Donald Lancon's Bookmarks

This file was last updated on Mon, 22 Mar 2004.

Note: If you're looking for my Melissa Joan Hart bookmarks, they're now at this location:

http://www.obkb.com/info/mjhpages/bookmark.htm

News and Information

Current News

Business Wire

CNN.com

PR Newswire

StudioBriefing at IMDb

Ultimate Collection of News Links

Yahoo! - News

Yahoo! News E-mail This Story To A Friend - Most Popular

Time and Weather

Daylight Saving Time - When do we change our clocks?

Official U.S. time

Perpetual Calendar

US Naval Observatory FAQ

Weather Channel

World Time Zones

World Time Zone Map

Maps and Geography

AFRICA by Friendless

Map Machine @ nationalgeographic.com

Test Your Geography Knowledge

Yahoo! Maps and Driving Directions

Yahoo! Regional

Health

InteliHealth - Home to Johns Hopkins Health Information: InteliHealth Home

WebMD - Health has a homepage

Money and Jobs

Monster.com

Motley Fool: Finance and Folly

Miscellaneous Useful Info

BigBook

eFax.com

Epinions.com

Incredibly Useful Site of the Day

SuperPages.com

25 Most Useful Sites

UPS Package Tracking

Misinformation

Urban Legends and Folklore

about chain letter frauds and the like...

Knowledge and Learning

(see also ``Philosophy'' and ``Books, Literature, Periodicals'' below)

Online Encyclopedias

Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001

Encyclopedia.com

Everything2.com

Wikipedia

Educational and How-To

Education Index

HowStuffWorks

Learn2.com

Teaching Company

World Lecture Hall

History

Atomic Bomb: Decision

about the decision to drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Governmental

American Memory from the Library of Congress

Census Bureau Home Page

IRS.gov

U.S. Copyright Office, Searching Copyright Registrations and Documents

USPS - The United States Postal Service

Computers

Hardware, Software, Reviews, Shopping

Beyond.com- A Better Place to Buy Software

buy.com - Computer Systems for Home and Office at Low Prices

CNET.com

Download.com

now at CNET.com

GNU's Not Unix! - the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)

Microsoft.com

ftp.microsoft.com - Directory of /

Microsoft's Homepage

Microsoft Download Center

Windows 95: Download-Windows Update

TUCOWS NETWORK

ZDNet

Internet and WWW

Information Resources

FAQs

Internet FAQ Consortium

Misinformation, Hoaxes, Chain Letters, etc.

Urban Legends and Folklore

Specifications

Internet RFC/FYI/STD/BCP Archives

Search through RFC Database

Viruses and Worms

Symantec AntiVirus Research Center

World Wide Web

W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium

General Reference and Help

webreference.com (sm) - The Webmaster's Reference Library

WWW Help Page

Browsers

BrowserCaps

Capabilities of different browsers (i.e., what HTML they can handle)

evolt.org - Browser Archive

massive archive of old browsers for download

Color Schemes

Brian Hall: ColorServe Java

Colour Selector Page

Non-Dithering Colors in Browsers

Palette Man

``Safe'' Colors for Web Pages

Markup Languages and Style Sheets

HTML

HTML 4.01 Specification

HTML 4.01 Specification

Quick Table of Contents

Full Table of Contents

Index of Elements

Index of Attributes

Index (a-z)

Beginner's Guide to HTML

Great intro to HTML; still pretty much everything I know about it

HTML Home Page

Previous Versions of HTML

W3C HTML Validation Service

Web Style Sheets

Web Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)

XML

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Cafe con Leche XML News, and Resources

SGML/XML: Using Elements and Attributes

XML Files

PICS Ratings Schemes

ADEQUATE.com Parental Guidelines

RSACi

Safe For Kids Rating Description

SafeSurf - Making the Net Safe

Protocols

HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Overview

Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

HTTP Return Codes

Site Usability

ALT texts in IMG

Info about the proper use of image tags, for people with text-only browsers or text-readers

Best Viewed With Any Browser

About creating non-browser-specific pages

CAST: Bobby

Delorie.com - Web Stuff

Tips for web authors using Lynx

Usable Web

useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's site (Usable Information Technology)

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Webmonkey: design: Degrading Pages

Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer

ZDNet AnchorDesk -- Web Interoperability Pledge

Webmaster / Web-Based Courses

Webmaster Certificate: Program Overview

Webmaster Certificate Program: Austin Community College

Life-long Learning on the Web Courseware Home Page

Chat

DALnet Homepage

Mirabilis LTD. - Download ICQ

StormWeb

Take It Offline

Domains

Network Solutions - Domain Name Registration Services from the dot com people(TM)

NSI - WHOIS Lookup

InterNIC

ISO3166 Country Codes

E-mail and Mailing Lists

List Hosting Services

Yahoo! Groups

List Software

Support Forum - Documentation - smartlist

Lists of Lists

Liszt

Searchable directory of e-mail discussion groups (help it grow!)

Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists

Spam

General

Fight Spam on the Internet! (spam.abuse.net)

How do spammers harvest email addresses ?

Spam Recycling Instructions

List Opt-Out

The DMA's e-Mail Preference Service (entire domains)

The DMA's e-Mail Preference Service (individual addresses)

Opt-Out Information from Consumer.Net.  Credit Bureau opt-out.

Opt-Out Information from Privacy.Net.

Spam Blocking

MAPS Realtime Blackhole List

MAPS Relay Spam Stopper

ISPs and IPPs

CNET reviews - ISP review

9 N e t A v e n u e

SimpleNet

The List

info about ISPs

Online Privacy

Analyze Your Internet Privacy

Organizations

EFF Homepage - the Electronic Frontier Foundation

W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium

Traffic

Internet Traffic Report

Usenet

Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service

Programming

Gratis programmeringssprog / Free programming languages

CGI

CGI FAQ: General Questions

CGI Resource Index: Programs and Scripts

Database

Yahoo! Computers and Internet:Programming Languages:SQL:Tutorials

Perlguy's Pages

CNET Builder.com - Web Servers - Spotlight on Web databases

Languages

C/C++

DJGPP

Java

General Info

Java Home Page

Java Tutorial

Writing Applets: Table of Contents

EckelOBJECTives

Java Series

Excerpt from The Java Class Libraries

Directory of /cp/jcl1_2

Technical Info

Deprecated Methods in the 1.1 AWT

How to Convert Programs to the 1.1 AWT API

Java Language Keywords

Java operator precedence

Software

Java Development Kit 1.1

Gamelan's Java Software Directory

MS-DOS Batch Files

FAQs

Batfiles FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about Batch

Tutorials, etc.

Batch Guide

DOS Batch Language: A personal view

Batch Programming Elements

General Sites and Collections

Batch Programming Stuff

Gord's World of Batch Files

Perl

ActiveState Tool Corp. - ActivePerl

perl.com

Perl Documentation

A Short Guide to DBI

FMTEYEWTK

Far More Than Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About...

CPAN

Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

CPAN/modules

Perl for Win32

Perlguy's Pages

Perl Institute (perl.org)

Perl XML FAQ 1.1

Ten Perl Myths

Character Sets and Encoding

Character Sets (IANA)

Code Charts (PDF Version)

Declan's Guide to Installing and Using Microsoft's Japanese IME

Unicode Home Page

File Formats

Compression FAQ

MPEG

MPEG Home Page (official)

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 Directory

MPEG . ORG - MPEG Pointers and Resources

Trixter's Desktop MPEG-1 Authoring FAQ

The Programmer's File Format Collection

Gaming and Emulation

Atari Gaming Headquarters Main Page -- The Authority In Atari And Classic Videogame Coverage

Dave's Video Game Classics

MAME - The official Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator site

Specific Software Applications

Emacs

GNU's Not Unix! - the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)

GNU Emacs Manual - Table of Contents

GNU Emacs for Windows NT and Windows 95

TeX and LaTeX

TeX Users Group

MiKTeX Project Page

Native 32-bit TeXing on PC

Mathematics and Science

Math and Statistics

Archives

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

online ``encyclopedia'' of mathematics (see also the ``Other Wolfram Sites'')

Favorite Mathematical Constants

Infinite Ink's Mathematics Page

links on infinity, set theory, and other stuff

Interactive Statistical Calculation Pages

links to pages for performing various probability calculations and statistical tests

Jim Loy's Home Page (www.jimloy.com)

listed here for its pages on mathematics, this site also includes pages on science, logic, language, art, history, puzzles and games, movies, music, etc.; very extensive; written at a ``popular'' level

Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math

lots of useful info that, while usually elementary, is easily forgotten, like divisibility rules and how to find the square root of a number by hand

Mathematics Genealogy Project

traces academic ``parentage'' (i.e., Ph.D. advisor-student relationships) of many current and past mathematicians

StatLib :: Data, Software and News from the Statistics Community

Organizations

American Mathematical Society (AMS)

American Statistical Association (ASA)

Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)

Mathematical Association of America (MAA)

Other

Acme Klein Bottle

offers ``the finest closed, non-orientable, boundary-free manifolds sold anywhere in our three spatial dimensions''; fun site, but not a joke

MAA Basic Library List

a Good Math Books list

Most Useless Pi Algorithm

using pi to estimate pi itself in a rather inefficient manner (humor)

Pi mnemonics

lots of mnemonics in various languages, including a story that represents pi to 400 places

Randomness

Chaitin's Constant

G J Chaitin Home Page

very technical; voluminous

JAN96: Randomness and the Netscape Browser

random.org - true random number service

based on atmospheric data

Psychology

Face Perception, Beauty and Attraction

Human Face -- The Learning Channel (TLC) -- human face

ALL LOOK SAME

can you distinguish between Chinese, Japanese and Korean faces? (I couldn't)

Perceptions of Sexual Attractiveness

Personality, Temperament and Type

Keirsey Temperament Sorter II

TypeLogic Home Page

Personality Theories -- Table of Contents

temperament and personality typing

Consulting Psychologists Press

Dolphin Cove - Home of the INFJ mailing list

ENTP The Inventor

intp.org

includes lengthy description of INTP type; fit me to a T

Other Science

Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Stephen Hawking

Tree of Life Web Project Home Page

Philosophy

A Course in Consciousness

by Stanley Sobottka, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Virginia

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

RELATIVISM

by Allen Wood, Cornell University

Languages and Linguistics

English and Linguistics

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online

Glossary of linguistic terms

Merriam-Webster OnLine - Dictionary - Thesaurus...

Richard Brodie (anagrams)

Japanese

Jim Breen's Japanese Page

Jim Breen's WWWJDIC

Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese [kana]

Tad Perry's Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese

Declan's Guide to Installing and Using Microsoft's Japanese IME

Font Center:Contents

Hansu Kurisuchan Anderusen

Hans Christian Anderson in Japanese

Japanese Software and Information

Japanese Text Initiative

Java Kanji Flashcards 500

Kana Flashcards

Literal Translation Project Homepage (anime scripts)

NHK WORLD Japanese Lessons

99 Train

hypertext novel in Japanese

Public Domain Data

Japanese texts

Gateway to Japanese Language

WileyNonce MLRC--Database of Web Resources by Language--Japanese

Yamada Language Center: Japanese News

Collin's Guide to Japanese Self-Study

Directory of /pub/monash

Japanese verb inflection summary@Everything2.com

Japanese@Everything2.com

Joyo96 - Lesson 1 Reading Japanese [katakana]

Standard IME for Japanese Windows

Online Translation

AltaVista Translations

Free Translation: Translate foreign language text online

Other Languages and Dialects

Acronym lookup

Dictionary.com

Language Museum

sample texts for 2,000 different world languages

Totally Unofficial Rap Dictionary

UT Library Online - Dictionaries and Languages

yourDictionary.com

Books, Literature, Periodicals

New and Used (for purchase)

Amazon.com Books

site design great and (generally) improving; best place to search/browse before making a purchase, even if not from them; excellent selection; more customer reviews than other sites; many customer-submitted lists of favorites in various fields; most items ship quickly, but sometimes wait can be very long (can have items shipped as they become available for higher cost); prices usually okay, but shipping charges sometimes counteract discounts (shipping sometimes free, though); many items available used and (puportedly) new through individual sellers and small businesses

BarnesAndNoble.com

good site design, although they seem to have more annoying pop-ups and Javascript effects than Amazon; search engine and book selection not quite as good as Amazon either, IMO, and many fewer customer reviews, but prices usually comparable and shipping sometimes free; haven't bought enough to gauge shipping times; some items available used

Bookpool

good selection, but only technical/computer books; excellent discount prices; shipping is quick and comparable in cost to other sites

Daedalus Books Online

remaindered (and new, they point out) books and CDs; good prices, but unpredictable selection

Dover Publications

inexpensive paperbacks, mostly reprints of ``classics'' in almost every field; not for everyone; can buy their books elsewhere for discount, but nice to have entire catalog in one place online; site design only fair, though

eBay: Books

always worth a search if you have a title in mind; pretty good site design; auction site, so selection, prices, shipping costs and delivery time all highly variable; usually must wait for auction to end but some items have a ``buy now'' price (typically much higher than opening bid or reserve price)

Half.com: books

``an eBay company''; not really a half-price site, despite the name; just a non-auction alternative to eBay for sellers (and buyers); unpredictable selection and prices; good for a look, but I've never actually bought anything from the site

Half Price Books

site requires JavaScript (but no pop-up ads); not as easy to use as, say, Amazon.com or BarnesAndNoble.com; current (rather small) inventory apparently from one of their Dallas locations; mostly used and remaindered items, so selection is unpredictable; prices generally no more than half of current list price (not cover price at time book published, which can be annoying when looking at older books)

O'Reilly & Associates

publisher's site; computer books; all full price, of course; includes contents and excerpts

Powell's Books

new, used and out-of-print books; nice site design; selection, prices and shipping comparable to other big sites; unlike Amazon and BN, used items are treated same as new items

Quality Paperback Book Club

site design okay; typical club with introductory deal and future committment; still, might be worth it if you like paperbacks and haven't been buying books recently

Full Text (read online)

Bible Gateway

full text HTML versions of several different translations (KJV, NIV, etc.) in several (mostly European) languages; includes English audio for selected versions

Complete Works of William Shakespeare

full text HTML versions of all of the plays (and soon the poetry?)

Internet Classics Archive

full text HTML versions of works of many ancient Greek and Roman writers along with a few Chinese and Persian ones

Internet Public Library: Books

thousands of e-texts in various formats, from plain text to scanned images to the ``ebrary reader'' format, in all subject areas; includes links to other online full-text archives

Internet Sacred Text Archive

full-text HTML versions of many sacred texts of the world (also includes the first 61,010 codons of the Human Genome)

Project Gutenberg

plain-text (``.txt'') versions of thousands of works of literature, based on out-of-copyright editions (mostly pre-1923)

Sailor's Gutenberg Server

different interface to Project Gutenberg contents

Other

Dewey Decimal Classification : Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification

International ISBN Agency - The ISBN Users' Manual

ISBN directory

Perl Journal

Music, Radio, Internet Audio

All-Music Guide

a great archive of information, but the current (May 2003) Javascript-based navigation makes the site frustrating to use (e.g., can't open a link in a new window)

Amazon.com's Music Store

MP3.com

Ultimate Band List

Shopping

Audiohouse Used CDs

BMG Music Services

CD Club Web Server

CDconnection.com

Cheap-CDs

Classical Choice

Used classical CDs

Columbia House Online

Includes searchable catalog

GEMM

Half.com: music

Roots & Rhythm

Mail-order place for Blues, Folk, Vintage Rock & Jazz, etc.

Listening Online

BookRadio: Audio interviews with authors

emplive.com (was: Experience Music Project)

IUMA: Discover unsigned artists, independent bands, local talent

LAUNCH.com: Discover New Music

Listen (Listen.com)

NPR Online

NPR 100: Full List

Radio Station Guide -- WindowsMedia.com

Xiph.Org

open source internet audio codecs

Information

Alan W. Pollack's 'Notes On' Series

Bjork Lyrics

A Brief History of Banned Music in the United States

Gracenote (CDDB)

Movies, Television, Internet Video

All-Movie Guide

From the folks who brought you the All-Music Guide

Amazon.com's DVD & Video Store

GIST TV

Internet Movie Database

You know what this is...

The Late Night TV Page

TV Guide Online

Aaron Barnhart's TVBARN.COM

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Info about the Emmys

Ain't It Cool News

BBC Radio Times

Ebert & Roeper and the Movies

Edward Woodward WWW Page

epguides.com

Film.com

Filmfinder

Firefly's movie site

Half.com: videos

Hollywood.com -- Where moviegoers go.

movies.com

Movies Unlimited

video store

MovieWEB

Nielsen Media Research

Reel.com

Roger Ebert (Sun Times)

SATURDAY NET- an unofficial page for Saturday Night Live

Seven Network Australia

ShowtimeArabia

TELE-satellit / TELE-satellite ONLINE

Total TV Online

TV Movie online (German)

German site

TVNow

TVNow TV and Entertainment Journal..Stars On TV

TVShow - worldwide television shows, stars and guides

TV Tome

wwiTV.com - Your Streaming Media Portal

WorldwideBoxoffice.com -- 3639 titles as of Oct 12 2001

Zap2it.com | TV - Movies - Internet

Other Shopping and Consumer Stuff

Electronics

Amazon.com: Electronics

Buy.com

CircuitCity.com

Toys

Amazon.com: Toys

eToys - Where great ideas come to you!

Miscellaneous

Amazon.com zShops

Yahoo! Shopping

DealTime.com: Comparison Shop for Almost Anything

Find It NOW! - Coupons and Discounts for Online Stores

Charities and Service Organizations

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)

Children Affected by AIDS Foundation

Habitat for Humanity International

KidsCampaigns

Make-A-Wish Foundation® of America

Pediatric AIDS Foundation

Starbright Foundation

Starlight Foundation

People, Famous and Otherwise

actorsequity.org | home

A.F.T.R.A., National Homepage

Celebrity Sightings: Reach for a Star

Charlotte Church - Voice of an Angel

Child Actresses/Young Actresses/Child Starlets - CHILDSTARLETS.COM

Dead or Alive?

Famous Pied Faces List

List of entertainers who have been hit in the face by a pie

famous tongue gallery

Jewel EveryDay Angels List Homepage & Guide

Meetup: Organizing local interest groups.

Screen Actors Guild

Shooting Stars Celebrity Photo Agency

Humor

The Onion

Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

the classic homage to Bad Writing; Bulwer-Lytton was the guy who wrote the immortal line, ``It was a dark and stormy night...''

Calvin and Hobbes -- The Best Comic Site In The Universe!

Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division - dihydrogen monoxide info

crucial information about a chemical killer; if you don't know why this is in the humor section, ask someone who knows chemistry

Dilbert.com

80s Server -- Valley URL

translates pages into ``valleyspeak''

Engrish.com

the Japanese love to put English messages on things; here are some of their less successful attempts; side-splittingly funny, IMHO

Field Guide to North American Males

Lost in Translation

translates user input back and forth between English and five other languages, ending with a final English phrase that usually has little to do with the original; sometimes hilarious

Mathematical Model of the Mating Preferences of H. Sapiens

MC Hawking's Crib

They Fight Crime!

randomly generated crime-fighting duos (example: ``He's a one-legged drug-addicted senator with a mysterious suitcase handcuffed to his arm. She's a man-hating hip-hop vampire with a flame-thrower. They fight crime!'')

Wile E. Coyote Question

link no longer works; if anyone knows where to find it now, please e-mail me!

World According to Student Bloopers

``The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot.'' and so on...

Miscellaneous

Geek Code

what kind of a geek are you?

20Q.net

AI-based Twenty Questions game; it asks you questions and tries to guess what you're thinking of; very good; guessed ``the moon'' in 13 questions, ``gravity'' in 19!