Omar Haneef's Home Page

First, a few words on my theory of home pages.
There are, of course, the cliches. Fighting the information saturation that one experiences in a post-industrial country; finding the time and the energy to produce something worth seeing in the first place; competing with other media - primarily television - and other such considerations.
That is not what I want to consider here, I don't believe in kill your TV philosophies (such as Postman and McLuhan) but I do believe that the net, in so far as it is a different medium, demands different strategies of consciousness. I would like to discuss such strategies and stances through links so if you have a relevant page, lemme know.

Anyway, here is a list of secondary pages with my thought and links to other interesting sites with descriptions of what they are and where they lead. There might be some overlap when I have two strong but related interests.
I strive to stay away from cliches although they inevitably leak in.

The Sacred Canopy is my page for WEB talk. Discussions of the phenomenon of the WWW and the NET and what it means.

Mirrorshades is a cyberpunk page. Cyberpunk means various things to various people but I use it to refer to two things: (1) the literary movement in Sci-Fi, spearheaded by Sterling and his pals, and (2) the "culture" of hackers and phreaks such at Mitnick and Fibre Optik

Lit Crit and the French Shit is a page dedicated to contemporary literary, critical and cultural theory and western philosophy.

Vert-EGO is that island of conceit that all home pages cultivate with the numb complacency of human beings. Its where I talk about myself and I don't recommend it at all.

Essays are the most interesting things available on the net in my opinion. In the end, after you realise that you can find better animation in cartoons, better art in books, you can't read a whole book on a screen, better sound on CDS etc. you come to realise that the most interesting and useful thing on the net may well be essays. At least as far as information is concerned. So here is a list of interesting, well written essays where I got the feeling that the author cared about what s/he was talking about.

Resources is a guide to the non-essay resources that I have found on the net such as computer code or dating services. An example of a really good resource is The Nexus for computer game programmers.

HOMEage is the page where I pay homage to all the other great sites out there. There are some real winner in here; usually more interesting and livel than (gulp) my own page but with different interests...