News sources

• MPLS Snow Emergency Information (www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/snow/snow-emergency/parking-info.asp).
• St Paul Snow Emergency Information (www.stpaul.gov/depts/publicworks/snowplow.html).
• Weather (www.weather.com) (Ames, IA).
• Space.com (www.space.com).
• Spaceflight now (www.spaceflightnow.com).
• The Onion (www.theonion.com).
• Dot Com Scoop (www.dotcomscoop.com).
• The Inquirer (www.theinquirer.net).
• NYTimes (www.nytimes.com).
• Forbes (www.forbes.com).
• Time (www.time.com)
• CNN (www.cnn.com).
• MSNBC (www.msnbc.com/news).
• Minneapolis Star Tribune (www.startribune.com). Traffic (traffic.startribune.com/stonline/traffic).
• BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)
• NASDAQ (www.nasdaq.com).
• The Economist (www.economist.com).
• CounterPunch (www.counterpunch.org).
• The DemocraticUnderground (www.democraticunderground.com).
• WSJ (public.wsj.com) Pay.
• Electronics
• EETimes (www.eetimes.com).

• Constitution (www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.text.html).
• Bill of rights (www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html).
• Liberalism Resurgent: A responce to the right (www.huppi.com/kangaroo/tenets.htm) from Steve Kangas' (www.huppi.com/kangaroo).

• AVweb (avweb.com).

• Stone Dragon Press (www.stonedragonpress.com).

• The Menstrual Tramps (www.menstrualtramps.com).
• The Suburbs (tt.net/twintone/suburbs.html).
• The Flash Girls (www.player.org/pub/flash/flash.html).

• National Weather Service (http://weather.gov).
• MN (iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/mn/mn.html).

• National Wind Technology Center (www.nrel.gov/wind)
• Enron Wind turbins (www.wind.enron.com).
• State energy use at a glance (www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/states/_states.html) Energy use data.
• Energy.gov (energy.gov/dataandprices/index.html)  Energy use data.
• Wind Energy Projects (www.awea.org/projects/index.html).
• Wind Turbine Sites (www.windustry.com/sites/default.htm).

• Slacking off to get work done faster (arXiv.org/format/astro-ph/9912202), or why Moores Law is your friend for highly time intensive calculations.
• National Severe Stormes Lab (NSSL) photo album (www.photolib.noaa.gov/lb_images/nssl/index.html).  There are a lot of interesting photos here in high resolutions.  Many make good backgrounds.
• NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program (www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp).
• NASA Propulsion Research Center (www1.msfc.nasa.gov/STD/propulsion/index1.html).
• Synergistic Technologies is working on antimatter containment and related research. (www.synergistictech.com).  Especially for space transportation, but also looks like they have a contract for weapos research.
• JPL (www.jpl.nasa.gov).
• Physics information
• Electricity and Maganatism (hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/emcon.html#emcon).

• Ars Technica (www.arstechnica.com).
• Root Prompt (rootprompt.org).
• Internet Archive (www.archive.org).  Movies, old sites, etc.

• Pixel (www.planetinternet.be/pixel/), a very tiny RC helecopter.
• Pulse jet engines (www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet).  Home pulse jet engine development and construction.

• lavarand.sgi.com - Lavarand, a random number generator based on lava lamps.
• Toyota Hybrid Car - A 70mpg hybrid gas / electric car.
• NASA's high speed planes. "On the Frontier" (www.dfrc.nasa.gov/History/Publications/SP-4303/toc.html).
• OpenDVD (www.opendvd.org).  DVD for Linux and other OSes.
• Wireless Radio Towers Locator (www.berkana.com/tower.html).
• EROS, Extremely Reliable Operating System (www.eros-os.org).
• Mike's Electric Stuf (www.netcomuk.co.uk/~wwl/electric.html).  Lots of fun neon and antique computer stuf.

• Sherline Milling machines and lathes (www.sherline.com).
• TechFest, electronic tec info (www.techfest.com).
• Color Case (www.colorcase.com).  Tired of boring PC cases, these are the people for you.
• MetalMart (www.metalmart.com/index.html ).  Has a Twin Cities warehouse.
• Mammoet ( http://www.mammoet.com/ ) heavy lifting and hauling.

• Multitics (www.multicians.org).  Predecessor to UNIX, Minix and Linux and a host of other similar OSes.

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (www.csn.ul.ie/~chopper/zen).

• Color Cube for Browsers (wdvl.com/Authoring/Graphics/Colour/666.html).

• PeaceFire (www.peacefire.org).  Working against blocking software.

• Nomen (sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=2274 ).  A new language in development.  It is being worked on by a bunch of friends.  Part of the reason for this new language is in reaction to Java being so tightly controled by SUN.  Part of it is also to fix some of the faults that Java has in both it's design and implementation.  Nomen uses a Just In Time (JIT) compiler rather than a virtual machine, and all libraries are to be be natively implemented.  There will be reference implementations for both the language and libraries.

• XSprite: (sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=2502).  A project to provide sprite type images like used in XFishTank and XRoach on the X-Windows root window, but using more modern coding techniques.

• The Keirsey Temperament Sorter II What personality type are you?
• Living in a Stepford Economy (www.business2.com/articles/1999/11/content/escape.html).  A better title might be Drag Coefficient.

• Independent Media Center.
• Iowa Weather (www.intellicast.com/LocalWeather/World/UnitedStates/NorthernPlains/Iowa/).
• OpenBSD Journal (www.deadly.org).

• Linux HOWTO Index (www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO).
• ZipSpeak (www.slackware.com/zipslack) plus (bumpy.braille.uwo.ca/speakup), Linux for the blind (ftp.braille.uwo.ca/pub/speakup/disks/slackware/zipspeak).

• OpenBSD Source (www.openbsd.org).
• OpenlySecurly (www.openlysecure.org/index.phtml).

• InterNIC (www.internic.net).

• Net Operating System survey (www.leb.net/hzo/ioscount/index.html).
• Web surver survey by Netcraft (www.netcraft.com/survey).
• Internet Domain Survey (www.isc.org/ds).

• Fun with names (www.kabalarians.com/gkh/your.htm)  On a quick fly through it only batted .300 on checking ten people I know. I always though many of my friends were fundamentally flawed.

• Where to find your local FBI office (www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm).
• IRS (www.irs.ustreas.gov).  Go here for all the US tax forms and booklets.
• MN IRS (www.taxes.state.mn.us/individ/forms/1999/individ.html).

• Karim Ramzi, photographer (www.karimramzi.com/index.htm).

• Cyli's artwork (www.visi.com/~cyli).
• War Posters (digital.lib.umn.edu/warposters/warpost.html).

• Shaya (serenitie.bored.org). Online gallery (www.in-progress.org/criticaleye/shac/gal1/gal1.html).
• Mina Blyly-Strauss's online gallery (www.in-progress.org/criticaleye/mb/gal1/gal1.html).

• Jenni Cam (www.jennicam.org).
• Corn CAM (www.iowafarmer.com/corncam/corn.html).

• Minneapolis Photo Tour (www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/index.html).

• General NanoSystems (www.nanosys1.com).
• Tran Micro (www.tranmicro.com).
• PC Adventures (www.pcadventures.com).
• Dexis (www.dexis.com).

• Aberdeen Inc (www.aberdeeninc.com).
• PC Power & Cooling (www.pcpowercooling.com).
• The Chip Merchant (www.thechipmerchant.com).
• Treasure Chest Computer (www.tccomputers.com).

• InterNIC (www.internic.net).
• List of Registrars (www.internic.net/alpha.html).
• Network Solutions (www.networksolutions.com).
• Dotster (www.dotster.com/home).  Sure they have low prices, but if you need to change your info it's $25 per change per domain. OUCH!!!

• Unitarian Universalist Association (www.uua.org).
• Church of Satan (www.churchofsatan.com).

• Embeeded Systems, Inc. (www.embedsys.com).

• Conversion Factors (www.wsdot.wa.gov/Metrics/factors.htm).

• The really good moral (www.visi.com/~rparker/Moral.htm) for The Story of Nadine (www.visi.com/~rparker/default.htm).  If you ever want to send out SPAM, this is a must read.

• (www.pgcps.org/~hpoint/) Main page.
  
• (www.pgcps.pg.k12.md.us/~hpoint/library/alumni.html)  Alumni.