Links I enjoy.

Writing & Drawing Tools

• JetPens
• Goulet Pens
• Fisher Space Pens
• Artist & Craftsman
• UW Book Store
• Some paper to help you Rite in the Rain.

Chess

• Chess was a foundation for the beginning of AI, and computers have already *solved* chess. Chess with 7 pieces or less, anyway, has been solved. So far. Here's the Shredder endgame tablebase.
• Stockfish, because having a great engine is useful.
• Shane's Chess Information Database (SCID), a home for your engine(s).
• Chessgames.com, to help you study chess games annotated by humans instead of engines.
• See the human history of openings with old-school html and Descriptive Annotation at chessops.
• Speaking of humans, don't forget to play with real people.
  • Chess Club Seattle.
  • Washington Chess Federation
  • Seattle Chess Club

Reading

• Seattle Public Library
• Elliott Bay Book Company
• Third Place Books
• The Stranger
• DRSB
• Lynda Barry
• Anders Nilsen
• Craig Thompson
• Short Run
• Build a Website
• Pluralistic Corey Doctorow

Radio

• KEXP
• KBCS
• C. Crane

Music Tools

• Zoia
• Patchwerks
• Georgetown Music
• American Music
• Emerald City Guitars
• Dusty Strings
• Sweetwater
• MusicRadar Computer Music

Bicycles

• Cascade Bicycle Club
• Point 83
• drag race NYC
• West TX Break Down
• West TX Adventrure
• Palouse to Cascades
• Wright Brothers
• School of Bike
• Recycled Cycles
• Free Range Cycles
• Counterbalance Bikes
• Gregg's Cycle
• Montlake Bike Shop
• The Bikery
• Bike Works
• Rat City Bikes
• Sheldon Brown

Free as in beer,
and free,
as in freedom.

• GNU Emacs
• GIMP
• Arch Linux
• Audacity audio software

Skateboard

• Indoor Skatepark
• Motion Boardshop Mervyn Victoria

No man is braver than these two women.

• Ocean Ramsey
• Kimi Werner