PENCELAND.com - Favorites

Favorites

My website originally consisted of one homepage with links to sites I had bookmarked in my browser in a format similar to what you see here. This page, the last remnant of that, functions as sort of a catch-all now, in the categories above. Here are some of those sites (plus a few more). Some are remarkable, some are silly, I think all are worth a visit. You be the judge.
As you can imagine, a lot of these links will change or cease to exist from time to time, so I periodically run a link checker to verify and correct (or delete) them. I try to do this on all my pages.

Favicons for sites that have them are shown next to the links.

I wasn't sure where to include this but I couldn't resist putting in on my website somewhere. For some reason my wife Patti took this picture, probably in the 70s, showing a gas pump with a 34¢ a gallon price and costing $3.80 for 11.2 gallons (probably a fill up).

Amusement

Interactive

RinkWorks – online entertainment

The Dialectizer – after some controversy, the Dialectizer is back!

Fun With Words – a celebration of the English language

The Oracle of Bacon – the Kevin Bacon game

Greeting Cards by 123Greetings – allows you to schedule the card to be sent on a given day

sodaconstructor – this is really cool

The Internet Archive – take the Wayback Machine to websites of the past

My site on the archive

The Nerdity Test – Version (5x³-3x)/2

Rediff Guide to the Net: Features:Do All Orientals Look The Same? – take the test

Dig To The Other Side – bore through the earth using Google Maps

FrogLeap online game – very challenging (and addictive)

Go To Quiz – some interesting quizzes

What kind of accent do you have? – living half my life on the West coast and half my life on the East coast I may be a combination

What mental disorder do you have? – and you thought you were healthy

Parkour.NET – an art to help you pass any obstacle; to go from point A to point B using only the possibilities of the human body

StepWhere? – find Running, Walking and Hiking Trails

Silly & entertaining (see more at Amusing videos and Multimedia)

h2g2 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – a guide to life, the universe and everything

The Quotations Page

MovieMistakes.com – watch films differently

Webby Awards – the "Oscars of the Internet"

Welcome to Crunchy Gods

TheSimpsons.com – explore the world of The Simpsons

King Features Syndicate – distributor of comics and editorial cartoons to newspapers

Index of comics – see strips for past month

RoadTrip America: Funny Signs

Mullets Galore

Dave's Classic Limousine Pictures

Informative?

Juggling Information Service

Larry's Aussie Slang and Phrase Dictionary

Legendary Surfers – by Malcolm Gault-Williams

Am I Annoying? – the most and least annoying people and things (based on votes)

Real Names of Famous Folk

NNDB – tracking the activities of noteworthy people, both living and dead

The Apostrophe Protection Society (APS)

Kilroy Was Here – the origin of this slogan

Google Trends – see what the world is searching for

Other

The Smoking Gun – serious amusement

The Obscure Store & Reading Room

Jerry Dunn - America's Marathon Man – 200 marathons in a year!

Molecular Expressions: The Silicon Zoo – computer chips under the microscope

Marilyn is Wrong! – that's Marilyn vos Savant

The Large Letter Page

MC Hawking's Crib – Stephen Hawking himself (the Hawkman) enjoyed this site

Shopcat.com – a site for cat lovers

FCMX.net – a Russian site with great Flash illustrations

Julian Beever – anamorphism in Pavement drawings, wall murals, fine art paintings

Eric Grohe Murals and Design – check out his Works In Progress and Projects

Top of page

Personal websites

(many of my Friends also have websites)

There are other people besides me who have the passion (and time) to put together an extensive personal website.

Pangaea's Wandering Website – the travels of a couple who live aboard their sailboat

Dylan Greene dot com

Paul English's Blog – creator of Find-A-Human cheat sheet - a nice website & blog

Robert Christgau's Web Site – music editor of the Village Voice

Prayers, Poems, and Promises

Welcome to shanemcdonald.org

Top of page

Information

(for technical info see Internet & technology links)

Dictionaries & grammar reference

Dictionary.com

Merriam-Webster OnLine

OneLook® Dictionary Search – search dictionary web sites for words and phrases

Wordorigins.org

yourDictionary.com – huge reference in many languages

Specialty Dictionaries

AskOxford.com – classic grammar errors and helpful hints

Quoting Sources – when and how to quote from a published work

Urban Dictionary

1 – a slang dictionary

Entertainment (see also Music)

The Internet Movie Database

Rotten Tomatoes – movie reviews

Best movies (Tomatometer of 100%)

Worst movies (Tomatometer of 0%)

Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE)

All Music Guide

1 – a highly cross-referenced database of music and musicians with sample cuts

General reference

Wikipedia

1 – online encyclopedia

Information Please – online Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, & Almanac Reference

Ready Reference, The Winsor School – huge alphabetical index of links

Bartleby.com – unlimited access to books and information

AmosWEB: ECONOMIC GLOSS*arama – a searchable database of economic terms and concepts

Virtual Reference Collection: MIT Libraries

Librarians' Index to the Internet

The Internet Public Library

Refdesk.com - Facts Subject Index

How Stuff Works – like the title says

Fact Monster – Online Almanac, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help

Directions Magazine – your GIS News Source

Popular baby names – get top male & female names of any year from the Social Security Administration

Global, geographical, historical, & cultural

World Facts and Figures

Geographic.org - Geography, climate, countries, Maps, Flags, Population

Area Codes for U.S. and Canada

Flags Of The World

License Plates of the World

The Kennedy Assassination Home Page

Terrorism Q&A – includes the latest news in the war on terror

Taliban restrictions on Afghan women – too outrageous to list under Amusement

World Wonders – the Seven Wonders, etc.

Judaism 101

Historical Maps of the United States – General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin

Vietnam Wall – memorializing those who gave their lives in Vietnam

BrainyHistory – what happened on any day in history, including birthdays

Today in History – historic events and birthdays for ANY day

U.S.A. Geography Web Games

Harvard Dialect Survey Results – interesting study on how words are pronounced in different regions of the country

Education

U101 College Search – Directory of Colleges and Universities in the United States and Canada

Kid Info – homework and student, teacher/parent reference resource

About: Homework Help – links and info about a variety of subjects

Measurements

A Dictionary of Units of Measure

Interactive Units Converter

The Universal Currency Converter

Weather Underground – get current conditions and forecasts for anywhere

Miscellaneous

gethuman 500 database – steps to find a human on companies' automated phone-systems (previously Find-a-Human)

FactCheck.org – reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics

Travelocity.com – online reservations

The Speedtrap Exchange – I hear this knowledge actually discourages speeding

Archpedia.com – an interactive architectural encyclopedia

World Architecture – 1000 places to see

Digital Archive of American Architecture

American Architecture – American house styles starting in the 17th century

Artcyclopedia – the Fine Art search engine

License Plates USA – United States License Plates

American Rhetoric: Top 100 American Speeches by Rank Order

Dead or Alive? – keeps track of celebrities

1 Website is maintained by member users
Top of page

Government & civic U.S. Capitol

(don't miss Political satire)

U.S. Senate

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Supreme Court

The Whitehouse

Massachusetts' senators

Ted Kennedy's website – one of my two senators

John Kerry's website – one of my two senators

Departments & agencies

The Library of Congress

U.S. Census Bureau

State & County QuickFacts

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Social Security Administration

Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) – auto safety issues, including recalls

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Consumer & citizen support

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

Better Business Bureau

Federal Consumer Information Center (FCIC)

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

Consumer.gov – your resource for consumer information from the federal government

Consumer Protection Association

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Miscellaneous

LocalCensus.com – Census & Business Information

The Federal Web Locator – Federal Government information at your fingertips

Resources for Legislative Researchers - THOMAS (Library of Congress) – includes current voting records

U.S. Constitution

The Federal Judiciary

Capitolimpact.com – governmental and political information

United States Postal Service (USPS)

ZIP Code Look-Up and Address Information

United Nations

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – this stuff is so cool

Nations Online Project – A Destination Guide to Countries and Nations of the World

50states.com – States and Capitals, also flags, songs, birds, etc.

The Official U.S. Time – exhibits about time, clocks, daylight saving, and calendars

Clinton Presidential Center – Bill's got a website now

Top of page

Maps

(there are also a few map links in the Information section)

Mapquest

Google Maps – check out the satellite view

Windows Live Local - cool bird's eye views of houses

WorldAtlas.com

World Maps

World Map (Political) 2002

Quick Maps

Infoplease Atlas

Maps and Geography of the World

Yahoo! Maps and Driving Directions

World timezones map – shows current times around the world in 12- or 24-hour format

US timezones

Lynn Salmon's Map Resources – links to maps

Live Weather Images: WeatherImages.org – radar & satellite imagery, weather maps, & weather cams

Top of page

Blogs (weblogs)

And your little dog, too...

dooce

Unity – Adam is my cousin-in-law (married to my cousin)

New York Hack – cabbie Melissa Plaut talks about life in NYC

Paul English's Blog – creator of Find-A-Human cheat sheet

MetaFilter Community Weblog – we're all in this together

My friend Karl's posts

Albino Blacksheep

Margaret Cho BLOG

Talking Points Memo – by Joshua Micah Marshall

everlasting blort – diving for the wisdom of pearls in your eyes

Blogger.com – push-button publishing for the people

Dave Barry's Blog – the unofficial Dave Barry blog

GuardianUnlimited - TheWeblog – from the UK

Jeremy Zawodny's blog: The 10 Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers

Blogdex – the weblog diffusion index

The Smirking Chimp – expresses so many of my views

Directories

Blogarama

Globe of Blogs – browse by title, topic, or location

Blogs by Women

Blogwise

Blog Catalog

eTalkingHead – political blog directory

Top of page

Amusing videos and Multimedia

This is a central location on my website for multimedia files. There are more videos in the drop-down list above.

Videos

All these videos play in popups (for you programmers, my Perl section describes how I am playing these). I discovered most of them on the Video sharing sites listed below

You may need the Adobe Flash Player plugin (a quick and simple install).
Please note: These play beautifully in Firefox and Opera but can be problematic in Internet Explorer 7 without changing some settings.
The drop-down lists have frequently updated links to videos on remote servers.

		(Scroll to see all in Firefox)
Doug Flutie's Hail Mary	Sand animation Ferenc Cakó

Jerome Murat zombies	Epic badminton	Table tennis

Chris Bliss juggling	Unicycle Dance	Rubik's blindfolded

A Rube Goldberg style Honda commercial	Dominos on pool tables	Amazing football comeback

Audio

War of the Worlds – this 1938 Orson Wells radio broadcast caused panic in the U.S.

Telemarketer's Nightmare Call – a hilarious recording from a radio show

MP3 songs

My iPod songs

Top of page

Photography

(see also Panoramas, Webcams, and of course, my Gallery page)

Wynn White Photography – my childhood friend, Wynn now lives in Japan

Pictures of USA & Asia, cities & landscapes – by Keith Stanley

Dan Heller Photography – over 10,000 photographs from around the world

Aerials Only Gallery – aerial photography of the U.S.

Terry's Home Page – by Terrence Cooney

California Coastal Records Project – Ken Adelman's aerial photography of the California coast

Top of page

Panoramas

QTVR-Movie.com – landcapes, cities, indoors, etc.

Arizona Highways – 360-degree QuickTime virtual reality panoramas

BigEyeInTheSky.com

Kekus Digital

Wall Street, NYC

360VR Studio

Euro VR – dedicated to the promotion of European VR photographers

Virtual China

Metis - Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites

Learningspace.org - QTVR Samples

Oriental Institute Virtual Museum Tours

Mars Pathfinder

The Village – from The Prisoner

The Multimedia Library's QTVR Links

WorldWide VR Panorama Links

Raymond Kam's Vancouver VR

Don Bain's Virtual Guidebooks – 3000 virtual reality panoramas of the Western U.S. and Canada

Top of page

Webcams

(see more webcams at Boston and New York City)

EarthCam - Webcam Network

WebCam Central

CAMSCAPE.com – Over 2500 Worldwide

Marcus' Live Streaming Video Cams

Sidney on View – live streaming video from Sidney Harbour

WebCam World – thousands of webcams sorted by country

UK Webcams – The UK and Ireland Webcam Search Directory

WebcamSearch.com – Over 11,000 Sites Throughout the World

The World Webcam Directory – Your Source For Live Webcams

COMFM Webcams – webcams around the world

Top of page

Satellite views

(read more at Slashdot)

GlobeXplorer – clickable & zoomable images

TerraServer – clickable & zoomable images

Space Imaging

SPACE.com - Universal Viewer

Orbital Imaging

DigitalGlobe

Top of page

Media
     TV & radio (FM streaming audio on the Music page)

Discovery Channel
PBS Online
NPR

     Publications

National Geographic
Newsweek
Time
The Nation
The Atlantic
The American Prospect
Business Week

     Groupings of news sites (find more news sites on the Main page)

The Wire – Associated Press links
NewspaperLinks.com – hosted by the Newspaper Association of America
NewsLink
OnlineNewspapers.com

Top of page

Health

Prevention.com

South Beach Diet – a good weight loss program (a review)

WebMD

Healthopedia.com – a health encyclopedia

KidsHealth

MedicineNet.com – MedTerms Medical Dictionary Index

MEDLINEplus

ADAM Medical Encyclopedia

RxList - the Internet drug index

Hardin Meta Dictionary

healthfinder®

Travel Health Online

MD Travel Health

New York Online Access to Health

Discovery Health

American Heart Association

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

World Health Organization (WHO)

National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Health Related Hoaxes and Rumors

Combined Health Information Database (CHID)

familydoctor.org

ClinicalTrials.gov – linking patients to medical research

MDAdvice.com

National Institute on Aging

Alzheimers Disease Education & Referral Center (ADEAR)

Alternative

Alternative Health News Online

National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)

AlternativeMedicine.com

Yahoo! Health > Alternative Medicine

Internet Resources: Alternative Medicine Resources

Do it yourself

Home Remedies

Herbal Remedies

Active First Aid Online

Top of page

The Sixties Peace symbol

(for 60s music see the Music page)

I graduated from high school in 1966, so I was primed to experience all the late 60s had to offer.

Sixties.com

Sixties.net

Sixties Timeline

The Psychedelic '60s – an interesting study from the U. of Virginia

pOoTer's pSycheDelic shAcK – psychedelia, acid rock, garage, 60's punk

The Summer of Love

The Psychedelicatessen – many links

Photographs from the Sixties – Viet Nam and the San Francisco Bay Area 1966-1971

Baby Boomer HeadQuarters: the Sixties

1969 Woodstock Festival & Concert

Wavy Gravy's Homepage

Hippy.com: Welcome to Hippyland

The Summer Of Love - Gallery

Robert Altman Photography – pages of 60s photos

The history of the PEACE SIGN

Eel Pie Dharma – a memoir / haibun, by Chris Faiers

An interview with a Vietnam draft resister 35 years later

Lars Kampman's Memoirs – a journal about the Anonymous Artists of America

The Hippie Museum

The Acid Test

R. Crumb, cartoonist

Robert Crumb was one of the most prolific underground cartoonists of the late 60s.
Zap Comix, which featured so much of his work, are available in reprints (I still have my original copies).

Crumb Products – the Crumb family site

The Crumb Museum

Crumb (the movie)

Don Markstein's Toonopedia: R. Crumb

Another Robert Crumb Page – a very extensive site

Heroes of the Blues, by R. Crumb

Fritz the Cat

Fantagraphics Books: Robert Crumb

Robert Crumb Comix