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WORLD
- Excellent news weekly with a Christian perspective.
Cyber
News Service (CNS) - Good source of current news that is up front about their point of view.
NewsMax
- Very conservative news site that also archives late night talkshow jokes.
WorldNetDaily
- Dedicated to providing "A free press for a free people."
FOX
News - They report, you decide, so they say.
The
Washington Times-Front Page - Good, conservative news from inside the beltway.
Christian News Daily - Christian and other news.
DRUDGE
REPORT - Matt Drudge's conservative "gossip" column site. First to break the Monical
Lewinski scandal in Jan 98 and a number of other scandals in the most ethical administration in history. Hated
by liberals.
National
Review - Well written and thought out commentary on the news.
Yahoo
- Reuters News Summary - Short summaries of the current news.
CNN
Interactive - Keep up with Ted Turner's filtered and spun cut on the Clinton News Network, FWIW.
PC
Week - Keep up with the latest in the computer news world.
Military
Report Home Page - Good weekly collection of new stories affecting the military. Mostly of interest to service
members.
Christianity
Today - Pretty good summary of what's going on in the Christian community.
USA
Today - The daily national newspaper online.
Electronic
Telegraph - British newspaper for the view from across the pond.
Scientific
American - News from the world of science. Careful - heavily pro-evolutionary bias.
National
Weather Service Homepages - Java map of all the NWS sites in the US. Just click on the office nearest
your point of interest to get to the local homepage.
Interactive
Weather Information Network - National Weather Service updates.
Edwards
Weather System (EWS) - Local Antelope Valley weather, plus selected military fields.
The
Weather Channel ® Homepage - Up to date info online from the full-time weather folks, minus the
smile.
Welcome
to AccuWeather, Inc. - You've heard the name, now here's the web site. Forecasts and satellite pics
for your viewing pleasure. Nice info, but the Weather Channel is laid out better.
National
Weather Service Welcome Page - The government's best guess.
USA
Today Weather Information Page - Outstanding collection of weather information and explanations. As complete
of explanations of how weather works and what it all means as I've ever seen, and explained at a laymen-understandable
level. Highly recommended to everyone who is at all interested in weather.
Space
Science and Engineering Center - Real-time satellite and other data/images.
TROPICAL
PREDICTION CENTER-NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER - Keep track of the big stuff.
National
Center for Atmospheric Research - Interesting stuff for the more technically inclined.
Melbourne,
FL, Weather - My local forecast from the NWS.
Heat
Index Chart - Just in case you need it.
Common
Meteorological Tables & Conversions - Nifty help from the NWS.
Synoptic
Symbols - Great framed presentation of WX map symbols.
Democracy
in America - Alexis de Toqueville's classic work on what made America great in the early 19th century.
MapQuest!
Welcome! - Spacially lost? Try here.
The
World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue - Subject index for the most comprehensive source
of reference material on the web.
Four11
Directory Services - The internet white pages. Great resource for finding someone you lost track of.
Switchboard
- Another internet directory, both personal and business. Seems more complete than Four11, although Four11 is
more customizable.
World
Currency Exchange - Helpful resourse for those that travel or invest overseas.
Center
for History and New Media - Another popular Virtual Library offering.
Library
of Congress Vatican Exhibit
Census
Information - A great source of government demographic data.
Forms
And Publications - IRS - What you need to keep the tax man at bay.
Britannica
Online - Sampler to the online encyclopaedia service.
Bartlett,
John. 1901. Familiar Quotations - Old but handy reference, web style.
IPL
The Internet Public Library - Lots of ebooks, nicely done.
Cornell
Law School - Lots of US law reference material, including Supreme Court decisions.
Data
Research Home Page - International client/server experts.
Cornell
Theory Center - High tech computing research.
Selected
Historic Decisions of the Supreme Court - Great reference to the decisions of the folks that
interpret the laws.
Inconstant
Moon - Great site with lots of info about the moon.
Seismo
Lab Home Page - Great reference for those of us living in earthquake zones.
Home
Page of VolcanoWorld - Ditto for the volcanic zones.
Cascades
Volcano Observatory HOME PAGE - Info on specific volcanoes in the US.
Global
Weather Links on Junkscience.com - The truth about climate misinformation. Don't be duped
by the politically correct.
National
Academy Press - National Academy of Science's reading room. Lots of stuff online.
Getty
Thesaurus of Geographic Names - Nifty WWW lookup to find those places you can't quite place.
Library
of Congress Home Page - THE resource for research and exhibits on US history.
Welcome
to the Natural History Museum home page - British Natural History Museum online, nicely done.
The
History Channel - Schedule for those who don't wish to repeat history.
THE
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS - President Lincoln's two minute speech that set the standard for tributes to bravery.
US
Historical Documents - Another great collection from the University of Oklahoma.
Shakespeare's
Bible - Great evidence for who Shakespeare was based on an original copy of the Geneva Bible
with his notations in it.
Marcellus
Cadd's War & Conflict Page - Interesting collection of battle histories by a history enthusiast. Project
still in work.
Mars
Pathfinder - Welcome to Mars! - Data from the famous mission to Mars.
Project
Galileo (JPL) - Mission to Jupiter.
Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics - Hard core space science for the really dedicated.
Space
Calendar (JPL) - List of significant astronomical events and space launches, kept up to date by NASA.
Links to a wealth of astronomical info, satellite specs and experiment details.
Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory - Another nifty page for space cadets, sponsored by Harvard University and
the Smithsonian.
United
States Postal Service Home Page - Lots of neat stuff: zip code finder, stamp pics, rates, etc.
Official
DoD Per Diem Rates - Just what it says. Good info for government travelers.
IRS
- The Digital Daily Income Tax Forms, Instructions, Publications, Regulations, and other stuff
- A new image, really.
Tom's
Home Page - Good friend I met over the net, then travelled to meet.
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Last updated May 29, 2004