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From: Robert Howe, rhowehmd@inreach.com
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Date: Updated May 23, 2005

I've given up on trying to keep a common bookmark list on the 4+ computers I use. So here, for primarily my use (but you're welcome to it), are the links I find useful enough to keep around. These will open up in a new window, so click away!

AppleScript Bicycles Blogs (mostly political) Books Computer-Viruses, hoaxes, general woes, SPAM resources Family and Friend websites Floor Lamps

Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen Internet/Web/HTML References Macintosh Other Political Reference (general)

Applescript Links

AppleScripts for Tex-Edit Plus Tex-Edit home page MacScripter.net. Mostly Applescript. handy place. Apple--AppleScript Hypercard, not applescript: Frederic Rinaldi home page. When Laura and I worked at DTSC, we licensed a bunch of Rinaldi's XCMDs for Hypercard. I generally use Applescript now, but sometimes I drag out Hypercard, and Rinaldi's the source of many handy XCMDs.

Bicycles

Rivendell Bicycle Works home page. The Best stuff you can get; if they carry it, it's good. Or go directly to Rivendell's online catalog. Harris Cyclery. They have a lot of detailed information about the products they carry. If Rivendell doesn't have it, Harris might. While commercial lights are good, I seem to have the worst luck with them, and they're not made for easy end-user repair. So I'm looking into what it takes to make a set on my own. Make your own lights is a link my buddy Pureheart sent to me. The info looks good but I haven't checked it out completely. Batteries that can be used for bicycle light systems. Hostel Shoppe Recumbents. The carry all the oddball tire sizes, as well as hard-to-find accessories for recumbents. WhymCycles: Peter Wagner created WhymCycles maybe ten, fifteen years ago. This links to some photos of his works. (Highwheels) The Wheelmen Metz Bicycle Museum eBay auctions for Highwheels, Bigwheels, etc. (Search refined on August 30, 2003) (Unicycles) Unicycling on the Internet

Blogs (mostly political)

Iraq blog Eschaton LiberalOasis Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation. AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth BuzzFlash - Daily Headlines and Breaking News The Washington Monthly The O'Franken Factor TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime pandagon.net - we only look young... Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: A Weblog Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Sirotablog MaxSpeak, You Listen!

Books

Book closeouts Tomfolio, an international cooperative of used and rare booksellers. Choosebooks, another group of independent book sellers. Prometheus Books, the leading publisher in philosophy, popular science, and critical thinking with more than 1,000 books in print. Cody's Books, which my brother says 'deserves your money more than Amazon does' Powell's Used and Rare Books Advanced Book Exchange (ABE) Amazon.com -- provided you don't mind their anti-privacy privacy policy. Electronic books Bartleby, providing unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. An old favorite, from 1841. Read it and you'll realize people haven't changed one bit.

Computer-Viruses, hoaxes, general woes, SPAM resources

Is it true or is it an Urban Legend? Find out! (Popup window warning!) CIAC (U.S. Department of Energy)--hoaxbuster page. How to recognize internet hoaxes and what to do about them. Anti-spam resources from Macintouch. Samples of Scam emails, from those I've received.

Family and Friend websites

Norma Howe, and home of "Blue Avenger" Chris Howe Pat Howe (although she no longer works at UCD) Everett Howe The Dietler-Bennion website

Floor Lamps

I'm still looking for a good, complete source for old lamp parts. Grand Brass Lamp Parts comes pretty close. So does Mainely Shades. I'm a sucker for the old-style floor lamp but the supply around here has dried up. If you have one to give away, let me know.

Macintosh

My two favorites: As the Apple Turns.I treat myself to this site every day right before lunch. And if they haven't updated their page by then, the rest of my day is spoiled. MacSurfer's Headline News Your first stop of the day. the next set: MacInTouch Home Page Mac Managers' website TuCows Mac; where you go to find out what shareware's what Mac OS Rumors. MacFixIt (Home Page) Deal-mac MacCentral. I like these folks a lot less now that they have pop-behind ads. MacWindows Steve Wozniak's web site. Take a look at the public letters... MacNN: the Macintosh News Network Have PowerPC? Wanna emulate another system? Look here! The Mac Observer Think Secret

Political

Air America Radio; if a station's not near you, they have a streaming RealPlayer version. It sure is nice to listen to this instead of what you normally get on the radio. Alternet.org, a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism. First launched in 1998, AlterNet's online magazine provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism on subjects ranging from the environment, the drug war, technology and cultural trends to policy debate, sexual politics and health issues. Working For Change. Another good source of information. Information Clearinghouse. The news that doesn't make it into newspapers or television. Media Matters Michael Moore's website. True Majority FAIR (the national media watch group) is an anti-censorship organization that exposes neglected news stories and defends working journalists when they are muzzled. See a counter for the cost of the Iraq war. This page also shows what the money could have been used for. What the World Wants and the slice to take out of the world military expenditures to pay for it. George W. Bush's service history, from The Straight Dope Tom Paine.com. Inequality.org California Green Party National Green Party Friends of Peace www.antiwar.com, self-quoted as "your best source for antiwar news, viewpoints, and activities" Bush knew he was lying.

Reference (Internet/Web/HTML)

Design I don't do much web design anymore...at work I web-enable Filemaker databases, and since I'm the only one there who does that sort of thing I'm always backlogged. All I really have time to do is to get the thing working, then move on to the next one. I should start cracking on XML. Oh well. Web usability A good read every other week or so. The World Wide Web consortium. HTML Validators My favorite validator. Want to validate your HTML? Try something listed here! Style Sheets WWWC's style sheet home page. The scoop on style sheets from the organization that should know. Want info on style sheets? What works, what doesn't? Rich will tell you! HTML Assistance Web Design Group's HTML Help page. Handy if you can't remember exactly what that tag does or how its used. Web Page Design for Designers. More on design, less on technology.

Reference (General)

Webster's dictionary/thesaurus. If you want that word and can't find your dictionary. Encyclopedia Britannica. Have to click a lot to read an article though. The Straight Dope. "Fighting ignorance since 1973 (it's taking longer than we thought)" is their motto. Sacramento CA area weather., from SacBee.com

VW Parts

My 1986 Diesel VW Golf is still chugging along with over 270,000 miles. When I bought the car I swore I'd never work on a car again, but times change (and the shop I took it to for all those years started screwing up too many times). So here I am again, working on an old car. When I needed a part I just did a google search and these came up. Discount Vdub Parts. This is the only one I've actually ordered from. Auto Parts Authority. Discount Auto Tools. Drivewerks.

Other

No Sweat apparel; union made clothing. California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board. Before I switched jobs in May 2001, I was the webmaster for the CVC&GCB. Now there's e-gov standards that mandate the look and feel for all State of California websites. I'm glad I'm not the webmaster anymore, as the state-provided templates aren't valid HTML (try running any page with the new look and feel through a validator listed above...!). El Dorado Transit...when I need to check a bus schedules. Sacramento Regional Transit...for the Sacramento bus schedules Solar Cookers International; years ago I made a solar cooker based on their plans. I liked it, but after a few seasons the cardboard started showing its age and I never rebuilt it. I may put that project into my project queue. State of California jobs. Yeah, I'm always looking. Morris Minor page Powerpoint is evil, but you knew that already. Back in high school, our German teacher would make us sing songs in German once a week. "You have thick skins, so come up to the front of the class". Doing so was supposed to help us remember cases or some such thing. Here, for anyone who used to be in my classes, are the words to two of his favorite songs: Blau Wie Das Meer, and Seemann. I wanted to put the following sentence where I could find it. I think it came from www.useit.com, but I didn't write the source down. Nevertheless, here it is: ...[T]he vast majority of customer-satisfaction insight comes from answers to a single question: How likely is it that you could recommend [X] to a friend or colleague? That's it! A few links that I just have to remember to look at: http://fixitnow.com/appliantology/sparkmodulediagnosis.htm www.portlandmercury.com/2004-11-11/feature.html