Joyce's Favorite Links Page!
Click on one of the links below to travel to another website.
Comic Books:
ComicBkNet
Home Page Read the latest comics
industry news!
United Media Home of Snoopy,
Dilbert and several other dailies.
Sherman's Lagoon Undersea
based daily comic, which leads us nicely into our next subject..
Tropical Fish:
The Continuously Refreshing
Fishcam!
AquaLink Aquarium products,
informative articles, and an encyclopedia of tropical fish
diseases. There's even a diagnostic utility to help you figure
out what illness has made your fishes sick and how to cure them!
AquariaCentral
More information and links to help you keep happy, healthy fish!
Computers:
eWeek Online
What used-to-be PC Week by ZiffDavis Publishing. They changed their name,
jumping on the 'e-' bandwagon. Articles sometimes manage to be unbiased (depends
on what's popular at the time).
SmartPartner Another publication from
ZiffDavis Publishing. Tries slightly harder to be unbiased (doesn't make it). When it's popular to MS-bash, they reluctantly follow. When it's
not
popular to MS-bash, they loudly worship the great MS. And when it's popular to
praise MS.. bring waders.
CNet News Often presents a nice
balanced viewpoint. Unfortunately, doesn't seem to cover as much news as the two
mentioned above. (Both points seem quite odd since CNet owns ZiffDavis.)
PC World Today Read even more PC
news! This one is geared more towards the home user. (So techies, beware; some
of the articles are a bit watered-down.)
PriceWatch Finds current prices on
computer and electronic equipment from all over the web so you don't have to do
much running around!
Shareware Shareware allows you to "try it before you buy
it"!
WinFiles
Freeware, more shareware plus hardware drivers for all versions of Windows.
McAfee, now known as Network Associates, makers of anti-virus
software.. download an evaluation copy today: better safe than
sorry! They also have PGP ("Pretty Good Privacy")
software so you can encrypt your email messages.
Current Events:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Headline news from St. Louis' only daily newspaper. Recently redesigned their
website so it's a bit harder to find news articles. :/
St. Louis River Front Times
St. Louis' weekly alternative newspaper.
The Pantagraph Local newspaper for
Bloomington, IL.
IntelliCast Find out the weather forecast, follow the links for
daily or 4 day forecasts.
Cars:
Sports Car Club of America You've
got to try autocrossing! It's fun, it's safe, it's fun,
and.. well, okay, it's not "cheap", but it's
reasonable! You can get by pretty cheaply if you stay in
"stock" class. Ie., you compete using your normal,
plain-vanilla [no aftermarket add-ons] daily-driver car. Did I
mention it's fun, too?
Edmund's New
or Used Car/Truck Guides Edmunds gives
you a good idea what your current vehicle is worth and also what
you can expect a new one to cost.
If you're seriously considering selling your car or buying a new/used one, also try these sites:
AutoSite Another car/truck
buyer's guide.
Auto
Trader Online Check out what cars like
yours are selling for in your area. You can even leave an online
ad! You'll also find links for trading boats and small planes.
and,
of course, there's good ol' Kelley's Blue Book (new and used car pricing).
The Geo Storm Owner's Page. I
used to own a Storm. This guy has done a
excellent job with his website for Geo Storm Owners'!
Job Searching Resources:
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Fun Stuff:
News
of the Weird Archives Things that make
you go "hmm!"
The AFU &
Urban Legends Archive (Unreal!)
The Darwin Awards Official Home Page (A "must see"!)
Blue Mountain
Arts' Electronic Greeting Cards Free
internet greeting cards. (These greeting cards are fun to create
and they're a great way to perk up someone's day.. all it takes
it some imagination!)
GO Greetings Free internet
greeting cards for all occasions.
ActiveGram More animated greeting cards.
Home Designs Plus.com Gobs and
gobs of house plans! If you're building your own home, you can
buy a premade plan. Or check out 3D Home Architect by Broderbund
and design it yourself! It's easy and you can export your plans
into a file format that's compatible with the CAD software that
most architects use.
Map Quest (or, how do I get
there from here?)
The Daily .WAV Cool sound
bites from movies or TV shows! As an added bonus, it has a nice
MIDI archive.
Music Boulevard They have a nice selection of music, a pretty decent
search engine, and their prices are about normal.
Same can be said for The CD Universe but, they carry movies too.
Reel.com carries movies, too!
You can rent 'em, buy 'em new or buy 'em used and their prices
are great!
The Internet Movie Database
provides a really nice movie search engine, much better
than the others (search by title, director, actor/actress, etc.).
They only list movies, but they give you a lot of
information (cast list including some crew, director, rating,
plot summary), plus there's a link to take you to Reel.com where
you can purchase the movie you've found.
Internet Stuff:
Yahoo! A
web-search engine (my
favorite starting place!)
Alta Vista Another search engine.. this one will also search
peoples' homepages.
Hot Bot Same as above, with
slightly better search capabilities.
Google A very nice search engine.. when it's
not being a pain in the butt. It often makes assumptions (like, ignoring certain
words as "too common" although they are within a quoted phrase).
Lycos Yet another web search
engine.
411 Information (just as if
you dialed 411 on your phone!)
What's left of Deja News
At one time, an extensive archive of Internet newsgroups. It contains only messages, no binary
files. Another shortcoming is that this is an "online"
service unlike most newsreaders, which allow you to grab messages
and read them off-line. Yet another shortcoming occurred after Google took over.
Google seems to use the same "I'll assume
you didn't really mean to search on that word so I'll ignore it" search
engine for usenet as they do for web-searches. Another shortcoming: very limited
header information. If you don't know what I mean by that, never mind. But if
you do, you'll realize where that can be very annoying, especially if you follow
a newsgroup that gets a lot of lame trolls who try to spoof the regulars. Last shortcoming: it's totally
impossible to follow a thread. Yes, all the messages are there but you have
no sense of who is replying to whom. It's like all the messages are just dumped
in your lap and it's up to you to figure out their order. Deja used to show
threads in a sideways tree-like structure so you could easily see the flow even
if someone changed the subject.
HotMail Provides free email
services, so if you move and change ISP's, your email address
stays the same. Yahoo and a number of others offer the same.
Hushmail
offers a secure connection to their free email servers so crackers would have a
difficult time sniffing your email password.
Last Updated: April 27, 2001