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.
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(Most of the journals I read can be found over here)
Useful referencesARTFL 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 ConnectionsOSO - 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 MiscellaneousJust 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
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Various on-line computer-related magazinesPC 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) 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 XMLIBM's XML site - news, white papers, coding tips, XML tutorial, etc. XML.com XML info, FAQs, articles
NanotechnologyA gallery of art work at the atomic level NanoTechnology Magazine online -- An overview of IBM's nanotechnology research, with links to individual stories
JavaSun'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 StuffShakespeare - 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 MiscellaneousStuffGibson 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
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Various on-line news and information sourcesSalon 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 StuffMens Health Magazine Okay, so it's not specifically about running... but it is about fitness, etc.
HTML StuffW3- 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 OnlineYeah, 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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