DJ's Really Best Bookmarks

Don't you hate trying to decide whether you should click on a link or not? Will it be useful or useless? Will it be fun or serious. Well, I hope these descriptions help a little. I can't guarantee you won't hate where you wind up but at least you'll have had some clue before you pushed the button.

Yahoo - Best Guide to WWW
Just in case you haven't heard of the biggest list of links on the Web, here it is. But you won't find any neat commentary like you do here.

NYU

DJ's Dungeon This is the most boring page I have. It's where I hide when I'm working on a Web project. Take my word for it; skip this one and save the bandwidth for something really fun.

NYU Medical Center, Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine Once I finish a project down in the dungeon, it comes up here for the world to see. As my pal David says, it's pretty dry stuff. But if you're interested in environmental medicine research or just want to see one teeny bit of what I do, here it is.

DJ's User Info Pages This was one project I really enjoyed doing. No rules, no deadlines, no one to please but me. I've started other instructional pieces dozens of times, but always abandoned them because of the logistics of distributing updates in printed form. You see, I'm totally intimidated by copiers and they know it, but this project lets me avoid them!

Take that Xerox, Canon, and all you others! For years, I begged you to be nice to me. I brought you toner, I fanned your paper, I cleaned your glass, but, no, that wasn't good enough for you. You just wrinkled my originals and smeared my copies. Well, you won't find me kneeling and groveling at your doors any more. Get someone else to twirl your dirty knobs and wheels!

Now I just edit a file, send folks an e-note that it's been changed, and the job is done. The content of the pages is pretty simple and I tried to make them pleasant to look at, and yet I did manage to sneak in an occasional how or why.

NYU-Main Here's the Main Web Server at NYU. Everything you ever wanted to know about NYU and links to all our Information Servers.

NYU Medical Center Home Page This is NYU Medical Center's main Web Server. This one is growing by leaps and bounds and will eventually include every medical department at NYU Medical Center. There are searchable databases and lots of cool information if Medicine is your bent. They've recently given their home page a serious face lift. Check it out.

NYU Hippocrates Home Page And here's the Hippocrates Project at NYU. Includes lots of Medical Humanities and Medical Teaching information.

NYUs Famous Original Labcam One of the first cameras on the Internet. You really can catch people doing stuff during the day. Too bad they'll be moving it to Lehigh University soon, but we wish them well.

NYU Center for Digital Multimedia Currently broken, but fun when it's working so I'll leave it and see if they get their links figured out.

Ehrman Medical Library HomePage I don't have to tell you that this link has everything Library, except the paste.

Access to NYU-MC via PPP These instructions are meant to help the NYU community get connected from home or the dorms. They're pretty good instructions and you might just find a tip or two even if you aren't trying to connect to NYU-Net..

John Hill on: Surfing-for-Biologists This one stays in for two reasons: John (Dr. Hill) is a really neat guy! And, if you substitute any other topic that you might be searching for, there's a lot of information on how to go about finding it on the Internet. There's also a bit of internet history and a sprinkle of John's wonderful humor.

NYU-Map.html
Feeling lost? Have lots of bandwidth and the patience to wait for a big map to load? Maybe this will help.

Faculty Home Pages Who's Who at NYU Medical Center. And it's searchable too.

About NYU I can't believe you're still in this section. Why not scoot down to Neat Stuff and have some fun for a change. This is just more of that everything you'd ever want to know stuff, and probably some you'd rather not be bothered with. Go! Play!

Research

1990 Census Lookup (1.3.0b) An absolute must if you want to know who lives where and how they live there. And it's all done by picking from lists and pushing buttons!

UMass Astronomy Home Document This site is nifty. You can find out all the usual college information, of course, but they also have a catalog where you can look up your favorite star (the heavenly body in the night sky type, not the heavenly body in Hollywood type), read a Ph.D. thesis on line, or check out their Projects to see some of the most beautiful cosmic images I've ever seen on-line.

Characters and symbols available as transparent GIFs If you're creating technical pages, these are the neatest gifs. They make it possible for you to include real Greek characters like 's and 's plus numerous mathematical and astrological symbols right in your text.

Carnegie Mellon University The standard stuff you'd expect to find at a major university. But a very nicely laid out site.

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Do some research on a pet project or just wander around and see what this major government agency does. When you're done, could you come back here and explain their logo to me?

NIH Home Page Another major government medical research area. See if you can find the Federal Webmaster Workshop. Then see if you can figure it out.

Government:Research Labs Here are pointers to the web pages of all the government research laboratories that Yahoo knows about. I wonder what they'd invent if you put all those scientists in one room?

Community of Science Web Server If you're looking for researcher based in the U.S. or Canada, this is the place to begin your search. There are over 40,000 people, 5,000 inventions, and 2,000 facilities listed. And if you're a researcher who isn't listed but think you ought to be, you can add yourself to their database.

Health:Environmental Health I know. These are getting boring aren't they. But I do work for an environmental research laboratory so I have to keep a few of these around for appearances sake.

Health:Environmental Health:Institutes Last one. I promise. I just got to keep this one. It points to my pages.

NIH GUIDE INDEX

Federal Information Exchange, Inc. Home Page Pretty much what it sounds like. Pointers to pages with lots of federal information. Some good. Some eh.

Univ of Rochester Environmental Medicine Dept. Don't panic. These guys really are different. Check out their Center for Space Environmental Health. It's out of this world. <groan> I know, I know. I should be ashamed of myself.

Environmental Protection Agency WWW Server. More of our tax dollars hard at work. And their logo even makes sense.

EPA CSO Query. Might as well call this one just the way they do: It's an EPA People Locator. Wasn't that a song in the 60's? No, those where purple people eaters.

Neat Places

David's Amazing Internet Services This, of course, is the David who made me do this personal stuff. That's one reason he's at the top of the Neat Stuff category. That and the fact that he does have a really neat site. He's an internet service provider in California, the keeper of the Internet Access Provider FAQ, an excellent programmer, the fastest typist I know, and can generate text at a rate not to be believed. You'll find wit, intelligence, information, and just plain fun at this site. Be sure to stop off at his Electronic Mansion.

David's Wonderful Web Women David's appreciation of women for their minds and talents is one of his most endearing qualities. If you're a woman on the web, as I am, and you'd like to see what some of your peers are up to, this is the page to start from. Hey, I may even make his list someday. I wonder how many more pages I have to finish before he'll let me on?

Subway Navigator / Indicateur des metros This is so fun! Wend your way in the subway systems of nearly every major city in the world. Feeling continental? Take the subway tours in French. For the faint of heart, or weak of tongue, there's an Engish version too.

NYC Subway Route Selector
If you're sitting at your laptop in a subway station in New York City and you're using your personal satellite uplink to access the Internet to figure out how to get from Wall Street to the Bronx Zoo, you have a serious problem. Take a cab, for God's sake! You can afford it! If you're just looking for a little fun, go ahead and play.

Quotes Here are half a dozen funny quotes from some incredibly important computer people regarding where they thought the computer world was headed at the time they spouted these gems. It's only one page, but it's a real kick!

Find the SECRET Message! Some might say this link belongs in the HTML section, but once you peek at it, you'll know why it will NEVER be in my HTML section!

A Goofy Movie No, I don't mean a silly movie, I mean "the" movie starring Goofy. You know who I mean; that ditsy Disney dog. Were you aware this cartoon character not only has his own Web page, but you can download his movie clips, listen to his music video, and find out why people relate to him. Whatever will they think of next?

50 years of Band-Aid BandAid Boxes in the Garage! That's what they'll think of next. If you just can't wait to see the fronts and, yes, the backs, of BandAid tins from the last 50 years, then this is the place for you. A friendly word of warning: The page takes forever to load and it's brought to you by the same guy who lets you re-arrange his refrigerator magnets. (Just thought you ought to know.)

O'Reilly Home Page This is the home of the publisher of those computer books known, not by their names, but by the animals pictured on their covers. You can order books or just look at the covers. The Camel and Llama are my personal favorites.

Virtual Tourist World Map Here's a different approach to net surfing. First pick where you want to start on a map of the world. Click and that gets you another map, and just keep doing that until you get where you're going. Don't know where you're going? That's OK. If you get lost, just look for a subway.

Hershey's Chocolate Gift Items Yum! Chocolate! You can even order a personalized chocolate computer! Darn, it's a PC.

Charm Net Home Page These folks have pointers to everything from Origami to an on-line priest in his confessional booth. Just be careful what you confess to. They aren't running Netscape's secure server yet.

Charm Net Learning This is a subset of Charm Net that has links to all kinds of Web and Internet How To's and FAQs. I keep this as a separate listing so I can get help in a hurry.

The Lighthouse Weather Server If looking out the window isn't telling you everything you want to know about the weather, look here. But I'm betting your window has a better view of reality.

Web Wide World of Music This one is only here because I was looking for the name of someone who recorded a song about 10 years ago. I never did find that singer's name, but I kept this link for two reasons: They seem to know where all the other music sites are, and someday I'm going to write to them and ask them why their name is backwards.

Cool Site of the Day Clicking here is sometimes like those Ripley's Believe It or Not sections of the Sunday newspapers. Or was it Truth is Stranger Than Fiction? Whichever! You get my drift.

Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar Quotations I own a paper copy of this book but this searchable electronic version is almost like playing a computer game. What I'd really like is a job writing these things. I wonder how much they got paid for the likes of this one? "Many small make a great."

The 37 Page Everything you ever wanted to know about 37. I just want to know why there aren't 37.

VirtuMall -- Shopping in the 21st Century Well... Like most malls, they have lots of stores. And lots of the stores have cute names. But there's no noise, no screaming kids, no funky-dressed teenagers, no nauseating smells from the food court (you know, that place you go to court culinary disaster), no sales people, no lines. Hmmm... Maybe this place isn't so bad after all? Nah! I can't pick on the guys in the PC department at the Wiz. I'll stick to the real thing, thanks.

Trojan Room Coffee Machine This site may actually have been the first live camera on the Web but I keep hoping that someday I'll see something besides the same old quarter of a pot of coffee. Wait a minute, I know what the problem is. This coffee pot is at Cambridge. Don't they drink tea?

Le Grand Louvre This site is one of my favorites. If there's any museum in the world that I'd love to visit, it's the Louvre. I sneak back here late at night when speeds are up to read about the masters and look at paintings I'll probably never see in person.

WebMuseum: The WebMuseum network This link used to take you to the Louvre museum but now it just points you at a bunch of mirror sites. Somehow, it's just not the same knowing that DaVinci's painting is coming from North Carolina instead of Paris. But there are lots of Museums to choose from.

The Amazing Fish Cam! See how the fishies at Netscape are faring. Have they moved to a bigger tank now that their owners are rich?

The Multimedia Newsstand If you just can't find the magazine you want in those envelopes Ed McMahon sends you, you could always try here.

Publish Your Own Cyber Newspaper with Crayon If you find you're the type who has no time for all this surfing on the web, maybe you should just use the Crayon to make your own newspaper. They let you pick all your favorite places and then they put together a web page and send it to you, suitable for saving. Can't figure out what the heck I'm talking about? Don't feel bad. I had to try it myself to figure out what they were talking about. Here, maybe this will help. Here's the newspaper I made. I called it DJ's Journal". See, that's what they sent me. Now I can check all those links any time I want to. Still don't understand? Well, you go try it and see if you can explain it any better.

Kids on Campus This site is mostly a list of educational links, but those links are a goldmine of information for kids, their parents, their teachers and especially for people like me who think learning new stuff is just the most fun I can have. I've never been to this site that I didn't come back with some new tidbit.

What? Oh, you thought I was going to leave without telling you one? Oh, alright. Here, did you know this one? "On cloud nine means happy, euphoric or `high'. The phrase came into use in the 1950s from a term used by the US Weather Bureau. For the meteorologists Cloud Nine is cumulo-nimbus cloud at a height of 10 km, which is high even by the standard of clouds."

Macmillan USA Information SuperLibrary (tm) If you're into buying books on-line, here's one place to do it from. I'm sort of fond of wandering my local B. Dalton's and actually touching the books before I buy them, but that's me. And you'll notice I did keep the link, just in case.

THE NEW YORK WEB Main Menu Just some more Big Apple sauce.

ALOHA TONY'S (West Maui) This guy is great fun. He left Alaska to warm up and write. Now he rents rooms in his house on the beach in West Maui. Tony sounds like he'd be a wonderful host.

Joe's Jungle Joe's at Delaware Tech and so is my brother John. This one's for John so he can feel at home on the net when he comes to net surf. He has to come and visit me to net surf because they make him use a PC and he's never been able to figure out how to connect from his house. Maybe when he graduates he can buy a Mac.

MATHMOL Mathematics and Molecules Another fine product from the folks at NYU's Academic Computing Facility. I love this place. I don't care if parts of it do make me feel stupid. It's fun.

Welcome to the Virtual Garden
This site has everything, and I do mean everything you ever wanted to know about plants. Need to know how to grow something indoors or out? They have the greatest searchable databases you're likely to find anywhere. Dust off your latin and go searching the Time Life Gardening Library for venus fly trap. I never did find it but I sure did see some pretty pictures, and this site's surprisingly quick.

Web of Wonder This used to be such a neat site. I can't believe they replaced it with links to Soap Opera info. I guess that really does make it a wonder.

Paperless Guide to NYC I liked this site better before they installed their monster How/Wow/Now image map. But there is a bunch of information on Manhattan if you're interested in the Big Apple.

AT&T 800 Directory on the Internet Here's a neat searchable index to AT&T's 800 numbers. It's so much simpler than calling 1-800-555-1212 and you can ask for as many numbers as you want.

David's Web World Magazine I keep this site around because of the pretty pictures on his home page and the eskimo in the site name. It's a long story... You had to be there.

vivid studios The lower case is theirs. The site is their commercial. But if you want to know what the elite in MultiMedia are up to, these guys will tell you that they're the elite and what they're up to.

WebMuseum: Glossary of Painting styles Can't remember the difference between Realism and Surrealism? Here's all the styles complete with examples. Probably won't help you remember the difference any more than it did me, but there are some neat paintings to look at.

Net Stuff

About the Internet This is Netscape's page that points you to everything technical about the Internet. Yeah, it's boring. But I never said these links were all fun.

Glossary of Internet Terms This is an excellent list of definitions for a lot of the Internet-related terms we keep hearing. The alphabet soup has been alphabetized and cross-referenced by the Internet Literacy Consultants. This list is free but they offer bunches of other services for a fee.

Directory of /netscape/unix Need a copy of Netscape for your Unix system? Here they are.

Solaris 2.x FAQ Ah, Solaris! The Un Operating System from the sUN corporation. I keep waiting for my question to make it to the list: WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME? Sorry, I didn't mean to shout, but Solaris does make me a bit crazy. I want my BSD!

InterNIC Directory Services You're supposed to be able to look up people from this site, but since I've never been able to find myself (without cheating and using my whole address), I can't say that I have much faith in it.

SIGArch Projects I have absolutely no idea what's going on here, but it does look impressive!

www.ieee.org Technical stuff with a capital T.

Adobe Systems Incorporated Home Page The home of Adobe Software and the place to go to pick up your free copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Welcome to Sun Microsystems A huge image map and no prices but if you look really hard you can find some tables with comparisons of all their systems. SGI they ain't, but then who is?

Directory of /pub/GNU/sparc-sun-solaris2 Here's the GNU gcc compiler for Solaris. And up one directory from here is the entire GNU complement of software just waiting to be downloaded. These guys are wonderful.

The Icon Browser Over 7,000 images and a search tool to prove to you that no one has the icon you're looking for.

NCSA Mosaic

NCSA Mosaic Demo Document A fond reminder of the good old days. I remember, gee it must be a year ago, coming here and being so impressed. Now it hasn't been updated since April 27, 1995.

Starting Points for Internet Exploration Boy do I miss the excitement this page used to hold. Come on guys. Lighten up! This is supposed to be fun.

Perl, CGI, Forms, Maps

Boring! These comments will just have to wait. There's really important stuff here but I'm having too much fun to visit each one right now and that's the only way I can give them each their proper due. Later, I promise.

Directory of /pub/perl/scripts

Directory of /pub/perl/ora

UF/NA Perl Archive

Clickable Image Maps

A CGI Programmer's Reference

PERL FAQ

CGI.pm - a Perl5 CGI Library

CGI/1.1 script support of the CERN Server

CGI/1.1 script support of the CERN Server

The CGI FAQ: General Questions

ftp://ftp.icnet.uk/icrf-public/biu/perlmods/modules.list

PERL FAQ

Welcome to NEXOR's Public Services

The Perl Programming Language

CGI Form Handling in Perl

perlWWW

Virtual Library/CyberWeb: CGI

HTML Stuff

Test your .mailcap file on a number of WWW media Some day, I'm going to come here and get all the bugs out of my .mailcap file.

A demo of background color (and cookie) Working on a web page and need a hexidecimal color number for your background? Here's the place to find it, unless you're actually enjoying inventing them at random. Achille Hue has made it so simple to pick your background color and then make sure you have selected properly readable colors for your text and links that you really should check this out.

Pick a background texture This is another of Achille Hue's pages. If you want a quick and simple way to pick a background texture for that Web page you've been working on and then make sure the text will be readable, this one will be a big help.

Make your own banner Another of what Achille calls a "hack". This one lets you first create and then download a banner of 20 characters or less in one of the prettiest fonts I've seen. This one is quick and a must try.

Achilles Image Archive And one last contribution from Achille. His library of icons. These are the ones he created. Elsewhere at his site are pointers to other icon archives. And remember, please don't in-line his images. Make a copy of them on your own disk so he doesn't have to be rude to you.

Object Header lines in HTTP I'm not really sure why I saved this link but it's got Mime stuff in it and my Mime stuff is definitely messed up so I guess I'd better keep it. If someone has nothing to do and would like to explain Mime to me or point me at a site with "Mime for Idiots" it sure would be appreciated. Hmmm. This page does say, "Any header fields which are not understood should be ignored." I wonder if this means I can forget about Mime? I definitely don't understand any of it?

Graphical Information Map Tutorial I should probably delete this one so as not to encourage people to use these image maps that take forever to download. But you'd just find out about 'em somewhere else.

HTML Form-Testing Home Page Huh? I know I'm dense. I admit it. But I don't get this test. But this page does have a pointer to the home page of every Web browser I've ever heard of.

Mosaic for X version 2.0 Fill-Out Form Support NCSA's instructions for creating fill-out forms for your web pages. It might be boring unless you're right in the middle of creating a form and need help in a hurry.

WWW Developer Resources Jon Wiederspan at the University of Washington has written his own pages to help people create good looking web pages. In addition, he's compiled such an incredible list of links to information on the topic that I should probably just delete this whole section and point you at him. But I won't!

Virtual Library: WWW Development This fellow, Alan Richmond, has been very busy. There is so much web page development information here that it will take you forever to check it all out. Be sure to at least click on the links for "Graphics" and "Images and Icons" for a goldmine of goodies to add to your pages.

Virtual Library/CyberWeb: MIME
Another of the links in Alan's Virutal Library. This may just hold the cure for my Mime problems. I really must remember to do something about that someday. Make that some other day!

W3Kit 2.2, An Toolkit for Interactive WWW Applications I'm having enough trouble creating static web pages and now they want me to create interactive ones. Sure. Right after I fix Mime!

Searchable Web Directories These are the links you'll need if you want to create searchable indexes for use with the Glimpse search engine. The links to Glimpse are here as well.

CERN HTTPD Server Since I'm running the CERN HTTP Daemon on this SPARCstation10, this is my critical link to the software and documentation.

HyperText Markup Language Specification 3.0 All kinds of neato info on HTML 3.0. Pretty bad, huh? But the info really is neat.

Cornell Theory Center Htmlizers Home Page Lots of pointers from the most basic to advanced for getting your words into HTML format. Some don't show up any where else on this list so check these out if you still haven't found what you're looking for.

World Wide Web Robots, Wanderers, and Spiders Here's everything you ever wanted to know about those computer programs that manage to find out what we all have in our web pages. It explains how they work and how to stop them if they're hogging your CPU.

Matterform Media This artistic fellow, Michael Herrick, is a Web designer and the creator of those cute little thingies called QBullets that I use in my day job pages. They're very handy for letting people know that the next link will start a download or take them to another site. They were especially useful in my User Info Pages. Thanks again, Michael!

Downloadable Software from Adobe Here's the place to download your very own free copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader. This is the tool you need to read those files you find on the web that end in .pdf.

Web Sites with Cool PDF And now that you have the Acrobat Reader, here are some PDF files to use it on.

Web Communications HTML Guide: Quick Access Menu Another of those comprehensive guides to preparing Web Documents from Web Communications, an Internet Access Provider, in Santa Cruz, Ca.

A Guide to the U.S. Congress The opening page at this site is full of mixed messages. Sunny sky, white puffy clouds over the capital dome, with lightening obviously added by a human artist.The first link offers to tell us what's new, and the second link is a disclaimer. Hmmm... Sure sounds like Washington to me.

PC Stuff

What's New with the IBM Personal Computers WWW

IBM pcweb central

Personal Computers and the WWW

The "I Hate Windoze..." Web Page

Finance

NETworth Login Request Access The NETworth Mutual Fund Market Manager. This one's my favorite since I happen to have mutual funds through my SRA plan at work. You'll need to sign up to use this service from Galt Technologies, but it's quick, painless, and free. Once you do that you can login and create your own portfolio or search for any NASDAQ mutual fund symbol, fund groups, or individual fund name and see exactly how they've been performing. The data is much more thorough than any you can find in your local paper and there are neat graphs showing each fund's net asset value (NAV) for the past 30 days and the past year. The data is all updated daily and very professionally presented. Be sure to check out the NETworth home page. They have many more resources besides mutual funds. It's an excellent place to study the world of finance or find the information you need for that homework assignment.

Security APL - S&P 500 Index This one offers free stock quotes and lots of neat graphs of the Standard and Poors Index. A good site if the Stock Market is your playground or for help with your homework in that Economics class.

The NYU EDGAR Project Home Page All kinds of Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) information.

Fidelity Magellan Zacks Industry Tracking This is a subset of the NYU Edgar Project. As they say at the top of this page, "These reports allow the user to choose a Zacks Industrial sector and track movement through all the quarterly filings. We are constantly expanding the funds that we track here." I had to quote them because I haven't a clue what they're talking about.

Zacks on the Internet Another Edgar Project subset

Companies Profiles Whatever this stuff is, it's big. The file is 45K and they say it will get bigger. But if you're looking for a company's financial statement, you can start here.