Useful links

0. Contents

   1. Reference & Search
   2. Mail
   3. Fun stuff
   4. Educational and School stuff
   5. Other general websites
   6. Computer (HTML, programming, servers)
   7. Miscellaneous Resources

1. Reference & Search

   0. Index

      1. Encyclopedias
      2. Statistical Data
      3. Language & Definitions
      4. Online News & Magazines
      5. Search

   1. Encyclopedias

      • Wikipedia — free online Wiki encyclodedia
      • Encyclopedia·com — no idea if it is very good, but I wanted something to go with Wikipedia
      • Columbia Encyclopedia from InfoPlease — again, wanted some company...
      • The Encyclopedia Brittanica, 11^th edition from somebody and Project Gutenberg's Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
      • Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia download page (8 megabytes)

   2. Statistical Data

      • UN Data

   3. Language & Definitions

      • Spanish Dictionary
      • Paragraph Translator
      • Dictionary·com
      • Merriam-Webster
      • Wiktionary

   4. Online News & Magazines

      • 2Facts Full Text Magazine Articles
      • Gale Group General Reference Center (from Paly/PAUSD eLibrary)

   5. Search

      • Google
      • Boogle — Google with a quote
      • My search page
      • Dad's search page

2. Mail

   • Paly mail
   • GMail (Google email) which currently requires an invite
   • FastMail — interesting email provider — it limits not only the amount of space you can use, but also bandwidth and stuff
   • Hotmail
   • Yahoo! mail
   • Netscape Mail — A great service if you use Netscape as your browser. If you don't (and want to use Thunderbird and Firefox or — horrors — IE and Outlook) then you will be highly annoyed by being forced to use the webmail interface instead of their screwy version of IMAP.
   • Stanford Alumni Mail
   • Priory Mail

3. Fun stuff

   0. Index

      1. Writing, web comics, and blogs
      2. Online games
      3. Humor
      4. Morrowind
      5. Mathcamp

   1. Writing, web comics, and blogs

      • 8 bit theater web comic
      • Schlock Mercenary web comic
      • Girl Genius web comic
      • A Miracle of Science web comic
      • Children of an Elder God — an anime fan fiction thingy
      • Slashdot — geek news site

   2. Online games

      • Freearcade
      • Shockwave games
      • AddictingGames — A lot of miscellaneous games
      • Battalion online multiplayer (or versus AI) military-strategy game

   3. Humor

      • Funny Unix Commands — site links, title, etc. are in Spanish (?), but the commands are English.
      • My quotes area, most of which are funny
      • Evil Comentary of Bush's search for WMD
      • End of the World flash video
      • Gettysburg Address as a Powerpoint
      • about:mozilla — requires Mozilla or Netscape
      • Museum of Hoaxes

   4. Morrowind

      • Guide — it looks like it will make the game way easier
      • Official Website

   5. Mathcamp

      • Official website
      • Photo album
      • Puzzle hunts (2002-2005)
      • 2006 puzzle hunt
      • 2006 VMCSP script
      • Phantom of the Lecture Hall script (2006 musical)

4. Educational and School stuff

   0. Index

      1. Paly stuff
      2. Priory stuff
      3. General Resources

   1. Paly Stuff

      • Paly website
      • The Paly Voice
      • Paly Library Catalog Page
      • Ms. Bartlett's Grades
      • Mr. Friedland's Grades
      • Mr. Friedland's CompSci page
      • Lynbrook High School Cross Country 2004 and 2005 sites

   2. Priory Stuff

      • Woodside Priory — my middle school
      • Priory's map — Local
      • Mr. Neuger's directory page — has links to unit guides (from 7th grade)
      • 9th grade computer science page

   3. General Resources

      • MLA Style Bibliography Instructions
      • easybib Bibliography making tool
      • Bibliography making tool — this links to a page for citing professional web pages. It is not as good as the first tool, however
      • Full text magazine articles
      • Calculus Christmas Carols
      • Art of Problem Solving math site with classes and free forum
      • EPGY site — offers computer math, science, english, etc classes

5. Other General Websites

   0. Index

      1. My Websites & Pages
      2. Other People's websites
      3. Blogs
      4. Other Groups' web sites

   1. My web sites and pages

      • My web site, local mirror
      • My web site by IP address
      • My web site with a good URL
      • EAlex292 website, local mirror
      • EAlex292 website — the "official", "authorized" Netscape version
      • Andrew Tomlinson and His Stolen M15, A story that I wrote in 3rd grade, it is based off of another series. I hope that you enjoy reading it.
      • A collage of my face that I made for 8th grade Art class

   2. Other peoples' web sites

      • Dad's web site
      • Mom's web site
      • Karen's web site
      • David's web site
      • Reid's web site
      • Robert's web site
      • Katherine's web site

   3. Blogs

      • Erik's blog
      • Daniel's blog
      • Katherine's (currently inactive) blog

   4. Other groups' web sites

      • Troop 57's web site
      • Troop 57's web site on Kleckner.net
      • Save the Children

6. Computers

   0. Sections

      1. HTML & Web
      2. Languages
      3. Libraries
      4. Servers
      5. Platforms
      6. Contests
      7. Programs
      8. Plugins, themes, and skins
      9. Security & Privacy tools

   1. HTML (and web)

      • CSS Reference
      • CSS Specification from the W3C
      • HTML 4.0 Reference
      • Funky Chickens HTML Help!
      • Some Good Backgrounds
      • Chart with hex codes for colors
      • HTML Validator from the W3C
      • HTML Valadator (which can validate recursively) from the WDG

   2. Languages

      • Sun's Java Package index
      • Java Documentation — unfortunately, null link
      • Python 2.3.3 manual
      • PHP website
      • PHP manual
      • Bash programming HOWTO
      • Bash Reference
      • Interactive C
      • IC EBuild for Gentoo

   3. Libraries

      • MDB (docs), a PHP database library (used in my blog)
      • HTML_QuickForm (docs), a PHP form creation library (used in my blog)

   4. Servers

      • MySQL manual
      • MySQL manual (huge)
      • Apache Webserver Documentation (for version 2.0)

   5. Platforms

      • Cygwin — you may not have the bandwidth or spare computers to run Linux, but cygwin can at least run some of the same apps under windows
      • Gentoo Documentation
      • Gentoo Security Advisories from LinuxSecurity
      • Bay Area Linux Users Group
      • How to Run Multiple X Sessions under Linux
      • Virtual Consoles in Linux

   6. Contests

      • USACO training pages (with link to contest pages)
      • FIRST Robotics Competition
      • Camera page for the above competition
      • Subversion repository for FIRST
      • Botball blog

   7. Programs

      • Proof-of-concept (I think) "real" program Firefox Amazon web search client — confusing description, I know — go take a look
      • Putty SSH client — great for remote web/program development on Windows boxes
      • Firefox — the Mozilla standalone web browser
      • Thunderbird — the Mozilla standalone email client

   8. Plug-ins, Themes, and Skins

      • Mozilla applications' (Suite, Firefox, Thunderbird) Extensions/Plugins/Themes from Mozilla addons
      • Mozilla applications' Themes from MozDev
      • Mozilla applications' Extensions from MozDev

   9. Security & Privacy tools

      • Shields Up! tool for checking connection security — I'd do a better job linking straight there, but it has issues with that (technical ones, I'm not sure about any legal issues)

7. Miscellaneous Resources

   • Teen Health Information from the Palo Alto Medical Foundation
   • MIT Online Course Work
   • Short cryptography article

Thank you for visiting my links page. The links were last updated 2005-01-16 and validated (as transitional) 2005-01-17. Feel free to return to my main page or email me