Bag O' Links (tm)

Thu Mar 20 09:26:41 EST 2003

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Added since 18 Mar 2003

Added since 19 November 2001

• Find out what the Arab press says in Arabic (not quite what they say in English). In translation to English. Also includes articles from the Farsi-language press of Iran.

Added since 01 August 1999

• Free phone calls from your Windows PC (Macs later?) to anywhere in the USA from dialpad.com.
• Need some additional space to store files or to move them between machines at different locations? Or share them with friends, acquaintances, people you don't even know, and agencies with black helicopters? Try an "internet drive" site:
  • i-drive offers 25MB of space at no charge, except for looking at ad banners, and some tools that work only with Windows (although the space can be used from any machine)
  • X:drive has a pretty strong Windows orientation, too; also 25 MB of free space (and they sure would like to write a forty-year cookie to your hard drive...)
  • visto calls itself a "webtop organizer" and includes a calendar, address book, etc.--but only 15MB of space
  • driveway offers 25MB, but you can earn more by persuading friends to sign up or by answering surveys; the welcome page says "up to 100MB."
  • FreeDiskSpace offers 25MB with "unlimited" additional space for signing up your friends (or for a fee); it also partitions space into MacSpace, LinuxSpace, MP3Space, PDASpace, and (for slaves to the Windows tyranny) PCSpace. They will even burn a CD-ROM with your files, for a charge. Good luck reading their fine print on a Mac, though.
  • Click2Send provides 50MB, but the files stored have only a ten-day lifespan. This is mostly for sending files to another user by some means other than an email attachment.
• Did you go to a highly selective college/university? The Square is an online meeting place for alumni (and current students) of such institutions.
• eGroups provides a way for your group (any kind of group) to share information, openly or securely
• All things scientific at SciCentral
• Here's a nice pro-Mac, anti-MS screed.
• Some useful information about Usenet (with links to other useful information, too) from Indiana University's Knowledge Base. The Landfield Usenet reference page might also be of interest.
• The list of Gilbert and Sullivan parodies will also take you to the Gilbert and Sullivan web ring.

Added since 01 Jan 99

• Thomas Distributing has remarkably low prices on rechargeable batteries, specifically NiMH. Chargers, too. Or you can visit Batteries America or Battery Terminal.
• If you want to know about digital cameras, scanners, and such, visit The Imaging Resource or image-acquire.com. You can also look at the Digital Camera Resource page, which has a lot of additional links to pursue.
• StudyWeb claims to provide over 100,000 "research quality" URLs.
• Find a home improvement contractor.
• Libertarian articles by Peter Meyer at the Serendipity site.
• Access to lots of music from Spinner.com
• Is ESP or telekinesis real? Visit the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research group and find out...
• Long-distance telephone providers confusing you? Get help from CallCompare or the Telecommunications Research and Action Center
• Here are some of my favorite RealAudio links:
  • Player download
  • A directory of Real Audio sites
  • Another directory of sites
  • Program your own station with Imagine Radio
  • A jukebox sort of site
  • A chat site
  • An international program site
  • Radio Free Europe/Radio LIberty (multilingual)

Added since 01 Apr 98:

• If you want to refinance your mortgage, here's a place to check out mortgage rates
• In case you need a laugh, visit The Onion, a Madison-based humor weekly available online, in case Wisconsin is too far to go to pick up a copy. Warning--not intended for children (it gets pretty blue at times).
• The Web Developers Corner or Web Site Design - Web Graphics for those of you wanting to build that "killer" web page... And if you need more Web page help...
• Here are some places to find free web space if your ISP charges additional for that (of course, you may have to put up with advertising--TANSTAAFL)
  • FortuneCity--20 MB of free space
  • GeoCities (with rather annoying advertising popup windows)
  • Tripod--something like 5 MB of free space; more if you want to pay a nominal fee
  • Angelfire--5 MB free...may be bought out by one of the above...
  • Inc. online--free for basic text-only; considerably more if it's fancy with graphics
  • WBS (a branch of the InfoSeek search engine activity)--says disk space is "unlimited" for members
  • The Globe.com--12 MB currently for members
  • Royalty Studios claims to offer 50 MB of free web space
  • Xoom offers 11 MB of free web space, email, etc.
  These sites may not allow you to sell products, only to have a personal home page there.
• Cartoons by Bill Holbrook (Kevin and Kell)
• Wanna run a mailing list? Try these free sites:
  • OneList - runs announcement, moderated and open discussion lists
  • ListBot - announcement-type lists only
  Thanks to Sapphire for these links.
• Tune up your web page with Web Site Garage (has all kinds of advice for web site builders). And also try this for more tips. And there is also the Web Page Validator for checking things out that the others don't cover.
• Internet.com - Real-time Internet news and resources for Web Developers. FREE newsletters, downloads, resources...
• Alta Vista's free translation service
• Want to practice white magic?
• The San Jose Mercury News allows you to have your own customized comic page
• Spam problems in your email? Try these:
  • Death to Spam by alchemy mind works--a graphics software company with no SPAM tolerance.
  • The domain name registry gives contact information on server where a domain name resides
  • Link page for anti spam sites.
  • Blacklist of commercial spammers
  • Site attempting to coordinate legal efforts to outlaw SPAM and to teach spam fighting skills
  • How to interpret E-Mail Headers by Mindspring (good info. written to be understood by regular folks).
  • Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
  • Spam complaint addresses
  • The SPAM-L FAQ
  • Stopping Scam Spam
  • Junk mail and telemarketing self-defense
• Constantine Harris's Bookmarks--quite a collection! Lots of medical stuff, and many links of interest to Mac users
• The Moab, Utah Police Dept. blotter (as featured recently in the Wall St. Journal)
• WorldPages is another kind of search engine
• Learn2 will teach you how to do almost anything, such as tie a bow tie, replace a doorknob, etc.
• References:
  • Merriam-Webster dictionary
  • Encarta (MS encyclopedia) online version
  • Many dictionaries--French, Welsh, Klingon (!), specialized fields...
• Trendy Magic and All Magic Guide for those who want to learn prestidigitation
• PromoMart--providing imprinted shirts, watches, etc. for your organization or company

Added since 01 Jan 98:

• Usenet newsgroups by the bushel basket (an alternative to the well-known DejaNews)
• Mac Orchard--Internet software for the Macintosh ripe for the plucking
• Netsurfer Digest--news about cyberspace (available by email, too)
• Letters written by George Washington
• The Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings (which should teach us that we learn nothing from history)
• Humour Net Archives and a place to subscribe
• Haiku error messages
• Any flutists out there?
• For classical music fans
• Like Ovid? Try Transformation Archive
• Family name history (maybe) and more name information
• News of the Weird
• The Internet has become a major venue for hate speech, of which Hate Watch keeps track.
• An interesting tale about the use of guns in private hands against the government.

• Home Page of Dr. Barry S. Fagin
• PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine (a tool for developing parallel/distributed programs)
• Atwater-Donnelly Home Page (folk music, Celtic music)
• Mr. Video Productions Home Page (Star Trek info)
• telnet link -- login is "bbs" (something to do with ham radio, I think)
• ftp://wb3ffv1.sed.csc.com/
• Felidae Enterprises Home Page (cats and consulting)
• Four11 White Page Directory (look up an email address)
• Chuq Von Rospach: His life, his hopes, his home page
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA (information on space missions, NASA activities, etc.)
• FTP from NASA JPL (news releases, software, images, animations--the same stuff may be available from the above Web page, too)
• Washingtonian Magazine Online
• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet (a service of the U.S. Congress through its Library)
• Open Door Networks Home Page (a commercial ISP that specifically serves Macintosh users and provides Web page development services)
• CVaNet - Central Virginia's Free-Net
• Libertarian FAQ
• Brown Alumni Home Pages
• Dan Goodspeed's Homepage (who seems to be one of those who think Netscape is the only browser...)
• Oh, no, it's Barney's Page! (not all of this is good for children...)
• Internet Resources Meta-Index
• Web-related Service Providers
• Roy Williams' Hot List (Roy is a CCAR staffer--you can visit his home page from this link)
• (Yanoff list)
• (japan info)
• German-Japanese Society at the Universitaet Karlsruhe, Deutschland (why did I visit this site? Kobe earthquake?)
• (dining?) (dead link?)
• (stealth home page?)
• World List of Servers
• National Geophysical Data Center (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency, Dept. of Commerce)
• http://www.fie.com/www/virginia.htm
• (Twin Cities Page)
• WWW servers in Minnesota
• City of St. Paul, Minnesota local government page
• Comprehensive list of sites
• Sudina Search (Baltimore-based placement firm, in case you are a hacker^H^H^H^H^H^H computer scientist who needs a new job)
• (Yahoo?)
• Mia DiGiovanni (a neat lady who is into polo...)
• Washington info
• More Washington info
• (any city)
• (WebCrawler)
• Jeff Gates' Home Page (another guy who thinks Netscape is the only browser)
• (supercomputing sites)
• Time Service at NASA Goddard
• Some information about a time server program from an archive at MIT.
• Download a time-server program.
• (info on providers)
• (info on providers)
• Alexandria, Virginia
• (VA road maps?)
• (novelty company?)

  TELNET/FTP - wb3ffv1.sed.csc.com (20.2.1.80) But you can telnet to freenet.vcu.edu; login as guest, with the password visitor.

• commercial URL's:
  • Apple
  • CodeWarrior
  • MacTech Mag

• non-commercial URL's dealing w/mac development:
  • http://www.astro.edu/lentz/mac/programming/home-prog.html
  • http://www.pitt.edu/~nick/
  • http://www.class.com/MacTech/URLs.html

• WAP
• Webcrawler (search engine)
• Yahoo (search engine)
• Weather
• Muppets
• User Group Connection
• NY Times fax edition
• BBC
• Ziff publications
• Claris Corporation
• CU-SeeMe events
• Info-Mac mirrors
• Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software
• Virtual Software Library (a search engine for software for many platforms and types)
• Voice FAQ (digital two-way voice over the Internet)

• Voice FAQ

• Microsoft

• Reston Community Players (a No. Va. theatre group)

• Family values? Censorship? Visit Families against Internet Censorship

• Mac scientific s/w (also radio-related stuff)

• Palo Alto California's Home page.
• OneWorld Home Page
• Phone Books
• Yanoff list of Internet services
• Yahoo
• Security APL Quote Server (forms-based)
• Stacy's List of Web-Starting Documentation
• Computers
• Mountain View
• The Whole Internet Catalog
• Buzzard's Nest
• Cray Research Service Bulletin
• ZIP+4 Lookup Form
• Census TMS Home Page
• MIT Lincoln Laboratory Home Page
• Cat Fanciers' Home Page
• The Church of Scientology vs. the Net
• The Dilbert Home Page
• Webaholics Top 50 Links List
• Matthew and Jake's Adventures
• Network Starting Points
• The MetaIndex
• MacInTouch Home Page
• Da Sloth's Home Page
• All-in-One Search Page
• Inter-Links
• Scientology Private Investigators
• NETLiNkS! Web Page
• Welcome to the public.com Personals.
• Pipeline Gopher Server
• Univeristy of Virginia SEAS
• Three Shields Hawaii
• DC ISP List
• Thousands of Great Links
• WOMEN OF THE WORLD
• Chez Adrienne
• "Where the Girls Are"
• Monika's Page
• Web HEAD
• Point Communications Corporation
• My webpage (dead link?)
• The Expertise Center
• Raymond Richman's MEMORIAL Home Pages
• Games Domain
• Central Intelligence Agency
• Vawter's Castles, Military and other Hobbies
• Recondite Reference Desk
• WeatherNet4
• Washingtonian Magazine Online
• CE Software Home Page
• HelpNET
• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• DC Clubs
• TCS Explorer Home
• We met on the Net
• Love and Romance Master Page
• Security APL Quote Server (non-forms version)
• InfoSeek Net Search
• Emma's Homepage (in English med Svenska sidan tilbehoer) (cat pictures)
• Web's Up on the What (many links to useful places)
• The Brown Alum Town Crier
• Knowbot Information Service (KIS) (Experimental)
• The Caltech CCO
• Celestin Company Home Page (music-related stuff)
• Master List Summary
• Cool Links (courtesy of Supra Corp., modem makers--now owned by Diamond Multi-media)
• Lycos
• Miscellaneous Links Page
• HyperArchive (an Info-Mac mirror, I think)
• Dr. Prestamo's Music Links
• Judaism and Jewish Resources
• Dali
• Official Mardi Gras page
• Evil House of Cheat
• Web art site
• Hyperion group which has a guide to San Francisco, the Babylon 5 FAQ, and other interesting stuff
• Netizens (are these people important to you?)
• Stock Quote Server (up to five quotes in one request)
• http://ds0.internic.net/dirofdirs/wwwsite/quotecom.b (more stock quotes)
• Stocks (still more...)
• Armey/Forbes/Gramm Flat Tax Proposals (what would your tax be under one of these proposals vs. your present tax? You may be surprised.)
• DejaNews Research Service - homepage (search Usenet for information--or misinformation!)
• Useful HyperLinks (many astronomy things here)
• Index to archives of newsgroup postings (Did you miss a Usenet article and have it vanish from your site while you were out of town--here is the index to the archive of postings, some up to a year long)
• the Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources (aka Hardin MD)--a list of lists of Internet medical resources
• Macintosh and the Internet
• BOBAWORLD
• Grand Lodge of New York Leadership Services
• Switchboard (all the US white pages--I found people I haven't talked to in years!)
• alt.binaries.pictures utility archive
• HQDALINK - Headquarters, Department of the Army Home Page
• DaveNet '96
• PointCast Home Page
• Iterated Systems Fractal Image Compression Pages
• MacWorld magazine
• MacUser magazine
• OnLive (live virtual reality conversations--don't know how fast your connection to the Net has to be, though)
• Charcoal grilling speeded up considerably...
• Search Voyeur (updated every twenty seconds to show what searches are being made using Excite's Magellan search engine)
• Here are some clip-art and graphics links I collected from Tripod:
  • zilphia: Lynn's WebMastery (may be a dead link) and Sausage Software Clip Art.
  • ThrashTheRash: Texture Land for "some great incredible backgrounds."
    
  • Apotome: Surf Madison File Libraries— huge index of graphics, searchable by topic, and well worth the trip.
  • stevecra: Animated Gifs at Club Unlimited— billed as the largest collection of animated gifs on the web;
    Dee Dee's Animation Collection;
    and Caboodles of Clip Art.
  • hot_dog_girl: Index of Icons, Images and Graphics "...well organized and [has] a variety of clip art images."
  • hkatlady: "I go shopping at Cool Graphics on the Web— links only, but plentiful and worthwhile."
  • Gryphon_Mage was nice enough to include enthusiastic commentary:
    Bill's Animated Gif Collection— "this place has TONS of animated gifs and links to other animated sites!"
    Corey's Vivien Leigh Homepage— "has Vivien Leigh pics!"
    and 13th Floor— "Movie posters."
  • SAkridge: "For all the fishermen out there I found some great pictures from the Dave Whitlock Clip Art Gallery to use on my homepage."
  • hintat: "Well, I kind of prefer animated gifs so here are a few good sites for all you dudes and babes out there!" Roger's Animated Gifs and The Micro Movie Mini Multiplex.
  • Paul_Nowko: The Clip Art Universe— this site requires that you have Netscape, just to warn you.
  • L.W.: Free Web Graphics from a Tripod member.
• FAQ on Reform Judaism (with links to the Pittsburgh and Columbus Platforms)
• More on Judaism
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Mandelbrot set information (including pictures which you can update)
• Does your news feed skip some groups? You can read all the news you want at Supernews.
• Model railroading