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Slate: Politics, popular culture, news analysis, with crisp, clever writing. |
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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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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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Zip Codes: Links to find codes by location or code
number.
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Area
Codes: Links to telephone area code |
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Area
Code Map: Codes by
location, plus maps of each code area |
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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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Astronomy
resources for kids:
All about telescopes, stargazing and related matters
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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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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: The official blog of 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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Hearst
Museum of Anthropology:
Photographic access to this UC Berkeley facility's collection of
over three million objects, photos, etc
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US
Automobile Museums: Map showing locations of auto and motor
sport museums in the USA, plus individual listings for each state
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Over the Hedge:
Just over your hedge a raccoon, a turtle (often accuse of being an
iguana) and other creatures make their living by
"visiting" your place when your back is turned
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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
whimsical 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
about 2017,
but it's been around for around for about ten years. It permanently
resides in my top ten.. |
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Frazz:
He's a successful songwriter, an avid bike rider, and the janitor at
Bryson Elementary, where he dispenses (and exchanges) wisdom with
some above average kids. Another school-based comic that's above
average is Big Nate. |
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Mexikid
Stories: A sharp and funny look at Mexican and US cultural
differences (currently on hiatus, but there are several years of
re-runs) |
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My
Cage: The humans have been wiped out, and the animals are
now in charge of civilization. Spoiler alert: They don't do any
better than we did. The strip no longer appears in newspapers; the
link takes you to a subscription page. Please support smart comics! |
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Crabgrass:
New strips are "coming soon," but the link takes you back
to the beginning of this charming tale of a black & white
friendship. The latter will lead you into trouble and temptation |
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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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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 on Yahoo 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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Ghost
Towns of California: Maps and information about places
you've never heard of - maybe close to where you live!
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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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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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MoRUN
Sticker Lite: An electronic "post-it" to keep notes and reminders on your desktop, rather than on hard to find little pieces of paper. |
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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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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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James
Randi Educational Foundation: Another good site for skeptics
and those in need of a dose of reality
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Skilled
Nursing Facilities: Find nursing homes in any state |
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WeTransfer:
Transfer large files that choke your friends in-box via the
Internet. Free, but they will try to sell you stuff, which you can
easily decline. |
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Dave's
Computer Tips: Links to all kinds of useful computer info.
Sign up for a weekly Email |
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St.
Jude Children's Hospital: My favorite charity; doing great
work curing cancer in kids |
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Hawk
Ridge Bird Observatory, Duluth: Banding project at one of
the major bird migration routes |
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Fire
Science Education: Information on becoming a firefighter, fire
safety, etc. |
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National
Interagency Fire Center: Latest news on wildfires throughout
the country |
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Mariposa
County Economic Development Corporation |
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Heart
Healthy Foods (American Cancer Society) |
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Quitza:
Help with quitting smoking |
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Watch
for more links one of these days.
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