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  ExtractNow (freeware tool for extracting multiple archives easily and quickly)  as of 02-APR-08 Visible Body ("discover human anatomy like never before"; IE only, requires a custom ActiveX plugin installation — but it's worth it!) as of 12-MAR-08 dzone ("fresh links for developers") as of 11-MAR-08 UTF-8 Decoder and Character Indentifier (handy tools for dealing with character encodings) as of 09-MAR-08 Pidgin (excellent open source instant messenger that supports all popular IM services; combine with Openfire for a stellar public/private messaging solution) as of 20-FEB-08 CalendarsQuick (calendar templates in PDF and Word formats) as of 20-FEB-08 Faxpipe (*easy*, inexpensive online faxing solution) as of 20-FEB-08 Epoch Converter (Convert Unix timestamp to human readable date and vice versa) as of 10-FEB-08 Codango (PHP/JSP/ASP/.NET resources) Octopart (search engine for electronic parts) Lost America (I, too, have a fascination to abandoned sites :) HD Tach (simple, free HD & removable drive benchmark utility) HotSwap! 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Forgotten Places (a photo gallery of bygone times; more pics on the old version of the site) Geocaching (The official global GPS cache hunt site. No GPS? Try letterboxing instead [U.S. only]) Feed43 - Feed for Free (Who said there is no free lunch? A free service to convert any web-page to RSS on the fly!) Feed For All (easy way to create RSS feeds) AfterDawn.com (DVDR, DivX, P2P resource) WAssociate (free Win util to easily modify file associations) Sling Media Slingbox (network video player) Pricelessware (the annual best of the best in freeware as determined by the readers of alt.comp.freeware) News, Magazines and Weather CNN.com (News 24 hours a day, 7 days a week) Google News (your new news homepage!) Google via FaganFinder (more options for Google searches) NewsHub ("Headline News Every 15 Minutes") World News (Global News) The Mid East Information Network BBC Online (BBC news, anywhere, anytime) ShortNews.com ("the News-Community", news briefs) WiseEye ("scans more than 300 news sites daily") OnlineNewspapers (All the World's Newspapers) mediachannel.org ("the global network for democratic media") HeadlineSpot ("Welcome to news nirvana") 1st Headlines (Up-to-date news collage) USA Today (News 24 hours a day, 7 days a week) Russia Today (Daily overview of Russia, pay service) China Today (ok.. I know, it's not news) Detroit News (Well edited news and interesting features) Washington Post online New York Times Moscow Times ABC News CBS News Up to the Minute DayPop (Search 6000+ news sites and weblogs for current events and breaking news) Technorati ("Searching the World Live Web"; search 6+ million blogs) CountryWatch.com ("Website to the World") Abyz News Links Tradepub.com (free professional magazine subscriptions for the qualified subscribers)Miscellaneous Zines, Weblogs Kuro5hin ("technology and culture, from the trenches") Utne Reader Online (Thoughtful news analysis from independent thinkers) MUSARIUM (formerly "Journal E", "Discovering signs of intelligent life on Planet Earth") LiveJournal.com (online journals; read others' and keep your own) FutureNet (Zines & Web communities about everything) Salon.com (another classy zine; also check out Salon Audio) The Atlantic Unbound (The Atlantic Monthly Online) BayArea.com (News and information from San Fran) Boston.com MAGportal (helps you find individual magazines on the web)Science & Technology News ScienceBlogs (conversation about science) AnandTech ("Your source for hardware analysis & news") Hardware One (daily computer news & reviews) The Inquirer ("News, reviews, facts & friction", tech news) Neowin.net (where unprofessional journalism looks better) BYTE.com (the good old PC tech magazine online) Wired News (cyber newz) HotWired by Wired (Tech zine w/wired news) News.com ("Tech news first" by CNET) TechWeb (The site for IT and other technology professionals) 21 Century Science & Technology Portal SiliconValley.com (San Jose Mercury's Silicon Valley News) EurekAlert! 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Above Top Secret (can you spell "paranoid"? ;) Worldwatch Institute (Future forecasting) SatireWire.com (on the lighter side of news)Miscellaneous Services & Reference Telephone Reference U.S. & international Area Code lookup NANPA - North American Numbering Plan Administration (area code maps & information) USPS ZIP Code lookup (same for Canada) Country Calling Codes (international calling codes) PhoneSpell (What does your phone number spell?) DialABC (various telephone number/DTMF tools)Encyclopedias & Dictionaries The Free Dictionary ("Online dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus. Free access.") OneLook Dictionaries (dictionary meta-search) Encyclopedia Britannica Encyclopedia.com yourDictionary.com (A magnificent collection of on-line dictionaries!!) Merriam-Webster Online (Dictionary & Thesaurus) Thesaurus.com (Online thesaurus/dictionary) Cambridge International Dictionaries Online Law Dictionary (This is, in essence, a dictionary and encyclopedia :) Wordsmyth (Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus) Acronym Finder (over 414,000 acronyms & abbreviations listed) Acronym Search MedBio World: Links to Glossaries FOLDOC (Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing) A Word A Day (expand your vocabulary... a word a day)Online Learning & Reference Answers.com (online dictionary, encyclopedia & more) Answerbag ("inquire within") Instructables (step-by-step collaboration) HowStuffWorks (Learn how Everything Works!) The Teaching Company (university lectures in A/V format) HighBeam Research (Electric Reference Library, formerly "eLibrary") About.com ("What You Need to Know About", guides for Everything. Formerly "The Mining Company") Infoplease.com ("All the Knowledge You Need") Family Education Network ("Internet's premier education source") REFDESK.COM (a great source for miscellaneous facts) xrefer ("the web's reference engine") The Glossarist ("A comprehensive directory of glossaries on all subjects") faqts ("Get the faqts, and nothing but the faqts")Units & Measurements MegaConverter 2 (Convert between countless units; also see MegaCalculator) More Unit Conversions by EntiSoft Online Conversion (Yet more unit conversions) A Dictionary of Units of Measurement Lee's Decimal-to-Roman Numeral Converter ("MCMXCIX")[More information about measurement of time at "Time" section few pages down] Online Shopping ResellerRatings.com (don't be scammed - check the reseller's rating before ordering online) ShoppingBots Subject Tracker (info about online price scanners) epinions.com (check the electronic opinions before you buy) Price Watch (don't pay too much for your hardware!) MySimon (Online price comparison) NexTag (compare prices before you buy) Shopper.com (Hardware price comparisons and reviews) PriceScan (Buying something online? PriceScan it first!) 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Startup Journal (Wall Street Journal Center for Entrepreneurs) Small Business Administration homepage U.S. Census Bureau Population Pyramids World-o-Meters (World statistics) City Population (city population statistics from around the World) World Population (5851244980 when this link was added on 11/11/97) PBS: Six Billion and Beyond (about the effects of the growing population) American Immigration Center (Moving to the U.S.? Help with the USCIS [formerly INS] procedures)Literature on and off the web Wikibooks (open content textbooks) Audible (Take web-audio for a ride) Invisible Library (a reference for books which exist only in books) Bibliomania (online literature library) KnowledgeRush.com ("Free Books on the Web") Audio Book Club The Library of Congress (United States) Amazon.com (The bookstore on the web; over one million titles..) Amazon Bibliofind (Find hard-to-find books) Barnes & Noble (see also B&N's technical books section) FetchBook.Info (compare 100+ stores, 60,000+ sellers in a click) Bookfinder.com (Search 20 million books) BookFinder4U (book price and availability comparison at 55 stores) UsedBookFind.com ("the perfect way to find used books!") Direct Textbook (compare prices on new & used college textbooks) Alibris ("Over 40 million used, new and out-of-print books!") BestBookBuys (Find lowest-priced books!) Powell's Books (New, used, and out of print books) Half.com (eBay's book store; finds cheap & rare books) BookPool (on-line bookstore w/technical slant) ABE Books (Advanced Book Exchange) Internet Public Library (Great collection of online texts and resources) Luminarium (The best of English Literature from Medieval times, Renaissance and 17th century) Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies Poem Finder (subscription based service; free trial available)Fantasy, Sci-Fi & related... Starship Dimensions (dimensional information about space transports) Fantastic Fiction Bibliographies (Info on over 1,000 fiction authors) The Lord of the Rings (The official website of the cinematic trilogy) TolkienMovies.com (The Lord of the Rings movie site) TolkienWiki (info about Tolkien's world) There and Back Again (another LOTR page, requires flash) SF Site (The Best in Sci-Fi and Fantasy) Science Fiction (Articles, history, biographies and links) SciFan (books & links for the science fiction fan) The Alchemy Virtual Library (Turn that lead to gold...) Urban Legends Reference Pages Folklore and Mythology Archive Winged Sandals (learn Greek mythology in a fun way) Mythweb (Nicely illustrated site about Greek mythology) The Encyclopedia Mythica (an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore & legend)Travel, Distant Lands & related... [Refer to our "Maps" section for more map related links] Global Gazetteer (worldwide directory of cities and towns) How Far Is It? (Returns distances between two cities) Mysterious Places (explore sacred sites and ancient civilizations) Mystic Places (Stonehenge and other mystic places featured) National Geographics' Adventure site ("Alaska: The Great Land" and many other Great Adventures!) Planetrider (Directory of the best travel sites on the net) American West Travelogue (Tour the Western United States) STATEGUIDE.com ("Destination research made simple") The Virtual Tourist (Virtual Journey and Real Travel) TerraQuest (Virtual expeditions on the World Wide Web) Geographia (Exciting guide to the World) Lonely Planet On-Line (Guidebooks for Independent Travelers) VIA Magazine (California AAA's WebZine) CNN Travel section International Campaign for Tibet (China out of Tibet! Now!) Arctic Explorations - Ultima Thule (.. and the extreme north) Chris Bero's Frozen Planet (Info about South Pole)Miscellaneous travel info FlightArrivals.com (real-time flight arrival & departure info) Travelite FAQ (Tips on traveling LIGHT) One Bag ("The Art and Science of Travelling Light") Trails.com ("Connecting People to the Outdoors") Trailsource (Mountain bike trails around the world) U.S. State Department Travel Warnings U.S. State Department List of Independents States in the World The Earth Calendar (a daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world) Embassies World Wide Embassy World (All of the World's Embassies in a Searchable Database) World Electric Guide (Power grid info for the entire World) Currency Converter and Financial Forecasts The Universal Currency ConverterGlobal Country Data & Maps Google Maps (the best online map out there!) Atlapedia (Global maps & country information) Expedia Maps Online Encarta Online (MS's Atlas, now online!) National Geographics Map Machine (Satellite mapping engine) Terraserver (Satellite imagery from all over the world) MapQuest (interactive map) MSN Maps & Directions (formerly "MapBlast", interactive map; free registration required; global content) U.S. Library of Congress Country Studies CIA World Factbook 2007 Nationmaster.com ("Where Stats Come Alive!") metroPlanet (Subway maps for cities around the world) Rough Guides Travel (brief synopsis on most countries)Travel Services Passanger Aircraft Specifications (Number of seats, etc..) World Airport Codes (almost 21,000 codes; search the list) Airline 800 numbers (in the U.S.) Cities.com (information about over 4000 cities around the world) Travelocity (Your travel agent online) Accommodation Search Engine (World-wide search of 155,000+ lodgings) LowestFare.com (Lowest air-fare lookup service) Discount Airfares Boojum Expeditions (Visit Mongolia, Tibet...) Distant Journeys (international hiking tours for the active traveler) Travelex (get your travel cash delivered to your door)Mountain climbing & info Crown of Africa (Discovering Mt. Kilimanjaro) The Mountain Gallery (Breathtaking imagery from mountains of the World) Mount Everest, Kathmandu, Nepal Climb Mt. Everest with PBS/NOVA MountainZone (Climbing Mount Everest and more) Ghosts of Everest (Article about Mallory and Irvine mystery in Outside magazine) World Mountain Encyclopedia Virtual Cave (climbing under the mountains)Travel, Adventure & Survival gear Equipped.com (be equipped to survive!) Surefire ("The flashlight used by military and government agencies.") Planet Outdoors (Outdoor gear junkie's paradice) Leki (High quality hiking and trekking poles) Nordic Walking Online (information and equipment) eBags (Cool way to shop for the perfect luggage) Luggage World (Lots of travel gear!) Lehman's (Everything without electricity) Travelsmith (Everything for traveling to the end of the world) Magellan's ("America's leading source of travel supplies") Walkabout Travel Gear (More traveling related stuff) Patagonia (Technical gear for the adventures) Misty Mountain climbing gear Katadyn portable water filters (now also "exstream products") AquaRain tabletop filter Leatherman (The ultimate SuperTool) Hummer - The Official Website (Vehicle for the tough) Travel & Adventure Tech gear LapTraveler (mobile computing desks) TeleAdapt (Phone plug converters for the entire World) iGo: Solutions for People on the Go (Telephone, power & data products, including Quest batteries) eBatts (power cells for everything) PlanetBattery.com (batteries for appliances) Priority Electronics: Laptop Batteries Intelligent Batteries Inc (batteries for notebooks, camcorders, phones, tools...) Connect Globally (More gadgets for the "Road Warriors") Laptoptravel.com (Everything for mobile computing) Garmin International (manufacturer of GPS receivers) Magellan (Satellite access products: GPS, etc.) Hello Direct (wired and wireless communications gear)Tour the World Virtually Phoons from Around the World (tour the World with Phoons :-) Woophy (photographs from around the world) Terragalleria (breathtakingly beautiful photography from around the world by Quang-Tuan Luong)Cargo carriers & Shipping InterShipper (quick shipping rate comparisons) iShip.com's Package Tracker (Tracking provided for FedEx, UPS, DHL/(Airborne), and USPS) USPS ZIP+4 search ZIPinfo.com (additional information derived from a ZIP) ZIP Find (even more info derived from a ZIP) Stamps.com (another USPS approved e-stamp merchant) Endicia Internet Postage (YET another USPS approve e-stamp merchant)Global Village stuff Google Docs & Spreadsheets ("Excel" and "Word" on the web.. and they are not from Microsoft! ;) Writely (The Web Word Processor; it's free, and it's also by Google) Listible! (make a list, share a list; "Quick way to get resources") YouTube ("Broadcast Yourself") Open Workbench (the leading project management solution) LinkedIn (professional social networking) Skype (free p2p internet telephony) Pamela (extend your Skype!) TestYourVoIP.com (how does your broadband fare for VoIP use?) PIMonline (FREE web-based Personal Information Manager) QuickTopic ("Start your own topic in 20 seconds") Mimio (Whiteboard-to-computer interface) J2 Communications (fax-based messaging; formerly "JFAX" & "eFax") MyFax.com (better — cheaper and more versatile — than eFax; option to receive faxes as PDFs or TIFs) send2fax.com (low cost email-to-fax service) fax1.com (pay-as-you-go email-to-fax service) Faxaway Internet Fax Service (Web-to-Fax service) VisionLab FaxBlast (quick and easy PC to Fax broadcasting service) Google's gmail (still in beta; send feedback to the listkeeper if you need an invite!) Yahoo Web Mail Microsoft's Hotmail whalemail ("large" temporary storage on the net) mailexpire (free temporary email address) Mailinator (temporary email boxes) MailTracking.com (track your emails) Candor's Reminder Service Calculator.com ("calculate anything anywhere...") StumbleUpon (a great way to stumble upon new stuff on the web; also see Video StumbleUpon) popurls.com (popular URLs to the latest web buzz) OldNewsBaby.com ("you're the coolest, and you can prove it"; good source for cool/interesting sites) Flash-Enigma (I: J, II: F, III: K; RKTTCWGVNXKH LHZTK !!! ;-) Strange New Products NewWebPick.com (site showcase) GHOST TOWN (recent views of Chernobyl) Engrish.com ("Bringing you Engrish favorites from Japan and around the world!") Origami Boulder Company ("This site about origami boulder very fine wadded paper artwork." ;) Oriland (take a break, fold an origami! :) Museum of Online Museums Tartans of Scotland (the definitive guide to tartans on the web) Symbols.com ("Encyclopedia of Western signs and ideograms") PrintableCalendar.com (calendar templates in Word format) Servicelighting (over 4000 light bulbs and related accessories online) Antique Light Bulb Collector Bulbs.com (Light bulbs for everything) 1000Bulbs.com (more light bulbs of all kinds) BulbMan.com (more light bulbs for everything :) BulbCo.com (tons more light bulbs for everything!) WhatWatt.com (even more light bulbs for everything!) Share the Technology (donate your old PC for those who need it) Computers for Schools (donate your old PC for schools across the U.S.) Guinness World Records online Library Cats Map (Frequent a library with a cat!) Video on vinyl (but why..?) Yesteryear Toys (Steam Engines!! :) FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service (The LDS Church's massive online genealogy database) The Museum of Dead, Gone and Obsolete Computers Squirrel Fishing (weiiirdd ;) Death Clock (tick-tock.. the seconds are flyin' away :-) Jim's "Find-a-Grave" (Find the location of your favorite [late] rock-star's grave) The 80's Server (Nostalgic about the material decade?) Center for Online Addiction (Info on "Interned Addiction Disorder", or "IAD") Virtual Flowers (send virtual - or real - flowers) Take a VR Tour in an Abandoned Missile SiloCartoons Tintin store (Tintin comic books and related paraphenelia) Dilbert!! Calvin & Hobbes (good old strips! :-) DoonesburyGames on and off the web JigZone.com (over 800 pictures, 32 puzzle cuts.. endless fun :) ZDnet Gamespot (for the lighter side of computing) VideoHelp.com (DVD ripping help) Myst Worlds Kyodai Mahjongg (Quality Mahjongg for your PC!) SODA Constructor (Hey, this's fun! :)Recipes, Cooking, Food & Drink The World's Healthiest Foods (selecting, preparing and enjoying) Food Reference Website (culinary history, quotes, recipes, trivia...) The Gumbo Pages' Culinary World Tour AsiaRecipe.com (Asian & sub-continent recipes with background info) Baking 911 (Help for the home cooker & baker) The Olive Tree World ("Where Olive Oil is a Passion") Cooking Light (Healthy recipes) All Recipes (Portal for recipes of all kinds) For the cookie monsters.. (Allrecipes.com's cookie section) Thanksgiving Recipes (Recipes for America's holiday; Allrecipes.com's Thanksgiving section) Avocado recipes Cooking.com's seasonal recipes TopSecretRecipes.com (Recipes for your favorite restaurant dishes) CopyKat (More secret recipes) Epicurious.com ("The World's Greatest Recipe Collection") Arielle's Recipe Archives (selected recipes from rec.food.recipes) iChef Recipe Archive (30,000 recipes online) Sorbent Systems vacuum sealer (buy in bulk & freeze.. save $) The World of Tea (by the Stash Tea Co.) The World of Coffee (by National Geographic) Starbucks Locator (Sudden need for a latté? The help is near!)Nature & Conservancy American Rivers (online community of river activists and friends in the U.S.) The National Arbor Day Foundation (save the forests!!! seriously!) Pearls (a science exhibit by American Museum of Natural History) Earthshare ("One environment. One easy way to care for it.") Photo of the Day @ National Geographic VolcanoLive (volcano eruption news & pictures) Solarbuzz (portal to the world of solar energy) Climate Change Impacts on the U.S. NGNews @ NationalGeographic.com (Environmental & science news) Bat World (Sanctuary for bats) EPA's Global Warming Site Scorecard (U.S. environmental statistics) Natural Resources Defence Council Earth Observatory by NASA The Nature Conservancy ENN (Environmental News Network; not CNN :) EnviroLink (The On-Line Environmental Community) PBS: Crocodiles! PBS-NOVA: The Living Edens Fishbase (Global database of fishes) Mineralogy Database (Data on 4400+ minerals) GeoQuiz (test your Geography knowledge)Gardening How-to Hydroponics (info on hydroponic gardening) Esoteric Hydroponics (tools for hydroponics) PlantFiles (the largest plant database in the world with 100,000+ entries) All about Lawns (info about lawn care) PondInfo.com (The complete source for water gardening information) Terawet (Helps to grow plants in dry places)Architecture, Interior Design, Furnishing & Home Improvement HomePortfolio.com ("Where dreams become homes") Home & Garden TV online Rammed Earth Works (eco-friendly house construction technique) Mathmos Lava Lamps (Groovy, baby!) Hammocks (hammock resource site) Hangouts (handwoven hammocks & hanging chairs) ExoticHammocks.com Hammock Jungle (find the perfect hammock) Levenger ("Tools for Serious Readers") RepairClinic.com (parts for almost any major appliance for the "do-it-yourselfers")Fountains, Aromatherapy... Stone Forest (Japanese tradition; contemporary design) Kinetic Fountains (more fountains..) Fountain Gallery (even more fountains..) Laguna Waterworks (yet even more fountains..) Incienso de Santa Fe (maker of several different wood incenses)Movies and TV IMDb - Internet Movie Database (Search massive movie database; subscription-based Pro version also available) Video E.T.A. (Video release dates) MOVIES.COM (..about the movies currently playing, or soon premiering) Moviefone (movie U.S. showtimes, reviews & info) History of the Discovery of Cinematography Film Score Monthly Movie Cliches list Movie Goofs list Star Wars - The Official Site (Every Generation has a Legend...) Your Daily Dose of Star Wars The StarTrek Nexus TrekToday ("the first and only daily updated guide to all things Trek") Star Trek Minutiae (for all the Trekkies out there) The Klingon Language Institute (Qapla') Bond.. James Bond (The page for all 007 fans) UltimateTV, replayTV and TiVo (The new way to watch TV) SageTV (pause the TV broadcast without a TiVo) ZAP2IT (U.S. Nationwide TV programming) Ticketmaster (U.S. entertainment events list) Movies Unlimited (Over 45,000 titles in stock!) Reel.com (the place to buy movies) BargainFlix (Your source for net bargains on DVD) DVD FAQ Blu-ray.com (25GB/disk coming soon to PC near you; impressive.. until inPhase starts shipping) DVD Review (news, information, new releases) Code Free DVDs (buy a code-free DVD-player!) Remote Central (Control your entertainment system with style!) Azuradisk Disk Repair Service (scratches removed from CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, DVD-ROMs for $1/disk (or side)) Public Broadcasting SystemCool Gadgets... Crazy Aaron's Puttyworld (home of Thinking Putty) Powerball (addictive game/hand exercizer) Thinkgeek.com ("Stuff for Smart Masses") G4 - Video Game Television (formerly "techTV") Sovietski Collection (KGB "spy" stuff ;) Cybiko (new communicator for the classrooms and more ;) Ceiva (Internet-enabled photo-frame for the web-challenged relatives) Digi-Frame (digital photo frames) Penguin Radio (Stand-alone internet radios.. soon for cars, too) SmartHome (Home automation to the extreme) X10 (Home automation & security) Binoculars! (Source for binoculars for every purpose)Car stuff... Automotive.com ("where your car search begins") Edmunds.com (car prices, consumer ratings, opinions) License Plates of the World Custom nameplates (Get custom URL plates for your car! :) Highway Safety (See how your car fares in a collision) Astronomy & related... [read more about Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the ETI section] Astronomylinks.com (astronomy and space links) Spiral-Galaxies (over 600 images of spiral galaxies) Starry Night (Stuck on this planet? Buy starmaps here!) MarsQuest Online (experience the NASA Mars mission first hand) NJ Night Sky (amateur astronomy & telescope building) The Electronic Sky (site for the entire universe) GRIN - Great Images in NASA (over 1000 significant images from NASA's history) NASA's Deep Impact (The 2005 look inside Tempel comet) Space Imaging (Images from the orbit) Spaceweather (News and information about the Sun-Earth environment) Star Charts (provided by The American Association of Variable Star Observers) NASA's Visible Earth (Images, visualizations and animations of the Earth) HubbleSite (Out of the ordinary ...out of this world) ESA Portal (information about European Space Agency) Heavens Above (info about satellites & astronomy) Bad Astronomy (misconceptions about astronomy) Antimatter: Mirror of the Universe (page by CERN) Encyclopedia Astronautica (wealth of space flight info by Mark Wade) The Apollo Saturn Reference Page Einstein research at Stanford (learn about "Gravity Probe B - The Relativity Mission") Space.com (Wealth of Space information & news) Spaceflight Now (also see the launch tracker and Breaking [Space] News) NASA SkyWatch (Realtime data about current events) SpaceWatch (Space Science and Astronomy news) NASA Watch (How is the Space Agency faring?) Your Sky (the interactive planetarium of the Web) Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center ("Gateway to the universe of x-ray astronomy") Home in the Sky (Page about ISS by Discovery Online) Inconstant Moon (multimedia tours of the Lunar surface) Voyage to Milky Way Astronaut Biographies by NASA Astrobiology Web National Space Society Backyard Astronomy Page NASA's Human SpaceFlight page (info about ISS, shuttle & more) Today @ NASA Newsletter (Latest news about the space exploration) NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive NEAT (Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking) Earth & Moon Viewer (up to date images from the orbit) The Aurora Borealis homepage Auroras Now! (Auroras watching in Finland) Albert Einstein Online PBS: Stephen Hawking's Universe SpaceRefAncient Worlds, Anthropology, Paleontology & more recent history Ancient American (Archaeology of the Americas Before Columbus) Smithsonian Institution (visit virtual the Smithsonian) Rabbit in the Moon (about Mayan hieroglyphs..) The Runic Journey ("an online exploration of the Norse runes") Perseus Project (A growing digital library of resources for studying the ancient world) Earthlore Explorations (Journeys of Meaningful Encounter With the Cultural Legacies of our World) Mesoweb (An Exploration of Meso-American cultures) At the Tomb of Tutankhamen (Well-done site by National Geographic) Colours of the Nile (tour the land of the ancients..) Glass Encyclopedia Becoming a Glassblower The Nature of Diamonds (An American Museum of Natural History exhibit) Tale of Three Cities (page by National Geographic) Sonoran Desert (5000 Square Miles of Silence) Georgia Revealed (Searching for the soul of Caucasus - another exceptional OneWorldJourney) Vikings - The North Atlantic Saga (Well designed page by Smithsonian) Invertebrate Paleontology Image Gallery Stories of the Dreaming (Australian aboriginal mythology) Aboriginal Art & Culture Centre (What is Dreamtime?) The Empire That Was Russia (a U.S. Library of Congress exhibit)Miscellaneous Sciences Karl's Calculus (dust off your math skills) MathWorld (the web's most extensive mathematics resource by Wolfram Research) The Math Forum @ Drexel ("people learning math together") The ABC's of Nuclear Science Nature science journals NOVA Online (Companion site for the TV program) Robot Café (Robotics news, tutorials, forums, and links) Perspectives on Plasmas (some 99+% of the Universe is plasma!) CiteSeer / Research Index (NECI Scientific Literature Digital Library) Web Elements (Periodic Table of Elements) NEIC: Current Earthquake Information (list of recent global events) The Human-Languages Page Dinosaur Illustrations PhysicsWeb (Physics news & resources; see also "best of") Photonics.com (Worldwide coverage of optics, lasers, imaging, etc.) CDDB by Gracenote (The Compact Disk Database) AllMusic (the imdb of the music industry!) liveplasma (the music visual search engine; formerly "musicplasma") Head-Fi (headphone Hi-Fi & portable audio resource) ecoustics.com ("Everything Hi-Fi Online") Artist Direct (search over 100,000 artists!) SoundStage! (Online magazine for high-end audio and music) AudioReview (Audio, Stereo Equipment Reviews) MOJAM (The largest listing of live music in the world) D.J. Rhythms: Links Catalog (Links to number of band pages) New York Philharmonic Orhcestra (America's Oldest Orchestra!) Contemporary Jazz Links Charts All Over the World (Top-whatever charts from everywhere) Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of [classical] Composers ididj (Didgeridoo Cultural Hub)Software Total Recorder (if you can hear it [on your PC], you can record it!)Music Stores (on and off the web) SongSearch (SongSearch finds many very-hard-to-find CDs.. at a premium) CD Now (Maybe the web's largest music store) Compact Disk Connection (Tens of thousands of titles available!) Music of the World (get a free catalog) World Music Store (Music around the world) CD Europe (Yet one more source for that evasive CD) Backroads Music (More electronic exotica and other ambient music) Global Electronic Music Marketplace GROOVE Unlimited (more Electronic Music)MP3 Scene Mp3/Tag Studio (Handy utility for maintaining MP3 ID tags) Lycos Music (find new Artists, free downloads) WinAmp (The best MPEG sound player for Windows) DFX (WinAmp enhancement; it really works!) Nomadworld (Nomad Jukebox and other personal MP3 players) Nomadness (Nomad resource) Notmad Explorer (a better Nomad controller) Archos Technology (portable MP3 players/recorders) Dension (Mp3 player & player control units for your car) OMNIFI (Mp3 player systems for the home and the car) Estone (self-contained, standard DIN-size HD-Mp3-player/FM Radio/CD player for your car) PhatNoise Car Slim Devices' squeezebox (network music player) TextAloud MP3 (Convert text into spoken word) Opticom's MPEG Layer-3 Producer Audioactive MP3 Production StudioiPod iTunes Library Updater (provides the single most important feature missing from Apple's iTunes) Belkin Media Reader for iPod (use iPod to store digital images on the go) iLounge (provides the single most important feature missing from Apple's iTunes) Anapod Explorer (alternative for iTunes) Sensaphonics Phophonic Soft 2X in-ear monitors (not exactly cheap, high quality in-ear headphones) Ultimate Ears (high quality custom & stock in-ear headphones)Podcasting Podcast.net (the podcast directory) Podcast Central (another podcast directory) The Podcast Bunker ("we only list the best podcast") Digital Podcast (ah, even more podcasts) iPodder.org (podcast utility & podcast directory) Podzinger (podcast search engine; searches also the content) Doppler ("redefining podcasting") Happyfish (RSS reader and enclosure manager, with or without iTunes)Music Labels & Artists Steve Roach (Listen and order Steve's exceptional music!) Vir Unis (the official website) Vidna Obmana (the official website) Patrick O'Hearn (Patrick O'Hearn's music) Waveform Records (Electronica music label)Great Radio Shows & Stations Echoes (A nightly soundscape on PBS stations in the U.S.) Musical Starstreams (weekly broadcast of exotic electronica, RealOne stream also available) Hearts of Space Radio on the net (Music from Hearts of Space label) National Public RadioNet & Satellite Radio XM Satellite Radio ("Beyond AM. Beyond FM.") Sirius Satellite Radio (broadcasts from the orbit!) TVRadioWorld (TV & radio internet broadcast directory) VirtualTuner.com (Portal of 10,000+ net-radio-stations from 100+ countries) Live 365 (Streaming music for every flavor) Radio-Locator (over 10,000 stations listed!) Mike's Radio World (guide to online radio stations) RadioTower.com ("The Internet Radio Receiver") ShoutCast by Nullsoft (Hundreds of stations in streaming MP3 format)Pro Audio Wizoo (music technology books and sample CD-ROMs) AudioForums.com (forum for PC and Mac digital audio hardware/software) Harmony Central (Resource & news for musicians) The Sonic Spot (resouce for electronic musicians) FutureProducers.com (the music community) PrePal (audio gear sale tracker w/average pricing info) Music Books Plus (Literature for musicians) MIDI World (MIDI stuff) Synth Zone (stuff about various keyboards) Northernsounds Forum (GigaSampler discussions & more) Keyboard magazine on the web Synthtopia (electronic music resource) Electronic Musician magazine on the web Tapers Section (audio recording forum) Sounds On Sound (music recording mag online)Instruments & Pro Audio Gear guitargeek (check out various artists' rigs) Kurzweil Professional Products Korg (professional music gear) Studiologic (Fatar controllers/keyboards) Digital Audio Labs CreamWare (professional audio boards) Terratec Promedia Aardvark Professional Audio Antex Digital Audio Buckingham Music (traditional Indian instruments) Erik the Flutemaker (bambo |