo Mobile: shop for mobile phones and calling plans
• Yerba Buena Nursery, off Skyline Drive in the San Francisco Bay Area
• ZIP drives
  • Iomega, makers of the ZIP disk