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The Usual Disclaimer: Just because we like these does not mean you will. That's why there's a back button and a favorites
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Fresno's Treasure Chest: Vintage fishing equipment, sports magazines, new and used automotive and motorcycle parts. |
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Slate: Politics, popular culture, news analysis, with crisp, clever writing. |
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Vot Der Dumboozle: The popular culture excavation site. |
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T.H.E. Fox: He's just like you. . .except for the red fur coat and a rabbit for a roommate. We discovered this charming cartoon back in the days of Commodore, on AOL's predecessor, Quantum Link (not active as of 2/04 but worth checking on once a year or so). |
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TV Guide: Schedules, previews, and TV Guide merchandise, including back issues |
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Webshots: These folks give you a free screensaver and let you download additional photos from a collection of thousands. |
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The official website of the Skeptics Society...your pathway to critical thinking, where everything must pass under the magnifying glass of scrutiny. |
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You better listen to your heart and check out the official Tom Petty web site! |
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TV Episode Guide: A fantastic source for episode listings of TV shows old and new. Many have plot synopses; most give extensive cast information. |
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How would you like to look up almost any artist, past or present; read a biography, see a list of their albums complete with song titles, and find out what albums by other artists they've performed on? All Music Guide is the answer. |
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New Moon Publishing: A magazine by and for girls. |
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Comedyzine: An on-line comedy magazine. Highly recommended: Scotty Kowall’s Weekly Tirade. |
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A nice collection of photos from the Sonoran Desert: Plants, birds, insects and mammals. |
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Sea World: Fun and education; a site with lots of pictures and information about animals, both in and out of the water. |
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If you don't know who Nero Wolfe is, check out this site, then get yourself to a book store and pick up one of the 30+ books Rex Stout wrote about the gourmet detective from 1934 to 1975. |
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GW Bush Political Superstore: This used to be a satire but is now a commercial site for some fairly good anti-Bush bumper stickers and the like. |
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The Galileo Project is a hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time, supported by Rice University. |
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Screen Savers: A new free or shareware screen saver every day. |
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Music Links: Our own page with a bunch more music-related links. |
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Bluegrass Links: Another of our projects, with bluegrass artists, festivals and more. |
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Hockey Links: Still more of our favorite links to our favorite sport. |
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The British Library: The national library of the UK and one of the world's greatest libraries. Contains over 16 million books and periodical volumes. |
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The Library of Congress. Over two centuries of records, photos and whatnot. |
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Atomic Magazine: Daily news postings, articles, reviews, a calendar of cool happenings, all with a retro theme. |
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Photos and information from Yosemite National Park. |
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Both Sides Now: Reports on and ratings of reissues of vintage pop and rock music, with an emphasis on stereo. Lots of good info free on the web site. |
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Tunes: "The one stop destination for all things music"--news, photos, and of course, free music downloads as well as stuff you can buy. |
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National Wildlife Federation: Photos, news and all the stuff you'd expect. |
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Get Mad, and glad: A collection of Mad Magazine stuff and links. |
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Bokonanism, the only religion that makes sense (and not much at that). Read all about it in Kurt Vonnegut's classic Cat's Cradle. |
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The Piranha Club. We discovered this very off kilter comic strip in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Read more about it at Wikipedia. |
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Dave Barry: Miami Herald site with columns by America's number one humor columnist. |
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British Museum: Six-and-a-half million objects ranging in size from shards to colossal statues. |
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Over the Hedge: With Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) in retirement, this is one of the best comic strips around. |
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Calvin & Hobbes: Re-runs, but always worth reading again. Also available on line: Bloom County and Peanuts. |
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Pearls Before Swine: A newer entry, now in our comic top ten. |
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Sherman's Lagoon: If you've seen the screen saver, you've gotta check out the comic. And if not, hunt down the screen saver too. |
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Project Gutenberg: "The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search." Contains ASCII text files of public domain documents ranging from the Constitution to the Bible. |
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Kinky Friedman: Musician, author, cigar smoker, gubernatorial candidate. Composer of such lilting pop favorites as "Ride 'Em Jewboy." Kinky is the right name. |
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Dinosaurs: Who doesn't love those big, lumbering, bone-crunching beasts? (Especially when they're not around to crunch US!) |
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Suck Daily: Whimsical comments on the passing scene. Not updated since 2000, but still some good stuff if you haven't seen it. |
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James Coats Computer Column: There must be hundreds of computer columns, but this is one of the few we get in our local paper. Here you'll find current and past installments of the Coates' column, which originates in the Chicago Tribune. |
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Richard Montanez: One of the coolest personal web sites around. The content is excellent. |
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Tucows Shareware Site: One of many places you can find free and shareware programs, but this one has the coolest logo. |
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Sky & Telescope: If you don't take a look at the stars every night, you're missing the greatest free show ever presented. |
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Disgruntled Magazine: Got the perfect job and a great boss? You don't need this site. Otherwise.......check it out. |
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ACDSee: An excellent graphics viewer and organizer. Gives you a quick thumbnail view of all graphics in any folder you select. About $50. |
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Clip Mate: Removes unwanted line breaks (when you paste an Email message into your word processor); saves items that you've copied or cut so you can go back to them; lots of other features. About $35. |
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Forgot-It: An electronic "post-it" to keep notes and reminders on your desktop, rather than on hard to find little pieces of paper. Shareware, $15. |
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The Brights Net: People with a naturalistic world view, free of supernatural and mystical elements. |
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Blogging the Bible: A fascinating tour through the old testament with Slate's David Plotz. |
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New York Times Technology Columns: Read up on computers, cameras, video equipment and more. |
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Terra Galleria: Some of the finest photos I've ever seen. |
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Mountain Sage Gallery: Another excellent collection of photos |
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Watch for more links one of these days. |
