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WorldClock, Time(quick), Time(zones) |
WeatherWest , WeatherEast , WeatherSouth, WeatherAnywhere, Hurricanes, Quakes 1, 2, 3, 4, Pollen counts, Weather Glossary |
Financial: |
Reuters Video, Reuters, news.Google, news.yahoo, Bloomberg, Antiwar.com, DrudgeReport, NYTimes, WSJ($), CNN, Salon, BostonGlobe, CSmonitor, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Alternate Focus, Arabic Hour, Teheran Times, People's Daily(English), Al Jazeera(English), TurkishPress(English), International Herald Tribune, Asahi Shimbun(English), Pravda(English), Times, CJRdaily, Nieman - Press, YaleGlobal, Counterpunch, Phoenix, NewsMax, Omnivore, Best List, Best Lists, metacritic, MovieTomatoes, BoxOffice, Tickets & Showtimes, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comics, Science Daily, MIT Tech Review, RedHerring, Inquirer, ArsTechnica, Games, Most Popular Web Sites, Timelines1, 2, Dublin Intrade, Iowa IEM ,
Today's Visuals (newest first):
Bailout vs. WW II,
Stack of Bailouts,
Bailout Timeline,
All Languages.
See 'More Visuals' below.
The American Empire:
A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both.,
Defending the Dollar,
Immigration Facts,
Attacking Iran,
The neocons,
Truthiness,
Fascism
Blogs:
Culture of Life News (Elaine Meinel Supkis),
Henry C.K. Liu,
H.C.K. Liu at Asia Times,
Antal E. Fekete 1,
2,
Annotated Antal,
TalkingPoints,
Brad DeLong,
Tim Oren,
TechCrunch,
Informed Comment (Juan Cole),
Baghdad Burning,
Sudden Debt,
Ranking of blogs ('Best' blogs)
| YahooSearch | Yahoo alltheweb livesearch | YahooMyWebSearch | Ask - Teoma | MSN |
| Clusty(by Vivísimo (Vivisimo)) | Internet Archive | Highbeam | Dogpile |
| ODP Directory Search | Yahoo Directory Search | Google Directory Search | WikiPedia | Science World | Urban Legends | FAQs: usenet, etc. |
| Book Search | Google Scholar | usenet | Internet Archive | Universities | Find Voting Record | Find Federal Congressperson | Top Universities Worldwide |
| Google Maps | Yahoo Maps | Yellow Pages | YahooLocal | Msft Local |
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Miscellaneous Search: USPS: Find a ZIP Code / Calculate Postage / Print a Shipping Label / Schedule a Pickup / Locate a Post Office / Track & Confirm Postal Rates World Factbook (CIA) Terrorism |
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Webster's Online Dictionary |
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Dictionary(Fancy), Google Definitions, Thesaurus, Thesaurus(Visual), WordNet Search, HyperDictionary, ForeignDictionaries, Language Translation, Quotations & Literary 1 2 , Etymology, |
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Shopping: Consumer Reports, Become.com, Tech Yahoo Epinions, CheapTickets, Travelocity,
Medicine/Health:
Searching for health information,
MedlinePlus,
PubMed,
CardioSmart
Info on:
Corporations:
Transnationale.org,
FCIC Consumer Action,
GetHumanOnPhone,
DataWarehousedOnYou,
Person -> Phone/Address:
Zabasearch,
AnyWho,
800-Free-411,
Switchboard,
VerizonSuperPages,
SearchBug($)
Misc:
Home Electric Costs 1,
2,
Other Energy Calculators,
Energy Star,
Energy Guide,
Calculators/Converters1,
2,
3,
4,
MortgageCalc,
AnnuityCalc 1,
2,
Ibiblio(was Sunsite & metalab.unc.edu),
20 Questions,
recipes,
ajp,
Jazz
Assets/Money/Investing/Giving:
Privacy/Intellectual Property/Misc:
Question Copyright,
The War Between 'Premium Content' and Digital Freedom,
Intellectual Property Glossary,
Copyright,
EFF and IP,
CIPP_McGill,
Common Property,
BIPLOG,
DMCA,
DMCA Consequences,
USDOJ on IP,
The Public Domain,
Sampling Licenses,
Licenses explained,
Choose Your License
Computer:
MyBandwidth 1,
2,
3
4,
5,
TestJVM,
JavaTester,
Microsoft,
Linux,
BSD Unix,
Apple Macintosh,
WINW,
BadBlue,
Microsoft's
central protect-your-PC starting point,
Pest/Spyware Encyclopedia,
RFCs,
Eclipse IDE,
CVS,
Other homeplace pages like this one: Between the Hedges, Riza Eemirer, NYT 'Home Page' for readers and journalists
Going Away: (You may want to make a bookmark.):
Influenza facts,
Ron Paul on Bailouts
VHeadline Venezuela (English),
World Subway Navigator,
telecomm glossary,
Supporting Mike Gravel,
Mike Gravel as a young man,
SouthernExposure,
foodwine,
Go ski,,
yum yum,
Chavurah,
Vet Wedding,
DrudgeRetort,
Wanniski ($),
Californian,
Convert a Numeric IP Address to a location, Shirky,
More Visuals (newer ones first): Money 6 5 4 3 2 1, The Great Lakes Basin, BioFuels: how green?, Rubbish Soup, The great depression 1 2 3 4, Coastal Flooding, Private Vincent Mannion's Purple Heart, Hamas , Panda Walking , Every American Born Will Need ... - Explained, Staged Jubilation, Baghdad Wall, All Languages, Ethanol versus Biodiesel, Buddy Books
General Comment:
To be "on the 'net", you need the ability to
pass data packets between your computer and another one anywhere in
the world.
The cost of packet-passing ($/month)
is charged by the provider who supports the "last mile"
between your computer and the Internet.
Varying technologies are available to implement your last mile. To your home computer(s) there's dialup-modem or DSL via your phone line. There's fibre optic or coaxial cable. And there are some hybrids, like dialup-modem out together with satellite in. (Within your home, there may be a 'router' to multiplex several computers and/or a radio link for the last 'shouting distance' to a given computer.) Then there's wi-fi, cellular, PCS, or other to your mobile laptop.
In addition to passing packets, most people like a "Portal" page --a 'desktop' for your worldwide web browser making your favorite 'favorites' a little more easily accessible. Ideally, a portal page makes everything on the Internet you want readily accessible. And it stays current as new items of interest become available and as your interests change.
Last mile and portal services are totally separable, but they are often bundled.
A portal like Yahoo or AOL will try to pick up a little extra revenue by trying to pass your packets.
Conversely, a mainly-last-mile vendor, when it installs your packet-passing hardware, will try at least to reset your browser's home page and likely even try to install their own version of the browser you use and install other stuff. This steers you to their portal page. There is in general no need to install *any* of their software!!
Most well-known portal pages steer you towards things they want you to think or buy. Here are some examples: NetZero, Earthlink, Verizon, MSN, AOL, Yahoo
These things have gotten way over the top, and even Microsoft recognizes that there is something better!
But you can go all the way and use your very own portal page.
This homeplace web page can be used as-is from chasegalleryconnect.org. (It can be used with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, or other operating system. The following discussion is Windows-oriented : contact webmaster aht chasegalleryconnect.org if you can help augment the following for those contexts.) Or it can be saved on your desktop, in 'My Documents', or anywhere on your hard drive. You can select it as your browser home page as follows.
For Microsoft Internet Explorer or Firefox you do: Tools >> [Internet] Options >> General >> Use Current Page.
For Netscape/Mozilla you do: Edit >> Preferences >> ...... >> Use Current Page.
To alter this page to your own liking (You can, for example, edit the zip code into yours and get near-instant local weather.), view it with Windows Explorer, right-click its name and do Send To > Notepad.
Or open 'Notepad' and then do Notepad>>File>>Open and chase down this very file to edit the text which describes the web page you're viewing. It will be at a location such as: "H:\Documents and Settings\JohnDoe\Desktop\homeplace.html"