Handy Links provided by DJCSW
Utilities & Reference
Area Code/Zip Code Lookup Tools
Area Code/Country Code Telephone Lookup Tool
Dictionary of Information Technology (ANSDIT)
Foreign Language Dictionaries and Translators
Great Books Online Bartleby's
Int'l. Codes: Telephone, Internet, Currency
Int'l. Postal Code Formats When you ship overseas.
Int'l. Telephone Directories and Locator Tools
Internet 800 Directory Who is that toll-free numbers?
Internet Archive: The Wayback Machine Library of Internet sites
Internet Service Providers Buyer's Guide List of ISPs.
Radio Station Directory: Web Broadcasters
Telephone Book Reverse Phone Lookup - AnyWho
Zip+4 Code: National Address Server
Zip Code and Address: USPS Tools
Zip Code/Area Code Lookup Tools
Computer & Engineering
Domain Names, Top Level: incl. Country Codes
File Name Extensions: Windows/OS2/Apple/UNIX
File Types based on Name Extension
Geektools: Domain Registration, Spam Tools, etc.
GPS: How it Works at Trimble Navigation
How Stuff Works Great for Gizmophiles like me.
Large convention for Kilobytes Donald Knuth
Math: Fibonacci Numbers and Nature
Math2.org Math reference and questions
Win NT Insider: Windows Developer newsletter from OSR
Windows Sysinternals Freeware Utilities and Information
Word Documents, How to Minimizing Metadata
W3C HTML & Markup doc Validation Service
XML: Extensible Markup Language
Intellectual Property
Free Patents - Excellent, thorough, & free! US patents in PDF & TIFF format
Also, amusing list of featured "crazy patents"
Delphion Patent Server Very good patent search engine
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Full-Text Search
Patent Application Fetcher Free patent application .pdf files
Patents: European Patent Office
Patent Mailer Utility Software
Patent & Scientific Info: Derwent
Research
Research Index: Scientific Literature Digital Library
Stanford EE380 CSL Colloquium Video Lectures
TeraGrid: U.S.-wide Computing Fabric
Local
Traffic Information for BayArea
Web Searching: Bay Area Yellow Pages
Machine Vision
Society of Manufacturing Engineers - Machine Vision Association
Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers
Machine Vision at University of Cardiff (Wales)
Machine Vision Unit at University of Edinburgh (Scotland)
Vision Systems Lab at Dublin City University (Ireland)
Vision Systems Design magazine
Space
Earthlights: Nighttime view of Earth
GlobeXplorer Viewer: View any spot on Earth
Hubble Space Telescope: Decade of Discovery
Int'l. Space Station Sighting Information
Lunar Perigee and Apogee Calculator
MapLibraries.com: Online Map Library
NASA Earth Observing System Satellite Terra
New York City-CNES/SPOT Image NYC on 9-11
New York City & Pentagon 911 Space Images
Planetary Photojournal: NASA Images
A Star is Born in Eagle Nebula (M16)
TerraServer View any Spot on Earth
Aerial & Remote
California Coastal Records Project: Aerial coastal photos.
Topographical Maps of the U.S. Find your county.
Long Now Foundation The Really Big Picture
Travel
Nomadic Research Labs bike & boat
Ocean Tides Info for Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Ocean Tides Info for ANY location
History
Computer Museum History Center This place is amazing.
Cray, Seymour: Gordon Bell lecture slides A real computer genius
Xerox Star: Its Contributions and Downfall
Government
President's Information Technology Advisory Committee
U.S. Dept. of Commerce Information
U.S. House of Representatives Lookup Tool
Music
Ramon Romero Paraguayan harp soloist, beautiful!
Frank's Vinyl Museum of Weird Records Amusing
Music of the Spheres Concerts at the Lick Observatory
General Interest, Local & Misc.
Burning Man 2002: Panorama Photos Impressive wide-angle photos.
Gehry, Frank: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Basque)
McCarthy, John: Sustainability of Human Progress
Microsoft: 1977 Bill Gates Mugshot
Mongolia: Getting on the Internet
Julia Morgan, Architect: Biography
Movie Technology History: American WideScreen Museum
Shoreline Amphitheatre Seating Chart
Slang and Colloquialisms in the U.K.
Silicon Zoo: Chip Mask Artwork
Slashdot "News for Nerds", technology gossip headlines
Smoking Gun, The Real-life expose' pieces with evidence
Tech Museum of Innovation A great museum!
Valley People: online maga zine
