Info/Reference

1. Net Reference (reference for stuff about the web)
   • Google
   • Wikipedia
   • Relevant local home pages: AI Lab (web ssh login!), LCS, SIPB and MIT (athena ssh login!); WebDNS, CSAIL mailing lists and online CSAIL SpamAssasin configuration. MIT's mailman lists.
   • Web searching: promising newcomer teoma, ask jeeves, AltaVista, Excite is Architext's search engine, dogpile has a good meta-search plus directory (but poor name). searchenginewatch is sort of the trade rag.
   • Portals: yahoo, www.el.com, ceoexpress
   • The Informant, Cybenko's "web clipping" agent.
   • Clearinghouse for Subject- Oriented Internet Resource Guides
   • RTFM's Usenet FAQs; and PHOAKS, a compilation of web pages mentioned in newsgroups.
   • InterNIC Directory Services ("White Pages")
   • Index of mailing lists
   • Four11, to find someone on the net!
   • 800/888 Toll-Free Directory
   • net-chex's traffic report; AI Lab sysadmin pages. CSAIL system Wiki.
   • IETF RFC's; rfc1983 = an internet glossary.
   • short and long lists of net discourse abbreviations & acronyms.
   • geolocate lat/lon for any specified domain, hostname, or IP.
   • whois: ICANN should be fully trustworthy (and not do any predatory drop-catch or domain tasting, etc.); IANA should be trustworthy too, but now only shows info for the tld root?? some also like whois.net and domaintools. If you change dns, WhatsMyDNS.net reports propagation progress worldwide.
2. Desk Reference
   • ussearch.com does a good job of finding people - by phone, by address, by name...
   • Virtual Reference Desk, and similar stuff at langenburg.com
   • PHONE LISTINGS: white pages form interfacing to all engines, or could just go to infospace which looks good. REVERSE lookup from anywho and infospace. area codes.
   • SuperPages yellow pages
   • Eric's Treasure Troves of mathematics (now called "Mathworld", chem, astro, and more! the List of Integer Sequences, the Combinatorial Object Server; a Real Analysis textbook, the Mathematical Atlas covers most subfields.
   • FREE MATH TEXTBOOKS from Springer (can search their site for more content)
   • FREE TECHNICAL BOOKS from freetechbooks.com, including numerical recipes in C!
   • a calendar w/ holidays, US holiday dates, Jewish calendar, same from hebcal.com, jewish holiday table. WORLD TIME ZONES: plan meetings, convert a given time, and look up current times worldwide (in a pretty map from another site). NIST time zone data.
   • NY Times?!
   • World News?!, and Eastern European news.
   • DICTIONARIES: onelook is an excellent dictionary meta-search, and for collouquialisms WordSpy can't be beat. bartleby.com has the American Heritage (plus a lot more!); The OED (MIT only); the Visual Thesauruslooks pretty cool but crashes my netscape; Dictionaries and Thesauruses has foreign languages too!
   • style and usage manuals; MLA style sheet.
   • Dictionaries and translations for 200 languages! Hebrew, Japanese, another japanese, another japanese translator, and yet another japanese dict. Reference and learning material on 100 languages at the language materials project. Listing of lots of automatic translation pages, which misses tranexp.com. Main translators: google, babelfish.altavista, wordlingo (seems pretty similar to babelfish?).
   • Encyclopedia Brittanica
   • ask.com has lots of stock answers and does web searches to find answers to questions.
   • yelp.com has local recommendations (food, services, products, etc.)
   • Consumer Guide to hundreds of products, rated (by GTE); also user-contributed content at Epinions.lycos. Similar stuff at consumersearch.com (they reference a bunch of other reviews), theweethome.com/thewirecutter.com, and regina barzilay's automated review summaries. consumerreports is subscription only, but might be worth it when outfitting a home? applianceadvisor seems like an industry rag. A good forum for appliances (on "that home site").
   • pretty much all currencies since 1990 (!) at oanda. CSV of current rates from WSJ
   • HTML guides: BareBones Guide, A Beginner's Guide, Ian Graham's guide, a Quick Reference Guide, Forms and CGI intro, list of elements
   • website performance: webpagetest.org gives great timing info about page view speed - web, mobile, all browsers, etc. -- especially cool is "visual comparison", which gives a time series filmstrip of snapshots of page loading! Also useful for web performance: Google's Speed Insights, Chrome DevTools, Firefox Developer Tools, Apache Bench for local testing and establishing a baseline before tweaking anything on the server. Also browserling.com for testing different browsers, and JetStream benchmarks real-world javascript speed on your browser.
   • almost related: ssltest to grade an ssl website for
   • Bulldozer looks to be a promising WYSIWYG HTML editor; W3C HTML page validator.
   • All the calculators for any subject on the web...
   • alt.usage.english FAQ
   • MIT Library databases, including INSPEC and "web of science"; also NCSTRL for CS tech reports
   • C++: C++ FAQ, indexed and all; the C++ spec (98) and NOV97 standard (Dec 96 draft), and a sort of index for an older version. ISO C99 spec. C reference. Performance and language tips at GlenMcCl; C++ tutorial for transitioning from C, good arcana at GotW. Intel C++ compiler for linux! STL: a very complete C/C++/STL library reference from Dinkumware, and SGI's STL home page, one from RogueWave, and one from cplusplus.com; plus STL tutorials from Brown and Vienna. MSVC deficiencies
   • bounds checking for gcc
   • CLASS BROWSING: doxygen can automatically extract class inheritance and file inheritancediagrams!
   • LISP: Guy Steele's book online -- latex source even available! full text of Paul Graham's lisp books (On Lisp in html). ANSI-CL Spec from Franz is similar to Harlequin's HyperSpec; intro with many little tidbits and links; CMUCL home page (and unofficial home page?), docs, and mailing lists; CLISP homepage; Assoc. Lisp Users resources page; lispdebug, CLiki (CL Wiki). common-lisp.net is like sourceforge for CL.
   • JAVA: Java FAQ, Java IAQ (infrequent...), Java homepage at Sun includes a tutorial and docs including jdk1.3 with IDE Forte; Thinking in Java book; Java super list of resources. Performance and language tips and tools at GlenMcCl; Gamelan has lots of free source as well as information. Benchmarks: VolanoMark is useless unless you want to run a chat server; search for processor=pentium in SPEC; For linux, the IBM JVM looked best at some point in the past. JUnit helps testing during development.
   • PERL: perl.com has docs, tutorials, etc; O'Reilly's Perl Bookshelf online, Perl Tutorial in html from NCSA; docs from cmu.
   • PYTHON: docs, tutorial, cookbook
   • "SCRIPTS:" JavaScripts, Javagoodies (also has mostly javascript, it seems); scriptsearch
   • ASSEMBLY: linuxassembly.org
   • THREADS: pthreads docs, tutorials, and examples, and a good summary and a good tutorial; a comprehensive list of different thread libraries, and a better one from Gnu Pth.
   • SQL: SQL Tutorial, and one from philg. SQL ref man.
3. Weather
   • Weather Underground's BOS page includes BOS forecast graph; but I really like the Central Square weather station. NE radar loop, animated US fronts. (sadly, none of this works under old netscape.)
   • INTELLiCast: BOS forecast, IR satellite loop, and metro radar loop; 48-hour history!,
   • weather.com: BOS forecast (hourly!), "normal" frontal symbols for current NE
   • streaming NOAA weather radio for boston (from KHB35, 162.475khz), from the directory at wunderground/wxradio.
   • wbz4 has a good live radar.
   • SAILING: current & Cape Cod forecast winds; iwindsurf wind reports and forecasts, bdemsky's windsurfing links, rweiss's windsurfing directory. tide charts basic windsurfing techniques. sailing primer, online courses from US Sailing (incl. sailing, cruising, powerboating, windsurfing). other online courses from boatered.com, boaterexam.com, boater101.com, boatsafe.com, boatus.org
   • AVIATION: aviationweather.noaa.gov includes ADDS (which has a little historic data); NOAA aviation reports, also at ucar; NCDC has archived historical weather! skydivingweather.
   • UMich WeatherNet has a full suite of data.
   • UW-Madison has "the coolest weather imagery on the net"
   • landings.com weather has tons of references
   • Texas A&M has current observations & terminal forecasts (aviation-style)
   • Plymouth State College has a nice weather center (not much local though)
   • Space Weather
4. Geography
   • ONLINE MAPS: maporama is an excellent site and even has intl destinations, though some say RancMcNally.com has the best maps these days. multimap.com thinks they do. Google maps works pretty well. MapQuest, mapsonus, mapblast (formerly Proximus; mapquest uses navtech's database.)
   • video of drive-through from google streetview:"streetview player"
   • Road trip planning from freetrip.com; national scenic byway maps.
   • A seemingly comprehensive directory of mapping services (street, GIS, demographic, etc)
   • CIA World Factbook is excellent! (for more, see travel destination info below.)
   • TIGER mapping service -- detailed but no street names?; also basic info (including population) from their gazetteer
   • Xerox PARC Map Viewer
   • Virtual Tourist
   • Geographic Name Server, GEOnet name server, and US address correction
   • MelissaDATA has lots of address, zip, phone, area code, demographic, and statistical info, including maps (e.g. of zip). includes a really good "people finder".
   • Cambridge street (etc.) atlas, cambridge trees map (best on mobile?), crime map. Cambridge neighborhood lot maps, planning studies, and stats, demographics and crime info. national sex offender public registry doesn't have massachusetts yet.
   • many local maps from Eric Haines focused on SOMERVILLE but including Cambridge, especially his "SomeSighes Map" of everything interesting in Somerville.
   • MBTA maps & info, and the coolest mashup showing where all buses are now, mbtaplot. the link, the CRTMA shuttle bus serving one kendall, tech sq, etc.; Chinatown bus. Cambridge taxi rates (incl. flat rates from hotels). taximagic is a national smartphone service which takes credit card for payment.
   • MIT Map and lots of neat info in the facilities-db, such as floorplans (accessible from within MIT only).
   • A good list of map info (and mapinfo too)
   • TOPO MAP data from topozone, the USGS (how to locate & order), Mass-GIS topo maps (maybe useful for a GPS?) and color orthos Topo maps, nautical charts, aeronatical charts, and aerial photos from maptech. For hiking, caltopo has pretty good-looking topo maps with lots of layers & features.
   • NAUTICAL CHARTS: paul lutus recommends commercial program fugawi and free noaa charts.
   • other map data from the USGS, incl. worldwide terrain data from the NOAA and better data from the GLOBE project! Federal Geographic Data Products; a good thorough compilation of geographic, topographic, demographic, etc. links is at CAST. Directory of such data, and another. Both DTED and gtopo30 have 30-arcsecond worldwide elevation data(!) available online! radio mobile deluxe draws elevation profiles&countours and shows radio reception (very cool).
   • B/W very hi-res satellite image of Boston inside Rt.128
   • historical maps, incl cambridge in 1916.
   • Terraserver has satellite image data of much of the world; its view of Pine Bay. terrafly is similar. Google Earth, World Wind.
   • The interactive MA Atlas is useless but very cool.
   • triscape maps has a really awesome interactive us-wide street map java app! Lets you make annotated interactive maps for others!!
   • A compendium to GIS data for all 50 states.
   • Geography Network; MapMart will sell you just about any kind of map.
   • ASTRONOMY: interactive Sky Map (don't forget to set the right time). New England light pollution map
   • ZIP CODES: Everything you'd want to know (maps, lookup, distance, etc.) is at Langenberg.com. reverse lookup from USPS.
   • GPS: gpsmapsearch.com appears to have snarfed in multiple map data sources, including most or all of MapCenter (which has a really good db of user-contributed gps maps), which needs sendmap to communicate with the gps. gpsfiledepot claims to have hundreds of custom maps, but is extremely us-centric. osmbatch is a free windows program to make routable garmin maps from openstreetmap! (for linux, mkgmap does this). GPS Resources is chock-full of good technical info, and gpsinformation.net has tons of user info. gpsriders.net has info on GPSR data sets, including commerical and free both. GPSS is free GPS/PC app & raster map data! USAPhotoMaps merges GPS data (I/O) with terraserver aerial maps

Recreation

1. Music
   • Lyrics: lyricserver.com, Browse or search for titles from the old UWP database at leo.org, and there's another similarly searchable lyrics site at The Int'l Lyrics Server. Significantly, songfile.com.
   • AMG, the "all-music guide"; retailers Music Boulevard and CDNow; a great chart describing the different online stores, plus surfformusic describes stores and shopping agents. Shopping agents good for CDs are: (excellent!:) evenbetter.com, and possibly Bizrate's SuperFind. (adequate:) mysimon, bottomdollar; (only OK:) anytitle.com, ecompare, gemm.com.
   • OLGA mirrored at leo.org
   • Remote file ftp.uu.net/doc/music/guitar
   • Remote file ftp.vast.unsw.edu.au/pub/guitar-lessons
   • Online Music References
   • Internet Underground Music Archive
   • Guitar
   • Jan-Erik's Guitararchive
   • The Guitar-world of the Internet
   • Guitarland
   • Harmony Central
   • Rec.Music.Makers.Guitar.Acoustic
   • tuning: online tuner app, and ukulele tuning.
2. Aviation
   • SKYDIVING: Jumptown (weather), Pepperell (banter, weather), Lebanon, Providence; MIT club. skydivingweather.com. official NE region website. dropzone.com. Brian Grady's rigging loft. Skydive Archive, Skydive WWW, bulletin board, and good learning info. links to gear from groundrush.com. history of the sport in the US from D-1903. Skratch's articles on tracking
   • AIRPORT/NAVAID DIRECTORIES: airnav.com, taxi diagrams, terminal procedures
   • FlyWay, a free linux flight planner!
   • Landings.com may have evolved from MITSA
   • AOPA's pilot's handbook, getting back into flying, virtual flight bag links to the basic pre-flight resources.
   • philg's aviation page
   • MIT Flying Club, Raytheon Flying Club, North Shore Aero Club at Beverly;
   • flightphysical.com lists many AMEs, or you can search the FAA's AME database.
   • 100 Dollar Hamburger listings
   • Aerobatics tips!
   • New England Paragliding/Hang Gliding Club; morningside
   • Skycar!
   • ADDS aviation weather.
3. Outdoors
   • MITOC, HOC, AMC young members. NE Trail conditions, ViewsFromTheTop also has conditions; mountainsummits.com does MA/NH/CT (thinly), White Mtn trail, mountain, and shelter guide. Monadnock, monadnock info; Mass Parks campgrounds; GreenMountainClub has VT info. blue mtns.
   • Mt. Washington: mountwashington.com, mountwashington.org, weather, snowcover. Tuckerman's: timefortuckerman, tuckerman.org, Peakbagging the 4000 Footer Mountains of New England.
   • CLIMBING: New England Bouldering, The Climbing Archive is no longer being updated.
   • SPELEOLOGY Server Home Page
   • SKI: snow-forecast.com has excellent weather forecasts for base,mid,peak; statistical analyses of ski conditions thorughout N.America; skireport.com shows current conditions and has a graph comparing to last season. reports for Killington (official) and the forecast for Rutland; the general snow report table from rsn, and trail maps for just about everywhere, or try skimaps.com. live web cams of CO ski areas! MIT Snowriders (ski/snowboard club) and their tuning sessions; MIT Snowboard Team, Harvard Snowboard Club. alpinecarving.com has lots of good tech info on snowboarding, including an extreme carving article (which pionts to extremecarving.com). for ski condo rentals even at prime resorts, vrbo.com and flipkey.com are sometimes good sources.
   • SCUBA: MIT SCUBA Club; physiology and medicine of SCUBA diving.
   • UNDERWATER HOCKEY at MIT, US Site has good training etc. links; coaching manual. uwhockey.org has a good set of rules, skills, etc.
   • PADDLING: deerfield guide and maps, NE whitewater links, water levels and flow rates. whitewater calendar, MA public-access boat ramps, and NH lakes/ponds
   • CAMBRIDGE SPORTS: recreational facilities (like pools!, weight room, golf course, parks), community rowing (see Blades of the Charles and Harvard's oars), community boating activities (for youth). MDC home page.
   • BICYCLING: Minuteman bike path info and map; Beford end around Hanscom.
   • ULTIMATE FRISBEE: The Ultimate Handbook has good instructional materials. pickup in Boston/Cambridge (list from BUDA).
   • WATER POLO: Metro Boston Water Polo. Rules and more from usawaterpolo.com rules from fina.
   • DISC GOLF: Buffumville course, NEFA
   • PRODUCE: U-Pick in MA -- apples, berries, vegetables (but not cherries) from the mass.gov/agr/massgrown site. pickyourown.org has good lists of self-pick farms and seasonal charts. Schedule for major local and all Mass. farmers' markets.
   • XC: SkiNH XC, and other XC, including Prospect Mountain. Great Brook is around Boston, as is the Weston Ski Track. telemarktips.com is the "definitive tele resource", and netelemark is the local resource.
   • COURSES: avalanche, Wilderness medical training at SOLO, wildmed, and WFR.
   • GEAR: campmor, planetoutdoors, sierratradingpost, rei-outlet, northern mountain, gearx, sportextreme all seem to have good deals. MEC is a cheaper Canadian REI.
   • KNOTS: good instructions & animations on basic knots; Intl Guild of Knot Tyers
   • Boot resoling: Dave Page Cobbler
4. Food
   • chefsteps is the more accessible, bite-sized evolution of myhrvold's modernist cuisine. great stuff!
   • Reviews of lots of kitchen gadgets from America's Test Kitchen.
   • RecipeLand.com has 40,000 searchable recipes! allrecipes.com; SOAR has lots of recipes and a thorough list of ethnic foods; Morten's has a great interface in which you choose which ingredients you want in your recipe!
   • rec.food.recipes archive is the official list.
   • weekly menus
   • chowhound's "home cooking" board has some posts with good recipes, but is awfully random.
   • Usenet cookbook is in html in Sweden, or plaintext at ftp.uu.net
   • alt.gourmand files
   • Amy Gale's archive -- also rec.food.cooking?
   • SE Asian cookbook! -- has Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian!
   • Food Magazines: Epicurious, Electronic Gourmet Guide, Sally's Place, Mimi's Cyber Kitchen
   • ETHNIC FOOD COOKBOOKS: a large collection links to asian-plus sites, a directory of world cuisinerecipes, a small collection, Turkish, Brazilian, Persian, Australian, Yugoslav, Italian, Southern, Indian plus more from SanjeevKapoor; jewish, jewish again, jewish links, Chinese.
   • LOX: salmon, lox, shrimp, mussel, caviar recipes loxmania
   • SMOKING: bradley forum, bradley's typicall lame recipes, recipes from the old forum are very good.
   • BREAKFAST: A lot of good ideas for eggs.
   • Sue's Recipe Server
   • A List of Food and Cooking Sites
   • some fancy recipes from restaurants in NJ
   • BREAD: bread machine recipes, troubleshooting, theory; baking science, great info on shorteners, salt, moisture, etc. at baking911.com. sourdoughhome.
   • CANDY: baking911.com also has great info on candy making
   • REFERENCE: The definitive spice reference, The definitive oil & fat reference; Fruit Facts, chili peppers, chili overview from the Miami Herald, dried chiles. Dictionary of cooking terms focuses on French terms; Cook's Thesaurus has really pretty pictures. convert weight<->volume for most food items, and a good density table for weight-volume.
   • convert-me.com is really good for cooking unit conversions, plus lots more; King Arthur has a comprehensive ingredient weight chart with tons of food ingredients.
   • chemical cuisine food additive safety ratings lists all the unfamiliar ingredients.
   • CMU Dinner Coop
   • How to roll sushi
   • Flora's Recipe Hideout has hundreds of recipes, focusing on chocolate, cheesecakes, and pies/pastries.
   • Enormous Appetizer Collection
   • WINE: winespectator (reviews) daily wine review 30-sec wine advisor wineguide winetoday winerobot! Ratings for lots of wines and other alcoholic drinks at tastings.com.
   • COFFEE: technical info for geeks; latte art

   • Boston Restaurants: citysearch is very thorough and lists most restaurants w/ hours, and their top 10 lists (2001), hidden finds, and recommended; dininginmass.com, CityBuzz CuisineNet/Boston, the Phoenix (on the cheap and its best). bostonchefs.com has high-end menus (and info about chefs); starchefs is a chef's trade rag with info about local business.
   • BOSTON REVIEWS: zagat seems to have competition in chefmoz.org (worldwide!); Best of Boston food & restaurants; top 25, the Phantom Gourmet's top 100; bostonman does high-end restaurants, while Boston magazine does the trendy ones. fodor's, epinions. Capsules for Somerville and Cambridge. Tsar does a buncha good local reviews, as does Helen Rennie and some MIT food writer who says "fat is flavor." chowhound, may it rest in peace. hungryonion seems to be where all the chowhounders landed, while foodtalkcentral (is the spot for LA) and mouthfuls (maybe active for NY/NJ?) and egullet (also NY,NJ,PA,DC,NW,plains?). pigtrip.net is a comprehensive directory of N.England BBQ.
   • Boston-online food links
   • MENUS: For some reason, Amazon.com has a huge selection of menus. A gazillion menus for restaurants in Cambridge, Boston, and more towns from where-to-dine.com. menupages lists 264 cambidge restaurants, with hours and menus! MIT Area Restaurant Menus -- mucho free delivery! -- and tons of cambridge-area menus from Samuel Lipoff of Cabot. tufts area menus, and BU Area Menus. menupix has lots of menu scans, w/delivery info searchable.
   • delivery: foodler.com is an online ordering service for delivery & takeout both - no extra fee, and has coupons too! I'd put eat24.com second, then the old standby grubhub. then mixmenu, seamlessweb, beyondmenu. DiningIn is its own delivery service with about 60 local restaurants, and only charges something like $3! (needs cookies; have an account).
   • Phi's late night food list, LNF@MIT
   • SUSHI: beijia@mit's sushi guide, Boston Sushi Society. Sushi World is worldwide and complete, with a lesser copy at Sushi World Guide; a good sushi guide. Menu for Oishii (but leaves out the specials). The Macho Sushi poster has sushi you don't want, and Rice Ball Guy is onigiri humor.
   • USA Restaurant Guide may someday be useful; the same thing for selected cities is at KerryMenu
   • CHOCOLATE: Info at chocophile.com and seventypercent.com (whose choco search is perfect for finding e.g. unsweetened chocolates & reviews). Expensive mail-order chocolates from LA Burdick's, Chocolates To Die For, Vosges chocolate, and mrchocolate.com (Jacques Torres's co). Chuao is run by Noelle's friend. Pacific Cookie has some tasty mail-order cookies and chocolate gift baskets. Looks like chocolove sells high-quality bars.
   • VEGGIE SUBSCRIPTION: TheFoodProject is the CSA farm we had a share in.
5. Arts/Events
   • Cambridge Arts Council events, Cambridge's Official Events Calendar; Cambridge-USA.org lists street fairs and has a full calendar of events. HarvardSquare.com's calendar, CentralSquareCambridge.com's calendar, NorthEndBoston.com's listing of feasts & processions. bostonusa.com lists lots of events. boston.com has a very complete calendar, though the Phoenix's might be easier to use.
   • BroadwayInBoston has Boston's major productions. Arts at MIT, Arts at Harvard.
   • MIT events, CSAIL calendar (with lots of lecture series); MITAC.
   • MOVIES: moviefone (was Movielink), imdb, MTW, and at the Brattle; ifilm, LSC. IMDB and a movie database at at MS State. top critics picks of all time from Mr. Showbiz
   • TVGuide , yahoo's tv guide. zap2it is best. antennaweb.org is really cool: maps the directions to all TV stations!
   • American Repertory Theater
   • worldmusic is the heir apparent of dance umbrella?
   • PUPPETS: Boston Puppeteers Cooperative (I was "amusing bird") has a 'lending library' too, or you can hire them out! The Boston Puppets Guild has a directory of local puppeteers. Providence's Big Nazo has some really impressive costumes. Puppet Showplace has adult shows too.
   • salsaboston.com -- can't get enough of Olaf.
   • BosTix.org is the half-price service of ArtsBoston; BostonTheaterScene has some overlap with them. playbill.com
   • Berklee Performance Center calendar.
   • radio stations in Boston; Internet Radio Locator finds AM/FM and Internet radio stations. radiotime.com has a smallish directory of streaming terrestrial radio stations categorized by genre. wumb contemporary folk is nice. not to mention pandora, last.fm, slacker.com
   • CFA events
6. Other
   • Ham Radio programs; a frequency allocation chart, and a more thorough one.
   • Unicycling Home Page
   • PUZZLING: Puzzles Archive. Really good word lists and tools, and more dictionaries and word lists. Anagrams from Internet Anagram Server and anagramgenius. omniglot.com shows you all about writing systems.
   • WebSwim
   • INLINE SKATING: Skate City
   • MEDICAL: Athletic Medical Info; a good medical reference from FamilyInternet, and extensive health databases from the NIH/NLM. good source for anatomy info. Drugbase has info about many medications, and RxMed gives you a small database with detailed info or a large one with blurbs; another drug database from onHealth; also a full searchable family practice diagnostic/Clinical Reference textbook online! also links to patient education resources. wrongdiagnosis.com is a nice compendium of symptoms & diseases. height/weight charts. home remedies which are claimed to work. or you can just take the online surgical training program from wikisurgery. Autodocs: symptoma and kahun (when symptoms don't fit a template, kahun returns nothing - less info here might be better).
   • DOCTORS: "Executive Physicals" from The Princeton Longevity Center, Wellmax, MGH, BWH, Johns Hopkins. (see also "doctors" file.)
   • HOSPITALS: stats comparison from medicare.
   • MEDICARE/MEDIGAP: Medicare Part A = hospital insurance; Medicare coverage limits; Medigap policy basics.
   • GLYCEMIC INDEX: general GI information from mendosa; GI tables from mendosa, glycemicindex.com (the australian home, with an online db) and a spreadsheet from mendosa with their data; a decent medium-sized gi list. a brief list of food classifications, and mendosa's free foods.
   • The complete guide to stretching also an excellent technical mini-book by Brad Appleton; a very good reference on stretching, exercising, and muscles.
   • MIT facilities: schedule and hours for the ice rink and pool; PE info
   • HOCKEY: Tuesday hockey signup (player/hockey) (SignupWiki for when that's down) and manager calendar. (tuesday hockey general wiki, plus a second one at hockey.csail.mit.edu.) Alum scrimmage evite for Wed 9:45pm; MIT IM schedule, Harvard IM schedule for cabot hockey. NIHOA rulebook, Rules; repair/repalming (same, slightly cheaper). Mass. rinks, the hockey academy. Gear: hockeymonkey, hockeygiant.
   • ROLLER COASTERS: annual poll results; Screamscape has potential, and lists awards under "facts"
   • Urban Challenge Boston is a "frenzied scavenger hunt"

Biophysics/Computational Chemistry

• The NIH Guide to Molecular Modeling
• The NIH Molecular Modeling Home Page
• Computational Chemistry List
• Internet Chemistry Resources
• Comp Chem Educational Resources on the net
• UCLA Chemistry Home Pages, and a similar thing at hackberry
• Harvard Biological Laboratories - Genome Research
• extensive set of links to all biosciences
• MedChem/Biobyte has many searchable archives, etc.
• AMBER, GAMESS.
• Electronic Protein Science Home Page
• MacroModel Home Page
• Journal of Molecular Modeling
• Graphics and Animations in chemistry.
• MC-SYM, some kind of hybrid heuristic/MD system.
• Spartan comp chem homepage (for the program)
• MacroModel WWW page
• Network Science has bio/comp-chem journal articles and software
• Chemisty Resource Page
• CCP5 is a library of free comp chem codes
• GROMCS is MD on parallel computers, free.
• ANTAS is an italian site with lots of links to software, tutorials, tools, etc.

Misc.

RSI info

• INFO: Dan Wallach's Typing Injury FAQ. UNL RSI page has gotten even better. ErgoWeb. There's lots of good detailed, technical info on IBM's Healthy Computing site. MIT RSI info.
• ORGANIZATIONS: RSI Action in Boston from CNOT; CTD Resource Network; and Harvard RSI Action,
• PRODUCTS: From UNL; mice and pointing devices; lotsa chairs; microsphere is $2K. rsiprogram.com has tons of links, lots of good info, well-done brochures! (but it wedges netscape 4.76 linux!) PressurePointer has a lot of good stretches.
• SPEECH RECOGNITION: tifaq has good stuff. voicerecognition.com seems to have decent trade info, out-loud.com has lots of info, reviews, tips, and links; VoiceGrip helps programming by voice; voicedeveloper.com has macros for VC++ and more. Boston Voice Users group; ddlinux is a mailing list for linux SR, and also has lots of links to free SR engines (source!), and another good SR for Linux page. xvoice, unixspeech.com has linux speech command & control, lumenvox has C++ wrappers for their grammar-based med-vocab system. general user tips. Speech Technology Magazine, Multilingual Computing and Technology newsletter. flow is a leading late-2024 SR LLM whch has great accuracy, speaker id, background noise avoidance, etc. (also does TTS!), and otter does note-taking SR (e.g. joins your zoom call!).
• Area code 617 alternative therapies info., and a good directory of all types of alternative therapy; AMTA directory of massage therapists (for Cambridge). Massage chair comparison and review (from my gift list).
• TREATMENT: An illustrated guide to muscles & massage therapy. intro to myofascial therapy. illustrated trigger point guide, referenced by a good russian illustrated muscle guide.
• RESEARCH: Dr. Jane Greening seems to be a leader.
• Related possible misdiagnoses: Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, or Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, Fibromyaglia

Parallel/Supercomputing

• The Top 500 supercomputers in the world.
• Parallel resources
• Parallel Archive at hensa
• Parallel machines offering time: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center; Cornell Theory Center (just for internal Cornell use now?)
• applying for parallel time: Alliance (NCSA plus many); NPACI for big stuff
• PVM homepage
• MPI (Message-Passing Interface): from MSState, Oak Ridge, and Argonne; LAM.
• UTE info
• IBM SPs: Argonne, Cornell Theory Center; Maui SP documentation, SP World home page worldwide SP sites; IBM's SP docs
• Cilk homepage
• PBS is the portable batch system (queueing) of choice for clustered machines, replacing NQS.

Neural Networks

• NIPS benchmarks
• Neural Net Events Announcements
• Neuroprose, and CogPrints for all the cognitive sciences
• Really good neural net tutorial/summary with many different types of nets is in the docs for SNNS, a neural net simulator from Stuttgart; a separate simulator is PDP++, which has many different types of nets (Boltzmann, self-organizing, continuous, etc.)
• Handbook of Neural Computation
• Hopfield networks and Boltzmann machines
• Web search for neural net stuff only!

AI/ML

• local reading groups: STAIR (stat-AI)
• Feature Selection!
• JMLR and JAIR; JMLG.
• JAIR Gopher
• AI Events has scheduled conferences, workshops, etc.
• Computer Science Department Front Doors and Gophers
• CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository (including bibliography), and a big bibtex collection for ML
• another AI Reference page in the UK.
• Neural Computing Surveys, an electronic journal
• MLC++, C++ library of machine learning classes at Stanford, VFML (very fast machine learning) does decision trees, k-means, EM on large data sets. the Kolmogorov Open Source Project has source code and tutorials.
• C4.5 code
• ML Resources list
• DELVE, datasets for evaluating numerical learning (Geoff Hinton's, benchmarked and "statistically analysed")
• UCI data set repository, and in "Quinlan's" format
• KDD: UCI data set archive
• ML List (back issues)
• ALife
• Genetic Programming Notebook, and John Koza has good Genetic Programming links
• The GA Archives; GAGS is a good-looking C++ class set for GAs, GALIB is another C++ lib from MIT; a GA homepage
• Simulated Annealing, and Annealing & Optimization Web Tour. Hanbook of Evolutionary Computation
• A tutorial on Cellular Automata
• The Grammatical Inference homepage (grammar induction)
• BAYES NETS: An awfully thorough page of info. and pointers at UConn (formerly at AFIT); a quick tutorial introduction; list of software (Marina recommends netica); lots of links from Russ Greiner. OpenBayes.
• Ian Greenshields' class lecture notes on statistical pattern recognition are a bit simplistic
• learning in games: Computer Games Olympiad rides again! (at least in 2000); mpf, a good summary of many games at gameai.com, Jay Scott's page is quite complete; comp.ai.games archive and FAQ Steve Woodcock's also has lots; programming games/contests list; game programming resources; combinatorial games
• RL: Rich's book online!, his RL FAQ, and his proposed standard RL interface; an RL Repository at Michigan State; an RL Tutorial which looks pretty good.
• AI/ML conferences, and conferences/workshops/events on vision, speech, NN, etc.; NIPS online has all proceedings
• COMPUTER CHESS: Programming has lots of references including source code; the Internet Chess Library; the ICCA, KnightCap!, events and links.
• GO: Computer Go from Jan van der Steen (misc. go info from him too), and from the American Go Association, go programming resources, Peer Sommerlund has several links; the Computer Go mailing list with archives, a good list of links from bigbear; nuri ftp site and pubgo ftp site with some papers too; lots of online papers in this bibliography; go bible has both rules and net resources; go software, and an extremely compehensive directory of go resources on the net.
• BACKGAMMON: Backgammon Galore, GammonLinks; a survey of some backgammon papers on the net.
• CMP-LG is the computational linguistics preprint archive.
• SVMs: A support vector homepage, SV.net is a book site which has lots of online papers & links to implementations etc.; an online demo; SVMTorch implementation for large-scale problems, Torch is a generalization including many different learning machines, SVM-light implementation of SVM on DONLP2 or now PR_LOQO, SvmFu, libSVM; RHUC's svm distribution (possibly also here). Some good papers on SVM-related stuff, incl. several SMO tweaks and other efficient algos. (See "optimization" below for resources for quadratic programming.)
• NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATION: optimization software guide is part of the NEOS project (which offers free cycles to solve your problems), and other public domain optimization software of all sorts (job-shop too!), plus a good page with explanations(!) and software(!) for Global (and local) optimization; COOOL source package has many elementary optimization techniques. Benchmarks of optimization packages, LANCELOT is a free QP package! fsqp has a QP solver inside it, originally from Klaus Schittkowski (he has many more there, but not free); PORT3 has a lot of routines. ppserver is Charles & Parry's parallel matlab which may be useful.
• SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION: Netlib and GAMS, Intel MKL (Math kernel Library) provides highly optimized versions of BLAS and LAPACK, Blitz++, object-oriented numerics site has a great list of hundreds of packages for numerical computation, vision, visualization, graphs, etc.; source of all sorts at The Open Science Project, SAL, scientific applications under Linux, has a ton of stuff! Mathematics, numerical analysis, parallel programming, visualization, computer graphics & modelling, programming, database, office suites, etc! UMd HCI Lab has a bunch of neat techniques for visualization of time series data, trees, clustering, etc.
• ICA, also at Salk
• Andrew Ng's ML-Papers is pretty cool (searches!), and the same for CS at Cora, plus a better one called ResearchIndex; also a very good set of online papers for GAs, GPs, NNs, and some other ML.
• tutorials on many ai/ml-type subjects
• Systems I can learn: nuclear reactor, airplanes, ships, underwater vehicles, satellite, other benchmarks
• MML

Computer Technology and Market

• CPU/MACHINE BENCHMARKS: SPEC benchmarks, my benchmark suite (good!), MM/MD timings on workstations and parallel machines, sciencemark may someday be good, and a CPU stats page at Berkeley; chipgeek has a lot of good info on current processors.
• HISTORICAL/TECHNICAL CPU/MACHINE INFO: Aad Offerman's chiplist (has mostly PC-type processors, but a great history!), architectural overviews of all notable VLSI microprocessors. Random tech info in ArsTechnica's Technopaedia. A very good history of computers (though currently very poorly organized and linked) and an excellent timeline of computers and the internet. Some great early PC pictures
• PC PROCESSOR/CHIPSET INFO: mikeshardware has a good intel/amd roadmap for all products, plus news and prices; secrets of Intel chips; sandpile.org has the most complete set of info. about PC processors I've seen; Tom's Hardware Guide has much stuff incl. a good intel roadmap; and another intel roadmap on a site with all the news , really good weekly news hardware summaries at vr-zone, and good detailed overviews of processors and chip sets, out of the horse's mouth: developer.intel.com; optimizing for pentiums.
• x86-64: x86-64.org, linuxia64.org.
• good heat/cooling/performance info at overclockers.com.
• MEMORY: A 2001 thesis on current memory, and his DRAM research page
• Random list of tech info: chips, microcontrollers, modems, PCs, etc.; also links to tech specs for many vendors of most types of PC components
• Hardware reviews from gamespot
• SPECS AND BUYING GUIDES: SharkyExtreme has technically-oriented guides to parts (drives, motherboards, ...); a really great searchable database of monitor specs (for flat panels). Browse by specs at shopping.com and J&R.
• PROJECTORS: presentingsolutions is a vendor with an extremely informative comprehensive website. ProjectorCentral.com. projectorpeople.com
• LAPTOPS: zdnet search for 4lb 14in; good feature finder at shopping.com. some reviews at consumersearch.com ultra-lightweight at dynamism.com. pcworld reviews. PARTS: pchub.com, laptopparts.com. searchlighttech.com is a b2b inventory search engine (look up part#).
• HARDWARE DIAGNOSTICS: memtest86; a good page on cpu and memory troubleshooting
• COMPUTER PARTS PRICES: in the 2000s, PcPartPicker picked up where pricewatch left off. PricePages has links to several price comparison services, including Pricewatch (looks good for RAM), CNET Shopper, NetBuyer from Computer Shopper, StreetPrices, PC-Today, and local info from PCsForEveryone; hard drives from CompuNuts, TheRef has old drive info, but Dan Kegel has many links to fast large drives, and storagesearch.com is a great reference for ssd (solid state drives) of all sorts. Network Buyer's Guide
  vendor's prices: jem's basement, atic, Computer Quick, Bason, trucost, ANS
  RAM: ram4less, AccessMicro (good for laptop memory), Mushkin, the Memory Man, memory4sale, memory4less, balatech
  disks: hard-drive.com, seeks, harddisk.com
• NETWORK Stuff: practicallynetworked has reviews, news, tutorials, good info on routers, switches, wireless, DSL, etc.; OpenWRT has a large set of wireless hardware models & specs; LAN technology scorecard lists all the protocols, switch comparison, telecom/data network info page -- good summary of bandwidth, etc., and MapNet, a really cool interactive map of all major backbones! (pointed to by cybergeography.org; Connectivity has links to traffic maps, etc.; network performance, traffic analysis and visualization list from NLANR. Measure your connection bandwidth via the bandwidth speed test, or the current(2011) best is netalyzer (broswer-based). smokeping is a good client tool to keep running. A good primer on the basics of the internet.
• 802.11: basic specs on many wireless cards and sensitivities, Senao 2511CD series looks highest power JUL02, resold by EnGenius, but this SMC card looks equally good; really good deals from TigerDirect; WARDRIVING: a good directory of sniffing software, and another list ; linux tools kismet, airsnort, wepcrack, and prismstumbler; windows tools netstumbler (site has databases and maps!), apsniff, and aerosol; mognet is java; ethereal does everything everywhere, and packetyzer looks like it makes it even more cool! default passwords for all sorts of networking gear. Lots of good ops tools. setup guide for hostAP, and another. dd-wrt has repeater capability (with better setup instructions in the dd-wrt docs). The Compaq iPAQ HNW-100 is a repackaged Gemtek WL-211F card (also sold as D-Link DWL-650) based on an Intersil Prism2. MIT wireless service info. (student registration; also IP ranges by room). warchalking. BAWIA, wi-find.com, nodedb.com's boston listings, a map of cambridge nodes from wifimaps.com.
• MY NETWORK DEVICES: download cingular software for my EDGE cell modem. trendnet 802.11g card downloads (TEW-421PC).
• DSL: dslreports.com evaluates (they have a speed test too, though a better one is at MSN and the one at Cox seems OK too; speakeasy's, bandwidthplace's.) (they also have a port scanner). boston's city-wide (sometimes free?) wifi non-profit is openairboston.net, and cambridge's free equivalent Cambridge Public Internet might ge boing to wimax (802.16)? speakeasy was said to be the best in the area ($60/mo) until they sold the company, but someone likes cyberonic in Cambridge ($40, 1 static IP). TZO does some kinda dynamic DNS which might be useful for DSL, as does DynDNS.org; dynamic DNS guides here and here. zoneedit.com gives free DNS (plus dynamic DNS), granitecanyon.com has free DNS. Cheap domain registrars: joker.com, gandi.net (in France? is cheap), godaddy.com.
• trianglecables seems good and cheap for all sorts of computer/audio/video cables & converters.
• DVD FAQ has good info on DVDs and DVD-roms, writers, etc. (get DVD+R)
• PCGuide has lots of good tutorials on how computers work, modern pc components, etc.
• DriverGuide login: drivers passwd: all; driverfiles.net.
• MIT Flea swapfest, third Sunday of each month April through October (print flyer for discount).

Linux System Info

• Linux homepage is simplistic; searchlinux greps through relevant mailing lists; Documentation Project (LDP), HOWTOs, mailing list archives; Linux Gazette, Gary's 'pedia has lots of info. archived/linked about linux.
• KERNEL: kernelnotes.org (which will eventually migrate to kernel.org) and linuxhq still hangs on; the kernelbook strives to be the definitive reference on the linux kernel, linux-kernel mailing list archive and excellent kernel-traffic summaries, /proc filesystem docs; performance tuning is currently pretty lame, linux memory management and the linux-mm mailing list and bugzilla, and linux-mm.org, linux VM overview. Kernel source cvs tree or html cvs browser; also a pretty neat hypertext cross-referencing source browser. A good intro article on ext3 with good links, and a mdadm primer for RAID management, a good tutorial on all the values/settings in /proc/sys/net/.
• AI Lab Linux page; Linux mailing list archives; other Linux places
• Linux-SMP
• LAPTOPS: linux-laptop.net has details for all, plus the HOWTO.
• Linux Software Map at MetaLab, linux.org, by Markku Rossi or Thomas Boutell; a great list of linux software; or just look in the Sunsite FTP archive; also, the RPM Repository (aka rpmfind.net), but rpmseek.net might be better now; find rpm from file for redhat, and RedHat Contrib|Net. appwatch
• Slackware 3.0 Bugs&Fixes
• XFree86 homepage, plus its DRI for fast 3D (incl original docs). linux3d (can refer to 3dhardware.net for info on, yes, 3d hardware).
• FVWM docs, config, official homepage, unoficial homepage,VLC is a linux DVD player!! config examples, GoodStuff.
• OS EMULATORS on Linux: vmware (commercial), win4lin (also commercial, only does Win9x), and complete x86 emulator bochs will run any x86 OS on any hardware (quite slowly). User-Mode Linux is extremely cool!
• OS EMULATORS on Windows: vmware and bochs will both also run in Windows. OK, it's not linux, but it's almost close: Alpha NT; and linux on anything with plex86 (formerly freeMWare), UWIN, Interix (was OpenNT), and NuTCracker; also noteworthy is Cygwin.
• CLUSTER-related info: beowulf, and beowulf underground, Beowulf mailing list archives. many linux high-speed network options, Gbit ethernet switching, Myrinet (gigabit networking, not ethernet, $1600-$1800/node incl. switch) packetengines (Gb ethernet on fiber), SilkWorm (Gb fiber ATM).
• FIBER primer
• VENDORS: For rack-mounts: pssclabs claims to be cheap; we've used aslab successfully; penguincomputing; a couple blu people like Silicon Mechanics. also check out xtreme-machines
• FILE SYSTEMS: Benchmarking journaling file systems on many different operations.
• BACKUP: Amanda is networked backup, with a chapter on using it.
• HIGH AVAILABILITY: HOWTO, Redundant Linux resources, which points to FAKE; LinuxVirtualServer and Linux-HA projects
• Linux-Life has links to lots of resources, docs, etc about linux and unix in general.
• RDBM/Oracle: installing oracle8i on linux,, oracle on linux oracle on RH62, oracle805 on redhat
• USERS GROUPS: BLU, BBLISA, 2600 Boston.

Investing/Finance

• Mutual Funds: American Century (daily prices and performance stats); fidelity e401k, Fidelity prices, and Fidelity annual reports. Mutual Funds Magazine, fund finder allows you to select many criteria.
• Stock/Fund Quotes and charts: quote.yahoo, stockcharts is really cool, bigcharts. investor.msn, dbc, pcquote, quote. investools from Schwab. closed end fund data, that and more from ETFConnect.
• INVESTMENT NEWSLETTERS: Richard Russell's Dow Theory Letters etc. site; John Mauldin's article archive (his podcasts seem to be way out of date), and his Outside the Box archive (crestmont research has some of the custom studies he refers to); The Daily Reckoning (archives); Fixed Income Weekly Review and archives. Fullermoney gets recommended by Russell occasionally, and looks like it might be good; Greg Weldon seems pretty respected. Know less about Zeal. The Prudent Bear. John Hussman.
• GOLD: Indices XAU, HUI, and GOX; Current and historical gold price charts from kitco.com, nice java charts from galmarley.com, current prices from thebulliondesk.com, and good research/stats/marketing from gold.org including gold prices in many currencies. Commentary: gold-eagle might be the best known, but money-monitor.com is Greg Weldon's new gold-specific site and might be good.
• BONDS: Commentary by Bill Gross, Bob Arnott of Pimco.
• CURRENCIES: Daily Pfennig has daily commentary
• ECONOMIC DATA: Federal Reserve minutes give very good economic summaries. The Fed's FRED II collection of 1000 time series is good; economagic.com has a tremendous number of time series (see the popular data especially), but you have to take their "security features" out of the html; and freelunch.com has nearly a million series! From the horse's mouth: BLS (and they have a nice inflation calculator). Another inflation calculator (which doesn't match the BLS's numbers exactly) goes back to 1800. Leading, coincident, and lagging indicators from the Conference Board. IMF World Economic Outlook data, incl. world GDP and inflation. The FRB's Survey of Consumer Finances makes its raw data available! Something related from the Census Bureau. M3 comes from shadowstats and nowandfutures.com now.
• Cover's Universal Portfolio: possibly commercialized by Mountain View Analytics. Papers citing the original. Vempala & Kalai's efficient algorithm.
• techstocks is said to be a good source of intelligent discussion and informed opinion; a good glossary of financial terms financialweb.com has quotes and articles.
• ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Small Business Administration MIT Entrepreneurship Center (has a decent guide to angels), MIT Enterprise Forum, CapitalVenue, xconomy.com lists a bunch of resources (like enterprise forum, y combinator, deshpande, etc). SCOREBoston has free/cheap biz consulting help (esp. biz plans); Crimson Angels; netpreneur.com, Center for Entrepreneurial Growth, incubators, Boston angels, entrepreneur-america by Ascend founder has "boot camp," caycon.com lists a bunch of resources. RSI Business Hatchery for Rickoids. entremate.com helps entrepreneurs find co-founders. VC database with other info.
• LEGAL: Template (real!) legal contracts from findlaw; also see allbusiness.com, uslegalforms.com, homebusinessonline.com, alllaw.com, legaldocs.com, ilrg.com, lectlaw.com lawguru.com.
• BANKS: bankrate reviews a lot of online banks (and is a good reference for all sorts of consumer finance: banks, loans, credit cards, ...). all the banks and bank info services I'd recorded here are no longer around!
• credit cards: credit card tuneup finds the best cash back card for your spending profile.
• discount entertainment credit cards: Primecard, TransMedia, Dining a la Card
• CREDIT: annualcreditreport.com gives access to the free annual credit reports - jointly operated by all 3 companies. info on credit cards and reports
• TAXES: Mass Tax forms & publications; Mass DOR Directive (DD) 03-12 is extremely clear at the ends of directive 2 and discussion 2 that the sale of s-corp stock is not taxable to non-residents. FL intangibles tax information (now $250K exemption, plus $60K grace, 1 permil)
• stock details (for "statutory stock options"): ISO & stock purchase ("ESOP"), all of IRC sec.83! and sec.422 dealing with ISOs specifically, and AMT implications. 401k code.

USACO/IOI/Programming Contests

• IOI secretariat site, IOInformatics into site, and 2003 (US!) (don's plan), 2002 (Korea), 2001 (Finland), 2000 (China), 1999 (Turkey), 1998 (Portugal), 1997 (S.Africa), 1996 (Hungary), 1995 (Netherlands), and 1994 (Sweden). IOI-related guides from Tom Verhoeff. ISC homepage and mailing list archives. IOIForum is a small community. Kunsoo's Grading System.
• USACO! (old) and camp, train.usaco.org, bulletin board, mancala; training pages, training page results.
• graph drawing, e.g. with graphviz (AT&T's home has docs)
• COW STUFF: Big Dave's Cow Page looks like the first stop for all bovine topics; the dancing cow page; 4H, US Dairy Database, Moomilk, Binary Arts has great games.
• OTHER CONTESTS: Kim's CodeCup; DSAP is for the *OI! ACM Programming Contest info, another Spanish ACM collection of 600 problems with an online judge! an ACM problem archive; the "CPU Club" has pointers to archives and solutions; MD High School programming contest; Langham Creek HS has programming contests; a reactive programming contest; POTM was back for a bit, virtual source programmig contests run forever?!, UB Programming Contest, MSOworld programming contest and its mailing list archive has been replaced by Al Zimmerman's. Problem of the Week; Slovak OI CSP programming contest in Slovakia; IPSC, an assembly contest in Finland; ACSL, CEOI archive, CEOI98, CEOI99; BOI in general, BOI97, BOI99, BOI00; SEARCC archive; Hungary's programming contest problem archive; ICP, hs-computing mailing list archive. math and algo. puzzles from Weizmann, with links to others, and the rec.puzzles archive. games & puzzles journal, touch puzzles.
• Obfuscated C Contest
• COMPILERS/IDEs: GPC, FPC, RHIDE XWPE
• TSP solvers!; TSPBIB has software listings.
• NP-Complete problems and approximability results; Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual online in hypertext, (which includes the the SUNY-SB Algo Repository); DADS looks great!!
• OR resources on the net -- optimization, problem instances, and more.
• USAMO, IChO.

Cars

• MECHANICS: local listings at car talk, massRMV scores for emissions repairs (one star means they issued waivers!) and inspection stations
• INSURANCE: mass.gov/autorates lists competitive auto insurance rates, with listings for my survey profile. companies offering auto insurance discounts, and a current list of approved SDIP discounts.
• REGS: Mass. Drivers Manual, Mass General Laws, including MGL chpaters 89 and 90.
• MAINTENANCE: A good set of tutorials on cars is at Auto101. good car part directories at car-part.com and getusedparts.com. Tech battery info at batteryfaq.org.
• GAS: BostonGasPrices.com, gaspricewatch, autos.msn.
• TIRES: tirerack.com tech center has more info than you want, including user surveys (Toyo Open Country A/T, Michelin Cross-Terrains might be good general; Bridgestone Blizzaks look good for winter); 1010tires.com also has a good selection (incl. Toyo, unlike tirerack).
• BUYING: BlueBook new/used car prices, actual new car prices! CarBuyingTips.com, car-buying-strategies.com, autotrader.com for used cars. carpoint. luxury SUV safety info. boston.com/cars is just a private-labelled version of cars.com; autobytel, automart is quite good, autonation has a good search. also check out truecar, cargurus. edmunds has lots of good car-buying info.
• RX300: LexusOwnersClub and Edmunds fora; alt.autos.lexus; clublexus service bulletins and articles; maintenance due. parts from lexus-parts.com and drivewire.com. Links at lexstasy. Maintenance: troublecodes.net and CBEST info.
• $50 lyft credit

House

• REPAIR: hometips.com has some good beginner articles, as does this old house, of course. veneer plaster and blueboard installation, and plastering tips. thistothat recommends glues for gluing many difft materials together.
• CONTRACTORS/REPAIR: Services, improvements, repair, etc. referrals from servicemagic.com
• ELECTRIC POWER UTLITY: mass.gov's complete guide to competitive power. NStar lets you look up licensed competitive suppliers they do business with, and NStar gives a pretty complete list of competitive suppliers as does state.ma.us. at the moment it seems only dominion offers residential service. you can ask NStar to include you in the Customer Information List sent to competitive suppliers. mass.gov advice on picking a competitive power supplier. regional average power label from 2001. (see also lists/power-supplier)
• Info on power, heating, and cooling; and EREC factsheets for energy efficiency tips
• APPLIANCE PARTS: repairclinic.com for bigger home appliances, totalvac.com does smaller appliances, Goodmans in So. Miami appears to have a pretty good selection for small appliances; a directory on yahoo. For electronics, electronixand parts-express both seem good.
• PARTS: Ron says McMaster-Carr has absolutely everything.
• ELECTRONICS PARTS: digikey, jameco, future-active.com. electronix.com, mcminone.com, dalbani.com, parts-express.com. a good list; Comprehensive set of links about measuring & testing. Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ, similar from Silicon Sam.
• FURNITURE: used from the European Club
• Taylor Rentals in Cambridge/Somerville; conversely, WeGetRidOfIt is an expensive junk removal & recycling outfit, and CRT Recycling takes for FREE all types to crt tubes, computers, vcrdvd players, and other electronics!

Real Estate (Buying/Renting)

• REAL ESTATE: LISTINGS: redfin is the current leader, trulia was the previous. ziprealty from realtor.com, mlspin (easy form, but no addresses and not much detail); The Link listings from bostonrealty.net (directed here by universityre.com), boston.com has MLS + globe + broker; cambridgerealestate.com is MLS with all info except addresses. sotheby's has high-end properties in greater Boston.
  FSBO: ISoldMyHouse.com. owners.com,
  FORECLOSURES: One source is realtytrac (looks like you need to pay $30/month to get real data; only a 7-day trial is available)
  Boston-area OPEN HOUSES: boston.com is the single best source; newenglandmoves.com gives CBRB and MLS, hammondre.com is also MLS; The Link doesn't have much for Cambridge.
  Miami-area OPEN HOUSES: floridamoves.com (search nearby cities, 5mi of pinecrest), EWM.com's open houses. miami herald classifieds (map view).
  PROPERTY RESEARCH: Massachusetts Property Information Finder links to all towns' assessor databases! And the Massachusetts Interactive Property Map shows all parcels and ownership! (One of several maps from MassGIS.) Assessors' Databases for Cambridge (which also points to visionappraisal's site (which allows pw-less login)), cambridge gis has many maps incl. historical protection zones! zillow.com purports to chew a lot of data to come up with a valuation (seems to underestimate at $1.5M but way overestimate at $2M), and Boston. boston globe (incl. sales prices for any address fragment); finest expert gives financial analysis for rental investment on some listings.
  MARKET STATS: MLS sales in past 12 months (can search by street too); and the same from banker & tradesman/warren (again, can search by street too). Regional home sales data from Natl Assoc. of Realtors (see the Current Release); great market stats by quarter (need an agent account now??), an annual Cambridge housing report, monthly MA data and historic trend graphs for MA. Historical mortgage rate data from Freddie Mac, and a good quarterly national housing report from OFHEO (awk 'BEGIN{t=1}{t*=1+($3/400);print $1+($2-1)*.25,t}').
  GENERAL INFO: Listing of Cambridge neighborhoods. condo buying guide?, house hunter's helper. good guide to home styles.
• RENTAL APARTMENTS: padmapper looks the best (with at least craigslist, padlister, apartmentsearch, airbnb, apartentfindeer, realtor.com, apartments.com, rent.com, and "others". hotpads also has good inventory (with cute icons!), some of it original; mapliv has a good interface to craigslist, hotpads, rentlinx, lovely inventory; and rentjungle has a lot of listings incl craigslist (& leaks street addresses! :) although many seem outdated? it points to at least hotpads. trulia & zillow both have rental data. myapartmentmap.com seems to have less inventory, and housingmaps.com I think just has craigslist apartments without a great interface any more. MIT off-campus housing office (needs MIT cert) and a deep links for searching camb+3br+wd with off-street or garaged parking; rentmonkey (also mit-only) focuses more on places students are living. MLS data from century 21 (click type->rental) and directly from mls logged in as trgrealty. BostonApartments.com has a ton of rental listings and can search for furnished, but poor organization (no map!); boston.com has a lot of rental listings, myapartmentsearch (was relocationcentral.com) seems to only have big professional properties, and ditto for move.com (same as rent.net, rentnet.com), and apartments.com. Some individual agencies: apartmenthub, and polina like eplace.com for some reason. apartmentratings.com has ratings/reviews for the bigger apt buildings. apartmentratings.com could be good if they had a lot more data. rentometer shows scraped listings with the median. Good summary of tenant's rights, and more from the Mass. Attorney General. boston-online has a good compilation of links. sunrise publishes free northeast housing market analyses.
  SABBATICAL/SUBLET HOUSING: sabbaticalhomes looks by far the most complete; harvard sabbaticals has listings and you can post; the sabbatical house in huron; academichomes has little inventory, but you could post there; sabbatical.com might be a forum where you could post.
• MOVING: see 'moving-and-storage' file. usps has advice, DOT tells you how to pick a moving co.
• ARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort
• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
• CAD Centre Engineering Information Guide
• The Center for Excellence in Education, and Alumni Organization including 1987 people. AlumReader.
• CRYPTO: GNU Privacy Handbook (GPG docs), pgp-howto. Vince Cate's Cryptorebel/Cypherpunk Page; (almost related: 10minutemail.com gives ephemeral email addresses (a "disposable email" service) Great detailed lecture notes on theory and practice of cryptography, authentication, security, etc. very old phrack archives
• Financial aid information from finaid.org
• GRANTS: ARPA, NSF (FastLane for grants, NSF forms), and NIH
• WORDS: wordsmith.org has A Word A Day and the internet anagram server
• Everything you always wanted to know about SLIP and PPP
• Project Gutenberg
• News of the Weird
• PATENTS: USPTO allows front page searches, has classification info, and other general stuff, and is made much easier to use with pat2pdf; an alphabetical classification index; the Software Patent Institute maintains a database of prior art; Community of Science has a nice search interface for all US cover fields (incl. abstract and all claims). international grace periods (how long after public disclosure you have to file).
• ITA Software homepage, beta, and Qstuff. PlaneBusiness is a good industry rag, and the ultimate airline porn (some at CruisinAltitude too). airline meal archive. Sky High Airlines, a parody site by AS. locations: airnav, FAA. Really cool: draw great circles by airport codes! Aircraft specs at airliners.de, and a few at HFA, and all the right entries at smartcockpit.com (though they're all empty at the moment). Airline Psgr Fairness Act 1999
• TRAVELLING: Johnny Jet'stravel portal with links to EVERYTHING travel-related; Wash. Post's comprehensive reviews of all travel-related sites (air, car, lodging, cruise, weather, tours, etc.), Bob Cowen's internet travel tips/reviews (bobstraveltips.com); Links to just about any airline in existence, and one air charter service from piston to widebody. executive summary of leading travel portals, Fool.com's list of all important travel sites; PCMag online travel site review from Jan. 4, 1998.
  • crankyconcierge has a great rep; email david hotz directly for a good one.
  • Rule 240-style reaccom provisions in many contracts of carriage.
  • JET LAG: jetlagrooster gives schedules; entrain.org has an app which does.
  • FREQUENT FLIER: milecalc.com has a good award mileage calculator (and android app). awardwallet is said to be the best site to automatically track mileage, expiration, logins, etc. DL Medallion info, AA special ff offers. many FF program links, frequentflier.com has good complete profiles of the programs, including partners; OAG has one page listing partners, and an even more thorough partner listing from airguideonline.com. Really good freq flier info on the fora at flytertalk.com (check for unpublished promos etc.).
  • Airline reviews from AirlineQuality.com (be sure to click the link at the top of the content to get passenger reviews), and they also list seat pitch for tons of carriers -- as does findthebest (seat ptich, carry-ons, ratings, etc).
  • Real-time detailed flight tracking from rlmsoftware and trip.com, though flightaware is said to be the best of them. good FLIFO info from flightstats.com (which also has links & phone numbers of all airlines). maps all flights in the air now.
  • WEB TRAVEL AGENTS: ITN, Travelocity, Expedia. airtreks does round-the-world trips with a nice interface.
  • META-SEARCH: sidestep, qixo, farechase; kayak, Portals2TheWorld. insidetrip does an lfs and also rates each according to 12 comfort criteria. amadeus's meta?
  • CONSOLIDATORS & SPECIALIZED TRAVEL: cheapflights.com is a consolidator search engine, airlineconsolidator.com is a vendor. air-fare.com lists the current lowest fares in major markets; airtreks plans complicated intl trips; discount airfare links,
  • PRIVATE JET CHARTERS: online quotes from privatefly, evojets, jetpartners, pro-sky, and the very expensive executive jet management. EmptyLegMarket might have some "deals?", as might Magellan's empty leg finder. OR, get 25-hour "jet cards" from e.g. netjets marquis, flexjet sentient, Magellan Jets, or any of the ones listed in one of the many comparison sites.
  • SEATING: seatguru.com looks like a great service, and seatexpert.com does a pretty similar thing. seatplans.com has good ratings & explanations of all difft classes of service. flatseats.com explains the types of 1st & biz class seats difft cxrs have.
• TRAVEL DESTINATION INFO: lonely planet, wikivoyage has some useful info (and has replaced wikitravel), fabsearch talks about only the trendiest hotels & restaurants. travel.excite, globalroadwarrior.com has lots of good country facts for travelers CIA World Factbook as always, LOC's "country studies" is very thorough, and these days wikipedia has a pretty good synopsis. Quickaid has travel info plus all airport maps - though ifly is said to have the best airport info - and TravLang has traveler's language and other resources, body gestures appropriate to many countries, and links to cultural tips for many countries. the state dept. has travel warnings with lots of good info.
• LOOK UP PNRS: Sabre on virtuallythere.com, Galileo on viewtrip.com, Worldspan on mytripandmore.com, Amadeus on checkmytrip.com.
• CAR RENTAL: p2p car sharing is all the rage now, e.g. turo.com rents by the day and seems to have tons of inventory nationally; getaround.com is only in a few cities but rents daily or hourly; justshareit.com appears to have very little inventory, though they do rent hourly or daily. autoslash sounds interesting - car meta purporting to try all known current discount codes, but they seem to only know about sixt?? and kayak has had equal prices when I've checked. orbitz gives good info about pickup locations. travelnow.com uses worldspan; smarterliving.com. Mastercard rental coverage
• HOTEL: Bob says travelaxe.com is best, but I like hotwire (USA), and sidestep is pretty slick now. bookingbuddy fills in the prego for you on all the major sites (many of which travelaxe doesn't cover, although note that travelocity seems to be useless as they don't check availability). hoteldiscounts.com has done really well in the past (but maybe they're showing unavailable rooms?). B&Bs everywhere, Venere has hotels & B&Bs all over Europe. hideaways int'l has leads on unique and interesting lodging opportunities; homeaway and vrbo are big vacation rental sites, istopover and airbnb let you rent rooms in homes. smarterliving.com, hotels.com (covered by travelaxe), travelscape thinks they're good. booking.com covers Europe & US with an OK interface. alltherooms.com once had lots of listings (incl airbnb, vrbo, flipkey, expe, pcln) - do they still?? tripping.com has vrbo, homeaway, tripadvisor, and booking.com; others like it are hometogo, holidu, hundredrooms, fewoferien, holidayhomes. sonder has apartments in big cities managed like a nice hotel; others like it are oasis, bookingpal, hostmaker. glampinghub has things like yurts and beach huts.
• Deluxe trips: Classical Cruises have an intellectual bent; INTRAV books deluxe trips, Abercrombie & Kent has deluxe and adventure trips, Lindblad has a reputation for outdoorsy adventure expeditions. LuxuryLink points to many options, preferredhotels.com. Seabourn (seaborne?), Silversea (silver sea?), and Crystal Cruises are said to be "top-end" (fancy expensive) cruise lines. mid-range is princess & holland america. Not necessarily deluxe, but toursaver.com has good discounts on Alaska's best tourist/travel offerings. OR, just rent a private charter e.g. a few-person catamaran in the caribbean. (appears to be $1500-$4000 per person for a week, all inclusive; renting a "berth" means shared = charter a cabin) -- e.g. phaedrus is a 2-person yacht with good amenities & good-looking food and a cat for $3000pp/week (though it's just a monohull), one service's list of 2-guest catamarans.
• AIR TRANSPORT tech info: A very good Sabre information system giving tutorial/explanatory information (e.g. see "PNR" or "ticketing" or "seats" or "pricing," etc.). stats from the US government on airline travel (tables at the bottom are particularly useful); Air Transport Assn data/stats (look at the annual report) and handbook; EXCELLENT information: aviation-related DOT dockets, including IATA reports, orders and notices, or retrieve a specific docket. iata number validator (even though it gets ita's code wrong), TLAs from IATA and (bogus??) carrier codes from Sabre, and a list of all CRSs, schedule providers; DSNs from ATPCO; Memos from IATA; ARC manual. IATA scheduling conference and committee info, minutes, etc. Revenue mangement: can order some MIT/FTL tech reports, get MIT theses online, search CTS theses, get ICAT publications.
• Unsolved Math Problem of the Week
• Massachusetts EMT page
• XEmacs home page, docs, and example .emacs files
• X apps FAQ has pointers to good apps..
• amusing, and possibly interesting, "Fringe Science" and more
• BOOKS: the requisite link to Amazon. addall (was bookarea.com) is still the best; allbookstores.com is good, shopping.com is OK (was Acses, then DealPilot, then evenbetter.com, then dealtime, which got eaten by shopping.com). Historically good booksellers: ComputerLiteracy, bookpool has discount technical books. Used books: ABEbooks.com, bookfinder, bibliofind.
• a good general-audience biology guide: Bugs in the News
• Physics Lovers' Paradise; "physics topics"has basically several physics textbooks on a decent range of fundamental physics. also Mitchell Charity's View from the Back of the Envelope, his solar system scale map and his musings, and a few neat things at the Physics Page including a great list of orders of magnitude, and great timelines of science, history, nature, also with a great constants list; Planetary Data on our solar system; The Last Word answers hundreds of simple questions about scientific phenomena! Naturalist world records (deepest, biggest, etc.)
• Outlines on all US Presidents
• EMAIL: procmail documentation project gives tips, and a disorganized tutorial. mailman the GNU mailing list manager with a web interface, web archiving, auto bounce handling! MIT spam screening using X-Spam-Flag: YES fixing outlook. SitePowerUP offers free web services of: discussion boards, forms processing, and polls. excellent mutt tweaks. SYNCING: isync's home page, mailsync offlineIMAP looks like it might be good. IMAP & GMAIL: mutt+gmail+offlineimap tips; multiple gmail accts w/mutt; mutt config for gmail.
• long distance rate comparisons at Fone Saver and BestTelephoneRates, teleworth.com, phonecheaper.com
• Cabot House and mailing list cabot-open, The Harvard Crimson, and Harvard College has a really nice graphical design. harvard dining services menus. list of everyone who's stayed in every harvard freshman dorm
• Mesh Mart and 3DSite have 3D models! also avalon and 3DCafe; flay.com is said to be good.
• Periodic Table of the Elements
• sockets FAQ and more
• IANA numbers have all the standard numbers used anywhere!, and the IP network domain list
• COMPUTER DONATION/REUSE: mutual aid of medford & somerville took computers post-pandemic; reuse@mit, goodwill takes computers; TecsChange is hyper-local; world computer exchange takes any old computer and sends them internationally. search for other places accepting computer donations at digitunity.
• COMPUTER RECYCLING(=DISPOSAL): best buy takes all sorts incl crt tvs! staples also takes all sorts (not crts though). amazon's trade-in program gives tiny amounts of credit towards purchase of e.g. amazon fire tablets. search for nearby spots which take old electronics or battery recycling or hazardous materials(!) at earth911, recyclenation, and greener gadgets.
• BOOK DONATIONS: gotbooks.com picks up free, takes everything except magazines, newspapers, catalogs.
• FAQs on textiles and sewing -- from alt.sewing and rec.crafts.textiles.* groups; Kwik-Sew has lots of patterns for sale. pattern & instructions for fleece mittens
• pictorial guide to N. American fishes; the FDA's fish list is great! Fish of the Gulf of Maine has detailed info.
• Web Alchemy converts between tons of different document/image file formats!
• APPLE ][: a great history site; Apple ][ emulator in Java!!
• Numerical Analysis resources on the net (incl. optimization, numerical computation, etc.) from SAL.
• List of casinos for online gambling
• nonprofit info, i.e., for MITOC or JAMS.
• spyschool at MIT (IAP?)
• consumer info
• SHOPPING AGENTS: roboshopper is a meta-searcher which lets you search on a dozen search sites. Bizrate's SuperFind looks good, as does DealTime == shopping.com (which consumer reports liked); the next tier includes BottomDollar = Pricegrabber, shopper.cnet.com, MySimon, streetprices.com (for computer stuff only?), froogle, which is complemented by catalogs.google. AOL's instore.com is slick but doesn't have the inventory (yet). pricescan once did best (provided you know exactly the product you want). and buyersindex looks thorough.
  MERCHANTS: bizrate, of course; resellerratings.com, fatwallet's retailer ratings.
  LISTS: searchenginewatch has a good article reviewing a dozen. smartbots.com lists them all, consumerworld lists many, Yahoo lists some (more elsewhere on yahoo), this directory of shopping online lists agents and much more.
• COUPONS/DISCOUNTS/SALES: dealnews lists sales occurring in real stores and online sales; coupons are at retailmenot, edealfinder (good), DealOfDay, fatwallet. Also observed to be good once: currentcodes, dealhunting, rather-be-shopping, mycouponcodes, valueconsumer, ahugedeal, searchbysite, dealcatcher, 1000freecoupons, 100hotdeals, flamingoworld, jumpondeals, funtasia, bargainshopoing, couponcraze, amazing-bargains, frugalrewards, 4allcoupons, imegadeals,
• Mackay's ITPRNN book
• Weizmann Institute of Science -- follow summer programs, and then ISSI; WIS'88 reunion info
• CRACKING: Unix: rootshell.com has info (and source!) for all kinds of cracking tools, whitehats.com is really good, rootkit.nl has rkhunter. hacking/cracking documents (many are technical papers); 2600 has the hacker quarterly. Windoze: astalavista has lots of (windows) software piracy cracks/serial nos; also TIc97 looks good; serial number list.
• SECURITY: many OSes, RH51, securiteam, Openwall has linux patches & tools. top 20 vulnerabilities, top 50 linux security/cracking tools!
• MALWARE/SPYWARE: as of 2016, malwarebytes amp; superantispyware seem like the leaders; previous leaders like spybot & ad-aware have slid. but, I can't find any real testing results to validate this. also: spywareblaster does immunization, spywareguard does real-time detection.
• ANTIVIRUS: as of 2016, leaders seem to be kapersky, bitdefender, and avira (newcomer; first two have been on the list for a decade or more). testing is done by av-comparatives.org (with annual summary reports), and by av-test.org (their awards). good consumersearch.com reviews. av-test does android too (good review with some summarization of them).
• MAME: ROMs, more ROMs at ClassicGaming (look under "arcade roms" for mame); 500 ROMs; KLOV is a good reference for video game info.
• hebrew, maybe some here too.
• Harvard SETI page! :)      NASA-GTE and a good GTE project summary
• wavelets incl. tutorials
• MA state and the City of Boston
• AUCTIONS: US Marshals seizures/forefeitures, military. bid4assets.com seems to collect some.
• DNS Resources, internic, networksolutions, nameit.com is $10 and seems good, dotster is $15 and said to be good; lots of docs and faqs for Sun administration, sunhelp.org, sunfreeware; tru64 manuals, HPUX docs, Sun docs, IRIX docs; unix manuals for lots of utils and a full suite of gnu docs (with fewer at gnu.org, and some here and here), plus gdb, elisp, awk (at gnu.org), a sed tutorial and cookbook, bash scripting guide, and make. cvs manual. Unix Guru Universe looks like a good Unix tech ref, as does the Unix Programming FAQ, but IMHO the Advanced Linux Programming book isn't quite advanced enough. Lots of useful unix stuff in the glibc manual, gnu compilation tools manuals, csh programming basics, a c shell cookbook, bash guide, and another guide to all shell programming. OReilly Samba book is completely online (as is a good tutorial from IBM); I've used chklogs a couple of times now.
• Docs on tons of file formats
• Home automation links of all ilk; Smarthome is a big vendor, as is x10.com, and asihome.com; a list of suppliers. Pebbles is a CMU HCI project with good tools for controlling a PC from a Palm; PUC similarly controls appliances which don't exist yet, but also lets you control win media player.
• CRTMA shuttle from the T to 1 kendall square
• MP3: mp3-faq.org, MP3.com, and MP3s at Filez and from a skydiver; links to hundreds of sound utils like editors, converters, speech synthesis, etc.; Linux sound has all utils/src. Other linux audio: LA Development, LA Users Guide. (NB: grip+lame seems best for ripping, & rippit perl script), ripping guide. MPEG audio page, a good article on linux sound. Related: audio compression technology overview.
• P2P SHARING: kazaa (and Kazaa Lite (including K++, which used to be kazaa lite cracked)) and grokster and iMesh all use the same network and the same basic engine from FastTrack. morpheus (owner musiccity=streamcast) is now a gnutella participant. overnet is the new version of edonkey and is supposed to be the best for apps; open-source support for it, edonkey, and more from mldonkey (download). madster used to be aimster, opennap = napster-like open-source. slyck.com summarizes and reviews file sharing options. cnet's ratings of sharing software, spinfrenzy, scour. Stay away from audiogalaxy and gearshare -- they install lots of spyware.
• SPEECH SYNTHESIS: ElevenLabs is a 2024 good LLM TTS, voice cloning, voice changing, isolate voice in audio stream. Festival looks current and good; freetts is newer and in java; also check out kmouth.
• MOTORCYCLE INFO: tips & techniques, including some very good articles. trackday pro technique training. Motomarket in Acton has some good equipt. bostonbiker.com seems like a good resource for just about everything. An article on turning is one of several good safety articles at motorcycleworld.com.
• American Hemochromatosis Society; Iron Disorders Institute, ironoverload.org, links; one tester
• Satellite Visibility gives times, dates, & other info.
• graphics file formats fully documented
• INTERNET STATS/DEMOGRAPHICS: DMOZ listings. Weblog and Agentlog reports: Current browser breakdown for one site, similar from caltech. Someone's compilation from May '03. Tons of good browser info (try stats/design issues). ISP percentages.
• XML primer and docs from the W3C (note that there are also two more parts to this, with even more detail). SGML/XML, good class notes on XML/DTDs/XSLT/XSDs.
• Philg's Web Tools Review and courses. freewebs has slick photo albums & similar widgets I like a lot (can you snarf the flash, or do you have to use their hosting?)
• Alumni organizations: MIT and Harvard (class of '92).
• colocation facility reviews on slashdot.
• athena OLH, private workstation guide
• CELL PHONE: Look up carrier for a number (& get email address for texting!) at freecarrierlookup.com Much nifty cell service phone info concentrating on Boston. Sophisticated user community at HowardForums. Good coverage reviews at cellreception.com, crowdsourced coverage maps at sensorly.com, bad coverage reviews at deadcellzones.com. Buy used/refurbed phone at backmarket.com. For data communication with my juke, I got bitpim. DO NOT install rhapsody (drivers would be at vcast music but no driver needed for the juke). without it, samsung pc studio 3 might work to sync other data? also they refer to brewsky as a partner to bitpim? and qualcomm's qpst?
• CALENDARING: linuxmafia has a good run-down of protocols, servers, apps, etc; ical maintenance project has 2.3.3, johnh has tcl/tk8.5 patches for ical and some rpms, someone forked ical (from 2.3.3 (so it has all of annexia's patches to date), applied ethan blanton's patches plus several more) and is actively developing it 2009 with plans to make it icalendar & caldav compatible! - unfortunately he's created a new data format and has deprecated support for the previous versions, so it's an all-or-nothing move...
• PALM PILOT: support for my unit (palm 5000); Graffiti tricks; software: palmgear, palmcentral; e-docs from memoware; & unix basics; pilot-link info; PilotManager is a hot-sync daemon; syncal syncs w/ ical! PalmOS software, and linux software to deal with palmpilot data. pilot record database formats: PDB Spec, and PRC Spec
• CAMBRIDGE: Cambridge Chronicle seems to overlap the (free) Cambridge Tab; they publish the Readers Choice awards annually. Unofficial Guide has pointers to restaurants, shops, accommodation, & tourism. Cambridge Civic Journal (incl. election info; separately, voting and elected official info). Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association. Cambridge Public Library (incl. online catalog), Boston Public Library online eCard gets you access to O'Reilly's Safari book set. Cambridgeside Galleria Mall, Zami Yellow Pages for Cambridge. Guide to Cambridge schools. Good community resource info from arlingtonlist.org (snapshotted in text/lists).
• bostonsweeper gives you towing alerts for street cleaning.
• listing of electronic texts available online.
• demotivators are great tongue-in-cheek inspirational posters.
• reuse@mit discuss list (rules). Now there's gb-reuse for non-MIT people too (is that different from greaterboston-reuse@aq.org?), and freecycle.org (grouped by town, e.g. for cambridge).
• flamingtext makes cool images of themed text.
• temporary tattoos made custom to order (1000 min.)
• AMFM: SpotTaxi
• cockpit voice recordings (CVR) of accidents: lastwords, CVRwav; airplane disasters directory
• LaTeX tips & tricks, and docs. miscellanous reference links, incl. this cheat sheet and list of symbols. online documentation "help with latex".
• Good basic tutorial on Queueing theory
• Blind accessibility to web: Bobby does excellent automatic audits; a short article with some tips, its links, and another page of links.
• socks: look for coolmax, ultra-light full length (inline skate liner?) for hockey
• MQSeries, and a client for linux; books manuals, downloads.
• howstuffworks.com
• game copy world
• excel tips and macro examples
• allegedly good digital camera site, also steves-digicams.
• funny: alcohol party warnings
• MFTP: catalog of protocols & implementations, similar from stardust.com; implementations: RMF/RAMP, MTP, AFDP, XFTP, MDPv2, MOFT on sourceforge.
• ANONYMOUS remailer: melontraffickers.com
• xbiff-style resources
• Send a fax to many part of the world for free from the web or email!!
• MIT clubs resources: ASA
• Boston Better Business Bureau lets you investigate companies online
• web-based screen cleaner for your monitor...
• vistaprint is liked for its low-cost and low-volume custom printing (biz cards, holiday cards, etc).
• PETS:
  • petfinder.com looks like a comprehensive list of shelters and rescue groups with lots of pet listings, including Saint Meows for cats/kittens in Cambridge (767-6294; their page at petfinder is sometimes more current), c.a.r.e. in cambridge for cats & dogs both, and maybe saveadog.org is where dsandberg found Maxi. 1888pets911 also lists shelters and pets animal rescue league of boston lists their pets online.
  • PetEducation.com has lots of good general info for dogs, cats, and more.
  • Training: classes in boston & lexington, and tips from dr. cookie.
  • Feeding: menus for what & how to feed dogs & cats healthily.
    • cats are obligate carnivores and neet *wet* meat. see recipes/cat-food. (unsafe for cats: chocolate, onion, garlic, grapes/raisins, tomatoes, alfalfa). good info & great links from littlebitcat, which points to: catnutrition.org has & links to some excellent info on cat feeding, including felinefuture's nutritional articles; catinfo.org is a vet's long-winded but informative version of the same.
    • dogs are carnivorous but opportunistic scavengers and need 3/4 raw meat and 1/4 pureed or cooked veggies or ripe fruits: dog food corner, godfoodproject; knowbetterpetfood sells mixes for homemade dog&cat food; google "raw homemade dog food recipe". (unsafe for dogs: chocolate, avocado pit & skin, onions some, garlic a bit, grapes/raisins, macadamia nuts, some mushrooms, sometimes milk (50% of dogs are lactose intolerant), xtlitol; good: eggs & shells!)
  • vaccinations (look for homeopathic or holistic vet?).
  • services: fetchlimo is a pet taxi; fourpawsandaleash does training, sitting, walking, and care; htpetservice is vet nurses who do transport, sitting, walking, and care.
• BATTERY SIZE CROSS-REFERENCE CHARTS: for all batteries (household, watch, coin/button), coin/button cells specifically, watch batteries, watch batteries.
• RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES: exhaustive batteries, chargers, flashlights, multimeters tests/reviews (click on screenshots at top of detail pages to get summary/search/comparison pages). see some recommendations from r/BrokenRecordBot. for chargers, probably get one of the opus bt series, or an xtar.
• GARDENING: A good tomato FAQ. natural pest control (e.g. pepper spray). soil moisture & temp from milford,ma.
• PHILODENDRONS (ours might be Philodendron Gloriosum? or maybe not, since that's a creeper.): A technical treatise on various problems; a pocket guide. yellow=too wet, brown=too dry. water semimonthly and let soil dry btw watering (it's sensitive to root rot, so make sure it drains well). they like humidity.
• MUSHROOMS: BMC is a good local club, offers walks, talks, classes! mushroom-collecting,com is a nice site with tips, rules, and more from a guy in maine who runs trips & is writing a book. NEMF has some good links to field keys, pdf lists, etc.
• realclearpolitics.com has very good national poll and election information
• Internet providers: comcast products, their list of compatible DOCSIS devices and amazon searches for docsis 3.0 devices and docsis 3.0 with 802.11n. posts explaining comcast promos and comcast speeds. verizon fios plans/prices and availability search.
• NORWAY: 1, 2
• PARENTING: articles with tips on lots of problems.
• wealth & income tables - see alternate table for the paper with piketty by saez; that's pointed to along with many others at the table at the bottom of inequality.org.
• khan academy is elementary but otherwise may be better than ocw!
• nice looking ui mockup tool from balsamiq
• thorough info on freshwater aquariums and freshwater plants.
• MAKERing: sparkfun, adafruit, mouser.com, digikey, jameco, datasheets360.com; pololu also has robotics parts; shapeways, thingiverse; guerilla guide to CNC milling & resin casting, and the story behind HSM techniques from the feeds & speeds cookbook. good g-code reference.
• open a master padlock.
• Personal Genome Project's list of sequencing & analysis services (also sequencing.com) a few more from reddit: 1, 2, 3.
• AWS to ssh on port 443
• fakespot analyzes amazon reviews for fakeness
• bostonsciencelectures.com! similar from hubevents. mit daily events, harvard gazette calendar. also bostonastronomy.net. bostontechmom.com for the kids.
• marc adreessen's blog highlights has some of the best career/life advice I've seen; also plenty on entrepreneurship, VCs, running a startup, etc.
• last contentful wikipedia article on fazuul; its talk page; archive of sean's fazuul guide
• cliffs notes replacements: sparknotes, shmoop (literature seems to be free)
• online scientific/symbolic/graphing/stat/etc. calculators: symbolab shows steps, and it has commands like "prove", "factor" and "simplify", and cymath also shows steps, as do integral-calculator.com and derivative-calculator.net. WolframAlpha doesn't show steps (but 1-time-$4-charge app does!). mathway does well at sci & symbollic, but doesn't show steps. meta-calculator does scientific, graphing, matrix, and stats - but not general symbolic. photomath is an app that works off a photo of a written math problem. desmos is a very good graphing calculator. speedcrunch is an open-source package installable on all OSes, does main scientific math, and don't forget sage for symbolic (algebra & calculus) and maxima for mathematica replacement, octave for matlab replacement.
• DALL-E ai imgae generator clone crAIyon and its reddit
• archive.ph gets around most (newspaper) paywalls, and sci-hub pirates academic papers (enter DOI, e.g. as doi.org url; also .ru, .wf, .ee, .st, .ren...) -- but look in unpaywall.org first, they hav 50M legal free academic papers! and openalex.org has full text of 250M papers indexed and searchable! -- and pdfdrive pirates textbooks (and other books), and library genesis tries to do it all (textbooks, fiction, academic papers, etc). annas-archive is a search engine over sci-hub, library genesis, z-library, and ipfs! while the internet archive's openlibrary has books to borrow legally!
• great list of cheeses
• ISS location, live stream of earth (with a couple min delay??), streaming from interior
• ifixit.com has nearly 100,000 user-submitted repair guides! and a self-repair community, and they sell tools & electronic repair parts
• allsides and ground.news both link to news sources covering the spectrum of bias; straight arrow news writes neutral articles and has plenty of video. allsides rates newsweek and newsnation and reuters as center.
• twitter alternate access paths: nitter instances twiiit and xcancel
• The Ultimate Connectors Poster shows all computer-related connectors (usb, storage, network, data, audio, video, power); Identiconn included 7500 electronics connectors (including computer-related); a good diagram of all usb plug shapes in the image near the bottom (but of course wikipedia does a very good job), another usb connector guide with colors (ditto); and an audio plug zoo.
• sd/micro-sd card speed class table showing requirements for various video formats
• freepik has many free images for presentations plus editing; they also have storyset which gives free catroon-like clip-art, and flaticon for free vector icons. A competitor is vecteezy. Now using LLMs, napkin makes diagrams/infographics from text; gamma creates entire presentations from prompts!
• AI/LLMs: DEETS: ArtificialAnalysis has context windows, scores, price, speed, and more for a large collection of models. Model Atlas is a fascinating look at model lineages (full explorer only on huggingface)
  BENCHMARKING CODING: All of aider's leaderboard is coding, or pick Category=Coding in LMArena's leaderboard (formerly LMSys), or see huggingface's BigCodeBench leaderboard or their breadown by programming language. sort livebench.ai by coding column. scale.com's leaderboard of commercial models has coding tests (& more). and ArtificialAnalysis's leaderboard plots quality, speed, price for major models (also ranks speech, image, video models). openrouter popularity for coding. for non-coding tests, simple-bench focuses on things humans are still better at. or see a long list of bencharks included in an omnibus of links of everything llm.
  BENCHMARKING HALLUCINATION: vectara has the few leading models and agrees w/one real world data point, and confabulations evaluates RAG specifically on a slightly wider selection.
  LLMS: ChatGPT gives a limited number of queries on GPT4o mini (or none if paying customers are using them), then falls back to GPT3.5 (is that mini too?); perplexity.ai seems to use their retrained versions of open-source models? (and see perplexity labs to select a specific free model; "online" uses the web); duckduckgo's duck.ai gives access to {gpt-4o mini, llama 4 scout, claude 3.5 haiku, o4-mini, and mistral small 3} as of mid-2025 (with api access too!); deepseek (chinese firm) has a (slow!) 236B-param model it claims to specialize in coding & math (and machine translation?); meta.ai hallucinated answers and has been the worst of the set. See also gpt4free (plus all of its forks...) and a second gpt4free -- seems like these might emulate api queries by hitting free websites? huggingface also has a free api.
  INTEGRATIONS: gptel looks like the best of the generic (not coding-specific) LLM-emacs integration packages, emacs-copilot does code injection (with all file edit history as context!) using locally-hosted LLMs (via llamafiles). aider is a terminal-based (also broswer-, & ide-) front-end that connects to many LLMs (including some free) said to be the best coding assistant fall24, with emacs integration packages aider.el and its fork aidermacs. for ide-style code suggestion/completion (different from the above), codeium (with an e) is the best fall24 - even before they introduced windsurf+cascade - and has an emacs package which people says is currently slooow (also a few ides, and chrome for web notebooks).
  IDEs: Leaderboard liveswebench.ai from livebench.ai; cursor($$) is currently doing the best integration for code editing; void and zed are open-source copies of cursor; pear.ai is a closed-source free coding environment that tries to integrate the current best-in-class tools (aider for generation, supermaven for completion, mem0 for user-profiling, continue open-source ide plugin (looks like trypear.ai is really a fork of continue?); oTToDev is a currently-hot fork of bolt.new.
  CODING NOTABLES: companion-ai is an online Python REPL environment with an AI Tutor; v0.dev is said to be good at creating ideas from scratch, especially front-end (then import to better coding llm..) robocoders (which is a hosted openhands) claims to have a front-end specialist (and a full-stack generalist)
  TOOLS: qodo (formerly codium without an e) specializes in writing unit tests to hit a code coverage target - they have ide pugins but also an open-source CLI!
  CHATTERS: lambda, perplexity labs, perplexity, deepseek, qwen, notdiamond has many models but so far seems to select gpt4o-mini, deepinfra has many models, meta llama is currently llama3.1-70b-instruct, the obligatory chatgpt gives you 4o-mini without logging in, learning.google seems to do some perplexity-like web searching but then treats you like an idiot, and there's always google gemini.