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Useful Stanford stuff...

• SCPD Videos, watch your classes from home, at 1.7x speed! Probably the Best Thing Ever.
• Map of campus (also see the dining hall locations / hours)
• Marguerite, free campus shuttle schedule / map
• StanfordWho, the campus directory (also see the alumni database)
• Mailman, the Stanford mailing lists. See example list info, your lists, all lists (slow to load)
• StanfordYou, manage your SU Net account, including passwords and email aliases
• CourseRank, lots of class information, grade distributions, reviews (much better than Axess)
• Stanford Courses, class info/search, nice schedule/shopping UI (faster than CourseRank)
• CourtKeeper, Stanford tennis court reservation system (also see the gym and squash info)
• Stanford Business Cards, many people ask about this: just fill out form, submit, pick up and pay
• MS EE program handbook, also see the registrar handbook
• Past year's EE Quals, download them all here
• Stanford PhD Comics, all of the grad school wisdom you will ever need to know.
• Lyman Residence, the best place to live on campus since CroMem!
• Caterers near Stanford, places I've ordered large quantities of food from for student events
• Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders and CS309A, my favorite lecture series at Stanford
• Papers by Richard Hamming and Ivan Sutherland that any new PhD student should read

Technical Stanford Resources...

• VM Image of a lab machine, a super easy way to run Linux on your Windows computer
• Virtual Hosting, make a long Stanford URL short http://likethis.stanford.edu
• Website Templates, the easy way to make a Stanford-style homepage (more here)
• Workgroups, and .htaccess info for controlling access to your web content
• AFS Info, see web interface, Windows client, space usage, permissions
• IT Tools, MediaWiki is particularly useful for student groups (see installer info)
• Web Services Wiki, for lots more info!

Things I read every day...

• The New York Times, especially the Technology section
• The Big Picture, a great photo column from the Boston Globe

Where I go for the latest in technology...

• The Boy Genius Report, for the latest happenings in the mobile industry
• TechCrunch, for my Silicon Valley tech and venture news
• Techmeme, a nice aggregation of the top stories in technology

Useful websites...

• My favorite Google products: Search, Mail / Apps, Maps, Picasa / Photos, Voice, and Reader
• Reference: Wikipedia, Answers.com, Quora
• Shopping:
  • Amazon (great selection, good prices, fast shipping)
  • Froogle (nice comparison shopping by Google)
  • eBay (bargain hunting ... if you're a good hunter ;)
• People: Facebook, LinkedIn
• Restaurants: Yelp (see my recommendations)
• Travel:
  • Flights: Sidestep / Kayak (fare tracking is so useful!)
  • Hotels: Expedia (good international selection), and sometimes Hotwire or HostelWorld
  • Also useful: WikiTravel (travel info), SeatGuru (the best seats on the plane)
• Music: Pandora, probably one of the best places on the Internet!

Interesting reading and watching...

• The TED Talks
• Paul Graham's Essays
• The Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner
• Randy Pausch's Last Lecture (also see his excellent lecture on time management)

Some interesting people I've met at Stanford...

• Sonny Chan, a fellow Canadian and Stanford's ACM ICPC team coach
• Vinith Misra, a clever fellow EE
• Mike Young, living the start-up dream: Innova Materials
• Alex Stoll, photographer, pizza chef, and all around talented guy
• Jon Harris, a very smart fellow British Columbian
• Hai Nguyen, built our dorm's event planning app: funsoon
• Aman Kumar, a fellow Google intern
• Jon Lee, a mathematically-inclined fellow Canadian and architect of nasty ACM problems
• Yuankai Ge, a friendly guy from China, president of ACSSS
• Matthew Lew, one of the best guys in the EE department
• Ryan Louie, the friendly neighborhood doctor
• Willy Wu, a wise elder EE
• Greg Schwartz, Mr. CS TGIF
• Pi-Chuan Chang, a cooking club friend
• Robert Chen, possibly the best beer-pong player in EE (also check out his quals guide)
• Adam Wang, AAGSA core (publicity)
• Jingyu Cui, this fellow is brilliant.
• Reeve Ingle, one of the smartest guys in EE (also see his Bay Area excursions guide)
• Ann Charng, finally, a non-engineer on this list!
• Tracy Chou, probably the most well-connected person I know at Stanford
• Shiwei Song, entrepreneur!
• Peter McMahon, my South African Quals study buddy
• Sharon Zeng, a young entrepreneurial undergrad :)
• Daniel Horn, old-time CroMem and CS department friend
• Sharon Lin, my Lyman neighbor
• Cristina Pop, a quiet fellow Vancouverite
• Jonathan Ellingsworthorpleton (ya, that's really his name), my quals and travel buddy, smart guy
• Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta, Alphonso Labs co-founders and creators of the Pulse iPad app