A semi-random assortment of interesting places, some useful, some not so much.

NIST

Astrophysics Links

APoD
Blue Marble & MODIS
The Astronomer's Telegram
Dan's Supernova Page
Ned Wright's Cosmo Pages @ UCLA
Another Cosmo Calc
Loads of Useful Links at CDS
NED
The Nasa Astrophysics Data System
LANL Preprint Mirror
International Astronomy Meetings List at CADC
Good Ol' Astrophysics Rumor Mill
Pat Hall's Still Useful Links

Math and Stats links

Physics and Teaching Links

For All Your Home IP Communication Needs

Speakeasy Broadband

Documentation &/or Source Code for Some of My Favorite Tools

Evolution → If you don't have Evolution mail configured right, you can send e-mail reminders by setting an alarm to run echo. E.g., Program : echo ; Arguments : "9AM webcast on Hubble future" | mail <address> -s "evolution appointment reminder" .
Debian
Fink
Firefox
The GIMP
OpenOffice
Vim

Music

Velvet Lounge ← Fred Anderson's club in Chicago
Sun Ra Research
All Things Saturnian
AEC ← Ancient to the Future
AACM ← Ancient to the Future
El Ra Records & Marshall Allen
Radio Locator
Dr. Dick's Dub Shack
BlueGrassCountry.org
KBEM Minneapolis Public Schools Jazz 88.5FM
WMUC Freeform College Radio 88.1FM
WFMU Freeform Radio 91.1FM
WMBC UMBC Student Radio
WRVU 91.1FM
WWOZ New Orleans NPR Roots Radio → On linux systems : mplayer -ao oss -playlist 'http://wwoz-sc.streamguys.com/listen.pls'. Depending on your setup, this may require specifying something other than OSS. Nevermind the OSS part, it's deprecated. Just do mplayer -playlist 'http://wwoz-sc.streamguys.com/listen.pls'
WMUA Radio Voice of UMASS 91.1FM
WPLN 90.3FM ¤ 1430AM Nashville
WMOT 89.5FM at MTSU
WCPE 89.7FM, Wake Forest NPR → Ogg Vorbis stream, http://audio.ibiblio.org:8010/wcpe.ogg
Pitchfork Media
Saturn Recs in Oakland
ForcedExposure
Soul Jazz Records
PBS show on Lennon
PBS show on Mississippi music
Smithsonian Folkways
Aquarius Records in San Francisco
Dusty Groove America (Chicago)
EdgeToneRecords (links to BayImprovisor and Amoeba)
One Reason to Get Satellite Radio
All Songs Considered
pollstar

Local Buzz

NPL Login
Nashville Public Library On-line
Memphis Public Library On-line
The Belcourt Theatre
Nashville Scene On-line
Nashville Rage On-line local music listings
Nashville Rage Club Listings
Nashville Theatre Listings and some other stuff
Current Views of Nashville
Grimey's
Bongo Java Cafes
Caffeine

News and Politics

Slashdot
Radio France Internationale
WAMU American University NPR 88.5FM
KQED San Francisco NPR 88.5FM
E-Washington Post
NY Times On-Line
BBC World On-Line
The Christian Science Monitor
salon.com
Chicago Trib On-Line
Chicago Sun Times
SFGate.com
CNN
Slate
NOW with Bill Moyers
Liberal Speak from The Daily KOS
Operation Truth
Liberal Speak from TomPaine.com
Baltimore Sun Letters and Op-Eds
San Antonio Express News Letters and Op-Eds (esp. Mansour El-Kikhia)
the ONION
CIA World Factbook

Local Weather

wunderground
NOAA Home
UNiSYS Weather Home
AccuWeather.com
Central Plains Radar and Satellite Images from UNiSYS Weather
Continental US Radar and Satellite Images from Intellicast
Nashville Radar and Satellite Images from Intellicast


Last modified: 2005-Sep-01, by Rachel A. Gibbons

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