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Quick Reference

• National do-not-call registry complaint page

Travel

Search

• Orbitz
• Tripadvisor.com (search multiple engines to compare prices)
• Venere lodging/flight search (worked better than Orbitz to find room in Salzburg)

Phoenix

• Luke AFB Contact Numbers
• Luke AFB Medical Contact Numbers
• Cox TV listings for Phoenix

Events

• azcentral.com events
• Spacefest (mid August)

Search Resources

Social

• Google search insights

People

• spock.com, social networking aggregator
• Lycos People Search
• Intelius Switchboard

Reference

• Merriam-Webster Unabridged

Tech

• An Ultra Small Real Time Multi Tasking Kernel for Embedded Applications, from Mario Trams
• Blackberry Internet Service login

Geek

• Dispute Finder addon for Firefox (Beta)
• Archive.org, open source information including videos
• Ben Fry, Visualizing Data
• POV-Ray, Photorealistic rendering script language
• Icon generator
• Long list of online converters
• Valuable information on every number from 0 to 9999
• Goofy-ass online circuit simulator
• Animated Circuit Simulator
• Interesting RLC simulator
• Paul Falstad
• Paul Falstad's Java applets
• Steven W. Smith, digital image processing, free book on DSP and Human Consciousness
• At Last the 1948 Show on Youtube
• Find the Longest Path, Algorithm song
• [1] [2] How to make your own PCBs using a laser printer
• Impossible World, impossible figures
• Leslie Lamport, Computer Scientist
• A. K. Dewdney (of The Planiverse fame)
• Silicon Graffiti, Florida State
• Quantcast, web site profiling
• Calculating pi thanks to Bellard (with source code)

Software

• VisGenie video analysis tool
• Opensourcewindows.org
• List of opensource software for Windows
• INTERCAL: "Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym"
• Textfiles.com, increadible amount of information uploaded from cd to ftp

Technology

• Phonescoop, phone reviews and information

Culture

= Language

• German-Flashcards.com

Quotes

Heroes

• John Ratzenburger, based on interview with Cavuto on 2 Nov 2008
• Charles Fawcett, Spaghetti Western Actor, Liberator, Legionaire . . .
• Wallace, Ladmo, and Gerald, Ran on KPHO in Phoenix from 1954-1989

Radio

• Shoutcast source for streaming radio
• The Stream Center
• Radio Locator
• KKNT 960, Phoenix
• KFYI 550, Phoenix
• KXAM 1310, Mesa
• KTAR 92.3, Glendale
• 540 WFLA, Pine Hills, FL
• WDBO 580, Orlando, FL
• 660 WORL, Altamonte Springs, FL
• 1190 WAMT, Orlando, FL

Video Broadcasts

• ESPN streaming games

Podcasts

• The Education Podcast Network

Music

• Milktoast Intolerant
• The Kitchen Musician
• Tin whistle lessons on YouTube,
• Tom Lehrer

Irish Set Tunes

• Siamsa (Montreal)
• O'Regan's (Montreal)
• Wild Dismay (Ohio)
• Flueinfo.com | Kesh Jig

Photography

• Color photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944), Using emerging technological advances in color photography, he made numerous photographic trips to systematically document the Russian Empire in the first part of the 20th century

Poetry

• Richard Cory, Edwin Arlington Robinson, 1902

Media

• Drew Curtis (Fark) on the media
• Pajamasmedia, a blooming blog portal

Kə•'kä

• Pravda article: baby sheep has man-face, very disturbing
• David Mazi and Eddie Kohler. Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List. New York University, University of California, Los Angeles. http://www.mailavenger.org/
• Computer generated paper removed from Elsevier
• Simply Hired salary data
• Garth Marenghi
• I did not know that yesterday!
• Which side of the road to drive on
• Chad Vader
• The Bulwer-Lytton Bad Writing Contest | Great Article on "Language Crimes"
• Fark
• OMG Celebrity collage! | Mike