Dan's pointer list.

People or things that interested me at one time, or still interest me, I put here. (Actually, people are here because they are friends.) Send me mail if something here no longer works.

INDEX

  • Archive sites
  • Automobile sites
  • Computers
  • Food and Drink
  • Groups Dan has been (or is) a part of.
  • Humor
  • Miscellaneous
  • Museums and Exhibitions
  • Movies
  • Music
  • News & Information
  • Politics & Law
  • Science-fiction
  • Search Engines
  • Sports & Recreation
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    Archive sites

  • The Internet Archive
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    Automobile sites

  • I used to drive an Audi (Click here for Audi's USA site.). AudiWorld was a great owners/enthusiasts site, but seems to have been supplanted by QuattroWorld instead.
  • Buying a car? Check out Edmunds for pricing info, etc.
  • And the Kelly Blue Book is now also on-line.
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    Computers

    Archive Sites

    (See above)

    Companies

  • Apple.
  • MNX Solutions
  • Oxide Computer
  • Racktop Systems
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    Mac stuff

  • MacRumors.
  • Jason O'Grady's PowerPage site.
  • AppleInsider, or its parent, The Macintosh News Network.
  • Macworld
  • 9 to 5 Mac
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    Miscellany

  • Slashdot - news for nerds!
  • Hacker News - from Y Combinator
  • The Register does to computer trade-rags what The Daily Show does to news.
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    Networking

  • The Internet Engineering Task Force's home page.
  • The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority keeps track of all of the Internet's number spaces.
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    Illumos (nee OpenSolaris) Stuff

  • My sandbox - Illumos.
  • Like a server-focused inheritor of old OpenSolaris? Try OmniOS.
  • A desktop-focused one? Try OpenIndiana.
  • Like VMs and RAMdisk roots? Try SmartOS.
  • Like storage? Try NexentaStor.
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    Food and Drink

  • My current favorite libation is Single-Malt Scotch.
  • A good place with a great Scotch list is C. B. Hannegan's in Los Gatos.
  • Do you like a good stout? Check out the Guinness home page.
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    Groups Dan has been (or is) a part of.

  • I played Quads/Quints/Tenors for the Michigan Marching Band.
  • I am an alumnus of the Michigan Chapter of the Delta Chi Fraternity.

    • Humor

  • The Onion
  • Funny, or Die
  • OH MY GOD! THEY KILLED KENNY! YOU BASTARDS! If you understood that, check out the South Park Studios.
  • The Hacker Jargon File (to which I submitted an entry)
  • The archives of the World-Wide Web Fights Grudge Match page.
  • Have plans for world domination? If so, make sure you read Peter's Evil Overlord List first.
  • Snaggy & Nitrozac's The Joy of Tech.
  • The Oatmeal
  • xkcd
  • LOL: Cats, and more
  • FAIL blog
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    Miscellaneous

  • Project Gutenberg has a ton of electronic texts.
  • For the ultimate in variety, take a spin of the URouLette wheel.
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    Movies

  • Roger Ebert's legacy lives on at his site.
  • Coming Soon!
  • Former Ain't It Cool & HitFix writer Drew "Moriarty" McWeeney now lives on: 80s all Over. You should also pony up for his newsletters: The Last '80s Newsletter you'll ever need, and Formerly Dangerous.
  • More pop culture than movies, but a writer for a defunct movie site now has his needcoffee.com site, which is sharply amusing.
  • The Internet Movie Database is a comprehensive encyclopedia on movie casts, crews, etc.
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    Museums, and exhibitions

  • The Louvre
  • The U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • San Jose's TheTech.
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    Music

  • I already mentioned the Michigan Marching Band.
  • LSJUMB (Stanford Band) Page O' Fun
  • My favorite band, Rush.
  • Britain's loudest band, Spinal Tap, has a page, too.
  • Did I forget something? Then go to The All-Music Guide and find it yourself!
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    News and Information

    (Pardon my English-speaking bias here.)
  • BBC
  • CBC
  • Our World in Data
  • The Washington Post
  • CNN
  • The San Jose Mercury News.
  • The Boston Globe runs Boston.com.
  • The Weather Channel's weather site.

    • Politics and Law

  • Ken "Popehat" White used to post here, but now posts on his Substack instead.
  • Former Republican footsoldier Chris Ladd now takes in Political Orphans.
  • Stonekettle Station
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    Science-fiction

  • The USENET Alternate History List
  • The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5.
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    Search Engines for the WWW

  • Bing
  • DuckDuckGo
  • Google
  • Yahoo
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    Sports & Recreation

  • Sports Illustrated
  • ESPN.com
  • How 'bout those Green Bay Packers?
  • Being a Michigan alumnus, I enjoy Michigan Athletics.
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