Local Resources

General info about the University of Washington
UW Bookstore
UW Computer Science Dept Homepage
Seattle, the Emerald City Current traffic Airport status Bus schedules

Weird and Useful

BBC Online CBC Online CNN News New York Times Seattle Times
Universal file converter
- Ansible
- sff.net author info
- New England Science Fiction Assoc and the NESFA press
- Speculative Fantasy archives in Linköping
- Science Fiction Resource Guide (mirror site)
- sfsite.com, and the Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase
- Nebula and Hugo awards
- Tor Books online
- Locus online
- Strange Horizons webzine
- Agony Column book reviews and commentary
- The Well-Tempered Plot Device, an essay by Nick Lowe on the secret of writing really bad SF.
- COMP.BASILISK FAQ Nature 402 465 (1999) - A marvelous piece written by David Langford for Nature's "futures" series.
- Periodic Table of Science Fiction Michael Swanwick
- SF short stories on line.
- Look no further, lest you encounter the worst SF story ever written
  (furtively glancing in both directions along the information superhighway, a deceptively dingily dressed diminutive figure steps up to you and gruesomely whispers "Hey meester... wanna read The Eye of Argon"?)
InkSpot
Arts & Letters Daily
"How Thor Power Hammered Publishing" by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr
"The Sobering Saga of Myrtle the Manuscript"A Cautionary Tale by Tappan King
The "social text" affair, an infamous lampoon of post-modernism by Alan Sokal
Folk Music
- Lark in the Morning has musical instruments from everywhere and everywhen
- The Digital Tradition (folk song lyrics)
- The Hurdy-gurdy page
- The Hardanger Fiddle Association of America
- Skandia Folkdance Society
- Seattle Folklore Society
- Max Hunter Folksong Collection at SW Missouri State University
- Lesley Nelson's collection of folk music from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and America
Fencing pointers
- USFA home page | Western Washington
- index of suppliers (Brown University)
  - American Fencer's Supply | Leon Paul | Fencing Post |
Lego® pointers
- My illustrated report on a 1996 trip to Legoland in Denmark
- Legoland Windsor photos by Huw Millington
- Legoland Carlsbad photos by Tim & Shelly Rueger
- Official Lego® and DACTA web pages
- Legoland at Billund
- Escher's "Ascending and Descending" and "Belvedere" constructed from Lego by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu
- ancient Lego (Samsonite) brochures (I started my Lego career with a Set #725 "Town Plan":-)
- Lego fans: Paul Gyugyi | David Karr | Matt Bates | James Mathis (great trucks!) |
- Lego Patents (with drawings!)
  - Richard Goldfinder's page including patent search information
  - "Rogue Kzin"'s patent pointers
- Lego tiling backgrounds from Fibblesnork.com
- Lego cinema (minifig tableaux from Star Wars, The Matrix, Monty Python)
- Lego Hamlet Two things Denmark is best known for: Lego and Hamlet!
- Ray-Tracing Lego
- ozbricksAustralian on-line lego store that hosts many lego fan web pages
Wizards of the Coast now hosts an Oracle (Cloister) (Phyrexia)

Education

K-12 Education and Alternatives
- APP Parent Group Seattle Public School gifted education program
- Seattle Public Schools
- Washington State Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) tests
- Cleveland Heights School System
- Gifted and Talented (TAG) Resources Home Page
- EPGY (distance learning program from Stanford)
- APEX (distance learning AP courses)
- The Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway
- Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars at the University of Washington
Undergraduate Education
- Beyond Bio 101: The Transformation of Undergraduate Biology Education (HHMI)
Math & Science
- www.cut-the-knot.com: Math puzzles and amusements
- Science's blogs and news
Computers in Education
- SourceForge Open source software for schools

Computer Stuff

Open Source Licenses
GNU archives and UBC mirror
GhostScript web site
X Consortium (X Windows stuff) X applications FAQ
Association for Computing Machinery
GUI Programming with Python
Commentary

Tom Christiansen's manifesto Csh Programming Considered Harmful
Larry Wall's talk Camel Lot #6
tzsh release notes
Endian cuisine
Growing A Language
Eric Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar
1400 variants of beer on the wall
The secret technology behind Google's web-site ranking system
Why Unicode Won't Work on the Internet An essay by Norman Goundry on the complexity of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese character sets

Graphics

Bibliography of Computer Graphics
NUDES - formal language for describing ellipsoids
Animation
David and Jane Richardson (Duke University)

Linux

Distros: Debian | | Mandriva | OpenWrt | Redhat | Redhat (local mirror) | SuSE
Documentation: Linux HOWTO collection |
Scientific: SAL | Fortran on linux | g77 happy dynamic arrays | Portland Group Fortran Compiler |
LyX homepage | advocacy
Benchmarks: 533 MHz Alpha|
UW: Linux users group |
Other: Kernel Cousinslinux development tracking | sslwrap encryption layer | linux for kids |

Technicalities

Monitor Gamma An explanation and measurement of your monitor gamma
y_coding An introduction to information compression and decompression
How does JPEG work? A quick introduction and the comp.compression FAQ
Quaternions
Numerical Recipes in Fortran/C
Fortran 77 standard and a local Manual
Alexander Mai's collection of Standards and Docs
SVG standard (Scalable Vector Graphics)
Various Windows file formats (WMF, EMF, APM)

System Administration

Unix System Administration - A Survival Course
CERT internet security organization

Other Commercial Pointers

BIOSUPPLYNET directory of biotech research products and services
Pharmaceutical Companies
Hampton Research
Rigaku/Molecular Structure Corporation
MolSoft (ICM graphics/database package)
Online version of Fisher Scientific catalogue (with many pointers to other resources)
Paula Burch's collection of on-line biotech catalogues
You can now track a FedEx shipment via the web.

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