Various Links

Here are a variety of interesting or strange sites ...
in alphabetical order, more or less.

• Airship, Dirigible, Zeppelin Home page; somewhat slow to parse
• Biological Warfare
• Jessica Bailey's Book Review: "Generations" by Strauss & Howe
• The Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield's Public Library
  For the catalog,   telnet 208.133.228.1  ;
  you may find that `hardcopy' is your best terminal type
  even though your terminal is electronic, not a printer.
• The Black Horse Transatmospheric Vehicle
• The Center for Democracy and Technology
• CDT Privacy Demonstration Page: "Your name is probably ..."
• Cyclic Software, a free software company.
• The Longwave and Social Cycles Resource Centre
• Cygnus Support, a free software company.
• Economist Home Page
• EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Feminists for Free Expression
• Florida Today Space Online
• The Foresight Institute: Eric Drexler and nanotechnology
• Fred Hapgood on nanotechnology
• Noah Friedman's Home page
  with a software collection
• Linux Today
• How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab
• MIT distribution site for PGP
• PGP, Inc. Home Page
• Eric S. Raymond
• The Singularity: Vinge's Fiction? Non-fiction? Technologic Rapture?
• SlashDot: News for Nerds
• Cyril Slobin's Hotlist Page, from Moscow (English version)
• Hal R. Varian's Home Page (papers on Internet economics)
• Local test page

Yet more sites, organized more or less by topic ...

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

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

BBC, International Herald Tribune

• BBC News
• The International Herald Tribune

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
• 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

• GNU Home Page (freely redistributable software)
• Links to Libraries
• WWW Global Encyclopedia
• Jorn Barger's Robot Wisdom pages
• Singularity Sub-Page
• International Centre for Antarctic Information and Research
• Critical Discussion Tools for the Web
  Developed by the Foresight Institute (online annotations)
• Statistics (World-Wide Web Virtual Library, Univ. of Florida; 21 k)
• Eric Raymond's Home Page
• The Cyberspace Museum of Natural History and Exploration Technology
• Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University
• The Long Now Foundation
• Bizarre Stuff You Can Make in Your Kitchen
• Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical (hilarious)
• National Institutes of Health
• Email Faery Godmothers' Guide to Good Manners

Risks of Computers

• comp.risks Web site

Weather

Current Weather Forecasts

• Berkshires' 4-Day At-A-Glance Forecast
• 4-Day At-A-Glance Forecasts for the Northeastern US
• Albany weather forecast
• Discussion of Weather Forecasts by forecasters
  at Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, New York City Weather Bureau offices
• Boston weather forecast
• New York City weather forecast
• Pittsfield weather forecast

Current Weather Maps and Radar

• North East Radar: distinguish Rain, Mix, and Snow
• Current IR Satellite image of US
• Contiguous US Surface Analysis chart
• US Sat/Sfc Composite - radar, clouds, data (170k; slow to load)
• Latest GOES East Water Vapor Image (updated every every hour)
• Latest GOES West Water Vapor Image (updated every every hour)
• Antarctic temperatures (degrees Celsius)
• Antarctic composite (170k; slow to load)
• WorldWide Montage (updated every 6 hours)
• Latest World-Wide Water Vapor Image (updated every 3 hours)

Nation-wide US Weather from Intellicast

• Intellicast outlook for USA
• 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

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
• Yahoo
• 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
• US Federal Gov't Web Locator
• Mecklermedia's PC Webopaedia
  Defines technical definitions of computer terms
• PC Today Online computer hardware shopping center
• DAKCO PC computer hardware shopping center
• 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
• www.tomfolio.com: find books
• Library Of Congress
  Operates from 4:35am to 9:30 p.m.
  Mondays through Fridays Eastern time,
  with shorter hours on the weekends.

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

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