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Hardware and Software
Schools
Sports
GIS
Genealogy
TV and Radio
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Places
Oddities
Landscape Architecture
Miscellaneous
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USEFUL, NOT FUN

Actually, I'm not making promises on how useful this stuff really is. It just isn't widely recognized as fun.


Indices, Searches, and Internet Info

  • Google -- A pretty good search alternative. Also, Google maps, Google scholar, Montage-a-google, and Guess-the-Google.
  • AllTheWeb -- Pretentious title.
  • AltaVista -- Classic search site.
  • Old News Baby -- Great web sites someone else found first.
  • c|net -- A classic Internet source site.
  • Yahoo THE web index
  • SEARCH.COM -- A search tool from the folks at C|net.
  • Go2Net - Another good starting place.
  • Dogpile Big-time search engine
  • Webcrawler
  • Environmental pointers
  • Inference Find! -- Home Page and Resource Center

    A few GIS pages (not necessarily the best)

  • Geocaching -- Making a game out of GPS.
  • Geospatial21 -- For the next generation of GIS users. Hopefully they'll get caught up soon.
  • Conservation GIS -- as hosted by ESRI.
  • Government Technology -- A magazine about digital government.
  • The New Jersey Non-Profit GIS Communtiy
  • Yahoo!Maps A quick way to locate almost any destination in the US
  • WLIA The Wisconsin Land Information Association.
  • ESRI I have a paper there but you can access it on my papers page.
  • The Future of Spatial Data And Society A workshop -- I have a couple papers there
  • URISA The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association
  • Initiative 19
  • Minnesota's Center for Urban and Regional Affairs
  • NCGIA - Maine
  • UCGIS
  • WLIB
  • Intergraph
  • Open GIS Consortium
  • CAST - University of Arkansas
  • FGDC
  • MAC-URISA -- MidAtlantic Chapter of URISA
  • Wisconsin Coastal GIS Applications Project -- Includes some data and tutorials for you to try.
  • The Society for Conservation GIS - A group dedicated to using powerful spatial tools for a better world
  • Government Information Sharing Project
  • Oakland County, Michigan -- A well-documented GIS.

    • Landscape Architecture

  • Places and Spaces - the best blog in all of Environmental Planning and Design.
  • CELA -- The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.
  • DIRT - News from ASLA
  • Pruned - An LA blog
  • Land + Living
  • The Archi-Tourist - A Wiki-based approach to inventorying great design spots
  • The Modern List
  • Archinect - Design news
  • Daily Dose of Architecture
  • LA at UC-Davis
  • LA at UMass
  • Iowa State
  • Berkeley - UC Berkeley's Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
  • LA at New Mexico
  • Boston Architectural Center - A new LA program.
  • City College - they've gone grad.
  • UMass -- LA & RP at the little town in the woods.
  • Jens Jensen -- From The Clearing.
  • UPenn -- LA & RP at Penn.
  • Va Tech - includes a studio in Alexandria
  • Harvard GSD
  • LA@UK
  • LA@UVA
  • Maryland
  • Minnesota
  • Colorado State University LA Department


    • And a few samples of work
  • Sasaki -- This is one my favorite firms of all time.
  • EDAW -- One of the largest Landscape Arhcitecture firms in the world.
  • Design Workshop -- Creative professionals working in generally nice locales.
  • Hargreaves
  • HOK
  • Peter Walker
  • SWA Group
  • Wenk Associates
  • Wallace Roberts & Todd -- down the road in Philly, and elsewhere
  • Cornerstone Festival of Gardens -- In Sonoma.
  • Versailles - Quite the chateau.
  • Harewood
  • Glamis 
  • The West Philadelphia Landscape Project -- A mixing of garden design and GIS

    Land Use and Sprawl

  • Radical Urban Theory -- A group that wants to live in suburbia even less than you.
  • Sierra Club Report on Sprawl -- Sierra Club Challenge to Sprawl Campaign
  • A NASA Project -- Mapping Urban Development in the San Francisco Bay Region.
  • Land Use News - from Spaces and Places.

  • Hardware and Software

  • Shareware.com A great place to find almost any shareware or freeware that is out there
  • Microsoft and the Microsoft Network Bill Gates wants you to visit
  • Reunion
  • Dell
  • Computer Virus Myths home page

    Internet Goodies

  • The Web Puzzle -- Lots of sliding-piece picture puzzles.
  • What Does Your Phone Number Spell?
  • WebZen - Visual stimulation  

    • LIMITED FUN, MOSTLY USEFUL

    News

    National

  • CNN
  • ABC News
  • Fox News
  • MSNBC
  • The New York Times - The paper of record
  • Media News
  • USA Today
  • TIME Magazine
  • Atlantic Monthly
  • The Utne Lens The Utne Reader for online types
  • SlashDot -- Computer news for serious computer people.
  • WIRED - A Lycos publication?
  • National Geographic
  • Salon
  • Science Magazine

    Local

  • The Home News and Tribune and The Asbury Park Press
  • The Madison Papers
  • The Lexington Herald-Leader
  • The Isthmus
  • Cincinnati Enquirer
  • Philadelphia Enquirer
  • Louisville Courier-Journal

    Blogs and News Alternatives

  • Metafilter -- Yet another perspective on the world.
  • Fire Dog Lake - A legally-biased perspective.
  • TPM
  • C&L - Often with video
  • Eschaton
  • Kausfiles - Currently channeled through slate.
  • InstaPundit -- The view from Knoxville.
  • Opinionator - From the NYTimes
  • Kos - Daily Kos
  • The Blogosphere Ecosystem -- Where you can find the next hot infopinion source.

    Campus

  • The Daily Targum -- Rutgers' own student outlet.
  • The Badger Herald The Succesful UW Campus Paper.
  • The Daily Cardinal The other UW Campus Paper.
  • The Kentucky Kernel

     

  • Environmental Planning Links

  • I keep MANY more environmental planning links at my class page. That's the place to begin. It even includes student submissions. 
  • The Best of Google Maps -- by shreddies
  • HMDC - New Jersey Meadowlands Commission
  • GEsource Geography and Environment Gateway - A great searchable source of web resources for both G and E.
  • NAEP - National Association of Environmental Professionals
  • NJ APA -- New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association.
  • State Planning Staff -- The people keeping the state on track.
  • The Most Endangered PLaces List -- From the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
  • Suitum v. TRPA
  • SUITUM v. TAHOE REGIONAL PLANNING AGENCY
  • Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
  • TAPA: Supremem Court Cases
  • CITYgreen Software Information Page
  • Zoning Ordinance: Index A Model Wetlands Ordinance for indiana Communities.
  • NEMO - Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials - Homepage!
  • Home Page of The Nature Conservancy - Help Save Endangered Habitats!
  • URWA - Upper Raritan Watershed Association

    • My Schools

  • UK The University of Kentucky, in Lexington, Kentucky
  • LSU The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  • UW The University of Wisconsin - Madison, you can guess where this one is
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey -- with links to The Teaching Excellence Center, The Rutgers Film Co-op. 

    Tonya's Schools

    (excluding UK and LSU, already listed above)
  • Miami Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
  • UWM The University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee, you can guess where it is too

    Some Other Schools

    (for various reasons)
  • Ohio State Home of one of America's least attractive mascots
  • Eastern Kentucky My sister's alma mater
  • Georgia
  • Rutgers The State University of New Jersey and its extended history, Cook College, and the Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis .
  • Sheffield - Britain's own
  • The Princeton School of Architecture -- Home to some good talks and films, somewhere near Rutgers. 

    Genealogy

  • The ROOTS surname list and other genealogy resources from RAND
  • Ellis Island Records -- An amazing database about a little island in New Jersey (mostly).
  • The Gathering of the Clans Web Page A great place for Scottish research
  • Root digging
  • Genealogy Resource Page
  • Genealogy Home Page
  • My Own Experimental Charts
  • State Historical Soctiety of Wisconsin, Archives Division
  • Genealogy Index (Douglas ABLES-Winnefred )
  • Genealogy Index -- T
  • Traveller Southern Families
  • GENDEX -- WWW Genealogical Index
  • Ancestry intro 2

    • ON THE BUBBLE

    Or too hard to classify.

    Places

    New York, New York

    - The City so nice they named it twice.... 
  • Not For Tourists -- A guide to the REAL New York City.
  • Gangland News -- Real news about real people.
  • The Village Voice -- A weekly guide to the greatest city in the world.
  • Time Out New York -- A guide to the City. Good for events and dining.
  • New York Citysearch -- A robust guide to places and hapenings.
  • CuisineNet New York -- Dining reviews.
  • The Upright Citizens Brigade -- Some of the funniest people in New York, and the proud inventors of Pro Thunderball.
  • NY Zoos -- One in every borough.
  • The New York Yankees! -- Official team page, complete with schedules and wallpaper of the players.
  • The New York City Opera -- Not the Met (as if YOU could tell the difference), but the stylish young sibling with rising stars. They still perform at the Lincoln Center.
  • The Metropolitan Art Museum -- Huge. Simply huge.
  • Which should not be confused with The Metropolitan Opera.
  • The McGraw-Hill Bookstore -- Located in Rockefeller Center.
  • Whitney Museum of American Art -- Madison Avenue at 75th Street.
  • Porto Rico -- Mail order coffee from the village.
  • Focus Camera
  • Zagats -- Restaurant guide that include NYC and NJ in its databanks. No longer free.
  • Central Park -- The world's greatest park? I can't be sure until I visit the rest, but my early vote is yes.
  • Prospect Park -- An Olmsted classic with great playgrounds..
  • 42nd Street Photo
  • Cooper-Hewitt - NYC's Smithsonian Design Museum.

    Central New Jersey

    - My neighborhood. Especially New Brunswick -- home to my Great Great Great Great Grandfather. 
  • Congress -- We can start with my former Congressperson, Rush Holt. now I live and work in Frank Pallone's district.
  • New Brunswick A link to the city
  • Weird NJ - A guide to the strangeness that is NJ. This includes a visit to the nearby grave of Mary Ellis in a most unfortunate site.
  • Middlesex County
  • New Jersey Future -- An NGO Working for a Sustainable Economy, Environment and Society. 
  • The Home News & Tribune New Brunswick News
  • Yahoo! New Brunswick
  • Brunfest
  • Daily Targum The Rutgers student paper
  • Plainsboro, NJ - Official Township Site
  • NJ Tourism and Travel Official State Site
  • Philly News
  • New Jersey Online: Audubon Home Page
  • New Jersey Film Festival/The Rutgers Film Co-op -- World class movies in mediocre settings.

    Madison, WI
  • What's showing at the local theaters this weekend?
  • Bascom Hill
  • Institute of Environmental Studies
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison Electronic Library
  • The State of Wisconsin
  • Historic Views -- A historic look at Madison, WI
     

    Barcelona

    - Take a break...


  • Miscellaneous/Reference

  • Library of Congress
  • Peterson Online -- The Internet verison of the world famous Peterson Bird guide. 
  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - the greatest reference source ever?
  • Shakespeare The Bard's complete works
  • The Mississippi Review A little literature on the Web
  • E-zoo Digital animals
     


    Kidstuff

  • Kiddie commerce turns out to be a huge industry.
  • The Boys - the family web page.
  • Thomas and Friends - games, songs and opportunities to buy merchandise.
  • How Stuff Works -- Let's pop it open and see.
  • A Bug's World -- Insect eye-level photography.
  • Dan Zanes - a musician's musician.
  • mr Ray - a local fav.
  • Travel for Kids - An impressive site for sorting out kid stops in major cities around the world.
  • Travel With Your Kids -- When traveling with someone else's isn't enough.
  • Are We There Yet? - Kids places in New Jersey.
  • Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden - In Springfield, Mass.
  • Nursery Rhymes - In the early months, there doesn't seem to be any reason to read from a paper book.
  • Lullabies - Lyrics and real audio at Baby Center.
  • Fussybaby.net - Visual stimulation to calm the beast.

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    Art

    Fine Arts

  • Storm King Art Center -- A great sculpture garden.
  • Opus 40 -- A stone sculpture/park further up the Hudson.
  • Noguchi A great sculptor and landscape artist
  • Public Monuments and Sculpture Association
  • The Smithsonian
  • Le Lourve Some art gallery in France
  • Pushkin A wonderful art gallery in Moscow
  • Why Cats Paint
  • Keith Haring at the SFMOMA, May 8 - September 8, 1998
  • Dia:Beacon - I enjoyed it even more than I expected.

    • Cinematic Arts

  • Rutgers Film Co-op / NJMAC
  • Metacritic - Combined reviews by many critics.
  • Roger Ebert Reviews - An extensive site at the Chicago Sun-Times of reviews including a wonderful (and growing) list of classics. Hopefully his health will allow him to keep adding to the list.
  • Reel-views - A nice, simple review site by the guy who just might be the Internet's best movie reviewer. I look forward to his top ten lists every year.
  • Internet Movie Database THE movie resource. Really! With an impressive search tool, too.
  • Ain't It Cool News
  • Film.com
  • REEL.com - A place where you can buy them movies.
  • Chicago Reader Movie Guide -- Reviews and comments about movies.
  • Village Voice -- Another reliable resource for reviews with a serious look on film. Of course, the other parts of the paper aren't bad either.
  • Criterion Collection - A movie company trying to sell classic movies and providing some pretty meaningful reviews of these movies.
  • Bright Lights Film Journal -- An alternative review source.
  • Hitchcock The Master of Suspense
  • Siskel & Ebert & Roper Top Ten Lists -- 1969 through 1998.
  • Best Movies Ever -- The Sight and Sound Top Ten Poll 2002
  • Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Home to the now famous game
  • The Oracle Server providing solutions to the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (try older stars like Grace Kelly, James Stewart and Charlie Chaplin)

    Music

    If music be the food of love, play on... -- William Shakespeare
  • New York Philharmonic - One of the "Big Five" American Orchestras
  • Philadelphia Orchestra - One of the "Big Five" American Orchestras
  • Princeton University Orchestra - at Richardson Auditorium
  • NJSO - The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
  • Top Ten CDs for starters - a list of great CDs that beginners should consider buying. The list is provided by a major classical music radio station.
  • Classical Insights - A well rounded classical music resource site.
  • Bad Music - Otis Fodder's 365 days project is helping you hear one bad piece of music each day this year..
  • Classical Net - Another general site.
  • Classical is Cool - Must be true or they couldn't have gotten the name, right?
  • Classical Net Home Page
  • Music Database
  • OperaGlass
  • Lyrics server

    Photographic Arts

  • Chicago Imagebase
  • Western Photos
  • The Daily Image -- A new image everyday.
  • Barns
  • A different NYC - Phillip Buehler shows you a different set of views of NYC.

  • Cartoons and Comics

  • Comics.com -- Home to many syndicated comics including Get Fuzzy.
  • Dilbert in his natural environment
  • Mark Stivers -- cartoons from a piano tuner.
  • Doonesbury Welcome Page
  • John Kovalic's Dork Tower 
  • arch.Maaik - Acrhitecture comic strips. No, really.

    • Sports

    Baseball

  • The New York Yankees -- Home to names like Ruth, Dimaggio, Maris, Berra, and Torre.
  • Somerset Patriots -- An Atlantic League team coached by Sparky Lyle.
  • Newark Bears -- An Atlantic League team, just a few miles by train.
  • St. Louis Browns -- Reliving the glory.
  • Lakewood Blueclaws -- a little competition for the Lexington Legends.
  • New Jersey Jackals -- A Northern League team playing at Yogi Berra Stadium at Montclair State.
  • Trenton Thunder -- Red Sox AA Affiliate.

    Home to University of Kentucky, 1996 and 1998 Men's Basketball Champs
    - University of Wisconsin, 1941 Men's Basketball Champs 
    Kentucky Basketball

    and other sports 
  • Leonard's Losers -- Fire up that 'ole smart-pill machine.
  • Ky Hoops News
  • Ky Football News
  • Stats! -- An unbelievable amount of Kentucky basketball statistics.
  • The Official UK Site
  • Yoco - Basketball

    All Other Sports

  • Rock, Paper, Scissors -- The World RPS Society provides an impressive collection of tips, stratagems, and historic game info. 2002 is the Year of the Rock.
  • RPI -- The Ratings Percentage Index.
  • ESPN Where you can get general information on college basketball or specific information on Big1T1en or SEC conference standings as well as up-to-the-minute scores
  • UW Athletics -- Official page of the Badgers.
  • Push The Rock -- Modern, Urban.
  • Total College Sports Network -- A general sports news page.
  • NandO SportServer including their section on college basketball
  • USA Today Sports
  • Sportsline
  • The Sports Network
  • CNN's Sports News including hoops news
  • Sagarin Power Rankings Never that far from the truth
  • Golf Tips
  • GolfServ -- complete with a handicap tracker. (What you don't know can't hurt you)
  • Golf.com Pretty complete links to the entire golf world.
  • NJ Golf Net -- includes a message board for discussing NJ Golf. A little odd.
  • JerseyGolf -- Includes a map and reviews of
  • Golf Tips Magazine -- Little tips to make you feel like you are doing something about your game.
  • Golf Digest Home Page
  • Golf Courses of The United States / World Golf
  • Handicap Section -- Good 'Ole Section 18
  • Course Guide -- Offer your own reviews. Includes a proximity search.
  • Golf Course Guide -- Golf Magazines reviews
  • Tara Greens
  • Middlesex County -- Golf, as hosted by the County Improvement Authority.
  • Somerset County

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    TV and Radio

  • TCM - Old school.
  • THIRTEEN -- WNET, America's premier public television channel.
  • TV.com -- Ever since the the Times dropped its weekly TV magazine, online TV listing have become more important to me.
  • Yahoo! TV -- Another listing (sometimes a little too fancy).
  • Sesame Street -- 25 favorite moments.
  • WLIW 21 -- One of metro New York's top 3 or 4 public television stations.
  • NJN -- The New Jersey Network, New Jersey's own public broadcasting empire.
  • Jump The Shark -- For me, it was when Jon Baker left CHiPs.
  • CBS 2 NYC Our local CBS (Can't Broadcast Sports) affiliate
  • NYC's ABC7 Our local ABC affiliate
  • NYC's NBC 4 Our local NBC affiliate
  • Wisconsin Public Radio Where Madison broadcasts to the world, including a link to Whad'ya know?  
     
     
     
       

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    Odd or Random

  • Improv Everywhere -- They cause scenes.
  • McSweeney's -- Internet Tendancy
  • Utter Wonder -- The idle thoughts of C. Monks
  • 9 - Yahoo!s daily video feed. A little on the thin side, but someone is going to top this with a killer.
  • The Smoking Gun -- A site built on public records laws.
  • Dictionaraoke -- It's like your computer is serenading you.
  • Reincarnated Revolutionaries? -- Did you know that Henry Clay has come back as John McCain? Weep no more my lady.
  • American Memory from the Library of Congress. Watch really old movies and find old photos of your hometown.
  • Dead Politicians -- a site about the only good politicians and where the are buried.
  • Where's George? -- Follow a dollar bill as it travels across state lines.
  • Great Signs -- Photos of particularly notable signs.
  • Book Crossing -- Follow your used book as other readers enjoy it.
  • ConWebWatch -- Watching the web sites of various news sources.
  • College Nicknames -- Can you believe that there are only three schools in the country called the Badgers? And 2 Scarlet Knights?
  • Joe Cartoon -- Animated funnies.
  • Zombocom -- anything is posible at ZomboCom...
  • Vote Smart

    • The web counter is dead! Long live the web counter.

    Great design and designed sites in landscape arhcitecture hosted by Rutgers