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Miscellany

bostonreview.mit.edu - from MIT comes the Boston Review, a political and literary forum. An outstanding return on a small investment of time. Even though the entire publication is available on the web, it is still worth subscribing to.
www.PhilosophersGuild.com - The Unemployed Philosophers Guild. A collection of gifts for witty and intelligent people.
www.mensa.org - If you're visiting this web site, you might qualify for membership in this exclusive organization. If you've never heard of Mensa, then you probably don't.
www.dilbert.com - The Dilbert Zone.
espanol.dilbert.com - Dilbert in Spanish.
www.chickweed.com - 9 Chickweed Lane.
www.martinlogan.com - Martin-Logan, Ltd. If you've never seen a transparent speaker, then by all means do so. They don't just look good, though; they sound superb as well. I know; I used to have a pair of Aerius (which are now called Aeon).
www.stereophile.com - Stereophile magazine, the publication for high-end audio.
www.uschess.org - The United States Chess Federation
www.pithemovie.com - "Pi: The Movie". You haven't lived until you've seen this one. When I first saw this trailer, I thought it was a parody--I was wrong. This actually is a movie, although it's only tangentially about pi, and more about psychosis. If you like things psychological, stream-of-consciousness, or just good film-making in general, you'll want to see it.
www.perseus.tufts.edu - The Perseus Project at Tufts University, a searchable digital library with an incredible variety of works, such as the complete works of Christopher Marlowe, texts in Latin, papyrus scrolls, etc.
www.improb.com - The Annals of Improbable Research
www.nine.org - The Room with Nine Mirrors Organization, a research organization focused on technology's impact on the social and cultural aspects of our lives.
www.freelance.com - Each of these mailing lists is intended to support serious philosophical inquiry -- not mere historical scholarship -- but original, philosophical thinking, generated and sustained by careful, slow readings of the works of a single philosopher or a single work.
cool.infi.net - Cool site of the day.
www.learn2.com - Thousands of brief lessons on a wide variety of topics, from languages to making stained glass.
www.csse.monash.edu.au/community/postmodern.html - The Postmodernism Generator, a program that will generate authentic-looking scholarly papers by using an algorithm based on recursive grammar.
www.wordsmith.org - A word a day, anagram seeker, etc.
www.8thday.com - Touts itself as "The best useful stuff on the net in one screen."
site.register.com - If you'd like your own domain name, this site allows you to check if it has already been claimed.
stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos056.htm - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook. This entry is for psychologists, but from this link, one may look up any other occupation. A great deal of valuable information is available on each job.
www.culturefinder.com - A searchable database that will find upcoming cultural events such as classical music concerts, opera and dance performances, etc., in your area, and a link to purchase tickets.
www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/TShome.html - Quantum consciousness, a good explanation of Duchamp's Large Glass and a few other interesting items.
www.le.ac.uk/pathology/teach/va/ - "The Virtual Autopsy." This is everything a site should be: entertaining, interactive, informative, and all-around high quality. Perform an autopsy and try to discover the cause of death. Not just for medical students, as there is plenty of educational assistance along the way.
www.sfdt.com - "Stick Figure Death Theatre." Don't go here if you don't want to laugh.
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov:80/apod/astropix.html - Astronomy picture of the day, with elaboration on the day's selection by professional astronomers.
www.geocities.com/Athens/Cyprus/2306/index.html - Philosophy, poetry, literature, surrealism, and jokes in Spanish. If you can stand the horribly ugly design, there's some good stuff here.
highwire.stanford.edu/lists/largest.dtl - HighWire Press, the Internet imprint of the Stanford University Libraries. Claims to be Earth's largest free full-text science archives. Archives of Astrophysics, psychology and its related fields, MMWR and CDC papers, and many more.
www.eprints.org - Eprints.org: dedicated to the freeing of research literature through open archiving. Check out the links section for discussions and information on open archiving.
cogprints.soton.ac.uk - Unrefereed preprints and refereed journal reprints in the Cognitive Sciences: Psychology, Neuroscience, Behavioral Biology, Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, and Philosophy.
www.theonion.com - The Onion, America's finest satirical newspaper.
www.libyrinth.com/joyce - The James Joyce Site. What's going on with Joyce's corpus, quotes, images, and much more about one of all of literature's greatest writers. I was outraged to see that Ulysses beat out Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby for the best book of all time. Then I read it. Then I understood.
www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/4456 - Luminara's Web of Myth-tery. A very comprehensive selection of mythology around the world, mythology in astrology, spirit animals, and much more.
www.sec.noaa.gov - All about the Aurora Borealis, with downloadable video clips.
www.universityoflife.com - The University of Life offers tests of all sorts, hints on how to prepare for real tests like the SAT, GRE, LSAT, etc.
www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home/mmhome.html - The online, full-text, seachable Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, written in plain language for those who aren't doctors.
www.stargazer.org/nogods.html - A comprehensive list of atheist links.
spot.colorado.edu/~vstenger/ - There is no lack of science that disputes the existence of God. There is, however, a lack of scientists who devote part of their time to bringing science to bear against religion. Victor J. Stenger, a retired professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Hawaii, does just that with several articles and selections from his books.
www.parasail.com.au/ - A fascinating account by Vincent Lauwers of his successful attempt to become the world's first disabled person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world, a voyage that took almost nine months to complete.
smog.cjb.net - News (a bit dated, but interesting items you probably won't see many other places), tutorials, unique Web tools and downloads
www.exploratorium.edu/auroras/ - A site packed with information on the Aurorae, with movies, sounds, a FAQ, and more.
www.antivirus.com - The home of Trend Micro has a high-quality, powerful, free virus scanner online.
www.hurricanehunters.com/welcome.htm - This site, from the Hurricane Hunters of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, has earned its Popular Science "50 Best of the Web" award, if just for the pictures alone. There are also movies, stories, and an immense amount of information about what this unique unit does.
www.ribbonomatic.com/matic/ribbon-o-matic.html - The amazing ribbon-o-matic creates those annoying ribbons for whatever strikes your fancy. They also make icons now, too.
www.SI.edu - The Smithsonian Institution
www.nmsi.ac.uk/ - The National Museum of Science & Industry
www.pelzgolf.com/NewsInfo/Tips.aspx - Tips from Dave Pelz on how to improve your short game.
www.worldnewsstand.net/history/B4theIncomeTax.htm - "Before the Income Tax"
science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast01nov_1.htm?list599695 - The Fading Milky Way: an article about one of my pet peeves, light pollution, from the always-excellent people at Science@NASA. Their free express news delivery service sends out at least one fascinating article a week, and is well worth subscribing to.
www.spacedaily.com - Another excellent resource for what's happening in space, space exploration, aerospace, and other related fields.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=5198 - A beautiful image of a massive dust storm over the Mediterranean Sea.
www.go2net.com/useless/ - The Useless Pages: a compilation of really weird pages.
www.nomoreaolcds.com/ - A project to gather one million AOL CD's and send them back in an attempt to make it clear to the marketroids at AOL that people don't want junk mail from them. They could use your contribution: they're still about 900,000 short of their goal. Still, over 50,000 CD's is a pretty good stack.
nasajobs.nasa.gov/jobs/astronauts/astronauts.htm - NASA's own page on how to become an astronaut.
www.heavens-above.com/ - Heavens-Above allows you to see what satellites will be passing over your head soon.
chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0052/movies.html - Three movies of the Crab Nebula, showing its antimatter jets shooting out into space. These are big and short, but they are some of the most interestings things I've seen yet.
www.satirewire.com - Although there won't be any new content for SatireWire, the stories that are already there, such as "Windows Not a Virus" and "Taco Bell Fires Chihuahua; New Chalupa 'Tastes Funny'", are quite funny.
www.memorybankinc.com/starmap/seti.htm - SETI@Home Team Art Bell has 68 star maps, an good explanation on how to read them, and links to more SETI things. The design is hideous, but the star maps are worth it.
nobelprize.org/ - The Nobel e-Museum is the official website of The Nobel Foundation, with information on the laureates past and present, including a 7000-document archive about the Nobel Prizes.
www.karber.net/textbased/pong/ - I'm not sure if "Pong: The Text-Based Game" is better than the original game, but it certainly isn't any worse.
www.techno.de/ - Techno Online is a portal and rich resource on techno music. Not surprisingly from its suffix, some of it is in German.
britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm - See Britney Spears lecture on radiative and non-radiative transitions, edge emitting lasers and VCSELs, and more esoterica at the Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics.
www.thereverend.com/brick_testament/ - The Bible comes to life with these illustrations of important scenes done with Lego building blocks.
www.stsci.edu/resources/ - Astronomy resources from the Space Telescope Science Institute.
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ - The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal: "... intended as a resource for anyone wanting to know what happened during the [Apollo] missions and why."
www.spaceweather.com/meteors/gallery_18nov01.html - The Leonids 2001 gallery from Spaceweather.com.
chandra.harvard.edu/ - The official site of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/ - The science behind cooking.
www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/ - Most popular baby names in the United States.
www.aneki.com - World stats, browsable in several categories.
www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/ - A fascinating interactive demonstration of just what an order of magnitude is. Zoom in or out by a factor of ten and go from inside a quark to far outside the Milky Way or vice versa.
users.chartertn.net/tonytemplin/FBI_eyes/ - Have I mentioned lately how much I hate surveillance, especially when conducted in a formerly free country such as the United States?
www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html - Google's version of the Lycos Top 50.
www.talkingclocks.net - Dr. Mark B. McKinley has the world's largest collection of talking clocks. Look at 'em, listen to 'em, and read about 'em here. You can even see the world's only talking clock joke.
www.classicbikes.com/750.html - The Honda CB750. I've got a 1983 Custom one of these. The CB750C has a DOHC engine.
www.blinkenlights.de/interactive.en.html - Watch people playing pong on the side of a building.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrel/cuba/cubamenu.htm - A huge collection of material about the Cuban missile crisis from Yale's Avalon Project.
www.tornadochaser.net/index.html - the URL pretty much says it all. The article on why an overpass is NOT a good thing to hide under is interesting.

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My kind of people

www.redstart.com - I used to work for Mike Agnes when I was at Webster's New World Dictionaries. In my lifetime, I've come across approximately four people who stagger me with the sheer size and scope of their knowledge; Mike is one of them. He's like a human Google: ask him a question and he probably has the answer or, just as important, he knows where to get it. He has constructed an outstanding research portal that has an uncanny knack for crystallizing the most informative sources into one page.
www.eveander.com - Every once in a while, you stumble upon the personal site of someone as quirky as you are. I actually came across Eve in two different directions--the first and only time that has happened. I incorporated the tidbits from her old site into my Larry Coleman: The PowerPoint Presentation after it had been finished, thereby expanding it to lucky 101.
www.arborius.net/~jphekman/ - I will be forever grateful to Jessica Hekman for unintentionally introducing me to Opera years ago. If you haven't heard me rave about this browser, you haven't been to my page all about me.

Blogs

I'm not much into the diary-type blogs--I have enough trobule keeping track of what's going on in my own life to read about someone else's. There are a few bloggers who have a unique slant on things, somehow manage to dredge up the strangest things, or are just plain well-written. These few are the ones I return to.

www.memepool.com - One of the sites that deserves either the credit or the blame for bringing the All Your Base Are Belong to Us phenomenon to light way back when. This collaborative blog is still going strong, breaking the Venn diagram of deviant desires.