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Other Items of Interest to Hackers

Web Search Engines

There are some very nice places to search the Web. Rather than list them all, here are my favorite:

• Inference Find - links to over 500 search engines!
• Lycos
• Starting Point - search multiple engines from one jump point
• Alta Vista - courtesy of Digital Equipment Corp.
• Deja News - search Usenet
• Infoseek - very nice!
• Beaucoup Software Search Engines - links to over 500 search engines!

There are some locations for getting (or searching for) free software and shareware, which cannot go unmentioned.

Recommended First Stops:

• Tucows Software Search
• c|net - shareware
• Stroud's CWS Apps List
• Beaucoup Software Search Engines

First-Stop Macintosh Sites

• Andrew's MacTCP Drive-Thru
• Chip's MacOS Pages
• Macworld
• Cult of Macintosh - you have to see it to believe it! Check out this site!
• Everything Macintosh
• Queen's University at Kingston - Macintosh Users Online Services
• Internet Interstate's Macintosh Web
• Ryan's Mac World
• Ultimate Mac Site - pretty close to true!
• Dave's Top 10 Mac Games and Utilities
• Express VR - VRML for Macintosh
• Hackintosh's Domain
• The Updated Mac
• Macintosh Resource
• The Mac Evangelist - by Guy Kawasaki.... get the word out!
• Made with Macintosh Campaign

Apple II Information & Software

• Procyon, Inc. - sellers of GNO/ME
• EGO Systems
• Apple I
• Apple II Links and Info
• Apple II Info
• GNO/ME - UNIX for the Apple IIgs
• Caltech Apple II Archives
• Internex Online Apple II Web Server

Other Good Sites

• Program.Com
• galtech.com
• ZDNet Software Library
• WinSite: Windows Software
• Walnut Creek CDROM Software
• SunSITE at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - lots of software
• Chevy Chase Computers - nice jumping off point
• National University of Singapore
• InternetU - interesting
• List of Available Icons
• download.net

Microsoft

Microsoft................ the way it should be. You have to see these sites to believe it.

• Smash Microsoft!
• Boycott Microsoft - well-written, insightful, intelligent - worth a look!
• Microsnot - first-class parody!
• Micro$oft Hate Page
• Microsuck Hate Page
• Anti-Microsoft Home Page
• What are you doing to oppose the Microsoft Juggernaut? - serious look at opposing Microsoft
• Windows 95 Subliminal Messages
• Why Windows 95 Sucks
• Why I Hate Windows
• Greg's Microsoft Humour Page
• Microsoft Hate Page

News and Information

Radio

• Radio Netherlands
• World Radio Network
• Radio Free Europe & Radio Free Liberty
• ABC News
• Air Force News
• Pacifica
• National Public Radio (NPR)
• Wisconsin Public Radio

Web

• Maranatha Christian Journal
• NewsPage - create your own individual newspage!
• Kiosken - in English, Esperanto, or Swedish

Other

• Cxaux! - in Esperanto
• Madison Area Radio Stations (my favorites anyway - of all kinds!):

  WORT	89.9 MHz	listener-sponsered alternative radio
  WNWC	102.5 MHz	Christian Radio from Northwestern College
  WHA	970 kHz	part of Wisconsin Public Radio and the first radio station in the country!
  WERN	88.3 MHz	part of Wisconsin Public Radio
  WMGN	98.1 MHz	"Magic" 98
  WTDY	1240 kHz	talk radio
  WB9HSY	147.150 MHz and 147.760 MHz	Amateur Radio Repeater - has weather info during tornado warnings, etc.
  N9KAN/R	443.40 MHz	Amateur Radio Repeater
  WXJ87	162.55 MHz	National Weather Service, Sullivan, Wisconsin

Audio News Reports on The Web

• Timecast - superb guide to RealAudio resources on the Web
• Radio Sweden
• Radio Canada International
• Radio Prague
• Timecast - superb guide to RealAudio resources on the Web
• ABC News Reports
• National Public Radio's All Things Considered
• Monitor Radio is GONE! - from the Christian Science Monitor

Human Languages

Not to be outdone, human languages can be even more interesting than computer languages - and certainly much more unpredictable.

Here are some of my favorites:

Table of Contents:

• Esperanto
• Russian
• French
• Spanish
• Klingon
• General and Multi-Lingual

• Esperanto
• Start Here
  • Yamada Guide to Esperanto from the Yamada Project at the University of Oregon
  • La Flavaj-Pagxoj de Esperanto (Esperanto Yellow Pages)
  • Esperanto Frequently Asked Questions by Don Harlow
  • Esperanto - La Internacia Lingvo (The International Language)
  • Esperanto - La Neutrala Internacia Help-Lingvo (in multiple languages!)
  • Prague Manifesto in English and Esperanto
• General Esperanto Resources
  • Fabeloj de Hans Christian Andersen - in Esperanto
  • Angla-Esperanta - English to Esperanto Word Guide
  • List of Esperanto Resources on the Web - in Esperanto
  • Literaturo en Esperanto - in Esperanto
  • Virtuala Esperanto-Biblioteko - in Esperanto
  • Esperanto-gazetoj en TTT - in Esperanto
  • Planlingvoj - in Esperanto
  • Esperanto Pagxo de Ulf Lunde - in Esperanto
  • Esperanto Resources
  • Esperanto.net - in Esperanto
  • Esperanto archives at ftp.stack.nl
• Esperanto Fonts, etc.
  • Latin-3 Fonts for Esperanto - in Esperanto
  • Macintosh Fonts for Esperanto
• Esperanto Organizations
  • Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj (AIS) - in Esperanto
  • Swedish Esperanto Youth Union (SEJU) - in Esperanto and English
  • Esperanto Radikala Asocio (ERA) - in Esperanto and Italian
  • Flandra Esperanto-Ligo (FEL) - in Esperanto
  • Junulara Esperantista Franca Organizo (JEFO) - in French, Esperanto, or English
  • Usona Esperantista Junularo (USEJ)
  • Kanada Esperanta Asocio (KEA) - in Esperanto, French, or English
  • Amikaro de Esperanto en Radio (AERA) - in Esperanto
  • Sveda Esperanto Federacio in Esperanto and Swedish
  • Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda (SAT) and SAT-Amikaro - both in Esperanto
  • Esperanto-Societo Zuriko (ESZ) - in Esperanto
  • Esperanto Societo Kebekia (ESK) - - in French, English, and Esperanto
  • Monda Turismo
  • Fondajxo Ivo Lapenna
  • Pasporta Servo
  • Skolta Esperanto Ligo
  • Senlime - Meuse-Rhine Euregio
  • Esperanto Resource
  • La Esperanto-Ligo Ciberspaca
  • Akademio Interacia de la Sciencoj (AIS)
• Russian
• Russian Story
• Russian Internet Resources
• Russian Language Internet Resources
• Russian Online (and in Russian) - also try main page in English and in Russian
• Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI)
• Russian and East European Studies Web (REESWeb) at the University of Pittsburgh
• GlasNet (and in Russian) - a Russian ISP with good links!
• National News Service (and in Russian)
• Russia Today
• Russification of the Mac
• Cyrillic Fonts on the Internet from Fingertip Software
• Microsoft in Russia
• Russia.Net
• French
• The French Connection (from the University of Maine at Fort Kent)
• Centre internationale pour le developpement de l'inforoute en francais (CIDIF) - in French
• Repetoire des espaces cybernetiques francophones
• HAPAX: French Resources on the Web
• Joe's French Page
• Resources for Students and Teachers of French as a Second Language - Lots of links!
• Spanish
• Pagina de la Lengua Espanola (o castellano) (in spanish)
• Webspanol - Spanish for Beginners
• Spanish Course from Si, Spain - home page is also available in French, Spanish, or German!
• La Pagina de Idioma Espanol (in Spanish)
• Mundo Hispano - the Spanish Language Learning MOO - also in Spanish
• Pagina de Espanol Interactivo (in Spanish)
• Correspondencia Espanola (in Spanish)
• Web Spanish Lessons - based on Mexican Spanish
• Diccionario de Internet en Espanol (in Spanish)
• Klingon
• Let's Speak Klingon
• The Languages of Star Trek (contains references to uncommon languages and resources!)
• Klingon Language Institute
• tlhIngan (Klingon Resources)
• General and Multi-Lingual
• LingWhat? - unique! If you don't know what language that letter or article is in, this will help you figure out which language it is. Fun!
• Human Languages Page - it's unbeatable!
• Languages Page at Yahoo
• TravLang - includes Travel Languages and Dictionaries
• Alternative Dictionaries - foreign language slang - any slang (not for the easily offended)
• Ethnologue - includes over 6,700 languages (but no planned languages like Esperanto, Loglan, or Ido)
• Foreign Language Guides from the Yamada Project at the University of Oregon - including a fantastic Foreign Fonts resource
• ECHO - Eurodicautom - Translator of official and technical terms - experimental
• Internet Dictionary Project (IDP)
• LOGOS Dictionary from LOGOS
• NETGLOS - Multilingual Glossary to Internet Terms, including tips on how to internationalize your computer, a Net Glossary in English, and other Guides
• Foreign Language Resources on the Web

TOYS!

Specifically, Legos!

• Legos and LOGO Project at The MIT Media Lab
• David A. Karr's Lego Collection
• Lego Links at Yahoo!
• Anthony's Lego Land
• Lego Page from Z. Johnson
• Lego Links
• Legos... Legos... Legos...
• PrimeTimes Home Page
• rec.toys.lego
• PrimeTimes Home Page
• Will Chapman's Lego Site

Credit Union Information

• Credit Union Campaign for Consumer Choice
• Legislative Language of the Credit Union Membership Access Act
• Why Congress should support the Credit Union Membership Access Act

Links of Personal (and varied) Interest

You may not be interested, but I don't care. But why not check these links out just because. Humor me.

Where I work:	CUNA and Affiliates
Where Dad works:	Hammel Green and Abramson, Architects
Where Mom works:	Land's End
Where my wife used to work:	Kinko's
I married a lefty!:	Links to come!