Events
- Bay Area Events: SFGate.com and San Jose Mercury News. Great starting points for what's going on in the SF Bay Area.
- Comedy Sportz: If you haven't seen improv comedy, you have GOT to see THIS if there is one in your area. I was skeptical at first, but it's amazing how funny these people can be with sparse props and random topics.
- Festival Finder: This site lists over 1300 festivals across North America (including the Carribean and Mexico). You can view by music genre, date, location, etc...
- San Jose is often treated as the younger, step-sibling to San Francisco. But San Jose and the surrounding area (Silicon Valley in particular) has a lot to offer and usually for very reasonable prices! (Note that the two San Jose links are different.)
Nigeria
- International airport departure procedures (as of spring, 2014)
- How to renew your Nigerian passport (as of February 28, 2019)
- Humor (video sketch): "Mrs.Omokorede" pushes biology on her daughter (only available in the UK)
- Igbo Traditional Wedding - pictures posted by the BBC
- NAIJA - Stanford Nigerian Student Association
Soccer
- I may, OK WILL, never live up to the feats of the 1996 Olympic champions or the 1998 World Cup Round of 16, but I did play Stanford intramurals. I also played with the Silicon Valley Soccer Association from 1996 or so to 2003 (2000 ended early from a disappointing ankle sprain). I was disappointed with "retirement" but at least I got the taste of championship nectar in 2002.
Music and related links
{I realize a LOT has changed since I started this short list in the 1990s, but I love my history}
- African Hip Hop
- Bay Area Hip-Hop history: That's My Word - A Year-Long Exploration of Bay Area Hip-Hop History (2023)
- HipHopSite.com (since 1996)
- KBLX ("The Quiet Storm", San Francisco)
- KMEL106.1FM ("Music for the Hip-Hop Generation", San Francisco)
- KZSU 90.1FM (Support College Radio!, Stanford U.)
- Genius: Genius is the world’s biggest collection of song lyrics and musical knowledge.
- The Rap Dictionary: The Rap Dictionary is the oldest and ultimate resource for looking up hip-hop slang.
Public Transportation
- Save the air, save the earth. Support public transportation! For people in the SF Bay Area, there are several convenient resources to check out like 511.org: 511 is your one-stop phone and web source for up-to-the-minute Bay Area traffic, transit, carpool, bicycling, and parking information. For people in other regions, I encourage you to get familiar with non-automobile dependent methods of getting around. Carpool, whatever it takes to at least slow down the environmental decay of our planet.
- Google Maps is one of the most convenient sites for planning public transit routes when traveling in new places or for refreshers in your home town.