Idiosyncratic Web Links
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Daily News:
- Yahoo News,
Reuters and AP
- The New York Times,
newspaper
- AP: The Wire,
Associated Press
- Washington Post,
newspaper
- MSNBC,
news from Microsoft and NBC
- ABC,
news from ABC/Disney
- The Economist,
selected articles from the magazine
- Washington Times,
newspaper
- CNN,
cable station
- BBC,
British Broadcasting Corporation
- International Herald Tribune,
joint paper of New York Times and Washington Post
- Time,
updated daily
- Additional News,
more miscellaneous news sources
Computer News:
- News.com,
daily computer news from c|net
- Slashdot,
Linux-oriented and general computer news
- AnchorDesk,
Jesse Berst for Ziff-Davis
- Wired News,
from Wired magazine group
- Forbes Digital Tool,
digital news
- EE Times,
Electronic Engineering Times
- InfoWorld,
daily and weekly
- Red Herring,
computer tech investor magazine
- SiliconValley.com,
from Mercury Center in San Jose
- The Industry Standard,
computer news
- Walter S. Mossberg,
Wall Street Journal columnist
- NewsLinx,
daily web oriented news links
- On magazine,
from AOLTimeWarner
- Tom's Hardware,
hardware news, specs, benchmarks
Science News:
Ephemera:
- Word of the Day,
from Merriam-Webster Online
- Word of the Day,
from Information Please
- Word of the Day,
from Oxford English Dictionary
- A Word A Day,
today's word from Anu Garg
- Mavens' Word of the Day,
from Random House editors
- Word of the Day,
from Dictionary.com
- Word Detective,
columnist Evan Morris answers questions about language
- Astronomy Picture of the Day,
from NASA
- Daily Almanac,
from Infoplease.com
- Cool Site of the Day,
from InfiNet
- Ce Jour,
birthdays, events, holidays for today
- Rec.Humor.Funny,
humor from the usenet newsgroup
- Rodney Dangerfield,
Joke of the Day
Medical Information:
- HealthGate,
health, wellness and biomedical information
- MSN Health,
health, wellness with WebMD
- WebMD,
health, wellness
- New England Journal of Medicine,
medical journal published by Massachusetts Medical Society
- InteliHealth,
health information
- Your Health Daily,
NYT syndicate health info
- HealthCentral,
broadcaster Dr. Dean Edell
- Mayo Clinic Health,
health information
- U.S. National Library of Medicine,
access to Medline
- Medscape,
for health professionals and interested consumers
- Merck,
access to the Merck Manual
- Healthfinder,
government health information site
- Reuters Health,
medical information
- Quackwatch,
operated by Stephen Barrett, M.D.
- Certified Doctor Verification,
provided by American Board of Medical Specialties
- Doctor Quality,
provided by Maryland Board of Physician Quality Assurance
- AMA,
American Medical Association
Opinion and Commentary:
- Drudge Report,
plus many links to opinion columns
- Slate,
Michael Kinsley's webzine owned by Microsoft
- Edge,
discussions by scientists and journalists in Brockman's circle
- Salon,
webzine
- IntellectualCapital.com,
policy magazine with editor Pierre S. du Pont
- Suck,
another attempt at hipness
- Feed,
commentary on politics, technology, culture
- The Straight Dope,
weekly column from Cecil Adams
Searching:
- Google,
search engine with rankings based on linkages
- Alta Vista,
search the Web or Usenet from Compaq
- HotBot,
HotWired and Inktomi
- All the Web,
search the Web from FAST
- MSN Search,
from Microsoft and Inktomi
- Goto.com,
search engine with sponsored links
- NewsTracker,
scanning over 300 news sources from Excite
- search.com,
pointers to search engines from c|net
- Lycos FTP Search,
search for files on FTP sites
- MetaCrawler,
combined meta-search
- Metaspy,
searches being conducted at Metacrawler
- Ask Jeeves,
automated response to natural language questions
- Ask Jeeves Peek,
current search matches at Ask Jeeves
- DogPile,
another combined meta-search
- Lycos,
search the Web - originally from CMU
- WebCrawler,
Web searcher owned by America Online, Inc
- Excite,
originally from Architext Software
- LincOn.com,
specialized search engines
- Beaucoup,
listing over 2,500 search sites
- DejaNews,
search USENET news archive
- InterNIC Directory,
Directory and Database Services from InterNIC
- Devx,
newsletters computer-oriented help
- PC Webopedia,
computer technology encyclopedia
- Computer and Communication,
search computer and communications oriented information
- Search Engine Watch,
editor Danny Sullivan for Mecklermedia
Guides:
Daily Guides:
Comics:
- Dilbert,
from United Media
- Calvin and Hobbes,
replay of strip
- Ucomics,
from Universal Press Syndicate - Calvin and Hobbes, Doonesbury, more
- United Media,
syndicator
- Cartoon Bank,
displays and sells New Yorker cartoons
- King Features,
syndicator
- Web Comics,
collection of comics and search capability
- Squiddies,
rec.arts.comics awards
- Astounding Space Thrills,
online comic
- Scott McCloud website,
comics
- Argon Zark,
comic by Charley Parker
- Comic Book Resources,
site map
- The Comic Reader exclusives,
two comix
- Zot Online,
comic by Scott McCloud
Net Video, Animation and Images:
- Real Site Guide,
guide to streaming audio and video from RealNetworks
- American Film Institute,
classic films in streaming video
- FasTV,
TV content in streaming video
- The Sync,
films in streaming video
- Internet Archive Movies,
downloadable films
- Ad Critic,
commercials
- TV on the Web,
narrowcasting to the world
- MovieFlix,
films in streaming video
- Sightsound.com,
downloadable films
- Atom Films,
films in streaming video
- ifilm,
films in streaming video
- D.Film,
digital film and animation
- QuickTime,
home page at apple
- ShockRave,
Flash based animations
- Entertaindom,
animations and films
- Macromedia Flash,
vector animations - formerly FutureSplash
- Spumco Web Cartoons,
Flash animations from John Kricfalusi
- Free Speech Internet Television,
agitprop video
- Yahoo Gallery,
search for images from Yahoo
- VON - Voice/Video On the Net,
Maintained by Jeff Pulver
- Reel,
video store
Entertainment:
- Mr. Showbiz,
entertainment news
- Variety.com,
entertainment news
- Hollywood Reporter,
entertainment news
- Hollywood Online,
entertainment news
- E Online,
entertainment news
- Company Town,
Los Angeles Times entertainment news
- WGA,
Writers Guild of America
- DGA,
Directors Guild of America
- Movies,
movie information
- Television,
television information
HTML and Web Design Information:
Browser Information:
Directories:
- SuperPages,
directory from Verizon
- AnyWho,
ATT telephone directory including toll-free numbers, maps, and reverse directory
- Liszt,
Directory of Discussion Groups (E-Mail and Usenet)
- Yahoo People Search,
e-mail and telephone search
- Infospace,
directory which uses Pro CD's data
- 555-1212.com,
links you to all the major directories
- WorldPages,
over 170 million directory listings in 57 countries
- Switchboard,
addresses and phone numbers
- Zip2,
yellow pages - search by distance from a location
- InterNIC,
manages the InterNIC Directory and Database Services project
- Bigfoot,
e-mail-directory
Language References and Tools:
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary,
from Merriam-Webster Online
- Lycos Reference,
encyclopedia and dictionary
- Webster,
dictionary CMU/Michigan version
- WordNet 1.6,
on-line lexical reference system - synonyms, antonyms, etc.
- Wordsmyth,
integrated dictionary and thesaurus
- Language Translation,
from AltaVista and Systran
- OneLook,
at least 2052761 words in 419 dictionaries now indexed
- Roget's Thesaurus,
ARTFL Project: ROGET'S Thesaurus
- I, Rearrangement Servant,
Anu Garg's Internet Anagram Server
- Anagram Engine,
with word number limit
- One Across,
crossword puzzle helper
- Bartlett's Quotations,
ninth edition from 1901 part of Project Bartleby
- Yahoo Dictionaries,
Yahoo search on the word dictionary
- Rhyming Dictionary,
maintained by Doug Beeferman
- Lexical FreeNet,
word linkages
- On Line English Grammar,
by Anthony Hughes and Edunet International
- English Usage Guide links,
from Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net
- Grammar and Style Notes,
by Jack Lynch Assistant Professor of English
- Elements of Style,
by William Strunk, Jr.
General References:
- Encyclopedia Britannica,
includes dictionary, magazines, news
- Encyclopedia.com,
Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia
- Information Please Almanacs,
evolved from a popular quiz show
- Encarta,
encyclopedia from Microsoft
- Funk and Wagnalls,
encyclopedia from Versaware Technologies
- eHow,
"How To" information
- Navigator,
links from New York Times maintained by Rich Meislin
- FirstGov,
US Government contact and information website
- World Factbook 1999,
from CIA
- Research-It,
one-stop reference desk
- Virtual Reference Desk,
collected by Bob Drudge, father of Matt
- DeskRef,
Jerry Kuntz of Ramapo Catskill Library System
- DNS Lookup,
from bankes.com
- World Clock,
date and time around the world
- Editor and Publisher,
follow Online Newspapers link to directory of over 1500 Web Newspapers
- Americom Area Decoder,
Area/City/Country Code
- WebElements,
Periodic Table of the Elements
- How Stuff Works,
articles and diagrams
- Internet Public Library,
University of Michigan
- Measurement Conversion,
Entisoft allows many measurement units to be converted
- Unit Conversions,
provided by Speck Product Design
- Currency Conversion,
currency converter from Xenon Laboratories
- Library of Congress,
web site
- About.com,
guides to net resources- formerly Mining Company
- Electric Library,
more than 150 newspapers, over 900 magazines, two newswires, two thousand books, etc
- Encarta Online Library,
searchable collection of publications
- Library of Virginia,
digital library - Virginia Colonial Records / Army Signal Corps photos
- FAQ Finder,
access to web based FAQs
- Learn2,
tutorials
- JHU Catalog,
Library Catalog for Milton S. Eisenhower Library
- Usenet by hierarchy,
RTFM MIT archive of Usenet FAQs
- Bible and Religious Search,
King James/Revised Standard/Mormon/Koran
- BibleGateway Search,
New International/King James/Revised Standard
- WWW Virtual Library,
distributed subject catalogue maintained by volunteers
- Peterson's Guides,
information about schools
- MathSciNet,
search engine for American Mathematical Society has some Computer Science publications indexed. Access from Hopkins.
- Biography.com,
biographical database - also many video clips from A&E television series
- Patent Search,
IBM provides this search capability including images
- US Patent and Trademark Office,
limited searchable database
- The History Net,
history resources
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
philosophical articles edited by Edward N. Zalta
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
philosophical articles edited by James Fieser
- Hippias,
search database for philosophy
Molecular Nanotechnology:
- Foresight Institute,
preparing for nanotech
- Engines of Creation,
K. Eric Drexler's classic
- Unbounding the Future,
by Eric Drexler and Chris Peterson, with Gayle Pergamit
- NASA links,
Nanotechnology links to resources from NASA
- NASA Ames,
Computational Molecular Nanotechnology at NASA Ames Research Center
- Rice University CNST,
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
- R. E. Smalley speech,
about nanotech
- Criticism of Universal Assembler,
from R. Smalley
- Ralph C. Merkle,
home page
- Al Globus,
NASA Ames molecular nanotechnology researcher
- Nanotechnology,
Merkle's nanotech web site
- NanoLink,
SunSITE Singapore
- Potential of Nanotech,
summary from RAND think-tank
- Zyvex,
formed by Jim Von Ehr for the development of molecular nanotechnology
Self-Reference:
Some Alternate Gregory Sullivans:
- Gregory T. Sullivan,
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northeastern University
- Gregory W. Sullivan,
Assistant Professor of Physics at University of Maryland at College Park
- Gregory Sullivan,
Financial Planner with Sullivan, Bruyette, Speros & Blayney
- G. A. Sullivan,
Software Services Company; President Gregory A. Sullivan
- Gregory Sullivan Isaacs,
Musical Director, Conductor, Composer
- Sean Gregory Sullivan,
search IMDb for actor appearing in Wayne's World, Class of 1999, Quantum Leap, Babylon 5 and more
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