Say you're trying to find out what my friend Mark thinks about outsmarting some of the dumbest eukaryotes on the planet (satisfaction), but you can't remember how to find markandlacey.com. Or say you want to see pictures of Milo, but you can't remember Hari's name. Or what if you want to ask, "Eric, of all the aquariums in all the world, which one is your favorite?" Yes, these are my links.

People

• Hari
  Hari's personal page, with blog, photos, movies and, at last count, 4,678,698 pictures -- no, wait, 4,700,432 pictures of -- no, sorry, 5,012,001 pictures of M-- um, fine. A lot of pictures of Milo.



• Nick
  My brother's marvelous experiment with Web design and blogging.



• Yen
  Yen's always entertaining misadventures in Boston.



• Mark and Lacey
  So you want to learn about fishing?



• Theresa and Paul
  Fantasy football stud Paul and his fiancee Theresa's wedding page.



• Josh
  The home page of probably the nicest human being you will ever meet in your life.



• Yuri
  My Peruvian host brother Yuri and his Aldea Yanapay.



• Kazuhiro Kibuishi
  I doubt wunder-artist Kazu remembers me, but he remains probably the most talented person I've ever worked with. Check out these simply amazing comics, then buy his book.



• Milton Love (The Love Lab)
  My favorite fish biologist.



• Alec Nevala-Lee
  The editor of my high school newspaper comments on life post-Harvard. Good movie reviews.

Newspaper Stuff

• The UCSB Daily Nexus (trumpet flourish)
  My first (and favorite) newspaper. As they say, "a high-quality paper on low-quality paper."



• The San Mateo County Times
  I worked here as a copy editor. The city desk once passed me a story with the lead: "The unseasonably warm weather is rare for this time of year, experts said." Um, yeah.



• Carl Hiaasen
  The weekly column of one of my favorite novelists.



• Jon Carroll's "Red Horses in Ireland"
  Hooves down, my favorite column ever. (Click here for the home page of columnist Jon Carroll).

Sharks/Predators/Aquariums I Have Known

• www.apexpredators.com
  With a name like that, how can you go wrong? The home of "Air Jaws."



• Monterey Bay Aquarium
  Simply the best, even before they kept the baby great white shark for several months (it started hunting its tankmates, so they let it go). Their seafood guide is really cool if you eat fish.



• The Steinhart Aquarium
  Neat aquarium in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, home to white shark expert John McCosker.



• The Birch Aquarium at Scripps
  A small but cute little place near UCSD, with a good balcony view of La Jolla and Scripps Pier.



• Sea World San Diego
  They pioneered the performing marine mammal thing. I'm not terribly impressed by that.



• Audobon Institute of the Americas (New Orleans)
  Large aquarium with a good tropical exhibit (including piranhas!)



• The Musee Oceanographique (Monaco)
  An astonishingly beautiful aquarium in Monaco (English version of the site).



• San Sebastian/Donostia Aquarium (Spain)
  Small, but worth a visit if you happen to be in Northern Spain. Neat page if you speak Basque.



• Sydney Aquarium
  Antiquated layout, but the shark tank/tunnel here is very good.



• Ushuaia Aquarium
  Small, and probably not worth the admission, except for some truly enormous trout.