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clue-solving program from Duke)
Chess:
Chess Corner |
N.Y.
Times Chess Column (Rob't Byrne) | Chess:
Kasparov vs. The World
Mancala:
Mancala | Mancala
(good graphics, fast play)
Othello:
Mattel's
site
| Good
graphics, quick, good player | Maybe
the best site I've found |
Strategy
guide (excellent)
Go:
The Many Faces of Go (with
free 9x9 game)
| SmartGo (free downloads) |
Gnu Go
(free downloads) | JavaGO
| Go
Weblinks | Go
on Yahoo! | American
Go Association | British
Go Association (excellent
introduction to Go) |
Mick's
Computer Go Page
Backgammon:
Motif Backgammon
| Backgammon
Galore | DailyGammon
Misc.:
Checkers:
usually slow, low-level play |
Bookworm |
Jigsaw puzzles on-line |
Tetris
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Weekend
Edition (NPR) Sunday Puzzle | billsgames.com:
Netscape, MSIE
& WebTV compatible |
Hotdogz:
requires
Shockwave | Anagram Genius
| Trivial
Pursuit | Mirriam
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Word Games | Thinks.com: brain games | CastleMouse
2000 | Constructor:
2-dimensional animated model-building (very slick) |
Metapet.net | Darts
| Official Rock,
Paper, Scissors Strategy Guide
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Rubik's
Cube |
3-D Tetris |
Whack the
Penguin |
Office B-ball |
CurveBall - good paddle-ball game
| Bowling
| Super
Sudoko |
HyperFrame |
Telescope
game |
Mini Putt |
Connect the Dots
| KenKen
Music/Radio/TV
- Directories:
MIT's
searchable directory of radio stations |
BRS Web Radio: every radio station on the Web, by format, location, etc.
| ComFM (world radio guide)
| Yahoo
/ broadcast.com | NetRadio:
all
formats | Verve Music:
good source of jazz and blues clips | JazzReview.com
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Personal favorites:
KCRW-FM
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KPLU-FM (Seattle, jazz)
| AccuRadio (customizable
streaming audio - incredible . . . really) |
WMVY-FM (Martha's
Vineyard/Nantucket/Cape Cod progressive) |
KKJZ-FM
(Long Beach, Jazz) |
KCSM-FM (San Mateo)
| KHYI-FM
95.3 FM "The Range" |
KSBR-FM/K206AA-FM
(Saddleback College, Laguna Beach, Smooth Jazz) |
KQED-FM (San Francisco public
radio) |
KCSM-FM (San Mateo) |
WQXR-FM (NYC,
Classical)
|
WRR 101.1 FM
(Dallas, Classical)
| KERA 90.1 FM
(Dallas, Public Radio) | KFOG 104.5 FM (San
Francisco, "World Class Rock") |
KSAN 107.7 FM (San Francisco, Classic Rock) |
Maine Public Radio
|
KTOO 104.3 FM (Juneau,
Public Radio) |
The Really
Terrible Orchestra |
- What
they're listening to in Portland, Maine
- Jazz:
WBEZ-FM (Chicago) | KPLU-FM (Pacific Lutheran Univ., Tacoma, WA) |
KCSM-FM (San Mateo)
| KKJZ-FM
(Long Beach) | KNTU-FM:
from University of North Texas, a great music
school |
KSBR-FM/K206AA-FM
(Saddleback College, Laguna Beach) |
JazzTrax.com - the original
Cool Jazz outlet? | WNUR-FM JazzWeb:
5am-12:30pm weekdays | WBGO-FM (Newark)
| CJRT-FM: Toronto |
Essentials
of Music: from W.W. Norton | Jazz
Improvisation Primer:
by Marc Sabatella | Jazz:
A Film by Ken Burns (PBS resource site) |
Smithsonian Jazz
- Blues:
KPLU-FM
(Seattle, blues 6pm-midnight (Pacific), Sat. & Sun.)
|
Kingston Mines (Chicago club) |
Jazz Record
Mart | Blues Access
(on-line magazine) |
House of Blues
(very slow to load)
| Blues
World | Charlie
Musselwhite (Official)
(Unofficial)
| Electric
Blues | Blues
Programming on broadcast.com | Hering
Harmonica Corp. | Hohner
USA | Robert
Holt's page: lots of music and links | Adam Gussow's
awesome
modernbluesharmonica site: more lessons and good advice than
you could pick up playing in a club for years
- Classical
radio: CJPX-FM (Montreal) |
WRR-FM: 101.1
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XLNC-FM: San
Diego | WQXR-FM:
NYC
| WXXI-FM: Rochester, NY |
Radio
Classique (Paris) |
The
Symphony: an interactive guide
- Dallas:
WRR-FM: 101.1
| KERA-FM: 90.1,
Dallas' NPR affiliate (home)
(personal public
radio) | KNON-FM: 89.3,
"the voice of the people"
- Public Radio:
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Lists of Bests (books,
movies, records)
- TV:
Yahoo's
TV listings | Radio
and TV Directory (huge) |
Adcritic.com
| AdAge.com | epguides.com
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TelevisionWithoutPity.com |
epGuides.com | Jump the
Shark | West Wing
Continuity Guide | "24"
- Misc.
:
Lycos' MP3 Search Engine download recorded music | Mudcat Cafe
| Mudcat Cafe Radio
| RTÉ
(Ireland)
Radio: 3 formats |
Mercury
Theatre on the Air: not
just the complete playlist, but also the entire broadcasts |
Miserable Melodies
| Harry Shearer ("Le Show")
| The Cowbell
Project |Maestro
(French variety show from an Icelandic web site - ain't the
Internet grand?) |
Lyrics Depot
Movies
- Movie Times, Locations
- Meta
Review Sites:
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Pages:
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- Reference Sites:
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Services: Movie
Tickets on-line: way cool
- Ordering Films:
Reel.com
- On-Line Film
School:
- Movie Music,
Sound & Science:
- Scripts:
Postcards
Massachusetts
Maine
Various
Diners
On-line Commerce
Math & Science
- General Science:
SciTech Daily Review |
Try Science
(good interactive website)
|
Smithsonian Institute's List of On-line Library and Archival
Exhibitions | MadSci's search
engine: phenomenal resource for questions about science
|
Beyond Discovery:
National Academy of Science's (NAS) excellent website
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Annals of Improbable
Research |
Annals of
Improbable Research's Universal History Translation Project:
strange and
hilarious |
Essays
on Science and Society
- Math:
Statistics:
Statistical
Concepts Everyone Should Know |
Statistics
Course Book On-line |
Introductory Statistics
Book and Online Tutorial |
Statistics Every Writer
Should Know |
VassarStats: Website for Statistical Computation |
Epidemiology for Journalists |
Random Number Generator
| Random
Number Generator: great graphic, but requires
Shockwave (free download)
| Research Random Number
Generator: excellent |
Glossary of
Mathematical Mistakes: math mistakes from advertisers, media,
politicians, et al.
- Recreational math:
Swarthmore's
Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics |
Interactive Mathematics
Miscellany and Puzzles: Alexander Bogomolny, the Mathematical Association of
America and Swarthmore's Math Forum provide
hundreds of hours of math recreations; especially good collection of
links to other sites
| Bradley
University's Math Puzzle of the Week |
Math Problems
of the Week: links to sites all over the world
| A
good recreational mathematics page: maintained by mystery man
| Largest
Known Primes (and other fun things
about prime numbers)
| Mudd Math Fun
Facts | Math
Wonders: great stuff
on mazes, knots. chaos, fractals, etc. |
John
Conway's
Game
of Life |
Chris
Burge's Collection: linked to Stanford webpage, but he's at MIT
now, so this link may not work for long |
Back of the envelope
(approximation, mensuration, Fermi problems, etc.) |
The MegaPenny Project
| Darwin's collection
of game rules | Mark
Thompson's collection of math recreations and abstract games |
Super
Sudoko
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KenKen- History:
MacTutor
History of Mathematics Archive
- Other:
A
Guide to Unusual Maps on the Web
| Counter-Rotating
Spirals Optical Illusion |
Martindale's calculator collection
Puzzles (other than
math):
Car
Talk's Puzzler Page |
NPR's Weekend
Edition/Sunday Puzzler from Will Shortz |
Antimatter
(and why it matters, from CERN)
Physics:
Chaos
at Univ. of Maryland |
On-line Physics
Classroom |
The
American Physical Society's A Century of Physics |
NASA's SkyView
Project: "the Internet's virtual telescope" |
Lecture notes from Michael
Fowler (Commonwealth
Professor, Dep't of Physics, UVa) (Galileo
& Einstein) (Relativity
& Quantum Physics) |
Visual
Quantum Mechanics: On-Line Interactive Programs: neat
stuff from Kansas State |
Time
Travel: from PBS |
Insultingly Stupid
Movie Physics
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Thinking about
Physics (Prof. Romer's web page, Amherst College)
Biology:
Science and
Creationism: updated resource page, also from NAS
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| MIT's
on-line text for molecular biology |
BiologyOnline |
Biology in Motion
Chemistry:
Pictorial
Periodic Table |
Interactive
Organic Chemistry page
| Chemistry.org
Patents:
U.S. Patent &
Trademark Office: searchable patent database
| Free
Patents Online | Patently Silly | IBM Intellectual
Property Center (searchable patent database)
| Gallery of
Obscure Patents | Patent
Café
Other:
MIT Media Lab
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Methodist University.
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Last
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28 April 2009
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