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WWW Sites
Our Favorite World Wide Web Takeoff Spots
Index
Web Browsing Starting Points
TV, Movies, and Entertainment
Sports Links
Food, Beer, and Wine Links
Check out our ever growing collection of Music links
Pointers to Government and Political Pages
Religion on the Internet
Links to the Web's growing number of Commercial Sites
Mostly Mac computing resources.
Web Art links
Feeling wacky? It's the Link Grab Bag
Here's a few weather resources
Web Starting Points
- The best web search page I've seen is
The McKinley Internet Directory which even rates the pages 1 to 4 stars based on organization and other factors.
The Lycos catalog of the Internet has over 19 million web pages listed (and it's searchable).
Alta Vista claims to be the largest web index with over 16 million web pages and newsgroups searchable.
The
WebCrawler is one of the best search engines on Internet.
Another nice web site with ratings is The Point Communications Corp page.
Here's another net search engine called InterLinks
World Wide Web Yellow Pages
The Free For All is a huge pile of WWW links. Everyone can add his/her own page to the list.
The Mother-of-all BBS. Claims to be a comprehensive list of all WWW Pages.
An official list of registered WWW servers
MIT WWW Server is MIT's all purpose link.
The Virtual Library which is loaded with links.
EINet Galaxy a fabulous link to just about anywhere on the web.
Aurelius Prochazka has a cool Home Page with many links.
The Best of the Web
The Global Network Navigotor is O'Reilly and Associates' Web Browsing faceplate.
Check out What's New on the WWW
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Television, Movies, and Entertainment
Sundance Film Festival has a Web page.
Independent Filmakers Unite! Here's a site just for you.
Search for movies, actors, and directors in Cardiff Movie Browser
Try the aptly named TV Net
For film info, try the Hollyweb Online Film Guide
NPR has a homepage.
Here's PBS' homepage.
Even the BBC has a page.
In keeping with the three letter theme, here's the CNN page.
Another cable channel online is The Discovery Channel
Learn about the next Star Wars Trilogy at Star Wars Server
The Monty Python Page has movie scripts, pictures etc...
Do you worship Janeane Garofalo? Then here's The Janeane Garofalo Worship Page
Here's a great page dedicated to the lovely and brilliant Winona Ryder
One of my favorite shows, My So Called Life has a cool home page.
And, of course, the lovely, young, and talented Claire Danes has a page.
Here's The CBS Network homepage.
The official Late Show with David Letterman Homepage.
The Unnofficial David Letterman Server for lots of fun network timewasters.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Page for all interested in the Comedy Central series.
Star Trek fans have a server too, with links to other Trek locations.
Mac-Trek is Star Trek site with all the Mac fonts and programs associated with Star Trek.
Paramount Pictures runs a website for all their current projects.
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Sports Links
ESPNet Sportzone has a lot of ESPN sports resources.
One of the best sports sites on the web is The NFL Homepage
Here's a page dedicated to College Football
The NHL Open Net
For basketball fans is the NBA homepage
Major League Baseball has a site @BAT
GolfWeb is run by Golf Digest.
The Official Bowl Game Destination Guide helps you plan for Super Bowl XXX etc...
Here's the official Superbowl XXX Homepage
A page with links to all kinds of sports is Starting Point-Sports
The 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games
The 1998 Nagano Winter Olympic Games
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Food/Beer/Wine Links
The Culinary Institute of America
The North American Restaurant Guide has approximately one jillion restaurants listed.
The TV Food Network
The Web Compendium of Alcoholic Pages
Wine lovers should check out American Wine on the Web
Another wine page is Bruce's with links to 100 or more other sites.
CyberWine Map has hundreds of wine links.
All About Wine with Hugh Johnson
The Wine Page is also a nice resource.
For scotch lovers is Scotch.com
A great single malt scotch resource is The Edinburgh Malt Whisky Tour
Beer lovers, on the other hand, need to see Eric's Beer and Homebrewing Page
Stolichnaya Vodka now has a home page
Coffee lovers should check out Over the Coffee
Or you can order coffee from Seattle's Best Coffee
Half Moon Bay makes Iguana Hot Sauce and various other peppery products.
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Music Links
Ticketmaster online is for all your ticket needs (sounds like a monopoly to me...)
The annual music festival Lollapalooza has a home page.
The Metaverse run by Adam Curry (formerly MTV.com).
MTV has an official site at MTV.com
The Rush Homepage for fans of the Candaian trio.
Notes from the Edge for fans of the prog-rock group Yes.
The Allman Brothers Band has a home page.
Led Zeppelin has a home page.
Smashing Pumpkins have several pages. This one's pretty cool.
Here's a page on Billy Bragg
The Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra has his own page.
If your favorite band has a web page, you're likely to find a link at The Ultimate Band List
If you don't know what music/bands you like, this site will help you out.
See what's cookin in the Music Kitchen
Find your favorite radio station's home page here
VisualRadio is a neat page, especially if you have RealAudio
The Music page is loaded with artist/album links.
There's a music magazine on the net called Addicted to the Noise
The SouthXSouthwest Music Conference in Austin has a site.
The aptly named Internet Underground Music Archive.
Progressive Rock has its own page at this site
Recording Labels are coming online now:
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Government Run and Politically Based Pages
The Constitution of the United States in HTML form, with indexing.
Policy.Net offers the CapWeb a hypertext guide to the Congress.
E-Mail your favorite Member of Congress at this site
The United States Senate
The U.S. House of Representatives
Perhaps the most useful page on the net is The United States Postal Service with zip code lookups and a complete postal rate schedule.
Here's the Congressional and State Term Limits Action Page
Americans for Tax Reform is an aptly named page.
The African Students Association has a home page with links to pages on African American issues.
The Objectivism Home Page can answer any questions you may have about the philosophy of individualism and self reliance.
Objectivism-The Philosophy of Reason page is dedicated to objectivist thought and the works of Ayn Rand.
The Conservative think-tank Cato Institute has a homepage with P.J. O'Rourke essays.
The CIA Home Page
NASA Homepage which is a great resource for those intersted.
The Groom Lake/Desert Rat/Paranoid News homepage is dedicated to that sinister Area 51
Mother Jones - Exposes + Politics
Want to read about your favorite worldwide conspiracy? Check out The Space Between Bookstore
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Religion on the Internet
Judaism and Jewish Resources
JewishNet - Global Jewish Information Center (Hebrew University, Israel)
Ashram on the Internet
Zen dharma on the web.
Catholic Online
World Christian Internet Resources
Sikhism on the net
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Commercial Sites on the Web
NetUSA says they're the largest commercial site on the web.
The World Square offers a variety of commercial services.
webMart Shopping center
Galaxy Mall is another web mega store type thing.
Shopping2000 offers a wide variety of services from over 60 well known merchants.
NECX Direct is a computer store on the net.
Computer megastore CompUSA has a web-store.
Looking for a car? Check out DealerNet
Spencer Gifts
Netro Mall
Rocky Mountain Cyber Mall
SuperMall
Branch Mall - Buy, Sell, Trade, employment, etc.
60's Trading Post for the 90s has subversive T shirts, Tye-Dyed things etc...
Electronics giant Sony has a home page.
Matsushita is another electronics company represented on the web.
Order Videos and LaserDiscs at Video Express
Spy Supply Online
Soundwire is an alternative record store.
Tower Records is online also.
Order CDs from the second largest online catalog at CD Connection or it's European cousin CDEurope
Another online CD store is CDNow
An online liquor store specializing in rare and hard to find items (esp. scotch and fine wine) is Sam's of Chicago
An online software store with shrink-wrap and internet transmitted products is software.net
Looking for books? Try the Macmillan Information Superlibrary
San Francisco's "best" bookstore is online: A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books
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Computing Resources (mostly Mac)
Apple Net, even if you own a Macintosh.
Even non-mac people will be interested in Access HP the Hewlett Packard home page.
Toasted is the homepage for Berkely Systems, best known for their After Dark screen saver.
Powerbook users will want to see The Powerbook 500 Support Page
Another Powerbook site is the Powerbook Army
The IBM/Mac alliance Taligent has an informative Home Page.
The Mac MSC Home Page has lots of Mac info.
The ICI Macintosh page has plenty of links to Mac information sites and usenet groups etc.
The Microlib/Mac Shareware Archive is a fan favorite for its neat graphical interface; the OTS site is the follow up and likely eventual replacement for the microlib.
The Well Connected Mac is an excellent Mac site.
Dubl-Click Software has a homepage with demos and commercial products.
The software writer MacPlay has a nice site with demos.
The Arizona Mac Users Group has a useful site.
The aptly named Nathan's Everything Macintosh collects all Mac links into one neat package.
You Power PC owners will be interested in Power PC News
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Art Resources on the Web
Art-ROM has links to various net art resources.
You might have heard of Le Louvre
The Art Deadlines Page maintains a listing of competition and grant deadlines from around the country.
The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture has a homepage.(yes, architecture is art)
Images of the Wright designed Willey House can be found here.
There's an Architectural Image Gallery at the Syracuse School of Architecture.
More architectural info can be found at ArchiWeb
A neat site is AANet
Usenet Image Gallery
Image Soup
Vicki's Vast List of Art
Internet ClipArt Source
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Link Grab Bag -or- Stuff That Just Doesn't Fit
- Winner of the Grab Bag award has to be this list of
Useless WWW Pages
My alma mater Austin College now has a home page.
Links from the Underground is a collection of bizarre links.
The Capt. James T. Kirk Sing-a-Long page
Here's the Highway 17 Page of Shame which features pictures of the jerks of that day's commute as captured with an Apple Quicktake Digital Camera.
Chaos theory at work, it's RandomWeb which sends you off to a random Website.
Or check out the Cool Site of the Day
One of the funniest web pages is The Dysfunctional Family Circus
Your complete guide to the text of all banned books is Banned Books Online
Cover all your plexing needs at the the Gigaplex
Check out todays Fun Fact
Here's a page about Optical Illusions
Here's the Ferndale Interactive Soap Opera
Curious about viruses? Check out The Hot Zone Page
Here's a page on Rollercoasters
Planning to stay in a Bed & Breakfast? Better check Bed & Breakfast Inns of North America.
The Gallery of Kennedy is dedicated to the MTV veejay.
Spew defies definitions.
Here's a Pinball page
Get your news of the wierd at The Wall of Shame
Find out local news in the San Antonio Express News OnLine
But if you really want the news, you'd best contact CNN
UTHSCSA Mission Magazine the Health Science Center magazine online!
3D Web
World Map Viewer
The "Say" Server Type text into a form, and listen to it speak the results.
Need a laugh? Try the Wrecked Humor Page
WIT Server sponsored by Miller brewing company.
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Weather Resources
NOAA weather service
Weather Net
The Weather Channel
The Weather Server has current weather maps/movies.
A zillion weather links can be found at The Weather Guesser
For ocean weather conditions, check here
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