Green.

No. You have enough embedded links throughout the site, so I see no reason to have a separate Links page. What would be there anyway?

I guess I'd put up links to all of the strange and interesting stuff I find around the web that doesn't appear in embedded links. It's kind of fun to go to peoples' link pages and see what they've found.

I vote a qualified NO, and my answer ties in with your latest entry about interpreting art.

I have looked at a large number of personal web sites in my day, many of which included a 'links' page. Most of the time, the links themselves are really pretty useless to me. I feel that I can decide for myself what I want to see on the Web and, frankly, I stumble across enough bizareness on my own that I don't need someone else to point out novelty web sites.

What links pages usually do give me, however, is an insight into the person behind the site. Looking through the links to various music sites, humor sites, news sites, porn sites, commercial sites, etc. I put together a little profile of the tastes, views, political and artistic leanings, etc. of the page's author. However, I am SURE that these profiles are never 100% correct and are sometimes completely wrong. After all, how can you get an accurate feel for a person from a list of 10 links to web sites created by other people or organizations, each with their own views and ideas? Despite the obvious unfairness of judging people based on such skimpy evidence, though, we all tend to make these assessments anyway.

So here is where my point comes in: What is your goal in creating a links page? What is your goal with each link? If you have a message that you want to send with each link, make it clear. Don't leave your choices to be interpreted by those who don't know you.

That was a very serious answer to a very non-serious question. Thank you for suffering through it.