Ferd's Net Journal

http://polaris.umuc.edu/~flazarus/

This page is not intended for public access but rather it is designed as a memory jogger for me. It is better organized and informative than a simple bookmark. I suggest that all of my students implement this sort of Net Journal. Do note that What follows is not original work but rather material 'grabbed' from the Net and posted here for easy reference. Yes I do know that it has not aged well. Its on the list for repair.

Appliances

GE

Audio

Free Sounds
Audio File-MP3
JetAudio Basic

Auto

Auto buying info.

Boot Disks

Bootable CD's
Boot Disk Welcome to Bootdisk.Com The majority of tips, tweaks, files, bootdisks, instructions, utilities, links, patches, updates, and all other information contained on this site are posted for experienced DOS and Windows users.
Corporate Modboot ...all the tools you need on one Bootable CD-Rom... ...or from a network share... ...single point of maintenance... ...cleanboot and scan or clean ntfs volumes for virus... ...burn it from any workstation... ...and more...
Boot Disks Every once in a while everyone needs to 'boot from floppy disk' when something prevents booting from your fixed disk. This is the reason many software vendors, particularly those who's software make 'dangerous' changes to your software, include a 'make a boot disk' facility. As a result it's easy to accumulate many outdated boot disks and not find the one you really need when you need it. To the rescue comes NU2 where many custom boot disks reside along with the resources for customizing.

Browser Detection

Netscape DevEdge

Buying Guides

Used Cars
JourneyEdDiscount software for academics.
CCV CCV Software features the educational software pricing and selection as well as academic software discounts from publishers like Microsoft, Adobe, Macromedia and Corel.
Bulbs
Academic Super Store You are eligible for Academic pricing if:
You are a student or teacher, or
You are a school administrator or a faculty member, or
You are purchasing for an accredited school, college, or a hospital directly affiliated with an educational institution.
Student Advantage The Student Advantage Tech Store provides academic pricing — up to 85 percent off retail prices — on computer, software and consumer electronics products from Adobe, Apple, Compaq, IBM, Iomega, Microsoft, Palm, SonicBlue, Sony, Toshiba and many others. Students and faculty and staff members at accredited U.S. higher education institutions are eligible to purchase from the Student Advantage Tech Store. The Student Advantage Tech Store confirms the student or staff status of all first-time purchasers with their college or university, to ensure that the academic prices on the Student Advantage Tech Store are only provided to qualified buyers.
JurneyED To qualify for academic discounts, a customer must have current student and/or faculty ID or be an accredited institution.
DVD FAQ More than you could ever want to know.
Edmund's Car Guide
Consumer Reports
Insurance Institute Crash Testing

Calendars

Do It Yourself Calendars
The basics

Contractors

Contractor Finder

Copyright

copyscape Track down copyright violations.
A crash course in copyright
A Classroom Guide to Copyright
2Learn

Cookies

web.blazonry
Cookie Central

Cryptography

Cryptography A-Z
Intro to Cryptography
History of Computer Security

CSS

SitePoint CSS Reference
CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit
Brain Jar CSS Positioning
An excellent demonstration of CSS
The CSS Know-How Site Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is an Internet tool that separates the presentation from the structural markup of a Web site. CSS keeps the structure of a document lean and fast while controlling the appearance of its content. This product is not an adapted tool from print or programming; rather, it is a means of enhancing HTML. For users interested in learning more about this tool, this informative and well-constructed site answers some of those frequently asked questions regarding CSS. In addition, the site explains some of the basics of CSS, provides tips and tricks for tackling the problems with Netscape 4, offers a tutorial concerning positioning with CSS (CSS-P, Web design without tables), and gives various resource links to other related sites. In short, for those with questions concerning CSS and its functions, the CSShark is ready to provide answers.

CSS Pointers Group 'Our focus is Cascading Style Sheets, and we have tried to compile a useful source of information, examples and links to other external resources.'

W3C CSS1
W3C CSS2
House of Style Includes a comprehensive CSS Handbook, Tutorials and Cookbook, CSS Gallery of examples.
Web Reference - CSS
W3C CSS More than you want to know about SS.
Andersen on CSS (Brookdale Community College)

Data Recovery

Restorer 2000
On-Line Data Recovery

Dictionaries

Stedman's Online Medical Dictionary
Merriam-Webster Dictionary OnLine
Urban Dictionary

Digital Cameras

Extensive reviews and data

Downloads

100 Downloads Some good programs here.
Avery Covers et al.

Downloaders

NetTerm

Dreadful Sites

Boogie Blocks
Hampster Dance2

Editorial Columns

Mossberg Archive
Gilster

E-Mail

Mail Start Check ANY Existing POP3 Email Account at MailStart. Also I believe that via telnet 'pop.erols.com 110' will also work.
Another Web Mail resource is mail2web

Encyclopedia type reference material

Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes
Learn Computer skills
Visual Dictionary Learn by way of image with thematic, clear and precise pages, with concise and rigorous texts, multilingual, the InfoVisual will become a academic resource. Different from an encyclopedia or from a traditional online dictionaries, thesauri and glossaries because the images replace the words.
Science Facts from the library of Congress
AskMen.com is a free online destination for men, a men's portal, designed to provide men with daily features on subject matter that interests the general male population.
A Student's Guide to the Medical Literature
Yiddish Dictionary Online
The Merck Veterinary Manual
TechXtra - Technical Search engine
Scirus - A comprehensive science-specific search engine
DevGuru XHTML tags in detail
Free Applications from SourceForge It's a listing of a *huge* array of open-source, free software for Windows, in virtually every category. Whatever you're looking for, there's a good chance you'll find it here!
Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide
The IVR Cheat Sheet by Paul English
POD Spider
Chicago Manual of Style
TourBus best of everything site
CIA World Fact Book
Wiki_ehow
Wikipedia
A List Apart-HTML/XHTML
List of Lists A comprehensive list of sources for all things PC related.
TourBus "The Best of"
Wkipedia An excellent onLine encyclopedia
The Library Journal
Net Lingo
Quotes
Extensive Freeware
The World Fact Book
Clever Keys A production of Lexico Publishing Group, CleverKeys provides instant access to dictionary.com for word definitions, thesaurus.com for synonyms and antonyms, and online engines for Web searches. This freely downloadable software is compatible with Windows and Mac OS programs, including Microsoft Word and most e-mail programs and browsers. Merely highlight the word, and CleverKeys will allow you the option of using the dictionary, thesaurus, or searching the Web right from your Web browser.
Book Lists
Encyberpedia
General purpose Web information.
Free Internet Encyclopedia This is an encyclopedia composed of information available on the Internet. There are two main divisions. The MacroReference contains references to large areas of knowledge, FAQs where available, and pointers to relevant areas of the MicroReference. The MicroReference contains short bits of information and references to specific subjects, sometimes with instructions on finding the specific subject inside a general reference.
The Internet Reading Room This room contains bookshelves for browsing and searching for entertaining reading, and links to sites providing other full texts.

Hot Wired Biblo. A compendium of style and usage references.
Techweb Encyclopedia More than 13,000 definitions of computer terms and concepts.
Crossword Clue Searching

E-Text

Free Textbooks on Line
An interesting collection of essays
Many, many e-books
Online Newspapers
Lorem Ipsum Lorem Ipsum, or Lipsum for short, is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only four centuries, but now the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularized in the 1960's with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lipsum.

Nursery Rhymes and Silly Stuff

Classic Book Shelf While there are any number of sites featuring public domain e-texts, this site stands out not so much for its content, but for its innovative Java reading applet. Visitors reading e-texts at this site do not have to settle for a sometimes difficult-to-read default display. Using the applet at the bottom of the viewing window, users can control the text size, font, and background color, picking a combination that makes reading easiest. The works featured at the site are listed by author name (best accessed via the site map link at the top right corner of the page), and include a number of classic works of (primarily) British and American literature, with an especially large collection of works by Charles Dickens. Entries for each author include several related sites (including webrings). From the site map page users can also perform keyword searches of the site's title and author listings, and access bookmarks, a helpful feature that allows readers to save their place in books between visits and return to where they left off.

Alex e-text The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is collection of digital documents. The scope of documents in the collection include items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy.
A unique feature of the Catalogue is the on-the-fly creation of PDF (Portable Document Format) files. Using this option you can specify things like fonts and font sizes for your output. For example, you can create a PDF version of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle. This feature allows you to create simply formatted but very readable documents for printing; the documents in the collection are not necessarily intended to be read online.

e-netLibrary Associated with UMUC.

UMUC does subscribe to Netlibrary. You can access it from the MdUSA system, available on the library web page. (http://www.umuc.edu/library.)

Select the link "log in to web databases/MdUSA". After you log in, click on the letter N across the top of the screen. Then click on the name Netlibrary. You should be taken to a search screen where you can search for books by author, title, or keywords.

Once you retrieve a book, you can preview the entire book for 15 minutes (or longer, if no one else wants to view it) or you can check it out to yourself for 2 hours. To check out the book, you'll need to first create an account for yourself. Select create account from the top of the screen and follow the steps.

Please let us know if you have any questions or problems with Netlibrary.

Miriam Matteson Reference and Instruction Librarian University of Maryland University College Phone: 301-985-7209 http://www.umuc.edu/library

1-800-283-6832, ext. 7209 Information and Library Services

Etymology

Online Etymology Dictionary

FAX for free

FAX Zero

FAQs

Windows NT/2000 FAQ Answers to frequently asked questions about Windows NT, Windows 2000, SQL Server, Exchange Server and Outlook, IIS and more! Brought to you by John Savill and the Windows & .NET Magazine Network.

CD-RW FAQ This document attempts to answer Frequently Asked Questions about CD-Recordable technology and related fields. It is a Usenet newsgroup FAQ, updated and posted around the middle of each month. The main foci are explaining CD-R technology, describing hardware and software solutions for creating audio CDs and CD-ROMs, and helping people find solutions to common problems.

OE5-FAQ

The Chicago Manual of Style FAQ

Flash

DG Studios
A Different Look
Site makes Flash enabled buttons.

Flowers

Flowers

ftp

The Netscape download site, one of 22 This is site 12, randomly selected. If one is busy select another. Just change the number in the first part of the URL. That is ftp2 or 3 or 4 ...

GIF files from Stanford University A large number of small size images can be found here. The collection has not been recently updated. Though not explicitly stated, the implications is that you are free to use these images on Web pages.

Swedish University Comics Archives Many, many comics are archived. I just "wasted" an hour reading a few years of Calvin & Hobbs.

UseNet FAQs A rather exhaustive list of NewsGroup FAQs

The COMPLETE Netscape archive. <ftp://archive:oldies@archive.netscape.com/archive/index.html> Note the 'full form' ftp address with the user name and password included. Username would be "archive" instead of anonymous with a password of "oldies" (no quotes).

Graphics, University of Stuttgart

Food

Every Day Food - PBS
Cook's Thesaurus
Penzeys Spices
NSDA Nutrition Laboratory

Games

Addicting Games
Flash Games
Virtual Lego
Virtual Race Cars
Dice
ChessWise

Gardening

National Gardening Association>
Native plants

Geek Stuff

A quiz for Geeks
The Internet and IT Network
Links to technical Internet and programming topics.
SitePoint Blogs
Petri's MCSC Info.
CD FAQ More than you want to know.
Web Development Tutorials
Tutorials
Back-Up Utility from Langa list
Windows XP tips
Password Generator
Lockergnome
MCSE Knowledge Base
Timo's procmail tips and recipes
TinyURL
DMOZ Open Directory
WebAttack Good source of freeware and shareware.
Random processes
TechNick.net Technick.net contains pinout diagrams and various other electronic/PC/hardware resources.
Netscape DevEdge
Memory (RAM) guide. More than you want to know.
Technical Search- Brian Buzz
Java Tester
Matts Forms Mail
Windows 2000 Command Reference
MadBoot
pdf2html
CMMUG
Web Developers Information
Pit Stop SPECIAL
Source Forge SourceForge.net is the world's largest Open Source software development website, with the largest repository of Open Source code and applications available on the Internet. SourceForge.net provides free services to Open Source developers.

What's my IP Address
ProcMail and More ProcMail
BroadBand ISPs More than you want to know.
NTFS
ASCII Codes
A Web Development Tutorial and Information Site
DriversThe most up to date source for printer drivers, video drivers, modem drivers, ...
Boot from CD
Meta Tags
Mozilla
Help Site
PC to PC Connect
More Connectivity
Ports Database
Office Templates
KarenWare
SpeedGuide.net Some of the best Broadband tweaks and Speed patches on the Net "
Will Master Exploring the programming and presentation possibilities of the Web.
Netscape browsers
Also see: the Netscape Archive
The Annotated JavaScript Project
Rodney Myers <rodney@aflyingstart.net>
Current IP address
W3Schools W3Schools has an extraordinary number of Web building tutorials.
ARS-Technica Ars Technica serves up multi-OS, PC hardware, and tech coverage.
Storage Review
Zif-Davis Extreme Tech.
Speed Guide The site focuses on system performance, with areas including Broadband Internet connections, Windows, Overclocking, all targeted towards a technically aware audience. A large section of SpeedGuide.net is dedicated to Cable Modems and DSL technology, stressing on improving TCP/IP performance over high speed/latency networks.
Security This website is for those who don't have much knowledge concerning security and how to secure one's pc.
Doctypes How to detect them, and how they can influence your layout.
Xenu's Link Sleuth Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) is a spidering software that checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continuously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.

Additional features:

  Simple, no-frills user-interface
  Can re-check broken links (useful for temporary network errors)
  Simple report format, can also be e-mailed
  Executable file less than 500K
  Supports SSL websites ("https:// ")
  Partial testing of ftp and gopher sites
  Detects and reports redirected URLs
  Site Map


Tech TV
Notebook computer comparison
Desktop computer comparison
Browser Spy
DSLreports (System Testing)
Shields Up
Any Browser Provides extensive page testing.

Gopher

The Well This "gopher-space" is supported by the WELL, a commercial conferencing resource, to provide a _pro bono_ service to the public in general and users of the Internet in particular. It has been maintained for historic reasons.

Graphics

YotoPhoto A search engine that finds free graphics.
FavIcons
Photo Printing
NYPL Digital Gallery "Provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more."
yappa-ng Create your own online photo galery.
ScribblerYou draw it enhances.
An exquisite Flash presentation.
National Park Images
Barriys Clip Art Free clip are as well as photos.
Cool Archive - Logo Maker
Instant 3D maker Makes very nice headlines.
Phyllis's Backgrounds

Very good free images
And more

National Geographics Images
Irfanview Image collection.
Silent Pictures Photo Gallery
Media Builder MediaBuilder.com offers free fonts and Web graphics.

- 963 free fonts in 27 different categories (they're Windows
TrueType fonts, though -- if you are a Mac user, take a look at
http://www.zdnet.com/mac/software/categories/publish.html for a
bunch of free Mac fonts.)

- A free "Font Mapper" that displays an online equivalent of the
Windows Character Map or Macintosh Key Caps tool for twenty of
the most popular PC and Mac fonts. The font mapper even gives
you instructions on how to insert a special font character
(like an "n" with a squiggly line over it) in your documents.

- A free "3D Text Maker" that takes the text you key in and
transforms it into a rotating, 3D image. The 3D Text Maker
even lets you play around with the fonts, colors, and stuff
like that. A similar "Animated Banner Maker" transforms your
text into custom, animated Web banners.

- A free "Button Maker" that turns any GIF on the Net into a
beveled button.

- A free collection of over 10,000 images, including animated
GIFs, icons, lines, borders, and backgrounds.

CoolText CoolText.com is another free online graphics service that provides real-time generation of customized logos, buttons, and bullets.
Image collection from National Library of Australia A rather interesting set of graphics, however ...

Images in this database are provided for research purposes only and cannot be reproduced without the prior consent of the National Library of Australia.
If you wish to reproduce a picture in a book, assignment, website, merchandise (e.g. calendar), film or in any other format you will need written permission from the Library to do so. You may obtain a downloadable Permission to reproduce form here in either Rich Text Format or PDF or you can obtain a copy by contacting the Pictorial Section.
If the image is still in copyright, clearance must also be requested from the copyright holder before any use is made of the image. The National Library must receive the copyright clearance in print format (a fax is acceptable) before an order is processed.
Graphic Compression Algorithms
A-1 Icon Archive Another extensive source for graphics. The site however is a candidate for the Ugly from the Good, the Bad, the Ugly.
Dingbats
Lemcon Graphics Vault Lemcon features an eclectic collection of content including the Graphics Vault, a search engine for free web graphics.
Northern Images Images available at no cost.
The Animation Factory Many free animated graphics.
Animation Factory
2000 W. 42nd St. Suite C
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
Tele: (605) 339-4722
Fax: (605) 335-1554

Animation Factory Order Line: 1-800-525-2475 or (605) 339-4722

Hide E-mail Address

E-mail encoder

Hosting

PowWeb
Host Global Review of hosting services.
Search for Web Hosts

Humor

Calvin Trillian Poke the Penguin
Finally, after years of searching, I found it:
California

HTML?XHTML

HTML/XHTML Character Entity Codes
For example:
&lt; renders as <
&copy; renders as ©

Identy Theft

TransUnion

Iraq

News Links

Investments

SmartMoney
Investor Resources
Financial Terms
NASD Mutual Fund Expense Analyzer
I hate Finanacial Planning
Investment Learning Center
Inflation Calculator
Fidelity
T. Rowe Price
Vanguard
Solomon Smith Barney
Nuveen
Bank CDs #1
Bank CDs #2
Bank CDs #3

JavaScript Sites

1. Goodies site
2. The JavaScript Diaries By Lee Underwood, Table of Contents
3. Overview of JavaScript Statements
4. Guide to JavaScript terms
5. JavaScript Methods
6. Nice list of simple JavaScripts
7. Developers Edge-JavaScript
8. Developers Edge
9. Pop-up Windows from the HTML Source
An excellent description.
10. Dynamic Duo JavaScript Library
11. Learn Advanced JavaScript Programming
12. Scripting the File System
13. JS Learning Cntr.
14. Web Wise Wizard
15. Free JavaScripts
16. The Annotated JavaScript Project
17. JavaScript Kit
18. Wise
19. Terms
20. Glossary

Kids

PBS
Kids games
Airforce Kids Games including Math.
Jigsaw puzzles
Puzzles for Kids Welcome to the NSA/CSS Kids' Page. The Puzzle Solvers at Cryptic Manor was developed to share the fun and excitement of solving challenging problems--and hopefully get you thinking about careers in math, computer science, and technology
Math Homework
Optics for KidsThe Optical Society of America operates this creative site where children can learn all about optics and its applications. Entertaining chameleon characters guide users through many sections of the site, explaining various concepts and suggesting activities. There is a large selection of educational articles about common phenomena, such as holograms, kaleidoscopes, reflection, and refraction. Examples of everyday occurrences of optics are also explored.

A Math Dictionary for Kids Enthusiast Jenny Eather is the creator of an unique online resource for grade school mathematics students. Called A Math Dictionary for Kids, the site has over 400 entries arranged alphabetically that explain key math terms and concepts in a simple, straightforward manner. Besides giving definitions, each topic has an interactive activity that demonstrates its use and significance. Some of the activities are quizzes that let the students practice what they have learned, while others show the students how to achieve the correct results based on their own inputs. The friendly interface and relevant content should let children have fun and learn at their own pace.

Kids Math
BigBlue
KidsClick! KidsClick! was created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System, as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites.
Bonus.com The Super site for Kids. Cookie fixed.
Yucky Kids
Kids Stories
FDA for kids
Color
Math
Ericit for Kids Although there are many educational Web sites on the Internet that are great for children in elementary and middle school, finding them can often be difficult. Offering a sampling of such sites, this ERIC Web Links describes more than fifty that will be of special interest to children in grades K-8, teachers, parents and librarians during the 2001-2002 school year and beyond.
PBS Kids
Class Brain
Spanish symbols

Law

American Bar Association Family Law

Learning

Guide to Grammar and Style by Jack Lynch.
Statistics
Math
APA Writing Guide
Guide to Grammar and Writing Hosted by Capital Community College; Hartford, Connecticut
HP Learning Center The HP (Hewlett-Packard) Learning Center has excellent online classes in a variety of interesting and timely business subjects. Topics include desktop storage, scanning basics, business etiquette, advanced Adobe Photoshop, and many more. The tutorials are free. Classes change monthly, so you will always find something new.

Linux

Linux Networking
Linux Documentation Project
Linux Commands
LinuxNewbie
JAMD-LinuxA distribution based on Red Hat aimed for the end user.
Linux Documentation Project

Mailing Lists

Scots Newsletter Scot’s Newsletter covers Windows, broadband, do-it-yourself networking, Microsoft, and the Internet. A long but good read.
LockerGnome
NetTrain This is fairly active, moderated list for those interested in training users and potential users of the Net. A moderated list has a real person checking the messages sent to the list to be sure they are appropriate.
Netscape Another fairly active list is, NETSCAPE. This one is for the discussion surprise, surprise of Netscape. It is not moderated.
Scout Report The Scout Report, a newsletter, offered in either plain text or HTML "mark-up", is a weekly publication offered as a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet. Its purpose is to combine in one place announcements of the best new and newly discovered Internet resources, especially those of interest to researchers and educators, the InterNIC's primary audience.
ADV-HTML The Advanced HTML list (ADV-HTML) is a highly moderated LISTSERV list for the discussion of advanced HTML and Web design topics. While the list has over 5t it only generates an average of six posts a day with zero spam and zero "off-topic" posts.

A searchable archive of every ADV-HTML post since the list's inception in October 1995 is available on the Web at

http://netsquirrel.com/adv-html

This page also contains information on how you can subscribe to ADV-HTML.

Tourbus A wealth of information will be found via this newsletter type of list. It is published, to your mail box, twice weekly.
Web-Consultants Guess there is no mystery as to the purpose of this web-consultants list.
Teaching and learning in higher education, STLHE-L A forum for those teaching higher education. Archive
Opera users group Opera is an exceptionally fast browser. With excellent performance, it is gaining market share among Web professionals.
Critical Thinking This is a discussion list, THINK-L, for those who teach Critical Thinking.
Developer-Com DEVELOPER-COM is a weekly newsletter for those interested in the programming arts. My particular interests are with Perl and JavaScript.
Copyediting-l A list for copy editors and other defenders of the English language, not moderated. Archives can be found at the University of Indiana Archives
Fred Lang's NewsletterLang is a frequent columnist in WinMag. His newsletter provides a wealth of authoritative, comprehensive, Internet and computer related information.
GOODIES-L Joe Burns' HTML goodies newsletter.
WebMasters
PC World product reviews

Manuals

Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists
HTML A comprehensive reference.
Guide to Computing More than you want to know.
Real Player 8
Netscape JavaScript
Jalfrezi
BCR Style Manual
PHP
MySql

Maps

Google Maps Excellent interactive maps.

Math

Calculus
Mathematics and Statistics
Calculus on the Web
Fractles
Math World "MathWorld is a comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia intended for students, educators, math enthusiasts, and researchers. Like the vibrant and constantly evolving discipline of mathematics, this site is continuously updated to include new material and incorporate new discoveries. "
Calculators
Math Puzzles These puzzles will hurt your head.

Microsoft

2000 SP3
Updates

Movies

Fandango Movie Tickets

Museums and Such

Philips Collection
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Baltimore Museum of Art
Corcoran
National Gallery of Art
Smithsonian The guide is divided into six principle sections: History, Organization, Programs, Exhibitions, Publications, and Databases. Using the site, visitors can quickly link to the homepages of the Institution's various museums, libraries, and archives; find information on fellowships, grants, employment, and special programs; view comprehensive lists of online databases and exhibitions; and access the various publications of the Smithsonian.
The Walters Baltimore
Maryland Science Center

Music

Old Time Jazz on line
Classical Vocal Music OnLine
CNET Music Center
Smooth Jaz, FM 104.1
WGMS Live classical music, FM 103.5
Music
Clips
Sources for MP3 players and sounds This new site from CNET helps users learn about and use digital music technology effectively. The site is essentially composed of four main sections. The first, Play Music, covers topics such as Internet radio, MP3 and MiniDisc players, troubleshooting MP3s, and connecting your PC to your stereo. The Finding Music section discusses searching for Internet radio stations, and finding MP3s using search tools and file-sharing programs. The last two sections deal with organizing your music collection and creating and recording music in various digital formats. The site will also feature breaking music news and product reviews. [MD]
Classical

Folk Songs The Max Hunter Collection is an archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. A traveling salesman from Springfield, Missouri, Hunter took his reel-to-reel tape recorder into the hills and backwoods of the Ozarks, preserving the heritage of the region by recording the songs and stories of many generations of Ozark history. As important as the songs themselves are the voices of the Missouri and Arkansas folks who shared their talents and recollections with Hunter.

CD Now30Listen to 30 seconds of most any song.

Music from the UK

LoopLabs

Bluegrass

MySQL

Interactive Online SQL Training

News

The Guardian

News Groups

JavaScript News Group A NewsGroup devoted to a discussion of JavaScripts.

Perl News Group A NewsGroup devoted to a discussion of Perl scripts.

Linux A NewsGroup devoted to a discussion of Linux issues.

OnLine Journals

Smart Computing

Open Office

Free Open Office software

PC

free MCSE knowledge Base
The Secret Guide to Computers

Crazy PC components If you need some uncommon computer components, look at what Crazy PC has to offer.

Dual Booting Tutorial Created and maintained by Reuel Miller, this site is a handy resource for PC users who want to place multiple operating systems (OS's) on their machines. The tutorial guides users through both how to set up a multi-booting system on a blank hard drive, and how to keep their current OS while adding another. The tutorial also covers re-installing any of the OS's covered (Windows95, Windows98, WindowsNT, and Linux) without compromising the multi-booting setup, in addition to discussing solutions to "Non-perfect scenarios."

PDA

Best sites for Windows Powered® Pocket PCs

People Finder

Internet Address Finder Find a person's email address given their name or given an email address find a person's name. Another 'people' finder is Public Records
Yahoo People Finder.
Reverse Phone
All Purpose Finder, and another

Photo Finishing

ClubPhoto

Photography

Inexpensive stock Photos.
Photography Blog Good source for digital photo info.

PHP

HTML Goddies PHP
PHP Builder Searchable Manual
PHP Resource
PHP.net

Poetry

Poetry

Programming

Unicode
Programming Templates
html/xhtml Web Design About.com is a portal that, besides a horrendous amount of advertising, has extensive reference material.
Learn Perl
Hot Scripts - A Rich Source
HTML Code Tutorial
Complete Index of HTML Tags
Advanced HTML Tutorials
DOS
WebWare A monthly column for the cultural anthropologist and other liberal arts hackers gone Webmaster. A fantastic resource for WebMastering information.
HTML Tutorials
HTML Frames More than you wanted to know.
Optimize HTML as well as JavaScript Despite increases in bandwidth and connection speed, Internet users still have little patience for slow pages and slow code. These optimization tools help. In addition, included obfuscators help protect your work by obscuring your code while keeping functionality intact. Interesting.
Page Resources HTML, DHTML, Perl, JavaScript and more.

And JavaScript --
Web Reference JavaScript
JavaScript Goodies
Goodies TOC
Dynamic Drive An excellent source for scripts.
DHTML

Perl And ditto again.
Matt's Perl scripts These are of particular interest.
Perl tutorial
"In this article we begin a series on using Perl in web development scenarios. To start, we ease in with a general introduction to Perl itself. The purpose of this introduction is not to send you off writing enormous Perl programs -- there are plenty of articles and books which already succeed at this. Rather, this tutorial should arm you with a basic understanding of Perl so that you can work through the examples you care about -- web interaction -- without first needing to become a Perl guru."
Active Perl Perl, the Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, has long been a critical tool for building dynamic Websites and automating various Internet-related tasks. Unfortunately its use has largely been limited to those working on Unix-based systems (where Perl originated) or serious hackers willing to go through the contortions necessary to run Unix-based software under MS Windows. With the release of ActivePerl, this is no longer true. ActivePerl is a free version of Perl created to install and run easily under Microsoft Windows 95, 98, and NT, and interface well with most Windows NT Web servers. ActivePerl can be used to write CGI scripts for interactive Websites or system administration scripts that automate routine tasks. The Perl language is particularly well suited for scripts that analyze server or system logs and generate email or HTML reports to present the information in human-readable form. Many add-on Perl modules are available at the CPAN archive for interfacing with a very wide variety of software packages, languages, and protocols, including DCOM, XML, X11, TCL/Tk, and SQL, and performing a wide array of common software tasks. ActiveState also maintains an archive of Perl modules packaged specifically for use with ActivePerl.
FrameIt A script to allow easy return to a site after linking off.
Joe Burns on Perl HTML Goodies PERL Primers by Joe Burns, Ph.D.
Table of Contents

PERL Primer One: Introduction & What You Need
PERL Primer Two: UNIX Modification Commands
PERL Primer Three: Guestbook Script: Grab the Form Data
PERL Primer Four: Write the Email Letter
PERL Primer Five: Write a Virtual HTML Page & Modular
PERL Primer Six: Branching
PERL Primer Seven: Post the Results of the Guestbook
PERL Primer Eight: Dates and Times
PERL Primer Nine: Some Basic Math
PERL Primer Ten: A Personal Search Engine
PERL Primer Eleven: A Password-Protection Script
More on the way see: Goodies what's new page.

Script Search - Perl

Web Client Programming with Perl Full text of an older O'Reilly book om perl.
Perl Shopping Cartsand
Shopping Cart Net

CGI Programming Another older O'Reilly book.

DHTML Zone
Dynamic Duo A 123 page tutorial on cross browser Dyanmic HTML. I've downloaded a copy to my PC for easy reference (D:/html).

Scrolling HTML basics

XML A resource for the Extensible Markup Language. XML.com features a rich mix of information and services for the XML community. The site is designed to serve both people who are already working with XML and those HTML users who want to "graduate" to XML's power and complexity. A core feature of the site is the Annotated XML Specification, created by Tim Bray, co-editor of XML 1.0 and a contributing editor for XML.com.

More XML resources:
http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/
http://www.xml101.com/ (MS oriented)
http://www.xml.com/pub/ (formal)
http://www.xslt.com/ (sort of portal, good tutorial)


CGI Resources
CGI Collection


Linux Today Linux News. I noticed that WordPerfect 8 for Linux has been released at no cost for a download.

Linux.com VA Linux Systems, a company that sells Linux systems, has purchased the linux.com domain name and has deployed a site there as an open forum and knowledge base for anyone interested in Linux. I suspect the site will interest everyone from those considering or just getting started with Linux to those who have deployed corporate servers running the open source code.

Red Hat mailing-list archive
Linux Planet This site gives access to a most complete list of resources, links, news and tutorials.
Silicon Valley Linux Group

GIF Animation

The ultimate Browser sniffer Access the site and besides providing the sniffer script it identifies in some detail the browser you are using. Click here for a related site that will, more succinctly, determine Browser Type, Version, OS and JavaScript Version using JavaScript.

Unix - Getting your feet wet. A five or so page discussion of Unix commands at the level that is just right for my CAPP 386 course.

UGUA rather comprehensive listing of things Unix.

SitePoint The source for free website and graphic design tips, web promotion strategies, domain names, web marketing articles, and a lot more.

Really Big Web Builders Resource Styling itself "the largest directory of Web building resources on the internet," this gateway offers links to over 3,000 resources for Web page developers of all skill levels. Some of the resource categories featured at the site include HTML Editors, HTML Tutorials, Log Analyzers, Hit Counters, Graphics Tools, CGI Scripts, Truetype Fonts, Icons, Site Promotion, and many others. Subsections and individual resources all include annotations of varying length. Users can also subscribe to a monthly newsletter at the site.

Netscape information on cookies.

META tags

Web Page Size

Tidy When editing HTML it's easy to make mistakes. There a simple way to fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up sloppy editing into nicely laid out markup. Dave Raggett's HTML TIDY is a free utility for doing just that. It also works great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated by specialized HTML editors and conversion tools.

Comment on WYSIWYG Editors

VooDoo JavaScript

Dot HTML and DOT Css The Index Dot Html and Css sites are meant to be repositories and references for technical information about the HTML and CSS languages. Index DOT Html covers the elements, attributes and the popular browsers that support them. Index DOT Css covers CSS syntax, properties, the popular browsers that support them, as well the zillion or so miscellaneous bits that make CSS such a wonderful boon/headache for authors.

Every file format in the world. Well maybe not every but quite a bunch, and another, EXT Search, and one more, Filex databases.

W3C Validator for HTML & CSS

WebOpedia All things Web

UNIX Tips

WWW Schools Many tutorials including SQL. Also see WWW Scripts.

Free Skills Another learning site.

Free Code This is a software archive of programs written in C/C++, Java, Perl, or Visual Basic. All are free for personal and commercial use. Compatible with Unix and/or Windows. Not all the programs are wonderful however.

Server Side Includes

database access

Really Big A rather large listing of Web building resources available on the Internet.

Database

A really big list of JacaScripts.

W3Schools Tutorals of all manner

WebDevelopment Journal

Debugging Tools

Browser Sniffer

Deprecated Tags Also see:LOC Guidelines

Simply The Best An extensive selection of CGI scripts, ready-to-go DHTML scripts, Javascripts and Vbscripts.

Sysinternals The Sysinternals web site provides you with advanced utilities, technical information, and source code related to Windows 9x, Windows Me, and Windows NT/2000 internals that you won't find anywhere else.

JavaScript Knowledge Base

PHP
MySql

Rafael

CMST 385

Random Motion

Random Motion An excellent tutorial.
Random Motion Scripts
Scripts including random effects

Real Estate

Realestate valuation
Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation Real Property Data Search: You can obtain ownership and value information about real property in Maryland from this database, as well as sales of real property.

Recipes

Heart Healthy

RecipeCalc This software , Recipe Calc 3.0, lets you easily analyze your recipes, meals, or daily intake for nutritional value. It calculates calories, calories from fat, percent of calories from fat, fat grams, saturated fat, cholesterol, carbohydrates, fiber, sodium, and protein. Then displays the information in the familiar Nutrition Facts label format that is now on every food product in America. Included is a database of over three thousand of the most common ingredients. The user can also easily add ingredients to the database.

Embedded Fonts

Search Tools

A Way Back
Infospace, an all things search system
Alternate Resources
Switchboard - http://www.switchboard.com
Yahoo People Search - http://people.yahoo.com
dmozThe Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
Vivisimo - Clustered Web searching
Wondit "Wondir is building a new and different kind of information service, Wondir, to connect people who have information needs with the people and information that can help them."
Search Engine Showdown
Search Engine Watch
Froogle
Ask a Librarian-Columbia Also see the Maryland e-mail service at:Maryland AskUsNow!
Search the invisible Web
Public Record Locator
Reference Desk In a library, if you don't know where to look for a reference book, you go to the Reference Librarian. On the Internet, if you don't know where to look for answers, you go to Refdesk.com. At first glance, the sheer amount of useful links on the Refdesk home page can be overwhelming. But it's really quite well organized and useful.
Library Spot Convenient links to popular online Almanacs, Calculators, Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias, Historic Documents, Quotations, Statistics, and Thesauri.
Anonymous Surfing The goal that Silenter had in mind when creating this service was to protect the user and keep them safe from websites which steal personal information from you which cause several security risks if cross-referenced with your ISP.
Silenter does this by being a mid-point between you and the server you wish to contact. This results in total anonymity, and makes you safe online. When you want to visit a website, for instance yahoo.com. You tell our server to request yahoo.com, we retrieve yahoo.com, you download the page off of us and you make no contact with the server, and the server makes no contact with you.
Jeeves An interesting new phenomenon, the 'Portal', using natural language processing to understand and match users' questions to an extensive knowledge base. The Ask Jeeves knowledge base consists of thousands of question templates and millions of researched answer links to web sites.
Infomine Resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level.

UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries-Virtual Reference Desk
A Gopher space search tool There are thousands of Gopher servers around the world, providing access to commercial and academic information resources. "Gopher" refers to the ability to "tunnel" from one information resource to another in a transparent fashion. Gophers provide information menus which enable you to browse and download a wide variety of text, pictures, and multimedia information.

Alta Vista and Yahoo
Beaucoup A rather large list of search tools
Altavista translator
AltaVista Media Photo and Media Finder with over 17 million searchable images, audio clips and video files from the web and private collections. Yahoo has a similar capability. And for music see MP3 at Lycos

AddAll & MX BookFinder Online search engines can help you get that hard-to-find book. Meet AddAll and MX BookFinder, two book meta search engines, each with its own strong points. AddAll compares prices at 37 online bookstores and reports its findings with the cost of shipping included. MX BookFinder searches only six sites, handpicked for server speed and specialties like out-of-print and rare books.

Acses is another book finder. From a TourBus review of this site:
"Key in a title, author, ISBN, or keyword, and Acses will compare prices from 40 different online bookstores. Best of all, unlike AddAll.com, the results from a search at Acses actually contain a BUNCH of information. For example, a search for Tom Clancy's book "Rainbow Six" yields 10 hits, and each hit tells you:
1. The book's title;
2. The book's author;
3. The book's publishing date;
4. The book's publisher;
5. The book's binding;
6. The book's ISBN;
7. The book's list price."


Google Searches based on citation ranking.
METAEUREKA METAEUREKA distinguishes itself by its no-nonsense format -- no graphics, ads, or anything really except the search box and your results. It also includes a very useful feature for users concerned with the "freshness" of their search returns. Clicking on the Site Info link under each result produces a small pop-up window which lists, among other things, the last time the site was modified. METAEUREKA is keyword-searchable; indexes AltaVista, Google, Lycos, Alltheweb, and Yahoo, offering ten or twenty results per engine; and lists the results on a single page. A refreshing, clean, and simple alternative to the recent spate of cluttered, all-inclusive portal/ metasearch engines.

Internet FAQ Archives
Boolean
Indiana University knowledge base
Scott Kerlin's Library
W3 Search Engines This documents lists some of the most useful search engines available on the WWW.
People search
All The Web search engine Fast Search & Transfer (FAST). FAST is the first company to create a search engine with the ultimate goal of searching "All The Web, All The Time." FAST Search is the result of more than a decade of research into optimizing search algorithms and architectures, a project originally initiated at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim.
Oingo An Internet (Web) meaning-based search engine. Oingo allows you to refine your search based on the meaning of your search words or search phrase.
CNET Help.com The site, a searchable interface for posting and reading Usenet technical newsgroups, comes courtesy CNet. The designers have completely hidden the site's Usenet functionality. Help.com looks like a typical portal, with top categories such as Hardware, Internet, and Software with sub-categories (such as ICQ, Browsers, palmtops, etc.) presented as Web message boards. When you post a technical question here, the site sends the message to all relevant Usenet newsgroups. The back-end software keeps track of responses and presents them in the appropriate sections. Original posters must register, and the software keeps track of responses to their posts. All messages that originate at Help.com contain the e-mail address of the registered user.

Search Engine Watch Danny Sullivan, an Internet consultant and journalist who created Search Engine Watch continues to maintain the site. The site covers Web searching quite well. A related site is Search Engine Showdown. Another site loosely associated with searching is Marylaine Block's site. Another site, Direct Search, A compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools like Alta Vista, Hotbot, and Infoseek. While general search tools are essential for retrieval of Internet materials many users do not realize that large amounts of information are not easily searchable via these tools.

Pub Med PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 10 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals.
Search Engine Guide There are 2264 search engines for you to choose from!
AllWhois "Whois" is a command that tells you "Who Is" behind a web site or registered IP address. If you get spammed, or are hacked, or have trouble with a site, you can use a whois lookup to see where the spam or hacker came from, or to track down a contact for a web site.
NT Search
Library HQ More than 6,000 websites – fully cataloged in MARC format and searchable. These appear to be useful websites!
BARE BONES 101: A tutorial on searching the Web. "Bare Bones 101" has been created by Ellen Chamberlain, Head Librarian and Full Professor at the University of South Carolina Beaufort campus. Ms. Chamberlain holds an MLS degree from Western Michigan University.
Reference Desk VISION STATEMENT: Refdesk is not about revenue. Refdesk is not about traffic. Refdesk is not about promotional vehicles or any form of commercialism. Refdesk is only about indexing quality Internet sites and assisting visitors in navigating these sites. At Refdesk that is all that counts and that is all that will ever count. Avaritia facit Bardus - Greed makes you stupid.
Stanford University HighWire Press Free full-text science related articles (List limited to journals published online with the assistance of HighWire Press). As of 3/1/00 this list included 140,244 articles. Legal Search
Consumer Product Search Their methodology is to identify the experts in any particular product or service category. Their editors then highlight the best reviewers and what consensus exists on which products are best bets. The Editors' Report is an analysis of all the reviews and their conclusions.
The Researching Librarian Created by Kerry Smith, Assistant Professor and Library Instruction Services Coordinator, Mississippi State University Libraries, this new metasite gathers a modest but carefully selected group of sites that may be useful to librarians conducting research. The sites are organized in five categories: databases, funding, journals, statistics, and tools. Each link is briefly annotated or includes a block quote from the title page of the site being linked to. While many of the sites listed will be familiar to experienced online researchers, the site is worth a look.
Consumer Search ConsumerSearch.com seeks out every review of a consumer product that it can track down. Then, its writers analyze and rank the hundreds of reviews to offer lucid and useful reports for each category. Experts write the category reports; yes, the site presents their credentials. When the experts disagree, they clearly cover all points of view. The recommendations appear reasonable, and the site can be used as a search engine to locate the original reviews of virtually any product.
Find Articles The site offers free access to the full-text of articles published in over 350 magazines and journals dating from 1998. Users can search the database by keyword and by one of the nine subject categories (Arts & Entertainment, Computers & Technology, Reference & Education, Sports, etc.). Search returns include article title, periodical, and short description, with a link to the full-text.
Quotation Archives
Cross Referencing Encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & books of quotations from the world's leading publishers. All cross-referenced, all reliable, all in one place.
Find Sounds
Search for a free host. You can specify the things you are looking for in a host and get a list returned and even read reviews on some of them. Major categories listed about each host are domain name type, cgi, upload type, ad types, total space, etc.
A deep Web search resource CompletePlanet concerns itself with the "deep" Web, "content that resides in searchable databases, the results from which can only be discovered by a direct query," and thus cannot be indexed or queried by traditional search engines. The site offers a number of resources related to the "deep" Web, including a listing of approximately 13,000 "deep" Websites (out of an estimated 100,000 total) organized in 20 subject categories. Each category breaks down into numerous topical headings, and listings for the individual sites include a description and rankings for relevance, popularity, and links. CompletePlanet's database is also keyword searchable. The site notes both new additions and the most popular sites and offers a detailed search tutorial. Users who would like to learn more about the "deep" Web are invited to read CompletePlanet's 41-page white paper, "The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value," offered in HTML, .pdf, and .zip formats.
Periodical Search
Find Search Check for plagiarism.

Free Search Engine "PicoSearch is a very easy way to get a free search engine for your site. ... easy to configure ... lots of options, even in the free version!" also see NetMind another self search resource for your site. Also Atomz makes it simple to add a powerful site search engine to any Web site. A listing of self search resources. Finally there is the free Google search

Complete Planet BrightPlanet claims to have uncovered the "deep" Web – a vast reservoir of Internet content that is 500 times larger than the known "surface" World Wide Web. What makes the discovery of the deep Web so significant is the quality of content found within. There are literally hundreds of billions of highly valuable documents hidden in searchable databases that cannot be retrieved by conventional search engines.
Google Catalog Search

Security

Security Now by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Honey Pots
Microsoft
Carnagie Mellon CERT
Security Focus

Shopping Carts

Zen Cart

Shop

Review of cameras
Shop local stores

Software, OEM

Software Patches

Speed

Connection Speed Test

Speed Guide The site focuses on system performance, with areas including Broadband Internet connections, Windows, Overclocking, all targeted towards a technically aware audience. A large section of SpeedGuide.net is dedicated to Cable Modems and DSL technology, stressing on improving TCP/IP performance over high speed/latency networks.

Spam

Combat Spam

Stuff

Free Stuff on the Web
Page not Found An interesting substitute for the 404 error message. I wonder if asking for the URL can be avoided since it should be the HTTP header (URL or HTTP_REFERRER) even if it is a 404. I need to try this.
Perhaps I should also ask just what they were looking for. It would be a good idea to explain what kind of site they hit. A little bit more would help visitors to say: "hey I missed the page but I'm on the right web site". The notification is a cool idea also.
In addition it is a well designed form.
404 Information on how to create your own work of error art?
George Orwell
who.has.it A free, easy to remember site forwarding service. Also see:TinyURL For my UMUC site TinyURL came up with
Publius Publius: Censorship Resistant Publishing System John Gilmore's immortal quote has it that "The Net treats censorship as damage and routes around it." A number of recent software projects seek to do the same, and Publius may well be the most robust and well thought out of the lot. Publius takes its name from the pseudonym of the authors of "The Federalist Papers" (Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison), who found it useful to anonymously express their support of the US Constitution. Like several other systems, Publius relies on distributing documents across numerous servers in such a way that even the server owners don't know what documents they host. There's a lot of high-level crypto math here, but in essence a Perl program of a mere 1,500 lines does all the hard work. Users can read and publish documents anonymously from their own browser. A fairly technical and thorough paper (in PDF) explains the theory behind the project and surveys the competing anonymous publishing systems.
Internet Law Journal Here you will find the lastest breaking headline news concerning Internet Law.
Magazine Portal
Digital Imaging Tutorial
Time Server Gives times for locations worldwide
Cheap Fonts
Erols and DNS 411 DNS Lookup
PC Pit Stop PC Pitstop runs diagnostics on your PC to identify things that might help improve performance.
FreeWare

SwanPoint

Owen Brown

Swan Point

Columbia

Howard County

Tax

IRS The source for all things Fed. tax.

IRS Problem Alerts

Hoover Tax Info.

Tax Here you’ll find IRS forms, IRS instructions, IRS publications, IRS tables, IRS rate schedules, IRS charts, IRS worksheets, and answers to practically every IRS and tax question imaginable in our Master Index of IRS and tax topics. We have tax tips on how to survive the IRS! Strategies on how to avoid an IRS tax return audit. What to do if your tax return is audited by the IRS anyway.

Nanny Tax

Teaching

Faculty Development Resources
Del Mar College internet links
Lansing Community College Center For Teaching Excellence
Info. Literacy
Merlot An open information resource for faculty and students of higher education.
A Citation Formatter VERY IMPORTANT
APA Research Style Crib Sheet
Citations
Copyright and Plagiarism
SALG This free site is designed for instructors of all disciplines who would like feedback from their students about how the course elements are helping their students to learn.
Tomorrows Professor
Net Tutor
TOOLS - Getting Started on the Web, About Web Browsers, E-Mail Basics, Online Discussion Groups
SEARCH SKILLS - Searching 101, Using Web Search Tools, Specialized Databases, Searching OSCAR
RESEARCH TECHNIQUES - Evaluation of Web Sites, Smart Net Research Strategies, Citing Net Sources,
MIT Courses online
Teaching Tips Honolulu Community College's teachers guide.
List of journals and books about online teaching and learning. Jeff Finlay

Telnet

Login as "wais" for Net archive The Internet Archive is committed to backing up as much of the Internet as possible. For information about the archive, or if you have suggestions regarding collections to be considered, send email to frontdesk@archive.org. The archive Web site is http://www.archive.org/

Library of Congress LOCIS (Library of Congress Information System, the original mainframe-based retrieval system), with browsable indexes, word searches, Boolean combinations, various display options, set creation, and advanced features for limiting and refining search results.

Testing

PitStop

Time Waster

Time waster

Travel

Travel Brochures
Rail, Amtrak
Rail, Canada

Tools

Google based Web site design tools I need to look into this further.

TV

Fancast
Old TV shows that you can watch on your PC.
Yahoo TV Guide

Typing

Typing Lessons onLine

UMUC

1. Make-Up Exams (http://www.umuc.edu/prog/ugp/ets/makeupex.shtml)
2. Exams-http://www.umuc.edu/prog/ugp/ets/contactus.shtml
3. Withdrawals/Drops
4. UMUC Faculty Services
5. Course Development cookies
6. UMUC OracleEzine
7. Database Lab
8. Office of Distance Education and Lifelong Learning (Odell)
9. Writing Center
10. E-books
11. UMUC Policy Manual
12. FDES Contacts
13. UMUC Assessment Resource Center
The purpose in establishing the Assessment Resource Center (ARC) is to provide UMUC faculty and administrators with any time-anywhere access to helpful information, archived materials, and direct linkages to web resources on the assessment of teaching and learning outcomes.
14. Turnitin Contact kkelley@umuc.edu for access
15. Distance ED.
16. Proctored Exam Information.
17. UMUC Class Sched.
18. Writing Guide
19. Direct dial host
20. DESS
21. Citing Internet Resources: APA Style
    Another not UMUC resource is the Nueva Library
22. Resource Teams
23. Dates
24. UMUC Catalog
25. WebTycho Status
26. (Nighthawk, faculty training server located in College Park, Maryland, U.S.A.)
27. (Tychousa, located in College Park, Maryland U.S.A.)
28. (Tychoger, located in Heidelberg, Germany)
29. (Tychojpn, located in Japan)
30. IFIS
31. Steve Kerby's Help Page
32. the Virtual University
33. Plagiarism One of the great problems confronting D.E. is student plagiarism. We know the practice already plagues traditional classrooms, but email and the Internet make the exercise far easier for students in the cyber university. Many of us in the European Division have been overwhelmed by the problem. Frankly, I have become very restrictive in assigning research papers. It's just too easy for students to download "purchased" papers and/or copy & paste materials from the Internet.
    
    Help is on the way. A colleague (Wendy Davis-Gruber) just told me about something called Plagiarism.org. I connected to the website, and this Berkeley based company has built a huge data bank of Internet sites, books, student papers and so on. An Instructor who uses the service has his or her students submit their papers through Plagiarism.org. A few days later the papers are forwarded to the instructor along with a report on whether the paper (or portions of the paper) is plagiarized.
34. Moss Moss (for a Measure Of Software Similarity) is an automatic system for determining the similarity of C, C++, Java, Pascal, Ada, ML, Lisp, or Scheme programs. To date, the main application of Moss has been in detecting plagiarism in programming classes. Since its development in 1994, Moss has been very effective in this role. The algorithm behind moss is a significant improvement over other cheating detection algorithms (at least, over those known to us).
35. UMUC Portal That is if you want to use it as your start page.
36. Certificate Program
37. Health Sciences & Human Services Library
38. Unix Users Guide
39. UMD System associated Computing Vendors
40. Dreamweaver
41. VisualBasic
42. Library
Miriam Matteson
Reference and Instruction Librarian
University of Maryland University College
Phone: 301-985-7209
1-800-283-6832, ext. 7209
Information and Library Services
E-mail: umuc-reference@info.umuc.edu

43. MdUSA
44. MdUSA Full Text
45. HTML for WebTycho conferences
46. Undergraduate Courses Index
47. MIT Courses OnLine
48. Center for Teaching & Learning The mission of the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is to promote teaching excellence and enhance teaching effectiveness in order to maximize the quality of teaching and learning at UMUC.
49. Copyright
50. Faculty and Distance Ed. A very good resource.
51. (WebTycho Support 800-807-4862)
52. World Time Server "This assignment must be turned in by 11:59pm ET on January 15th. Assignments submitted after this date/time according to the WebTycho timestamp will be considered late and subject to a late penalty.http://tychousa4.umuc.edu/CMST450/0202/6980/class.nsf/Menu?OpenFrameSet If you live outside the Eastern time zone and are unsure of the time difference, please refer to the World Time Server. If you're confused about when an assignment is due, please ask me prior to the due date."
53. ws_ftp

Utilities

46 free utilities

Validators

W3C Validator
CSS WDG Validator
HTML WDG Validator

Vendors

InformIT InformIT is the online presence of the family of information technology publishers. Excelent technical articles can be found on this site.
Recording Media
Bulbs-Dutch Gardens
ComCast Support
Tom's Hardware Guide A source for independent editorial reviews of cutting-edge computer hardware.
Quality Cable
Firewiremax
Triumph
Microsoft Patches
O'Reilly On-Line Books
     The O'Reilly Web Development Series
TriStar Computing
@Home
PowerQuest
RedHat
Aladdin eSafe (was eliashim)
Net Ice
MicronPC Support
Microsoft
ABS
Macromedia's Dreamweaver
Water Pick
Goodman's small appliance
Computer Shopper
High Mountain Software
Forest Farm - Oregon
Buglogical Ctrl. Sys.
Buglogical Control Systems, buglogical@aol.com PO Box 32046, Tucson, AZ 85751-2046 Phone/Fax: 520.298.4400
Barns & Noble
Computer Geek's Discount Outlet
Domain Name Registrar
Haband
Alienware
Asantè
Philadelphia Shipyard The mission of restoring competitive commercial shipbuilding to the Philadelphia region reached a major milestone with production at the world's most advanced shipbuilding facility underway.
UMUC Bookstore
Network Associates
Dell
GE Parts
Microsoft Tutorials
Microsoft Keyboard
Crucial RAM This Web site does an excellent job of helping you find the right memory for your motherboard or PC model. Similar look-up tools on competitor sites don't work anywhere near this well. And the prices are good too.
ProVantage Good prices on Software.
Grass USA Cabinet Hinges
MotherBoard World "The most comprehensive motherboard database on the Web has been upgraded. Now compare prices on your favorite boards."
Beneficial Bugs
JourneyEd JourneyEd is a Web site that purportedly has good prices for software. In addition to a Web site for sales they will also send a catalog. Call 800-874-9001
Student Advantage. Students and faculty and staff members at accredited U.S. higher education institutions are eligible to purchase from the Student Advantage Tech Store. The Student Advantage Tech Store confirms the student or staff status of all first-time purchasers with their college or university, to ensure that the academic prices on the Student Advantage Tech Store are only provided to qualified buyers.
RugsUSA

Virus

Free Virus Checker

Weather

Columbia Weather
Calendar

Web Page Design

Internet.com
Web Site Design using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This site presents basic concepts in the design of static, second-generation web sites using the advanced concept of CSS.
Test a page using different Browsers
WebSite Templates. Unfortunately HTML 4.0 specs. predominate.
A List Apart
Web Style Guide
Web Page Design Mega List The purpose of Web Page Design for Designers is not to teach people how to produce web pages. There is little mention of HTML or any other technical stuff except where necessary. It is assumed that the reader already has a grasp of HTML programming, or has made the decision to use a WYSIWYG Web page editor. It is aimed at people who are already involved with design and typography for conventional print and want to explore the possibilities of this new electronic medium.
Browser Emulator for Windows 95/98/NT
Web Site Design Tips contains color charts, articles, tutorials, and tips, and over 1,400 annotated website links to quality information for website owners or developers: design and development, color, graphics programs, tips and tutorials, fonts, CSS, HTML, XHTML, XML, PHP and other programming languages, programs, search engine optimizing and major search areas, marketing, legal issues, discussion lists, and more.

Well Done Sites

Clydesdales
Almont Canada
HiFi
Peter Rabbit This attractive online home of Beatrix Potter's much-loved bunny offers free content for young and young-at-heart users. These include examples of Potter's art and a brief biography, video and audio clips, online games, electronic greeting cards, and news of related exhibitions and events.
Leonardo
Silk Road Gifts
Maryland Science Center

The Web in General

JavaScript Quiz Creator
Reading - How to
TipWorld Each business day, TipWorld will deliver FREE newsletters to your e-mail box. You can select from a large list of subjects. The format, text or HTML, is also your choice. A very nice service, however it is supported by adds. Receiving the tips via a UMUC Unix account, in a text format, subdues the impact of the adds.
Kokomo Opalescent Glass "Kokomo Opalescent Glass is the oldest manufacturer of opalescent and cathedral stained glass in the world. We have the ability to manufacture over 18,000 different color/density/texture combinations, and have been in continuous operation since 1888."
I was able to pick up some very nice backgrounds from this site. However, before I use them I need to check copyright issues. Well I did:
" Use them, please. All I ask is that you leave the file names alone so people can relate the images back to our color numbers, and that you somewhere politely cite where they came from (with a link to the site would, of course, be the best way to get in my good graces)."
Dan Waber
Kokomo Opalescent Glass
Nature's Only Real Competitor Since 1888
koglass@kog.com

Bloomberg Financial This is the companion site for the Bloomberg financial news magazine. Many financial news and search services are to be found here.
Additional market information can be found at CBS MarketWatch. This site is frequently updated.
Guide to Grammar and Writing I would have killed for such information access when I was in school. Sure beats the Library at 7AM before classes. The Community-Technical College (Hartford, Connecticut), provides this site, "a compendium of English grammar, usage, and writing information at the sentence, paragraph, and essay levels. Each section contains easily understood information about concepts related to the topic. Most sections contain answered quizzes."
I've also found some additional sites that merit an examination.
The Authors Guide
Indiana University
Dictionary of Computing The DC can be downloaded as a text file, 3.8 MBytes.
Butzgy
CGI scripts by Peter J. Schoenster, webmaster@rede.com An Interesting set of scripts. Must look into this page further when time permits. Here is a working example of one.
A discussion of JavaScript image flips by Urb LeJeune Urb is an author I "talk" with from time to time via a mail list.
Hi Ferd,
Thanks for offering to take a look at the beta version of the Java Script image rollover generator. I would really appreciate your comments, good, bad or indifferent.
Urb, LeJeune@usats.com
NetMechanics "Let our robots tune your Web site. Free!" Their Robot will test sites of up to 200 pages with up to 500 links. My site is too large. Another annoyance is that they find all missing image height and width attributes. I've left these out for small image files. However, a potentially interesting site.
W3C Recommendation From the World Wide Web Consortium. If you want to know it all here 'tis. Also see: XHTML
WebReview Web Review offers hot-off-the-wire information for building innovative and effective Web sites. If you're interested in learning about tried and true" design techniques, or you want to bone up on the latest developments in web fonts, style sheets, Javascript, Perl, DHTML, XML, etc. - then this is the place to go.
the Bed & Breakfast Channel A search engine provides a listing of Bed & breakfast lodging throughout the country.
NIH Very well designed image flips can be found at this site.
Web Site Garage Run 7 free diagnostics on your home page. A really fine service. Among the best executed that I've found. Included are:

Browser Compatibility Check

How well is your Web page displayed when your customers view it with different browsers?

!Register-It! Readiness Check

Is your Web page set up to be indexed correctly by search engines and directories?

Load Time Check

How long does your site take to load up with your customer's modem?

Dead Link Check

Detect hard to find dead links on your page.

Link Popularity Check

Yahoo! has 300,000 other Web sites linking to it across the Web. Find out how many are linking to you.

Spell Check

Does your Web page have any spelling mistakes?

HTML Design Check

Find out how your site's HTML design compares to the best.

The Lazarus Foundation This outfit accepts old computers, but not too old, and rebuilds them to give to or to sell to worthy groups. The "sell" price depends on what you can afford. Voice: Don Bard at (410) 740-0735 or Larry Medoff at (410) 997-5924.
Net Security Information This site lists sources for security information.
Is it Chili, Chile or Chilli 'nough said.
Salon Magazine Seems to report on issues neglected by the "main stream" press. There is material on every sort of topic. It would take hours to read through a single issue. A searchable archive is maintained. The layout, from a Webmasters perspective, is rather well done.
Guide to electronic media citations Columbia Online Style: MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources. Endorsed by the Alliance for Computers & Writing.
Janice R. Walker Department of English
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Avenue, CPR 107
Tampa, FL 33620-5550
January, 1995 (Rev. 11/97)
Vers. 1.2
The Sara Byrd Askew Library is another source.
Archie Web Servers This is a list of Archie services (gateways) on the World Wide Web. The latest version is always at http://www.nexor.co.uk/archie/ (i.e. this page).
Writing This is Dan Bricklin's site on writing documents for the Internet and Intranets, and it appears to be have many useful resources.
W3J The World Wide Web Journal (W3J) is chartered to help people implement open systems on the Web. Each issue provides a balance of specifications from W3C and implementation guides that explain how to use the technology. Also included are technical papers from around the world, interviews, and news stories.
MOOs, MUDs and Other Virtual Hangouts. One of these days, when I get the time, I'm going to look into this stuff. Hope springs eternal ..
MOO for Educators More MOO!
c|net Computer Shopper's Guide A useful guide to where to buy computer products. Price comparisons included.
Argus Clearinghouse Argus provides a central access point for value-added topical guides which identify, describe, and evaluate Internet-based information resources. Our mission is to facilitate intellectual access to information resources on the Internet.

WebMonster list of mailing lists The WebMonster is host to these very busy mailing lists:

• The Web Design List
• The Web Programming List
• The Web Artists List
• The Web Business List
• The Web Mac List
• The Web Sociology List
• The FreeDOS Project

HTML Tutorial The HTML with Style Tutorials will teach you HTML and CSS, from scratch, the Right Way. Every second Thursday a new one will be here.
Web Developer's Virtual Library A comprehensive illustrated encyclopedia of web technology, The WDVL is a well-organized gold mine of tutorials, examples, and links to great resources. It's for webmasters and Internet developers who are creating web sites with HTML, CGI, Java, JavaScript, graphics, VRML, multimedia, animation, etc.
Britannica The Britannica Internet Guide is a World Wide Web navigation service that classifies, rates, and reviews more than 75,000 Web sites. Britannica editors search the Web to identify quality Web resources, which are clearly and concisely described, rated according to consistent standards, and indexed for superior retrieval.
VooDoo JavaScript "The" source for a JavaScript tutorial.
Mega Converters megaConverter.com is an ever-growing set of weights, measures and units conversion/calculation modules.
For metric Conversions
Metric Conversion Factors
Browser Safe Colors Display of these colors with RBG in Hex. also See
Compendium of HTML Elements The Compendium is a reference source for the Hypertext Markup Language.
OneLook, words and more words Literally hundreds of dictionary.
and more words
Biographical Dictionary Before this biographical dictionary was created, there was no general-purpose source of biographical information online. This online reference source has important advantages over its hard-copy counterparts:

1. It's searchable by keywords other than names.
2. It's up to date.
3. It's free.

Unfortunately the information returned is rather brief.
HTML Goodies A well written collection of JavaScripts.
The JavaScript Source Another collection.
JS Script Search
irt.org irt.org is a non-profit making online developer site that covers Internet Related Technologies that are cross-browser as well as operating system and platform independent. irt.org provides information on emerging technologies as well as the technology available now.
The Cyber law Encyclopedia This site is intended as a non-commercial reference site for legal issues related to computer law and the law related to Internet and online issues.
Time-Line
Web Monkey A guide for Web Junkies
Dictionary of Net Words
Online computer encyclopedia An online encyclopedia and search engine dedicated to computer technology.
Dictionary of Net Terms An online dictionary contains definitions of words that are emerging as a new vocabulary surrounding the technology and community of the Internet.
Chuck Musciano HTML Guru
Web Design Tutorials
Linux A comprehensive Linux information site.
Financial Data Finder
Free drive 7.5 MegaBytes of storage space at no cost. You also can arrange for multiple access to uploaded files.
Netscape Color Names Color display along with RBG Hex. Also see:Color Database and Web Master Know Howand bobbitt
Phone Directory In my opinion this is THE phone directory, four11 (411)
The Weather Provides access to weather forecasts by region and by city.
Byte Magazine The online version of Byte with a searchable index. BYTE's on-line article archive spans all issues from January 1994 through May 1998.
Food & Wine An online food and wine magazine with an extensive searchable archive. Also included is a searchable cookbook. The last cookbook authored by Fannie Farmer (1918) is also on-line. Another neat cooking site is Out of the Frying Pan.
Unix Reference Source The Unix Guru Universe, an extensive information resource for things Unix. The site bills itself as 'The largest single point Unix resource on the Net!' A first look seems to confirm this. Now we have two excellent Unix resources, see also 'Unix Help'.
Bartlett's Quotations.
Meta-Spy This site, which displays search strings received by MetaCrawler, reminds me of the admonition not to say anything on the Net that you would not want published on the front page of the National Inquirer.
Resources in Engineering & Science Education Papers on education and teaching by Richard Felder. Links to related sites are also included.
Capital Community-Technical College Hartford CT Capital Community-Technical College provides these pages of links to resources on the World Wide Web in the hope that they will prove useful for faculty and student research. (Needs a further look.)
The Center For Democracy and Technology CDT is a non-profit public interest organization based in Washington, DC. CDT works for public policies that advance civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies.
A really big index I'll check it out when I have time.
NT Seek A source of NT related resources.

600 Dictionaries This site provides links to more than 600 dictionaries in 150 different languages

Acronym Finder There is also a phrase finder.

Neosoft's search engine for public mailing lists.

Mortgage Calculator

Viewer test This site provides access to a very large number of file types to exercise the viewers associated with your particular browser.

Answer.com Now if you want a real time waster ...

Almont Canada Just a well done page. And another Leonardo Another Phantom

Hamilton Remainder Books

Dvorak's Home Page Dvorak, who writes for PC magazine, maintains a page of links to useful sites.

MediConsult Mediconsult's Web site is a vast repository of information on over seventy different medical topics and conditions ranging from AIDS/HIV to breast cancer to spinal cord injury. Pick a topic or condition from the pull-down list on the left-hand side of Mediconsult's homepage and you are taken to a page dedicated to that particular topic or condition. This page gives you links to: - Educational Material - Journal Articles - News - Clinical Trials - Drug Information - Support Groups - Outside sources all relating to that particular topic or condition.

Review Booth The source for locating computer hardware and software reviews and evaluations.

Wordsmith English Dictionary-Thesaurus More resources for the word-smith.

Useless Facts

Graphic Design Links Looks like a good guide to things graphic.

Urban Legends The real scoop on such things. For another source see Cathouse or Snoops With few exceptions, all of the material on the Snoops site is researched and written by the husband-and-wife team of Barbara and David Mikkelson as a hobby.

Copyright Management Center The Indiana University Copyright Management Center assists members of the university community as they work with copyright issues in the creation of original works and in the use of existing copyrighted works for teaching, research, and service.

Fortify Netscape Fortify is a program that provides world-wide, unconditional, full strength 128-bit cryptography to users of Netscape Navigator (v3) and Communicator (v4).

Critical Thinking Something I need to look into when time permits.

OS Y2K Compliance

Epicurious In a word FOOD! Included are:

- "Recipe File"

A searchable collection of over 8,000 recipes from Bon Appétit and Gourmet magazines.

- "A Linked Lexicon"

An online food dictionary. Just key in the ingredient, technique, or phrase you're looking for.

- "What's Ripe"

Information about which fruits and vegetables are at their peak at each of the seventeen major farmer's markets in the United States.

And much more.

How Stuff Works

Email More than you wanted to know about email.

GIF Wizard Purports to improve you image compression. I need to check this out.

Counter Bloke, eXTReMe Tracking My student often ask for a source for a counter, so here are several.

A Taste of Pain Hot sauce catalog.

Mary's Tips Looks like a good tutorial for Web design.

Harvard - ALPS Active Learning Practices for Schools, is a new Website promoting the improvement and advancement of pedagogical practice. ALPS functions as an electronic resource center for teachers and school administrators worldwide, allowing them to collaborate with educational researchers and curriculum designers working at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.

Vangogh Gallery Along with a lot of information about the Web site's author.

Usable Web Usable Web is a collection of 427 links and accompanying information about human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web.

The Atlantic Monthly

Symbols.Com If you need information on symbols here is where to go.

World Wide Words World Wide Words is devoted to the English language - its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution. The Words site is organized into sections, each with its own index to help you find your way about.

Dictionary.com

Talk about effects!

Yardeni's Y2K site From Dr. Y's site: "The Year 2000 Problem (Y2K) is a very serious threat to the US economy. Indeed, it is bound to disrupt the entire global economy. If the disruptions are significant and widespread, then a global recession is likely. Currently, I believe there is a 70% chance of such a worldwide recession, which could last at least 12 months starting in January 2000 and could be at least as severe as the 1973-74 global recession."

UK Newspaper, The Independent

CIA World Facts Page

Search for Magazines and Newspapers.

AntiOnline Highlights articles that deal with Information Security, Hackers, Crackers, and the Underground in general.

Common Errors in English

Ask the Rabbi

MMF Hall of Humiliation I quote from the site: "I want to make posting MMF as bad an experience as possible for MMF posters. I have absolutely zero sympathy for these fools."

Priceline Bid for airline tickets and such.

WebReference on Color

Teachers Web, searching A tutorial on searching.

A Reading Room, EServer To quote from the site; 'The EServer has published writings online since 1990; today we offer over 20,000 works. Feel free to browse or search our collections, talk on our mailing lists and live conference line, or join our teams of volunteers publishing to Internet readers.'

The Electronic Literature Foundation The mission of the Electronic Literature Foundation (ELF) is to produce advanced electronic texts to be used by students, scholars, and admirers of literature around the world. Our goal is to provide free access to a variety of texts from world literature available in several languages and/or editions, with forums for communication regarding these works, for all types of readers.

Tufts Center for Teaching Excellence Handbooks and "teaching tip" compendia from 13 institutions are currently included in the Tufts Faculty Cyber-Handbook.

ERIC Clearinghouse

Acronym Finder A searchable database containing common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military.

Eval. Net Data This page contains pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet. It is intended to be particularly useful to librarians and others who are selecting sites to include in an information resource guide, or informing users as to the qualities they should use in evaluating Internet information.

Free Send-a-Fax Also see JustTheFax for a simple application.

Free Photo The pictures are available free for non commercial use. You must credit the FREEFOTO web site on your page.

Search Engine analysis Created and maintained by Greg Notess, author of _Government Information on the Internet_ and a columnist in _Online_ and _Database_, this site offers reviews, analysis, statistics, and strategies for many of the major search engines. Organized in four primary sections (Features, Analysis, Learning, News & Talk) the site explores topics such as search engine database size and capabilities, searching for Usenet and phone number information, subject guides, multiple search engines, and tips on successful searching. The site appear to be regularly updated and additional resources include a newsletter, which users may subscribe to at the site.

Browser testing BT98 thoroughly and safely tests close to 300 separate browser features and functions from the bedrock basics up to Dynamic HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, multimedia, streaming audio and video, Java, ActiveX/OCX, scripting, push "channels," applications- and desktop-integration, virus protection, data binding, security and more.

AVERT Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team.

Symantec Virus Info.

Find a Web Server and by location

Word for Word The origins of unusual words and phrases, plus intelligent and spirited discussion on words and their meanings.

Edmund's Edmund's was the first site on the Internet to provide automobile pricing information at no cost. Edmund's also provides extensive automobile reviews, consumer information, information about incentives and rebates, expert analysis of late-breaking developments in the automotive world.

A Public Forms Server A Forms server available for public use at the University of Kentucky. It apparently was developed and is supported by a student. A forms tutorial is also available at this site.

A very nice color selection site.

NetMind A free service that tracks changes made to Web sites.

Time Zone Converter Also includes a currency converter, flags of all nations and more.

Maps and Geographic Information Resources

Al's catalog of sites

Sustainable Urban Landscape This outstanding site from the University of Minnesota Extension offers a detailed guide to designing, creating, and maintaining sustainable urban landscapes. Aimed at both the public and the horticulture/ landscape industry, the site is composed of four main sections. The first, Design, takes users on a detailed trip through the process of envisioning, planning, and designing landscapes that are cost effective, visually pleasing, and easy on the environment. The next section, Plant Selection, overviews the basics of selecting plants for landscapes and includes an excellent plant selection database. With detailed information and photos of over 1,200 plants, the database is worthy of an annotation in itself. The Implementation section covers preparation, planting, installation, and construction of urban landscapes, with several illustrated how-to projects. The final section, Maintenance, offers a comprehensive guide to lawn care, with additional features on tree, shrub, and plant care planned for the future. A collection of links to related land-grant University and Extension sites rounds out the site.
Plant Photos Christopher J. Starbuck - University of Missouri, Columbia. Also see: Thomas Schoepke's, Plant Image Gallery The "Plant Image Gallery" contains about 2.000 pictures of plants native to several parts of the world. Pictures of plants from Europe, Costa Rica and Galapagos Islands were taken during botanical field trips. Additionally, a considerable number of close-ups are among them obtained by use of a microscope. Pictures of plants native to other parts of the worlds were mainly made in botanical gardens.
Plant Care PlantCare is a database of over 1,300 species of House and Greenhouse Plants which provides 18 categories of care, from watering to lighting. Search for a plant by either its Latin or common name. If you don't know the name, Search by Plant Type, such as Shrub, Fern or Perennial.

Virus Info. This service is provided by the Data Fellows F-Secure Anti-Virus Support Team. The database is updated several times a week.

Teaching Pyramid A Modular Approach to Teaching/Learning the World Wide Web. A useful CAPP 385 teaching tool.

Mark Harden's Art Artchive The images, text and articles included at this site are for private, non-profit use only. Other usage is strictly prohibited. These images are made available for educational purposes. To quote from the copyright info at the site - "You are free to use up to five or six images from the site for any personal non-profit, educational purpose. This would primarily be your personal home page, but could also be, for example, one-time use for an offline presentation. I ask that you provide credit to "Mark Harden" as the source for each scan. If the images are used on a web site, please display the credit in the form of a link to my site, i.e. Scan by Mark Harden".

On line psychological testing

Voycabulary VoyCabulary is a web tool which will link web pages or phrases to online references like dictionaries or thesauruses -- This provides a convenient and speedy way to lookup words quickly and efficiently, maybe. Need to look into this.

Erie Insurance

ERIC Full Text Learning Related Info. Here you will find links to some of the best full-text books, reports, journal articles, newsletter articles and papers on the Internet that address educational measurement, evaluation and learning theory.

BARTLEBY VERSE American & English Poetry, 1250–1920.

Merck-Medco

The GNU Privacy Guard GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP. Because it does not use IDEA or RSA and was not US created it can be used without any restrictions.

Register Com A Web domain registry service.

Home Time

dmoz As the web grows, automated search engines and directories with small editorial staffs will be unable to cope with the volume of sites. The Open Directory Project's goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the web, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors.

BBC World News News of the world including real time audio feeds.

Nature, The magazine Now updated daily, this current awareness resource from _Nature_ will appeal to professional and armchair scientists alike. Each day's offering usually consists of two or three new articles, identified by field (ecology, space, biotechnology, etc.) and introduced with a one-sentence summary. The concise and generally well-written articles offer useful and quick accounts of some of the latest discoveries and policy decisions affecting the scientific community. An archive of past stories organized by date (to January 1999) or category is also available.

News Links

Color This SBFAQ is intended to fill a gap between the highly technical aspects of color and design and the layman's perspective.
TOC
Part 1: Basic Terms and Definitions
Part 2: Color Discrimination
Part 3: Color Appearance
Part 4: Color Blindness
Part 5: Using Color Effectively
Part 6: Color for Text and Graph Legibility
Question Index For All Parts
References


Art and the Zen of Web Site Publishing An excellent 'How-To' site.

Domain name registries around the world This site contains the country name and extension all in alphabetical order. Included links take you to the registration authority of the TLD.

Chile-Head Quoting from the site introduction ... 'Being a Chile-Head is a serious business. It means expressing a devotion to all things Chile pepper related; not just 'how hot?', but the length of the 'burn', the after-taste, the growing, harvesting and cooking of chiles. But why is there such a deep love of chiles? The reason is that during the eating of chiles, a chemical in the chile pepper irritates the trigeminal cells. These are pain receptor cells located throughout the mouth, the nose and the throat. When your body's nerves feel the pain induced by the chemical on these cells, they immediately start to transmit pain messages to your brain. Your brain receives these signals and responds by automatically releasing endorphins (the body's natural painkillers). These endorphins kick in and act as a pain killer and at the same time, create a temporary feeling of euphoria, giving the chile-eater, a natural high. The body's other responses include increasing the heart rate to increase the metabolism, increasing salivation in order to try and refresh the mouth and by increasing the rate of sweating by the body. Your nose also starts to run and the gastrointestinal tract slips into high speed. Hot & spicy food lovers soon begin to crave these feelings and are soon hooked. The problem however is that some chile peppers are a lot hotter than others. Take a bite out of the wrong one and you could be in for a shock.'

Happy Harrys Wine Selector

Hoover IPO Information

Gibson

BitLaw BitLaw is a comprehensive Internet resource on technology law, containing over 1,800 pages on patent, copyright, trademark, and Internet legal issues.

Rules to build a site by. A listing, in some detail I might add, of 50 Web page design rules. A related site, well sort of Dan's Web Tips: Cleaning up after WYSIWYG authoring tools

Animated Flags

Cooking School

Free ISPs

Fred Langa Newsletter
Browser Check If you ever find yourself wondering "Now, where did I see that thing Fred wrote about?" these URLs may help you:

All back issues of the LangaList:
http://www.langa.com/archives.htm

All new-format (from August 1999 onward) "Explorer" columns on the WinMag site:
http://www.winmag.com/columns/default.htm

All pre-August 1999 WinMag Columns:
http://bbs.winmag.com/columns/archive.htm

InformationWeek Columns:
http://www.informationweek.com/langaletter/archives.htm

Byte columns:
http://www.byte.com/index/monitor



Flying Noodle Pasta and Sauces

iPrint An online printshop. Prices look good.

Govt. Time

MotherBoard PC The site is maintained by a diverse group of technical professionals who have agreed to contribute their time and skills in an effort to bring you the most up-to-date and relevant motherboard technology information possible. Useful information but not sure it is without bias.

CREN Listproc CREN's strategic mission is to support low-cost access to worldwide electronic networking and its use for the benefit of education and research communities. Their Mailing List Management Software is ListProc 8.2 -

Site Miner Put a search engine on your site that will search your site. Cost from free to $30/Mo.

Anonymous Net Freedom, currently the most robust method by far of assuring your Net anonymity, prevents anybody from tracing the source or destination of your communication. The system consists of e-mail, Web, Usenet, and IRC proxy servers around the world linked by strong encryption software. The Freedom client software, currently available only for Windows, accesses the Net through this anonymizing network and provides you with an untraceable anonymous pseudonym. Not even Zero-Knowledge itself can link you to your pseudonym, called in Freedom-speak a "nym." Zero-Knowledge charges $50 for five nym-years - in other words, one nym you can use for five years or five nyms you can use for one year. They also offer a free trial. As with most things, if you don't use Freedom wisely you could get into trouble, so check the documentation on vulnerability in the Support section. Use it or lose it.

Animal Sounds There are many samples of animal sounds on the World Wide Web and FTP sites, but finding them takes some patience and a bit of luck. Here is an index specifically for animal sounds.

Veteran's Benefits
Veterans Health services

Netscape browser archive

Alert Box Bi-weekly column by Dr. Jakob Nielsen. Simple but attractive, the pages load in a flash and are filled with Nielsen's pithy opinions on design. The content here is excellent. The columns, filled with insight into design trends, have recently covered such topics as the failure of corporate Web sites, applets, the difference between Intranet and Internet design and the changes in Web usability.

Waltons Pond's list of 'neat' words.

Auto Care A subsection of Autosite.com, a for-profit (from ads, the content is free) information source for auto buyers, the maintenance and repair area offers free and detailed information on auto care and repair that is accessible but not simplistic. In the maintenance section, users will find a preventative maintenance checklist, illustrated guides to fluids and exterior systems, a discussion on tires, and FAQs. The Repair section features troubleshooting tips, an illustrated repair guide, a fairly deep Auto Repair Encyclopedia, and several related links. Whether you are a die-hard do-it-yourself or just prefer to be forearmed before taking your car to the mechanics, this site can help.

Is your system NT 2000 ready?

GigaLaw A Web site offering legal information for Internet professionals. Included are articles from high-tech lawyers about basic as well as cutting-edge legal issues.

Cyber Fiber News Group List

Browser Stats

A list of outfits that register Domains:
Bulk Register


Living Internet A comprehensive resource for the What, Where, Why, How, and Who of the Internet authored by William Stewart (PhD CS). By Net standards, the subject matter and depth make LivingInternet a classic.

WebTomorrow a collection of Tiger Buford's articles about how to leverage the Internet to improve your business.

BugBios This site aims to help you really see insects for the miniature marvels they represent and to understand how intertwined our cultures have become with these alien creatures.

Loretta's Training Resource Center A good source of training how-to.

Mail-to-Web Mail2Web (http://www.mail2web.com)? That's a service that lets you use the Web to get to your mail at your POP3 server. You can read your mail from anywhere.

CAST Founded in 1984, CAST is an educational, not-for-profit organization that uses technology to expand opportunities for all people, including those with disabilities.

VA

Big Cats

Student Discounts Discounts for college students on all manner of stuff.

File Extensions

Pine mail

Screensavers

Registry Guide The guide provides an extensive range registry tips, tricks & tweaks for optimizing, enhancing and securing the Windows operating system.

Harley Hann's News Groups

CU-Bolder Style Guide As a service to our University of Colorado clients and the entire university community, Publications and Creative Services has developed this University of Colorado at Boulder Style Guide.

Pasword Protection

Writing

Beowulf A New Translation for Oral Delivery
Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students

XML

Northen Light
XML 101
The XML Cover Pages
Getting Started with XML: A Manual and Workshop