Link Central
LAST UPDATED 2002SEP05
sandro@sandweb.org
http://sandweb.org/
TEL: 281 648 3964
FAX: 281 992 0658
Sandro
- My information, misc items.
- The SandWEB (Sandro Sarang)
- Not much here, some weird geek ^_^
206.129.46.44
- AT&T Personal Page
- Just a redirect to sandweb.org.
- Calendar Schedule (Monthly)
- Brief monthly schedule.
Email
- @sandweb.org
- Primary account.
- @nhmccd.edu
- Work account.
Work
- NHMCCD
- North Harris Montgomery Community
College District.
- NHMCCD IT
- NHMCCD department.
AI
- Jason Wilkins (Fenix)
- Game developer, originally in Artistic
Intuition working on Caelius.
- Jan Lipponen (Lippis) [FI]
- Finnish programmer,
worked at Artistic Intuition.
http://rieska.oulu.fi/~lippis/eindex.html
- DJGPP
- 32-bit C compiler for DOS
- Getting DJGPP
- Download sites for DJGPP
- Interim Helpdesk Services
- My current company, computer consulting work.
- UT Society of Physics Students
- If you're into physics at UT-Austin.
- UT Japanese Culture Club
- Fun cultural learning club.
AlphaWorld
AW Forums
- AlphaWorld Discussion Center Home Page
- Like a PTA meeting, just online.
- Announcements
- New sites and developments at AW.
- Tips && Tricks
- Getting the most out of AW.
- Chat
- A more intense PTA meeting.
- Personals
- Like single parents, after the PTA meeting.
- The Reunion
- The New World Times: Virtual Reality's Newspaper
- Active Worlds
- Worlds, Inc.
- Makers of AW.
- Colony Alpha
- New AW zone, nice sci-fi setting.
- AlphaWorld Tribe Page
- Powwow AW.
- Far Out! AlphaWorld
- Sopwith's AW docs, including AW Zone info.
- AWAtlas
- The premier geographic listing of all AW sites.
People
- Marko Aalto [FI]
- Programming buddy at AI, in Finland.
- Walter Amos
- Engineer and otaku, does space trajectory
work (2001) for USA/NASA.
http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/
upgrades/tsup.html
- Scott F. Barnes [CA]
- Designer, web worker.
- Zev Blut
- UT anime/JCC buddy, hosted the JCC page, JCC president after me, good friend.
- Heather Champ
- Good designer
- Chung-Mau Cheng
- Excellent artist, does anime style too. Into anime and graphic design, advertising, etc, good friend.
- Ben Ettinger
- Eclectic friend from Austin/Houston.
http://tky.hut.fi/~otakut/anime/index.html
- James Garvin
- Austin, Japan, OMC.
- Monty and Mary Garza Wedding
- Tiffany Grant
- Actress and voice actress, mainly for
AD Vision, Houstonian.
- Chris Gulker
- Hmm, cool cat.
- Natalie Haskell
- Cool programmer at work.
- Marc Hernandez
- Anime/Japanese culture fan, RTF major, fencer, good friend.
Also:
http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/~hikaru/
More...
- " ADD_DATE="865861184" LAST_VISIT="869517599" LAST_MODIFIED="865860953">Boris Nepomnichy
Russian genetics grad at Baylor in Houston, known him since 8th grade.
- Hiroyuki Hironaga
- Anime/manga fan, UT buddy, budding webworker.
- Amy Howard-Wilson
- Voice actress, kind and friendly lady,
most known as "Nova" on Starblazers.
- Hikarou Itou [JP]
- Ex-anime debater buddy from the Nausicaa-ML.
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~TL7H-ITU/index.html
- Jennifer Larkin
- CFer out in California.
- Lee Latimer
- Friend in Austin.
- Mark Mavromatis
- Japanese culture fan, CS friend at UT,
now in Japan.
- Boris Nepomnichy
- Friend since the 8th grade. Russian, scientist, yeah he's weird.
- Nick Sadza
- HAM radios and airplanes.
- Karin Sagendorph
- Equestrienne in Kentucky, good friend.
- Cloyce Spradling
- CS/anime/Japanese culture fan, good friend.
- Matt Thorn
- Shoujo manga specialist.
- Jason Wilkins
- AI pres., anime fan, Final Fantasy fan.
Belize
- The World Factbook page on Belize
- The Home Page of Belize (Paul Lin)
- Belizean page from a native
- Belize's Virtual Mall
- Belize, adventure, rain forests, maya, Belize, Belize, Belize.
- Belize resources
- Belize Online Tourist Guide
- Main Belize page (mainly tourism)
- Rec.Travel Library -- Central America
- Newsgroup files on WWW
- BelizeCentral
- "First Internet Community for Belize!"
- Unbelizeable
- Blease From Belize
- Belize immigration, retirement,
addresses, map, travel and culture.
- Belize Forums
- Great discussion site for
Belizean topics.
Misc.
TI-92
- TI-92 Graphing Calculator
- The Ultimate TI-92 Page
- Unoficial Calc-TI FAQ
- Prices of TI-92
- David/Ahmad Talks
- Interesting candid communiques between
an Israeli college student and a Lebanese
peer.
- cynsa beans
- Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Snorkler's Sanctuary
- Peter Cochrane
- Cool techhead over at British Telecom.
- InvenSys
- UltraCorps
- Pacific Coast
- Really good down pillows and comforters.
- Welcome to #GNNChat, Home Of The Dedicated Betatesters!
- eBay Auction Classifieds
- Mark & Cindy's Wedding
- MapQuest! Interactive Atlas
- ProNet Communications
- University of Houston Distance Education
- OnLive! Technologies Home Page
- The DataHaven Project
- Cool privacy-based ISP.
- Mr. Showbiz Personal Page
- Hotwired Login
- Online Magazine
- Hotwired Renaissance: 96/07
- WWW User Survey Identification Form
- 24 Hours In Cyberspace / Home Page
- IRC Related Documents
- Project 2: The Inter Relay Chat as a Vitrual Community
- Kybernetes Conference: The Decade Of The Brain.
- The Spot: JUNE 1995
- http://www.inforamp.net...pop/discography/v2.disc
- Mundaka Upanishad
- Interesting Hindi philosophies.
Search/Info
- Searching, food, travel, science, business, reading, general info, sources, etc.
Search
Specialized
- List of USENET FAQs
- Alphabetized too!
- DejaNews
- News searcher.
- On-line Dictionaries
- Includes specialized and multi-lingual.
http://www.bucknell.edu:80/~rbeard/diction.html
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
- WebCrawler : Reference : Dictionaries
- AltaVista: Translations
- Nifty word and simple phrase translator
to and from English, Romance languages,
and German.
- Pegasos [FI]
- Literature resource, lots of info about
authors.
- FedWorld
- Information about the U.S.
federal government.
- FirstGov
- Official website for searching the
U.S. Government.
- American Universities
- Full list of Amer. Univs. on WWW
- The World Factbook
- Publication of the CIA.
- Population Reference Bureau
- All the stats you could want about
the human race.
- Time Zone Converter
- Look how the time flies.
- Telephone Area Code Finder
- In numerical order and alphabetical
by state (with local breakdown).
- Areacode-Info
- Thorough resource on area codes.
- Universal Postal Union
- Tips on doing international mailing.
- Handspeak
- A Sign Language Dictionary Online
- Guinness World Records
- WhoWhere
- People finder.
- Time And Date
- Global time data, customizable.
- Lawoffice
- Legal knowledgebase and a
legal professional directory.
- Internet Movie Database
- Ringtones [UK]
- Spice up your cell phone.
- World Flag Database [UK]
- Fairly up-to-date, some
info about the countries too.
- American Presidential Candidate Selector
- Very cool, shows which candidates most
closely match your views, even does
comparisons.
- Wristwatch.com
- Great site, friendly sales and
customer service people, tons
of selections from all brands
and low prices.
- UT Electronic Directory
- Faculty, staff and students at UT, links to world
- SalesCircular
- Compare prices for retail store sales all
over the US.
- Mobot
- The Motherboard Search Engine
Motherboard HomeWorld
- c|net Shareware.Com
- The Software Sharing Resource Library
- Gamelan Java
- The Electric Library
- IBM InfoMarket
- The WAV Place
- Nice site, tons of wav sounds for various
purposes.
- E-Zine List
- John Labovitz's e-zine-list, pretty thorough,
but not absolutely reliable because it
requires submission.
- Ahoy! The Homepage Finder
- Face it, we're all webbed, and this puppy will find you.
- Liszt: Searchable Directory of e-Mail Discussion Groups
- MLs (mailing lists) and related links.
- Classifieds2000
- For sale/Want to buy
- Ancestors on the web -- genealogy and family history
- USA CityLink (Neosoft)
- Full list of Amer. cities on WWW
- Nerd World Media Internet Subject Index
- Amazing Environmental Org. WebDir
- PSC Weather Center
- Fast weather engine
- The HayNet
- Horses.
- Belize Business E-Mail And Website Directory
- People and businesses.
- COMMA Hotlist Database - Subject Search
- UK general database
- NumberQuest (Numeric Life Reading)
- Very comprehensive multi-reading.
OLD:
http://www.sun-angel.com/interact/numquest/
numquest.html
- Efficiency comparison of search engines
- Some search engine research.
- Infoseek Ultra: Special Searches
- Infoseek's best.
- MetaCrawler
- Good multi-engine searcher.
- MetaCrawler w/ added vals.
- Good multi-engine searcher, this link includes some keys and vals.
- Alta Vista
- Digital's puppy.
- SavvySearch
- General topicalized search engine scans several search sites at once.
- Excite
- Lycos
- Respected database
- Open Text
- ProFusion
- Multi-search engine.
- Google!
- Nicely designed crawling search engine.
- Infoseek
- WebCrawler
- Infospace
- Lycos A2Z
- AccuFind
- HotBot
- Wired's puppy.
- Yahoo
- The well-known directory, though not as great as it's hype in my opinion.
- Magellan
- W3 Servers
- WWW Business Yellow Pages
- UH database
- WWW Yellow Pages (New Rider)
- Respected database
- Starting Point
- W3 Search Engines [CH]
- Original topicalized multi-searcher
- WWWW - the WORLD WIDE WEB WORM
- Original worm
- Entries to WHO's On-line [IT]
- 100 Hot Websites
- Airs II
- Argus/Univ. of Mich. Clearinghouse
Education
- World Lecture Hall
- Univ. of Texas' collection of online lectures
and other submissions, covering dozens
of fields and subjects.
- Distance Education
- University of Maryland University College
- Kennedy-Western University
- University of Phoenix Online
- Mainly business degrees (undergrad and
grad, as of June '98), but pretty nicely
done.
- ZDNet University
- American Universities
- Full list of Amer. Univs. on WWW
- Journey Ed
- Academic software discounts.
- Microsoft Training & Certifications
- Complete listing of certificates
and requirements.
- Dave's MCSE Page
- Tips and notes to pass the MCSE exams.
- Braindump: MCSE & CNE Home Page
- Lots of tips and help for studying and
passing MCSE/CNE. Informative,
but a bit formal and falls back on the
MS staples.
- MCSE MCSD Braindump Heaven
- Lots of tips and help for studying and
passing MCSE/MCSD. Informative and
friendly.
- Gamasutra - Education
- Covers game dev schools, working
and developing in the game industry.
- BrainPlay
- Learning software, videos and toys.
- Christopher Calder
- Articles and editorials about meditation
and related concepts.
- Taijiquan
- Good introductory page on the martial
arts.
- Philliping History Group of Los Angeles
- Small but interesting collection of articles.
- How To Animate
- "Animation Resources for Artists
and Animators"
Food
- USDA Nutrient Database
- Cool site, searchable db, nutrition info
on a lot of foods.
- World-Wide Sushi Restaurant Reference [AU]
- cybermeals
- Order take-out and delivery online.
- NetGrocer
- EPICURIOUS
- CuisineNet
- Roadfood
- User reviews of local eateries on the
highways and back roads of America.
Quantity and quality vary by location,
could come in handy on long trips.
- Natural Food Hub
- Good info and editorials on natural foods.
- Low Carb FAQ
- Looks at all the plans and basics,
good overview.
- Texas LowCarb
- Lots of links and discussion,
mailing list, etc.
- Carb/Fiber Food Chart
- Good for carb counting, helpfully includes
fiber count and summation too.
- Low Carb Grocery
- Low carb goods for low carb diets.
- Osolo
- Low carb muffins, etc.
- RamenCity
- A million varieties, okay prices.
- Turkish Cuisine [TR]
- Good selections, some tough recipes.
- Internet Bartender's Guide
- Thorough, lots of sources.
- Webtender
- Great drinking site, lots of variety.
- Shrine To Spirits
- Exhaustive assay of all types of
spirits (the kind that is imbibed).
http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/people/nieminen/spirits.html
- Virtual Vineyards
- Your Personal Food & Wine Shop
- Wine Alley
- Global wine consumer info and exchange site.
- Cocktail
- Dover Sole
- Flounder-related fish.
- Eats Mesquite Grill
- Great hot lunches, Greenspoint area.
- Fuddruckers
- Houston's
- Luther's BBQ
- Olive Garden
- Pappas Restaurant
- Red Lobster
- Ruth's Chris Steakhouse
- Trail Dust Steakhouse
- StickyRice
- "For People who eat Sushi"
- Austin USENET Guide to Sushi
- The Official Pho Page
- Pho-get about it!
Ouch, that hurt.
- Singapore food
- Hawaii Seafood Buyers' Guide
- In-depth detail on mainstream Pacific fish and
Hawaiian preparations.
- Kirin (Ichiban Numer One!) [JP]
- The beer, not the mythical creature, although maybe if you drink enough of it...
- Shiner
- The best beer from Texas.
Travel
Services
- US State Dept - Travel Warnings & Consular Information Sheets
- Official info that is moderately updated and
provides some helpful tips and specific
data for travel to other countries.
- Microsoft Expedia
- TravelWeb
- Good regionalized search for hotels, motels, etc
- Best Fares Magazine
- WebFlyer
- Travelocity
- Flifo
- Chubb Expatriate Insurance
- Good coverage and rates for insurance abroad.
- Internet Travel Network
- The Trip.Com
- biztravel.com
- Preview Travel: Farefinder
- Transportation Resources
- Air, ground and water transport.
- The Transportation Directory
- If it's bus or rail in the US, you'll find it here.
- Rodale's Scuba Diving
- Best scuba mag out there,
comprehensive reviews and info.
- Divers' Discount Supply
- Lots of products, decent prices.
Maps
- PCL Map Collection
- San Francisco Overview Map
- MapQuest!
- Vicinity
- JustMap [JP]
- Japanese street map service, not much
english though.
Lodging
- All Hotels
- Best Western
- Choice Hotels
- Comfort Inn, Econo Lodge, Clarion Hotel, Quality Inn, Rodeway Inn, etc.
- Days Inn
- Embassy Suites
- Four Seasons
- Hampton Inn
- Hilton
- Howard Johnson
- Holiday Inn
- Hyatt
- La Quinta
- Marriott
- Courtyard, Residence Inn, Fairfield Inn, and
Ritz-Carlton sites.
- Omni
- Radisson
- Red Roof
- Renaissance
- Sheraton
- Super 8
- Travelodge
- Westin
Air
- Aeromexico
- Aer Lingus [IE]
- Air Canada [CA]
- Air France [FR]
- AirTran
- Formerly Valujet.
- Air India
- America West
- American Airlines
- British Airways
- Cayman Airways [KY]
- China Airlines
- Continental
- Delta
- Grupo Taca
- Includes Taca, Aviateca, Lacsa and Nica.
Spanish and English pages.
- KLM [NL]
- Korean Air
- Lufthansa
- Mexicana
- Northwest
- Singapore Air
- Southwest Airlines
- Official Southwest Airlines site
- Swissair
- TWA
- United
- US Airways
- Virgin Atlantic
- Western Pacific
Auto Rental
- Alamo
- Auto Europe
- Avis
- Budget
- Hertz
- Kemwel
- National
- Thrifty
Rail and Bus
- Amtrak
- Rail Europe
- BritRail
- Greyhound Lines, Inc.
- Walkabout Travel Gear
- Gear and travel tips.
- Motorcycle Safety
- Loads of tips and extra info you don't
get in classes.
- The World Factbook
- Publication of the CIA.
- CityNet Atlanta
- Yahoo Atlanta
- Goa Interactive
- Goa, one of my favorite spots in the world.
- Oguz Turk
- Lots about Turkish culture.
- Los Angeles Convention Center
- Home of E3 every May.
- San Francisco Reservations
- San Francisco Bay Area Guide
- 'Frisco Neighbourhood Guide
- 'Frisco Guide
- Prism
- San Francisco culture.
- Lochness
- Good collection of info about the area, mainly
targeting monster hunters (web cam included).
- Caldey Island [UK]
- Tiny island off South Wales near Pembroke,
Tenby and St. Margaret's. Run by Cistercian
monks.
- Donnybrook Royal Hotel [AU]
- On the Great Western Highway at
Bowenfels in Lithgow, Australia.
5km from Lake Lyell.
John and Cathy Pillans
Phone: (02) 63513063
Fax: (02) 63531805
Vehicles
- Kelley Blue Book
- Online blue book for new and used vehicles, very straightforward and easy,
plus extra links you wouldn't find in a
paper version.
- cars.com
- New and used vehicles, specs, pricing,
evaluations, reviews, financial info.
- Motorcycle Home Page
- Cool site about motorcycling. Simple
layout, lots of info.
- Mazda [JP]
- VMR Auto Guides
- Used cars, collector car and truck market.
Lots of info and up-to-date pricing, vehicles
dating back to 1946.
- The Unofficial Toyota Trucks Homepage
- Toyota HiLux, Toyota Tacoma, Toyota T100, and Volkswagen Taro. Thorough
review, used purchase guidelines, other
links.
- Toyota T-100 All-Models Forum
- Nice discussion site for T-100 owners.
- The Bimota Tesi
- License Plates
- Global, lots of pics and local info.
Mail/Shipping
- United States Postal Service
- UPS
- FedEx
- DHL Worldwide Express
Weather
- The Weather Channel
- The Weather Channel - Your Home Page
- NOAA's National Weather Service
- The Weather Visualizer
Apartments
- Rent Net
- AptLine
- Apt. Blue Book Online
- Apartments For Rent Online!
- Your Internet Apartment Resource!
- AllApartments
- ABreak4Students
Science
Quaternion
- Quaternion
- Doing physics with quaternions
- Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math - Quaternions
- New Scientist
- News, jobs and more from the leading
weekly science magazine.
- NanoTechnology Magazine
- Good news, info and updates on the
nano industry and research.
- Nano Letters
- From the American Chemical Society.
- John C. Lilly [JP]
- Mind research, interspecies communication,
cool guy.
- Photonic Band Gap/Photonic Crystals
- The Ultimate Collection of
Photonic Band Gap Research Links
More than 800 links on Photonic Crystals
related resources on the Web
- CAM-Brain [JP]
- Dr. Hugo de Garis' artificial neural project,
in Kyoto, Japan. Pretty frontier stuff (1999).
- FAQ - Red Tide
- Micromachine Center [JP]
- Good technical info about research in
the field.
- Measurement Units Translation
- Very versatile measurement converter,
covers almost all forms of measurement.
http://www.mplik.ru:8081/~sg/transl/
- NIST Internet Time Service
- Set your computer clock to atomic time.
- SETI@home
- Massive project allowing anyone to
use the internet and a client program
to help SETI in it's search.
- NEAR
- Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
Analyzing asteroid Eros.
- Popular Science
- The classic among science enthusiasts.
- International Societ For Transcranial Stimulation [CH]
- Gerard 't Hooft [NL]
- Theoretical physics prof,
interesting ideas.
- Brain Actuated Technologies, Inc.
- Human/machine communications through
mental electrical interface.
- Astronomical Lists and Plots
- Comets, planets, asteroids and related astronomical items and data.
- Mars Missions
- Contacting the Bomb Makers
- Singalex Song's records of his contacts
with the people surrounding the creation
of the nuclear bomb, and other famous
people.
- Howletts and Port Lympne Wild Animal Park
- Webcams let you look around at this zoo.
- Yahoo - Science:Physics
- The Yahoo collection
- The Live Alife Page [framed]
- NASA
- American Institute of Physics HomePage
- The main guys in Physics
- NanoHome
- Nanotechnology
- Fish Information Service (FINS) Index
- CTC - Visualization - Animations
- Cool scientific animations
Medical
- onHealth
- Good general site, has an online medical
dictionary.
- Scott Sabolich Prosthetic & Research Center, L.L.C.
- Specializing in leading edge technology
to better serve the amputee.
- Society for Human Sexuality
- Everything you ever wanted to know.
- Understanding Male Sexuality
- Nice primer on the topic.
- Finding Healing from Carpal Tunnel and other RSI's
- Herb Research Foundation
- Herbs and Herbal Medicine for Health
- USDA Nutrient Database
- Cool site, searchable db, nutrition info
on a lot of foods.
- Orchid
- Leader in the development and
commercialization of genetic diversity
technologies, products and services.
- American Diabetes Organization
- The official site, lots of info and resources.
- Survive Diabetes
- Good site by an insulin-dependent diabetic,
looks at different approaches and
understandings.
- Caffeine
- The most evil drug of all.
Business
Consumer
- Consumer World
- Council of Better Business Bureaus
- Federal Trade Commission
- Natl. Assoc. of Sec. Dealers Reg.
- Natl. Fraud Info. Center
- Sec. and Exch. Commission
- U.S. Dept. of Justice
- Consumer Info
- Useful CreditCheck Monitoring Service, uses Experian (TRW) to get your credit report.
- Equifax
- Good credit report service.
- Experian
- Good credit report service, formerly TRW.
Stocks
- Netstock Direct
- Public companies offering stock for direct sale.
- Quote.com Stock Quotes
- Free 20 Minute Delayed Quote Watch
- E*TRADE Quotes Page
Articles
- TV System Comparison
- 03/24/97 THE BEST PERFORMERS
- 02/19/96 ELITE TEAMS GET THE JOB DONE
- TQM Japan-America
- Comparison of West and East
Employment
- Monster
- The Online Job Search Companion
- Pam Dixon's helpful compilation of
resources.
- JobOptions
- HotJobs
- Recruiters Online
- Not just for recruiters, it has a searchable
job database too.
- BIG6 Search International, Inc.
- "ERP, CRM, SFA, SCM, EAI, DW,
B2B careers". A bit limited in content.
- Big 5 Friends
- Seems related to BIG 6, but friendlier.
- ZDNet Job Tips
- Helpful tips from the techie news site.
- Laid Off Workers
- Good tips and strategies to handle the more pressing issues in that situation.
- Bank Rate Monitor
- Updated CDs, money markets, rates, net deals, etc.
- The Universal Currency Converter(tm)
- MoneyAdvisor | Financial Calculators
- Auo loans & leasing, loans & savings, general financial, mortgage, insurance,
tax, sunrise/sunset, weight & temp.,
measurement.
- Japan Quarterly [JP]
- ITOCHU's econobiz online mag.
- Daiwa's Corporate Information Bank [JP]
- Financial info on Japanese companies, mainly supplied by the companies themselves, so caveat emptor.
- FT Info, News Review, World News Review
- The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition
- CNNfn - the financial network
- Yahoo! Internet Life: Incredibly Useful Sites -- Money
- Robb Report
- "Magazine for the Affluent Lifestyle"
When you want to buy an island...
- Telecom Information Resources
- Financial Services Online
- Bank One
- Fidelity Investments
- Ford Motor Company
- Open China-Commerce Home Page
- FV: Home Page
- First Virtual bank on the web
- NetBank, Home of NetCash
- Merchant/client virtual financing
- CommerceNet Home
- BuyersZone
- Realtor
- The Internet Fax Server
- Limited numbers currently available
- SSA Home Page
- Accounting/Finance Info on the Web [UK]
- Yahoo - Business and Economy
Literature
- Writers Guild of America
- Pegasos [FI]
- Literature resource, lots of info about
authors.
- Crafty Screenwriting
- Good tips for good screenwriting.
- NYScreenwriter Features
- Info on the overall screenwriting process,
from conception to the deal.
- BookSense
- Connecting to local independent bookstores.
- Amazon.com
- Earth's Biggest Bookstore.
- Humanoids Publishing
- Lots of European graphic novels, Moebius,
etc.
- Mars Import
- "An Online Comic Book Store Selling
Quality Comics"
Lots of foreign titles, some translated.
Yslaire, Balac, etc.
- The Internet Classics Archive
- Margaret Weis
- Tracy Hickman
- Orson Scott Card
- Orson Scott Card on Programming
- Humor piece on programming from one of the best writers on Earth
- Douglas Adams
- Hitchhiker's Guide helped make me the way I am
- Joe Haldeman
- The Forever War is a classic
- Stephen King
- Horror novelist.
- Jade
- Hilarious writer, does articles for
Ars Technica, interesting site.
- The H.P. Lovecraft Library
- Includes full texts and related resources.
- The Mystery of Death
- Quotations from the ages about death.
- Tao Te Ching Translations
- Different approaches and understandings.
- The Violent World of Parker
- The Parker novels by Richard Stark
(AKA Donald E. Westlake)
- Synopsis Of Crane-Iron Pentalogy
- Wang Du Lu's wuxia series, from which
Ang Lee made Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon.
- The Book And The Sword
- A Jin Yong wuxia epic,
basis for a Tsui Hark film.
- Asian American Writers' Workshop
- The Hugo Awards
- The Nebula Awards
- The World Fantasy Awards
- The J.R.R. Tolkien Information Page
- Very thorough site of the author's works.
- A Tolkien Dictionary
- Taken from the indexes of The Lord Of The Rings and The Silmarillion. Lots of etymology.
Robert Ireland
corsair9@ao.net
- Middle Earth Science Pages [DE]
- Tolkien Dwarvish Language
- The khuzdul of the khazad.
- The Tolkien Society [UK]
- Charity group in the UK that furthers interest
in the life and works of Tolkien.
- Tolkien Enterprises
- The group that handles the licensing of
Tolkien's work for books, films and
other products.
Digital Photography
- Greenough's Digital Camera Index
- Collection of links to reviews, info and news.
- Imaging Resource
- Digital Cameras, Photography, Imaging Software, & Image Scanners
- Steve's Reviews
- DC Resource
- PCPhotoREVIEW
- DP Review
- Megapixel.net
- Oakley
- Excellent sunglasses.
- Man Ray Photos
- Official Man Ray photo site.
- Our Gift
- Floral delivery service that gives part of its revenues to charities.
- CIA, US IC, CSI
- Not much here, some weird geeks
- First Nations/First Peoples Issues
- The Holy See (The Vatican)
News/Ent
- News sources, music, film, TV, humor, etc.
Music
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Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, no they're not blind
Lyrics
- The International Lyrics Server
- The Archive Of Misheard Lyrics
- Funny database.
- Warped Little World's Lyrics
- Good collection, mostly recent and classic
pop and rock.
- Macross Plus Lyrics
- Good site for the soundtrack songs.
Also try Lord Adam's Sharon Apple Shrine: http://members.xoom.com/LordAdam/
- Neil Diamond
- The most complete Neil Diamond lyrics
collection I've found yet (as of Jan '99).
- On Your Mark [JP]
- Chage & Aska song with video by Studio Ghibli.
- Against All Odds
- A Whiter Shade Of Pale
- Brothers In Arms (Dire Straits)
- Danny Boy
- Feelings
- Georgia On My Mind
- He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
- Done by the Hollies, Neil Diamond, Bill
Medley, Cher, and many others.
- Hey Jude
- Le Temps Des Cerises [NO]
- Good background info on the Paris
Commune song.
- I Will Always Love You
- The One
- Sugar Tax (OMD)
MIDI
- Laura's MIDI Heaven
- Great selection, variety, lots of classics.
- Robin's Italian Music Site
- "in loving Tribute to Tesoro Mio, Giorgio!!"
Lots of MIDIs of Italian pieces.
- Kristin Chai's MIDI FILES
- J-pop, J-drama, English pop, Chinese.
- Videogame Music Archive
- Mostly MIDI (about 4,000 as of June '98)
plus some MP3 and other formats. Also
has the Videogame Encyclopedia, which
is trying to compile a complete game list
with links to related music at that site.
- General MIDI Files (GM) at the MIDI Farm
- Really good collection, nicely organized,
great selection.
- MIDI SONGS
- Small selection, nice choices though.
- Index of /~mkruse/modmidi
Musicians
- The Cemetery Of Rock
- Keep track of the falling stars.
- Helene Grimaud [NL]
- Classical pianist.
- SW - Sadao Watanabe
- CD Universe's discography of the best
alto sax musician I know.
- SW - The Sadao Club
- Japanese/English fan site for
Sadao Watanabe.
- SW - AMG All Music Guide
- AMG's layout on Sadao Watanabe.
- Vangelis
- By the man himself!
- OMD
- Official site with links to fan sites.
- U2
- Pleeker's @U2, nice layout and content.
- Nav Katze
- Funky Japanese gods
- La'Cryma Christi
- Japanese rock, English site.
- Erasure
- Rather gay gods
- Depeche Mode
- Moody gods
- Enya
- Goddess
- Dire Straits
- My brothers in arms
- Pink Floyd
- I'd shake their hands but I'm so comfortably numb, besides, I'm just another brick in the wall anyway;
oh that was so bad
- Ennio Morricone
- God of film music, try "For her, for him" and "Act of Faith" in "Bugsy"
- Morrissey
- Insecure god.
No Dad, I Won't Be Home Tomorrow:
A Smiths And Morrissey Website
Good coverage, lots of tidbits.
Mirror of:
http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~moz/
main.htm
- Cure
- Crying gods
- Bruce Springsteen [SE]
- Webring of Boss sites.
- Billy Joel
- Elton John
- Saito Kazuyoshi
- At BMG WEB SITE : FUN HOUSE.
Japanese folk/rock singer, one of the
older bunch, still popular.
- Robyn
- The official page, in English and Swedish.
- Thieves Like Us
- Cool group starting out in San Diego.
Has guitarist Scott Yuen, formerly of
Cool Sense/Plan Blue/raj factor/tomgirl/
love vigilantes.
- The Autumns
- Mari Iijima
- Japanese pop idol and voice actress,
best known for Macross' Lynn Minmay.
- Ron Hubbard
- C64 sound programmer,
genius electronic sound guy,
lots of game tunes.
Stores
- Recordings Unlimited
- Lots of UK and Japan versions, vinyl, etc.
- RedTech Music Store
- Piano books for anime and Japanese
games, lots of Square and Miyazaki
works, plus other goodies.
- Imar Online
- Store for Asian music, pretty good
selection and service. Cantonese,
Taiwanese, Mandarin pop, folk music,
soundtracks, etc.
- Asia CD
- US store, small J-pop selection.
- Mobile Fidelity
- Makers of 24k gold-plated CDs of
certains albums, high quality sound.
- Tower Records
- Good selection, shop around on prices
though.
- CD Universe Lobby
- Blockbuster Entertainment
- Music123
- Price quotes by email, great deals.
(Yamaha S80)
- Tweakophile
- Case Logic accessories, other A/V stuff.
- WWW Music Database
- Roland [JP]
- Synthesizers, modules etc.
- Guitar Archive Home Page
- Big Fish Music [JP]
- Independent music site in Japan, showcases lots of indies, sells CDs,
has streaming audio.
- Hikoshi Hashimoto [JP]
- Cool techno composer in Japan.
- Japan-A-Radio
- Japanese pop and anime music.
- FM-YY [JP]
- Cool FM station in Japan with a live
RealAudio stream.
- SUNNY 99.1 - Houston
- Windplayer Back Issues
- Rock Song Anatomy [NL]
- Collection of essays analyzing
music structure in rock songs.
Beatles, All Saints, Sarah McLachlan.
- Internet WorldCast Network
Film
News/Reviews
- Ain't It Cool News
- The site for inside info on flicks, mainly sci-fi, prequels, and indies.
- Dark Horizons
- Latest from the Screw Factory
- Siskel & Ebert
- From Buena Vista Television, aka
http://www.tvplex.com/BuenaVista/
SiskelAndEbert/
- Roger Ebert: The Movie Answer Man
- Weekly Q&A with Ebert and his viewers,
pretty insightful and witty sometimes.
- Movie Poop Shoot
- Kevin Smith's entertainment media news, reviews, discussion site.
- Movie Nation
- Curtis Edmonds, aka Blue Duck of HSBR
and HSX fame, lives in Austin, Texas, and
does nice movie reviews here, as well as
running a virtual studio with hilarious results.
- EditorsNet
- "The Art, Technology and Business of
Film and Video Editing"
- Mr. Showbiz
- MovieJuice!
- Movie Bloopers
- All the mistakes.
- Coming Attractions
- The DAILY Script
- Scripts, screenplays, transcripts, etc,
for film, tv, and anime.
- Crazy 4 Cinema
- Mostly reviews, some good selections.
- Worldwide Box-Office
- Box-office stats and rankings worldwide,
lots of films and data, cross-linked with
IMDB.
- Film Score Monthly
- Kinema Club
- Club for Japanese film enthusiasts, has
a mailing list.
- VFX HQ : Visual Effects Headquarters
- Kothoga's Movie Lair
- Cinemagine
- Film.com
- Clamen's Movie Information Collection
- Recent and Upcoming Movies
Theaters
- Moviefone
- Good nationwide source of theater
locations and film showtimes.
- Cinemark Theatres
- Makers of the great Tinseltown chain
of theaters.
- Cinemark Tinseltown Westchase
- Best non-THX theater in Houston (go to
Cineplex-Odeon Spectrum on Augusta
for THX).
- Cinemark 18 (I-45/Nasa Rd.)
- AMC Gulf Pointe 30
- AMCs are almost as good as Cinemark
Tinseltowns.
http://www.amctheatres.com/cgi-bin/theatre.cgi?theatre=268
- AMC Willowbrook 24
- AMC Commerce Park 8
- I-45 North and Richey (just north of
Beltway 8 North).
- Angelika Film Center
- http://houston.citysearch.com/E/V/HOUTX/0015/08/71/
510 Texas Ave
(Between Smith and Capitol)
Houston, TX 77002
In Bayou Place
(713) 225-5232
- Landmark Greenway
- 5 E Greenway Plaza
(Between Buffalo Speedway and Edloe)
Houston, TX 77046
(713) 626-0402
- Landmark River Oaks 3
- 2009 W Gray St
(Near S Shepherd)
Houston, TX 77019
(713) 524-2175
- Alamo Drafthouse
- Cool Austin downtown arthouse theatre,
watch films while enjoying good food,
beer and company.
- Dobie Theatre
- Small arthouse theater in the Dobie apartment
building on the south edge of the main UT
campus. Good movies, some anime, decent
runs, annual poster sale.
- Regal Arbor 7
- Arthouse theater in the Arboretum in north
Austin. Cool movie but VERY limited runs.
Films
- Internet Movie Database
- Hong Kong Cinema
- Even more about the pix with the funny language! (You should know that was utter sarcasm, since I find some HK pix a hell of a lot better than anything Hollywood ever spit out.)
- Hong Kong Movie DataBase
- HK film industry.
- Online Film Hosts
- Good list of hosts for indie filmmakers
at WebMonkey.
- Drew's Script-O-Rama
- A L I E N Saga
- Battlestar Galactica
- Based on the old series.
- BTILC - The Wing Kong Exchange
- "Falcon's Big Trouble in Little China
Home Page for the Next Millenium"
- Blade Runner
- The Boondock Saints
- Amazing work. Norman Reedus, Sean Patrick Flanery, Willem Dafoe, Billy Connolly.
- Buckaroo Banzai - Banzai Institute
- James Bond, Agent 007 OHMSS
- The 007 Express
- Good info site covering the whole series.
- Crouching Tiger Literature Info
- About the author and the series.
- Laughing Boy
- Indie film being done in Houston.
- The Lord Of The Rings
- Peter Jackson and Saul Zentz bring
a Tolkien masterpiece to the screen.
- LOTR - Ringbearer.org
- The number one fan site for the Lord of
the Rings Movie Trilogy.
- LOTR Film Changes
- Comparing the books to Peter Jackson's
film adaptations.
- The Lost Horizon
- Original Planet Of The Apes Timeline [PDF]
- Six-String Samurai
- Jeffrey Falcon stars in a Lance Mungia film,
cool independent flick, martial arts and
great style.
- Star Wars
- Star Wars Database Network
- Very comprehensive info database about the
Star Wars Universe, including characters,
creatures, history, background, technical
aspects, etc.
- Star Wars Timeline [CA]
- By Bradley Piragoff and Edgar Governo,
nice and succinct chronology of the
Star Wars universe.
- Star Wars Bloopers [FI]
- Funny list of screwups from a favorite film series.
- The Tron Page
- Best and more updated fansite for
Tron.
Stores
- DVDExpress
- Branch of Express.com, good prices.
- DVD Planet
- Occasionally good prices.
- Amazon
- Lots of sales, hard to find items.
- Voyager Company
- The Criterion Collection
- High-quality laserdiscs, great selections,
a bit pricier but more than worth it.
- Motion and Sound
- Hong Kong DVD Movies
Video CD (VCD) and CD
Some pretty good prices, good catalog.
- Asian Xpress
- Hong Kong DVDs with world-wide
or US region encoding, great selection.
- HK Flix
- All-region NTSC DVDs, latest titles.
- Five Star Laser
- Poker Industries
- DDD House
- HK DVDs.
- Vulcan Video
- Austin's best alternative and foreign
video store.
- Tai Seng Video
- Loads of top-name HK films on VHS, LD and DVD.
- Hindi Movies
- Great selection, DVD w/ English subtitles.
- India Plaza
- Hundreds of Indian films, subtitled, on DVD.
- Sight & Sound Laser Disc
- Great selection of LDs and DVDs, good
prices, some hard-to-find stuff.
- Blockbuster Entertainment
- Rick's Movie Graphics
- Movie posters.
- The Hollywood Stock Brokerage and Resource
- Great site for trader info in the Hollywood Stock Exchange (www.hsx.com).
- The Hollywood Stock Exchange
- Fictional stock market whose stocks are
films, famous cast and crew, etc. Free to
play.
- The Numbers
- "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics" about
the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
- THX
- The Official Academy Awards Web Site
- Internet Movie Awards
- Voted by the people.
- Martial Arts: The Film and Collector's Forum
- Besides the collectors' and film info, it's got
some interesting info on the art