Miscellaneous Links

Freeality Email Addresses and Reverse Lookup
http://www.freeality.com/findet.htm

Area Code Listing, by Number
http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~bsy/area.html

Directories - Telephone & Zip Code
http://www.rmis.com/db/dbdirectory.htm

Global Metric Time Service
http://www.globaltime.net

Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE)
http://www.cauce.org/

ZDNet: Test Your Monitor
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2344864,00.html

Keith Dreher's Home Page
http://www.geocities.com/~kcdreher/

Go Ask Alice! (is a health question and answer Internet site)
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/

Brain Candy: Insults Riddles Jokes Humor Wordplay Mind games

http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/index.html

Computer Stupidities--Humorous anecdotes of users creatively misusing computers.
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/PIAGenCatalogPage.pl?PIA03431

New York State's Do Not Call Law and Rules can be found at http://www.consumer.state.ny.us/dnchome.htm.

Check out Boy the Bear's Age Gauge at http://www.frontiernet.net/~cdm/age1.html. Uses your birthday to calculate your age against famous people and events.

Information on the book "Undoing Depression" can be found at http://www.undoingdepression.com/.

National Geographic - Holiday Cards can be found at http://www.holidaycardcenter.org/ngs.

Photo and Image Related

JPEG image compression FAQ, part 1-2 can be found at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/preamble.html

Paint Shop Pro Techno tips B1index can be found at http://campratty.com/questions.html.

Monitor Gamma settings can be found at http://campratty.com/1faq/faqpages/a20.html.

Food Related

The article "USDA Urges Consumers To Use Food Thermometer When Cooking Ground Beef Patties" can be found at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/news/1998/colorpr.htm.

The article "Proper Handling and Cooking Prevents Foodborne Illness" can be found at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/news/2002/PublicAlert041902.htm.

Recreation Related

OCParks.com Irvine Regional Park can be found at http://www.ocparks.com/irvinepark/.

BCI - Bicycle Club of Irvine can be found at http://www.bikeirvine.org.

Science Related

NASA Earth Observatory at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ is a freely-accessible publication on the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet.

APOD 2002 September 26 - Rocket Trail at Sunset is an absolutely stunning image and can be found at http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020926.html. I took photographs of this event, but they did not come out nearly as well. Richard Clinton, a local photographer, captured the rocket trail and provides another perspective of the trail. You can find the image at http://www.richardclinton.com.

Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule can be found at http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbsked.htm.

Here is an excellent site. SpaceWeather.com at http://spaceweather.com contains news and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids. I love checking to see if there is any sunspot activity.

We can't forget SPACE.com where you can find space news, games, entertainment and science fiction. Jump to http://www.space.com for a quick look.

Skymaps.com provides The Evening Sky Map & Calendar, a two-page guide to the night sky, each month in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).

Astronomy

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Current Sky Information at http://sao-www.harvard.edu/ep/starreport.html.

Nonsense Related

Try the Color Test at http://www.humorsphere.com/fun/colortest.swf.

Try this intelligence test at http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.m.jackson/intelligentietest.htm. A friend missed two and I missed none.