Oh, the places you'll go...

THE BEGINNING OF IT ALL!
My home page

Alan's personal favorites:

• Arts & Letters Daily Edition - terrific
• SciTech Daily Review
• MIT Lectures video archives
• Daypop - current news search engine
• Google Advanced Search - re-link based results
• Yahoo
  • Yahoo's most emailed
• The Lycos top-50
• All FAQs
• The Reference Desk
  • Facts on file - very good
• Eric's Treasure Troves of Science
• Information Please - reference galore
• The Internet Movie Database
• MovieLink - (333-Film on-line!) - movie theaters, times, and tickets
• Ticketmaster events

Information!

News:
• On-line:
  • Yahoo Top Stories
  • The news room - current headlines
  • The Nando Times
  • Slashdot:News for Nerds
  • Newslinx Cyberlaw daily news
• TV:
  • CNN
  • ABCNews
  • MSNBC
  • Fox News
  • The internet Television News Archive - part Gopher - cool info
• Newspapers:
  • The New York Times
  • The Wall Street Journal interactive
  • The Washington Post
  • The Financial Times of London
  • USA Today
  • Campus Newspapers on the internet
    • The Tech - MIT
    • WPI's Newspaper - Newspeak
    • Conservative Colligiate Publications nationwide
  • Fark: news of the strange
• Magazines:
  • Time
  • NewsWeek
  • U.S. News & World Report
  • The Economist
• Radio:
  • National Public Radio (NPR) - Realaudio really helps
  • ABC News Radio - realaudio
• Document Center for News Documents - cool

Just Plain old usefull info:
• How Stuff Works
• SoYouWanna
• eHow - the HOW-TO guide for life
• RepairClinic.com - appliance troubleshooting
• MIT's Globe Server - natural language answer system
• The CIA World Factbook
• IP address to Lat/Long
• How far is it?
• Atlas of the United States
• MapQuest - Markable US streetmap and direction finder
• Mapblast! - maps, yellow pages, weather, etc
• MAPS of all parts of the world - Very Nice
• World Population NOW
• World Flags: Top-level Indices
• IMAGES, ICONS AND FLAGS
• Space Imaging - Wicked Cool!
• Real-time Drawn Clock
• Weather:
  • Intellicast weather
  • Weather Underground
  • The Weather Channel
  • AccuWeather
• SmarTraveler - traffic updates
  • Boston traffic scene
• Sigalert.com - California Traffic status
• Accident Reports from 28 US cities
• WorldWide ATM Locator
• BigBook Directory Search - yellow pages
  • The Nynex Yellow Pages - northeast
• Switchboard National White Pages - Cool
• AT&T; Anywho Directory Information
  • Reverse lookup
  • Toll-Free Listings
• InfoUSA - directory services w/reverse
• Area code lookup w/reverse
• National Address Server - zip+4 and barcode for envelopes
• Zip Code directory
• US Postal Abbreviations
• Random.org - generate really random numbers
• What time is it NOW
• The Time Zone Converter Page
• Perpetual Calendar
• Measurement Units calculator - Javascript
• The Stain Removal Guide
• Barpoint barcode lookup page
• The Currency Conversion Calculator
• Who's alive and who's dead?

Travel:
• C|Net's Travel Topic Center
• Direct Links:
  • All Airlines on the web
  • Airline 800 numbers
  • All Hotel Chains
  • All US Car Rental Agencies - from snap.com
• Destination Guides:
  • The Rec.travel-library homepage
  • Timeout.com
  • Citysearch.com - US Cities (formerly sidewalk.com)
  • Digitalcity
  • Fodor's guide - the good stuff
  • Arthur Frommer's Guide - the cheap stuff
  • The Michelin Guide - European Planner
  • National Geographic's Iexplore
  • Lonely Planet
  • Gorp
  • The National Park Service's Parks Guide
  • The Hiking Trail Registry - cool
  • Eastern US Waterfalls guide
  • The Dine Site - nice
  • Paris.org
  • I-95 travel companion
  • Roadside America
• Agents:
  • Orbitz
  • Travelocity - (they bought out previewtravel)
  • Expedia
  • Travel-Ascending
  • TheTrip.com
  • Travelscape
  • Travelweb - book hotels online
    • Click-It Weekends
  • The Accomodations Search Engine
  • All the Hotels on the Web
  • Worldwide Hotel Guide
  • The Internet Guide to Hostelling
  • Sta Student Travel
  • Cheap Tickets.com
  • Priceline - name your fare
• Transportation resources on the net
• Trains, Trams, Subways, Eurorails and Metros
  • Worldwide Subway Navigator
  • Amtrak
  • Rail Europe
    • RailEurope Interactive Map
• Buses:
  • Greyhound
  • Peter Pan
• FAA Flight Information page
• On-line flight tracking
• Worldwide Airport server
• Airports by country
  • Los Angeles World Airports
• Tourism Offices Worldwide
  • The U.S. State Department travel page
• Bestplaces.net - assess a number of factors about various cities
• MSN City Comparer
• Homefair - moving/realty portal
• The Salary Conversion Calculator
• The National Speedtrap Registry - for real
• Cheap-Fuel.com - gas stations nationwide
• Motorists.com
• The North American Hitchhiker's Page
• AAA

Libraries and "real" information centers:
• The Librarian's Guide to the Internet
• The Last Word - answers to all sorts of questions
• Research-it! - nice, convenient tool
• The UMich Documents Center
  • Statistical Resources online - great info
• The internet public library - reference
• University Microfilms International
• Online computer Library Center (OCLC) Home Page
• Clearinghouse for subject-oriented Internet Resources
• LoC Goverment Electronic Library
• Ask Eric Virtual Library Main Menu
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue
• MIRLYN, the UMich library - telnet
• Listing of Academic Journals on-line
• The Online Books Page - lots of them
• Alex: Electronic Texts on the internet - extensive collection
• Bartleby
• The Complete works of William Shakespeare
• Funk and Wagnalls
• Free On-line Encyclopedia
• Microsoft Encarta on-line
• Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems:
  • The MIT Laboratory for Computer Science's Haystack Lab
  • The MIT A.I. Lab
    • The Information Architecture Project
  • Zooland! - guide to Alife resources on the net
  • The MIT Media Lab
  • IBM Alpha Works
  • Bell Laboratories
  • Xerox PARC
  • HP Labs
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Linguistics:
  • Language Sites on the Internet
  • Babelfish - online translation
  • A Web of on-line dictionaries - very nice
    • Your Dictonary
    • Webster's
  • Roget's Theraurus
  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
  • MIT Department of Linguistics
    • Steven Pinker's Homepage
  • Human Languages page
  • The English Server at CMU
  • Grammar and Style Notes
  • The Acronym Finder
• Art:
  • The WebMuseum
  • The Louvre
  • Sistine Chapel
  • National Museum of American Art
  • Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher (1898-1972) Home Page
  • DaliWeb
• Geography:
  • National Geographic
  • World Map (Xerox)
  • Interactive Geographical Index
  • Geosciences
• Law:
  • Supreme Court Decisions - nice
  • Famous Trials (american)
  • Internet Case Digest - cases about the internet
  • FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources
  • The Internet Law Library
  • Lawlinks: Law Library
  • The Federalist Society - a conservative legal think tank
  • Law Journal Extra!
  • Index of Major Laws related to the U.S. Department of Labor - Compliance Assistance
  • Massachusetts Tenants Rights
  • ALL California law
• History and Philosophy
  • The History Net
  • Footnotes to History
  • The National Park Service Cultural Resources
  • Great Thinkers page
  • In the hall of MAAT: Weighing the evidence of alternative history
  • All types of Phylosophers
  • Religion & Skepticism
    • The talk.origins FAQ Archive - extensive
    • The Left Hemisphere: Skepticism, Religion, and Secularism
    • Frequently Encountered Criticisms in Evolution vs. Creationism
    • The Secular Web
    • The American Humanist Association
    • Donald Simanek's Home Page.
    • Skeptics Journal
    • James "The Amazing" Randi's Homepage
    • MIT's God and Computers lecture series
    • The General Theory of Religion Homepage
  • Wired Online: Brain Tennis - on-line discussion
  • Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot"
• Schools:
  • Teaching resources online
  • Colleges and Universities Worldwide
  • American Universities
  • Peterson's Education Center - The people who make those college guides
  • Educational Testing Services (ETS)
  • The College Board
  • Kaplan's link library
  • The Princeton Review
  • FinAid! - Student guide to financial aid
• Other misc. research:
  • SparkNotes - ala Clift Notes, but free
  • Homework Central
  • Global Health Key resources
  • A Healthy Me
  • Introduction to System Dynamics
  • Human Nature Daily Review
• The Smithsonian Institute - Really Nice
  • Smithsonian museums
  • Smithsonian Magazine

Internet Information Servers (and guides thereto):
• C|Net Central - great guide
• InfoSpace
• What's New With NCSA Mosaic - retired
• Internet events database
• ALL WWW servers - for real
• Internet Tools Summary
• Pure Info - from Werdna's page
• Usefull Info
• Internet Resources (from RPI)
• Internet Resources Meta-Index
  • Internet Resources Metamap
• People:
  • College Phone Books - gopher
  • Netfind - telnet
  • Internet Address Finder
  • WhoWhere? Internet-based whitepages
  • Addresses.com

Search Engines:
• Altavista, the most comprehensive search engine
• HotBot, the most accurate search engine
• Lycos - popularity based results
• Google
  • Dejanews - best usenet search tool
  • Google Image Search
  • Google Catalogs
  • Linux search
• Wisenut
• Teoma
• SavvySearch - a nice wrapper
• W3 Search Engines
• Search.com (now from cnet)
• AllTheWeb.com - fast
• WebCrawler
• GoTo.com (formerely the World Wide Web Worm)
• CUSI
• Looksmart
• Northernlight
• PlanetSearch
• Local Eyes - geographical-based searching
• Ask Jeeves - Natural Language searches
• FindSounds - search for noise patterns

Information Gathering Centers (indexes to web documents):
• The Open Directory Project
• Portals:
  • MyWay - ad free portal
  • Netscape Netcenter
  • MSN
  • AOL
  • Go!
  • Starting Point
  • JumpCity
• The Awesome List
• The Incredibly Useful links
• The Internet Cool Guide
• The New York Times Reference Gallery
• Links2go - cross-referenced topic searching
• HotSheet - a prettier, less useful version of this list
• AccessPlace - categorized weblinks, nicely done
• Netree - internet news headlines and links
• MegaGo
• Miningco - guides by experts
• About.com - human guides
• EINet Galaxy
• UWI's Web's Edge
• Enter the CNS gopher
• Virtual Tourist - map-based web surfing
• The Green Eggs report (URLs sorted by newsgroups)
• Personal Hotlists:
  • A whole lot of computer resources
  • Special Internet Connections (Yanoff's 1995 List)
  • John Shutt's Web Surfing page
  • Bookmarks for Dean
  • Brian's Space Hotlist

The Government:
• FirstGov index to US Gov resources
  • White House
  • Congress (Thomas)
    • The House of Representatives
    • The Senate
  • U.S. Intelligence community - the CIA, dept. of State, etc...
• National Budget Simulation
• FedStats
• Scientific data from the CDC
• Citizen's Guide to the Federal Budget
• Our Documents
• FedWorld Home Page
• Guide to federal financial aid
• FileAmerica.com commerical agent for government form filing
  • Register for Selective Service
• US Government Statistics page
• U. S. Bureau of the Census Home Page
  • Statistical Abstract of the US - Really Cool
  • Subjects A to Z
• DOE - Office of Scientific and Technical Information
• Intellectual Property Network
• U.S. Patent/Full Text
• NSF STIS - gopher
• National Academy of Science/National Research Council
• Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page
• United Nations.

Politics:
• 2002 State Elections
• George W. Bush campaign site
• CNN/Time ALLPolitics
• The Green Papers - Political factories
• Congressional Quarterly's American Voter - rate your rep!
• PollingReport.com public opinion tracking
• Almanac of American Politics - members only
• Federal Election Commission Information
• Opensecrets - Money in Politics data
• Politcal organizations links y
• Vote-Smart: political information server
• The Iowa Electronic Market - a stock market for political races
• The Libertarian Party
  • Libertarian.org
• Republican National Committtee
  • The 2000 Republican Platform
• Ronald Reagan Tribute page
• Christopher Hitchens homepage
• Town Hall.com: Conservative News and Information
• Capitalism.org
• Freedom and Prosperity Organization
• The Heritage Foundation
• The Republican Liberty Caucus
• Citizens for a Sound Economy
• Capital Reserach Center (CRC)
• Empower America
• The Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment
• Liberty file collection index
• The Progress & Freedom Foundation
• The ACLU
• The Institute for Justince - a less liberal version of the ACLU
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
• Privacyrights.org

Business, Finance and e-commerce:
• Consumer Information:
  • The government's consumer information Catalog - Nice!
  • Consumersearch
  • California Department of Consumer Affairs Resource & Referral Guide
    • Public Utilities Commission complaints
  • Utility Consumer's Action Network
  • The Kelly Blue Book (used car prices)
  • Edmund's (new car prices)
  • C.A.S.P.I.A.N. - anti supermarket card group
• Resources for Economists on the Web
  • Shortcut to all resources - Nice!
• CNBC
• CNN-fn
• Motley Fool
• Forbes Magazine
• They Rule
• Interactive Quotes
• Experimental Stock Market Data and charts - Impressive
• Stocks and Commodities WWW Resources
• WallStreetWeb - Java stock portfolio manager
• Free 20 Minute Delayed Quote Watch
• IBC: Internet Business Center
• The Business Research Institute
• Internet Business Yellow Pages
• Commercial Sites on the Web
• Consulting, Financial, and Trading firms:
  • Merryl Lynch
  • Paine Webber
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Pricewaterhouse Coopers
  • Ernst and Young
  • Andersen Conmsulting
  • KPMG
  • EDS
  • Charles Schwab
  • E-Trade
  • Ameritrade
• Non-computer businesses:
  • Haagen Daz
  • Slush Puppie
  • Electric Power Industry resources
  • Citibank
  • Nike
  • Frito Lay
  • LEGO
  • Gallup organization - the pollsters
  • Nielsen Media Research
  • UPS
  • FedEx
  • Welcome to Pizza Hut!
  • Crayola
  • Nantucket Nectars
  • Virgin
• Electronics:
  • Sony Online
  • Royal Phillips Electronics
  • Magnavox
  • Samsung
  • Qualcomm
• Computer-related businesses:
  • IBM - International Business Machines
  • DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation (now compaq)
  • HP - Hewlett-Packard
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Dell
  • SGI - Silicon Graphics
  • NeXT
  • Apple Computer
  • Intel
  • Motorolla
  • Xerox
  • NEC Home Page
  • Diamond (video cards)
  • Novell
  • Wolfram Research - makers of mathematica
  • Mathworks - makers of Matlab
  • MathSoft - makers of Matchcad
  • Maplesoft - makers of Maple
  • Quarterdeck
• E-Commerce:
  • BottomDollar - lowest price search
  • The all-internet Shopping Directory
  • HomeDelivery.com
  • eBay
  • Intellibarter
  • NetMarket
  • Buy.com
  • Amazon.com
  • Barnes and Noble
  • Border's
  • Bibliofind - hard-to-find book searcher
  • Efollett - online textbooks
  • E-toys
  • Toys R Us
  • FAO Schwarz
  • CarPrices.com
  • Swap-a-lease - car lease exchange board
  • AutoByTel
  • Tire Rack
  • The Electronic Newstand - magazine subscribtion offers
  • Everything Computer for sale
    • TigerDirect
    • Outpost.com which is only here because of their cool ads
    • CompUSA on-line
    • RAM & CPU, good stuff
    • NetExpress - built-to-order computers
    • Antenas for wi-fi
  • IQVC - electronics
  • Sharper Image
• Strong Numbers - supply and demand based prices

Computer Related information:
• WhatIs.com - all about tech
• Hardware guide to PCs - Terrific
  • All about SCSI
• MIT Athena Consulting (OLC) Stock Answers
• The Training Registry
• CNET's Gadgets Page
• Computer Graphics Home Page
• KAI's power tips for Adobe Photoshop
• the Tweakster - DSL/Cable speed settings
• Net Speed Test
• CPU info center
• Newsgroups on computing
• CNET's Leadership Forum
• Gilder Articles Index - recommended
• On The edge of the digital age - a series of essays
• Paul Graham articles
• NerdWorld Media Homepage
• Computing Dictionary
• AdTran ISDN support
• Winmodems are not modems
• Virtual Machine solutions
• Emulation & transference:
  • MAME: Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
    • Mame ROMs
  • Romination: Roms and Emulators
  • VNC
  • Emulation.net
  • The MESS Homepage
• Apple
  • Mac OS/X labs
  • Apple Airport networking
    • Airport basestation configurator & utilities
    • How to reset an Apple Airport basestation
  • old Newton Stuff:
    • THE Newton reference site
    • Newton Books list
    • Catamount Software page
• OS/2 Stuff:
  • OS/2 BBS
    • David Barne's home page
  • The OS/2 WWW Homepage (@MIT)
  • OS/2 Information Page
  • OS/2 Apps (esp. Net stuff)
  • TeamOS/2 Online
    • OS2Web
• Unix Stuff:
  • The XFree86 FAQ
    • ALL Window Managers for X
    • X-Windows Themes
    • FVWM
      • list of FVWM rc files
    • Mouse support in XFree86
  • The Gnome Foundation
  • Linux Homepage
    • Linux online help - HOW-TO listings
    • The Linux Documentation Project
    • Kernel.org
      • Linux Hardware Compatibility Guide
    • Linux Enterprise Computing
    • Linux Virtual Server Organization
    • Distributions + files
      • Red Hat
        • Errata
        • Hardware Compatibility Guide
      • Mandrake
      • Caldera
      • Linux one-disk distributions
        • Coyote Linux
        • The Linux 1-disk VNC viewer
        • Tom's "most linux on 1 disk"
        • Yard's make your own rescue disk
      • FreshRPMs - for redhat
      • RPMfind
      • rpm.pbone.net - search RPMs by file
      • Freshmeat - new linux software
      • SourceForge
    • ALSA
      • Using Alsa on Redhat
    • Video4linux resources
    • The Linux Terminal Server Project
    • Linux on Laptops
    • Linux Printing
  • Pine
  • Dotfiles
• Windows Stuff:
  • Windows Annoyances - cool page
  • Tuning Windows for Broadband
  • TUCOWS (winsock archive)
  • NTscript example
  • Freeware SSH and SCP for Win32
• Top Warez sites
• Shareware.com archives - extensive
• Download.com archives
• Jumbo Shareware Archives
• The Abandonware Web Ring
• Old Versions
• BYTE magazine
• ZD-net (Ziff-Davis Publishing)
  • PC MAGAZINE Home Page
• Red Herring Magazine
• Wired
• O'Reilly Home Page
  • O'Reilly Developer's Hub
• The Experts' exchange
• HotDispatch - instant answers
• DevX: Developer information
• IBM Redbooks

Information about and resources for the internet iteself:
• WWW User Survey (from Georgia Tech) - very well done
  • Internet Packet counter
  • Web Demographics
• The Smithsonian Internet Series
• A brief history of the internet
• Internet Timeline
• Estimate of Internet size
• All Worldwide NICs
  • The InterNIC Home Page - U.S. DNS services
• The Ethernet FAQ
• About IP Addressing
• All Media Types
• IP Commands
• Comprehensive information about NATs
• The IMAP rfc
• ALL internet country codes
• Searchable Directory of e-Mail Discussion Groups
• An ISP/BBS list by Area Code
• The LIST (of ISPs)
  • New England Internet Service Providers
• Wide-ranging technical information page
• How Fast is YOUR internet connection - from MSN
• ICQ (I seek you) - buddy software

Web (HTML) Development:
• Index.html
• Index to all HTML tags
• Yale C/AIM WWW Style Manual
• ANU - Making a WWW Flop
• CNET - HTML tips and tricks
• The Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
  • CGI Environment Variables
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Apache::ASP
• The PHP page - server-side scripting language
• Server side Includes NCSA guide
• Apache Virtual Host Documentation
• Index of Perl related links
• SQL tutorial
• JAVA!
  • Gamelan - Large Java applet collection
  • Free Java applets page
• NCSA Home Page
• The W3C
• Browser Plug-ins
  • Netscape Plug-ins page
• Randy's Icons and Images - very well organized
• A collection of icons, lines, .gif balls, etc...
• Tons o'icons
• Internet Graphics Renderer
• The transparent/interlaced gif homepage
• Textures for HTML 3.0 Clients
• Backgrounds for web pages...with on-line testing
• Programming Netscape
• Gilbert's Guide to Netscape Server Side Includes
• NCSA HTTPd Tutorial: Server Side Includes (SSI)
• Apache (server) modules (.htaccess help)
• Apache Virtual Host Documentation
• The Apachee Survival Guide
• C-net Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) help
• Macromedia's Dynamic HTML zone
• Guide to making good Macromedia Flash sites
• Copyright Basics
• Copyright myths
• Library of Congress Copyright Search Page
• RxHTML, the HTML doctor - analysis of HTML structure
• Submit-it! - Great way to publicize a web page
• ICANN
• Namezero Domain Registrar
• NewtowrkSolutions
• Free Web/Email Places
  • Angelfire - web space
  • Juno - email with ads
  • Bigfoot - free email forwarding
  • Hotmail - free email and forwarding
  • Hotpop - free POP mail
  • WhaleMail - Email large files
  • PhotoPoint - free photo exchange

Hacking/Cracking and Security issues:
• CERT
• Worldwide worm/virus alert center
• Vulnerability and patch listings
• ServerWatch
• Packet Storm Security
• New Order Security
• The hacker underground
• unix / net / hack page - often not up
• Directory of /users/k/kludge/Hack
• ATTRITION
• HackHU
• Cryptography: The Study of Encryption
• The PGP FAQ
• the Anonymous Remailer FAQ
• Nym creation and use guide
• Silenproxy - proxied web surfing
• The anonymizer
• How to set up a simple web circumventer for windows
• Digital Privacy issues
• Guide to Lock Picking
• The PC Hacking FAQ
• The 2600 web site
  • The 2600 DeCSS mirror site list
• Paranoia.com
• The Stalker's homepage
• The Spy Store

Science:
• Science Publications:
  • Popular Science magazine
  • The AAAS - publishers of Science
  • Nature
• On-line Technology Expo
• Bill Nyes, Science Guy
• The Exploratorium
• NOVA's web page
• Astronomy and Space Science:
  • AAS Home Page (American Astronomical Society)
  • The Planetary Society
  • National Space Society
  • National Air & Space Museum
    • Air&Space; magazine
  • Space.com
  • WWW Astronomy Services
  • A guide to the universe
  • Mapping the universe
  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  • The Star Hustler
  • Stephen Hawking's Universe
  • NASA Home Page
    • Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)
      • Welcome to the Planets (from JPL)
    • Welcome to Goddard Space Flight Center
    • Space Calendar
      • Today@NASA
    • NASA Spacelink - educational resource
    • On-line Mission tracking
  • Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • MIT Center for space research
    • The Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer - My old Group
      • My old work homepage
  • MIT (founding) SEDS chapter
• Physics servers around the world
• Society for the advancement of Autodynamics
• Space Exploration Collectibles and Merchandise
• Celestia, 3D space simulator
• Breathrough Propulsion Physics Program
• Aviation routes (great-circle geometry)
• sStreams - scientific software sharing
• Scientific Software for Linux
• Science Policy
• Mathematics:
  • Frequently Asked Questions In Mathematics
  • Interactive Mathematics
  • Martindale's: Mathematics - very nice
  • Internet center for mathematics problems
  • Mega-Mathematics - from Los Alamos
  • Meta-Mathematics - online formal proofs
  • A Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry
  • Mathematical Art
  • GAMS : Guide to Available Mathematical Software
  • Free Statistics on the Web
  • e-MATH (AMA) Home Page
  • Knots homepage
  • The Uselessness of Pi and Friends
  • The Four Color Theorem
• Data:
  • The Astronomical Data Center
  • Space Physics Research Laboratory
  • Fundemental Physical Constant values
  • Constants and Equations
  • Web-Elements - Very nice periodic table
  • Fundemental Physical Particles (an explanation)
  • Powers of 10 expressed as Data quantities
  • Weights and Measures

Career Resources:
• National Academy of Science's Career Planning Center
• Lendman - Career Fairs Nationwide
• Freeagent.com - resources for freelancers
• Entertainment Careers
• Mathematical careers
• The Mathematics Job market
• Consulting Industry Overview
• Management Consulting opportunities
• Ask The Headhunter
• Volunteer Matching
• GeekCorps
• Performing Arts jobs
• Local / Newspapers:
  • Massachussets Job Postings
  • Boston Globe Help Wanted
  • Cambridge Search - Boston high tech jobs
  • The LA-Times Employment helper
  • The San Jose Mercury News (silicon valley) Talentscout
  • The San Diego Union Tribune Classifieds
• National Tools:
  • The Monster Board
    • JobTrak - for students
  • Hotjobs
  • Guru - for contractors
  • Brassing jobs & fairs
  • Helpwanted.com
  • FindJobs.com
  • America's Job Bank (from the public employment service)
  • Selectjobs.com
  • Careermagic
  • Careerweb
  • Dice job search engine
  • Jobweb
  • JobNext
  • Nation Job Search
  • Thingamajob
  • Net-temps
  • JobOptions, formerly E*Span
  • Imaxo - get paid to interview
  • Jobfind.com
  • Technet-INC
  • JobsBazaar
  • The Carrera Agency
• International / Study Abroad:
  • Planet EDU
  • Overseasjobs.com
  • All Abroad
  • Yahoo's study abroad listings
  • Council on International Education Exchange
  • International Studies Abroad
  • International Studies and Travel Center
  • CC USA
• Alan's Resume - hire me!

Entertainment

Sounds, Pictures, and Movies (others might call this multimedia - not I):
• List of Bests - collection of award lists
• TV4all - Your guide to Internet TV
• Rob's New Multimedia Lab
• Echo Vibes - free sounds for your website
• Machines on the net
• COOL STUFF on the net (art, music, zines, more)
• ZeroPaid guide to free music swap programs on the net
  • Napster
  • BitTorrent
  • Lycos' MP3 Search Engine
• CNET's MP3 Tools guide
• Shoutcast, Streaming audio
• Real Audio
  • Community Supported (unix) versions of RealPlayer
• Spinner, a Realaudio wrapper
• Xing: Streamworks internet audio and video
• Q-Sound
• The DVD Faq - extensive
• DVDRHelp / VCDHelp
• Internet Talk Radio
• MIT's live video files:
  • Live Video feeds
  • Live Television Source
  • Browse Video Files
• Pictures NOW from around the world
• The Webcam list

TV and Movies--reviews and homepages:
• Networks:
  • ABC
  • NBC
    • Jay Leno
    • Conan O'Brien
  • CBS
    • Craig's Crib
    • Letterman
  • FOX on-line
  • Turner Broadcasting
  • The BBC Home Page
  • ESPN
  • The Discovery Channel On-line
  • E!
• Studios:
  • Buena Vista's Press Room
  • MCA/Universal Studios
  • Paramount Pictures
  • Disney
• TV Guide
• What's on Tonight! - TV listings
• TV Shows Reviews and Forums
• Blockbuster Video
• Ad-critic
• The 50 best commercials of all time
• The TV Commercial Song Title reference
• Television's greatest quotations
• The TV-show Episodes guides page
• Jump The Shark - Where did your favorite program cross the line?
• Reality TV World
• Homepages of Specific Programs & Films:
  • The James Bond Homepage
  • The Dennis Miller Homepage
  • E!'s Wild ON!
  • Blind Date
  • Hitchcock Home Page
  • Knight-rider
  • Penn & Teller
  • Star Trek:
    • Yahoo's Trek Section
    • The Star Trek Archive- TOO extensive
      • Star Trek Ships guide
    • Starfleet Personnel, Enterprise
    • United Federation of Planets Home Page
    • Holodeck 3
      • The daily Star Trek test
    • The Series:
      • Star Trek
      • Star Trek: The Next Generation (ST:TNG) - arguably the best page on the web,
      • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
      • Star Trek : Voyager
      • Enterprise
• TV Eyes - watch for keywords on television
• Celebrities on-line
• Nitpicker's web

Music:
• The All Music Guide
• What I listen to:
  • The Wall of Floyd Links
  • Pink Floyd Bootlegs Homepage
    • Pink Floyd RoIO Realaudio Archive
  • Alan's own HOW-TO listen to Dark Side of the Moon
  • Led Zeppelin Home Page
  • Interference U2 page
  • The Complete U2 reference site
  • The Official Rolling Stones homepage
  • The Greatful Dead
  • Neil Young HyperRust
  • The Madonna Homepage
• Lists of bands:
  • The ULTIMATE Band List
  • Yahoo's HUGE music list - a list of bands
  • Suthir's Music Page
• Commercial Stuff:
  • Newbury Comics - great prices
  • CD Now
  • Music Boulevard
  • Soundstone
  • City Rocks
• Listings/Tickets:
  • Naked Tim's Concert Listings
  • POLLSTAR - Concert information - very detailed
  • Dirty Linnen local listings
  • NEXT Ticketing - New England
• Hit Haven music lyrics server
• Music charts from all over the world
• MTV
• VH1
• Billboard Magazine
• The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Sports:
• ESPN SportsZone
• The Sports Network
• Volleyball world-wide
• Planet Volleyball - The AVA
• The Yankee Volleyball Association - New England V-ball items
• The Bud Light New England Volleyball series
• Spike Nashbar's on-line catalog
• TW's Volleyball instruction page
• International Soccer Results
• Rec.Sports.Soccer - The WEB Page
• FIFA
  • The 2002 World Cup
• The Laws of Soccer
• The WWW-VL: Sport - Soccer
• The Rec Sports Soccer Statistics page
• SoccerTV - guide to televised games
• Ski Maps Worldwide
• Snow Country Reports - Conditions for US/Canada
• SKi conditionsaccross the country
• Accuweather Snow Forecast
• The US Table Tennis Association club index
• Paddle-Palace ping pong supplies
• The NBA's official server
• Professional Football Server
• The Bay State Games (Mass. amateur sports competition)
• Jumptown USA
• The Boston-Providence Skydiving Center
• Smallworld Fantasy sports leagues

Love, Sex and Girlie pics:
• Clean:
  • Am I Hot or Not
  • The SI Swimsuit Issue
  • A guide to current Supermodels
  • Directory of /pub/pictures/people/women at ftp.sunet.se
  • The Babe-test!
  • The Daily Bikini Page
  • Match.com matching services
  • Matchmaker.com
  • Love.org free personals site
  • Askmen.com Dating Advice
  • Webgrrls! - Women on the Web Directory
  • Babes on the Web
• Not so clean:
  • Thumbnailpost - Direct Links
  • Greg's Pix
  • P-Bot daily movie
  • The Naughty Linx List
  • Like My Nude Photo - explicit version of "hot or not"
  • Who do you love?
  • Playboy Home Page
  • Penthouse Internet
  • Hustler
  • Alt.sex.movies home
  • Alt.sex.services home

Humor:
• Alan's own humor archive
• LaughWeb
• The mother of all humor archives
• The Funniest Stuff on the net
• Giggleville
• Jokes.com
• The Urban Legends Archive - nice
  • College Folklore
  • The Official Darwin Awards Site
• Dave Barry
• The outrageous on-line uncle Al
• Monty Python
• Dilbert
• Deep Thought of the day
• The Condom Country Home Page: Condoms, Books, Humor, and Sex Aids
• Computer-generated sex stories
• Scott Pakin's automatic complaint-letter generator
• Create-A-Fart
• the Dialectizer
• The Annals of Improbable Research
• ASCII Art Archives
• Yes, Nerd-songs
• The Nerd Test
• Geek Code v2.1
• Thinkgeek - nerd apparel
• The Field Guide to North American Males

Games and Amusements:
• Classic Gaming
• FunAgain.com
• Monopoly.com
• Scrabble.com
  • Scrabble Word Lists
  • Scrabble word pattern-finder!
• Stratego world
• WorldWinner - game constests for money
• Gambling stuff
• The Wizard of Odds - good info on casino games
• Alan's own Poker Page
• Real-Money places to play poker online:
  • The Poker Room - the only good non-windows client out there (java)
  • PartyPoker - the largest poker room online
• Card Games - rules, etc...
• Universal Access Inc. BlackJack Server
• Cindy Crawford Concentration
• Hangman
• Chess Space
• Games Domain - Games related information site
• Billiard Congress of America
• The internet puzzle archives - the rec.puzzles collection
• Non-commercial Puzzles archive
• Math competition archives - putnam, imo, etc...
• Who wants to win $1million - The Science Game
• You Don't Know Jack (Bezerk.com)
• The Roller Coaster Facts Database
• The Thrill Ride Homepage
• The Oracle of Bacon
• Optical Illusions
• The Psychic Ability Tester - cool!
• Which mid-80s video game character are you?
• Tests, Tests, Tests... all types
• Sorted tests, mostly focused on emotional stuff
• TheSpark.com cool tests
• Uncommonly Difficult IQ Tests
  • The HIGH IQ Society's "hard" IQ tests
• IQ and Personality tests
• University of Life "Serious" IQ/Personality tests and games
• Psychology tests and experiments
• Beliefnet "soul" quizzes
• The American Psychological Society
• The Kiersey Temperament Sorter-Jungian Personnality Test (Myers-Brigg Personality Test)
  • Descriptions of the various types
• Math Puzzles and Brain Teasers
• Nick's Mathematical Puzzles
• William Lowell Putnam Competition Archive

Alan's Playland

Personal Home Pages:
• Online Acquaintances:
  • Werdna's Home Page
  • Eve Ander
  • Yobes
  • Doug Fleming
  • Donald Simanek - lotsa good links
  • Jenny Vogt
• People I know:
  • Suthir Shanmugasundanram < suthir@bigfoot.com >
  • Geoffery Allen Borggaard < bogamo@alum.wpi.edu >
  • Olivia Aranda Lima
  • Jotham Parsons
  • Alice Keeler's school page
  • Jonathan DiPietro's April News

New England Local:
• New England Information Net
• NE Ski page
  • SkiVermont
  • American Ski Company mountains in NE
• Massachusetts
  • Mass. Access to Government info.
    • Mass. Registry of Motor Vehicles
• Boston Area Map of WWW resources
  • Boston Phoenix's club listings for this week
  • www.boston.com - The best in local information
  • Boston on Citysearch.com
    • Citysearch Best of Boston
  • Boston on Digitalcity
  • Boston on-line - more for tourists
  • Metropolitan Boston - good info, club listings
  • Boston Night Guide
  • BMS Underground guide to Boston
  • The Wellesley College guide to Boston life
  • The Boston Restaurant Guide
    • Menus for MIT-Area Restaurants
    • Boston area bar and pub ratings
  • Boston Places:
    • LiveWave - realtime Boston peek-cams
    • Newbury Street Homepage - Very well done
    • Harvard Square Homepage
    • Boston Museum of Science
      • MOS Tickets online
    • Boston Museum of Fine Arts (the MFA)
    • Boston Computer Museum
    • The Hatch Shell Event guide
  • Annual Boston Events (chronologically):
    • The Boston Marathon
    • POPS Goes the 4th!
    • Head of the Charles Regatta
    • First Night
  • The Mass Audubon Society Homepage
  • The MBTA
  • Boston Duck Tours
  • Boston Apartments.com-Home Page
  • Boston-area Auto Mechanics
  • Boston-area Doctors
• Worcester home page
• City of Cambridge
• The Natick Homepage
• Wellesley
• Welcome to Hampton Beach
• Venues for Area Events:
  • The Fleet Center, home of the Celtics and Bruins
  • Gillette Stadium, home of the Patriots and Revolution (formerly Foxboro)
  • The Tweeter Center (formerly Great Woods)
  • FleetBoston Pavillion (formerly Harborlights)
  • The Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
  • The North Shore Music Theater
  • The South Shore Music Circus
  • The Cape Cod Melody Tent
  • Boston area Jazz Clubs
    • Ryles Jazz Club
    • Club Passim's Calendar
  • Sports Teams:
    • Boston Celtics WWW Server
    • New England Patriots Home Page
• MIT Activities

Surrounding Areas:
• The Paperless Guide to New York
• The Quebec Province tourism page
• Montreal Info
• Montreal Festivals

Boston Media:
• Boston Radio:
  • Boston Radio Archives
  • Boston's Classic Rocker, 100.7 WZLX
  • 92.9 FM, WBOS
  • 94.1FM, WHJY, Providence
  • MIX 98.5FM
  • Rock 101, 101.1 WGIR, New Hampshire
  • The rock of Boston, 104.1 WBCN
  • WAAF, 107.3 FM
  • WXKS, Kiss 108 FM
  • Boston Music Scence
• Boston Print Media:
  • The Boston Globe
  • The Boston Herald
  • The Boston Phoenix
  • Boston Magazine
  • Middlesex News - gopher
• Boston Television:
  • WBZ, Channel 4 (CBS), Boston
  • WHDH, Channel 7 (NBC), Boston
    • Live video feed
  • WCVB, Channel 5 (ABC), Boston
  • WGBH, Channel 2 (PBS), Boston
  • WSBK, Channel 38 (UPN), Boston
  • WLVI, Channel 56 (WB), Boston

Southern California & Vegas:
• State of California
• UCLA
  • UCLA Design|Media Arts Department
• LA County
• City of Los Angeles
• City of Santa Monica
  • Santa Monica Geographic Information System
• Venice Beach Cam
• California and Nevada area recent Earthquakes
• Navigation:
  • The LA Metro Transit Authority (bus/rail)
  • Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus
• Guides:
  • &LA;
  • LA on Digitalcity
    • The Best of LA
    • Club Clicks
  • LA on Citysearch
  • Theatre LA - half price show tix
  • Orange County Now
  • South Bay Life
  • Brazilian events in LA
  • McCabe's Guitar Concert Listings
• Media
  • LA Times
  • San Diego Union Tribune
  • The San Diego Source
  • TV Stations
    • KCBS 2 - CBS
    • KNBC 4 - NBC
    • KTLA 5 - WB
    • KABC 7 - ABC
    • KCAL 9 - independent
    • KTTV 11 - Fox
    • KCOP 13 - UPN
• Sports:
  • Pro Teams:
    • LA Lakers
    • San Diego Chargers
  • Clubs:
    • Athletic Singles of LA
    • LA Parks soccer
      • My team
  • Ski California
• Traffic:
  • LIVE Traffic -- LA county
  • LA city level traffic info
• Real Estate:
  • West Side Rentals
  • South Bay Rentals
  • All of LA
• Ski California
• Southern California SKI conditions
• California Lakes and Reservoirs
• LA Times Funbook 2001
• Vegas:
  • Las Vegas Convention and Visitor's Authority
  • Vegas.com - entertainment guide
  • i4vegas hotel bookings
  • Today in Las Vegas
  • Las Vegas Shows & Tours
  • DigitalCity Las Vegas

Brazil Stuff:
• A Nice Brasil Front end
• Another Brasil front-end
• Media:
  • Jornal do Brasil
  • A Folha de Sao Paulo
  • Rede Globo
  • Manchete Brasil
• Universo on-line
  • A Coluna do Marcio Guedes
• BrasNet - noticias
• Brazil links page
• USP (University of Sao Paulo)
• Futebol Brasileiro - CBF homepage
• Marius

Personal Communications Facilitators (eg: web communities):
• Planet Feedback
• Tripod - webspace & forum
• Geocities - community
• E-teamz - free sports team web pages
• Downtown Anywhere - Front Street

Free On-line Services:
• Dialpad - free online phone service
• How can I send a Fax from the internet?
  • E-Fax - free internet faxing service
• Virtual Makeover
• The Postcard Server (@MIT)
• Chandra Virtual Postcards (space theme)
• The e-minder: Internet mail-based reminders
• Free stuff on the net
• Register your computer as a starship

Misc: (don't ask why this stuff is here)
• Long Bets
• The Samuel L. Jackson soundboard
• Alcor - cryogenics firm
• Tripod: Ask The Doctor
• IBM's Speech Recognition engine
• Make words out of phone numbers
• Toll Free number availability
• List of Pager Codes
• Random 80s song lyrics
• Chicken Wing Central
• The Phantom Gourmet
• Frog Discection on-line
• The Old Farmer's Almanac
• The Consumer toilet information page
• Drug information server
• Beaches near Silicon Valley
• Bigscience.com
• Internet-based Distributed Computing Projects
• NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project
• CueCat for Linux info
• WebQCat - get Cue:Cat info directly from a web page
• Rememberance Agents
• Trees, Hypercubes and Gnutella
• A Turing Machine game of life

Stuff for Alan's use:
• An analysis of Roger Waters' "Amused to Death" album
• MIT Publications
  • MIT Events Listings
  • MIT Guide to web certificates
  • E-MIT
  • The CSR local Section
• Career:
  • U.S. News Grad School Rankings
  • Group in Logic at UC Berkeley
  • The GW Graduate School of Poltical Management
  • The Regent University School of Government
• Nationwide CR sites
• The Mass. Federation of Young Republicans
• The Leadership Institute
• John Eliot Chapter, order of Demolay
• Cell Phones
  • The AT&T; 3G center
  • Motorola phone utils
  • Motorola Cell Phone drivers for the V60/V120
    • Motorala Timeport infrared on linux
  • Phone Accessories
  • Getting set up with GSM/PCS in Microsoft environments
  • Ring Tone Tools
• LT-Modem driver RPMs for Red Hat
• Interesting Linux Documentation
  • Linux Tips HOWTO
  • Linux Infrared How-to
  • Linmodem info
  • Setting up IP Forwarding policies (for Masquerading) in 2.4.x kernels
  • The CD-Writting how-to
  • Installing an IEEE1394 (firewire) hard disk on linux
  • XINE RPMs
• Buckminster Fuller
• The PT-1 calling card
• F1 Boston
• Quiz Bowl international
• The Australian Migration and Settlement Page
• The Australian White Pages
• The Upper Open
• LA's Splash Spa
• Alan's own bookmarks direct - validated access only

© Copyright 2002 Alan Wood.	Credits Disclaimers	Mail Alan
Last revision: Tue 02-17-04.	** Alan's Homepage **	< chekov@alum.wpi.edu >