URLs

Maintained by Alan Gould

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Accessibility to the web (for visually impaired)

• • http://www.w3.org/

  • http://www.cast.org/

Airline Tickets, Hotels

• • flightsfrom.com (main focus is non-stop flights)

  • Flight info http://www.trip.com/ -- use "Flight Tracker" to find out if particular flights are on time.

  • http://www.cheaptickets.com/

  • http://www.expedia.com [no Southwest]

  • http://www.hotwire.com/ must commit before seeing details

  • http://travel.priceline.com/ Once you enter credit card info, you're committed

• http://www.travelocity.com/

American Intercultural Student Exchange (AISE) http://www.sibling.org/ a non-profit, educational foundation for high school students, dedicated to the promotion of worldwide intercultural learning and living experiences.

Alternate View http://mist.npl.washington.edu:80/av/ (John G., Cramer--Analog Magazine)

American Ballet Theater http://www.abt.org/ Ancient Egypt Research Associates http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/nova/pyramid/excavation/lehner.html

Archeological models http://www.learningsites.com/ Learning Sites designs and develops interactive three-dimensional digital models that are based on actual archaeological evidence

ART

• • Eric Grohe's Murals - see http://www.ericgrohemurals.com/

  • Escher http://www.worldofescher.com/

Astronomy URLs - look in left nav at the site of the Astronomical Association of Northern California.

Atomic Web Clock http://www.time.gov/

Automobile Safety

• • Insurance Institute for Highway Safety http://www.iihs.org/

  • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration http://www.nhtsa.com/

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Bed and Breakfasts online - http://www.bbonline.com/

Bellingcat - https://www.bellingcat.com - Home of Online Investigations

Bicycles

• • Effective cycling http://www.johnforester.com/

  • California Bicycle Coalition http://www.calbike.org/

  • California Vehicle Code on bicycles http://www.csaa.com/about/education/code.asp

  • League of American Bicyclists http://www.bikeleague.org/

  • Ohlone greenway http://www.bpfp.org/SFRW/OhloneGreenway.htm

  • Register your bike - https://bikeindex.org/

  • San Francisco Bicycle Coalition http://www.sfbike.org/

BirdSource http://www.birdsource.org/, the interactive World Wide Web database for bird information operated by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society. Online database records bird sightings -- by casual backyard bird-watchers as well as serious bird enthusiasts -- and reveals where the birds are anywhere in North America.

Books online

• • BOOKS ONLINE -- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

  • BANNED BOOKS ONLINE -- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html

• powellsbooks.com/

  • University of Arizona -- http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/online.htm

  • University of Michigan -- http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/ Making of America series.

Books to buy

• • http://www.bibliofind.com/ -- Amazon.com

  • http://www.tomfolio.com -- an international cooperative of used and rare booksellers

http://bookcrossing.com/ gives you a simple way to share books with the world, and follow their paths ...Register a book at the website (along with journal comments), get a unique BCID (BookCrossing ID number), and label the book . Then release it for someone else to read (give it to a friend, leave it on a park bench, donate it to charity, "forget" it in a coffee shop, etc.), and get notified by email each time someone comes here and records journal entries for that book.

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California State Automobile Association (CSAA) http://www.csaa.com Calculators http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html More than 18655 calculators available online divided into categories mathematical, science, engineering, other.

Calendars

• • Calendars Through the Ages http://webexhibits.com/calendars/

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal http://www.csicop.org They publish the journal "Skeptical Inquirer."

CARTOONS

• • comics.com http://www.comics.com/

  • Uclick http://www.uclick.com/

CERN http://www.w3.org/

Charity/Nonprofit Org Info

• • Charity Watch -http://www.charitywatch.org

  • Charity Organizations - http://www.actiondonation.org/articles/charity-organizations.html

  • GuideStar -http://www.guidestar.org/

CIA Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Clip Art (for non-profit use)

• • http://www.barrysclipart.com/

COMPUTERS

• • Apps

    • Search for Apps - https://www.quixey.com/ - describe your problem and they'll find an app to solve it.

  • Hackers

    • • From Analog Jul-Aug 2004, Open Minds, Open Source, by Eric S. Raymond.

        • • The Cathedral and the Bazaar - http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar

          • The New Hacker's Dictionary - http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon

  • Mac help

    • Apple

• • • • • Support - http://www.apple.com/support/

        • Discusion forums - http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa

• • • EveryMac - http://www.everymac.com/ - specs, FAQs, Mac freeware

  • Ripping DVDs http://guides.macrumors.com/How_to_Rip_a_DVD_to_a_Gen5_iPod

    • • Handbrake http://handbrake.m0k.org/ - DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter

Crystal Set Society http://www.midnightscience.com/

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Date Converter http://www.calendarhome.com/converter/

Dictionary

• • Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Online--http://www.m-w.com/home.htm

  • OneLook—http://www.onelook.com/

Digital Library (UC) http://www.cdlib.org/--The California Digital Library (CDL) is a tenth library for the University of California (UC). A collaborative effort of the nine campuses, it supports the shared collections of the University of California.

Dinosaur Sounds Sandia Labs http://www.sandia.gov/media/dinosaur.htm

Discover Magazine http://www.enews.com/magazines/discover

Drawing software - free - https://krita.org/en/

Drawing tools online

• https://www.youidraw.com/apps/painter/

• https://sketch.io/sketchpad/

• https://www.autodraw.com

• https://drawisland.com

• https://www.pixilart.com/draw

DVDs

• • DVD resources http://www.mpeg.org/~tristan/MPEG/dvd.html

  • DVD Reviews http://www.dvdreview.com/

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e-cards - Blue Mountain - https://www.bluemountain.com/ecards

Electric Library http://www.elibrary.com 900 magazines, 150 newspapres, 2000 books, 20,000 photos--costs $9.95/mo

Email

• • Email and chat abbreviation dictionary http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/chat.html

Electronic field trip - Journey North http://informns.k12.mn.us

ENTERTAINMENT http://www.tickets.com/

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Freecycle -- A grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Reduce waste by connecting individuals who are throwing away goods with others who are seeking them. Each local group is run by a local volunteer moderator. http://www.freecycle.org/

Free photos http://www.freefoto.com

FOOD

• • Chez Panisse http://www.chezpanisse.com/

  • Chocolate http://www.godiva.com

  • Coop America about food - http://www.greenpages.org

    • • Beer and Wine - Organic - http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney/articles/beerandwine.cfm

      • Bananas - http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney/articles/bananas.cfm

      • Chocolate

        • • http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney//articles/chocolate.cfm -- Sources of fair trade chocolate

      • Coffee -- http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney//articles/coffee.cfm -- fair trade coffee.

      • Good Food - http://www.coopamerica.org/PDF/CAQ60.pdf

      • Eat less meat - coull the planet http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney/articles/lessmeat.cfm

      • Rice -- http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney/articles/fairtraderice.cfm

      • Safe Sustainable Seafood - http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney/articles/seafood.cfm

      • Sushi - 8 things worth knowing about eating sushi - http://en.ilovecoffee.jp/posts/view/89

  • Farmers Markets http://www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/map.htm

  • Pumpkin Land http://boutell.com/%7Egrant/Misc/pumpkin-pie.html

  • Seafood buying guide (NRDC-June 2016) - https://www.nrdc.org/stories/smart-seafood-buying-guide

Fraud Control http://www.fraud.org National Fraud Information Center. Scam reports.

Free Speech

• • Freedom forum -- http://www.freedomforum.org/

FREEWARE:

• • BBEdit (Mac)http://www.barebones.com

  • Encyclopedia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/

  • Eudora (E-mail) and Fetch FTP software (Mac) http://mac.map.com/mail.html; http://www.eudora.com/

  • Fonts

    • • http://www.erik.co.uk/font

  • Itunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/

  • Music

    • • http://www.prs.net/midi.html (Classical synth)

      • http://www.napster.com/

      • http://www.iuma.com/

  • Nisus Writer http://www.nisus.com/

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Genome -- Human Genome guide -- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/human/

GIZA PLATEAU MAPPING PROJECT http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/GIZ/Giza.html

GOVERNMENT

• • NOAA

  • Comprehensive Large Array Data Stewardship System (CLADSS)

  • USGS

    • On-line Geologic Publications of the Western United States -- http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/

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Highway Loss Data Institute -- http://www.carsafety.org/ -- comparative safety test data for automobiles/cars; also see Insurance Institute for Highway Safety -- http://www.highwaysafety.org/

HOAXES and MYTHS on the Internet

• • http://www.snopes.com/

  • Vmyths -- http://www.Vmyths.com/ a very complete site on computer viruses hoaxes. Learn about computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban legends, hysteria, and the implications if you believe in them.

Hostels

• http://www.hostelworld.com/

• http://www.hostels.com/

HTML -- see WorldWideWeb

Human Rights

• • http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/hrp_reports_mainhp.html Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress. The reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Illusions

• • Illusion and Art http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/art/

Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/ -- librarians have become skilled at finding the good stuff, organizing it, and making it easier for people to find and use. Librarians also fight for important ideas like freedom of expression and thought, equality of access to information, and literacy.

Invention

• • Alliance for American Innovation (AAI) http://www.InventorEd.org recently formed to provide a Washington presence for individuals and organizations across our nation which are interested in the United States entrepreneurial process, and the laws that provide its basis. The Alliance also serves as a depository of information on issues, particularly on intellectual property.

  • Professional Inventors Alliance (PIA) http://www.rjriley.com/pia/; Ronald J. Riley, President, Inventor & Entrepreneur

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Japanese Dining Etiquette 101 - Part 1 - Part 2

Javascript article http://macworld.zdnet.com/1999/07/create/yourjavascript.html

JOBS:

• • America's Job Bank http://www.ajb.dni.us/

  • JobWeb http://www.jobweb.com/

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Kiva - http://www.kiva.org - Micro-loans made from one individual to another... around the world. Nonprofit company, founded in 2005 based in San Francisco, Calif., connects individual borrowers or "entrepreneurs" with lenders who make direct loans of as little as $25.

Kodo (Taiko Drum Group) 12/97 JDC0300@niftyserve.or.jp

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Law

• • http://www.nolo.com

  • Law Firm Directory from LexisNexis

  • Lawyers Directory from Martindale

  • Bankruptcy from Martindale

  • Traffic violations from LexisNexis

Libraries

• • San Francisco Public Library http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/

Literature: The Etext Archives - see Internet Archive - https://archive.org/

Little Silver NJ http://www.monmouth.com/~lsboe

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Macintosh

• • Macs http://www.info.apple.com

  • User Group Store cataloghttp://www.ugconnection.org/ugstore.html To Order call 1-800-350-4842 (NEW Extended Hours) M-F 6:00am-8:00pm & Weekends 8:00am-5:00pm Pacific Time

Magazines:

• • Cobb Homepage http://www.cobb.com/

  • Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/

  • National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

  • Popular Science http://www.popsci.com/

  • Scientific American http://www.sciam.com/

Maps

• • Eagle Geocoding Technolgy http://www.geocode.com/

  • Green Maps http://www.greenmap.org/

  • Maps http://www.mapblast.com/

  • Coop's Maps http://www.coopsmaps.com/ specialty travel maps e.g. locations of Breweries, Train places, Dinosaur places.

  • Terraserver http://terraserver.microsoft.com/

  • Topographic Maps

  • AnyPlaceAmerica.com

  • http://www.topozone.com/

  • USGS

MOSAIC--http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Homepage/Platform.html--NCSA Mosaic is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (141.142.20.50) in directory /Mac/Mosaic as NCSAMosaicMac.103.sit.hq

Movies

• • Database http://us.imdb.com/

  • Moviefone http://www.moviefone.com/

  • What's in theaters nearby -- http://www.moviefone.com/

  • Find any movies - https://reelgood.com

MUSEUMS ONLINE

• Hearst Museum of Anthropology - https://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/hearst-from-home/

  • Smithsonian

  • https://www.si.edu/collections

  • https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/online

  • https://naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour

  • https://library.si.edu/exhibitions/online

MUSEUMS & SCIENCE CENTERS

• • Guide to Informal Science Centers - http://www.scienceadventures.org/

  • List of museums - http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/usa.html

  • Museum-L listserv FAQ text file at: ftp://ftp.nmmnh-abq.mus.nm.us/museum-l/museum-l-faq.txt -- The file has the URL for the list archives on the web. Also, you can read the Museum-L postings on the usnet newsgroup bit.listserv.museum-l

  • American Museum of Natural History - http://www.amnh.org/ - Science Bulletins - http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/

  • Bay Area Discovery Museum http://www.badm.org/ Sausalito, CA

  • Exploratorium, San Francisco, Ca, USA - http://www.exploratorium.edu

  • Franklin Institute http://www.fi.edu/ - activities at http://Sln.fi.edu/tfi/activity/act-summ.html

  • Institute and Museum of History of Science, Florence, Italy http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/index.html Photos and text about many of Galileo's original telescopes and experiments...as well as his middle finger! at http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/genindice.asp?appl=SIM&indice=54&xsl=sala&img=si&lingua=ENG&chiave=600004

  • Japanese American National Museum - http://www.janm.org/

  • Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley - http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art - http://www.lacma.org/

  • Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago - http://www.msichicago.org

  • Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle - http://www.sfhomeworld.org

  • St. Louis Science Center - http://www.slsc.org

  • The Tech Museum of Innovation On-Line Exhibits - http://www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/

MUSIC

• • http://allmusic.com/

  • MP3 Sound

    • • http://www.mp3.com/

      • http://macworld.zdnet.com/1999/07/features/

  • Boston Symphony http://www.bso.org/

  • Countdown (Opera) http://www.xs4all.nl/~yavelow/docs/CnDnIntro.html

  • Iasos news http://iasos.com/news/

  • Jukebox of oldies - http://www.tropicalglen.com

  • Last FM - http://www.last.fm/music

  • Opera---New York Opera Company http://www.nycopera.com/

  • Play Music Online

    • Jamulus - https://jamulus.io

    • Jacktrip - https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/jacktrip/

    • Soundjack - https://www.ianhowellcountertenor.com/soundjack-comprehensive-user-guide

  • Record Albums (LPs; vinyl)

  • http://www.goldengaterecords.com

  • http://discogs.com 0

  • Sheet Music (free)

  • International Music Score Library Project - http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page

• • • http://www.free-scores.com/free-sheet-music.php?CATEGORIE=190

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National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/main.html

National Science Foundation http://www.nsf.gov/

Netscape Homepage http://home.netscape.com/

Newsgroup Search engine: http://www.dejanews.com/

NEWSPAPERS --NEWS

• • http://www.topix.net/

  • ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/

  • News: http://www.sfgate.com/news/

  • BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/

  • CNN http://cnn.com/

  • Franklin Institute reprints of Philadelphia Inquirer articles on science and medicine http://sln.fi.edu/inquirer/inquirer.html

  • New York Times http://www.nytimes.com

    • Where Should You Live?

  • The Onion¨ http://www.theonion.com/ "America's finest news source" [Jokes]

  • San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com

  • San Francisco Examiner http://www.examiner.com/

  • San Jose Mercury News http://www.sjmercury.com

  • Sports http://www.cnnsi.com/

  • Mindy McAdams Page http://www.well.com/www/mmcadams/index.html

  • US News http://www.usnews.com

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

NSF http://www.nsf.gov/

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Old Farmer's Almanac http://www.almanac.com/preview2000/lunar.html

Optical Illusions:

• • Make an amazing optical illusion

  • http://www.planet-science.com/categories/extras/planet-science-loves/2012/09/make-an-amazing-optical-illusion.aspx

ORGANIZATIONS

• • American Automibile Association -- http://aaa.com -- trip tiks

  • Amercian Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) http://www.aclu.org ; Freedom Files (TV shows) http://www.aclu.tv

  • Amnesty International - https://www.amnesty.org/en/

  • Citizen Evidence Lab - https://citizenevidence.org

  • InVid-WeVerify – the ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of Digital Verification - https://citizenevidence.org/2019/12/11/how-to-use-invid-the-swiss-army-knife-of-digital-verification/

  • Campaign for Justice. http://www.campaignforjusticejla.org/ - The US government during WWII financed and planned the abduction and forcible deportation of 2,264 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry from 13 Latin American countries to use as hostages to exchange for American POWs. Their passports were confiscated and without due process, they were imprisoned in Department of Justice camps in the US from Dec 1941 to February 1948. The Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which gave an official apology and $20,000 per internee, was limited to American citizens or permanent resident aliens at that time. US maintains that the Japanese Latin Americans were illegal aliens. The fact that they were abducted and forcibly brought into the US doesn't seem to matter. They have no rights. This group is struggling to be allowed the same redress as other Japanese-Americans before everyone passes away.

  • The Center for Victims of Torture http://www.cvt.org/

  • International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) http://www.ippf.org/

  • International Right To Know (IRTK) http://www.irtk.org

  • NAACP http://www.naacp.org/

  • National Society of Black Physicists http://nsbp.org

  • Native American Organizations

    • • Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation http://www.ucinet.com/~umatribe/

  • Native American Rights Fund - http://narf.org - National Indian Law Library - http://narf.org/nill/

  • Oxfam http://www.oxfam.org/

  • Post Carbon Institute - http://www.postcarbon.org/ - MuseLetters - http://www.richardheinberg.com/museletter/archived

  • Red Cross http://www.redcross.org/

  • Solar Cookers International http://solarcooking.org/

  • Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.splcenter.org

  • TV turnoff http://www.tvturnoff.org/

  • Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation http://www.vvaf.org/

  • United Nations Association--US http://www.unausa.org/

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Pacific Gas & Electric http://www.pge.com

Parenting

• • New Baby Sibling: Helping Your Older Child (or Children) Adjust - Even if your little one is already an older brother or sister, the addition of a new family member is a big change. This article has helpful tips on how to help your child adjust to your new bundle of joy.

  • Helping Your Child Make New Friends - Friendships during early childhood are an important part of your child’s development, and this PBS article will help you encourage your youngster to cultivate these relationships.

  • How to – Safely! – Introduce a Dog to Your Children - Even the coyest of kiddos can be animal lovers. This guide will assist you in helping foster the bond between your child and four-legged friend.

  • 10 Tips for Transition to Child Care - The journey of going to daycare or school after being cared for at home by mom or dad can be an exciting experience, even if your child is initially hesitant. This article offers suggestions on how to overcome obstacles during this transition.

  • How to Introduce Your Children to a New Partner After Divorce - Introducing your child to a new significant other may feel a bit intimidating at first, both for single parents and their children. This article offers valuable insight on how to support your child through this process.

Phobias -- http://phobialist.com/

Phobias A to Z: Provided by psychology.about.com http://psychology.about.com/library/bl/blglos_phobias.htm

Picturesofplaces.com http://www.picturesofplaces.com/ Physics--Interactive Physics Sites

• • Knowledge Revolution ...

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RECIPES

• • Bon Appetit - http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes

  • FATFREE: The Low Fat Vegetarian Recipe Archive - http://www.fatfree.com/

  • http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes/

  • Mimi's Cyber Kitchen http://www.smartlink.net/~hiller/food/

  • Indian Recipes http://www.fatfree.com/./recipes/indian/

  • Recipes--Kenter http://wwwtios.cs.utwente.nl/~kenter/recipes/rec.food.veg.cooking/search.html

REFERENCES

• • CIA factbook http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm -- info about geography, climate, people, governments and customs of the world

  • http://www.refdesk.com

  • Dictionaries

    • http://www.onelook.com/

      • Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Online--http://www.m-w.com/home.htm

  • Encyclopedia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/

  • Maps http://www.mapblast.com/

  • Merriam Webster online dictionary/thesaurus http://www.m-w.com/; dictionary only--http://www.m-w.com/dictionary; thesaurus only--http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm

Robots

Hazardous duy robots (NOVA/PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/robots/hazard/

Robot Wars http://www.robotwars.com/ 12/97

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Safety & Emergency Information

• • California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) http://www.oes.ca.gov/

Shareware ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/

September 11, 2001 Destruction of World Trade Center -- Fractured Fundamentalisms http://www.Beliefnet.com/story/88/story_8849_1.html Extremism exists in every major faith, and sometimes turns violent.

Socially Responsible Investing/Buying

• • Animal rights http://www.petaindia.com/

  • Chocolate --Slave-free http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=76 -- Fair trade chocolate http://www.corpwatch.org/action/PAA.jsp?articleid=2034

  • Community Investments http://www.communityinvest.org/

  • Coop America http://www.coopamerica.org/

  • CorpWatch http://www.corpwatch.org/

  • Fair Trade -- TransFair USA http://www.transfairusa.org/

  • Garment Workers Center http://www.garmentworkercenter.org/

  • Responsible shopper http://www.ResponsibleShopper.org/

  • Social Investment Forum http://www.socialinvest.org

SOFTWARE

• • AdBlock Plus - https://adblockplus.org - free - Blocks banners, pop-ups and video ads - even on Facebook and YouTube; unobtrusive ads aren't blocked in order to support websites

  • Backup software to miniDV: http://www.coolatoola.com -- shareware

  • Bento (Filemaker Lite) - http://www.filemaker.com

  • Carbon Copy Cloner (Mac) - complete, bootable backup of your hard drive

  • http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

  • Collaboration software

    • • Basecamp http://www.basecamphq.com/

      • Moodle http://moodle.org/ (free open source)

  • Freeware

    • • Mac

        • • EveryMac - http://www.everymac.com/

          • FreeMac - http://www.freemacware.com

  • Handbrake - http://handbrake.fr/ - DVD to MPEG-4 converter

  • Language -- translation software -- Language Engineering Corporation -- http://www.lec.com/

  • Metacreations: Bryce3D, Kai's Power Tools, Painter http://www.metacreations.com/

  • iPad Apps4Teachers - http://ipadapps4teachers.blogspot.com/

  • NIH Image http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/

  • PageSucker -- http://www.pagesucker.com/ -- a small utility that allows entire Web page hierarchies to be downloaded automatically. The pages are modified in such a way that they can then be viewed off-line (even after copying them to a CD-ROM or the like).

  • PC Virus protection (for Intel Macs running Windows)

  • http://www.macworld.com/2006/04/firstlooks/pcantivirus/index.php

  • Powerpoint Viewer for Mac; for PC

  • SketchUp - 3D modeling software http://sketchup.google.com/

  • Super Duper (Mac) - backup and clone drives, or update an existing clone with the latest data (Smart Update)

  • http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

  • Unite! http://www.uniteunion.org/

  • Uniview http://haydenplanetarium.org/universe/uniview/

  • Version tracker http://www.versiontracker.com list of updates and searchable database of software titles (commercial, shareware, freeware, etc) for MacOS (Classic and OS X), Windows, AND PalmOS software. For Mac, there is also http://www.macupdate.com

SPAM

• • Anti-spam site http://www.vix.com/spam

  • Obfuscators:

    • http://www.fingerlakesbmw.org/main/flobfuscate.php

      • http://www.safeemail.org/

  • Graphic @ for spam prevention http://jamesthornton.com/software/graphic@.html

STAR TREK--Klingon http://www.kli.org

T

Tax Information http://www.irs.gov/

Telephone Directory (white pages)

http://www.infospace.com/

THEATER

• • George Coates Performance Works http://www.georgecoates.org/

Tibet

• • TIBET INFORMATION NETWORK http://www.tibetinfo.net/ an independent monitoring service

  • Tibet http://www.savetibet.org/

  • Tibetan Youth Congress http://www.tibetanyouthcongress.org/

Time

• • Time and Date World Clock - http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock

  • The official US time http://www.time.gov/ from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the U. S. Naval Observatory (USNO)

  • Timezone map of the world http://www.worldtimezone.com/

Time Travel http://www.mkaku.org/

Tolerance.org http://www.tolerance.org/

Traffic Jams - NY Times article http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03traffic-t.html?th&emc=th

Traffic jam solutions - http://trafficwaves.org/seatraf.html - http://trafficwaves.org/ - http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/links.html - and article: To fight traffic clumps: Go slow, not with the flow (SF Chronicle) -

Traffic Schools Online

• • http://webtrafficschool.com/

TRANSLATE English<--->

• • Babel Fish http://babelfish.altavista.com/

  • Translate to/from , English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish -- http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn

Transrow project http://www.goals.com/transrow/index.htm (Mick Bird) to row around the world (alone!) in a 28ft. row boat.

TRAVEL

• • US State Dept. Bureau of Consular Affairs http://travel.state.gov/

  • Pacific Asia Travel Assn http://www.pata.org/

TV & Radio

• • Listings http://www.gist.com/

  • PBS-Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB;9) http://www.cpb.org

  • gopher: gopher.cpb.org --- ftp: ftp.cpb.org/pub

  • Old Time Radio Library - http://www.otr.net

U

U.S. Postal Service http://www.usps.gov

• • Buy Stamps Online - http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/home.jsp

  • Calculator - http://postcalc.usps.gov/

  • Rates - http://www.usps.com/rates/welcome.htm

  • Zip Codes http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html

or https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org

United Nations Association 12/97--http://www.unausa.org

Used Cars/Automobiles/Vehicles -- Prices/Values -- NADA -- National Appraisal Guides, Inc. http://www.nadaguides.com/

Usenet FAQs ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/

V

Vegetarian Resource Group http://www.vrg.org/

Vehicle Safety -- Insurance Instutute for Highway Safety http://www.highwaysafety.org/

Video editing online

• • Eyespot http://www.eyespot.com/

  • Jumpcut http://www.jumpcut.com/

  • Grouper http://grouper.com/

Virtual Tours of the World

• • http://www.airpano.com/List-Aerial-Panoramas.php

• https://artsandculture.google.com/project/national-park-service

Virus threats -- http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ (Symantec's "security response" Web site which addresses legitimate computer virus threats)

W

Weather

• • US Weather Service

  • California Regional Weather Server http://virga.sfsu.edu/crws.html

  • The National Center for Atmospheric Research -- http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/ -- includes infrared image data

  • UM Weather http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/ -- a non-profit service sponsored by The Weather Underground at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

  • Unisys Weather http://weather.unisys.com/

  • Weather Channel http://www.weather.com/

  • Weathernet New Zealand http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rob/

WebCams http://www.webwaste.com/webwaste/ (live cameras)

Wine

• • Wine Database -- http://wine-maker.net

  • Organic Wines http://www.travelenvoy.com/wine/organicwines.htm

Wolfram|Alpha Reference Site: - http://www.wolframalpha.com/ - a free online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data. Subject areas include Mathematics, Statistics & Data Analysis, Physics, Chemistry, Material Properties, Engineering, Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, Transportation, Web & Computer System, Units & Measures, Finance, Dates & Times, Places & Geography, Socioeconomic Data, Weather, Health & Medicine, Food & Nutrition, Words & Linguistics, Culture & Media, People & History, Education, Organizations, Sports & Games, Music, Colors. See examples at http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples and Stephen Wolfram's introduction at http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html

World Socialist Web Site http://www.wsws.org/

WorldWideWeb

• • Archive of many Internet sites http://www.archive.org- The Wayback Machine

  • Blogs - How To Start a Blog – Beginner’s Guide - http://startbloggingonline.com/

  • Code for Passthrough Page

  • <head><meta http-equiv=refresh content="5; url=00000000000"></head>

  • Code for specific size target window [advise backup link in case of popup blocker]

  • <a href="targetURL" onclick="window.open('targetURL', 'myWin', 'toolbar=yes, directories=no, location=no, status=yes, menubar=yes, resizable=yes, scrollbars=yes, width=1000, height=500'); return false">

  • COLOR TABLES and TOOLS

    • Color Picker Tool (web safe)

      • Color Tools (Make web safe tool, Color-mixing Tool)

    • Codes chart

    • Names of HTML colors

    • Hex Hub

      • Slide Bar Color Tool

    • Stepper Tool

    • Web Design Group color chart

      • Webmaster's Color Laboratory -- http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/ (by VisiBone)

  • Doctor HTML http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/ Check webpages, hyperlinks

  • How to create a website - http://www.onblastblog.com/how-to-make-a-website/

  • HTML

    • • Characters

        • • Character Codes - http://html.com/character-codes/

          • Greek letters, symbols, math symbols - http://files.abstractsonline.com/SUPT/179/1738/special_char_tables.html

          • Character codes

      • Tutorials

        • • Bare Bones Guide to HTML http://www.werbach.com/barebones/

          • How to build a website - http://websitesetup.org/

          • Learn HTML: Learn the Foundations of HTML - https://blog.udemy.com/learn-html-learn-the-foundations-of-html/#1

          • W3schools - http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

          • Yale's WWW Style Manual http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html

      • Code Changes http://www.codehelp.co.uk/html/deprecated.html - Converting outdated (deprecated) tags

      • WC3 Markup Validation Service http://validator.w3.org/ [5/14/06 ]

  • Internet connection speed test at ToastNet http://performance.toast.net/

  • Link Checkers

  • http://www.deadlinkchecker.com/

  • Neighborhood Social Networks - https://nextdoor.com/

  • A NATION ONLINE: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use of the Internet Washington, D.C. February 2002 -- http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/dn/nationonline_020502.htm

  • Real Audio Player http://www.realaudio.com/index.html

Web Search and Reference Sites

• • Altavista http://altavista.com/

  • Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com

  • Finding People: http://www.whowhere.com/

  • Google http://www.google.com

    • • Google tricks http://www.google.com/help/index.html

      • Calculator http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator

      • Definitions http://www.google.com/help/features.html#definitions

      • New Sites Testing https://www.k8oms.net/home

      • Phone Book http://www.google.com/help/features.html#wp

      • Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

  • Intute - internet resources, reviewed and evaluated. http://www.intute.ac.uk

  • OneLook—http://www.onelook.com/ online Dictionary

  • Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/ and Yahooligans http://www.yahooligans.com/

  • Vivissimo (clusters search results) http://vivisimo.com/

  • WWW REFERENCES

World War II photos by Pavel Kosenko - http://pavel-kosenko.livejournal.com/303194.html?thread=22669914 (Rosie the riveter)

X

Y

Yosemite info http://yosemite.com/

YouTube movie conversion/capture - ZAMZAR - http://zamzar.com

Z

Zip Codes http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html

or https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org

.