The bTd Bookmark file

WWW starts:
- Search Engines:
- Search for People:
  - Yahoo! People
  - InfoSpace
  - Switchboard
  - WhoWhere at lycos
  - UK (BT) phone search
  - Bigfoot
  - Address Finder (iaf)
  - Area code lookups, eg Santa Clara, CA
- Search for Places & travel:
  - Timezone comparing
  - World maps, routes, and businesses (Googlemaps)
  - Zipcode maps
  - US mailboxes
  - USA maps, routes, and yellow pages (mapsonus)
  - World country and street maps (mapquest)
  - UK maps (multimap)
  - Yahoo yellow pages
  - Demographics (2000 US Census), by zipcode or city, eg 95128 statistics
  - CIA database for places around the world
  - Books, maps, and information for MOST everywhere
  - The Virtual Tourist
  - Up to date flight/gate information and interactive tracking
  - Show details of your booked flight, hotel, and car reservations
  - Travel by City
- Search News Postings:
  - Google groups
- Search for Files:
  - Windows files - useful programs, drivers, tips, etc... for PC users
  - 5 Star Shareware - excellent shareware programs
  - TuCows Archive finds useful programs for PC Internet connectivity
  - ZDnet downloads source of shareware, freeware, and evaluation software
  - Applications Search - useful programs for PC Internet connectivity
  - Windows Shareware - shareware programs
- Search for Domains:
  - ARIN: IP to hostname lookups
  - Around the world, and their NIC servers [my mirror]
  - Network Solutions: domain names .{net,org,com}
  - Internic: domain names .{net,org,com}
  - RIPE: whois for Europe
  - APNIC: whois for Asia Pacific
- Surf the web - in the past
- Wikipedia knowledge (encyclopedia) database
- WikiHow knowledge (how to) database
- WikiTravel travel database
Fun:
- My Burningman experiences in my 7th year now
- My trip to Vegas in December 2003
- Make signs: Sign Generator | Custom Signs | Big Huge Labs | Church Signage | TombStones | Candy Hearts
- When I had a Kodak DX4530 camera, now I have a Panasonic DMC-FZ50 with which I did my 100 clicks project
- My geometric walker (based on Theo Jansen kinetic sculptures)
- My rubik cube sequences
- The Alternate Energy Zone at Burningman and beyond (clean energy for all)
- The Central USA BIG Burningman map
- What happened today in Music - look up what was number one, the day you were born!
- Quotations: Insipration | Wisdom | Amusement
- Internet Puzzle and my solutions
- The Weird Places On The Net
My thoughts:
- A Chinese Money proverb
- Description of a Dance Away Lover
- Effects of loneliness
Discussion groups:
- BryTee at tribe.net
- Bryan at facebook
- YahooGroups
- Purely Burningman: eplaya | 3playa | Burncast | 6°burn
- My Space
- Skype - more like IM, but phone audio & video too

News

Local:

San Jose & Bay Area, CA, USA

Minneapolis, MN, USA

• KTVU Ch.2	FOX TV
• KNTV Ch.3	NBC TV
• KRON Ch.4	Worldnow TV
• KPIX Ch.5	CBS TV
• KGO Ch.7	ABC TV
• SJ Mercury	Newspaper
• SF Chronicle	Newspaper
• SF Examiner	Newspaper

• WCCO Ch.4	CBS TV
• KSTP Ch.5	ABC TV
• KMSP Ch.9	UPN TV
• KARE 11	NBC TV

• Pioneer Press	Newspaper
• Star Tribune	Newspaper

International:
- BBC (UK)
- CNN (USA + world)
- NYTimes (USA + world)
- Front pages of newspapers (local, national, and world)
Online:
- Linux today | planet | weekly news

Money & Purchasing:
- Craigslist - buying & selling, plus forums, jobs, dating, gigs, services, ...
- Saving money at cheap stingy bargins | Fat Wallet
- Currency converter | Todays (and recent) exchange rates and graphs
- Kelly Blue Book | Edmunds - Guides to USA car pricing
- USA Gas prices in San Jose, CA and Across USA
  
  Quick lookup for San Jose area
  
  Santa Clara
  San Jose (North)
  San Jose (West)
  Sunnyvale
  Campbell
  San Jose (Central)
  San Jose (South)
  San Jose (East)
  
  Time h
- Internet stores:
  - Buying books (and more) at Amazon
  - Buying CDs at CDnow
  - General Internet Shopping
  - Computer Price Comparisons: Computer ESP | Price Watch
  - Electronic components (mail order):
  - Walmart USA
  - Frys USA
  - Overstock USA
  - B Cheap Fun stuff
  - Argos UK
  - Home Town Buffet (or Old Country Buffet) - great restaurant
- Stocks Prices:
  - Yahoo! Finance
  - Stock Price Name Lookup - like Yellow Pages
  - BarChart Stock Prices
  - StockMaster Prices & Graphs

Technical & Science:

Fighter Jets: military planes from 1930-present
PGP: my public key, which can be found in the PGP key databases at:
- MIT pgp.com UK server Georgia Tech
- ES Net Surf Net Anonymous server in Niue MC bone
How public-private key encryption works
IP & TCP.
- List of IP protocol numbers as known/registered by IANA [text 19k]
  Hint:
  
  ICMP TCP UDP is IP protocol 1
  is IP protocol 6
  is IP protocol 17
- List of TCP/UDP port numbers as known/registered by IANA [text 466k]
- Domainname changes, totals, and more.
Perl [perl5.004] reference: ASCII text [50k], Postscript (4 per page) [400k], and a PDF [200k], versions.
Check modem (cable, DSL, ISDN, 56k, whatever) speeds at bandwidth speed test
Netscape colormap viewing test pages
A simple random password generator pretty front end.
Pictorial representation of web page TAGs
HTML tags description, usage, and portability
HTML characters indexed
Unicode characters - all of them!
TABLE parameter BORDER/CELLSPACING/CELLPADDING
How stuff works
National Semiconductor - useful for datasheets on semiconductors
Star Batteries - sales, but also battery & charging FAQ, battery performance charts, and various PDF manuals for Cameras, Cell phones, MP3 players, Routers, PDA, Radio, GPS, and TVs!
Video Help - including DVD hacks to set multiregion
Seti at home - Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence
Periodic Table to look up details of the chemical elements | Periodic Videos
List of all country codes as 2 and 3 letter standards
Why not to choose MicroSoft, if you really needed technical reasons.
A paranoid insight into spyware and other issues of MSWindows XP.
Some useful MSwindows keyboard shortcuts (thanks to Reddit techology)
SNPX - Security & Network Performance eXperts

VTech Helio PDA
75MHz CPU, 8Mb memory, voice recorder more...	FYI: Palm's cannot run Linux due to the lack of MMU, and who'd want to? With the serious lack of CPU speed! The Helio has superior handwriting recognition software no need to learn the palm squiggles, just write normally.

Distances around the world:

Use formats such as:
"Chicago, IL", "Jakarta", "40:26:26N 79:59:46W", or "Athens, Greece"

From:

To:

Thanks to Bali online for the calculation routines, although their world database is not very comprehensive.
A better place to search for lattitude/longitude information is AstroDienst which has over 250,000 towns and cities, but the co-ordinates are not extremely accurate (just degrees and minutes, but no seconds, so accurate to about 1 mile).

Traffic, Weather and the sky:
- Traffic flow & congestion on the Minnapolis and Bay Area highways
  although Google Maps has a "traffic" button to see this for select cities.
- Heavens Above site, for sky charts, sunrise, sunset, locating planets, etc, tracking Hubble (HST), the international space station (ISS), and other space objects, also enabling you to see satellites when their solar panels reflect the sun back to Earth. The Iridium satellites are very good, and often very bright. A must see!
- Space Science
- What's in the Sky, viewability, and the weather
- Weather details for Black Rock City | Gerlach webcam
- Weather details for San Jose, CA, current and forecast.
  You can see the weather most places in the world via the Weather Underground site.
- 5 day forecast for San Jose, CA by NJ.com
- Eclipses 1991-2030
- High definition satellite photos:
  - Google Maps of the world
  - TerraServer - pay for high resolution
  - Microsoft only USA
Language:
- Dictionaries:
  - Collegiate
  - dictionary.com | thesaurus.com
    
    Enter word:
    
    Search: Dictionary Thesaurus
  - hyperdictionary.com containing:
    English words (modern and last century), Computer terms, Dream meanings, Medical, and Thesaurus:
    
    Enter word:
- Translate URL - or piece of text (babelfish - not bablefish)
- Translate words - more languages, but only individual words
- Translate morse code
- Dakota County, Minnesota, USA. Library lookup
- Librarius: Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales
- Feeling words Categorized
- Online bible with multiple translations available
- British, Candian, and American spellings and meanings of words
England:
- My life and school days:
  - 1966-1972 St. Barnabas primary school, Tunbridge Wells, Kent: associated with its church
  - 1972-1978 Skinners school, Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Old Skinners society
  - 1978-1980 Bowthorpe school, Norwich, Norfolk: which is no longer in existance
  - 1980-1983 University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent: UKC WWW (Alumni), and UKCR - the university radio station.
  Maybe you went to these schools? Contact me, it's possible we know each other.
  To find your old schools friends, use Friends Reunited or Old School Mates
- Bagpuss - probably my favourite childhood show
- BBC
- UK (BT) phone search
- Excellent UK atlas maps
- Good UK street maps
Movies:
- Internet Movie Database in USA (search) or UK (search)
- What's on in USA theatres
- All Movies and Music
- USA TV guide
- ASCII Star Wars Ep.4
Radio:
I listen to (ordered in my current preference)...
1. KIOI 101.3 - Hot Adult Contemporary
  Sunday mornings 6am-10am is the Top 40 chart countdown.
2. KMEL 106.1 - Urban Contemporary
  Except I rarely know anything playing here, despite it claiming "classic".
But if there is nothing on, I'll "hop" between stations, such as when an ad comes on, there is too much talking, or the music playing is not to my taste.

Music:

Find videos, photos, lyrics on one page
Online music & radio stations

FreeDB CD Database:

Techno online radio station
The Ultimate Band List
Guitar chord builder
Guitar chord generator in JavaScript
CD universe buy stuff
Amazon (books & music) buy stuff
Radio & Record (online) - has US charts & radio stations ratings, and also ethnic composition percentages

Artists/Groups:

13k jpg image	Kate Bush Official website a good site and the BEST news site some tabs or chords and MP3s of the demos and my searchable lyrics
5k jpg image	Alice Cooper Official website Guitar tabs and my searchable song text
43k jpg image	Army of Lovers Official website
68k jpg image	Tori Amos Official website a good site

MIDI:
- My archive with about 2000 MIDI's, searchable, and good quality
- Good site
- Hardware
- Specification
Lyrics:

Dongrays → Bryan → bookmarks
(backup copied to dongrays.com)

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