Gene Cooperman's General Information

Think of these pages as my current set of bookmarks, except that I've made them public, in case somebody else finds them useful.

Search the Web yourself
Online Encyclopedia (very comprehensive)
My Virtual Reference Desk (broader and better than this page)
- Virtual Facts on File
Martindale's "The Reference Desk" (another good one)
MIT Libraries Virtual Reference Collection (useful links, all on one page)

Table of Contents

Countries of World, and United Nations and regions
History
- Hyperhistory (excellent)
- The History Net
- Documenting The American South (incl. slave autobiographies)
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Maps
Other Languages
- yourDictionary.com (excellent)
- Free Translation (among English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese)
- Translating dictionaries
- Babylon dictionary and translator
  - Babylon on-line translator lookup
- AllWords.com (including crossword solver)
- interactive service of European Commission?
- International characters using "compose" key (or right windows key???)
- Foreign Language Learning Online
- French
- German
- Greek
- Spanish
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Nostratic family (and Illyich-Svytich dictionary of Nostratic roots)
  - Linguistic Archaeology
- American Heritage Dictionary of English (with etymological roots)
  - Book: From Latin To Romance Sound Charts, 1954
  - Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans
  - Word History Notes (with many examples)
  - Proto-Semitic Language and Culture
Konarka Technologies (polymer solar cells that one can roll up and carry around)
Entertainment
- Books
- Magazines
- Art
- Music (also cf. radio)
- Movies
- Television
- Radio
- Comics
- News (also cf. International broadcast networks French news, German news)
- Sports (good general site?)
- Local Info
- Travel (also cf. international travel)
- Business
- Health
- Reference
Other fun stuff

The Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign!

Detailed stuff

Index Mundi (Country profiles)
- The Virtual Tourist - World (web servers by geographical location)
- Country Studies (comprehensive, from Library of Congress)
- Largest Military Expenditures (Infoplease.com)
- United Nations
  - United Nations pointers to statistics
- Statistical Resources on the Web
  - UN Statistics
  - United Nations World Population Prospects
  - U. N. Statistics Division -- Millenium Indicators
  - The World Factbook (CIA)
  - Country Rankings (per capita GDP, oil exports, consumption, etc.)
  - WWW Virtual Library links
  - Survey of Energy Resources, 2007 (World Energy Council, establishment report)
  - Survey of Energy Resources (older) (World Energy Council, establishment report)
  - CSIS (energy think tank)
  - U.S. Energy Information Administration of DOE
    - End of Cheap Oil (from Scientific American, 1998) (also, other sources)
    - BBC overview
    - The End of the Oil Age (another good overview, 2003)
    - Campbell update (2002)
    - Update by Matthew Simmons as of 2003
    - Another Simmons article
    - Twilight in the Desert, by Matthew Simmons, about status of Saudi oil fields
    - and one on natural gas (Dale Allen Pfeiffer)
    - Future World Oil Supply (presented at Salzburg 2002 Summer School) (excellent overview)
    - Another overview
    - Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage (book with online chapter by Princeton U. Press, former geology professor)
    - Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management (U.S. government commissioned report on peak oil)
    - ASPO Newsletters (available from Peakoil.net)
    - AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists)
    - The Essence of Oil And Gas Depletion
    - Global Public Media
    - Speeches and papers of Matthew Simmons
    - M.K. Hubbert Center for Petroleum Supply Studies, Colorado School of Mines
    - Regularly Appearing Statistics
      - BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2006 (with world imports/exports of oil)
      - International Energy Agency (IEA) information centre (see especially World Energy Outlook, annual series, and other free publications -- free after 2 to 3 years); 2002 World Energy Outlook;
      - oilmarketreport.org (from IEA)
      - EIA International Energy Annual (from Energy Information Administration of U.S. government, with statistics); Energy Information Administration (EIA) Annual Energy Review 2002 (see especially Energy Resources and Petroleum); Annual Energy Outlook (projections to 2025; with forecast evaluation and past editions); International Energy Outlook
      - World Energy Council (WEC) Surveys 2001 (also see free online publications)
      - Office of Fossil Energy of DOE (with International country overviews)
      - Country Analysis Briefs (EIA/DOE) (including Iraq, second largest reserves in world)
        
        Iraq Oil Timeline (from liberal perpsective)
      - Monthly Oil Production (International Petroleum Monthly, EIA)
    - Estimates of recoverable oil
      - Predicted production and estimates of recoverable oil by country (based on Hubbert Peak methodology)
        
        ASPO Newsletter (click on country assessment; alt)
        Country-by-country prediction of Oil Peaks, 1998 (misses recent fields: Kazakhstan, offshore Brazil, offshore Angola, but reasonable overview)
      - Resources for (Estimated Ultimately Recoverable) Oil and Natural Gas, based on USGS 2000 assessment using 1996 data (with details for each country)
      - Predicted World Oil Production Capacity by Country (EIA, International Energy Outllook, Appendix D1)
        
        Outlook 2003, 1995 - 2025
        Outlook 2002, 1995 - 2020
      - Current crude oil production by country (note crude oil does not include natural gas liquids, etc.)
        
        Country-by-country energy statistics (Based on current DOE reports)
        International Petroleum Production (Monthly and Quarterly Data)
        International Petroleum Monthly (EIA/DOE)
      - Oil Reserves Growth Potential (by Francis G. Harper)
    - Willkommen in der Energiekrise (with English link, and news in German)
    - The Coming Global Oil Crisis
    - Survey of Information on Oil Depletion (dieoff.org)
    - Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (with articles)
    - Dry Dipstick Hubbert's Peak metadirectory
    - PlanetForLife (Coming World Energy Crisis; good overview)
    - Energy Security (pressure of oil depletion, and renewable alternatives)
    - Peak Oil: an Outlook on Crude Oil Depletion
    - Beyond Peak Oil
    - The Busby Report (Analysis of U.K. energy after peak oil, by John Busby)
    - World Energy Council (establishment)
    - Reserves: Technological Progress or Bad Reporting?
    - Deepwater Gulf of Mexico 2004 (pdf, from MMS/DOE)
    - Oil in Iraq
      - articles on energy security (oil supplies) by Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
        
        Iraq Pipeline Watch (continuing chronology of attacks on Iraqi pipelines)
    - World Energy Resources (USGS)
      - World Petroleum Assessment 2000
      - Geology, Oil and Gas Fields of the World
    - Arguments that there is a lot more oil
      - Peak Oil Debunked
      - The Myth of "Peak Oil" - Mises Institute (by Charles Featherstone)
      - Proven oil reserves are not a measure of future supply
      - USGS 2000 analysis
      - DOE report based on oil industry studies
      - Lecture by Peter Odell, 2003
      - Older report of Peter Odell
  - Global Wind Energy Council
    - IEA (International Energy Agency) Wind Home Page (with Annual Report for world)
    - American Wind Energy Association
    - European Wind Energy Association
      - Wind Directions Magazine (by the EWEA)
    - Wind Energy Production by country
    - World Energy Council report on Wind
  - IEA (International Energy Agency) Photovoltaic energy (solar electric) (with annual reports)
    - World Energy Council report on Solar
  - Analysis of Hydrogen economy
  - EnergyBulletin.net
  - Peak Oil News
  - The Oil Drum
  - Green Car Congress (oil analysis, and clean, fuel-efficient vehicles)
  - Global Warming (excellent overview)
    - NASA animations by keyword
      - Sea Ice (animations from NASA)
      - Annual Sea Ice minimum (animation, 1979 - 2007)
      - Annual Accumulated Melt over Greenland 1978 through 2007
      - (or alt) Jakobshavn Glacier Calving Front Recession from 1850 to 2006 (ice stream contributes 0.002 inches/0.06 mm per year of sea level rise)
      - Larsen Ice Shelf collapse (NASA animation (or alt), with more information and still more information with a good map/diagram; Larsen A ice shelf collapsed in 1995, Larsen B (size of Rhode Island) in 2002; concerns about Larsen C (larger than Connecticut) for future)
    - Pew Center for Climate Change (with Fuel Economy Standards around the World)
    - The Heat is Online (news on global warming)
    - United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
    - Arctic Climate Impact Assessment 2004
    - Find a Car (car mileage and global warming, by car model)
    - GAP (Government Accountability Project) from whistleblower.org
  - United Nations European Economic Commission for Europe publications (with World Robotics, Trends in Europe and North America, and Statistical Journal)
  - OECD (also here) (Org. for Economic Cooperation and Dev.)
  - World Bank data (including Country data)
  - State of the Nation (U.S. statistics)
  - FRED - Economic Research
  - (also see Latin America)
    - World Bank statistics
  - IMF (Int. Monetary Fund)
- UT Latin American Network Information Center
  - Latin American Economic and Social Indicators (USAID)
  - IADB (Inter-American Dev. Bank)
  - Basic Socio-Economic Data for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Latin America
- A Tourist Expedition to Antarctica
- Country Specific Information
  - Canada
    - Quebec
    - City of Montreal
  - Latin America
    - TeleSur (TV supported by governments of Venezuela, Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay)
    - Latin Trade (magazine)
    - El Herald
  - People's Daily Online
  - Cuba
    - Portal to Cuba
    - Granma
    - Granma Internacional
    - Cuba News newsletter (with major developments on-line, and balanced reporting)
  - France
    - The Paris Pages
    - Tourisme
  - Germany
    - Regional Information:Countries:Germany
    - german-faq
    - German weather
    - German DB railway timetable
    - Stadtplandienst (city maps)
    - Bayreuth
    - Berlin
    - Internationale Stadt Berlin
    - Bonn
    - Essen
    - Freizeit in Frankfurt
    - Hamburg
    - Die Stadt Köln
    - Münster - Touristischer Stadtführer
    - Die Stadt Paderborn
  - Hungary
    - Budapest
  - The Native American Adventure
  - Iraq
    - Informed Comment Blog on Iraq with excellent background to current stories
    - Informed Comment: Global Affairs
    - Iraq Coalition Casualties (especially useful, now that major news outlets tend not to report this)
    - Sworn statements by Abu Ghraib detainees
  - Ireland: The Internet Collection
  - Israel - Israel Information Service
    - Annotated Links (peace oriented)
    - Ha'aretz - English
    - Jerusalem Post Net Edition (North American mirror)
    - Jerusalem Post Net Edition (Israel)
    - Seruv (or alt)
    - Tikkun
    - Mideast Web
    - Anne Frank home page
    - Association of Holocaust Organizations
    - Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (founded by Steven Spielberg)
    - Nizkor Home Page (Holocaust documentation)
    - holocaust.juden-in-europa.de
    - Simon Wiesenthal Center
    - Palestinian web site links (Birzeit University) (also try this and this and this and this, this and Palenstine Remebered)
    - Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine (including Palestinians in Israel)
  - Al Jazeera (English)
  - Azzaman (English edition of most widely read Iraqi newspaper, in conjunction with Al-Sharqiya Iraqi television)
  - Target Iraq (much info, and links to many viewpoints)
  - Juan Cole's Informed Comment (Blog of news and analysis about Iraq)
  - Iraq war (info on casualties not generally reported, anti-war viewpoint)
  - and civilians killed in Iraq
  - Japan Window
  - Collected New Zealand Information
  - Russia (Window-to-Russia Home Page)
    - Russian-English dictionary
  - Si, Spain (from Spanish foreign affairs ministry)
    - Europe Online -- Spain
    - Spain
    - Spain
  - UK Guide
    - Virtual London
    - London
    - Oxford
FirstGov (official U.S. index of government web pages)
- United States Federal government
- Federal Statistics (collected from many agencies)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Statistical Abstract
- Census Bureau Home Page
- International Programs Center
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (with patent search)
- FedWorld Beta Home Page
- Search FirstGov (Gov Web Pages)
- National Technical Information Service Filename: http://www.fedworld.gov/ntis/ntishome.html
- Consumer Information Center (Pueblo, Colorado)
- Tax law, summarized by topic (Cornell U.)
- SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
- White House
- U.S. House of Representatives
- The U.S. Senate
- Thomas legislative information (with status)
- U.S. Congressional Record
- U.S. Judicial Branch Resources (U.S. code, judicial opinions, etc.)
- Vote Smart Web (info about candidates)
- League of Women Voters
- Democracy Place, USA
- Election Line (primaries, etc.)
- Politics Now
- Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (from Harper's Weekly in 1860's)
- IRS Forms and Publications
- OpenTaxSolver (free, open source program for calculating tax forms (federal and Mass., Cal., N.Y., and others; can be combined with Adobe Fill-in forms)
- Citizens for Tax Justice
NYC Information Page
New England Online
Massachusetts (also see local info)
- MassGIS -- Online Mapping
- Official City of Boston
- Boston Online
- Government (Boston & Mass.)
- Massachusetts Tax Forms
Martindale's Map pointers (also see reference, travel, and international travel)
- Multimap.com (excellent maps for whole world)
  - Hierarchical list of maps, indexed geographically (Try it.)
- United Nations Cartographic Section maps
- ESRI customizable maps (w/ Newsweek socioeconomic data, etc.)
- PCL Map Collection
- Historical Map Web Sites
- Historical Maps Overview
- Antique and Medieval Atlas (or Atlas Historique)
- Antique and Medieval Atlas
- Oddens's bookmarks (maps)
- Avis maps
- Microsoft TerraServer (on-line aerial imagery database)
- Find latitude and longitude of address in United States
- Map hostname to address
- National Geographic, Cartographic Division
- Census TMS Home Page
  - TMS Experimental Browser (U.S. Census maps)
  - TMS Experimental Browser (older version)
- Pointers to other maps
- Map Collection (Library of Congress)
- Rare Map Collection
- Maps of Canada
- The Rhyiner-Project at the U. Library of Berne
- Maps (USGS)
- world map
Ethnologue (languages of the world)
- Language Families
- Yamada Language Guide
- The Human-Languages Page
- Live Mocha (for free language learning with others from other countries)
- Tandem Server Bochum (free server to match partners for tandem learning by e-mail/IM/phone; includes links for learning strategies; summary of pairs matched)
- Other Languages
- Languages and Linguistics
- Western European Literature
- FranceLink: Portail francophone
  - Wikipédia (encyclopédia)
  - Encyclopédie de Diderot et D'Alembert
  - Wiktionnaire
  - Webster's Online Dictionary (with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation)
  - Dictionnaires français en ligne
  - Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française, 9ème &eactue;dition
    - Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française, 9ème &eactue;dition
  - Dictionnaires
    - Wiktionnaire
    - French Dictionary (Babylon on-line translator)
    - French/Spanish/English/Italian Dictionary (wordreference.com)
    - Webster's Online Dictionary (with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation)
    - Dictionnaire de la langue française (L'internaute magazine)
    - dictionnaire français en ligne - LEXILOGOS
    - Dictionnaire Universel En Ligne
    - Dictionnaire Bilingue (Université de Genève)
    - Frequent word lists (French and English)
    - Dictionnaire des synonymes
      - RFI - apprendre la langue française (ou tous les émissions de la radio)
      - France 24: RSS/Podcast Feeds
      - Livres français gratuits en ligne
        
        Wikisource - Accueil
        
        Wikimedia - Spoken French
        
        Galicia Classique (de la Bibliotèque Nationale Française)
        
        Documents numerotisés en mode texte
        
        Athena: French Literature
        Ebooks libres et gratuits ou alt
        
        Arsène Lupin (par Maurice LeBlanc)
      - Audio français gratuit en ligne
        
        Saga MP3
        
        NETOPHONIX Sagas mp3 :: Liste des Sagas mp3
        Donjon de Naheulbeuk (saga mp3)
        
        Literature audio.com (livres audio gratuits; excellent)
        
        Scott, Walter -- Ivanhoe
        Hugo, Victor -- Notre-Dame de Paris
        Verne, Jules -- Voyage Au Centre De La Terre
        Robespierre, Maximilien (de) -- Discours Sur La Peine de Mort
        Leroux, Gaston -- Le Fauteuil Hanté
        Théâtre
        Policiers
        
        Incipit Blog
        Librivox (livres audio gratuits en français: Dumas, Mille et une nuits, etc.)
        
        Louis Riel, Martyr du Nord-Ouest (in progress)
        
        AudioLivres
        audiocité - livres audio gratuits
        Interent Archive - French audio books
        archivox (audio French, including some of "les contes des mille et une nuits")
        Boîte à Sourdines (livres audio)
        Tous les podcasts -- Politique
        Podcast BFM: Les Grands Débats (alt)
        
        BFM: Chine Hebdo
        BFM: Green Business
        
        Radio France Internationale
        
        RFI Monde (live)
        Radio France -- Podcast
        
        RTL Podcast
        GreatSong.net Musique : Paroles, Clips, Radio, Forums, Traductions
      - FBReader (e-book reader for Linux PDAs and Linux desktop: supported formats: html, plain text, palmdoci, non-DRM'ed mobipocket, RTF, etc.; direct reading from gzip, bzip2, etc.)
      - Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
      - Émissions de Radio et Télévision en Français (and &Eague;missions de Télévision en Français
      - LCI (La Chaine Info; French News, RealVideo)
      - Verb conjugation
      - Resources for Learning French
      - French glue words
      - Ministère de la culture
      - Zéro Heure (French best sellers in electronic form; includes free book of the month)
      - Paris Maps
      - Radio France (French public radio)
      - France 2 (Journal de Télématin)
      - Radio France (with RealAudio)
      - LES CAPETIENS - LES CROISADES
      - La Litterature Française sur l'Internet
      - Athena: Textes Français
      - ARTFL Project
      - ABU (French texts)
      - Encyclopédie de Diderot et D'Alembert
      - France & French Language
      - French (ARTFL, U. of Chicago)
      - De la Terre à la Lune
      - Le Monde Diplomatique
      - RFI radio news (and live, download le dernier journal, download, Fréquence Terre)
      - soc.culture.french
    - Links for German Language
    - Greek radio station
    - Spanish
      - Diccionario de la lengua española - Vigésima segunda edición
      - Diccionarios.com (e.g. VOX)
      - Wordreference.com(Spanish, German, English, French, Italian)
      - Diccionario Anaya (de español)
      - Spanish songs, trabalenguas, fiestas, etc.
      - Radio
        
        CNN enEspañol (with RealAudio)
        BBC en Español (from Clarin Digital; or BBC in spanish home page)
        Radio Netherlands in Spanish (and files for download)
        Cadena COPE (from Madrid)
        Cadena 100 (radio from Spain)
        Televisión peruviana en vivo (from Frecuencia Latina)
        Teledoce (Uruguay; with TV Online, humor, etc.)
        SNT - Canal 9 (Paraguay; with RealVideo --- TYPE: pnm://real.uninet.com.py:7070/canal9.rm in RealPlayer: OpenLocation)
        REE (Radio Exterieur de España, with RealAudio)
        Canal Sur Radio (Andalucía, with RealAudio)
        Radio Habana
      - Russian
        
        Russian<->English<->Russian dictionary (w/ Russian keyboard)
      - Newspapers
        
        Prensa (muchos países, y radio, etc.)
        from Spain: El País, El Mundo, and ABC
        Diario LA NACION - San Jose, Costa Rica
        The Wall Street Journal Americas
      - Proyecto Cervantes (e otros)
      - Cuentos Infantiles
      - Spanish on-line texts
      - Red Mundo Latino
        
        Centro Cultural
        Rincón Literario
        Cristóbal Colón (sus Diarios)
      - Rincón literario de Sofía
      - The WWW Virtual Library: Latin American Studies
      - soc.culture.spain
      - soc.culture.latin-america
      - soc.culture.mexican
      - soc.culture.peru
  - Entertainment
    - Library of Congress Z39.50 Gateway
      - The Online Books Page (excellent, with pointers to foreign books)
      - AnyBook4Less.com (comparison shopping among other sources)
      - Project Gutenberg Home Page
        
        Science Fiction (Bookshelf) - Gutenberg
      - Baen Free Library (current science fiction and fantasy books free from well-known and other authors)
      - netLibrary
      - Oxford Text Archive
      - Humanities Text Initiative
      - Early English Books Online
      - Earliest English Literatures
      - American Memory (on-line collections from Library of Congress)
      - Classic books, on-line
      - Continental Books (sells foreign books)
      - World literature
      - Sovlit.com
      - Internet Book Information Center
      - Libweb (over 2300 library home pages from over 70 countries)
      - webCATS (library on-line catalogs from around the world)
      - MARVEL/Library of Congress
      - DRA LC (Library of Congress) MARC Database
      - Publishers
      - American Association of University Publishers (Combined Catalog)
      - UnCover
      - Myths and Legends
      - English Server (CMU - on-line books, and much more)
    - Sources of electronic documents
    - Athena including French literature and Maupassant and Science)
    - Arsène Lupin (by Maurice LeBlanc, in English)
    - Blackmask Online (many on-line books)
    - Arthur's Classical Novels
    - Children's books
    - The Works of Flavius Josephus
    - Perseus Project Home Page (emphasis on classics)
    - The Complete Works of Marlowe
    - Classic short stories
    - Digital Libraries Reference
    - Universal Public Library
    - Internet Public Library
    - Internet Public Library (organized in Dewey decimal)
    - Censorship cases
    - Electronic Books at Wiretap
    - Electronic Beowulf
    - Marx and Engels' Writings
    - Bed and Breakfast Inns
    - Schoenhof's Foreign Books
  - Magazines
  - Internet Movie Database (see also Local listings)
    - Top 25 Sites to Watch Free Movies and TV Shows
    - joox.net
    - YourTvLinks (including from many countries)
    - Online TV (ForumFlicks)
    - AmericaFree.tv
    - EspanaFree.tv (Spanish movies)
    - Open Subtitles --- divx subtitles
    - Subscene (subtitles)
    - Cinéma français
    - RetroVision Media (free classic movies: Click on "The Show" or "The Feed")
    - Stage6 -- Cult Movie Theater
      - Stage6 -- Cult Movie Theater (Foreign)
      - LIFE (Japanese) (and LIVE-05-vostfr, etc.)
      - Stage6 -- Videos -- français
      - Stage6 -- Videos -- quebec
      - Stage6 -- Videos -- drole
      - Stage6 -- Videos -- French (sort by length for movies)
      - Stage6 -- Cult Movie Theater Videos
      - Stage6 -- Cult Movie Theater Videos (Cult Classics)
    - Archambault -- Musique, Livres et Vidéo
    - Motion Picture Database of 40,000 movies (including current movies w/ detailed reviews and ratings) by TV Guide ( index)
    - Top 10 movies (Cinema 1)
    - New York Times movie reviews (requires free account)
    - Movies (Middlesex news reviews)
  - Artcyclopedia
  - Music Resources on the Internet
    - UNIX MIDI Plugin
    - Free Sheet Music Downloads (links to other free sites)
    - Classical Sheet Music WebRing (but usually not free)
    - Free Sheet Music Guide
    - Free Sheet Music on 8notes.com (also has MIDI)
    - The Sheet Music Archive
    - Naxos Realaudio archive
    - MusixTeX (music notation for TeX)
    - Music
    - musique directory
  - Television (Yahoo)
    - TV news
    - DVD Hacks -- Hack search (how to convert certain players to region free; if the box says it handles NTSC and PAL, then it's likely to be in this web page)
    - Region free DVD Players or DVD Reviewer - Multi-Region Hacks or Nerd-out.com or VideoHelp.com (two sites about converting players to region-free)
    - regional lockout (info about RPC-2 (newer) dvd drives and firmware issues; and a site with workarounds)
      - Region-free DVD viewing options for the Macintosh
    - HDCP Copy protection for data using DVI (computers) or HDMI (HD TV)
    - DVD FAQ
    - Zap2it TV listings (w/ Boston)
    - Yahoo! TV (w/ listings)
    - TV listings (from Tivo)
    - TV Guide Online (w/ listings)
    - Telefutura horarios (& Univision)
    - Predict strength of over-the-air TV signals to your address
    - CNN
    - Euro TV Guide
    - PBS
    - free international TV available over internet
      - Beeline TV
      - Channel Chooser
      - Google video
      - Free TV Online
      - World TV PC
      - WWI TV
    - Just for Laughs (Montreal Festival)
    - Ballykissangel
    - Doctor Who - Classic Series - Episode Guide
    - Red Dwarf (with episode guides, scripts, etc.)
    - Babylon 5
    - Deep Space 9 (or here)
    - Star Trek Voyager
    - Star Trek Plot Summaries
  - Internet Broadcasting (Yahoo)
    - The Boston Radio Archives (and TV); (see Northeast Radio Watch for more recent news)
    - Radio-Locator (incl. international, but mostly Radio, not streaming audio)
    - DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting, digital radio on FM))
    - DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale, digital radio on shortwave, AM) ; (with current broadcasts)
    - Collections of audio/video sources
      - Alston-Brighton Free Radio (with: rvplayer http://166.90.143.156:11766/ for live web broadcasts)
      - BBC Radio 4
      - RealGuide Radio/TV Station list (incl. other countries)
      - LibriVox (free audiobooks)
      - Escape Pod (free Science Fiction audiobooks)
      - Broadcast.com (was Audionet) (with audio books)
      - CounterSpin (from FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; with archives or alt)
        
        FactCheck.org (Annenberg Political Fact Check; non-partisan)
        Media Matters for America (analyzes and corrects conservative misinformation in mainstream press)
        News Hounds (critical review of current Fox News stories)
      - Free Speech Internet TV
      - Media Channel Guide to Video
      - International video
      - RadioTower (organized by genre, or country, or name)
      - World Radio Network (with audio on-demand)
    - EY's Audio Links
      - Best Radio Drama Sites
      - Evan's Sci-Fi Page (X Minus One)
      - BBC 7 (older BBC radio shows live, or on demand)
      - Internet Archive Old Time Radio (huge selection: Gunsmoke, Bob and Ray, ...)
      - OTR Network Library (including Stan Freeberg)
      - FreeOTRShows
      - BBC, Shortwave and Old Time Radio (BBC shows)
      - Doctor Who (animated versions of classic TV programs)
      - Doctor Who episode guide (or another version)
      - BBC 4 Saturday Play (on demand)
      - BBC 4 Friday Play (on demand)
      - BBC 4 Afternoon Play (on demand)
      - A Prairie Home Companion
      - RTA Radio One Drama (from Ireland)
      - Radio One Crazy Dog Live (style of Firesign Theater)
      - The Listening Booth (SF/horror/fantasy)
      - Transmedia (original drama, some with occult detective)
      - The Halls of Ivy (w/ Ronald Colman)
      - When Radio Was (w/ Stan Freeberg)
      - Goon Show links
      - Treasure Trove ACB Radio
      - The Shadow Zone
      - W.I.L.D.
      - Brando Classic Radio
      - Norm's Radio
      - Mercury Theatre on the Air (Orson Welles)
      - Old time radio shows (some free downloads, others for a fee)
      - www.johnhenry.me.uk
      - Wayback Old Time Radio
      - Nostalgia from Australia
      - Old time Radio Programs (The Listening Room)
      - Echoes of the past, OTR research archive
      - The Shadow Radio
      - Jaweb (incl. Avengers)
      - Zoot Radio (free old time radio downloads)
      - Old Time Radio Link Society
      - Radio/Audio DramaSociety
      - Science Fiction OTR
    - CNN (requires pop-ups, plugins, etc.?)
    - CBC / SRC (with CBC Radio and CBC Stereo)
    - NPR (National Public Radio)
      (with archives for Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation, Living on Earth)
    - WBUR (with The Connection, On Point and live WBUR audio)
    - PRI's The World (on WBGH)
    - Radio Open Source (PRI, cancelled?)
    - News & Public Affairs
      - Democracy Now news (from the Pacifica Foundation)
      - Free Speech Radio news
    - BBC (with on-demand Realaudio and BBC Live or alt (or Radio 4 home page)
    - Radio Netherlands (with RealAudio and Media Network)
    - World of Radio (Glenn Hauser)
    - C-SPAN Online (with C-SPAN RealVideo and C-SPAN 2 RealVideo)
    - Internet Multicasting Service
    - GSM
    - RealAudio Homepage
    - MP3.com
    - Xaudio (plays MP3)
    - IRC Related Documents
    - International Broadcasters
      - Shortwave (not that much stuff)
      - The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Broadcasters
      - CBC Radio on The Internet (many stations)
      - Radio-Canada (français w/ RealAudio and RealVideo; many stations)
      - RCI (Radio Canada International)
      - Radio Nederland
      - Copenhagen Calling (with RealAudio)
      - Radio Sweden (with RealAudio)
      - Radio Sweden Mediascan Bulletin (with RealAudio)
      - China Radio International
      - Deutsche Welle
      - WRN 3 (World Radio Network in German)
      - All India Radio
      - Radio JAPAN: Broadcasting Information
    - Boston's Yiddish Voice on WUNR 1600 AM
  - Comics (Universal Press Syndicate)
    - skcd - a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language (with one on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
    - Political Cartoons, essays
    - Doonesbury -- Daily Dose
    - United Media (including Dilbert)
  - Google search on most recent news
    - Yahoo News
    - NewsBank (from NU subscription; articles from AP, some newspapers, etc.)
    - Newslink (dir of newspapers, magazines, radio, etc.) (including Foreign newspapers)
    - Foreign Newspapers and Magazines
    - Foreign Media (newspaper, magazine, radio, and TV)
    - New York Times (requires free subscription)
    - The Guardian (from Britain)
    - Information Clearing House (w/ search of archives)
    - International broadcast networks
      - BBC World Service
      - CNN International
      - France 24 (Microsoft Windows Media only? not available for Linux?)
      - Russia Today (Microsoft Windows Media only; not available for Linux?)
      - TeleSur (TV supported by governments of Venezuela, Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay)
      - Al Jazeera (English)
      - WRN (World Radio Network) schedules (stations, and podcasts)
    - local news
      - Boston Globe
      - Boston Phoenix (excellent for local events, but movie showings often seem to be incorrect as of 8/06)
      - New England Cable News
      - Middlesex News (good regional info)
    - Extra! magazine (FAIR) archives
    - Spinsanity (exposes spin (i.e. semi-lies) of both parties)
    - Electronic Policy Network Informative policy reviews with facts and statistics
    - more statistics (from Left Business Observer)
    - Top AP stories (via Tribnet)
    - Quick Wire
    - CNN
    - MSNBC
    - Electronics news
    - News from everywhere headline page
    - On-line news around the world
    - International news sources (w/ comments on source)
    - Daily Newspapers
    - Pathfinder (Time-Warner, including Time magazine, Sports Illustrated, etc.)
    - The Nando Times
    - TIME DAILY NEWS SUMMARY
    - Irish Times
    - trib.com Home Page
    - SunWorld Online
    - SunWorld Online (alt, from Germany)
    - The Economist
    - Colorado Springs Gaxette
    - Voice of America news broadcasts
    - Week in Review
    - current issue of The Tech
    - SLC-Tribune-data
    - Academe This Week
    - Institute for Global Communications
    - Campus Newspapers on the Internet
    - Search of dowvision
  - Local Information (Boston area; Main link is "Yahoo Get Local": integrated source of information; see also local news and events movie reviews, TV, etc.)
    - Official City of Boston
    - Boston Online
    - TAB, etc. (local papers for suburbs, with town information)
    - Greater Boston Convention and Visitors' Bureau info (w/ accommodations)
    - SmarTraveler - Boston area traffic (also MBTA delays)
    - MBTA (Boston mass transportation) (with weekday outbound schedule for Framingham/Worcester and Inbound)
    - Logan Airport Satellite Parking (or shuttle)
      - Park Shuttle & Fly
      - Logan Park & Go
      - Back Bay Coach (airport shuttle)
      - Veterans Taxi (617) 527-0300 (for western suburbs; prefer 3 hours notice to reserve a taxi)
      - Warning: Knight's Airport Limousine -- means higher limousine prices, not shuttle prices
      - Warning: Zebra Airport Shuttle -- higher priced direct service, not shuttle prices
    - Discount Airlines
      - Cheap Fares Online
      - Southwest Airlines (via Providence, Manchester, N.H., Boston), JetBlue, America West, Airtran Airways, ATA, Independent Airlines?, Ted?;
      - In Europe: Transavia (from Amsterdam), RyanAir (from London), Brussels Airlines (from Bruseels) Virgin Express (from Brussels), Sterling (from Denmark) Easy Jet (London, Edinburgh, Milan, Geneva) clickair (Spanish web site with cheap European flights)
    - Swissport (call them about shipping personal effects (web site meant for coprorations); cheaper because you take it through airport customs, and somebody at destination takes it through customs at their end; recommended to us by a Delta Airlines agent, but phone book or web>Swissport>cargo>country should get you their phone number)
    - Chinatown bus lines for East Coast
      - New York / Boston Chinatown Bus Info (and forum?)
      - Greyhound esavers ($15, fares subject to change)
      - BoltBus (new division of Greyhound with economy tickets as of 4/08, free WiFi on bus)
      - Fung Wah (e-tickets: $15; hourly buses between 139 Canal St/NY and Gate 25, South Stn. Bus Terminal, 700 Atlantic Ave., Boston)
      - Lucky Star (e-tickets: $15; on-board bathroom; hourly buses between corner of Chrystie St and Hester St/NY and Gate 13, South Stn. Bus Terminal, 700 Atlantic Ave., Boston)
      - Limoliner ($80 one-way, fares subject to change; large seats, internet access, and maybe meal and movie)
    - Official Time
    - Weather
      - Weather Underground (with Boston weather and local radar and animation)
      - National Weather Service: Boston west suburbs, local radar, and forecast discussion,
      - Weather map
      - UM Weather
      - FAQL Hurricanes, Typhoons and Tropical Cyclones
      - Past Hurricanes (and HURDAT Hurricane re-analysis since 1851)
    - WeedAlert.com (good descriptions/pictures of weeds and treatment)
      - Turfgrass Identification (Purdue U.)
    - Boston Maps
    - Boston Phoenix Movie Reviews
      - Metacritic
      - CitySearch:Boston movies (lots of cookies, Microsoft, good reviews by CitySearch, can crash older browsers)
      - Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (Free Shakespeare on the Common)
      - Cinema listings by theater and title (Google)
      - Cinema listings by theater and title (Boston Movie Times)
        
        Dedham Community Theater listings (with slow-loading, annoying animations) (alt)
        Framingham 16 listings
        AMC Chestnut Hill 5
        West Newton Cinema listings (also shows foreign films) (alt)
        Waltham Landmark Embassy Cinema listings
        Mendon Drive-in (Boston area)
      - BosTix (half-price tickets) and Arts/Boston
    - Boston's Hidden Restaurants
      - City of Waltham Restaurant Guide
      - DiningInMass
        
        DiningInMass (Waltham)
      - MassMenus
      - Sichuan Gourmet (Lao Sichuan; Framingham and Billerica)
      - Restaurants under $20 entree, listed in order from center of Boston
      - Restaurant (Boston.com)
      - Restaurants (incl. by region, MetroWest, etc.)
      - Restaurant (Mapquest, DigitalCity, user reviews more revealing)
      - On-line Boston/Cambridge menus
    - First Night Boston
    - advanced computer literacy via SIPB documents and courses from MIT
    - MLIN (Massachusetts Library and Information Network)
      - Boston Public Library
      - Boston Library Consortium (telnet)
      - Virtual Catalog (for Massachusetts, keep selecting Content frame for search)
      - Northeastern U. Snell Library
        
        form for recommended book purchases
        Interlibrary Loan
      - Minuteman Library Network (with account info)
    - Yahoo street maps
      - Driving directions (Yahoo)
      - Maps (Excite: U.S. streets, world, , travel info, etc.)
      - MapQuest (includes international, points of interest)
      - Vicinity MapBlast!
    - Yahoo Yellow Pages
      - Bigbook yellow pages (using Superpages)
      - Superpages Yellow pages (alt) (and white pages)
      - White Pages (people finder)
        
        Reverse Phone number look-up (WhitePages.com)
      - Yahoo White Pages
      - Switchboard finder
      - AnyWho.com
    - Massachusetts Government including:
      - Mass. Department of Revenue
      - Office of Consumer Affairs (Mass.)
    - slickdeals.net (tech. hot deals) and on-line coupons, searchable, etc.
    - Pricegrabber.com (reasonable first stop for comparison shopping)
    - wow coupons (buggy web server cuts off transmission in mid-page)
    - Consumer Reports (free overviews, subscription for reports)
    - Oriental Trading (like A.C. Moore, but cheaper by mail order)
    - Best Buy weekly ad
    - Deep Discount DVD
    - Comfort-Crafted Oil (non-profit oil buying network)
    - MIT
      - MIT (SIPB home page)
      - MIT LCS (Lab for Computer Science)
      - MIT AI Lab
      - MIT LCS/AI Reading Room
      - MIT Media Lab
      - WWW.MIT.EDU's Top 20 Documents
    - Harvard
    - Boston University Home Page
  - Travel (also see maps, etc. under local information, and see currency exchange rates)
    - My experience: online tranvel agencies may not include discount airlines; usually don't have best prices on normal hotels/motels -- only for national chains; give a quick overview of what to expect for car rental); priceline.com available if you want to gamble
    - Travel Coupon Guide (as found in many highway rest stops --- coupons sometimes valid only on walk-in basis for same-day, but better rates than online rates)
    - Discovery maps (those cute tourist maps of touristy towns)
    - Comfi.com: Prepaid virtual international phone cards (buy online and receive PIN number)
    - 1-800-flights (on-time flight info., gates, etc.: by web, or by calling on phone)
    - 1-800-Fly-Europe (discount airline tickets and hotel rooms; can set up reservation with person on phone)
    - TripAdvoisor.com (good for hotels; consolidates other web sites)
    - Bestfares.com (discount airfare, hotel, cruise, etc.)
    - TGV Europe (Select country for receiving tickets, and it redirects you to another web site: affects currency used and price; if selecting to receive tickets in USA, switches you to raileurope.com and sometimes also higher prices)
    - hotels.com (reasonably priced hotels)
    - Paris Budget Hotels (and all of France)
    - Lowfares.com (Tries multiple agents: Kayak.com, Cheaptickets.com, etc.)
    - ShermansTravel meta-search (one easy form searches Orbitz, Expedia, Travelocity, individual airlines, etc.)
    - Kayak (comparison shop for airfares, including compare against Orbitz)
    - Orbitz.com (online travel agency, may not include discount airlines: Southwest Air (Providence, not Boston), JetBlue, America West, Independent Airlines, AirTran, Ted; See discount airlines)
    - see also Travelocity, Microsoft Expedia
    - The Air Traveler's Handbook
    - Priceline and Expedia bidding
    - Microsoft expedia
    - Travel Secrets
    - City.Net
    - Restaurants (Germany)
    - Varta Guide (restaurants and hotels, Germany)
    - Genève Tourisme (official site, non-profit)
    - Rec.Travel Library
    - Airlines
      - System 1 Travel Agency (allows exploration of possibilities by Web)
      - Priceline.com (auction, 1-800-cheap-seats)
      - Flifo (with fare beater option, and no registration to explore fares)
      - The Trip.com (including ground transportation, status of flight in air, reservations, local maps, tips, etc.)
      - American Airlines Net SAAver
      - On-Time airline statistics
      - Airline 800 numbers
    - Railteam (will provide bookings of European high speed rail starting in 2008; inactive??)
    - European National Railways and Timetables
      - High Speed Rail
      - Railroads (European Railways information - the MERCURIO server)
      - Public Transport around the world
      - German DB railway timetable
      - Die Bahn (German trains)
      - SNCF (French trains)
      - SBB (Swiss trains (German)) or CFF (Swiss trains (French))
      - Raileurope (Many European train companies either charge an extra fee through a U.S. travel agent, or else ask you to go to the Raileurope site; run by French and Swiss railroads; doesn't include some German and Italian trains; sells individual train tickets for France and some other countries)
      - Europass (for 5 central countries; country pairs available at cheaper rates)
      - Eurail passes (doesn't sell individual tickets: see Raileurope or national train sites)
      - Eurail passes from a competing provider
      - Map of High Speed Trains in Europe (and links to Premier trains with times)
      - Amtrak schedules
      - Subway Navigator (around the world)
      - SO.CA.TA. - Transit Links
    - Foreign telephone directories (not always complete)
      - France Telecomm
      - Deutsche Telekomm
      - Guías ... (Spain, yellow pages only)
    - Travel reference for other countries
      - Wikitravel (excellent!)
      - Links for international travellers (electric adapter, country dialing codes, etc.)
      - G.A.P. Adventures (lower cost tours -- find own restaurants, meet local people)
      - SmartPhrase.com (online phrase books, primarily for European languages)
      - City Map Sites around the world
      - Subway/commuter train maps around the world (urbanRail.html)
      - World Airport Guide
      - Excess Baggage Shipping (international)
      - The Weather Network -- International Cities
      - Multimap (street maps of other countries w/ hotels, etc.)
      - Currency exchange rates ( Alt)
      - Electricity around the world
      - AmeriCom Country and Area Codes (excellent) (also describes competitive long distance rates)
      - Example long distance provider
      - ACR International Calling Codes
      - Telephone directories around the Web
      - Time zones, national holidays, etc. for countries
      - Local times around the world
      - Local Times Around the World
      - Electric standards around the world (electric plugs, current/voltage, etc.)
      - TV Schedules from around the world
      - World Climates
      - Hotels
        
        Try 1-800-fly-europe search on this page or TripAdvoisor.com (consolidates other web sites)
        Reasonably priced hotels in Japan
        Geneva Hotels
        
        Holiday Inn Express, Geneva
        
        Genoa and region (refuses to display, unless you have the latest FlashPlayer installed)
  - Investment and tax information
    - IRS Tax forms
      - U.S. Foreign Per Diem Rates
    - Companies Online (locates URL, given various info about company)
    - Federal Express (can now print airbill on personal printer, x2135 for details at N.U.)
    - Better Business Bureau on-line
    - 1-800-free-411 (free directory assistance in U.S., in exchange for listening to an ad)
      - 1-800-411-metro (live operator then connects you) and 1-800-411-save (live operator gives you number)
      - 1-800-flights (on-time flight info., gates, etc.: by web, or by calling on phone)
    - Prepaid cell phone reviews (or this web page)
    - Specs and reviews of cell phones
    - 10-10 phone rates