Links on the Web ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ONLINE APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY EARTH ECLIPSE EVENTS FREE WEB SITE HOSTING FUN FURNITURE GUMMINT INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE, SEARCHING MOVIES OPEN SOURCE QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES SPACE TRAVEL WEB TECH VISUALIZING INFORMATION   A.I. Artificial Life Online     - Life will find a way. Boids     - Flocks, Herds, and Schools: a Distributed Behavioral Model.   APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY Big Frog Mountain     - Alternative Energy Stuff for Sale. City Farmer     - Urban Agriculture Notes. Gaviotas     - A city built in the desert living on sun, water, wind, grass, and community. A city of hope. International Tree Foundation     - We are running out of trees. Real Goods     - Products For An Ecologically Sustainable Future The Solar Cooking Archive     - Remember frying ants with a magnifying glass? This is better. Sustainable Energy     - Lots of W3 Links on alternative energy.   EARTH Climate Dynamics at RAL     - Climate dyanmics. Day of 6 Billion     - Way too many people. The Long Now Foundation     - 10,000 years is a lot shorter than it seems. We should be paying more attention.   ECLIPSE Solar Eclipses     - Every one from 2001 to 2100. Solar Eclipse Paths     - From 1997 to 2003.   EVENTS Burning Man     - Just bring something to share. Solipse     - A total solar eclipse and a rave.   FREE WEB SITE HOSTING thefreesite.com     - free! directory of free site sites     - free!   FUN Where's George     - You never know where your money's been. But they do. Roller Coaster Database     - Just check it out.     - What happens when you dynamite a whale? It's not pretty. Web-Based Radio     - All of them! (from MIT).   FURNITURE Carleton Woodworking     - Kim Graves is a great furniture maker based in New York. August     - Chris Sherrill out of Boston does excellent work as well. Inlaid furniture     - Otakar Kania does beautiful inlay work and nicely unusual pieces as well.   GUMMINT Congressional Email Directory     - Write them. It matters. Write Your Representative     - Look up your representative.   INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE, SEARCHING The Electronic Universe     - Online education. Expert Central     - They know. Experts Exchange     - Knowledge Sharing Community on the Web. Global Ideas Bank     - Got a good idea for the world? Put it here. Google     - Best search engine on the web, bar none. Slashdot.org     - News for Nerds. Stuff That Matters. USNO Master Clock     - Want to know the exact time? World Wide School Library     - Online books.   MOVIES Atomfilms     - Great "Indie" film database. Internet Movie Database     - Get the dope on every movie ever.   OPEN SOURCE The Cathedral and the Bazaar     - Now classic article on the hows and whys of open source software. Freshmeat     - Open Source Code Library. NewsForge     - Open Source News. Release 1.0     - The Open-Source Revolution (by Esther Dyson). Source Forge     - Open Source Code Library. Why Open Source Software?     - Look at the Numbers.   QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES? Echelon (wired article)     - They're listening. Echelon Watch     - I heard that.   SPACE APOD     - Astronomy Picture Of the Day. Get to know your universe. ASK THE SPACE SCIENTIST     - Go ahead. Ask him. Howstuffworks "How Solar Sails Work"     - This is how we're going to the stars. SETI Institute     - I want to believe.   TRAVEL Bablefish     - Translates web pages from their language to yours (from Altavista). CIA World Factbook     - Apparently, no place is safe. If you want to know just how unsafe.... Currency converter     - How much is 10,000 Kwacha worth? Mapquest     - Maps of streets around the world. Mapblast     - Maps of streets around the world. Terraserver     - Declassified satellite photos of the earth. Find your house and wave! US State Deptartment     - They have the scoop on where you're going.   VISUALIZING INFORMATION Cybergeography     - The definitive collection of various 3D maps of cyberspace. Must see. Gradus     - Visualizing the english language in 3D from MIT. hyperbolic tree browser     - Browse information in 3D hyperbolic trees. J-Track Satellite Tracking     - Real time tracking of almost 10,000 satellites around earth in 3DVery cool. map of the internet     - All the major pathways of the net mapped! netomat     - Different way to browse the web. Visual Thesaurus     - 3D thesauras you can fly through. Mucho cool. Webviz     - Visualizing the Structure of the World Wide Web in 3D Hyperbolic Space. Webbrain     - 3D-like way to browse the web by category.   WEB TECH ACM/SIGCHI Home Page     - The best and brightest talk about design, technology and humanity. The Bare Bones Guide to HTML     - Good intro to using HTML eroom     - Great groupware (Lotus on steriods). Doctor HTML v3     - Fix your site, check your links... Macromedia Flash ScheduleOnline     - A web-based calendar Webmonkey     - Hotwired's how-to for everything web Whois     - Say, are you using that domain name? yahoo groups     - free groupware.