Taner likes drawing (some examples); watching movies (thou must see these); sleeping; listening to music (favorites); reading; writing; playing football (the one that is actually played with the foot) and tennis; running; playing chess, backgammon, other board games, and especially Age of Empires (click to download the trial version), Starcraft, Warcraft, Red Alert, and Civilization; making jokes; and -of course- dealing with math and physics. Has tried a bit of bowling, ice skating and skiing - no progress there! Does a fair amount of various dances. Has theoretical research of minor importance in math. Has re-discovered several relations that have been known for at least two to twenty centuries! Including the binomial triangle.. Some work on trigonometry and prime numbers..

¹ Cow and Chicken are courtesy of Cartoon Network..
² It's a long story..

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Links...
Curious About Astronomy? A popular site by a bunch of our Cornell Astronomy folks. Go ahead and ask them questions.
Numerical Recipes This great book is available online! Also available through the same site is Abramowitz & Stegun.
Physical Reference Data A perfect place for atomic spectra, physical constants and other references (from NIST).
Theseus and the Minotaur Mazes A little something to blow your mind when you're sure you won't be needing it for the rest of your life..
Wolfram Alpha Web version of Mathematica for simple calculations. Also check out the Integrator.
Wolfram Research An online Mathematikhandbuch from the developers of Mathematica. (Wikipedia is pretty good, too.)
Software..
G95 Fortran compiler.
Gnuplot Simple plotting utility. Can create eps files and is similar to SuperMongo, but is free! And does 3d plots as well..
Inkscape Create elaborate figures. It's completely free and is better than Xfig!
MiKTeX LaTeX for Windows.
OpenOffice A free alternative to Microsoft Office! It totally sucks, just like everything else made by Sun Microsystems, but well, it is free..
WinEdt LaTeX editor for Windows. Free trial.
WinFIG Xfig for Windows. Shareware.
Books, books, books.. And more books..
Amazon.com (No need to comment.)
Kniga.com Books in Russian.
Project Gutenberg On-line library! Might find some old books there. (Example? Jack London.. Also check out the Google Book Search.)
For the soul..
Pastafarianism Do you have the Flying Spaghetti Monster in you?
Tori Amos She's your cocaine.
For the eye...
The Artist Index Lots of paintings, engravings, etc of many famous European artists.
H. R. Giger The designer of the Aliens - the movie!
Banksy, the Guerilla Artist Viva la resistance!!