Prepare a cup of coffee, sit back, and enjoy Chopin's 24 preludes ... and ...
A recent discovery, very good for parents with young children and for adults new to the Internet, is the website of the American Library Association, especially its Guide to Cyberspace . And another worthwhile site is ICYouSee: T is for Thinking.. a thoughtful guide to critical thinking about the WW Web, from Ithaca College Library. I recommend this page for the serious researcher using the WWW.
Graham Toal has a very informative page on SPAM. While not the official page for TISPA (Texas Internet Service Providers Association), it contains much information for the service provider and for the Internet surfer.
Sources for research and general reference are often found here.
-
Information Please - Part of the Family Education Network
- Allexperts.com -- Ask any question!
-
NY
Times Newsroom Homepage Good enough for the staff; also for me..
-
WWW Virtual
Library: Subject Catalogue - (Stanford University)
-
My Virtual Reference Desk - A
One-Stop Site for All Things Internet -- thanks to Bob Drudge.. 0ver 13,000
links !
-
Connected: An Internet
Encyclopedia
-
Essential Links... links to a LARGE
number of information resources
- Festivals.com - Celebrating the World of Festivals and Events
-
AbsoluteTrivia.com - The Totally Trivia Search Engine -- Updated daily, a compendium of useless, but wonderful, information- great search machine!
-
Internet MasterSite Search
Engines Looking for something on the Internet? Here is a menu of directions.
-
Explore the Internet - courtesy of the Library of Congress
-
The Library of Congress - its home page
-
BIOGRAPHY one may find biographies
galore! one for this very day and some 20,000 more. Most of the data
in this BIOGRAPHY(r) Online Database is from the AND Reference Database,
which incorporates the Cambridge Encyclopedia Database. Copyright (c) 1997,
AND Reference Data Ltd., Oxford, UK. and The Cambridge Dictionary of American
Biography, edited by J S. Bowmen. Copyright (c) 1995 Cambridge University
Press. Reproduced with permission. To me this is a very valuable resource.
-
Biographical Dictionary Another
resource with more than 25,000 names.
-
AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY Each day a new biography at this site.
-
eBLAST : Encyclopædia Britannica's
Internet Guide
-
The Smithsonian Institution
-
The Federal
Web Locator
-
On-line
Dictionaries-130 Languages- (Bucknell University).
-
CyberDewey
- a list of Internet Sites organized using Dewey Decimal Classification codes.
-
Quotez
A useful source for quotations.
-
First Lines -
a site where first lines of many famous works of literature may be found.
Links to full texts. Useful for preparing talks and talking down upstarts.
Also, quizzes to sharpen your literary sense. Fun.
-
American Slanguages To learn
the lingo of many cities.
-
Concise Columbia Encyclopedia
- AskERIC - Internet access to the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a federally funded clearinghouse for information on education.
-
Information
on the Net - A Librarian's Guide
-
The
Mother-of-all BBS .. from University of Colorado.
-
100% Fat-Free Web! - An up-to-date
list of current choices (aside from the search engine sites) - the new
ones could be interesting [WARNING! some citations lead to
xxx sites]
- Rand McNally Online: Road Information .. Information useful for the motorist. . Especially in conjunction with Mapquest Driving Directions ..
For some time now, I continue to receive and discover personal homepages with magnificent artistic creations. I accumulate these fun sites for your visiting and amusement.
- Penny's Directory Very creative items in her list here.
- Angels Among Us especially Sarah's
A Rose Within
- SMILE!! .. from MJ Kales
- Smile for Me!! , from S Weiss
- Smile for Me Again!!
- Smile Will Ya..... ,
- Smile For Me....Please.... ,
- Smile For Me Five! ,
- Smile! =) by smile@freefuel.com
- A springtime hug for everyone! from Lady Lynn
- DANCE...PLEASE STEP BACK FROM THE COMPUTER- a fun site. Lots of animated graphics.
- Pansy has some interesting pages ..
- Pansy's Place
and Angels and things -One of Pansy's pages
These and other personal www sites feature cute animated graphics, uplifting messages and cards:
- Hampster's Dance .... and .....Toadally Awesome
But especially attractive is this web presence of Wanda - graphic designer with an extraordinary portfolio. Start here
- Wanda's Crazy World. Then click on the "Contents" Icon to get to the next stop:-
Designs by Wanda
The surfer will notice that many of these personal expressions are on homepages provided by AOL, GeoCities, as well as other servers. If you visit
- GEOCITIES Neighborhoods, for example, you will find an annotated list of the "communities" with their subject matters.
and as for magic ...
- Disappearing card trick
- Andy B's Amazing Card Trick
- Cave of Magic !!!
- Just for Fun - A Ramsbury Magic Card Trick
- IBMagic Homepage and its Kidszone
- Trendy Magic with Jason Berrang
- Guess the Number -- one of my favorites (can you guess why?)
In the belief that surfing the Internet should be fun and still in a mirthful mood, I have come to read and reread the contents here: a huge collection of the most senseless laws in the entire United States
- Dumb Laws as well as
- Dumb Criminal Acts, where the goal of the author is to build on the Internet the largest database of stupid criminal acts. and speaking of crimes
-
Urban Legends Reference Pages , sponsored by the San Fernando Valley Folklore Society, helps you track down the roots of those tales of freakish accidents, gruesome crimes, and plain-old bad luck.
- TODAY'S CARTOON, by Randy Glasbergen an incredible quantity of super cartoons!
- CARTOONS CARTOONS CARTOONS just for fun ... and the spoof ...
- Has AOL Gone Mad ?
For reading on and off line whether newspapers from around, magazines,
or articles, I often frequent these sites.
- E&P Media Links - Search Page -- Private corporation, Editors and Publishers here provides access to over 1100 online newspapers as well as other media.
-
OnLine
Newspapers -- another great source
-
Planet Diary
provides a weekly check-up on the state of the world, courtesy of Prentice Hall
-
theglobe.com has discussion
forums dealing with everything from current events to cooking and chat
rooms for the more adventurous, and, locally,
-
Palm Beaches for news from
the Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily News.
And in particular
-
The New
York Times
-
Today in History
from TV's History Channel.
-
Gannett Newspapers on
the Web -- including USA Today
-
International Herald Tribune
-
London Times and the
London Sunday Times
.
-
Washington Post
-
Parade Magazine
- with a week head start on the contents.
-
Senior News Network by SeniorCom
- Weekly Wire - alternative news ...
- NEWCITY.COM : Alternative America
And on a regular basis
-
The Atlantic Monthly
-
Why Files
..
My alma mater, University of Wisconsin, through funding of the Graduate
School, has produced this interesting site which treats science behind
the news with a fresh story every week.
- The Scout Report Published bimonthly both on the web and by email, this is the flagship publication of the Internet Scout Project. Located in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the project is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. In Particular ...
- The Scout Report for Science & Engineering
-
Crypt Newsletter A magazine
highlighting intriguing stories of Internet culture
-
National Geographic Online
-
Electronic Journals OnLine
(Harvard
List)
-
Public Information Research Homepage
to a ongoing collection of over 200,000 citations and book reviews covering
a broad spectrum that reveals the human condition. I suspect the "authorities"
might object. Intriguing...
-
Project Gutenberg ..... A click away from
access to a large number of titles on line for downloading as a zip file....
-
Project Bartleby
(Columbia University) Imagine !! All this literature on Line !!
-
Shakespeare -Guide
to Shakespeare resources on the Internet- including his plays, poetry,
etc.
-
The Internet Public Library -- from the University of Michigan
-
Alex: A Catalogue
of Electronic Texts on the Internet - a gopher resource of Oxford University
-
The Stories of Sherlock
Holmes may be found here along with this page
- More discoveries may be found at the homepage of American Memory from the Library of Congress, and other public libraries. Consider also the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, of Duke University .
- Rings are taking a lead
in context-related web-site groups. Much literature is available in digital
format. In the fields of Arts
and Humanities :- Literature is a good starting point.
-
"WebRing" is an efficient
way to find content on the Internet. [ Whenever one is at a WebRing
member page, a click on the navigation buttons or hypertext to takes one
to other sites in the ring. ]
The
- Original Writing WebRing and another, the ...
- Ring of Books Home Page
-- which points to a group of non-commercial web sites celebrating the pursuit and enjoyment of good
books. In addition, this California-based
-
bookstore
(Wessex in Menlo Park, California) specializes in scholarly books and offers a nice listing of links to Web sites on well-known authors.
New search engines may readily be used to access a listing of authors and their Web sites. For example , ..
- Infoseek: Authors which also provides a listing of the author-related Web sites.
- Concordances of Great Books is a site which indexes every word in some 200 literary masterpieces, including the entire works of Shakespeare.
- The Internet Classics Archive: Over 440 searchable works of classical literature leaves me exhausted but willing to continue.
Poetry has always appealed to me- ever since that CCNY course
in English lit taught by Padraic Colum.
-
Sol Finkelman's Poetry Page. Sol
is a fellow Townsend Harris High School graduate and often recites his
works at our local gatherings. In addition, he presents a POEM of the DAY
at his homepage.
-
Poems- for a pleasant visit. (thanks
to my Korean correspondent, Hyungsuk Choe)
-
Columbia
U: Dante class project (Inst. for Learning Tech.) among these texts and
other projects
-
Poetry Society of America
-
The Poetry Society
-
Poets Galore and a web ring Poetry Webring
-
The Shiki Internet
Haiku Salon a pause to consider some Japanese poetry. Examine this page
to other Haiku/Tanka poetry ( in many languages)
Since I enjoy reflections on mathematics and science, I visit
some of these locations.
-
Univ of St. Andrews
MacTutor Math History Site ..... Sensational place to learn all about
mathematics and mathematicians
-
History
of Mathematics . ...Clark University
-
Women Mathematicians ... Agnes Scott College
-
Mathematical Quotation Collection... Furman University
-
And, other Newsgroups
of Interest in Mathematics ... Florida State University
-
And, for browsing -
Digital Library Math Collection (Cornell)
- Introduction to the Aves. Interested in birds? An excellent starting point here from UC Berkeley
- CalPhotos: California Plants & Habitats containing pictures from more than 20,000 images of California plants - also from UC Berkeley.
- Science Magazine--Essays on Science and Society
- The Nobel Foundation-- the Official Website of the Nobel Foundation
-
American Association for the
Advancement of Science
-
"The Ultimate" Albert
Einstein Homepage ..... About the man, some photos, his quotes, some
writings, his colleagues' words
-
Usenet Physics
FAQ
-
All About Math -
Math CAN be Fun !! ..... For anyone tickled by number puzzles and tricks ... one of many fascinating pages in the
Rivendell Educational Archive
-
Fractal Art Show= Math Art ... and these other web sites
-
KNOTS on the WEB
More "Math Can Be Fun!" --
- Recreational Mathematics -- Prof Eppstein's doorway to FUN math
- Fun With Mathematics -- from Harry J. Smith
- Harry's Page --- for Other Links such as Recreational and Educational Computing
... And seriously, again ...
-
A Gallery of Interactive
On-Line Geometry
-
The Pi Pages - a resource for anyone interested in learning more about Pi. (Turn up the volume control).
-
The Math Forum Home Page
- Swarthmore project.
-
Mathematics Archives WWW Server ... Universitry of Tennessee
-
MathSoft.com / Math in Action and Unsolved Mathematics Problems
-
Mathematics WWW
Virtual Library - from Florida State University
- Particle Physics Department at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
I was an astronomy minor at the University of Wisconsin. I suppose
that helped me getting on to the IBM Project Mercury Team in 1959. (Personal photographs taken at the IBM Space Center, Washington, D. C. are available here).
-
The NASA Homepage
-
NASA Thesaurus
-
Mars Pathfinder - Welcome
to Mars! and Mars Pathfinder Mission
-
National
Space Science Data Center - Photo Gallery: Mars
-
NSSDC
Photo Gallery from the National Space Science Data Center
Recent stuff from the NASA programs .. amazing pictures from outer space ..
-
NASA JSC Digital Image Collection
tremendous collection of photgraphic images
-
SpaceViews: Mars
Pathfinder
-
SpaceViews:
Mars Pathfinder: Links
-
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
-
The Mt. Wilson Project
-
Earth and Moon
Viewer
- NASA's Human Space Flight - Site Map .. with links to a dozen wonderful pages.
- Mars Global Surveyor - Welcome to Mars!
- Virtual Solar System (National Geographic)
- Galileo Home Page (JPL)
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Home Page
- Discovery Channel - Online
-
The
Nine Planets Possibly the definitive quick resource for information
about our solar system. Planets, moons, comets, sun and anything within
the sun's gravitational pull gets its own page here.
-
Space Telescope Science Institute --
Viewing thru the Hubble..Courtesy of the Space Telescope Science Institute
(the astronomical research center responsible for operating the Hubble
Space Telescope as an international observatory), here one may view the
pictures returned to earth as well as reading the ensuing reports.
- SETI@home - Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence - download and be involved.
I also studied Philosophy as a minor at Madison, with Profs. Ramsperger
and Harold Taylor. That led to a continuing interest in beliefs, thoughts
and constructions of mankind, including religions.
- Philosophy Links
on the Net developed by Duane Bristow (enormous list of sites).
-
Meditation
-
Where Do I Start? A Downloadable Guide .. Needs audio plug-in.
-
Citations
on Biblical Archaeology. (University of Arizona)
-
Welcome to Navigating the Bible
-
Pentateuch
- Torah in English with notes
-
Cornell University,
Department of Near Eastern Studies Useful Links here
-
History
(Middle East & Islamic Studies Collection) - Cornell U.
-
Friends of Buddhism
-
Buddhist Studies
WWW Virtual Library
-
Maven- More than 5,000 Jewish/Israel
Links
-
Jewish Torah Audio of 613.org Index of
Classes
-
The Inner Dimension - "A
Gateway to the wisdom of Kabbalah and Chassidut, offering a contemporary
presentation of classical topics in Jewish mystical thought, as taken from
the teachings of Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh"
-
Tibetan Government in Exile's Official
Web Site
-
FAQs on Tibet
- Kham Aid Foundation -- An objective of the Kham Aid Foundation (Los Angeles) is to support the monastery conservation work and other Kham-related projects, such as assistance for Tibetan
schools, environmental protection, economic development, and cultural exchange between Kham and the West. The mission statement may be found here.
- Restoring Tibetan Monasteries -- In 1996 Dr. Logan was named "Woman Explorer of the Year" by the Scientific Exploration Society of Great Britain and in 1997 a Fellow of the Explorer's Club. Very much involved in Tibetan culture and aid. She authors this very interesting site.
- TIBET:CHANGING
AND UNCHANGED - a special report from the NY Times worth saving and
rereading.
-
The Catholic Encyclopedia
-
The Holy Qur'an (Koran) (11/15/99: temporarily taken off-line)
-
Sakyadhita International
- Buddhist Women
-
Zen Hospice Project Home Page
-
Buddhist Studies
-
WWW Virtual Library
-
Zen @ SunSITE
-
Website - ancient world thanks to Julia Hayden
-
Archaeology
Sites on the World Wide Web
-
Society for Late Antiquity Courtesy
U of So. Carolina - for serious study of the ancient world
-
Virtual Jerusalem: The Jewish World
From the Heart of Israel
-
JewishGen: The Official Home of
Jewish Genealogy
-
SWFS Jewish Web Links
-
Jewish/Israel
Organizations - Yahoodi - The Next Wave
-
Judaica Collection listing many web sites
-
Paul
Heimbach's Masters Thesis.. A fascinating piece of work, entitled,
"Where the Culture is the Counsel". Subheading- An Appraisal of The
Jewish and Christian Religious Systems and Their Cultures.. To Assess A
Common Counseling Methodology. I am still re-reading.
-
ICARP
- Interactive Central Asia Resource Project... Created in 1995 by Anthony
and Rebecca Bichel, here are original materials and a comprehensive collection
of descriptive links to Central Asia on the Internet.
-
American Indian Country
on the Web: Culture and Education
-
Cherokees
of California This non-profit tribal organization is not affiliated
with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, nor is it a federally recognized
tribal entity. They are banded together as descendants of a common Cherokee
heritage with a primary purpose to preserve and pass on to the next generation
their traditions, history and language. Come. Visit.
-
Maya/Aztec/Inca Center of the
Lords of the Earth
- The MelaNet's Kwanzaa Information
Center educating on the African-American spiritual holiday.
I enjoy a good puzzle - whether crossword or logical - so it's
natural to stop off at some of these. (In Penguin Books "More
Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions" by Martin Gardner, he writes on page 121, "The most popular problem ever published
in the American Mathematical Monthly, its editors recently disclosed,
is the following. It was contributed by P. L. Chessin ...") . . . .
So there ......... try it!! [see the link below, ALPHAMETICS, especially under Lonesome 8] also ...
-
Mathematics
problem Solving Task Centers - Help for Student and Teacher
-
The Puzzle Depot Home
Page
-
A Puzzle &
Brain Teaser Archive
-
MathSoft Puzzle Page
-
Alphametics and Cryptarithms
-
Mike Keith's World of Words,Numbers,and Notes in particular, his
Alphametic Page
-
Interactive Mathematics
Miscellany and Puzzles
- Grey Labyrinth
is another starting point. With many puzzles and connundrum links found here.
-
London
Times CROSSWORDS (needs free user code)
- Jumble-Crosswords Helped - Enter the jumbled or word needing solution.
Each solution word is linked to its definition in Webster's Online Dictionary, so you can be sure you're choosing the word with the correct meaning
-
Christian Science Monitor -
editorials and Crossword
-
WWW Interactive Online
Crossword -- Philadelphia Online
-
Jeopardy on line ! 24 hours a
day !!
-
TheCase.com. Fun and Challenging
Online Mini-Mysteries. Imagine a new Mini-Mystery every day!!! -- All Free
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The WWW offers many opportunities (even to parents) to invite
children's interest in new adventures.
- Fun Science Links
Science Links from the U.K.
-
Bonus.com
=Fun for Children with lots of interesting games and stories (in a
protected environment)
-
Help the Child Learn
Math !!
-
Clay Ford's Curious
and Useful Math HomePage
- ????
More math fun from "Sumfun"
-
Welcome to the World of Cyberkids
!!
-
Great
Sites for Parents and Children courtesy of your Librarian.
-
Resource Links(Canadian
National Journal - for Children)
-
Children's
Literature Web Guide (University at Calgary).
-
Tall
Tales on the Web U.K. based starting point for story-telling worldwide
-- kids of all ages (90 on down) should enjoy this trip ...
-
StoryTelling
Master Index ... and this is another example of the incredible wealth
on the WWW.
-
Homework Help-
K-12 homework.
-
Brain Dancing for Students
- learning how to learn.
-
The Life Savers Candystand
-
The Thinking Fountain
is a Science Learning Network Resource of the Science Museum of Minnesota...
Ever see a square bubble? Want to learn about that? Click here.
-
Family Games - Shareware,
Freeware, Educational Fun For Kids
-
BU's Interactive WWW Games including
TIC TAC TOE from Boston
University
- Bikini.com: Bikinirama -On line passtime for children: dress the model however you choose.
-
The Natural Child Project.
An intriguing website for parents and children, especially the submitted
drawings from kids of all ages, viewable here
-
CRAYON-Create Your Own Newspaper
-
The
Cuddly Collection of ASCII Art - for those who enjoy art created from
ASCII characters (like the OWLS at the top of this page)
-
XEMU'S Ascii Zoo
I've always had an interest in music from the days of "Make Believe
Ballroom" on WNEW to the concerts on WQXR and KE2XCC in Alpine , New Jersey.
-
Original Old Time Radio WWW Pages
-
The Classical Net..... The starting
point for countless hours in the world of Classical Music
-
Classical MIDI Archives ©
1997 Pierre R. Schwob
-
Phil's
Movie & TV Music (MIDI) these files may be downloaded for offline
playing at your pleasure.
-
101 Music
Links and links and LINKS !!
-
The MIDI Mirage!
Here one may find individual MIDIs, pictures, and "Collection" ZIP files
of MIDIs.
- Index
of multimedia/midi sites
- midisites.com
-an Internet Midi Site Listing URLs
????- Classical Music on the
WEB visit here and prepare to be enchanted in a universe of sweet sounds...Especially from the UK Orchestra Net
-
Classical Music Web Ring .. This Ring is a chain of hundreds of classical music web sites. You can jump from site to site, choose a random site or view a list of all the member sites. Orchestranet is a UK activity.
Samples of ethnic music available as well as order forms for purchase. (needs RealAudio) --
- The Jewish Music Home Page
- The Classical Guitar Home
Page
- Live Guide-classical
music stations
You know how difficult it is at time to understand the lyrics of some contemporary songs.
-
The Birdhouse Archive of Misheard Lyrics
is designed to ease that dilemma. --- while ..
- Mondegreen -- contains oodles of them
-
Mel's Drive In
- a remarkable visit.
-
Guide to Online Music using a Snap:Entertainment:Inside Entertainment:Music search engine.
Growing up in Manhattan it was inevitable that one attended the
Broadway shows, Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, etc. In fact, for 2
years I worked as a "concession boy" at Carnegie Hall, dispensing drinks
during intermission, renting binoculars, etc. What a treat to attend the
concerts and get paid !!
- OperaGlass from
the Stanford University web, with detailed information on many operas and pointers to many other opera servers.
- La Scala, Milan where I held a box seat 1975-1977 seasons.
-
The Metropolitan Opera
.....Opera Quiz, Season Schedule, News and Special Events
-
List of
Opera Libretti - Indiana Univ. ... of my "second home" the
San Francisco Opera
-
Gilbert and Sullivan
Archive Home Page
-
Sir Arthur
Sullivan Society Home Page
-
Playbill On-Line
-
Broadway
Hot List
-
Today: New York
City theater scene
-
The
New Season NY Times: on Broadway, and elsewhere
- TheatrePedia
- The East Los Angeles College Theatre Arts Internet Theatre Library of
information.
-
American Variety
Stage ... Lots of nostalgia. (Library of Congress)
Time was when Saturday morning at the local movies for 5 cents.I
remember seeing (hearing) "The Jazz Singer", sitting on my mother's lap.
(Been a movie-goer ever since).
-
Internet Movie Data Base ... This
and the next ..
-
All Movie Guide are great searchable
data bases.
-
Motion Picture Database
-
An easy movie source search
-
Official Star Wars Web Site
-
San Francisco Film Society
-
24 frames per second A
journal of original writing and in-depth review of films & filmmaking
- Roger Ebert on Movies
- One-minute movie reviews
Getting and maintaining good health are important!
-
The Health Page
..... Loads of links to just about anything on the subject. Provided by
the
-
Legal Page
-
American Medical Association ..
its home page
-
AMA- Links to
Other Medical Sites
-
AMA- Health Insight
-
The Multimedia
Medical Reference Library
-
Mayo Clinic page
-
Medical World Search good search
tool
-
Johns Hopkins Health
Information
-
MedicineNet Home
Page For current health facts.
- MedicineNet - Medical Information - MedicineNet is a network of doctors who produce up-to-date health information for the public, in particular, .. .
- MedicineNet - with medical information on Diseases, Treatments, Procedures, Drugs, News and more
-
American Cancer Society
-
American Heart
Association: Home, Health and Family
-
USDA--Food and Nutrition
Information Center
-
Food and Drug Administration Home Page ... Especially - MedWatch-- the FDA Medical Products Reporting Program. An initiative designed to educate on the critical importance of being aware of, monitoring for, and reporting adverse events and problems.
-
Medical-Fast Search
-
drugstore.com
-
PDR.net
-
Healthfinder-- Gateway to
consumer health information
-
YOGA for wellness
-
Office of Alternative Medicine
sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, especially its Mind/Body
Control section has a special interest for me since I had studied and sometimes
practiced hypnosis.
The Museum of Natural History in Manhattan was a walk away and
so visited often. The Metropolitan Museum of Art required a cross-town
bus ride. Big Deal! Museums, the Planetarium, zoos - all were a treat and
FREE! (My apartment in Milano was less than 200 metres from the Museums
of DaVinci and the Naval Arts.)
-
Virtual
Tour of Museums -- plus some additional 300 sites to tour including
Virtual Reality, RealTime Events, Multimedia Exhibits and Journeys
-
Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall
Graffiti as art with over 2,000 images from over 80 international cities.
-
Museums
& Other Arts Related Sites Gateways ..... Getty Education Institute
for the Arts List of many museums
-
The Getty Museum .. The
newly opened museum is a wonderful experience. (Ruth and I visited it when
it was a mere building overlooking Malibu.)
-
Art on the Net (art.net)
-
Welcome to the world
of ART
-
Asian Art Magazine
-- Orientations
-
Museums
of Italy ..... Many Museums including that in the Vatican and that
of ...
-
MoMA The (NYC) Museum of Modern Art
-
SFMOMA SF Museum of Modern Art
-
National Gallery of Art - specifically
the collection
-
Christus Rex
-
Musei
Vaticani
-
Cappella
Sistina
-
British Museum Homepage
-
Louvre WWW
Homepage
-
Charcoal Studies
by
Susan McKean - very interesting examples
-
Asian Museum of Art-SF
-
Salvador Dali Museum Collection in
St. Petersburg
-
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
in Boston
-
World Art Treasures
(Berger)
-
Sanford Ziff Jewish Museum
(Miami)
-
Beth Hatefutsoth - Jewish Museum
- CultureFinder - CultureFinder lets you search for coming exhibits and performances by city and date
- The Andy Warhol Museum Home Page
By way of art, I came across a www site that exhibits visitor created Graffitti on walls supplied by the web owner. These images are downloadable and in some instances make for very attractive wallpaper on the desktop.Other art discoveries, include:
- Modern Masterworks: Home
- Home Page of United Sculptors of America
- Exhibition CALENDAR labelled as "The Official Exhibition Calendar of the World's Leading Art Museums"
And having been first exposed to analogue and then digital all-purpose
computers from 1950 on, I am always interested in examining the more recent
past history --
-
BOB'S
COMPUTER MUSEUM (Links to Computer Museums)
-
Obsolete
Computer Museum
-
Commercial
Computing Museum - Computer History Web Sites
-
IEEE Annals of the History
of Computing
-
Computer History Association of
California (CHAC)
-
Virtual Computer
Library from the University of Texas, which contains loads of links
to computer vendors, user groups, Internet information, books and journals,
and more
Not just an interest derived from Townsend Harris. founder of
my high school, but partly out of curiosity in the country that produced
"Tales of the Genji", I have bookmarked and visited these locations.
-
A Home Page for Japanese Links
-
Kid's Window village
to learn about Japan! Nice intro
- My Furusato - Serious information on Japan and fun too - including an offer to have your name in Japanese characters - e-mailed to you; and more ..
-
Money Origami
Uses ordinary money for paper folding...
-
Homepage of the ukiyo-e
Museum
-
Traditional
Japanese Arts (part of the Japanese American Network, including JA*N
Arts and Culture Page
Incidentally, the Japanese American Network (JA*Net) consists of
a group of Japanese American organizations. It is based in Los Angeles.
One of its goals is to encourage the exchange of information about Japanese
Americans: art, culture, community, history, etc.
I next came across Charles Eicher's
Master MegaList of Japanese Topics. A great jumping-off place.
-
HIROSHIGE ART
MUSEUM
I supposed it's due to having studied History and Latin for 3
years in high school and for 2 more at CCNY that I have maintained an interest
in things ancient and "classical" including mythical and philosophical
.(see reference above to Julia Hayden's website). Works of many of the
classical authors are readily found on the WWW at university sites. Here
are a few: Odes of Horace
,
and his Epodes
,
the poems of Catullus
,
Caesar's Gallic
Wars , and De
Bello Catilinario of Sallust.
-
SALVI - Latin Language Homepage
-
ludus
sanae mentis latin page 1. This links to pages 2,3,4,...
-
Cæsar's
Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars.
-
Pliny's
Epistles as a part of U of Virginia's Electronic
Text Center including its Modern
English Collection
-
Perseus Project Home Page (Tufts).
And in particular ....
-
Texts in
Perseus for Browsing: Latin
-
Aeneid
-
Latin Translator
-
The Internet Classics Archive
Homepage (MIT)
-
The Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World
-
WWW
Medieval Resources
-
Medieval Sourcebook:
Introduction (Fordham)
-
The Online Medieval and
Classical Library -(UC/Berkeley)
-
Labyrinth
Project Georgetown University (an information network providing access
to electronic resources in medieval studies)
-
Mythology Links
and
other things.
-
Myths and Legends
-
Bulfinch's
Mythology, 'The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes'
-
Ancient/Classical
History - Home Page. Here are linkages to ancient Celts, Egyptians,
MesoAmerica and many more. A treasure.
-
Aesop's Fables-
638 fables - some audio
-
Chinese_Mythology
Latin wasn't the only language foreign to me. In the years that
followed high school, I tried others. --
-
A Basic Guide
to ASL (American Sign Language)
-
Indiana University's page on Chinese
- Greeting & Parting
-
BritSpeak
-
The Cockney
Handbook
To me, the English language, written and spoken, contemporary and ancient, is a fascinating subject. Richard Lederer's
- Verbivore is a doorway into the world of - English words - English phrases - --- - while,
- A Word With You -- Every day, this site serves up a cartoon - and - text feature documenting the etymology and evolution of a word or phrase we use today.
Etymology is the study of word origins. A starting point may be Dave Wilton's
- Etymology Page
, and his
- Sources
Need more language insights? Try ...
- Jumble-Crosswords Helped - Enter the jumbled or word needing solution.
Each solution word is linked to its definition in Webster's Online Dictionary, so you can be sure you're choosing the word with the correct meaning.
- Fowler, H. W. 1908. The King's English. - Fowler's "The King's English" is a reference worth consulting.
- Ye Olde English Sayings
- Yahoo! Reference:Quotations
Humor in its different forms keeps one young and on one's toes.
I find so much good humor on the WWW. I like these sites.
-
Rec.humor.funny HomePage and
its companion Best
of Computer, Science and Math Jokes
-
The
King's Page of Humor
-
Fun and Jokes
(Family Friendly Site)
-
The Dilbert Zone Other United Media feature comics here .
-
ComedyCentral Online
-
Gagler's Joke of the Day .. sign
up and have delivered the joke-of-the-day. Caution -- some are blue stories..
-
Joke-A-Day ... Still, another.
-
Humor & FunStuff for
Senior Citizens a neat collection ever-growing
-
RodneyDangerfield
- Late Show with David Letterman - the top 10 ...
-
Jokes Online - Jokes, Jokes
and more Jokes...
Fun and "uplifting" sites have become very popular as web authors
discover how to animate graphics. Some are seasonal (New Year's, Christmas,
even Ground Hog's Day). Sending an e-mail with a site URL is ever increasing.
Here are a few:
-
Kathy's World of Sunshine
and Smiles
-
Joke du Jour a subscription
Information site providing humor. Others either regularly by e-mail or
as a repository to visit:-
-
OHMYGOODNESS - Welcome to our
fantastic world,
-
index to the Original Funnies Page,
or its
-
Nice & Funny, and
-
3 GUYS WHO DRAW
Now, that my I have crossed into the second half of my life, I
am naturally interested in matters for seniors. Here are some focussed
sites I visit from time to time.
-
Age of Reason A resource center
with over 5,000 Links to sites of interest to the over 50+ age group
-
Selected
Sites also of Interest for Seniors
- Selected Sites of Interest for Seniors via SCIP - SCIP is the Senior Computer Information Program for retirees and older adults (Manitoba, Canada). This site is remarkable in its coverage. See also its HomePage
- Administration on Aging -- Information on Older Persons and Services for the Elderly
- Administration on Aging -- Information for Older Persons and their Families
- Age of Reason -- A Senior Citizen resource center with over 5,000 Links to sites of interest to the over 50+ age group.
- Directory of WEB and Gopher Sites on Aging -- New Home Page (AoA).
- Seniors-Site.com -- for adults
50+, their children, and caregivers
See here for its statement of purpose. And here for Humor & Fun Stuff for Senior Citizens
- The Official Elderhostel Home Page
- Exempt Organization Search - IRS - organizations. Here you can find out if the organizations are tax-exempt and to what extent contributions to them are tax-deductible.
-
A Directory of
WEB and Gopher Sites on Aging
-
(US)Federal Reserve Board homepage.
Lots of information on the Board actions, minutes of meetings, consumer
tips.
-
Guide to Understanding
Financials put out by IBM, this is a good treatment my friends return
to whenever there is a question.
-
Investing In
Bonds As I grow more conservative, I look at this vehicle.
-
The Motley Fool , especially for
its treatments on Finance and Folly
-
Cybershopping:
Protecting Yourself When Buying Online .. also put out by the FTC
-
Publications:
Telemarketing .. issued by the FTC
-
Online
Scams: Potholes on the Information Highway .. put out by the Federal
Trade Commission.
-
Crash Course in Wills & Trusts
- estate planning, estate tax, probate, the executor, the power of attorney,
life insurance, long term care insurance, &c.
-
On-Line CookBook
-
Food and Drug Administration
Home Page
- HealthCareReportCards.com.. How does your hospital perform ? Look it up here.
-
Fast Food Facts - Interactive
Food Finder
-
Consumers Connect
- The Free Site -- A good place to find freebies, free stuff, samples...
I found several sites where useful programs are for the downloading
and other things.
- 12-step program for Web Addict Survivors ..
- Nancy
does Windows! Windows95 Tips page I find useful
- AXCEL216's MAX Speeed Windows DOS Tricks, Secrets, Tips, Bugs, Fixes
- Bud's Win95 Win98 Tips and Troubleshooter - This site is a handy resource for Windows 95/98 tips and includes suggestions for troubleshooting some of the more common Windows problems.
- ComputingX HomePage for Tips&Tricks
- W95&98Tips&Tricks
- Fatbrain.com - Online bookstore -specializing in technical books, interactive training and certification - "The Internet's most comprehensive professional bookstore - for the computer person in you.We're the information mecca for technical professionals and specialists in technical, science and business resources."
- W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium.
- NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML (Home Page)
-
Tech Support Guy provides
a mechanism for getting answers to your PC problems. It is the work of
Mr. Michael J. Cermak, Jr.
-
Getting to Know
the Registry Very useful information I found here helped me work out
Windows95 problems
-
PC World's Software Library
-
Desktop
Utilities pc World Software Library -
-
Ask Dr. Internet
-
Upside An on-line daily with news
for computer-ites
-
DOWNLOAD.COM
-
IBM antivirus online .. and the section on IBM antivirus online: scientific papers
-
USPS ZIP Code Lookup
and Address Information
It's fun to send a Greetings Card via e-mail.
-
123 has some excellent choices
-
The Electric
Postcard - MIT
-
Hallmark
-
Greetings Online
-
Postcards Online
-
REGARDS.COM
-
The Palm Beach Post Postcards
-
Virtual Jerusalem
Greetings
- JamNBabe's Greeting Cards
-
Blue Mountain Arts' Electronic
Greeting Cards
-
CarTalk Postcard
Rack
-
ThirdAge
-
Postcards @ Bruin Net
- Warner Bros. WeB Cards .. more e-mailable cards !
-
E-greetings Network with hundreds
of cards in many categories.
Then there are just plain interesting sites.
- How Stuff Works
The Legal World with these ...
- Katsuey Kat's legal links - -- a legal research mega-site for attorneys and law firms to help find Web sites with legal information. The site's dozens of topic areas include medical issues, bankruptcy, estates, legal education, jobs, and public records.
- Behind the Badge -- Inside the World of Law Enforcement Professionals.
- APB 911 News -- Today's Police and Crime News Across the Nation (choose the City, turn up the volume)... (audio).
- Play Food Roulette - Pick the foods you had for each of your meals today, and this site returns the insecticides they probably contained--PLUS the various diseases and defects to which each is linked.
-
Legendary Lighthouses from PBS.
-
The Positive Press for some
Good News every day.
-
The Houshold Cyclopedia -
A "Complete and Practical Library" --- dated 1881. Click on any text
to bring up the Table of Contents.. Enjoy!
-
Mr. Smarty Pants
Knows .. Get your questions answered here !
-
MAZES- - Perplexing
Puzzles
-
For example, A rearrangement servant or ANAGRAM
SERVER
- Anagram Genius
- AnagramFun.com
-
ZD
Acronym Glossary Index
-
Acronym Finder
-
Clear Ink SpellWeb. Not sure
how to spell it? Check here for the "vote"..
-
alt.music.lyrics
Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQ)
-
Foreign Languages (for
Travelers) for learning and travel info.
-
Denise & Rob Rosenberger 's kumite
domain... .. where you'll find "everything you always wanted to
know about virus myths & hoaxes but were too afraid (literally!) to
ask. She offers a biting wit laced with sarcasm. He--offers ... well, he's
a dweeb (but at least he's funny)."
-
Computer
Viruses ... here is an interesting executive overview.
-
CNET.com
- Virus attack! Protect your PC Here are several special reports on
protecting your PC from viruses, hostile Java applets, Trojan horses...
I have directed members of our Computer Club as well as others to review
this information.
-
CNET.com
- Beginner's guide to computing CNET.com - Beginner's guide to computing
-
High School and College Alumni
Database A place to register and to look up high school and college
chums who have.
-
Kasbah A worldwide online travel
guide -
-
dMarie.com - Creative Scrapbook Headquarters
-
dMarie Time Capsule...Enter
a date -- learn what happened!
-
Thor's Golf Links
very
interesting and comprehensive collection.
-
Bad Golfers Association (Thanks,
Jerry G., for pointing this one out to me) --lots of fun--almost as good
as the real thing..
-
Consumer Reports Online
-
National Fraud Information
Center
- Address Directory - Politicians Of The World Herein you will find the mailing addresses for every nation's leaders and provincial governors (almost).
- The Political Graveyard
-- The Web Site That Tells Where the Dead Politicians are Buried.
-
Wine Spectator On-Line -
Wines, Food & Travel
-
Epicurious
Drink File and companion site for FOOD,
DRINK, COOKING AND RECIPES
-
World Wide Scrabble
-
A Place for the DISGRUNTLED
!!
-
Kathy Schrock Guide for
educators --lots of great references, not just for the classroom. (thanks
Gayle for this and the next)
-
El Dorado
County Library's Subject Index An incredible catalogue of information
and the weekly what's hot list mostly for Northern California
Here are several sites on Frank Lloyd Wright. (While a ZBT at Wisconsin,
it was a tradition to make an annual visit to his home at Taliesin).
So click here
to visit an appreciation & resource site ; click here
to view pictures of his architecture. [My late brother-in-law, Robert Adams
McKelvey, was one of his associates].
The University of Minnesota Computer & Information Services Gopher
service which, like the WWW servers, provides access to a vast information
data world: UofMn Gopher Index
has
a link to Fun and Games which in turn opens to Games, Humor, Movies,
Music, and Recipes . The movie reviews, for example, are, typically, drawn
from the Usenet; the recipes from the interested reader (see 3 different
Italian spaghetti sauce recipes).
And here are a few sites I found related to "culture" and education
-
alt.culture: an
a-z of the '90s
-
The
History Ring which leads to many informative sites; or to its homepage .
- Vietnam Veterans Digital Legacy, - Digital Wall.
- Virtual Jerusalem - Timetravel
- Timeline- Jewish History
- Ancient History - slightly misnamed; it actually only covers from 3,000,000 B.C. through 1000 A.D.
-
World Cultures -- An on-line research textbook of world cultures and history. (Washington State University)
- From Fordham University -- Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
-
Encyclopaedia of the Orient Quoting from the opening page of the "
The Encyclopedia of the Orient covers not the Far East, but North Africa and the Middle East. It offers a number of articles--most of them fairly brief--summarizing key points in the history, politics, and culture of the area. The Encyclopedia, created by a Norwegian graduate student, has a basic search engine. You can also browse an alphabetical listing of the site's articles. "
-
The Village Voice Worldwide
-
Resource Center for
Cyberculture Studies RCCS
-
Holidays ..... Interesting audio,
visual, animated site treating many kinds of holidays
-
The Avalon Project
- The Yale Law School:Documents in Law, History and Government
-
The Public
News Server List
-
Back Fence Cat Club
Need
I say more ?
-
A whole bunch of Games - courtesy
Yahoo
- ThirdAge - Living - The Game Room
and NEKO - a delightful kitty-cat....
-
Neko for
Windows 95 Create a window of delightful creatures-prancing to music!
-
Neko Fan Page
;
And, since I bought a digital camera, I am interested
in news on this subject, so I have bookmarked
- Steve's
DigiCam page for the latest news and the "digital photo of the day".
Web cameras (webcams) are now available for allowing the visitor views
renewed frequently -- almost like being there -- and here is a compilation
of such sites :
- Cameras
on the World Wide Web developed by Duane Bristow.
For the Bridge player in all of us ...
-
the Baron&Sheinwold
columns.
-
Bridge Pages
-
Contract Bridge Reading
Resources
-
GREAT BRIDGE LINKS CLASSROOM
-
Finding a Bridge Game
-
Yahoo
Bridge site
-
Online Games
(a
search engine turned up this URL)
I cannot at my age overlook the horror of WW II tragedy- the
holocaust,
nor the era of the blacklist in this country.
-
AMCHA Israeli Centers for Holocaust
Survivors and the Second Generation.
Still haunted by echoes from six decades past, I found a library (a "cybrary") devoted to the
- Holocaust. with documentation and links to movies as well.
-
Virtual
Jerusalem - Yom HaShoah In six sections are ways to commemorate the
Holocaust, study the history of that period, read eyewitness accounts,
and more.
-
Another index of many
documents on the holocaust
-
Adrian Scott &
McCarthy On the blacklist--an account of one of those affected. An
instance of the use of
-
OTAL, U Md facilities at Office Technology
Assist Learning and ... this led to some associated sites.....
-
Larger Index of ftp
documents
-
Policy.com- Home Page For better
understanding of government directions through daily interpretations ...
If you have some favorites you think I might like, or to send other
comments, do write me
[If you find this page interesting enough to warrant returning, here
is a neat way to be informed whenever it is altered.]
Click on one of these links:
- Aftermath - my history
- Recollections (at the end of the IBM career)
- Favorites II (My follow-up to this set)
- Favorites III (My next set of favorite places on the WWW)
- Photos from Project Mercury, 1959
- Nancy's set of useful URLs
..... .
..... .. and some activities involving me,
- Royal Palm Performing Arts Theatre
- Florida Chapter, Townsend Harris Alumni Association
- Computer Club at Poinciana
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