Cool Links
Yes, it's here! That's right! By popular demand -- well, no one
really asked, but that's besides the point -- here's the latest
version of my Cool Links List. Last updated, oh, within the last decade
or so. ;) Enjoy.
- Montgomery Blair High School's WWW Server
- Montgomery Blair High School's Upside-Down WWW Server (MMM)
- These are my high school's two main home pages. The first
one is the mainstream page and very nifty-looking, IMHO; Dan Sandler
made most of it. There's also Hobbes
and the Maryland Virtual High School
home page, and there are probably at least a couple more WWW servers
running out of our computer lab right now that very few people
know about.
- Washington, D.C. Satellite Weather Map
- This is a complete satellite map of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan
area. It is zoomable down to a resolution of one meter per pixel.
If you spend enough time tinkering with it, you can probably find
your neighborhood/house/etc.
- WebCrawler
- Lycos
- AltaVista
- These are my favorite Internet search
tools. WebCrawler seems to do a good job at indexing document titles;
Lycos, while slower, seems to index more document content. Finally,
AltaVista, the newest of the three, is the most comprehensive of all,
and also indexes Usenet newsgroups. To find a company's
home page, I'd use Webcrawler; to find something more obscure, I'd use
the (slower) Lycos; and to find something really obscure (like a
person's name), I'd use AltaVista.
- SkyView
- This incredible tool from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
allows you to input all the relevant parameters and choose the
type of photograph (visible-light, infrared, ultraviolet, etc)..
The server returns to you an image of what you selected: a sky
area, galaxy, nebula, or star.
- The Hacker's Jargon File
- Check this one out! It contains an amazingly dialect of the English
language that you may not be aware of. Maybe it's just my warped,
twisted sense of humor, but I found the section near the end (in Appendix
A) on hacking to be particularly hilarious.
- The Capitol Steps
- If you enjoy political humor and Congress-bashing, along with spoofs
of recent music, this one's for you. (I found it hysterical; your
mileage may vary.) This group, made of former Congressional staffers,
attempts to be "the only thing in the world funnier than the U.S.
Congress." You can download samples of their songs in Sun .au format,
usually playable through a Netscape "helper" or other program. Again,
take a look.
- On-line Stock Quotes Service
- While I can't guarantee the validity of this data, it seemed to work
fine for me. The stock quotes are updated every fifteen minutes.
- Telnet to Internet-connected machines at MBHS (requires an account)
- [
binx |
goober |
runcible |
annex |
hobbes |
mvhs1 |
baudwidth |
calvin | rt | cyber910 | baudwidth | vax | papasmurf ]
- Trixter's PC Demos Page
- Wow! This is by far the most comprehensive demo page on the Web
that I haver found. It has all kinds of interesting and unique stuff,
if you're into the PC demo scene.
- The 1995 Bobbie Awards
- This site describes the winners in a contest dedicated to finding the
most totally useless sites on the Internet! If you ever wanted to know
more about Strawberry
Pop-Tart Blow-Torches, for instance, this is just the place to go
to. The 1995 first
place winner is a totally unbelievable mnemonic device of such
staggering coolness that I just had to mention it here.
- Zarf's List of Interactive Web Games
- There's some really cool stuff on this list, like an interactive Web
script that generates Mozart-style music style and lets you
download it in MIDI format. Sure, it's somewhat fake-sounding... but
the script itself is quite a hack. There's also a poetry generator; you
give it the first line, and it returns an entire poem that rhymes and
even occasionally makes a bit of sense. Really interesting stuff.
(And, of course, my own interactive Anagram Generator is
listed. Yet another good reason to try it. :)
- WHFS (99.1 FM) Home Page
- This is my favorite radio station by far... WHFS is way cool. As
of right now, their homepage is under construction, but I felt it was
important enough anyway to mention here.
- Loveline
- This is a really funny call-in radio show that talks about love,
relationships, and sex. It has not only given me many good laughs since I
started listening to it around November '95, but it has also given me a
good excuse not do do my homework at night! (Ha, ha. :) Loveline is
broadcast via satellite to WHFS and a
bunch of other stations around the country. I was delighted to find this
homepage, even though it's unofficial.
- lyrics.net
- Here's a very nifty lyrics server. Obtaining lyrics to songs from
any other site is nowhere near this much fun, especially since the
former lyrics server at archive.uwp.edu has gone down.
- The MP3Mobile
- This is easily one of the coolest hacks I have ever seen.