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Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about web and Internet protocols can be found at www.w3c.com. I have won many arguments with slimy salesmen by being able to refer them back to w3c specifications. In my mind they have done more to facilitate the healthy growth of the Internet and web than any other single entity including Microsoft and Netscape. These guys are the ones that help keep the rest honest. Of course Linux also helps keep honesty in the field.

www.hotbot.com is my favorite search engine. Not nearly as popular as www.yahoo.com but when I can't find it on yahoo I normally can find it on hotbot. Yahoo gives better-filtered results but hotbot gives more of them. I also like http://www.asksam.com/

Python advocacy. I think Python represents an optimal mix of the dynamic capabilities we originally found in Smalltalk and Logo with the best of the object oriented features from Smalltalk and C++. I would generally rather write in Python than Java but there are always exceptions.