Homes, or Starting Points

 

Yahoo! - the classic web index

Yahooligans! - web index for kids

AltaVista - my second favorite all-purpose search tool, after Sherlock

Excite - another search site

About.com - good with questions

Discovery Online - excellent for the questioning student

Yahoo! WebRings - if it's here, there's a lot of it

 

 

Personal

Comcast Broadband's Start Page - my current ISP.

Sprint - my cell phone company

CheckFree - free online bill-paying service I use

Regence Blue Cross - my Health Insurance Co.

Givelife - give blood often

eBay - c'mon, buy something

PayPal - if you bought it, pay for it

Local - Oregon

Oregon Citylink Home Page - a portal to info

Welcome to Oregon - another portal

City of Lake Oswego - hometown homepage

LINAS Catalog - my local library, online (way cool)

Lakeridge High School - a local school

Personal Telco Project - grass-roots WiFi, Wiki and more

Local - Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Public Library - check 'em out

Santa Cruz Wharf - tide tables and more

Local - Denver

Have a suggestion? Let me know.

 

 

Me (I'm a people, too)

About Me - and my family; glad you asked...

Oswego Photo - my photographs, my equipment, etc.

Others - folks worth getting to know

Morgan - let me show you pictures of our granddaughter

Christoph - my son's blog (Rated PG-13).

SpiffNet - a very nicely done site by a nice local guy

Michaela Eaves Graphic Design & Illustration - and another very nicely done site

Ursula K. LeGuin - one of our planet's true treasures, author of The Left Hand of Darkness

C. J. Cherryh - another of our planet's true treasures, author of Cyteen

Philip Greenspun - photographer, author of a marvelous photoessay, Travels with Samantha, which is where this link goes

Wendy Carlos - seminal musical force, solar eclipse photographer, and another treasure

Baxter Black - America's Poet Lariat

Tad Bartimus - the writer of Among Friends

former California State Senator Sheila Kuehl - a remarkable non-local woman

David Sedaris - a writer whose stories remind me of Mark Twain's; see what you think

News

 

Yahoo! - News - concise & easy to use

CNN - "News" is their middle name

BBC News - the view from across the pond

The Christian Science Monitor - another perspective

FrontPage Magazine - David Horowitz' online mag

Wired Magazine - spend some time here sometime

 

 

Lake Oswego

The Oregonian - my local paper

The Lake Oswego Review - my really local paper, a weekly

KOIN News - a local TV station

KOIN Traffic Cams - Oregon traffic cams from ODOT

KGW.COM - another local TV station

OPB On-Line - Oregon Public Broadcasting (TV & radio)

Denver

The Rocky Mountain News - a Colorado paper

KUSA Channel 9 - my favorite local news there

Santa Cruz

The Santa Cruz Sentinal - local paper

KION TV - my fave for local news

KSBW TV - local station in Salinas

 

 

weather.com - Lake Oswego

weather.com - Denver

weather.com - Santa Cruz

National Weather Service - the whole enchilada

 

 

New York Stock Exchange - Capitalism Central

Yahoo! Finance - their selection of links

The Mortgage Professor - if you have one

Merrill Lynch Login - not much unless you have an account

Public Employees' Retirement Association of Colorado - not much unless you have an account

Reference

 

Wikipedia - big, free, mostly right

Encyclopedia.com - they got the domain name, after all

Dex - online yellow pages

CIA World Factbook - a great source! "Your tax dollars at work"

 

 

Webster's Unabridged - the 1913 Webster's 2nd Unabridged, fully searchable

Dictionary.com - there's a thesaurus here, also

Cambridge Dictionaries Online - another good one

AllWords.com - English Dictionary with Multi-lingual search

World Wide Words - fun for fans of language

Word Origins - why do we say that?

Online Slang Dictionary - from UC Berkeley; it's a start

The Urban Dictionary - bring a grain of salt

Travel Languages - a comprehensive language site

 

 

Project Gutenberg - pioneering online literature site

Great Literature Online - and another

Bartleby.com - Great Books Online

The U.S. Constitution "It's alive!"

 

Acronym Finder - what's that mean?

 

Netscape People Finder Reverse Lookup - "who dat?" - phone numbers, e-mail, etc.

Freeality Email Addresses and Reverse Lookup - try this one, too (very comprehensive)

NSI - WHOIS Lookup - want to know who that domain really is?

PSE - Domain Country Code Lookup (see also: CIA World Factbook)

G E E K T O O L S - what do you want to do today?

SamSpade.org - another great set of tools, with documentation

NumberFinder - who you gonna call?

whocalled.us - who's calling?

Jay Computer Services - cool: ZIP & Area Codes, City Search, 800 Lookup

Toll-Free Phone Search - a place to look those up, too

 

 

Snopes - fiction is stranger than truth (check that hoax, too)

Project Vote Smart - look up your representatives

Prescription Drugs Reference Page - what's that do?

The Mayo Clinic - the Doctor is in

WebMD - and call me in the morning

The Encyclopedia of Life - Life.

Judaism 101 - clear & well organized, everything you could want, from right to left

TopoZone - topographic maps

The Math and Physics Help Home Page - it's not really cheating

Catalog of NCES Products - National Center for Education Statistics

Legal Forms - where there's a will...

Internet Legal Resource Guide - No, they can't post your bail

Kelley Blue Book - what's that fine ride worth?

Fuel Economy Guide - from the U.S. Government

Yahoo! Reference:Calendars - I think calendars are interesting. What can I say?

Earth Calendar - another cool calendar site

Music

 

The Misty River Band - my favorite acoustic band, and they're local; check 'em out!

The P-Funk Motherpage - don't neglect the funk or it'll neglect you

The Riders In The Sky - a great acoustic band; Western Music & The Cowboy Way

Music & Mathematics - On the mathematical nature of music, by Dave Benson (Marvelous stuff, if you're not scared off by equations on the page)

Devian Jazz Midi Collection - jazz MIDI files

Classical Archives - classical MIDI files

All Music Guide - musical search engine

Yahoo! Entertainment > Music > Genres - Yahoo's index

The Archive of Misheard Lyrics - way fun stuff!

Electronic Musician - the publication for electronic musicians, descendant of Polyphony

My instruments - "and significant amounts of equipment"

 

Keyboards
(Yes, I still use my beloved Grey Matter Response enhanced Yamaha DX-7 as my master keyboard)

Dave Benson's DX7 Page - the DX-7 site, from a professor of Mathematics at UGA

Setsu Home - Takashi Suzuki's outstanding collection (DX-7, Juno & more for Macs)

YamahaSynth - Classic Corner's DX page - an official site

The Synth Zone - resources for dinosaurs

The Synth Museum - concise information

Synth & MIDI Museum - more concise information

Mirage-Net FAQ - remember the Mirage?

Yahoo!: Synthesizers and Samplers - Yahoo's index

Other Instruments (I'm partial to winds, personally)

eBay: Musical Instruments

The Portland Music Company - a local instrument store

Photography

 

Oswego Photo - my photographs, my equipment, etc.

 

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Flickr - my favorite photography site

Some photos I've posted on Flickr

photo.net - my 2nd favorite photography site - check out the photos of the week

Some photos I've posted on PhotoNet

photo.net photographs - some selected by me

Excell Nature Photography - local photographer Laurie Excell

Amanda's Photography - Amanda Radovic's lovely pictures of children & familes

The Photo College - a good primer, and more

Current Phase of the Moon - and non-current, too, from the USNO

Sun & Moon Data - for anywhere, also from the USNO

Crime Scene and Evidence Photography - a fascinating subset of photography

Photography - a Canadian list of references

Bird Phototography Tips - a good tutorial

 

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Predominately Nikon:

Nikon Links - if it isn't here, it must be about binoculars or somethin'

Knowledge & Resource corner - a really wonderful Malaysian reference. This basically one-man site also has a truly mind-boggling wealth of info on Canon & Nikon camera equipment (as far back as you care to go, probably)

B&H Photo - a good online photo equipment store's Nikon department

Nikon Photographic Equipment - Nikon's official site

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The Molecular Expressions Photo Gallery - wonderful photomicrography, brought to you by Florida State University (hey, some of the microsopes are Nikons)

The Nocturnes - night photography

New York Institute of Photography - a good collection

Yahoo! News - Image Gallery - current photojournalism

Movies & TV

 

General

The Internet Movie Database - the online source for movie & TV information

Rotten Tomatoes - a great site for movie-goers

A few movies - that I've been moved to comment on

The movies I've rated - at IMDb

The Movie Cliches List - you've seen the movies, now read the list

Lake Oswego

Lake Twin Cinema - my local theater

The Bridgeport 18 - the big local theater

The Sherwood 10 - and another I consider

99W Drive-In - if you live where there's a drive-in, go there! (I hope it's as good as this one)

Denver

Lone Tree theaters

Aurora theaters

Downtown theaters

Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz theaters

 

TV Guide Online - Honey, what's on?

Travel

 

AAA Oregon/Idaho - if you don't belong to AAA, I assume you don't drive in the U.S.

Maps On Us - my favorite driving map site for directions

Google Maps - most fun, especially if you have a GPS

Excite Maps - another source for maps

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ODOT - Oregon road conditions and cams

Oregon gasoline prices

CDOT - Colorado road conditions and cams

Colorado gasoline prices

CalTrans - California road conditions and cams

California gasoline prices

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Roadside America - if you haven't been here, you've missed, uh, stuff

National Scenic Byways Online - ooohh . . .

 

 

Travelocity - the descendant of SAABRE, the reservation system

CheapTickets - one of the better new systems

Expedia - and another

And the airlines I fly most:

Southwest Airlines

Frontier Airlines

United Air Lines

 

 

Amtrak - a model railroad company

 

Humor

 

Girl Genius - a great steampunk comic

Bob and George, the Comic Strip! - a strange, funny online strip

The Dilbert Zone - almost too real to be funny, almost too funny to be real

Wait Wait.. Don't Tell Me! - site for the NPR current-events quiz show

Ask Dr. Science - he knows more than you do

LOLcatize - translate into txt-speak; you'll LOL, dood! (doesn't play well with all browsers)

Car Talk - the site for the NPR show

STI Project - Is there intelligent life down here?

Leon's Random Generators - fun stuff

Lily Tomlin Online - great stuff from a lovely lady

The Capitol Steps - political satirists

Misc. Jokes - another good collection

[GM]Dave - MMPORPG humor

Science

 

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - perhaps this one belongs under "Travel"

APOD - NASA's Astronomy Picture Of the Day

Hubble Space Telescope Site

HST Pictures subsite

NASA - support your local spaceman

Where is the International Space Station?

Sighting Opportunities - where you can see the ISS and other spacecraft

The United States Naval Observatory - your tax dollars at work

Earth and Moon Viewer - a god's perspective

Mars Global Surveyor (NASA)

SETI Institute - the alternative to just waiting for the doorbell

The Planetary Society - if you're not with 'em, you're staying behind

Clementine Lunar Image Browser - "It just might be a lunatic you're looking for"

The Constellations - a great introduction

Skeptic.com - if you're not skeptical, it ain't science

 

Chemicool Periodic Table - elementary, Watson

Plants In Motion QuickTime movies of plants by Roger P. Hangarter of IU's Bio Dept.

Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy Page - from a man dedicated to setting the record straight

NOAA homepage

NW Seismograph network - what's shaking?

Volcano World - a fine exposition

Fossil Hominids: Illustrations - a family album

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory - these guys have the most fun

Technical

 

Fink - if you're going to install open source Unix stuff, check this program out

Transmit - if you FTP using a Mac, check this program out

The Jargon File - what's it all mean?

Apple - Support - keep your Mac happy

IU Knowledge Base File types and creators - a reference for Mac users

Cookie Central - got milk?

CERT Coordination Center - virus and security advisories from Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute

Symantec Security Response Page - also, virus and security advisories from the maker of Norton Antivirus

PGP Corporation - so those guys in the unmarked helicopters can't read your stuff

2700: The Hacker Quarterly - it's like a secret society

Computor Edge - a small, nicely done magazine, though mostly for PC folks

The Risks Digest Index to Volume 1 - old but fascinating

The Risks Digest Index to Volume 20 - jump in in the middle

DealNN - I can get it for you

TOAST.net Performance Test - test the speed of your connection

 

 

Some reference documents:

Basic HTML Tag Summary - quick reference to the most-used tags

HTML 3.2 Reference - a great summary

HTML References - links to more information

Character Entities Table - "Well, I've never been to España . . ."

... and some other HTML-related stuff, including examples:

JavaScript Guide - don't just sit there, do something

JavaScript Tutorial - for the non-programmer

MediaBuilder - tools for page building

Give your web pages an overhaul - one man's journey to a well-made page

Cool Stuff

 

redtimes - some of the finest animation on the Web.

Anzovin Studio - more outstanding animation

 

Making the Macintosh Stanford University Library's look at the origins of the computer that gave us windows

Exploratorium's Top Cool Sites - a really great grab-bag from the web

Scam Info - think it's too good to be true?

Urban Legends Reference Pages - evidence from a couple of dedicated debunkers

AFU & Urban Legends - another examination of urban legends

This American Life - a fine show on NPR, and an interesting site

Romanlily.com - terrific site, by Grace Craven of Atlanta, Georgia

Roman Emperors - an online encyclopedia

Lehman's Non-electric Catalog - technology unplugged

Privacy on the Internet - some thoughts from a while back, but interesting

Tweak - a strange e-mag

Catholic Encyclopedia: HERESY - an article of interest

The Salem Trials - National Geographic

The Bay Area Live Camera Page - for when I get homesick

House Plants and Indoor Plant Care Advice - not, of course, that I need advice

Arielle's Recipe Archives - over 4,000 recipes, nicely organized

Anglo-Saxon Culture - "Come, join us . . ."

Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies - if it isn't here, it isn't behavior

Miscellaneous

 

eCoustics.com - consumer electronics reviews

Pool Care Tips

PoolSolutions

Dream Sacks

Better Business Bureau

Baseball Rules