Kind of like an Open Source Encyclopaedia
Pages with the above link have been validated via w3c.org as conforming to the web standard indicated. Eventually, I hope to update all pages to conform to that standard. Clicking the link will re-test the page.
Can the media and politicians be believed about guns?
The Journalist's Guide to Gun Policy Scholars and Second Amendment ScholarsCurrent time in some various places... Applet version: Current time in some various places...
NIST Web Clock
Compare your computer's time with UTC at the National Institute
of Standards and Technology.
US Naval Observatory Master Clock
Clock runs for about 30 seconds; reload page to restart.
Defaults to UTC (aka Zulu) Time -- once called Greenwich Mean Time
or GMT.
My bookmarks file
Sorry, not available via web...
Just a convenience for me.
"How the other side plays"
David Kopel debunks some of the lies told by proponents of ever
more and ever more Draconian gun control.
"Zero Tolerance Equals Zero Thinking
By John R. Lott Jr.
Neal Knox Report via Shotgun News. The work of the late Neal Knox is being carried on by his sons.
The World Wide Web GUN DEFENSE CLOCK
This sige claims that a gun is used in defense against a criminal every 13
seconds.
Be sure an click on one of the "Want to Know More" graphics at the
bottom of the page for sources from which the statistics are taken.
NRA Whittington Center
NRA Whittington Center Adventure Camp
-- A great experience for kids!
There's no longer a separate link for this; they've gone to those
damnable frames! Go to the main Whittington Center page (link
immediately above) and click
on the "Whittington Adventure" button on the left.
Women Learning to Shoot
A book review by Dr. Helen
The book review is followed by (many) comments from others.
NewsMax.com -- "America's News Page" Warning: Some time ago, I ordered something from their on-line store and they subscribed me to their magazine and billed me for it. I let them know that I considered that unordered merchandise and haven't heard any more about it. But forewarned is fore armed!
Another Human Language Translator -- "FreeTranslation"
Usenet Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and their answers
Reference pages, Directories, Maps, Search Engines, and Query Engines
GOES Geostationary Satellite images (cloud cover, etc.)
Mysteries by Region -- This site has been taken over by Barnes and Noble and is no longer what it once was. What a shame!
More stuff about West-by-gawd-Virginia,
my old home state...
Son of Devil's Advocate
-- A continuation of Stan Kelly-Bootle's great
"Devil's Advocate" column from
Unix Review/Performance Computing, now demised.
Some Berkeley Unix History
A PDF 1.4 file (a bit over 100KB)
The Virtual Museum of Computing
Originally from Oxford University, I believe.
The Unix Heritage Society
The Unix Heritage Society's aims include:
The preservation and maintenance of historical and non-mainstream UNIX systems;
The further development of existing UNIX systems; and
The continual fostering of the Unix community spirit.
The History of Unix
Links to several Unix-history sites.
See also The Bell System Technical Journal for
July/August, 1978 and for October, 1984.
CSRG Archive CD-ROMs
-- Kirk McKusick has "the full source archives of
the University of California at Berkeley's
Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) available" on CD-ROM.
The Traditional Vi
Source Code for Modern Unix Systems
The Unix Reference Desk -- This isn't the original "geek-girl.com" site but appears to be a replacement for it. My name server is presently unable to find www.geek-girl.com, thus this replacement.
More Unix Information Mostly about Sun but other stuff as well.
A page of links to on-line
"Tools and Resources"
Some seem to be quite useful.
attrition.org
I quote one of the randomly displayed comments from the page:
"We have infuriating down to an art form."
"Sam Spade dot Org"
The site
provides some useful tools for computer security, tracking down
spammers and other net miscreants, etc. Do click on their link
to their FAQ page first to learn about the site. The text-box
with the "Do Stuff" button is particularly convenient. It seems to
do the appropriate thing. It seems, for example, to run whois with
the appropriate option flag and using the appropriate database
whether you enter an IP address from the received line of spam
headers, the FQDN of a machine, etc.
Cool Jargon of the Day
"Serving Hacker Jargon to the Internet since Jan 1995."
If other jargon appears in the definition, there are links to its
definition(s).
Besides presenting the definition of some cool bit of jargon
(presumably different each day), there's also a text box into which
you can enter some term and choose to search the entire web,
jargon.net, or bestref.com for it.
See also "The Jargon File" (aka The New Hacker's Dictionary HERE (version 4.4.7 as of 23 August, 2006) or HERE (version 4.4.6 as of 23 August, 2006).
