Times change, and so will this list. But until then, here are my current obsessions:
*Games
**Fallout (computer game)
**Ikaruga
**Metroid
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Quake - especially the Quake engine
*Other software
**Apache HTTP Server
**Berkeley Software Distribution - especially
FreeBSD and Mac OS X
**C programming language
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Vi
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VirtualDub
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Unix in general
*Movies
**Aliens (1986 film)
**Minority Report
**The Usual Suspects
*People
**John Carmack
**Chris Avellone
**Steve Jobs
**Voltaire
*Random philosophies
**Free software
**Minimalism - KISS principle
Simple yet complex - Ikaruga and Go (board game)
Small is beautiful - vi
Worse is better - Unix and C
**Predestination