Here are some like-minded individuals and companies that are worth your while to visit (in alphabetical order) . . . tell them fabric8 says hello.

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PARTNER SITES - Highly recommended and trusted

Blasthaus: a San Francisco multimedia institution and hosts of the RX Gallery with a grand history of audio/video experiences, including art exhibitions, clubs, and party visuals

City Car Share: one of the most brilliant urban ideas yet -- a pay-per-use car sharing program, gas and insurance included!

Dema: Original style maven of the Mission District, designing twisted classics for the independent woman

Fog City: the record label, production company, and graphic design firm; has an extensive database of funk and jazz events; plenty of great links, too! releases available on fabric8 $oundbuyz

The Giant Peach: tastee hip hop mail order -- get your underground music merchandise at this trusty site

Illstatic: the word on the street is that these boys know what's going on every night of the week

Minnie Wilde: a glamorous retro-modern clothing company for the "Holly Golightlys of the new millennium"

Missing Piece: a new artists agency that specializes in finding customers the right designers for their custom clothing needs

Nitevibe: a comprehensive database of where to get your groove/swerve on each and every night

Om Records: the first enhanced CD music label featuring diverse and delicious beats

Plinko: hip graphic design duo and documentators of fine San Francisco culture

The Sewing Workshop: a sewing and arts school that has been serving the community for over 20 years

SF Station: THE site for San Francisco happenings -- ten years strong!

Stitch Lounge: an urban sewing lounge fully-equipped with machines, work tables, fabrics, notions, and classes

STRANGEco: producer of original art toys by top underground artists and distributor of Hong Kong figures

XLR8R: the quintessential club kid magazine presents a fresh site with an interactive events calendar and archives of the old issues

Chocosho: a Los Angeles-based positive environment showcasing artists and their creations

John Fluevog Shoes: the funkified soles of that kooky Canadian are now online

Fashion Net: an industry innovator with links to designers' sites, magazines, and industry bulletin boards

F. UK: fashion English-style: cheeky with lots of influence from street and club culture

Hint Fashion Magazine: a constantly-evolving New York fashion magazine featuring fashion articles, interviews, parties, and a great gossip column

Lumiere: a brilliantly-designed site which makes features innovative designers and photographers

Visionaire: the wonderfully shocked WWW home of the art/fashion magazine that is oh-so-chic only 2000 stylish individuals can ever get their hands on it

Compost Records: information central for Germany's top jazzadelic record label

Dorado Records/Filter Records: interactive home of the ground-breaking UK jazz/dance labels

Dublab: an LA-based collective of DJs and artists dedicated to positive music and culture, with top-notch streaming audio

Ninja Tune: discover all you need to know about the events, artists, releases, and wares available from this funk-first London label

Straight No Chaser: the top jazz culture magazine finally busts out with their own slick site

Sonomu: a brilliant interactive site by media company state51, providing a worldwide record store search engine and music review database

Ubiquity Records: world-renowned record label featuring new school jazz, rare groove, Latin rhythms, and all of that

Linux: the free, open source operating system that powers fabric8

Electronic Frontier Foundation: a civil liberties organization promoting privacy, free speech, access to public information, and responsibility in new media; know your rights

mod_perl : Union of Apache and Perl - fabric8's primary development environment

MySQL: site of the opensource MySQL database cre8rs from Sweden

www.perl.com: "the source for Perl", brought to you by fabric8's favorite technology book publishers, O'Reilly

Yahoo's Pretty Good Privacy Index: possibly the best list you'll find; a great starting point for PGP newbies

Paper Magazine: one of our favorite websites brought to you by one of our favorite magazines

Head-Space Online: a London-based web gallery of writers' and designers' creative experiments

Art Crimes: probably the most comprehensive resource for graffiti art, this one brings together masterpieces on city walls and trains from around the world

futuratwothousand: one of NYC's most famous underground artists/celebrities, and cover artist of many a Mo'Wax record

dhky: personal and professional site of talented NYC graphic designer David Yu, webmaster of Giant Robot Online

Michiko Stehrenberger: web home of America's next big illustrator: chic chick and character designer Michiko Stehrenberger

Keith Haring: a site about the brilliant 80s master of underground pop art and his foundation