ThinkQuest® - challenges
"learners of all ages to create high quality, innovative and
content-rich educational Web sites that are made available to others
around the world via the Web." Nearly 1000 web sites on a variety of
topics have been created as a part of this program; a searchable index
provides access to the web sites.
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!
CarInfo.com - consumer advocate
Mark Eskeldson's worthwhile "Car Buying, Auto Leasing, and Car Repair
Secrets".
Soft Skull Press - "publishes
the history, pop culture studies, art, poetry and fiction that fuel
the vanguard."
The Pleistocene
Redemption - by Dan Gallagher. "Using Fossil Gene
Redemption (FGR), geneticist Kevin G. Harrigan experiments with
genes from a frozen 'Ice Man' ... a provocative spiritual and
scientific thriller ..."
The EMMES Corporation - provides
"statistical and data management support for biomedical research
projects".
Information Management Services -
has advertised for a decade or more seeking programmers with 0-1
years experience - seems like interesting work, but go figure!
Ancestry.com® - provides
free access to some of its databases.
The Commonwealth War Graves
Commission - searchable records of casualties from World
War's I and II. The database covers armed forces from
Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and the
United Kingdom.
Family Tree
Maker - from Broderbund. This site includes a wealth of
information on conducting genealogical research and searchable
indices of their CDs.
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."
EggsHam - Bridget
Spitznagel's "PalmOS application that generates (and grades)
practice amateur radio licensing exams."
GNU
Radio - "a collection of software that when combined with
minimal hardware, allows the construction of radios where the
actual waveforms transmitted and received are defined by software."
HamQuick - an excellent
resource that features an in-depth, Technician Class
tutorial.
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!)
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).
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".
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!
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) -
a standard for representing "all kinds of literary and linguistic
texts for online research and teaching, using an encoding scheme
that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent".
On-line Books
Abacci Books - grabbing reviews
of Project Gutenberg books from Amazon.com.
E-Book
Library - at the University of Virginia offers on-line texts in
Microsoft eBook, Palm Doc, and HTML formats. The
collections
page has links to various language-specific collections of on-line
text; the language-specific pages have further links to external
on-line text collections. A wealth of material!
Plucker Books - is building
a collection of public-domain texts in
Plucker format for viewing on Palm
PDAs using Plucker and on Pocket PCs using
Vade Mecum.
Project Gutenberg - is one of
the original (or the original) collection of free, on-line
texts. Plain text files only, but tried and true!
(Sailor's mirror)
GarageBand.com -
"Discovering the Best Independent Music". Supposedly, they
have the old MP3.com collection, but artists need to pay to
bring their music back on-line.
MP3.com.au - "Australia's
most popular Music Service Provider".
Rock Music
The Rough Guide to
Rock - also available as a book, this is an extraordinary
(and free) collection of information about many, many rock
groups: their stories, their personnel, and recommended recordings.
PrivateMI - an
industry-sponsored, but excellent, site with information on
private mortgage insurance (PMI) and a calculator to help you
judge the pros and cons of PMI.
The Georgy Bush Project -
"As America's Swingin'-est Anti-Bush Folk Singers ..., these
lyrical lampooners are grateful to Brother Jeb, Cruella DeHarris,
and the Supremely Partisan Court for prolonging the group's career
for a few more years." Great
songs, great
stories, and
great links.
Political Action
ActForChange -
"allows individuals to speak out on urgent issues of the day".
The New Hampshire
Gazette - "The Nation's Oldest Newspaper" and home of the
Chickenhawk
Database, 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".
Veterans for Common
Sense - "We, veterans of the Gulf War, seek to inject common sense
into the debate over a possible U.S. war against Iraq by placing the
debate in the context of protecting our liberty, constitutional values
and our freedom."
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]."
WWW Virtual Library - "the oldest
catalog of the web ... run by a loose confederation of volunteers,
who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they
are expert ... widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality
guides ..."
The Development of the Canon of
the New Testament - an extensive collection by Glenn Davis of
information and links on "how the Church selected certain writings
as authoritative and separated them from a larger body of early
Christian literature".
Historical
Jesus Theories - "explain[s] and explore[s] some of the theories
offered up by contemporary scholars on the historical Jesus and the
origins of the Christian religion."
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.
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.
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".
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."
Theologia -
"soteriology, church history, apologetics, liturgics, etc, as well as
theology proper." A nice collection of essays, papers, and links to
papers.
Frank Potter's
Science Gems - many pages of annotated links, divided up by
subject (e.g., Mathematics, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, etc.)
and subdivided by education level.
The Aquatic Ape -
"Aquatic Man and African Eve: A Search for the Origins and Evolution
of Humankind in Africa". Two books on the subject by Denis
Montgomery are available on-line and in downloadable form.
"Architecture
and Evolution" - by Robert Mark. The article addresses the
architectural aspects of Gould's and Lewontin's spandrel-based
argument. (American Scientist, 1996)
Independent Birth of
Organisms - about Periannan Senepathy's alternative to
evolution, including a fascinating archive of sci.bio.evolution
postings on the subject.
Longevity Science -
"Unraveling the Secrets of Human Longevity & Aging".
University of Maryland
Libraries - College Park, MD. I worked at McKeldin Library,
the Undergraduate Library, and the Engineering Library a number
of years ago.
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".