Recommended Web Sites

These are some of the sites that I find interesting, useful, or exemplary that do not fit into any of my other categories. Enjoy!

(Still not happy with the organization, but we will see how it evolves...)

Overview

• Get Your Daily Fix
• Current Events
• Network Interest
• Inspirational Web Uses
• Constant Vigilance is Necessary
  • Censorship
  • Privacy
• Education
• History
• Health
• Museums and Exhibits
  • Educational
• Fun and Cheer
  • Dancing
• Deutschland (Germany)
• Things to Learn About/Do Someday...
• Reference
  • Graduate Students

Get Your Daily Fix

• TimesFax, the Internet version of the eight page New York Times digest

• Cool Site of the Day

• Cool Word of the Day and A Word a Day

• Quotes of the Day

• Time Daily

• Dr. Fun and Dilbert. See also Comics 'n stuff

• For more, see Spider's Pick of the Day

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Current Events

• Contract With America

• Taxing Times 1995 and tax forms from the IRS

• America's Cup

• Discovery of a Palaeolithic painted cave at Vallon - Pont-d'Arc

• Legislative Information (U.S. Congress: House)

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Network Interest

• HTML/WWW Docs and References

• Usenet Info Center

• Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems (RISKS)

• The Wired Columns by Nicholas Negroponte

• Find the Secret Message and Nutscapify (Requires Netscape)

• Economics and the Internet

• WAXweb the hypermedia version of David Blair's feature-length independent film, "WAX or the discovery of television among the bees".

• The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier and Tomorrow, by Howard Rheingold

• PLATO: The Emergence of On-Line Community

• The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier and Internet by Bruce Sterling

• Stories of "Completely Pathetic Losers" (very sad that such things go on):
  Abbe's Rant
  Julia's Rant

• Computer-Mediated Marketing Environments Home Page

• Netsurfer Digest ""More Signal, Less Noise"

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Inspirational Web Uses

• Jane Austen Web area

• Virtual Frog Dissection Kit and Interactive Frog Dissection

• B-EYE: The world through the eyes of a bee

• Healthwise

• The Internet Font Browser

• The Michigan State University Celebrity Lecture Series
  Features images, sound bites, and general information about famous authors including Daniel Boorstin.

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Constant Vigilance is Necessary

• How Numbers Are Tricking You

• Electronic Frontier Foundation and Conferences on Computers, Freedom and Privacy

• The Church of Scientology vs. the Net

• Censorship
  • The File Room: An archive on cultural censorship.
  • On-line Banned Books

• Privacy
  • "The Internet PRIVACY Forum is a moderated digest for the discussion and analysis of issues relating to the general topic of privacy (both personal and collective) in the `information age' of the 1990's and beyond."
  • Social Security Number privacy

• Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier (the Web site for an MIT course)

• Convention on the Rights of the Child (one of the last frontiers for equal civil rights)

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Education

• Mathematics Experiences Through Image Processing (METIP)

• The JASON Project

• Mathematics (from SciEd) and MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

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History

• Anne Frank

• The English Language Through Time

• The Labyrinth: A World Wide Web Server for Medieval Studies

• The American Civil War

• Paleoanthropology Exposition

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Health

• The Virtual Hospital

• EMF-Link provides substantive information on biological and health effects of electric and magnetic fields.

• OncoLink (Cancer resources)

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Museums and Exhibits

• Best of the Web

• The Virtual Louvre: American (SunSITE) office, American (U. Central Florida) office, American (California) office, Australian office, Tokyo office
  Singaporian office, French office, or Irish office
  

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• Educational
  • DNA to Dinosaurs
  • The Exploratorium, a museum of science, art, and human perception
  • Hands-on Science Centers Worldwide

• Ansel Adams: Fiat Lux

• The Expo

• Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry

• The Visible Human Project

• Sea World/Busch Gardens Information Data Base (and Animal Resources from the The Electronic Zoo)

• On-line exhibits of interest to classicists and Mediterranean archaeologists.

• Perez on Medicine: The Whimsical Art of Jose S. Perez

• History of Medicine division of the National Library of Medicine

See also World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums

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Fun and Cheer

• For the kid in everyone of us, there are Legos and Muppets!

• Origami

• Glass Wings "Nothing can withstand the powers of love, laughter and imagination, a site for creative fun"

• Bill's Lighthouse Getaway

• Internet Chess Library

• Dilbert

• Calvin and Hobbes Comics Gallery

• Cycling

• Nando Sports, ESPNet SportsZone, and World Wide Web of Sports

• WWW Addict's Pop-Culture Scavenger Hunt

• Diplomacy

• URouLette

• Don't try this at home

• Xmorphia

• Dancing [Anybody know any good ballroom resources? -Robert]
  • Swing
  • European Dance Server

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Deutschland (Germany)

• Deutschland! (via the Virtual Tourist)

• German-English Dictionary and another one
  (and Englisch-Woerterbuecher aller Art

• German news auf Deutsch

• German Constitution

• 19th-Century German Stories

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Things to Learn About/Do Someday...

• Raytracing

• Amateur Radio

• The Climbing Archive (see also Great Outdoor Recreation Pages and The Waddington Gallery (and Abdominal Training FAQ)

• Get my pilot's license
  (Educational Materials in Basic Aeronautics)

• Skydiving!

• Backcountry and Orienteering and Rogaining

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Reference

• U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and "Star Spangled Banner"
  "...the American dream, in recent years the object of much denigration even within our own borders, turns out to have been the world's dream, as well."
  -- Louis Rukeyser on events in Eastern Europe

  Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents, more historical documents, and Library of Congress

• Purdue Weather Processor, MIT Weather Radar Laboratory, and the Comprehensive Glossary of weather terms for storm spotters.

• Children's Literature Web Guide

• U.S. Copyright Office

• Central Intelligence Agency and NSA Handbook

• The Human-Languages Page and International Guide

• History of Science, Technology and Medicine

• USENET FAQs

• Legal Information Institute complete with Supreme Court decisions

• Graduate Students
  • How to Be a Good Graduate Student
  • How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab
  • Advice on Research and Writing

• The Virtual Tourist, Foreign Languages for Travellers, The Internet Guide to Hostelling, and Currency Converter (Do not forget to check out Travel Warnings)

• soc.couples.wedding

• Shakespeare and Classics Archive

• ATLAS: Arts and Technology Resource and Reference
  An information map of ideas, tools, organisations, people and sources...

• Quotations Page and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

• The Virtual Garden (and CSU BioWeb)

• FTC Consumer Brochures from the Advertising Law site

• WeatherNet

• Laws, Rules, Principles, Effects, Paradoxes, Limits, Constants, Experiments, & Thought-Experiments in Physics

• The Internet Public Library and Project Bartleby: The Public Library of the Internet

• Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides

• John December's Internet Tools Summary and Computer-Mediated Communication areas

• Flags of the World and another flag site

• WordNet

• Guide to Available Mathematical Software

• Fuzzy logic

• Legal Care for Your Software

• On-line Reference Works

• Catalog of Internet Resources organized by the Dewey Decimal System

• Nuclear Information

• Fractal Image Compression

• World-Wide Web Virtual Library (Some hot, some not)

• A First Guide to PostScript

• Maps/GIS/Remote Sensing/GPS/Geoscience

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April 10, 1995 - Robert Lentz (ralentz@ralentz.com)