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Science Daily Magazine
A daily fix of what's new in the world of science... always fascinating, always diverse
 

Archeological News
It's not just a bunch of old moldering bones. Another daily fix of headlines... but you can just go every so often & keep caught up... great stuff.

photo.net
I like to play with cameras. Photo.net is a handy resource. Even if you are not a photographer, it has stuff for you. Check out his Travel Stories. It is built and run by Phillip Greenspun and is packed full of content for every one. It is the best photography site on the net

frets.com
Frets.com is another site packed with lots of stuff. It is built by Frank Ford who has a lifetimes experience building and repairing stringed instruments. He has a section on Instrument History and lore. A picture museum of interesting instruments. See the fabulous Yowl-a-lele. Find detailed instructions with pictures for everything from how to put a string on, to how to replace a broken neck. If you are a player of stringed instruments or a person who repairs them you are guaranteed to find something of interest at this site.

Urban Legends Reference Pages
Do you not know what to believe? Does somebody swear something happened to their friend's friend's cousin? Find out if it is an Urban Legend here. It's a good place to find out if something you have always thought to be true really is.

Virus Warnings/Hoaxes

Everybody has received Email warning about some nasty computer virus. There are a lot of hoaxes out there. Even CNN has reported hoaxes as being true. Before you forward that Email to everybody you know, verify it. How do you find out if a warning is real?

The Computer Incident Advisory Capability is a government source. They are one of the official centers that tells of real virus warnings and also tells you when something is a hoax. They have and interesting page about Virus Hoaxes

The Symantec AntiVirus Research Center is another place to check. Symantec Makes Anti-Virus software they list real viruses and have a searchable database of hoaxes.

Dialect Links

Dictionary of American Regional English
The dictionaries are marvelous books I even found a new word for them that will be in their next volume! The new word? "Toad Train"

The American Dialect Home page
Here is their Link Page that has more interesting links on dialects... Fascinating stuff.

Missouri Links

The Missouri Department of Conservation
Want to make a Bat house? Looking for information on the fauna & folia to be found here in Missouri? All of this and more!

Missouri University Extension Publications
Lots of online publications on all kinds of stuff. I have found this place to be very helpful. Agriculture, Forestry, Environmental, Communications, and Business are just some of the categories under which they have publications!

Plants and Agriculture

U.S. Department of Agriculture Home page
Government pages are packed full of stuff. Here you find all of those USDA publications on everything from how to grow a garden to how to can the food you harvest out of it. They also have a listing of all of the farmers markets in your area. Of course there is Much more than this most of the publications are presently reachable from the news page.

ATTRA - Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas
is the national sustainable farming information center operated by the private nonprofit National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT).

AgEBB - Agricultural Electronic Bulletin Board
More stuff you can use if you grow things or are interested in such stuff

TROPO's Organic Info Library
An Australian site with lots of information on how to grow your garden without a lot of those nasty chemicals.

MidNet Organic
A British organic site

Organic Farmers Marketing Association 
Their site is a little cluttered, but the latest inside scoops on the industry are here!

Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association
A fascinating angle on organic growing

Miscellaneous stuff

Project Gutenburg
This is a good one. Project Gutenburg has text files of Thousands of books that are in the public domain. This is a legal and does not take food out of the mouths of starving writers. Shakespeare, Twain, Balzac, Conrad, Kipling and hundreds of other authors are all here. A wonderful resource!

Etiquette Hell
Many user-contributed tales of wedding horrors and other social faux pas. Entirely amusing!

The Pay Phone Project
what more can I say?

Alden and Cali Hackmann's Hurdy-gurdy Site
What, you don't know what a hurdy-gurdy is? It's a stringed musical instrument with it's roots in medieval times that is played by turning a crank and pressing buttons... I believe in French they are called "Ad Vielle a Roux" and these people make them!

The Rhubarb Compendium, Home Page

World's Largest Roadside Attractions

Science Hobbyist
This is a cool jumping off place for all kinds of great stuff. Want to build a Tesla coil? This site has neat stuff for interested people of all ages and levels of knowledge.

Crank Menagerie
Learn about all of the things that people purport at truth! Bizarre science theories, UFO's, Crop Circles, Creationism, New Age, Flat Earth, Hollow Earth, and much, much more. Just remember, Columbus was thought of as a crank as well!

The Skeptic's Dictionary
These are the pwoplw who won't believe their hand is in front of their face as long as their eyes are closed. This can be an amusing place to get another view on the matter.

Ashlynn's Grove: Pagan Information Resource
Without implying anything about my own particular views on any kind of spiritual stuff, these people have just another viewpoint. Less common, so I put it up here.

Exploring Judaism
I was reading a science article one day that referred to 11 billion years as approximately 10% of the age of the universe... "What ho!" I cried. and I had thought the two (scientific) ages of contention were 14 billion and 24 billion years. Well my hunt turned up many references to the age of the universe being 110 billion years old but I did find this article. what a fascinating article It's premise is to clarify the 5760 years of the Jewish calendar and exactly when they started counting (from Adam) and then goes on clarifying how the biblical creation of six days fits right in with Eisnteins relativity and Hubble's expanding universe..... Now go tell that on the mountain!

Weird But True
Or maybe not... a potpourri of curious views.

Reverse Speech - The Voice of Truth Exists
Do people really talk backwards in their everyday speech? Make sure you have the RealAudio Player when you visit this site. There are interesting audio clips of forward and backward rock songs, political speeches, babies babbling, and more! Proof of the inventiveness of the human mind if nothing else.

Mad Scientist Network
Ask a question of real scientists. Discover interesting facts about every-day things. Often I will be having a question about something and the search engines direct me to a page on this site.

Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy
Learn about good astronomy through examples of bad.

Heartless Bitches International

The Obscure Store and Reading Room
Oddities found in newspapers and other sources

Government Web Sites

Your tax dollars go into putting a lot of useful information online. Here are some places you can find it. Visit them, Bookmark them, discover what your government is doing for you. There are a lot more government sites than these. One wonders about some of the arcane names. There are enough of them that I put them on a Separate Page so that this one would load faster

Museum Web Sites

Barnum Museum
Yes, The Circus People

Smithsonian Institution

National Museums of Scotland

Louvre Museum Official Web Site

National Signs of the Times Museum

The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, Oxford

National Museum of Photos, Film & TV, UK

Advertising Age - History of TV Advertising

The Natural History Museum, UK

National Geographic, Archives

My Clients!

One of the ways to improve your ratings in the search engines is to be linked to from other sites... so this is yet another way that I help My Clients.

DiveTheReef.com
The most bodacious Scuba Diving Site on the net!

Bowworks
a client who produces hand made violin bows, viola bows and cello bows. He also sells Bow Making Materials such as Pernambuco wood, horse hair, Abalone shell, frog, & lizard skin... yowza!

Antica Sciamadda
A client who teaches Italian cooking and culture... wonderful stuff! she has some great stories up there

D. Cloud & Company
This is a Restaurant Supply Company. They are not getting the traffic I feel they should... they need to get some more articles on their site and market it a little... I update it quarterly to incorportate their new sales flier. Presently they are having their sales flier be text only... The internet is not "Field Of Dreams", people don't show up just because you have a Web Site. Well, I do what I can... I make my reccomendations and the client does as they choose.

Summitville-Novel.com
She wrote a book involving money and mining and and all sorts of stuff... this Web Site is helping her promote it

JeanGroberg.com
My Mother is an artist. This is a Web Site she has put together to display her paintings, drawings, and writing. I am currently working on a facelift for it

I know I'm forgetting people.... oh well, if I ever get back to this page, I'll put the rest in