Thread: Useful Resource Sites

Greetings,
I'm not sure who the Moderator of this section is (assuming there is one..) but I think it would be a good idea to make a Sticky here listing some useful sites that often come in handy. Back at Sciforums we had one going and it was quite the compilation. Just a thought.

Bookmarklets

http://www.philburns.com/bookmarklets.html - Bookmarklets for Opera (IE/Mozilla, too)
http://www.bookmarklets.com/ - Info on bookmarklets & downloads too
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ - Web development bookmarklets
http://www.webreference.com/js/column35/ - how to create bookmarklets
http://subsimple.com/bookmarklets/default.asp - browser power/how to install

Anthropology & Archaeology

http://www.thehallofmaat.com/ -The Hall of Ma'at
http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html -Anthropology in the News
http://www.archaeology.org/"> -Archaeology Magazine
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/home.html -Current Anthropology
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/ -Human Nature Review
http://www.asdreams.org/journal/arti...edlock1991.htm -The New Anthropology of Dreaming. Tedlock (1991). ASD Journal Dreaming

Identification
http://www.beloit.edu/~museum/logan/...n/catindex.htm -Pottery Catalog Index
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fna.../contents.html -Digital Archive of American Architecture
http://ah.bfn.org/a/DCTNRY/vocab.html -Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
http://architecture.about.com/librar...nvestigate.htm -Preservation Brief - Understanding Old Buildings
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/5772/odds.htm -odds/ends
http://www.anthro.utah.edu/imacs.html -IMACS
http://www.virtual.parkland.edu/lste...s/arcguide.htm -An Archaeological Guide To Historic Artifacts of Central Illinois
http://www.jefpat.org/diagnostic/index.htm -Diagnostic Artifacts in Maryland
http://www.stmarys.ca/academic/arts/...s/contents.htm -Ceramics: Table of Contents
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mls4n/sites.html -Inscriptions of the Land of Israel-Related Links
http://www.openarchaeology.org/ -Open Archaeology

Resources
http://www.anthropologie.net/ -Anthropology Resources on the Internet
http://www.aaanet.org/resinet.htm -Anthropology Resources on the Internet
http://vlib.anthrotech.com/ -AnthroTech
http://www.library.arizona.edu/libra...e/journal.html -ANTHROPOLOGY JOURNALS
http://www.nmhu.edu/Anthropology/resource.htm -Archaeology Resources for Students
http://faculty.uca.edu/~lburley/new_page_6.htm -Quotation Samples
http://www.anthropologymatters.com/ -.:. Anthropology Matters .:. .
http://archaeology.about.com/library...6&cob=home -World Atlas of Archaeology on the Web:
http://www.ecu.edu/org/ags/archives/...gy_theory.html -Archaeology Theory
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/kevin.gre...ntro/chap6.htm -Archaeology : An Introduction - An Online Companion © Kevin Greene 2002 ::: Chapter 6
http://www.gzg.fn.bw.schule.de/faech...ks/classic.htm -Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology Home Page
http://www.txarch.org/ -Texas Archeological Society's Home Page
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/popolvuh/pv-6.htm -Esotericism of the Popol Vuh by Raphael Girard, ch 6
http://www.anthro.net/index.html -Anthro.Net Research Engine: Anthropology and Archaeology
http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html -Anthropology in the News - Current News
http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/maya/pastpage1.html Unmasking the Maya: The Past, page1

Native American
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/tedlock/ -EPC/ Dennis Tedlock Home Page
http://www.chacoarchive.org/iath-intro.html -Chaco Canyon: Building a Digital Research Archive

Greek
http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Arch/ -Index of /Acads/Arch
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/p...eco-Roman.html -Perseus Table of Contents
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook07.html -Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Greece
http://www.eblaforum.org/library/misc/amc.html -Ancient Mystery Cults

Near Eastern
http://www.uca.es/otros/anasim_gibraltar/english.html -AnaSim Gibraltar
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/edu.../ostraca.shtml -Ancient Texts Relating to the Bible: Heshbon Ostraca
http://www.eternalegypt.org/EternalE...;language_id=1 -Eternal Egypt - Home
http://www.touregypt.net/petrie/ -The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh by W. M. Flinders Petrie (1883) - Menu Page
http://cc.usu.edu/~fath6/flood.htm -ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE BIBLE
http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/protohistory.html -Mesopotamian Protohistory (King Lists, Flood, Jemdet Nasr, Old Sumerian Age, Early Dynastic)
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IS/SANDERS.../meso_map.html -Archaeological Site Photography: Mesopotamia
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/NIP/Nippur.html -THE NIPPUR EXPEDITION
http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Atrahasi.htm -The Story of Atrahasis
http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/assyrbabyl-faq.html -The Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ
http://www.kchanson.com/CLASSIFIEDBIB/anerit.html -Anc. Med. Ritual
http://www.uta.edu/anthropology/petruso/NearEastSyl.htm -neareastsyl.htm
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/meteors.htm -Did a Meteor End the Bronze Age?
http://www.friesian.com/notes/oldking.htm -The Egyptian Old Kingdom, Sumer and Akkad
http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/070391.html -Who Built the Pyramids?
http://www.world-mysteries.com/pex_7.htm -World Mysteries - Joseph Davidovits
http://www.catchpenny.org/howbuilt.html -How were the Pyramids built?

Religion
http://www.robertbellah.com/articles.html -Articles and Chapters written by Robert N. Bellah
http://www.robertbellah.com/articles_5.htm -Biblical Religion and Civil Religion in America by Robert N. Bellah
http://www.harappa.com/script/scriptres.html -The Indus Script: Resources
http://www.religion-online.org/ -religion online
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/chu.shtml -Historical Library: Church-State Separation
http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=44410 -The Jesus Myth and apologists' claims
http://members.iinet.net.au/~quentin...-Timeline.html -The History of the Gospels - a Chronology
http://www.thehumanist.org/humanist/...s/dawkins.html -Richard Dawkins: Is Science A Religion?
http://www.returnofthenephilim.com/U...eEndTimes.html Return of the Nephilim - UFOs and the End Times - The Last Great Deception Satan and the reign of the Antichrist
http://www.carm.org/cut/atheism.htm -Atheism
http://cc.usu.edu/~fath6/contents-bible.htm -ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE BIBLE
http://www.logoschristian.org/ufosrevealed//audio.htm -UFOsRevealed Free Audio Downloads!!
http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/links.html -Atheist/Religious links

PseudoArchaeology
http://www.geocities.com/webatlantis/fuentemagna.htm -Fuente Magna
http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_histor...ahab_link.html -MAHABHARATA
http://www.margaretmorrisbooks.com/g..._scallion.html -Gordon-Michael Scallion Debunked
http://www.ramtops.co.uk/ -Doug's Archaeology Site: Skeptical views of fringe archaeology
http://www.antiquityofman.com/pseudoscience.html -Antiquity of Man pseudoscience
http://doernenburg.alien.de/alternat...mide/pyr15.php -Standortgeheimnisse

Mesoamerica
http://www.delange.org/Teo4/Teo4.htm -Teotihuacan
http://www.delange.org/Default/Mexico/Mexico.htm -Photos And Pictures Of Ancient Mexico
http://www.csms.ca/Spence.htm -Mike Spence
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/.../ilopango.html -Ilopango caldera, El Salvador
http://www.meierweb.us/ceren/CONTENT...INTROPAGE.HTML -The Ceren Web Resource: Introduction
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/med/home.html">MED: HOME PAGE</a></dd>


This is a few of my anthropology/archaeology links. I have some other catagories that others might find useful and will post them as well, but I just wanted to get the thread started. Good Idea!

Lots of nice stuff there SkinWalker, and thanks. I must admit however, that I was thinking more along the lines of Useful links with respect to this Computer Science section.
Still, ty.

Misc. Science Sites
http://www.newscientist.com/ -New Scientist
http://www.sciencemag.org/ -Science magazine
http://www.sciam.com/ -Scientific American
http://www.the-scientist.com/homepage.htm -The Scientist News Journal for the Life Scientist
http://www.biology-online.org/tutori..._evolution.htm -Evolution & Genetics Tutorial
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dating.html -Radiometric Dating and the Geological Time Scale
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY...ay03/mars.html -Mars: Dead or Alive?
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/rove...es/images.html -MER
http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/evol.fs.html -ENSI/SENSI Lesson List: Evolution
http://www.gate.net/~rwms/EvoEvidence.html -The Evolution Evidence Page
http://www.sciencedaily.com/ -ScienceDaily
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/apo15.htm -Apollo 15 Summary
http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/docs/rst/Front/tofc.html -Remote Sensing Tutorial Table of Contents
http://www.gateway.ualberta.ca/view.php?aid=3776 -Only science can give us the real truth
http://www.mkaku.org/articles/ -MKaku.org | Articles
http://origins.jpl.nasa.gov/index1.html -NASA's Origins Program

Skepticism & Pseudoscience
http://www.geocities.com/healthbase/...ase_imrie.html -The Quack-Files: Mad Cow Disease and Relative Risk - Robert Imrie, DVM
http://www.scientificexploration.org/ -Society for Scientific Exploration: the scientific method is relative to their beliefs here
http://www.calphysics.org/aboutcipa.html -California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics: Pseudoscientist extraordinaire: Bernard Haisch, director
http://www.edconrad.com/ -A Nutter who claims "man is as old as coal"
http://www.intersurf.com/~chalcedony/wildside.shtml -The Wild Side of Geoarchaeology Page
http://www.williamjames.com/Science/ESP.htm -Extrasensory Perception (ESP), Science, The Roots of Consciousness


Skeptic's Toolbox
http://www.csicop.org/ -CSICOP
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/index.html -Fallacies
http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/fallacies.html -Logical Fallacies and the Art of Debate
http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/index.htm -The logical Fallacies: Index
http://www.quackwatch.org/index.html -Quackwatch Home Page
http://physics.syr.edu/courses/modul...DO/pseudo.html -Pseudo (FrameSet)
http://www.reall.org/newsletter/index.html -The REALL News


Evolution -v- Creation
http://www.talkorigins.org/ -Talk.Origins
http://gondwanaresearch.com/hp/credocs.htm -Creationism Pages by Joe Meert
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/a_anomaly.html -Creationist Arguments: Anomalous Fossils
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-...al/part1a.html -Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ: Part 1A
http://vuletic.com/hume/cefec/ -Defender's Guide to Science and Creationism
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/...mas_wedge.html -Doubting Thomas, &quot;The Wedge&quot; April/May 1999
http://www.antievolution.org/features/wedge.html -The Wedge Strategy - Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture
http://www.answersingenesis.org/news...c_american.asp -15 ways to refute materialistic bigotry: A point by point response to Scientific American


ETI & Extraterrestrial
http://badastronomy.com/bad/misc/hoagland/index.html -Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions: Richard Hoagland's Nonsense
http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/skepticsanalysis.htm -UFO Evidence : Skeptics and Their Arguments


Essays & Opinions
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/Lipps.html -THE DECLINE OF REASON?
http://www.mythicarts.com/writing/Unarius.htm -The Unarius Academy of &quot;Pseudoscience&quot; by Laura Strong
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~cturner/critical.htm -Lessons in Critical Thinking
http://quinnell.us/natural/skepticism/index.html -T. Rex's Guide to Skepticism


Weather
http://www.accuweather.com/ -AccuWeather
http://www.wunderground.com/ -Weather Underground
http://www.weather.com/ -Weather.com
http://www.wxnation.com/dallasfortworth/ -WXnation: good site of cams and radar/sat links, but only D/FW

Originally Posted by glaucon

Lots of nice stuff there SkinWalker, and thanks. I must admit however, that I was thinking more along the lines of Useful links with respect to this Computer Science section.
Still, ty.

True... I just don't have a lot of those kinds of links. I usually just google key-words like "shields up" when I want to find one.

Perhaps this thread might be better served in the Links sub-forum. I forgot about that one. But I thought a thread that created a massive list of links in various catagories would be useful on a science forum.

SkinWalker: I'm working on culling up a good list. I should be able to get it up by tomorrow (1:22 pm EST here right now). It's going to be Computer-specific, and pretty thorough.

Edit: I moved the data from glaucon's post to sheppard's, since sheppard was the original author who compiled the list. I don't think glaucon's intention was to plagerize the other list, but just wanted to share the links with us here.

I'm of the mind that no harm is done if glaucon & sheppard agree and since the list is now in sheppard's post, I'll leave it up to him to decide whether or not to leave it on The Science Forum. It is a wonderful list of links and I've used several already.

-- SkinWalker

The following was originally posted by Sheppard in another forum. I've updated the thread so he can continue to get the credit, but thanks go to glaucon for sharing it with us. We still need to add some links in the sections near the bottom, such as GIMP etc. -- SkinWalker


Searching:
http://www.google.com
http://www.mega-search.net Search engine for CD/DVD covers.
http://www.dogpile.com

ED2K info:
http://www.nforce.nl/ To check for all the new releases

Internet Speed Test
http://www.dslreports.com/stest
http://infospeed.verizon.net/speedt...eedtest500k.asp
http://www.testmy.net/

Definitions/Words:
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com
http://www.thesaurus.com
http://www.yourdictionary.com
http://www.urbandictionary.com
http://www.onelook.com


A good encyclopedia site:
http://en.wikipedia.org

What is this file extension for?:
www.filext.com

Hardware info:
www.tomshardware.com
www.motherboards.org
www.driverheaven.net For all your Graphics card drivers and questions.
www.gruntville.com For Case modding and reviews.
http://www.anandtech.com/
http://dailyrotation.com
www.belarc.com/free_download.html Belarc Advisor - Displays ALL the Hardware & Software & License info loaded on your PC

Windows info:
www.neowin.net
www.dougknox.com
www.tweakxp.com Tons and tons of tweaks for XP
www.blackviper.com Great for Windows services tips.
http://functionx.com - ebooks, programming etc
http://www.planetsourcecode.com - source code
www.neowin.net

File/Photo Storage Sites:
www.photobucket.com
www.imageshack.us

Free Software:
http://www.gimp.org/ -Like Photoshop


Online Security& Virus Scanners
Trend Micro - Free online Virus Scanner
http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
Symantec security check Firewall and Virus scan
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/...id=ie&venid=sym
Gibson research corporation
www.grc.com

World Time Zone - A World Map with the current "Real Time" in ALL Locations
www.worldtimezone.com/time-us12.html

Video Problems, Burning, Conversions, Codecs:
www.cole2k.net for the best Codecs
www.doom9.org
www.dvdrhelp.com
www.kvcd.net
http://www.videohelp.com/
http://www.afterdawn.com/

General Knowledge/interesting facts
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
http://wannalearn.com/

Fun Websites (When you’re bored)
www.yeahbutisitart.com/graffiti
www.randomwebsite.com
http://graffiti.playdo.com/
http://sodaplay.com/constructor/index.htm

--Computer Parts sites--
www.newegg.com

Processes:
http://www.liutilities.com/products/...sslibrary/alg/

GIMP for those who can't afford Photoshop.

GAIM. Stop using the commercial AIM, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo clients, because they're full of ads. Stop using Trillian, too, because that's also lousy. Compared to that, GAIM does the same thing, crashes less, loads faster, and basically performs better.

Open Office. Don't buy MS Office. Download this instead.

Linux. I'm sure you all know this one.

Firefox. www.firefox.comWhy the hell are you still using IE?

media players Worry not. You don't need to buy one:

VideoLan

hey i complied that!

And I believe in giving credit where credit is due! Thanks Sheppard.
-- SkinWalker

Another helpful site is http://compsci.ca/ which is dedicated to helping programmers learn new languages and improve their skills. You will need to register to download and post but you can read other peoples problems without registering.
Register here

If you want to know About New researc of the world you can visite
http://www.researchdirectory.blogspot.com
i think this is help you find the new research news.

www.researchdirectory.blogspot.com

to know the daily research update.

My personal favourite for software downloads:


www.tucows.com

Sheppard,it is actually helpful,thank you

Try any of those useful links with http://similarurl.com/

An example:

http://similarurl.com/search.php?URL=www.sciam.com
http://similarurl.com/search.php?URL=www.tucows.com

Try any other websites

Some useful resources when looking for computer science conferences, call for papers, etc.:

http://www.confsearch.org (computer science conference calendar and search engine)
http://www.wikicfp.com/ (a wiki for call for papers)
http://www.ieee.org/web/conferences/search (only IEEE conferences)
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/impact.html (impact of publication venues - quite outdated, unfortunately)

one of my favorite learning HTML and web designing site

WWW.w3schools.com
WWW.building webs.net

really good and cool learning platforms .....

you will love it .............

Some additions:

Misc. Science Sites

http://www.sciencenews.org/

Weather

http://www.cocorahs.org
(Daily precipitation measurements from across the nation)

For programming practice:
http://rosettacode.org/
http://www.codechef.com/
http://community.topcoder.com/tc

I forgot about Open Office Thanks!