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This page is a collection of various links that I find useful or interesting. It's where I go when I'm not reading online journals. � � �Jim
(Most of the journals I read can be found over here)

Useful references

ARTFL Project: 1913 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

The Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online

Worthless Word of the Day an A thru Z listing of obscure words (as of 01/26/00 the list went from abacinate through zymurgy.

How Stuff Works -- Fascinating!

Google - my current favorite search engine.

BigBook - nationwide Yellow pages search

BigFoot - seach for people - white pages and/or email addresses

Lycos WhoWHere - search for people: email/street address and phone/web

Library of Congress also has copyright information


Rhode Island Connections

OSO - Ocean State Online - a source for Rhode Island news, links, information.

Providence Journal - online version of the daily newspaper - news, sports, weather, features, entertainment listings (movies, plays, concerts, exhibits, etc.)

Providence Bruins AHL hockey team.

The PawSox - Pawtucket Red Sox, AAA affiliate of the Boston Red Sox

The Providence, RI homepage facts, events, news, photographs

South County Rhode Island - information and attractions


Miscellaneous

Just in case you wanted to know... - A very brief biographical sketch of yours truly.

The Hungry Shark Home Page - filled with arcane facts and information, such as the news that sharks actually like Spam, plus handy recipies for such treats as green eggs and Spam. Also links to dozens of interesting and/or time-wasting websites. Despite the strange links, this is not truly a content-oriented site... it's a teenager practicing coding html, trying things out, while at the same time providing links to strange places and her friends and her alternative grunge punk rock band that changes names every two or three months. (Beware: slow loading time and sometimes stuff is broken -- often under construction)

Grace Murray Hopper - a brief biography

The COBOL Center - a collection of links to lots of COBOL information

Binghamton, NY area information

Kingston, NY - where I grew up

Strange stuff at the Center for the Easily Amused

Various on-line computer-related magazines

PC Week Magazine I have to check this site every Monday

Byte Magazine Byte (in the U.S.) is now an online only magazine (although I believe there are still print editions is some other countries)

Datamation Magazine

Intelligent Enterprise was created by combineing DBMS Magazine and Database Programming and Design Magazine.

IBM's MQSeries Magazine... all about MQ Series, of course.

Beyond Computing - an online version of BeyondComputing Magazine


XML

IBM's XML site - news, white papers, coding tips, XML tutorial, etc.

XML.com XML info, FAQs, articles

XML and EDI info


Nanotechnology

A gallery of art work at the atomic level

NanoTechnology Magazine online --

An overview of IBM's nanotechnology research, with links to individual stories


Java

Sun's java page, lots of information, white papers, tutorials, propaganda *grin*

IBM's java developer page, also with lots of information, articles, discussions, very helpful

Online java tutorials - this is part of the IBM site, a collection of free online java tutorials (java, java applets and servlets, java beans, java foundation classes, etc. Good stuff.

Javaworld online magazine

Javaboutique a source of tutorials, also source of applets, sample code, etc.


Literary Stuff

Shakespeare - full text of plays and poems, Shakespeare search engine, and links to many other Shakespeare sites

Emily Dickinson - 100 of her poems online

Keats - poems, biography, letters, etc.

D. H. Lawrence selected poems, bibliography, links to texts of novels, etc. (No, as far as I know, there is no family connection.)


More MiscellaneousStuff

Gibson Reasearch Corp. - info on computer security, etc. Test your PC, how safe are you from intrusion?

Intellectual Captial online opinion magazine

Policy wonks - here's information and debate on various policy issues

Various on-line news and information sources

Salon Magazine On-line journal of opinion, politics, culture, movie/music/book reviews, etc.

MSNBC News An on-line version of MSNBC News. Customizable to give you the stock quotes, weather forecasts, news articles, sports scores, etc. that you want.

Cable News Network online news

CNN Financial Network online financial/business news

Business Week online

ABC News online


Running Stuff

New England Runner Magazine

Runningnetwork.com

Runners World Magazine

Road Island Road Runners Club

Mens Health Magazine Okay, so it's not specifically about running... but it is about fitness, etc.


HTML Stuff

W3- WorldWideWeb Consortium homepage, all kinds of info about html standards, including the new XHTML 1.0 specifications

Drilling down in the W3 site - this contains links to valuable HTML help, including code validation, etc.

NCSA HTML primer contains basic how-to info on writing html code

HTML color palate - a list of the possible color codes with samples - I use this in picking background colors for my journal pages (which I've been tending to change on a weekly bases just for my own amusement)

Information about color use with various tags and browsers (ZDNet)

More color stuff - non-dithering colors

Visibone.com offers various (beautiful) posters showing Internet colors, online color information (and coming soon, a printed html reference guide)


Shopping Online

Yeah, Amazon, of course

800.com - electronics, music on CD, etc. I've bought an MP3 player and a boom box from them, good prices and service.

Fatbrain.com is an online bookstore - featuring technical topics - but also has downloadable (for a fee) articles, stories, strange stuff

Handy plastic coated reference sheets for everything from html to java to algebra

ThinkGeek has cool t-shirts, coffee mugs, bumperstickers and more

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