Here, There, and Everywhere
About and Out
Getting Around
WWW Search Engines
MetaSearch Engines
Specialty Search Engines
- Scirus - "for scientific
information only".
Lost and Found
- E-Mail Directories
- School Chums
- Telephone/Address Directories
- AllPages.com - on-line yellow
pages and business directory, browseable by category and location.
- AnyWho - "Finding People,
Places and Businesses".
- Infospace - searches Google,
Yahoo!, Bing, and Twitter in one pass.
- Switchboard - find phone
numbers for people and businesses.
- WhoWhere? - yellow pages.
Miscellaneous
Automobiles
- AutoBuyology - formerly
known as CARveat Emptor: Trick$ of the Great American Car
Deal. A lengthy, sometimes repetitive, but extremely valuable
resource on all aspects of buying or leasing a car - and also of not
doing so!
- Best New Car Deals
- CarGuide123.com - "A guide for
car owners and car shoppers."
- CarInfo.com - consumer advocate
Mark Eskeldson's worthwhile "Car Buying, Auto Leasing, and Car Repair
Secrets".
- Edmunds
- Kelly Blue Book
- YotaRepair - the eminently
qualified John ("Jack") Dynan answers your service questions about
Toyota vehicles.
Books and Things
- Periodicals -
on-line and off-line.
- Reviews
- Vendors
- Multi-Vendor Sites
- BookAse - compares prices
for new, used, and rental copies of books. Interestingly, for
one book I looked up, BookAse showed some good comparisons for
new and used books, but the rental price was more expensive
than buying the book brand new. Environmentally conscious
readers might prefer to buy the book and then pass it on for
free to other readers.
- Books Online -
book clubs.
- CampusBooks.com -
"Compare prices on over 8 million new and used college
textbooks in one convenient location."
- Book-Clubs-Resource.com -
"A Guide to Book Clubs and Reading Groups".
- Soft Skull Press - "publishes
the history, pop culture studies, art, poetry and fiction that fuel
the vanguard."
- Access the Great Books
Companies
Biotechnology
Miscellaneous Local Companies
Spacecraft Technology and Science
- Analytical Graphics, Inc. - the
Satellite Tool Kit (STK)®.
- Caelum Research Corporation -
atmospheric sciences, information technology, and scientific research.
- Computational Physics, Inc. -
atmospheric and space physics R&D.
- Global Science and Technology, Inc.
(GST) - systems and software for the space sciences.
- the Hammers Company, Inc.
- Integral Systems, Inc. - acquired
by Kratos Defense &
Security Solutions, Inc. on July 28, 2011.
- NetAcquire Corp. -
"Distributed Systems for Test, Measurement, Telemetry, and
Communications".
- SGT, Inc.
- SRA International, Inc. -
Spacecraft Command Language (SCL).
Education
- Language Learning
Library - has comprehensive information about different aspects
(syntax, vocabulary, etc.) of the following languages: Spanish, French,
Italian, Portugese, German, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian.
- CampusBooks.com -
"Compare prices on over 8 million new and used college textbooks
in one convenient location."
- iChapters.com - textbooks,
eTextbooks, eChapters, and Audiobooks. The eTextbooks and eChapters
are PDF files protected by DRM and require you to download a free
"unsealer" program before they can be read in a PDF viewer.
- Tutor Hunt - "Connecting
Private Tutors and Students". Free to both students and tutors.
Employment
See Computing Careers
for links to computing-specific job sites, interviewing, etc.
- Ask a Manager - "and if you
don't, I'll tell you anyway". Alison Green answers questions on
everything from the job search through working conditions. An
excellent resource and the questions are broken down into categories.
- Badbossology.com - "How
to deal with bad bosses, problem supervisors and difficult managers".
- Job Search
- Non-Profits
- Resumes
Genealogy
- PC Basics Family Tree
- Databases
- Family Web Pages - follow David Croft's
Family Web standard, more or less.
(CroftSoft)
- Forums - Ask questions and get answers!
- Ancestry.com -
hosts numerous forums organized by surnames, geographical regions,
and genealogical topics.
(Hammond,
Ivey,
Linthicum, and
Shipley)
- GenForum - hosts
numerous forums organized by surnames, geographical regions,
and genealogical topics.
(Hammond,
Ivey,
Linthicum, and
Shipley)
- Individuals and Families
- Publications
- Software
- Commercial
- Family Tree
Maker - from Broderbund. This site includes a wealth of
information on conducting genealogical research and searchable
indices of their CDs.
- Open Source (Free!)
- GED2HTML -
a GEDCOM-to-HTML translator.
- GedML -
developed and used by Michael Kay in his book,
XSLT Programmer's Reference.
- Standards
- Family
Tree Templates - are a large number of downloadable (PDF), blank
family tree pages of different designs. There are a lot of
genealogy-related advertising links on the page, so scroll down to find
the printable templates. Below the templates you see on the main page
is a selection list of "More Free Printable Blank Family Trees" that
will take you to different categories of family tree templates.
- Genealogy Online
- Genes Reunited - Build your
family tree on-line. Free registration, although an account upgrade is
required for more advanced features.
- GENUKI: UK & Ireland
Genealogy
- Glamorgan Family
History Society
- Mists of
Antiquity - "An Anthology of Anachronistic Aristocratic Anecdotes"!
- RootsWeb Genealogical Data
Cooperative
- Twenty
Ways to Avoid Genealogical Grief
Government
Health and Fitness
Home Again, Home Again
Human Genome Project
Humor
- 100 Monkeys - "The Search for
Intelligent Monkeys on the Internet (SIMI) Project".
- Another
Compendium of Wit and Wisdom
- Bumper Stickers - Hundreds
of them at the Auto Hobby Page!
- The Company Therapist
- Conjecture News
- Dumbentia: The Parody Place! -
great stuff.
- The Easter Egg Archive
- Frequently
Asked Questions about the Meaning of Life - by
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky.
- Googlism - "find out what
Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything!"
- Halfbakery - "a communal
database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users,
maintained by a dictatorial cabal of volunteers".
- I Am Bored - "Sites for when
you're bored."
- Kiss This Guy - "The Archive
of Misheard Lyrics". Also see
Mondegreens
Ripped My Flesh.
- Madeleine Begun Kane - "I write
humor about everything that irks me: computers, marriage, cars, work,
family, the Internet, the IRS, politics, law, music, money, privacy,
technology, web surfing, travel, and President George Dubya Bush."
- MINIMS or, Man Is
The Only Animal That Wears Bow Ties - by
Tom
Weller. An illustrated collection of minims, which
are the opposite of maxims.
- Poke Alex in the Eye -
Hey ... wait a second ... my name is Alex!
- RinkWorks - an on-line entertainment
site featuring humor, games, humor, movie reviews, humor, and more.
- Virtual Bubblewrap -
"only the most fulfilling experience on the World Wide Web!"
- Text Soup - not funny, but fun!
- Economics
- JokEc - "I believe
that even Adam Smith would enjoy these jokes."
- Quotes, Both Humorous and Serious
Interests ... aside from computers!
- Amateur Radio (some day!)
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- Boats (No, that's not me in the
picture piloting a Guppy 13! I've always been fascinated by how
small a sailboat can be and still have a cabin. Never mind that
I'm claustrophobic and not the camping type!)
- Electronics
- English
- Past and Present
- Photography
- Railroads, Big and Small - former owner of the
now-defunct Evans Valley Railroad (steam), East Calvert Traction
Company (an interurban line), and North Dartmouth Street Railway
(a trolley line).
- Cyberspace World Railroad
- Dave's Electric
Railroads - "A collection of electric railroad, interurban,
and streetcar photography from many eras".
(State Index)
- Emmettplus Online
Photos - the Far Tottering and Oystercreek Railway, home of
Nellie.
(Pictures from the book!)
- Gnine - "Garden railway scales,
N gauge trackwork".
- John Allen's Gorre and Daphetid
Railroad
- Carl Arendt's Micro/Small Layouts
for Model Railroads - "Over 600 minimum-space layouts".
- Minimum Gauge Forum -
"Discussion of minimum gauge railway modelling in large scales".
- The Model Railroad Mall® -
Wm. K. Walthers, Inc.
- Model Railways
Shunting Puzzles
- Northeast Model Products -
boat and train models.
- RailPictures - "Online
Railroad Photo Database!" Wow!!!
- Smallbrook Studio -
"We design, master and manufacture cast polyurethane resin kits
for locomotives and rolling stock in 7mm narrow-gauge, Gn15 and
4mm scales." Includes a
Gn15
Nellie locomotive body kit (scroll way down to see "The Nellie
Chronicles", photographs of Nellie in action).
- Toy Train Revue
On-line - "a webzine for both the collector and
operator of toy trains including Lionel, American Flyer,
Ives, MTH, Williams, Marx, Weaver, 3rd Rail and Atlas O".
- WWW Resources in
Economics
- National Association of Rocketry
- Sixties Net - a celebration of the
1960's.
- The Skeptic's Dictionary -
by Robert T. Carroll.
Literature
Authors
- Rita Mae Brown - an unknown
to me and to Michael Caine in Educating Rita, but within
days of watching the movie recently, I happened upon the E-Text of Willa
Cather's The Troll Garden and Selected Stories - featuring
a (missing) introduction by Rita Mae Brown!
- Charlotte Mary Yonge - a prolific
English author (1823-1901).
Computers
On-line Book Collections
On-line Booka of Interest
Music, Movies, and TV
Music
Movies
Radio
Television
NASA
People
Personal Finance
Politics
- Music
- Political Action
- Americans Who Tell the
Truth - "A collection of portraits & quotes ... paintings by
Robert Shetterly".
- Bev Harris' Black Box
Voting - "Ballot-tampering in the 21st Century".
- Daniel Ellsberg - Secrets:
A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.
- FAIR -- Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
- Paul C. Light's
Government's
Greatest Achievements: From Civil Rights to Homeland Defense.
- LiberalArtists.com -
"dedicated to the news and views of Liberal Celebrities from all
platforms of Art".
- Liberals like Jesus -
"where Jesus' teaching is championed over that of the Religious Right".
- Miserable
Failure
- The New Hampshire
Gazette - "The Nation's Oldest Newspaper" and home of the
Chickenhawk Hall of
Shame, a list of warmongers who find no sacrifice of other
people's skins too small in the pursuit of profit, power, or maybe even
ideology. Simply by definition of the term "chickenhawk", most
chickenhawks happen to be Republicans.
- No Child Left - "a site
advocating a sound approach to school improvement".
- Mr. Smith E-Mails Washingon and the Media - E-mail your congress(wo)man!
- tobacco.org - tobacco and smoking
issues.
- THOMAS - U.S. Congress on the
Internet.
- Veritas et Ratio (Truth and
Reason) - "The Life, Works and Activism of Scott Bidstrup",
incudes an excellent
collection of
essays.
- Veterans for Common
Sense - believe "that we, the people of the United States of
America, are most secure when our country is free, strong, and
responsibly engaged with the world."
- The
Sixties Project - "began as a collective of humanities scholars
working together on the Internet to use electronic resources to
provide routes of collaboration and make available primary and
secondary sources for researchers [and others] interested in the
[1960s]."
- 9-11 Visibility
Project - "In support of the 9-11 families' struggle for truth".
- History Commons - "is an
experiment in open-content civic journalism. It provides a space for
people to conduct grassroots-level investigations on any issue,
providing the public with a useful tool to conduct oversight of
government and private sector entities."
Reference
Religion
- Biblical Studies
- Bookstores
- CenturyOne Bookstore - has
well-organized lists of books by subject and, for each subject,
includes links to related on-line articles at CenturyOne and to
related web sites.
- Congregations
- Denominations
- Gnosticism - Past and Present
As Dr. Bart D. Ehrman points
out in his book, Lost Christianities, there were many
competing sects in the early years of Christianity. What came to be
considered orthodoxy was simply the strongest sect, the one who managed
to suppress the other sects and their writings. Among those suppressed
were the Gnostics.
- The Gnosis Archive -
"Resources on Gnosticism and Gnostic Tradition".
- Gnostic Awakenings
- is a movement whose mission is "[T]o inspire the mystical
experience of
Gnosis
within individuals, communities, and the world." This is a
fascinating web site with plenty of articles to read about the
history of and current practice of Gnosticism. A couple of on-line
introductory courses are available, as well as more in-depth
courses taught at the organization's various study centers around
the world.
- History
- Humor
- Islam
- The Muslim-Christian Debate
Website - is devoted to exploring Islam from a Christian
perspective. Despite its slant and its - so far - meager "Right
to Reply" page, the website has a large number of informative
articles, particularly dealing with the history of the Qur'an.
- Publications
- American Scientific
Affiliation - "a fellowship of men and women ... who share a
common fidelity to the Word of God and a commitment to integrity
in the practice of science".
- A Christian
ThinkTank - "Critically examine everything. Hold on to the good."
(Paul, First Thessalonians 5:21)
- Encyclopedia
Coptica - "The Christian Coptic Orthodox Church Of Egypt".
- Father John Dear - "The key to
changing the world and pursuing justice and disarmament is to allow
the God of peace to disarm our hearts, make us instruments of peace,
and lead us together on the road to peace."
- Ontario Consultants on
Religious Intolerance - promoting religous tolerance in the United
States and Canada.
- Theologia -
"soteriology, church history, apologetics, liturgics, etc, as well as
theology proper." A nice collection of essays, papers, and links to
papers.
- The Tiny
Bible - compiled by Eric Mader-Lin.
Science and Technology
Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area
- Media
- Riding the Rails
- Schools
- Universities
- Baltimore Glimpses -
columns by Gilbert Sandler from The Baltimore Sun.
- Enoch Pratt Free Library
- H-DC: Washington, D.C.
History and Culture - "a refereed, multi- and inter-disciplinary
discussion list ... for those who research, write, read, teach, collect,
curate, and preserve Washington, D.C. history and culture".
- Maryland
Weather Forecast - from Intellicast.com.
- Montgomery County, Maryland
- SmarTraveler® -
metro area traffic.
- Washington, D.C. Personal Home Pages
WWW Here and There
WWW Inside and Out
- Just Browsing
- Don't be a Stick in the Mud
- Are You Being Served?
- Looking Here and There
- ht://Dig - "WWW Search Engine
Software".
- Sitting Pretty
- A List Apart - "for people
who make websites ... from pixels to prose, coding to content".
- Mike Hall's BrainJar -
"Experiments in Web Programming".
- Digital Web
Magazine
- evolt.org - "Workers of the Web,
Evolt!"
- Steve Morris'
HTML
Aids.
- Patrick Griffiths' HTML Dog -
"A Good Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS".
- Web Pages That Suck -
"learn good Web design by looking at bad design".
- Color
- HTML
- Icons and Images
- The JavaScript Source -
JavaScript scripts, of course!
- microformats - "simple
conventions for embedding semantics in HTML".
(Wiki)
- Onlinetools.org - "Free
Scripts, Tutorials, and Wizards".
- Pointers on How to
Create Business Websites That Work
- Sizzling HTML
Jalfrezi - HTML, CSS, DHTML, ...
- Nick's WebCoder.com -
JavaScript and Dynamic HTML.
- Webmaster's Reference
Library - VRML, DHTML, graphics, HTML, JavaScript, ...
- Tooling Around?
- Andy Klington's HTTP
Cookie Info
- Big Bang Design &
Media
- Boutell.Com, Inc.
- CDT Privacy
Issues
- Philip Greenspun's Books
- Internet Link Exchange
- Persistent URL Home Page
- The Stalker's Home Page
- 10 Big Myths
about Copyright Explained - by Brad Templeton.
- W3Kit 2.2 -
OO WWW Toolkit
- The
World Wide Web - Beneath the Surf - by Mark Handley and Jon
Crowcroft.
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