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The Usual Disclaimer: Just because we like these does not mean you will. |
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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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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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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 Campaign Site: Not sure how long this site will be in existence (through 2012?), but it's got lots of stuff, including 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. |
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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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Ken Rockwell: Outstanding photos plus a ton of photographic advice |
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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 (read more about it here) |
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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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Watch for more links one of these days. |
