Great Websites - Tour # 3 June 15, 2001 Here's yet another 20 or so sites. I hope you enjoy them. Color Centre Here's a handy site for all you aspiring webmasters. Choose your colors from the palette . Select Background, Text, Link, Active Link, Visited Link or Texture above to set the corresponding colors/textures. Computer Stupidities This site contains a large collection of stories and anecdotes about clueless computer users. It's a baffling phenomenon that in today's society an individual, who might in other circumstances be considered smart and wise, can sit down in front of a computer screen and instantly lose every last shred of common sense he ever possessed. Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal CSICOP encourages the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and disseminates factual information about the results of such inquiries to the scientific community and the public. Its a bit scary that the percentage of people in North America that believes in unsubstantiated nonsense continues to increase; while in Europe the percentage decreases. I personally attribute such ignorance to the tidal wave of crap programing being produced in the U.S.A. eFunda This site will be of interest to only engineers. eFunda stands for engineering fundamentals. Its mission is to create an online destination for the engineering community, where working professionals can quickly find a variety of information to aid in the solution of complex design problems. The Encylopedia Mythica This is an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and more. It contains over 5700 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world. Galactic Surf A links site for space and scifi info. Hot Sheet Com An Internet website directory, or portal, specializing in listing popular and useful web destinations frequented by a wide general audience. The 12 primary categories provide over 500 links to premier sites with appeal to both new and experienced web users. Making HotSheet unique is the single-page presentation of the main directory, and the focus on listing only "cream-of-the-crop" websites. Invention Facts and Myths Some inventions were silly, some deadly serious, but even the inventions that weren’t successful weren’t all "failures"—each shed some light on the good intentions of the inventor and their quest to improve the quality of life. Here are some invention facts and myths meant to amaze and amuse you. Looney Lawsuits If only we could force the damn lawyers who represent the people who launch these "looney lawsuits" to pay for all the court costs. Color Centre Good tech news site. --------------------------- Color Centre http://www.mynetwatchman.com/vision.htm Interesting concept - gree software if you want to pareticipate in reporting attempted hacks against your computer ---------------------- Color Centre http://www.neowin.net/ New windows related news site. ----------------------- Color Centre http://www.pcnineoneone.com/ PC911 > About PC911 The PC911 web site was founded in January of 1999 by yours truly, owner, webmaster and editor-in-chief Alex "crazygerman" Byron. The site was inspired by many, many questions about Windows and PCs being asked over and over again by friends, offline as well as online. The goal was to write up the answers in form of easy to understand how-to articles and organize them for easy access. ----------------------------------- Color Centre http://samadhi.jpl.nasa.gov/ Welcome to a space library, a NASA/JPL/Caltech spyglass on the cosmos. Here you will find a mixture of space-related images and programs which will help you visualize the Solar System and NASA space missions using computer graphics. ------------------------------- Color Centre http://www.rockandcomedy.com/celebrity-mugshots/celebrity-mugshots.htm Here's a trash site on past indiscretions of the rich and famous. Welcome to Celebrity Mugshots! Here's where we showcase celebrities and an array of infamous people who have been in trouble with the law. View photos of the accused and read the stories behind the arrests. The names with out hyperlinks (in black text) are pages we are currently working on and will be adding soon ------------------------------- Color Centre http://www.flingthecow.com/flash/ Here's a rather stupid game many people seem to enjoy ------------------------------- Color Centre http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/utensil/indexarticles.html Here's a site that one or two people may find interesting. The Anthropology Department at the California Academy of Sciences houses the Rietz Food Technology Collection. Containing approximately 1,700 items, this collection was assembled by Carl Austin Rietz, an inventor and businessman in the food industry. His interest in the industry led him on travels around the world to collect objects used in the production, processing, storage, presentation, preparation, and serving of food. --------------------------- Color Centre http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang ------------------------- Color Centre http://www.webattack.com/ Yet another source of freeware/shareware. ----------------------- Color Centre http://www.browsertune.com/bt2kfast/ Free browser tuneup. ----------------------- Color Centre http://www.inforamp.net/~crs2086/ Only the greatest piece of software you can add to windows and now its a freebie. ---------------------------- Color Centre http://www.zthing.com/indexarticles.html Another fun site for a bit of a diversion.