Dave's Considerable Hotlist

Good Places to Waste Time

The Used Software Exchange: This is a nice place to buy and sell software (mostly games) with other folks on the net. It's not very popular, but it's set up very well.

The Kevin Bacon Game: My friend Jessica is a master at this movie trivia type game. Anyone can play, you don't need any game pieces or money, but it does help to know that Kevin Bacon was in Flatliners.

EastEnders: Okay, I used to watch Melrose, but I left it for Eastenders. EastEnders is another soap that is a bit more cerebral. In Colorado, we get episodes about 6 years after they're aired in Britain. For example, Grant just found out that Phil had a fling with Sharon. My favourite characters are Carol, Mark, and Natalie.

The Cool Site of the Day Collection: Now here's a place that everyone should know about. These are the most excellent places to visit on the Web. George Zimmer guarantees that you will find a favorite link here. You can also see how sophisticated things have gotten since the Web's beginning. Definitely check this one out!

Spatula City: This site is an obscure reference to one of my favorite funny movies, UHF. I forget how I came across this site, but it's pretty funny.

Zarf's List of Games on the Web: Here is a collection of some interactive games across the Web. These games range from simple "Concentration"-type games to trivia contests.

UK Student Home Pages: This is one of my favorite places to explore - the student unions of many UK universities have contributed to this spot, which is a central Web site for many home pages of UK students.

United States Public Libraries: A bunch of public libraries are telnettable, and this a fairly comprehensive list of all of them. These aren't e-books, mind you, just library card catalogs; pretty handy nonetheless.

Centre for the Easily Amused: Yes, life's too short to take seriously, and Cathie and Brian work hard at frivolity. They have put together one of the most complete bunch of sites that are dedicated to those of us with better things to do, but find ourselves being wisked away by the Web.

Places to Help with Home Page Construction Efforts

Circles, Spheres, and Balls: This site contains some of the graphics for delimiting paragraphs and whatever else you use circles for.

Thalia: Tips & Trics for WWW-providers: Thalia has many helpful sites linked, plus some their own scripts and graphics

Carlos' FORMS Tutorial: This is an excellent tutorial to introduce forms. Carlos teaches step-by-step, and carefully explains how to write your own forms.

Dave's Graphics: For what it's worth, here's all the graphics that I have throughout my pages. There are also some Eek! the Cat pictures there. Help yourself!

Searching across the Web

Lycos Search: To do anything serious on the Web, you'll need to search. Lycos is one of the biggest archives and easiest way I've found. It used to be located in Carnegie Mellon Univerisity, but I think it's gone corporate now.

Yahoo: This is a much friendlier and less busy site to search for things. It's definitely not extensive as Lycos, but the "important" stuff is here. Happily, it's organized by topic, too.

Some Interesting Stuff to Read

Jack Handy's Deep Thoughts: Straight from Saturday Night Live, here's one of the most extensive collections of bizarreness.

Paul is Dead: Okay, I know it's a little grim, but I think that the "Paul McCartney is Dead?" scare of the late 60's (before I was born, mind you) is an intriguing blip in American and British history. If you're not familiar with the circumstances and you know some Beatles' songs, read on..

Dictionary/Thesaurus Tools: Say you're writing your dissertation late at night and you need a synonym for "bothersome". You don't want to drudge back home, use your little desk version, and drudge back to school. What are you going to do? Try the Online Dictionary/Thesaurus brought to you by the good folks at NWU.

Moving to UK from US FAQ: I'm seriously thinking about working in the UK after I finish grad school. I found this FAQ on the Web that may be helpful to other similar-minded folks. It's intended for Americans and perhaps Canadians who are curious about the cultural differences between each side of the Atlantic pond. The only other helpful resource for moving from one country to another is the Relocation Journal, which has brief articles and tips for moving to foreign countries. Anyway, here's the canonical list of words that could be confusing in the UK and US

More to come as I have time to type more in.

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