Useful stuff

California

• Waterfalls West
• Things Indian
• Earthquake information
• Bay Area Radio Stations
• Landmark Theatres - San Francisco Peninsula
• Stanford Amateur Radio Club
• Santa Clara Valley IEEE
• Recommendations for dentists in the Bay Area
• California driving tours
• Best scenic drives in California
• Change of the Peninsula
• San Jose Downtown Association - has a list of restaurants in SJ
• MetroActive Bars, Clubs, and Cafes Guide
• NAPA Valley brewery tour
• Chabot Observatory
• Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton
• openspace.org
• Trail Center
• Cinelux Theatres
• PAARA - Palo Alto Amateur Radio Association
• San Francisco City Hikes
• Visiting San Francisco
• Asian Art Museum
• Best of Sacramento

• International Association of Independent BMW Service Professionals
• Sacramento Valley BMWCCA
• Adjusting the mirrors in your car for optimal visibility
• Discount tires online - reviews of tires

• Finding the best insurance deals
• Investing in bonds
• Opt out of pre-screened offers for insurance and credit cards
• On-guard online
• Looks too good to be true
• TGI maps sells really cool maps.
• Find out if you have unclaimed property with any state in the US.
• InsWeb - Insurance quotes from multiple providers.
• dpreview.com - The best site for digital camera reviews.
• Cell phone reviews
• Epinions.com - Product reviews.
• Leaping Bunny - Businesses that make products not tested on animals.
• Credit Card Goodies - Credit card rates, rebates, etc.
• Money Rates - A listing of rates on CDs, savings accounts, etc.
• Salary calculator
• Rob Black's page on money management
• Bob Brinker's page on money management
• Terry Savage's page on money management
• Free annual credit report from Transunion, Experion, and Equifax
• Do not call list for avoiding telemarketing calls
• Direct Marketing Association -- Get off mailing lists.
• Efficient Frontier by William Bernstein - Asset allocation
• Risk Grades - Compute the risk grade of a portfolio.
• i-bond interest rates
• Coffee House Investor - Building a Simple Diversified Portfolio
• CNN Fundscreener
• Mortgage Professor

• Office stretching exercises

• Addicting Games
• Radio Station Finder
• Comic strips
• The Dilbert Zone
• Internet Movie Database
• everypoet.com - for poets, poetry lovers, would-be poets...
• Solving the Rubik's cube
• Some features you need on your computer
• Dictionary of Useful Research Phrases
• Cartoons by Randy Glasbergen

• The Merck Manual - Home Edition (Online)
• The NIH Health Information Index
• Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma
• Stress FAQ
• My page on stress management

• Recommendations - for restaurants, stores, dentists, doctors, etc. if you live in the Triangle Area of North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill). This is a very slow link, but it's an excellent source of information.
• Amateur radio info - Research Triangle, NC

• My notes on photography

• Online books
• Acronym finder
• How stuff works?
• Americom's Long Distance Area Decoder
• Country codes
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• QueenDom.Com - tests and puzzles
• Worldtime
• The nine planets - an interactive tour of the Solar System
• The Merriam-Webster dictionary
• Roget's Thesaurus
• CIA's World Factbook - useful information on all countries
• Currency exchange rates
• The Virtual Tourist
• A.Word.A.Day - an easy way to improve your vocabulary

• PuTTY
• LinkScan/QuickCheck
• NIST Internet Time Service - a free program that synchronizes your computer's clock with a server at NIST.
• Cygwin - unix shell and unix commands for Windows users.
• Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSView - viewing postscript files on Windows.
• winscp - secure ftp for windows.
• Mkfunctmap - prints the calling tree for a program
• GNU Global source code tag system
• Mailman, the GNU mailing list manager
• vi tips
• Windows tips

• Davis Buddhist Meditation Group
• Sacramento Insight Meditation
• Worldwide Online Meditation Center
• The meaning of life
• Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, CA
• Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group
• Mountain Stream Meditation Center
• Mindfulness in Plain English by Henepola Gunaratana
• In This Very Life by Sayadaw U Pandita
• Evergreen Herb Garden
• Sivananda Yoga Farm
• The Discourse Summaries - Discourses at the 10-day Vipassana course
• Jacobson Chiropractic has some interesting articles on health & food

• Quoting style in newsgroup postings
• The C Preprocessor
• O'Reilly's CD Bookshelf
• Bruce Eckel's Free Electronic Books - C++, Java.
• Delphion Intellectual Property Network
• Rob van der Woude's scripting pages - DOS Batch, Perl, etc.
• Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems
• The story of the PING program - a light account of the development of the PING utility by its author, Mike Muuss
• The Information Technology Professional's Resource Center
• A1 JavaScripts
• ingenta - publication database
• Outlook Express FAQ
• xkernel software distribution
• Getting started with LaTeX
• The Java Tutorial
• Security Focus

• Happy Cow maintains a worldwide directory of veggie restaurants
• Vegetarian Resource Group

• Volunteer Match
• Hands on Sacramento
• Sacramento Volunteers

• The Punt FAQ