Links
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General
- The Yellow Moon Cafe-- The social center of Southern Illinois. Mel's dad runs this coffeehouse in Cobden, Illinois. I have been to many coffee shops in my life and this is one of the best.
- The EarthWatch Institute-- This site offers people with spare time the chance to sign on to research expeditions all over the world. It seems fairly cool, except they expect you to foot a share of the expedition expenses, so none of the expeditions are exactly inexpensive.
- PayPal
- SOAR-- Searchable Online Archive of Recipes
- The Long Now Foundation
- Norsam Technologies HD-Rosetta
- USPTO Trademark Search Engine
- greasecar-- An after-market mod kit to allow diesel vehicles to run on unmodified vegetable oil
- Pricewatch-- A good place to find low computer part prices
- System Administrator Appreciation Day
- Tom's Hardware
- Tivo-- The best gadget ever!
- United for Peace
- Champaign Urbana Mass Transit District
- The Coffee and Caffeine FAQ
- Kelley Blue Book-- Lots of compiled car shopping info, freely available.
- LiveJournal
- Federal Do Not Call Registry-- to ward off telemarketers
- Meetup
- Product Development Research Laboratory
- Urbana-Champaign Independant Media Center
- DVD FAQ
- Imageafter
- The Fedora Legacy Project-- supporting Redhat Linux versions beyond end-of-life.
- Champaign County Circuit Clerk-- you can access county court records here.
- Tarzan wedding vows
- Artist James Sanborn-- Maker of some very intriguing sculpture, often involving encrypted messages.
- The City Museum-- One of the strangest and coolest places I have ever visited. If you are ever in St. Louis, I recommend checking it out. I have some pictures from the place here.
- Gratis gaming
Work Links From my UIUC Days
- The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign-- This is where I got my degree, and where I used to be employed as a software developer/system administrator. It is a fun place to be, most times.
- CITES (Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services)
- EWS-- The Engineering Workstation labs, the area of campus computing that I helped run.
- The University of Illinois-- The whole three-campus university system.
- UIUC Software Webcenter-- A place to get software that the university has licensing deals for
- Altgeld Hall Architectural History
- Red Hat Kickstart Documentation
- UIUC CITES Status Service
- USENIX-- a good source of consensus and ideas for system administrators and other techies.
- UIUC CITES Departmental Services
- NESSIE
- White Box Enterprise Linux-- HOWTO Roll your own
- My ECE Portal
- CITES Security
Computer Security
- Porcupine-- home to Wietse Venema's security tools
- SecurityFocus-- home of the bugtraq mailing list, and much up-to-date and archived security info
- CERT Coordination Center
Cryptography
- The Gnu Privacy Guard-- A good free software program for strong personal cryptography
- The OpenSSH Project-- A free software project for encrypting network connections between systems
- MIT's PGP Key server-- also good for gpg keys
- Cryptix-- Makers of open source cryptography libraries, particularly for java
Music
Literature
- Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
- Project Gutenberg-- home of thousands of public domain electronic texts
- Amazon
- Neal Stephenson's Home Page-- one of my favorite modern authors
- Hatrack River-- Orson Scott Card's web site, with a fairly active user community.
- The Oxford Text Archive
- Shakespeare Oxford Society
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Distributed Proofreader-- contribute to Project Gutenberg with your eyes
- William Gibson
- Neil Gaiman's Home Page
- Jipi and the paranoid chip
- BookCrossing
Humor
- The Onion
- Sluggy Freelance-- A fun geek comic strip
- Dilbert
- This American Life-- a radio show
News
Games
- Blizzard Entertainment-- home of Starcraft
- Settlers of Catan at Wikipedia
Television
- Twin Peaks Online
- 24 Home Page-- A fairly good attempt to bring cinema-quality suspense to network television. This series does a great job at manipulating the viewer's emotions across 24 hours of tense narrative.
- Law and Order-- Wikipedia entry
- Law & Order Repeat Offenders File
Software
- The Apache Webserver
- The Java Home Page-- the API references are indispensable
- CPAN-- the nexus of all perl modules
- LinuxBIOS Home-- A Linux kernel based BIOS for PC hardware
- The Mutt Mail Reader
- Palm Computing
- MotifZone-- A good place to get OpenMotif
- Evolt Browser Archive
- XFree86
- Majordomo-- mailing list management software
- Cygwin-- A unix environment that runs under windows
- PRC-Tools-- free development tools for the PalmOS platform
- The Linux Documentation Project
- Openoffice-- A free, full-featured office suite
- MySQL Documentation
- Mozilla
- jrsoftware-- Useful software tools, including a good windows installer toolkit.
- LPRNG-- A UNIX print management system
- FreeBSD
- VNC-- remote desktop access software
- UWIN-- An AT&T Research project implementing POSIX on the WIN32 platform
- ImageMagick
- ArgoUML-- an open source, object oriented design tool written in Java
- Poseidon for UML-- a much more usable, closed soure derivative of ArgoUML
- PilRC
- Kerberos
- ECJ-- a Java-based framework for genetic algorithms
- MythTV-- A cool linux based PVR and multimedia center
- Postfix-- a high security mail server
- Plucker-- an offline web browser for Palm OS
- LiveJournal server documentation
- NewsMonster-- A free syndication feed aggregator the plugs into Mozilla. Sadly not entirely open source.
- DVD to AVI the long way
Web
- The World Wide Web Consortium
- The HTML 4 Spec
- XML-RPC Specification
- The Open Directory Project-- A community run directory which performs rhe same function as the early yahoo
- Web sidebars in Mozilla
- XULPlanet
Learning
- Barnes and Noble Univeristy-- An interesting place to take some free online continuing-ed type classes
- The Rosetta Project-- A attempt to preserve language data for the future
- MIT OpenCourseWare-- Free access to MIT course materials
- Russian 102
- OneLook dictionary search
- O'Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf
- Mathworld
Articles
- A Century of Controversy Over the Foundations of Mathematics
- Four NP-Complete Problems-- The author attempts to argue solution of the P=NP problem
- Online and Underground-- A good article on the urban exploration movement, where people explore the dark and abadoned corners of our cities.
- Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone
- The DSA Flaw in OpenPGP
- Unspoofing
- Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems
- Secure History Preservation through Timeline Entanglement
- Big Cable's Package-Pricing Ploy
- The Next Photography Revolution
Internetworking resources
- DNS Made Easy-- A free DNS service provider, nice for those who have only one server and need slave DNS
- The Internet Engineering Task Force-- home of the standards documents that define the internet
- DynDNS.org-- A free dynamic DNS service so that those of us using cable modems or DSL can still have a consistant hostname.
- The Champaign-Urbana Wireless Project
Politics
Language
- Romany Language resources
- DicData-- A good German/English dictionary site
Computer Forensics
Science
- Skyview-- a publicly accessible source of astronomical data from many telescopes