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Mac Links:
Why Macs are the best!
The Ultimate Macintosh
The Cult of Macintosh
The Mac Orchard, more software than you can shake a stick at.
The MacKiDo Temple, lots of articles of interest. Check out their impressive Apple History Timeline.
MacMarines, news, links, and attitude.
Especially for old Macs: Low End Mac.
The MacinTouch Home Page, a great source for up-to-date Mac news.
Headlines: MacSurfer.
More Mac news: MacCentral, MacInStart, and the Macintosh News Network.
The latest MacOS rumors.
Mac publications: Macworld, MacWEEK, MacAddict, and Mac Design.
Got problems? Try: MacFixIt
Buying or selling? Try Mac4Sale or the United Computer Exchange.
MacVirus, with lots of information on Macintosh viruses (almost all of which are "macro" viruses which attack Microsoft products!).
For Techheads: the Macintosh Online Technical Journal.
PowerWatch, for all of us Power Computing clone users.
Uncle Jimbo's Story Hour, from a venerable (and venerated) computer buddy.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival
in Ashland, Oregon. Another Ashland page. The Arden Forest Inn in Ashland, our favorite Bed and Breakfast. Shakespeare Santa Cruz. California Shakespeare Festival in Orinda. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Online! American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Pacific Repertory Theater in Carmel. Berkeley Repertory Theater in Berzerkeley.
Online Art Resources The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Art The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums The Museum of Modern Art, New York San Francisco museums The Getty Museum, Los Angeles Art of New Mexico and the Southwest Textile Information Management System The Web Museum Women Artists Archive Sor Juana Inez De La Cruz
What's the weather like in Santa Cruz today? See the Slug Video camera at the Dream Inn for current conditions Local Santa Cruz Artists See what's playing at the Nick Shakespeare Santa Cruz We are members of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Monterey Bay Dog Training Club The Highway 17 Page of Shame Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Access Monterey Peninsula
BaysBall
San Francisco Giants home page
Oakland Athletics home page MLB@BAT, the official MLB web page ESPN CBS SportsLine CNN / Sports Illustrated The Baseball Archive baseball-reference.com is even better - it's got everything. Baseball Prospectus - more in-depth articles. The San Jose Giants (that's right, San Jose) official web site and unofficial web site. World Wide Web of Sports Baseball in the 1930s
The Basics of Space Flight NASA home page and Organizations NASA's Office of Space Operations Chronology of Lunar and Planetary Exploration JPL's Solar System Exploration page NASA's Planetary Photojournal page: one source for pictures from every NASA planetary mission The Galileo Jupiter Mission, launched 10/18/89, orbited Jupiter from 12/7/95 until 9/21/03 The Cassini Saturn Mission, launched 10/15/97, entered Saturn orbit 6/30/04 The Mars Exploration Program:
Messenger, launched 8/3/04, flew by Earth 8/2/05, Venus 10/24/06 and 6/5/07, Mercury 1/14/08 (more info), 10/6/08, and 9/29/09 before entering Mercury orbit on 3/18/11 Venus Express is an ESA mission which entered Venus orbit 4/11/06 to study the planet's atmosphere. New Horizons, the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt: launched 1/19/06, flew by Jupiter 2/28/07 and will arrive at Pluto 7/14/15 Deep Impact, launched 1/12/05, impacted comet Tempel 1 with a probe on 7/4/05 to study its composition. Deep Impact may visit another comet in the future ESA's Rosetta, launched 3/2/04, flew by asteroid Steins on 9/5/08, on its mission to orbit and land a probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014 Dawn, launched 9/27/07, flew by Mars 2/17/09, will orbit asteroid Vesta starting 8/14/11 for seven months, then will orbit asteroid Ceres starting 2/1/15. Dawn uses ion propulsion technology pioneered by Deep Space 1. More information Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched 6/18/09, is now in lunar orbit to survey lunar resources and identify potential landing sites. Stardust, launched 2/7/99, flew by the asteroid Annefrank 11/2/02, then flew by comet Wild-2 on 1/2/04 and returned material from it to Earth 1/15/06. Stardust may carry out an encounter with the comet Tempel 1 in 2011 Lunar Prospector, in lunar orbit from 1/11/98 to 7/31/99, was NASA's first mission to the moon in 25 years. Its mission ended with a bang. Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous: Launched 2/17/96, NEAR flew by asteroid Mathilde on 6/27/97 and became the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid, Eros, on 2/14/00. On 2/12/01 NEAR landed on the surface of Eros. NEAR's mission has now ended. Deep Space 1, an asteroid and comet flyby mission designed to test new space travel technologies, was launched 10/24/98. After completing a number of extended mission objectives, it was retired on 12/18/01. After flying by Jupiter in February 1992, Ulysses is studying space from solar polar orbit. ESA's Ulysses page Launched in 1977, Voyagers 1 and 2 flew by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. They are now are carrying out the Voyager Interstellar Mission. Both have now passed the "termination shock" at the boundary of the Solar System. Next Jupiter system mission: Europa Orbiter - killed by the Bush administration. Now there is no followup mission to Galileo. Is Pluto a planet or a Trans-Neptunian Oblect? Other large Trans-Neptunian Oblects: Varuna, Quaoar, Sedna. Will 2003 UB313 become the tenth planet? Other planetary and lunar missions under consideration Latest Space Shuttle and International Space Station news. Another ISS page. Where is ISS right now? Another ISS tracker History of U.S. Manned Space Flights All the Shuttle flights to date NASA's factbook on all NASA astronauts, past and present Mark Wade's Encyclopedia Astronautica, a tremendous resource on space flight Where are they now? A Field Guide to American Spacecraft Gus Grissom's Mercury capsule, Liberty Bell 7, raised from the ocean floor. It was restored at the Kansas Cosmosphere. More pictures of Liberty Bell 7 Apollo by the Numbers, a statistical reference for the manned phase of Project Apollo Apollo Image Gallery page Another interesting Project Apollo page History and technical information about the Space Shuttle China.org's page on the Chinese manned space program Information about the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Fun with comets: Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp. CNN's Hale-Bopp page Learn about Russian space station Mir. Another Mir page. After over 15 years and over 86,000 orbits of the Earth, Mir was de-orbited on 3/23/01, with several large pieces falling into the South Pacific. Check out the activities of the European Space Agency, or the many other space agencies on the Web Wonder what the surface of Venus looks like? Here is a page with images of all bodies in the Solar System
San Jose Mercury News San Francisco Chronicle New York Times Washington Post The Times of London Sydney Morning Herald The Hindu - India's National Newspaper Time Magazine U.S. News Magazine (formerly U.S. News and World Report) Life Magazine Sports Illustrated Rolling Stone CNN USA Today
CNN/Time AllPolitics USA Today Politics Page Campaigns & Elections Magazine What's happening in Congress today? What has the Supreme Court been up to lately (Besides stealing the election)? Track the performance of elected officials and candidates B/CS Presidential Campaign Tour & Opinion Page U.S. Presidents Lists (wouldn't you know, a UK site) Presidents' biographies, first families, etc. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Very cool. University of Virginia's Presidential election maps An interesting visual interpretation of the 2004 Presidential election A concise page of all Presidential election results Grolier Encylopedia's The American Presidency page A thoroughly entertaining tour of presidential gravesites An interesting WebZine devoted to the Electoral College Some interesting facts about U.S. elections Washington D.C. sightseeing map A web site dedicated to the United States flag The Air Force calls it a VC-25A but we know it as Air Force One Great pictures of historical Presidential Limousines
Paul McCartney's web site
The Sheltie Page What's the U.S. weather or the weather in Europe like today? Will it be El Niño or La Niña this year? Follow the Iditarod race. The Anchorage Daily News' Iditarod page The Ultimate Titanic Links List The Tarzan Movie Guide and Tarzan of the Internet Literary Kicks: A look at the writers, poets, and other figures of the Beat Generation. Also see The Beat Page. Jack Kerouac character reference key The Encyclopedia of Arda: A J.R.R. Tolkien reference guide. The Internet Movie Database, every movie ever made (almost, at least). Think you felt an earthquake? This USGS web site should tell you. Need to convert something to/from the metric system? Kimonos of Itchiku Kubota JFK Resources Online: An amazing list of resources on John F. Kennedy We are members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum A large collection of American History documents at Marist College The American Civil War Homepage World War II Links on the Internet Mucha información sobre los Zapatistas The Dilbert Zone, of courseThis page maintained by Eric Smith
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