Alexx's Page of Useful Meta-Links

The Web

• Google, THE search site.
• Newsguy News, useful software and newsgroup access.
• refdesk.com, all sorts of dictionaries, almanacs, etc.
• IsoHunt
• The Pirate Bay
• Yahoo's mail server.
• Gmail
• Panix Webmail

Navigation and Weather

• MBTA.com, how to get around on the T and Commuter Rail.
• MapQuest, how to get from Point A to Point B. Slow access, but great info.
• Boston Weather

Movies and Entertainment

• Brandeis University Theater Box Ofiice info
• Boston Phoenix Movies Section
• NCAM MOPIX, info on blind-accessible movies
• Chicago Humanities Festival
• The Internet Movie Database
• The Internet Broadway Database
• SinCity, Penn & Teller's website.
• The Flash Girls
• City of Dreams, a radio drama series by J. Michael Straczynski and Seeing Ear Theater.
• Audio Publisher's Association
• Mugar Omni Theater
• ifilm, a guide to short films on the internet
• Coolidge Corner
• The Brattle
• New England Aquarium

General Info

• OED online 607510210
• Online viewer for PostScript, PDF and Word
• How Stuff Works
• Physics 2000, a great primer on the current state of knowledge, with cool interactive applets to help you understand.
• Learn2.com, an amazing site, which can teach you to do any number of useful things!
• WhatIs?com, a good site for technical info.

Technical Stuff

• NCSA HTML Primer
• ASCII - ISO 8859-1, with HTML names.
• How To Get Cleaner/Smaller/More Compatible HTML Code from Office 2000
• BootDisk.com
• Windows Annoyances
• DSLReports.com
• Guru3D, a great source for 3D card drivers.
• Internet-based Distributed Computing Projects
• POPfile, a good email sorting program
• Taking it All The Way, a guide to building a silent PC
• Silent PC Review
• Guide to Capturing, Cleaning, & Compressing Video

Fun Stuff

• Distributed Proofreaders, a support site for Project Gutenberg
• Science Fiction Citations for the OED
• I, Rearrangement Servant, an automatic anagram-generator.
• Fictional Timelines, an index of fictional timelines on the Web.
• Forensic Entomology, info on crime research with insects.
• New England Lego Users Group
• How to Build a Lego Machine Gun
• Andrew Lipson's LEGO Page, weird topological forms and Escher recreations.
• World Maze Database
• Oz Encyclopedia

Fonts

• Emerald City Fontwerks
• Scriptorium
• FontFreak.com
• An Edaward Gorey font

Viruses, both computer and memetic

• Hoaxbusters: CIAC Internet Hoax Info
• Symantec Virus Info
• Urban Legends Archive
• Urban Legends Reference Pages

Libraries

• Boston Public Library
• The Burgomeister's Books

Miscellaneous

• Photos by alberich mathews
• AnyWho, a reverse-lookup telephone directory.
• PRIPYAT, photos of Chernobyl-area ghost town
• Exit Mundi, a collection of end-of-world scenarios
• Planetocopia, a fascinating collection of altered Earths and other worlds.
• Five Geek Social Fallacies
• SelectSmart.com, shop intelligently for your new belief system.
• Social Patterns
• Night-Mares
• Demonology
• Dinosaur Links
• Fluffy Stuff
• H. P. Lovecraft Library
• TextArc.org, a unique way of looking at texts.
• ROT13

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