Links to sites we like

  • WORK

    • TeleworkExchange
      a public-private partnership focused on eliminating Federal telework gridlock and encouraging telecommuting

    • TeleWork.gov
      Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the General Services Administration (GSA) joint web site to help government employees who think they might like to telework (or are already doing so), managers and supervisors who supervise teleworkers, and agency telework coordinators

    • TeleworkVA.org
      A Virgina state government site that promotes telework

    • Telework Coalition
      Technology companies supporting telework

    • CommuterChallenege.org
      Fosters public/private partnerships to find solutions to transportation issues

    • JALA.com
      The father of telecommuting, Jack Nilles, website, He blogs here

    • SEObook.com
      Marketing tips, search analysis, and random rantson Search Engine Optimization

  • THINK

    • Edge.org
      Some of the most interesting minds in the world

    • TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design conference)
      Inspired performances by many of the world's greatest (Engish speaking) thinkers and doers

    • Kurzweil AI
      Today's thinkers examine the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our future. Inside story on new technological and social realities from the pioneers

    • Salon.com
      The thoughtfulness of print, the timeliness of television and the interactivity of talk radio. Distinctly liberal.

    • Drudge Report
      Mostly links to stories from the US and international mainstream media about politics, entertainment, and current events plus links to columnists. Disctinctly conservative.

    • FactCheck.org
      A nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters run by Univ. of Penna. that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics by monitoring the factual accuracy of what is said by liberals and conservatives in TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.

    • Consciousness
      A collection of online materials on consciousness and cognitive science.

  • FIND

    • Aerofiles
      A half-century of research, note-taking, and data-gathering on aviation matters that began one evening in Frank Tallman's retreat at Orange Country Airport and rapidly got out of hand

    • Wikipedia
      Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge

    • WorldCat
      Search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world

    • InfoTrac
      Access to 47 million full text articles from 3500 general interest magazines, business and scientific periodicals, reference books, maps, historical images, and newspapers

    • Look Smart
      10,000,000 articles on arts, autos, business, health, home & garden, news, reference, sports, technology

    • Google Earth (and Sky)
      Download this program free and see the world without joining the Navy and see the night sky without a telescope

    • Archive.org
      An Internet library offers access to historical collections that exist in digital format - even old websites, TV shows, and music.

    • DPReview.com
      An independent resource dedicated to providing news, reviews and information about Digital Photography and Digital Imaging. One of, if not the, preminent digital photography sites

    • Snopes.com
      A huge site devoted to the study of contemporary lore, urban legends, and hoaxes. Check it out here first before you pass idiocy on.

    • Musicovery.com
      Interactive webradio with a unique interface so you can listen to what you enjoy

    • GovSpot.com
      Resource center for U.S. citizens, students, educators, business people, government employees and anyone exploring the Web for government information

    • Internet Movie Database
      a HUGE collection of movie information. They catalog every pertinent detail about a movie, from who was in it, to who made it, to trivia about it, to filming locations, and even where you can find reviews and fan sites on the web

    • Receipes
      A CondéNet site, with more than 35,000 professionally tested recipes from top chefs and cookbook authors around the world plus over 22,000 member submitted recipes

    • Weather Underground
      The best weather site on the web. Period.

  • READ

    • Alibris.com
      Over 60 million used, new, and out-of-print books

    • Amazon.com
      Yeah, we know you know Amazon. But do you know they sell used books for as low as 1 cent?

    • Project Gutenberg
      The first and largest collection of free electronic books including thousands that are out of print, many with illustrations: Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Jane Austen and hundreds more. Remember Tom Swift?

    • New Scientist magazine
      Science and technology website with news and indepth reports. Its from the UK, and right up there with Scientific American but not as stuffy.

  • SEE

    • Strange Beasts
      The amazing and unique art of Theo Jansen, kinetic sculptor living and working in the Netherlands. He builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals which are able to walk using the wind on the beaches of the Netherlands. See a video here

    • Astronomy Picture Of The Day
      Annotated astronomical images served fresh daily

    • NASA Mars Exploration
      All the latest from the red planet

    • Solar Research
      Closeups of the only star you can see during the day

    • Chandra X-Ray Observatory
      Not limited to our visual spectrum, this great observatory in orbit goes one better than Hubble and captures stunning images of space using x-rays

    • Satellite Schedules
      Thosuands of satellites orbit earth, and on any given evening for a few hours after sunset you can see several. Find the schedule for your location here.

    • Solar System Details
      All you'd ever want to know about the nine, er..um, eight planets

    • American Museum of Photography
      An award-winning Virtual Museum dedicated to educating, informing, and sharing great photographs with Internet visitors world-wide. Exhibitions are drawn from the Museum's Collection including five thousand images, from the earliest daguerreotype portraits to the work of Ansel Adams.

    • Balthaser.com
      A stunning site that showcases the company's online web-building tools which, paradoxically, we don't use.

    • Exploratorium
      Over 18 thousand award-winning Web pages exploring hundreds of different science-related topics. One of the most visited museum Web sites in the world.