Interesting Links

Categories

• Computers and Computing (in main website)
• Creative Arts
• Danmark (in main website)
• Education
• Fishing
• Foreign Policy and National Security
• Funny Stuff: Humor and Satire (in main website)
• Girl Stuff
• Good Guys (and Girls)
• Health
• Law
• LibrarySpot
• Litterature
• Mathematics
• News (in main website)
• Opinions of Others on the Net
• Portal Sites (Sites with lots of stuff)
• Recipes
• Religion
• Self Improvement
• Shopping
• Stories
• Weather
• Wireless Communications
• ... new and unsorted

Creative Arts

• Wallpaper World
• Introduction to Bookbinding by professor Douglas Jones, Univ. of Iowa.
• Swan's Pumpkin Carving

Education

• Knowledge Adventure
• Learning Style Survey for College by Catherine Jester, Diablo Valley College.

Fishing (Commercial)

• California Seafood Council

Foreign Policy and National Security

• Inside Echelon from the German online magazine TELEPOLIS. A comprehensive article about the electronic monitoring activities of intelligence agencies.
• Nuclear Forces Guide from the Federation of American Scientists. Lots of details about the special weapons capabilities for nations around the world.
• A Futile Game of Hide and Seek and UNSCOM (U.N. Arms Inspectors in Iraq) Shake The Tree. Two Washington Post articles about Scott Ridder's work in Iraq.
• Violence as Policy in the Occupations of Palestine, Kashmir and Northern Ireland, a thesis by Michael Kolodner of Amherst College, April 1996. ( Alt. URL)
• Teaching the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, A Unit for High School Students by Ronald Stockton, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan-Dearborn (Nov 1993). A little outdated, but a good overview of the history.
• Nuclear Weapons: The High Energy Weapons Archive

Girl Stuff

• American Girls (Pleasant Company)
• Beanie Babies (Ty, Inc)
• Girl Scouts of the USA
  • Scouting Links (www.scoutinglinks.com) - Bridging the world of Scouting
    Including Girl Scouting/Guiding Resource Center
  • Girl Scouts® Shopping Mall
  • WAGGGS - World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
  • Thai Scouting
• Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frontier Girl
• Yahoo!

Good Guys (and Girls)

• Don Kimberlin is a veteran telecom engineer full of great stories about "the way it used to work".
• Russ Nelson owns Crynwr Software and was one of the pioneers in the Internet art of making a living from giving things away.
• Lauren Weinstein is a computer consultant who specialices in educating the public about the privacy issues arising from today's unfettered business databases. He is a frequent guest commentator on NPR news. His website also has some very interesting audio clips from the 1960's.
• Geoff Goodfellow, Steven Edelman and John Walker - three drop-outs from Silicon Valley.
• Gene Hoffman - Born in Denmark, living in Santa Barbara and travelling around the world for peace.
• John Levine - Unitarian writer of computer books (including a not yet published one about Linkers and Loaders). Also the sewer commissioner in his village in New York.
• William Kennard, Chairman of the FCC - he knows that Fiona Apple is not a computer.
• David Leppik - a UU in Minneapolis.
• Les Biffle - runs a network software company in Arizona.
• Robert Fish - a philosophical wildlife technician, teaching environmental theology.

Health

• HealthCare Reality Check - a great search engine for articles relating to nutrition and other health issues.
• Planet Blortland's Health Dome - Spiritual help for chemo patients
• Electronic Journals
• Welcome to the Simonton Cancer Center
• Wellness Support Programme
• Cottage Health System, Santa Barbara
• Tara - Scabies & Lice: Facts and Treatments That Work!

Law

• A Great Monopoly, The Atlantic, 21-May-1998. Microsoft and Standard Oil.
• 17 USC - Copyright

Litterature

• Robert A Heinlein

Mathematics

• Computer Science Student Support Site
  A great math toolbox designed for CompSci students.

Opinions of Others on the Net

• Peter Seebach's FAQ about Hackers
• The ClueTrain manifesto wants to be to Marketing what Linux is to Software Engineering. (Of course, some disagree: gluetrain; quite funny, actually).
• In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson (Here is another archive, in case the first one goes away.)
• Mother Earth Motherboard by Neal Stephenson (From WIRED, about the FLAG cable.)

Web Portals

• LibrarySpot.Com - Portal to many kinds of Libraries
• FourmiLab - The personal website of John Walker, the founder of AutoDesk.
• Illuminati Online's Hotlist

Recipes

• Anarchista's Vegetarian Recipes
• California Seafood Recipes
• The Porridge People (Vegan)

Religion

• The Bible
• An Introduction to Scientology and Who is Xemu?
  Two articles critical of the Church of Scientology.
• C. S. Lewis FAQ
• Churches ad Hoc, a Divine Comedy - a Photo Essay.

Self Improvement

• Learn2.Com - all sorts of How-To guides.
• Learn Hangul (Korean writing)

Shopping

• Air Travel
  • TraveloCity.Com
  • Expedia by Microsoft
  • SkyAuction.Com
• Auctions
  • eBay
• Books
  • Amazon.Com
  • Books.Com
  • Saxo.DK (in Danish)
• Computer Stuff
  • C|Net Shopper.Com

Stories

• The Rocket Car - the 40-page version of the classic JATO-assisted blue Impala story. ( Here is another, slightly less clean copy in case the one above link should go dead.) While this is almost certainly a work of fiction, written to put a different spin on all the details of the well-known story, it is quite amusing.

Weather

• National Weather Service
• The Weather Channel

Wireless Communications

• Common European Radio Frequency Allocations - 1998, 105 pages. Published by ERO.
• Global Positioning System (GPS) Technical Overview

... new and unsorted

• Genesis Stone Works - cool driveways
• Edge of Space Sciences, Inc.
• Geometric Paper Folding: Dr. David Huffman
• Secret Passage
• Famous Fonts {movies}
• WATTCP Information
• Dungeon
• Keith Lynch's timeline of spam related terms and concepts
• The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing
• Netcat
• Dan's Web Tips
• I sit in Siberia
• Systems Internals
• How Do I Get that ROM?
• TSIA (Task System and Item Architecture)
• Tommy's pinout collection
• MacWindows
• Edgar Dijkstra, index of works
• Computer Lessons for Kids, by Tom Koch
• mem's pointers to computer cases
• Anker Berg-Sonne
• The Sorting Algorithm Demo (1.1)
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication
• Goodman's Book Marks: US-Based Long Distance/Local Carriers
• Yahoo! Business and Economy: Companies: Computers: Hardware: Peripherals: Modems: Wireless
• The Network Nation Revisited
• Compliance Worldwide - Press Releases
• Welcome to Stuff Software, Inc.
• NPA for Windows
• Caller ID
• PPT Slide
• Data Comm for Business, Inc. T1 T-1
• HISTORY OF TELECOMMUNICATION FROM 1840 TO 1870
• Fone Finder query form
• TTC Standard Summary
• Web ProForum Tutorials: All Web ProForums
• Recommendation Q.724 (1988) - Specifications of Signalling System No. 7 - Telephone user part
• The Vintage Telephone Equipment Museum
• Telecom Tools Online - Powered by Network Analysis Center
• The White Alice Communications System
• A Farmer's Old Telephone Line
• HackCanada Telecom FAQ
• New York Net - Pictures of our POPs
• Committee T1 Technical Reports and Technical Requirements
• Scipio Utah AT&T microwave tower
• Phone Trips
• Outside Plant Magazine
• North American Numbering Plan Forum
• Media Fusion
• DSL - dslreports.com - the place for DSL, ADSL
• E1 Pocket Guide
• Welcome To Brian
• Cap'n Crunch's Home in Cyberspace
• UCC.IE help desk
• My eBay Page for lpoulsen
• Genesis Stone Works - cool driveways
• Edge of Space Sciences, Inc.
• Geometric Paper Folding: Dr. David Huffman
• Secret Passage
• Famous Fonts {movies}
• This is the HOME PAGE of  SÁNDOR LÉTA and his FAMILY
• Urban Legends Reference Pages
• Cindy Kandolf's Home Page
• Marijuana and The Drug War
• AMaViS - A Mail Virus Scanner
• NIST Chemistry WebBook
• MAHOUTI TRADING CO.
• OsiNon DC Meeting Pictures, January 15th 1999
• The Best Congress Money Can Buy
• PUBLIC ROADS On-Line (Summer 1996) - Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956: Creating the Interstate System
• sci.astro FAQ
• ChipCenter: The Web's First Definitive Electronics Resource
• 98lite for enhancing and embedding Windows9x

  Computer History

• Gordon Bell's Home Page
• Carl Friend's Computer Collection
• The Roots of SGML -- A Personal Recollection
• WPS:Dead Media:Working Notes:numerical index
• Knuth: MMIX
• TNO-FEL Museum: Computer history
• Digital Research
• Y10K
• Computer songs and poems: EVER ONWARD, IBM
• Photos of IBM Equipment circa 1968
• Netværksudbygning, 1985-92
• Unisys History Newsletter v1n3
• Doug Jones's CDC 160 index
• Gordon Bell Interview
• The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)
• The Spacecraft Onboard Computer Page
• Compspace.html
• 40 Years of Computing at Newcastle - Photographs

  Humor

• Corporate Standover Tactics For Dummies
• Danske support-guldkorn
• Geezer Area
• Humor - Clean - Tech Geek - Goldilocks
• CaveBear Site Directory
• Proverbs For Netizens
• Totally Absurd - Neeed A Quick Laugh?

  Telecom

• FCC Releases Study of Internet Backbone Market: Study Concludes that Competitive Internet Backbone Market Should Remain Free of Telecommunications Regulation
• GHTROUT - Gene's Phone Home Page
• Area Codes
• Telecom Information Resources
• Effect of Internet Use on the Nation's Telephone Network

  Dead Links

• The list of Orange Course sites!

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