Links

General

The Yellow Moon Cafe
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.
SOAR-- Searchable Online Archive of Recipes
The Long Now Foundation
Norsam Technologies HD-Rosetta
USPTO Trademark Search Engine
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
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
DVD FAQ
Imageafter-- Freely usable photos
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.

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
UIUC CITES Status Service
USENIX-- a good source of consensus and ideas for system administrators and other techies.
UIUC CITES Departmental Services
NESSIE
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
Cryptix-- Makers of open source cryptography libraries, particularly for java

Movies

Music

Literature

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
Project Gutenberg-- home of thousands of public domain electronic texts
Neal Stephenson's Home Page-- one of my favorite modern authors
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
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

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.

Politics

Language

Romany Language resources

Science

Skyview-- a publicly accessible source of astronomical data from many telescopes

Raymond M. Reskusich's Home Page

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