Links

OK, here we go. I've checked all these links, and they were live as of 3-5-2000. If you find any dead ones, please drop me a line. So, in no particular order…

Computers

The Mother of all Computer Enthusiasts?
http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/alf/

Computer Museum
http://www.computer-museum.org/

Eric Raymond's Home Page
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/

UNIX haters
http://catalog.com/hopkins/unix-haters/ls.html

CD-R resources
http://resource.simplenet.com/welcome.htm

Computer Strippers
http://www.serverplus.com/lkhobby/page38.html

Robert X. Cringeley
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/old.html

http://www2.empeg.com/main.html

http://www.adaptec.com/support/files/upgrades.html

http://www.real.com

http://www.vortech.net/rrlinux/

Guide to setting up Road Runner for Linux in Memphis
http://home.midsouth.rr.com/rewt/

Legendary!
http://www1.tomshardware.com/

For the price, you can't beat these tubes. I have a 19-incher.
http://www.proview.net/

Sony Playstation resourses
http://www.modchips.com/
http://www.psx_swiss.awc.ch/english/
http://www.psxmodchips.com/game.html

Classic computing

http://www.poppyfields.oaktree.co.uk/filks/fullindex.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ny/emulatorheaven/emulator2.html

http://goliat.eik.bme.hu/~korn/emulator.html

http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/planet/@index.htm

http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~alexios/MACHINE-ROOM/Sinclair_ZX-81.html

http://members.aol.com/trs80emul/index.html

http://www.honneamise.u-net.com/zx81/

 

Recommended Software

Alchemy Mindworks- graphics tools
http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/alchemy.html

Cat Disk- a life-changing program!
http://www.sentex.net/~rhillier/

Harvest those JPEG files from usenet automatically
http://www.newsrover.com/

Offline mail readers for the Fidonet crowd
http://www.kannoncom.com/~jhanoian/readers/

An X-Tree clone. THE best file manager
http://www.ztree.com/

Huge and active archive. If it ain't here, you don't need it!
http://tucows.direclynx.net/window95.html

 

Betamax Lives!

Remote control cross-index
http://sites.netscape.net/n7r/Beta.htm

Betamax Informer backissues
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Recreation/EMA/Beta/Informer/index.html

Tony's Betamax page
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/7556/betapage.html

Ray Glasser's Ultimate Betamax Guide
http://pages.prodigy.net/handel31/index.html

 

Humor / Fun Stuff

http://www.anagramfun.com/cgi-bin/anagrams.cgi

http://www.hotwired.com/animation/archive.html

ASCII generator
http://users.ai-lab.fh-furtwangen.de/~seyffert/privat/ascii/

http://www.attackcartoons.com/

http://www.pcperspectives.com/hillbillies/index.html

http://www.brunothebandit.com/

http://www.cartalk.msn.com/

The Darwin Awards
http://www.skyhawk.org/darwin.htm

Dave Barry
http://www.herald.com/content/archive/living/barry/content.htm

http://www.dumbentia.com/

Radical & Extreme Hobbies
http://reh42.com/

http://realm.progsoc.uts.edu.au/forest/clans/clanindex.html

http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/ffdex.htm

http://www.haultrek.com/archive.htm

Civil War humor
http://members.aol.com/CintiCWRT/humor.html

http://www.justjoking.com/jokes/archive.asp

http://www.herdthinners.com/

http://www.laughnet.net/multi.htm

The Nations of North America
http://members.tripod.com/draco9/Map.htm

A course in Swedish cursing
http://users.bart.nl/~sante/enginvek.html

http://www.urbanlegends.com/

User Friendly 'toon Recommended!
http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/

http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/cp.htm

Weird Web Site Awards
http://www.2meta.com/april-fools/weekly/

 

Music

Jerry Lee Lewis
http://www.microdin.ru/~allkiller/index.htm

The Nyckelharpa
http://www.nyckelharpa.org/

BBC Worldservice online
http://www.broadcast.com/bbc/

Bluesworld
http://www.bluesworld.com/

CD Creations
http://deweywrightenterprises.baka.com/

The CDDB database
http://www.cddb.com/

Citterns/Mandola page
http://netserver.massmedia.com/~mikeb/cittern/

Citterns On Ice
http://netserver.massmedia.com/~mikeb/cittern/coi2/

Custom Built (Rockabilly, Psychobilly, etc.)
http://www.sci.fi/~mjsalo/

The Dead Media Project
http://www.islandnet.com/~ianc/dm/dm.html

Misunderstood Lyrics
http://www.flash.net/~trevas/index.htm

Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame
http://www.rockhall.com/

Rockabilly Hall Of Fame
http://www.rockabillyhall.com/

Rootsworld
http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/artists.html

All about the Austin, TX Music scene
http://www.ddg.com/AMW/index.html

Garage Bands
http://www.pro-net.co.uk/scaf/garage.html

Wonderful World Of Bagpipes
http://www.mcn.org/2/oseeler/bagpipes/

The Virtual Filksing
http://www.prometheus-music.com/eli/virtual.html

 

Bands/Artists

The Battlefield Band
http://www.rootsworld.com/temple/battlefield.html

Black 47
http://www.black47.com/

Blue Oyster Cult fanclub
http://www.bocfanclub.com/main.html

Doc Watson
http://www.greensboro.com/nronline/projects/doc/links.htm

Ed Miller
http://www.io.com/~edmiller/ed.html

Gram Parsons
http://www.gramparsons.com/gramhome.html

Hasil Adkins
http://members.tripod.com/~Hasil_Adkins/

Joe Bethancourt
http://www.locksley.com/

Shane MacGowan
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~laurence/macgowan.html

Pearls Before Swine
http://users.bart.nl/~cvdlely/pearls.html

The Pogues
http://www.pogues.com/

Pogues II
http://www.dzm.com/pogues/

Steve Earle unofficial site
http://www.steveearle.net/

The Cernettes
http://musiclub.cern.ch/cernettes/

Christy Moore
http://www.iol.ie/~pcassidy/christy.html

The Skels Bar & Grill
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stadium/3952/skel.htm

 

Downloadable Music

Audio Dreams
http://www.audiodreams.com/

Good Noise
http://www.goodnoise.com/

Uncle Frank's MIDI site
http://www.geocities.com/frankschober/

Iuma (also available via FTP)
http://www.iuma.com/

HeardOn (recommended!)
http://www.heardon.com/

MP3 Web
http://www.mp3web.com/

The 800 Pound Gorilla of MP3
http://www.mp3.com/

Extreme MP3
http://www.extreme-mp3s.com/

MP3 Heaven
http://www.mp3mh.com/

In MP3
http://www.in2mp3.com/index3.html

 

Cool record labels

http://www.fatpossum.com/

http://www.rhino.com/

http://www.rykodisc.com/

http://www.shangri.com/

http://www.sundazed.com/

http://yazoobluesmailorder.com/

 

Online music merchants

The 800 Pound Gorilla of online music
http://www.cdnow.com/

Collector's Choice
http://www.ccmusic.com/

Good used/collectible pricing info
http://www.csmonline.com/discoveries/

New and used
http://www.gemm.com

Music locator
http://www.music1search.com/

Keep your vinyl spinning!
http://www.needledoctor.com/

Pierre's Cajun Record Shop
http://www.winningways.com/pierre/index1.html

Essential!
http://villagerecords.com/index.html

 

Favorite radio stations

MS/Windows Media Radio Station Guide

Memphis
http://www.rock103.com/

World's Best Radio Station, Memphis
http://www.wevl.org/

Chicago's Best
http://www.wxrt.com/ontheair/

 

Science Fiction

Amazon.com

http://accpc.com/roswell00.htm

Spooky radio personality
http://www.artbell.com/

Book finding services- good for out-of-print works
http://www.bibliocity.com/
http://www.bookfinder.com/

Coding Errors- Cyberpunk, some decent downloadable fiction
http://www.speed.demon.co.uk/

Cosma Shalizi
http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/

http://www.cthulhu.org/jmc/

Good indie book dealer- Hi Jo!
http://www.edgebooks.com/

History of Filk by Lee Gold
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/3511/filkhist.html

Swarthmore's Filk Archives
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/swil/FILKS/

Authorized John Shirley site
http://www.darkecho.com/JohnShirley.html

John's SF pages (including the infamous Evil Overloard list)
http://www.erols.com/vansickl/scifi.htm

Kay Shapero
http://pw2.netcom.com/~nshapero/index.htm

http://www.necronomi.com/site/

Check this one out!
http://www.scifi.com/

Ditto; a great place to browse
http://sflovers.rutgers.edu/

A pretty good SF links page
http://www.abacom.com/innomagi/online/arts_ent/sciencef.htm

Talk to MegaHAL
http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~hutch/hal/HAL/

The Artemis Project- not SF, except to those totally lacking vision
http://www.asi.org/

The L-Space Web- Terry Pratchett
http://www.us.lspace.org/

The Tea Bowl - A Chatsubo Archive
http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/joel/teabowl/

Virginia Speculative Fiction Project
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/vtsf/

 

Aviation

Luft '46
http://users.visi.net/~djohnson/luft46.html

NASA
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/

Pima Air Museum
http://msrs.mem.net/

NASA Dryden photo gallery
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/index.html

 

Model Rocketry

Online auctions price report
http://members.aol.com/djadamson9/report.html

Generally acknowledged as THE online Rocketry site
http://www.rocketryonline.com/home.shtml

Custom kits
http://www.truemodeler.com/

http://www.awacs.demon.co.uk/pima.htm

Mid-South Rocket Society
http://msrs.mem.net/

National Association of Rocketry
http://www.nar.org/

Tripoli Rocketry Association
http://tripoli.org/

Ye Olde Rocket Shoppe
http://www.imc-ltd.com/rockets/

 

Dilbert

Unauthorized Dilbert (including the First 50!)
http://www.princeton.edu/~srrostum/dilbert.html

The Authorized Dilbert Site
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/

 

Motorsports

Motorsports Hall Of Fame
http://www.mshf.com/index.html

Plymouth's Winged Wonder
http://www.superbird.com/

Allpar- Your one-stop Mopar connection
http://www.allpar.com/index.html

Mopar by models
http://www.allpar.com/model/models.html

The Chrysler Corporation
http://www.chrysler.com

J. Moore's Mopar Links page
http://www.public.usit.net/jmoore/links.html

Word's biggest motorcycle?
http://home.bip.net/bigtoe/index2.htm

European motorcycle links
http://www.micapeak.com/euro-moto/

The Interactive Motorcycle
http://207.168.125.101/default.htm

Knights Of The Riceburner MC
http://members.xoom.com/krmc_2/index.htm

McLagen Motorcycle Links
http://www.bzb.com/sitelist.htm#Motorcycles

Motorcycle City e-zine
http://www.motorcyclecity.com/

Ronnie Cramer's Motocycle Index (recommended!)
http://sepnet.com/cycle/

Highland Motors motorcycles
http://www.highlandmotors.com/

 

Periodicals online

http://www.fray.com/

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/

http://www.almanac.com/

http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/

http://www.sciam.com/

http://www.slate.com/

http://www.irish-times.com/

 

Net Friends

Bob Klahn
http://web.sev.org/rklahn/

David Marheine
http://pages.hotbot.com/arts/hazydave/

Juha Lindroos
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~jtlin/

Nancy Wood
http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/6200/
Nancy's also got a great links page, largely music-related
http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/6200/links.html

Elaine Naiman
http://www.members.home.net/rams-fan29/index.htm

 

Recipes

http://www.cookierecipe.com/

Hot & Spicy!
http://www.mohotta.com/recipe.html

Recipe Box format
http://www.recipebox.com/recipes.html

 

Reference resources

What's In A Name? (Etymology of Names)
http://www.alltogethernow.org/mp/117.htm

Vintage advertisements
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/

Aninal pictures
http://www.best5.net/animal/

Familiar quotations
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/

Locate people and businesses
http://www.bigfoot.com/

Encyclopedia Britannica online
http://www.britannica.com/

Online Celtic Community
http://celt.net/

Charters Of Freedom (Bill Of Rights, etc.)
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/charters.html

Legal self-help
http://consumer.findlaw.com/

Drudge Retort- Samurai political writings
http://www.drudge.com/

What's In A Name? (surnames)
http://clanhuston.com/name/name.htm

Free 'net enyclopedia
http://www.clever.net/cam/encyclopedia.html

http://gnv.fdt.net/~8n1/bookmark.htm

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Hypertext dictionary/gateway
http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster

The Mad Scientists Network- great stuff!
http://www.madsci.org/

What's playing at Malco theatres?
http://www.malco.com/nframes2.html

Maps
http://www.mapblast.com/mapblast/start.hm

More maps
http://www.mapquest.com/

Quotes related to Microsoft
http://i-want-a-website.com/about-microsoft/quotes.html

All about Neanderthal Man
http://www.iinet.net.au/~chawkins/heaven.htm

History of the 'net
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2260/

Project Gutenberg- if it didn't exist, we'd have to invent it!
http://www.promo.net/pg/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict

Rhyming Dictionary
http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/dougb/rhyme-doc.html

Roget's Thesaurus
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html

The Yellow Pages (Sunshine Pages)

Locate people and businesses
http://www.switchboard.com/

Terraserver satellite images (Olive Branch,MS)

Yet another Etymology of Names site
http://www.pacificcoast.net/~muck/etym.html

"The Past Into The Future"- History of all sorts
http://www.historyplace.com/index.html

Universal currency converter- An Essential Site!
http://www.xe.net/ucc/convert.cgi

UPS shipping calculator
http://www.ups.com/using/services/rave/rate.html

Web Ring Home Page
http://www.webring.com/

 

Classic video games

http://www.classicgaming.com/

http://www.digitpress.com/

http://www.videogames.org/

 

Misc. links I personally find interesting

'cuz of Bobby, our son
http://www.army.mil/
http://www.bliss.army.mil/homepage/html/fbhome.htm

Opinions expressed there not necessarily my own…
http://www.dixienet.org/

http://www.fbi.gov/homepage.htm

All about Tartan
http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/index.htm
Find your Tartan!
http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/tfinder.htp

No relation.. ;-)
http://genforum.genealogy.com/mcbroom/
http://mcbrooms.com/index.htm

http://www.atomicmuseum.com/

Political skeletons in the closets
http://www.realchange.org/index.htm

Our house from orbit!

X-Tree Fan club
http://xtfp.arkanda.net/

Opinions expressed there not necessarily my own…
http://www.yall.com/

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