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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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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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Freedom from Religion Foundation - protecting the constitution and promoting humanity |
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Snopes: Ever wonder if those breathless emails warning of impending doom or excoriating some politician for cursing America have any basis in truth? This is the place to find out |
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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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Vintage Singers: Links to information mostly about vocal groups. |
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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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Area and Zip Codes: Links to find codes by location or code number. |
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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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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 (the page is headed "Dick's Mad Stuff," but it's some other Dick, not me). |
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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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Lio: Too strange to describe, too great to miss. Newly discovered by me, but it's been around for around five years. It's my new favorite comic. |
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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 2001, but still some good stuff if you haven't seen it. |
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David Pogue Technical Column: There must be hundreds of computer and tech gadget columns, but this one, from the New York Times, is one of the best. |
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Sierra Sun-Times: News of Mariposa and Madera County (central Sierra Nevada) foothills. |
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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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Obama-Biden Site: News, merchandise, videos and of course, requests for financial support. |
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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. MoRUN Sticker Lite is also good. |
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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. (Note that NYT now requires payment for access to more than 30 articles per month) |
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Terra Galleria: Some of the finest photos I've ever seen. |
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Ken Rockwell: Outstanding photos plus a ton of photographic advice |
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Clayton & Melinda Walker's Travel Blog & Photos: Well written reports on a half dozen trips all over the country, with great photos |
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Butch's Wild Rides: More travel reports, from the feline point of view |
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Dr. Demento: The official playlist archive, plus many Dr. D-related links |
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Learning to Share: A treasury of pop culture, music, album covers and much more |
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Tony Hillerman: Probably my favorite author over the last 10 years or so, he gave us the outstanding Navajo detective characters Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. |
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Encyclopedia of Life: An ambitious project to create an online reference source and database for each of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet. |
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Stuff on My Cat: It's easier for you to just click on it than for me to try to explain it |
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Warner Brothers Movie Archives: Buy movies that have not been formally released on DVD |
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At Gowatchit.com, you can find out right now where, how and if a movie is available with one quick search. You can also ask to be notified when it becomes available. |
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U.C. Berkeley California Photos: Data base of thousands of California photos |
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Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster: A logical alternative to Intelligent Design |
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Free Download Center: Get a different commercial program free every day |
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Dark Roasted Blend: Subheaded "weird and wonderful things," this site defies description, and will help you put off working on that report for a few hours |
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FanBase: A new and ambitious site which plans to list all teams and players of all sports at all levels. You can help create it by posting pictures and information on teams and athletes |
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James Randi Educational Foundation: Another good site for skeptics and those in need of a dose of reality |
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Jan Alan Claire Page: A man who has lead a fascinating life in a number of locations; the highlights are summarized in a clever time-line on the opening page |
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Heck of a Guy: Mostly a salute to Leonard Cohen, but a bunch of other stuff too |
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Watch for more links one of these days. |
