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Fun Sites to check out!
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| The Onion: the best satirical newspaper on the 'net:
http://www.theonion.com/ |
| The JokeCenter: If
you love a good joke, you'll love the JokeCenter joke pages. JokeCenter
is dedicated to providing the Web with the best humor and letting the
Web community judge the best jokes. http://www.jokecenter.com/ |
| The Obscure Store: real news stories that you probably
missed! http://www.obscurestore.com/ |
| Useless Knowledge: great trivia site: http://www.uselessknowledge.com/ |
| Hot A.I.R.: Annals of Improbable
Research. Did you ever wonder what is the most efficient way
to drag sheep across the floor? Well, believe it or not, the answer to
this question has been thoroughly investigated by a team of devoted
scholars/ergonomists. To read more about this, as well as other examples
of our tax dollars at work, check out the Ig Nobel Prizes at http://www.improb.com/ |
| Monty Python's Flying Circus:
official site http://www.pythonline.com/ |
| Donald Simanek's Pages: you can spend years exploring
all of the fascinating science links on the page of this physics
professor!
http://www.lhup.edu/dsimanek/home.htm |
| Radio Margaritaville:
a zillion parrotheads can't be wrong. Get your fix of Jimmy Buffett
streamed over the 'net 24 hours a day! http://www.radiomargaritaville.com/ |
| The Dave, Shelly and Chainsaw
Show (DSC)
(101.5 KGB San Diego): Start off every day in a good mood!
If you can't listen to them live in the mornings, listen to their
rebroadcasts in the evenings or download their podcasts. |
| Bored.com:
"When you have nothing better to do!" Links to the most
interesting sites on the internet!" www.bored.com |
| Ad Critic: If you often find that the
TV commercials are often far better than the actual programs,
you'll love this site! Great place to watch some of your favorite,
funniest commercials. (This used to be a free site, but now an
annual fee is assessed in order to view the content.) http://www.adcritic.com/ |
| George Andreas Art Studio: I am
fortunate to count George as a friend. A former Olympian, he is also a
highly respected modern artist. Check his stuff out at http://www.andreasstudio.com/ |
| Mini-Putt: Not in the
mood to get any work done? Play a full 18 holes of miniature golf on
your computer - a procrastinator's delight!
http://www.addictinggames.com/miniputt.html. |
| Addicting Games: Need
some more great time wasters? My daughter turned me on to this site (she
assures me that she still studies hard...)
http://www.addictinggames.com/index.html. |
| Trapshoot. Another great
time wasting game.. http://www.goofyfun.com/1/trapshoot.htm?cardid=957 |
| PBBT.COM: Don't ask
about where the name of this site comes from. Instead, check out the
table of contents and look for the humor and joke directories. http://www.pbbt.com/toc.shtml |
| Taylor Guitars: I had played a Martin for years. Now it's
time to move up to a real guitar! http://www.taylorguitars.com/index.asp |
| The Eve Selis Band: great local San Diego band; Out
On A Wire is one of our favorite albums to play during surgery; http://www.eveselis.com/ |
| Atom Films: entertaining collection of
short films and cartoons. http://www.atomfilms.com/ |
| Rectal Foreign Bodies; A collection of medical case
reports involving future Darwin Award candidates; http://medi-smart.com/rectal.html |
| Planet Ketchup; (absolutely no relation to the
previously listed site- honest!) Fun facts about the most widely used
condiment in the U.S.; http://www.ketchup.wonderland.org/ |
| Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet: http://www.cyndislist.com/ |
| Bugbios: shameless promotion of insect appreciation! http://www.bugbios.com/ |
| The Sid Caesar Home Page: great
opportunity to watch some classic humor! http://www.sidcaesar.com/ |
| Egg2 Games: Free online games to kill
time. http://www.egg2.com/ |
| Free Web Arcade: play the
classic video arcade games for free on your computer! (Registration is
free.) http://freewebarcade.com |
| Mr. Otto Goes to the Olympics:
http://home.datacomm.ch/marco.fernando/fla/bozzetto/olympics.swf |
| Magician Michael Johnson:
I'm proud to consider Michael a friend. Aside from performing at parties
and corporate events, Michael also donates a fair amount of time to
entertain sick children at local hospitals. Learn how to hire him at
his website. |
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Useful
Web Sites and Programs
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| Web Pages that Suck by Flanders & Willis.
Learning good design by studying bad. http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ |
| KPBS: There is intelligent life in
the universe! Check out San Diego Public radio on the web: http://www.kpbs.org/.
Unbiased news, commentaries, and discussions during the weekdays;
lots of fun programs on the weekends. Once you become addicted, be
sure to support their programming by becoming a member! |
| Spybot and Ad-Aware; these free
utilities remove "spyware"
from your computer's registry, memory, and hard drives. You'd be
surprised what might have been placed in your system without your
knowledge....
http://www.safer-networking.org/; http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
For and excellent article on how to use and tweak
these programs, check out the
Feb
2004 issue of PC World.
Incidentally, PC World magazine is a great overall
resource for the average computer user. You'll pick up some great tips
in every issue. In addition, Microsoft
finally came out with it's
Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware. Currently in beta form, it still
works great and will also be free! |
| Gibson Research Corporation; Just how secure
is your computer? Use Steve's Shields UP! to check your system.
This site is very educational with regards to internet security. http://grc.com/ |
| Zone Alarm; If your computer is connected to
the 'net all of the time (e.g. cable modem), you need firewall
protection. One of the best is free for personal use. Check out http://www.zonelabs.com/ |
| Easy Cleaner; A great free
program that can help to speed up your computer and free up more disk
space by deleting invalid registry entries, unnecessary and duplicate
files, etc. From ToniArts at
http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm |
| The Ultimate Troubleshooter;
Most of the problems that we encounter with personal computers are not
due to hardware, viruses, or spam - they're caused by tasks running amok
in the background! The trick to getting a problem computer to run
smoothly again is being able to correctly identify what tasks your
computer is trying to run concurrently and manage them more
intelligently so as to avoid lock-ups and shutdowns. If you're
constantly running into PC problems, then this program is worth
purchasing at
www.answersthatwork.com. |
| Fresh UI;
Another handy free program that let's you get better control of your
Microsoft Windows interface. It makes it easier for you to configure and
optimize the Windows operating system. Find it at
http://www.freshdevices.com. |
| Webshots; Another great free site! This
provides great pictures that you can use as wallpaper or screensavers.
The selection and the quality of the photos are incredible! http://www.webshots.com/ |
| The Reference Desk: http://www.refdesk.com/ |
| Google and Dogpile: Some of the better meta-search
engines: http://www.google.com/;
http://www.dogpile.com/
(Be sure to download the Google
Toolbar and learn how to use it - you'll wonder how you've down without it all of these
years!)
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| Healthopedia: Your Health
Encyclopedia: This appears to be a very extensive site hosting quite a
bit of useful information. Note that the blue hyperlinks provide further
info whereas the green ones generally lead to ads.
http://www.healthopedia.com/
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| Terra Server: find your home via satellite photos!
http://terraserver-usa.com/ |
| U.S. Newspaper links: http://www.usnpl.com/ |
| The Drudge Report: one of life's guilty pleasures
for news junkies. Whether or not you're a fan of Matt Drudge's modus
operandi, the site provides extensive links to newspapers, journalists,
etc. http://www.drudgereport.com/ |
| Runner's World: good info on all things running. http://www.runnersworld.com/ |
| Gatorade Sports Science
Institute: An excellent reference site devoted to
expanding knowledge on sports nutrition and exercise science in order to
enhance the performance and well-being of athletes. http://www.gssiweb.com/ |
| The Motley Fool: one of the best sites to learn about
and researching your investments; http://www.fool.com/ |
| The Golf Coach:
www.fredhanover.com. I've known
Fred for many years. He's been a phenomenal coach for Cal State
University at San Marcos and he's extremely popular with his students.
Let him help you to improve your game. |
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