Links for Gwynneth

(We can readily add or remove links and other text or images to this page.)

Weather

Current Local Radar

• Albany Radar: heights and speed
• Albany Radar: distinguish Rain, Mix, and Snow; no heights and speed

Berkshire County and Lenox

• Berkshires' 4-Day At-A-Glance Forecast
• 5-Day Forecast for Lenox, MA

Current and past 24 hours of Weather in nearby towns and cities

• Pittsfield Weather from the airport AWOS
• North Adams Weather
• Westfield, MA Weather
• Albany, NY Weather
• Bradley Airport, CT Weather

Soundings for Albany, NY

These soundings are made by satellite and are available only when the sky is clear. They graph the temperature at various altidutes.

• Albany, NY (ALB) sounding with parameter info
• Soundings (Skew-T) explanation
• Loop of Albany, NY (ALB) sounding

Current Weather Maps

• Current AccuWeather US map, diagramatic, with fronts
• Contiguous US Surface Analysis chart
• Composite Sat/Sfc Map - radar, clouds, data
• WorldWide Montage (updated every 6 hours)

Town and City Forecasts

• 5-Day Forecast for Lenox, MA
• New York City
• Chicago, IL
• Los Angeles, CA
• Beijing, China(temperatures in Celsius)
• Bangkok, Thailand(temperatures in Celsius)

Jetstreams

• Maps and forecasts of the jet stream over North America
• Latest jet stream map
• Latest jet stream map plus IR image

Nation-wide US Weather from Intellicast

• Intellicast outlook for USA; includes links to local forecasts
• Nation-wide radar, no tops or directions, 1 hr update
• Nation-wide radar, with tops and directions, 3 hr update
• Nation-wide satellite image, 3 hr update
• Nation-wide Jet Stream map, 12 hr update
• Various USA Nation-wide charts

Yet More Weather

• Weather images and maps at Unisys
• Weather Page at Harvard
• WeatherNet, Univ. of Michigan
• Weather24
• Nation-wide radar images from Unisys, including movie and past hours
• Boston Meteorologist Todd Gross
• Michael L. Dawley's Weather Page

Search the Net

Alta Vista Search

Yahoo Search

Google Search

Alta Vista Advanced Search Page

• Go to the page (more complicated than simple search)

Please note: I have not recently checked all the following links; some may be stale.

More Search Engines

• Hotbot, a search engine created by Wired
  wide coverage according to Science article
• Google, a search engine at Stanford,
  that lists sites more prominently according to how many other sites list it.
• DejaNews
  taps into the Usenet global electronic bulletin board network,
  makes a copy of every message, and stores and indexes them for
  easy public retrieval.
• Excite
• Lycos
• InfoSeek
• www.findmail.com stores messages from mailing lists.
• www.reference.com track mailing lists as well as newsgroups
• Infoseek
• Knowledge Adventure Encyclopedia (not very good: about 6th grade level)
• FTP search, Trondheim, Norway; apparently searches for all FTPable files
• The FTP Search engine at: ftpsearch.ntnu.no/ftpsearch

Finding People, Telephone numbers, or other Info

• MapQuest: graphically "zoom in"
  on the location of someone by their street address
• Look up telephone numbers at switchboard.com
• AT&T Lab's AnyWho: telephone number seearch: e.g. 510-644-xxxx
• 555-1212.com, includes reverse look-up
• wyp.net: find anyone by cross-referencing
  their phone number, name, street address (shut down for legal reasons)
• Finding People on the Internet
• infospace.com: find e-mail address
• www.four11.com: e-mail/phone
  Simsong says to use Four11 through
  Yahoo, which formats the output more nicely
• www.whowhere.com: e-mail/phone/address
• bigfoot.com: e-mail/phone/address/map
  Simsong says Bigfoot is the only service
  that clearly indicates when each record was updated.
• www.abii.com: phone/address/map

• Yahoo Guide
• How to search Web via Yahoo
• Gnuhoo
• How to search the World Wide Web
• Lycos Fuzzy WEB Index
• World Wide Web Search Engines
• Massachusetts Government Links
• US Federal Gov't Web Locator
• US Patent and Trademark Office
• Search for Trademark Acceptable Identifications
  and index of Goods and Services along with their identification code.
• Mecklermedia's PC Webopaedia
  Defines technical definitions of computer terms
• PC Today Online computer hardware shopping center
• DAKCO PC computer hardware shopping center
• GNN Network navigator
• Fertility rates, etc. at www.census.gov
• More from www.census.gov
• CIA World Factbook, in slow to load frames

Finding Books

• www.amazon.com
• Advanced Book Exchange
  for finding out of print books.
• Bookstore: Powell's City of Books, Portland, OR (large store)
• alibris.com: out of print and rare books
• www.bibliofind.com: out of print and rare books
• Library Of Congress
  Operates from 4:35am to 9:30 p.m.
  Mondays through Fridays Eastern time,
  with shorter hours on the weekends.

News

Nando Times

• NandO Health & Science
• The NandO Times World News
• Nando InfoTech News
• NandO Business News
• NandO U. S. News
• NandO U. S. Politics

Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times

• The Washington Post: online News Digest
• Los Angeles Times
• New York Times

BBC, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times

• BBC News
• The International Herald Tribune
• Financial Times of London

Forbes, Barrons, World Wide Financial Network, The Weekly Standard

• Forbes
• Barrons
• World Wide Financial Network (related to IBD?)
  with realtime stock and index charts
• Wall Street Journal
• The Weekly Standard

CNN Markets current, MarketCentral

• CNN Financial: US Markets current
• CNN Financial: World Markets current
• MarketCentral
• SmartMoney Market info

San Jose Mercury News, Iceland News, News for Nerds

• San Jose Mercury News
• Iceland News
• SlashDot: News for Nerds

Geography

• Satellite photos of areas on the Earth
• Norad Tracks Santa
• The U.S. Census's TIGER Mapping Service
  provides a public resource for generating high-quality,
  detailed maps of anywhere in the United States,
  using public geographic data.

Centers for Disease Control

• CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• CDC: Data and Statistics
• CDC: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• About the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Miscellaneous

• Noam Chomsky Celebration page
• Jorn Barger's Robot Wisdom pages
• Jet Propulsion Lab Home Page (JPL)
• George Minkoff: books, archives (Berkshires, Massachusetts)
• Singularity Sub-Page
• ViaSpace Technologies (may be slow to load)
• A `program to generate "optimally beautiful" faces'
• Critical Discussion Tools for the Web
  Developed by the Foresight Institute (online annotations)
• History of Eyeglasses
• The Shrunken Head HOWTO page
• Statistics (World-Wide Web Virtual Library, Univ. of Florida; 21 k)
• WIRED Magazine
• Global Network Academy
• Links to Libraries
• WWW Global Encyclopedia
• United States Code: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
• A computer game with evolving enemies; CalTech
• CalTech Home Page
• The Internet Museum of Holography
• Eric Raymond's Home Page
• Blink
• Wiretap (Collections of Jokes, etc.)
• Elect. Eng. Times
• Tom's Hardware Guide -- reviews of new computer systems
• The Cyberspace Museum of Natural History and Exploration Technology
• Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University
• Green Manufacturing
• Idea Futures market
• All claims: Idea Futures market
• Price summary: Idea Futures market
• Email Faery Godmothers' Guide to Good Manners
  An example for people who subscribe to mailing lists.
• The Long Now Foundation
• Bizarre Stuff You Can Make in Your Kitchen
• Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical (hilarious)
• Shakemap: maps of intensities in earthquakes above magnitude 4.0
• National Institutes of Health
• William Calvin Home Page
• The Brunching Shuttlecocks -- Humor, Allegories

Iowa Electronic Market

• Iowa Electronic Market: Explanation
• Iowa Electronic Market: FAQ

Risks

• comp.risks Web site

Space

Mars

• Mars Polar Lander Home Page
• JPL's Mars news site
• Mars Polar Lander: Mars Volatiles and Climate Surveyor (MVACS) page
• Deep Space 2 (Mars penetrators) home page
• Mars Global Surveyor
• Mars Global Surveyor: images
• Astronomy Now news site

Solar Observing

• Mt. Wilson Observatory 150-Foot Solar Tower

Planetary Information

• Planetary Sciences at the National Space Science Data Cente (NSSDC)
• Images of planets
• Nine Planets site
• Alien Planet Design site

Space Probes

• JPL Space Missions
• Status reports: Mars Global Surveyor, Climate Orbiter, and Polar lander
• Deep Space 1 Update page
• Project Galileo Home page (JPL)
• Cassini
• SOHO
• Voyager 1 and 2
• Pioneer 10

NASA Updates

• NASA Headlines page
• NASA Watch
• NASA news releases
• Chandra X-Ray Observatory Home page

Online Texts

• Index of books online
• The On-line Books Page
• Books online, searchable by author
• Books online, searchable by title
• Project Gutenberg
• Oxford Text Archive
• Online Book Initiative
• Project Bartleby
• Project Runeberg
• Quartz archive
• Usenet Univerity docs
• Saki online, and maybe others?
• Virtual Online University

Metric Conversion

• Convert It
• Entisoft Units
• MegaConverter
• French Property Metric Conversion Tables
• Science Made Simple
• University of Berlin Conversion of Units

Medical

• Dr Kroop
• Majo Clinic
• WebMD
• QuackWatch
• Health on the Net