(Your Tax Dollars at Play)
". . .there is no lack of Web Pages that amount to no more than a set of pointers to things some person
supposedly thinks are spiffy-keen. . .While I do not deny that some sites deserve recognition and a few
extra pointers. . .Give it a rest. At least, don't put it in your personal page.I must also protest the use of the word Hot to describe given sites or collections of sites. Almost all of the pages out there qualify as Hot, save for a few that are strictly academic communication, and even a few of those are pretty hip."
-- A Well Known Web Curmudgeon.
I forget where I saw this, I think it was in YAHOO under Hardware.
"Since most Home Pages are a shameless exercise in personal vanity (mine especially so), it is rare that a Home Page is not benefited by a few convenient, or at least interesting escape routes. A persons links usually tell more about them--or at least more interesting things about them--than their resume. And they're called Hot Links cause I stole them from YAHOO. OK! Jeeze!"
--Bob
"I know a wiener man.
He owns a hotdog stand."
--Crow T. Robot
(Your Tax Dollars at Play)The White House Flame the Big guy, or get a picture of Socks.
The Central Intelligence Agency Real poop, from real spooks.
Declassified Satellite Photographs "Wow, what's this thing suddenly coming toward me very fast? Very very fast. . .so big and flat and wide it needs a big wide sounding word. . .like round. . .round. . .ground! That's it, ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?"
The Office of Senator Edward Kennedy If you need a ride to Martha's Vineyard over the weekend, don't call this man.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Billyuns and billyuns of dollars were spent getting this information, and it sure looks great as a desktop file.
The New South Polar Times All the news sent fortnightly from the bottom of the EarthWelcome to the Planets Star stuff from those cool froods at JPL.
Subway navigator For those alergic to sunlight, how to get around, underground.
ScienceWeb - The Great Canadian Hairy Star Party: Images The Comet came. The comet left. These people got some great pictures. With analysis by Josephine the Plumber.
The Hotel Portmeirion (a.k.a. "The Village" in TV's "The Prisoner") It's still there. Patrick McG didn't blow it up.
Fly Your Name on the Cassini Sattelite Sign up for Alien Abduction, a list of volunteers will be sent via CD-ROM on our next deep space probe.
The Universal Studios Cyberwalk Films, TV, discussion groups for Hercules, Zena, American Gothic, Sliders etc.Comedy Central's Totally Free Web Site No need to put coins in your disk drive. Ab Fab, MST3K, Politically Incorrect, etc.
Forever Knight Those wacky Canadian Vampires, with links back to the Sony Pictures MegaPage
Forever Knight An alternate site from the Sci-Fi Channel
The Dominion - Max Headroom The scariest sci-fi concept ever to come to TV The TV networks have taken over the planet and the only hope is an intrepid reporter and a computer generated geek. This site is now run by the Sci-Fi Channel
Red Green Home Page Sort of like Hee Haw meets Pee Wee's Playhouse. The sort of sophisticated humor the Canadians are well known for.
Babylon 5 (30 or more YAHOO links. It's impossible to pick just one site for this show, cause people just love talking about it. Forget those Trek Universe wimps, you know the future will only make our problems more interesting.Doctor Who Longest running Sci-Fi series of all time.
Episode Lists for Science Fiction Series Including British series even I haven't heard of.
The Goodies Rule -- OK! Homepage It's a fine line between brillant and stupid, and these Brits go straight down the middle of it. You haven't seen slapstick like this since the Three Stooges or maybe Fawlty Towers.
Hypernauts A Saturday morning show done by many of the clever devils from Babylon 5.
Gavin Suntop's: TICK HOMEPAGE! America's Dumbest Action Hero
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Assorted Links from Yahoo
Kipp Teague's "The Prisoner" Page For when you just have to get away. Be seeing you.
The Firesign Theatre They had a radio show at one time, went on to a series of succesfully weird albums in the radio play style.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy With links to the Douglas Adams Worship Page. (I swear I'm not making this up.)
ZBS Media State of the art Radio Plays. The Further Adventures of Jack Flanders, Ruby: Galactic Gumshoe, The Cabinet of Dr. Frits. All from the fertile mind of Meatball Fulton.
Jackie Chan's Official Home Page As Jackie puts it: "Just want to let you know I'm so happy to meet you here. Thru this home page, I have confidence that we will be communicate better than ever. It doesn't matter where you are now. Just let me know how you feel, and what you want to share with me."
Hong Kong movies homepage Jackie Chan, John Woo, and occasional references to some guy named Bruce, with contributions from our own Jim Reid-Cunningham
The Cannes Film Festival This years entry's with links to the directors, etc.
Hitchcock - The Master of Suspense Good evening.
The Internet Movie Data Base A great movie search engine, lots of stuff here.
The Widescreen Movie WWW Directory An excellent resource for finding TV and Video sources for Letterboxed movies with a link back to my article from Design Lines, and other great stuff.
CALYX - The Canterbury Web Page They tried to bury this music but they can't. Lots of English bands with a sound uniquely each others.
On-Line CD and Record Stores From YAHOO. Dozens of ways to spend your paycheck without leaving your desk.
Firefly 2.0 (Your Music Recommendation Agent) Formerly Helpful On-Line Music Recommendation Service, before that it was Ringo. Searchable index of Music that you can add to.
Compact Disc Europe The name says it all, reasonably priced CD's from Europe, and some outrageously priced ones from Japan.
The Enid's Home Page It's a rock band. It's a symphony orchestra. It's both, and about as bombastic as a rock band/orchestra can get.
Let's Focus on . . . Focus The unofficial Focus Home Page. Slim Whitman wasn't the only yodeler to get on the British charts.
The Rory Gallagher Homepage Used to be the best way to annoy traditional blues fans was to mention this guy. Now that he's dead at an early age I guess he has the right to sing the blues.
Gentle Giant Home Page Not about Whale Watching. One of the most inventive forces in 70's rock, now on the payroll of Bon Jovi
The history and mystery of Gong The most creative acid rock band of all time. This would be extremely silly if they didn't do it so darn well.
Official Grateful Dead Home Page Jerry's dead now, but grateful. Since this is the official site you can order their stuff on Grateful Dead Records including the Dick's Picks albums not sold in Storrs (or anywhere else in northeastern Connecticut.
Roy Harper Legendary British Folk Artist, who's still not dead yet.
Jethro Tull Music Archive Too old to Rock & Roll, but we got a Grammy for Best Heavy Metal Album
The Man Home Page at Room 101 The best San Francisco rock band in Wales. They didn't have a page to link to so I had to start one.
Mike Oldfield Tubular Guy, and the only serious musician I know who ever covered an Abba song
Astor Piazzolla Master of the bandoleon & tango in general.
Unofficial Klaus Schulze Web Page From his days as a Cosmic Courier and drummer for Tangerine Dream, and still going strong after 50 or more albums.
Steeleye Span Home Page English folk music, played really loud.
SYSTEM 7 (aka 777, in the US) Not an operating system. Steve Hillage and the Mrs. doing that Techno Ambient Space Guitar thang.
Tangerine Dream Home Page Forget about Kraftjerk. These are the real fathers of German Electronic Music, and soundtrack artists for some of the worst movies ever made.
Henry The Human Fly Caught In The Web The Richard Thompson Home Page
St. Alphonzo's Pancake Homepage Frank Zappa in all his glory. He didn't have to die to become a rock legend.
The Shakespearean Insult Page Get Flamed in Style
Fly With Us Pilot a MIG-29, with some ex-Russian Air Force folks
The Asylum The Light Bright Page and more.
Yep It's Barney's Page Includes the lyrics to all the songs, for all those preschoolers with Netscape.
Oh No! It's Barbie's Page She's just slightly more plastic, and older than Vanna White
Hillary's Hair Without a doubt one of the most popular sites on the Web.
The Nerdity Test Do you really want to know?
Welcome to ROOM 101 Some other poor devil who thought he had a really clever and original name for his home page, but NOOOOOOOOOOOO. . . Web Crawler has dozens of Room 101's listed, including a Country/Alternative Band who went and got the name copyrighted so the rest of us can be expected to hear from Matlock or some other Country/Alternative lawyer like that Hal Holbrook character who took over when Perry Mason went to Washington, which we all knew was a lie--Face it, Della! He's dead, deceased, lost his last appeal, pushing up the orchids on Fiji--but anyway this is the most interesting Room 101 I found, nice graphics, with the torture motif taken to appropriate excess.
Gatekeeper.dec.com Index to zillions of Windows 3 files available from this FTP site. And I used to think all you could get from FTP was flowers.
c|net resources - software central Keyword Searchable Index to a World of Downloadable Software Sites
Jumbo Shareware Repository It's Big.
The Free Software /Shareware Shack It's Free, unless you want a manual or any kind of functionality after 30 days.