Interesting web sites

Revised occasionally. Use your browser's Reload or Refresh button to get the latest version.

The net:

Google search engine, how it works, what folks are searching for
http://www.google.com/advanced_search
http://www.google.com/technology/index.html
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

Usenet News searchable archive, run by Google (formerly at Deja.com)
http://groups.google.com/

Open Directory Project, an index of the web maintained by volunteers (no ads!)
http://dmoz.org

New Scientist web links, selected by reviewers (scroll down for subject index)
http://www.newscientist.com/weblinks/

David Eppstein's page: computational geometry, art, science, games, and much more
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/home.html

Tim Berners-Lee's page: World Wide Web history, architecture, prospects
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

Education:

MIT course web pages, in many subject areas (scroll down a bit to see the list)
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/org/a/acs/www/acaduses2.html

UW Computer Science course web pages
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/course-webs.html

MURL Lectures, archive of computer science research lectures on streaming video
http://murl.microsoft.com/ContentMap.asp

Open University, an unusually detailed and well-organized on-line catalog
http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/

The arts:

Paintings, indexed by artist
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/

Photographs, indexed by photographer
http://catlin.clas.virginia.edu/photo/archive/query.cfm

Comics, samples indexed by artist (dealer's site, but low-key and helpful)
http://www.lambiek.net/artists/index.htm

All Music Guide, discography (commercial, but comprehensive and well-organized)
http://www.allmusic.com/,   also   http://www.allclassical.com/

On-Line Books, other book sites
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/index.html
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/archives.html

Current events, politics, popular culture:

Red Rock Eater News Service: technology news, reviews, politics, links, and cheap pens
http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/

Fresh Air: archive of radio interviews on streaming audio, indexed by guest, date, topic
http://search.npr.org/freshair/dayFA.cfm?todayDate=archive

Ironic Times
http://www.ironictimes.com/

In a category by themselves:

Phil Agre's page: technology and society, design, philosophy, career advice (long, keep scrolling)
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/

RISKS: forum on risks to the public in computers and related systems (scroll down to Index, select a Volume)
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks

Principles of Graphic Design (commercial promo, interesting use of web page techniques)
http://www.mundidesign.com/

Internet Anagram Server
http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/

Search for Your Name in Pi
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/ofolives/pisearch.html

revised 7 July 2001


Jon Jacky, jackyj@evergreen.edu