Paul Burchard's Hotlist


Contents


General Reference

Searchable Databases

Alta Vista - best web and news search (DEC)
DejaNews
InfoMall - mail and news database (NPAC)
(warning: they publish server log info)

Subject Catalogs and Other Lists

Yahoo - A Guide to WWW
Pointers To Pointers - look up, submit links (HomeCom)
USENET FAQs (Ohio State)
The On-line Books Page
Library Catalogs with Web Interfaces

Geographic Databases

MapQuest (cool!)
WYP.NET Worldwide White Pages
ZIP Code Lookup - excellent (USPS)
Simple NPA-NXX search (Natl. Tel. and Comm.)
The ISP List - comprehensive
Interactive Yellow Pages (NYNEX)

Reference Shelf (NPAC Kids Web)

News

Interactive Weather Map (Purdue)

World News and Politics

CNN - World News Main Page
EFF Action Alerts
Mother Jones - monthly
Covert Action Quarterly

Computer News

Welcome to PC Week
News & Developments
mobilis: the mobile computing lifestyle magazine
DNNS Web News Digest

Comics

Robotman ® (Jim Meddick - United Media)
This Modern World (Tom Tomorrow - Tool User Comics)
Comics 'n Stuff!

Hotlists

Tres Bizarre site of the day (Dave Solko)
Point Communications - web reviews
Deep Site of the Day - defunct now, but still good links
Green Eggs Report - latest URLs from newsgroups (Alice's Restaurant)
MagicURL Mystery Tour - random cool site (NetCreations)

Mathematics

Mathematics on the Web (AMS)

Research

AMS Preprint Server Directory
MSRI Preprint Server
HEP-TH Preprint Server
The Thurston Project - experiments in uniformization (Steve Braham)

Software

CTAN - Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
UTK Mathematics Archives
GAMS: Guide to Available Mathematical Software (NIST)
WebEQ Equation Rendering
Hyper-TeX
Mathematics For Computer Generated Spoken Documents

Education

Math Forum - comprehensive (Swarthmore)
Math Education Resources (U. Utah)
Science Education Resources

Fun

A Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry (Geometry Center)
Math Jokes

Computer Science

Computer Science Bibliography (U. Arizona)
Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing - excellent (Denis Howe)

Biology

Biology
Mathematical Analysis of Biological Sequences
The National Center for Biotechnology Information
Entrez Browser
SCOP: Structural Classification of Proteins
PDB WWW Server
Form for PDB query

Physics and Earth Sciences

Guide to Public Access of Remote Sensing Data (NASA HPCC)
Weather World General Menu - under renovation 4/96 (UIUC)
NOAA Data Set Catalog
Solstice - sustainable technology info (CREST)
Global Warming Update (Thomas Karl, NOAA)
Digital Relief Map of the US (JHU APL)
Astronomical Picture and Animation Archive (U. Rennes, France)
Space Radar Images of Earth (NASA JPL)
Online Stargazer Map (Mount Wilson Observatory)

Education

ENC-002280 NCTM STANDARDS
Access Excellence

Techno-Dystopia

Codex Privacy Links
Big Brother Incorporated Introduction
Communications Decency Act FAQ (VTW)
TSCM.COM Counterintelligence Home Page
MicroPatent Web Services
Blacklist of Internet Advertisers
MediaFilter
Scientology Exposed - Time Article

Entertainment

Movie Review Query Engine
Internet Movie Database (Exec-PC)
Girls on Film
Movie Hell

Commerce

Investment

Mutual Fund Charts (MIT)
Mutual Funds Magazine: Fund Database
Stock Quotes - with SEC links (Security APL)
Stock Quotes (PC Quote)
Fidelity Investments

Online Career Center
Internet Shopping Network
Idea Cafe: The Small Business Gathering Place
Electronic Commerce Reference (Roger Clarke)
Software Development Agreements
All Aboard - USA: pro-rail posting

Government and Law

FedWorld
FEDIX Guide to Federal Opportunities (FIE Inc.)
U.S Congress (LOC)
P-LAW Legal Resource Locator
G. Burgess Allison's Law/Technology Updates (Law Practice Mangament magazine)

Japan

Japan Information Resources (US-Japan Technology Management Center)
Japanese/English Dictionary (Jeffrey Friedl)
WWWA - The Internet Anime Resource Locator
Japanese English Advertising Slogans <A>Cycling
Conjugating Japanese Verbs

Cycling

Steve Roberts' Nomadic Research Labs (UCSD)
Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute

Publishing

Search of AP Wire
Copyright Clearance Center Online

WWW

HTML

WebTechs HTML Validation Service
Hypertext Publishing and the Evolution of Knowledge
Modular HTML DTD
Interactive HTML Documents
ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 characters in ampersand entities
Validating Members of the W3 Consortium

HTTP

HTTP Working Group
HTTP-WG Mailing List Archives

VRML

Moving Worlds Specification
WWW-VRML Archives
www-vrml (mailing-list) by thread
VRML Repository: Examples
Mitra's VRML Browser Tests
Mitra's papers

Internationalization

Unicode and Internationalization Glossary
Index of /unicode/standard/

URCs

URC Hypermail Archive by thread
URC White Paper (Ron Daniel)

Philosophy and Politics

We Have Chosen Shame and Will Get War.
jclark's comments on: "Character Set" Considered Harmful
Untangling the World-Wide Web
Jakob Nielsen's Interface Guidelines for Multimedia
Microsoft's Assault on the Web
Hypertext links in HTML

Software

Groupware

WWW Collaboration Projects
Collaboration, Knowledge Representation and Automatability
Collaborative systems - W3Journal
A Protocol for Scalable Group and Public Annotations
ComMentor
BSCW basic support for cooperative work - Home page
MLIA Technical Papers
The Futplex system home page
NetQ
http://sensemedia.net/papers
A MOO-Based Collaborative Hypermedia System for WWW
wOrlds: An Open Environment for Support of Collaborative Activities
Annotation System Issues
MLIA Technical Papers

Distributed Objects

CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) and the OMG
Jeff Sutherland's Object Technology Home Page
The ILU Requestor for HTTP servers
Distributed Objects and the World Wide Web
The Web as a Distributed Application Platform
RMP - Reliable Multicast Protocol
O2 Technology

Java

Packages
The Java Developer: How Do I...
JARS Applet Ratings
JAVA IDE Comparison
Security bugs in Java (David Hopwood)
Overview of the collections Package
Graph Class Library
sysExt.MethodRef: Java Method Reference Extension
JYLU -- ILU for JAVA
HORB Home Page
JIDL: The CORBA IDL Compiler for Java
Hermetica: Nexus: Multi-User Virtual Reality

Other Languages

Software Productivity Research - Programming Languages Table
The Grail Browser (Python-based)
GNU Objective C Class Library Home Page
C++ Annotations
C++ FAQ
PERL -- Practical Extraction and Report Language
Tk Manual Pages
Telescript Development Environment
Visual Obliq on the Web (Georgia Tech)

Hardware

Laptops

Fringe's Laptop Info
The Computer Price Sheet
IBM ThinkPad
Linux on the IBM ThinkPad

PDAs

Newton Reference
Megahertz AllPoints Wireless PC Cards
Wynd Products & Services
Eclipse PowerSet FX