Nelson's useful and interesting places in the Web

Web Navigation

• Yahoo is a wonderful, growing hierarchical Web index.
• The Metacrawler browses multiple search engines for you.
• Alta Vista is the best current Web search engine.
• An index of commercial sites on the Web

Culture

• OED online (sorry, .mit.edu only)
• The greatest Movie Index imagineable
• The Ethnologue Database, a great source of ethnological information.
• References on MUDs with an emphasis on MUD technology and MUD culture.
• Waxweb, a hypertext version of the great film "WAX or the discovery of television among the bees". Check it out.
• MkzdK, incomprehensible web art.
• comp.fonts archive
• Idea Futures: a futures market for the truth of ideas. (Nelson's account).
• A guide to The Residents
• Collected Laurie Anderson information
• John Cage
• Wine
• Taco Bell Net
• List of game resources
• An excellent index of art resources on the net
• Science fiction resource guide
• Babylon 5
• Net Freaks, various people who have interesting Internet environments.

Literature

• The Voynich Manuscript
• Urban Desires, a groovy zine.
• CARL, online journal searches
• William S. Burroughs
• Comte de Lautréamont
• A nice Webster's Dictionary gateway
• An index of hypertext fiction
• This Modern World, a great comic by Tom Tomorrow.
• H.P. Lovecraft
• etext, lots of online texts (zines, etc)
• Verbiage, an online short fiction magazine.
• An overview of online text is at The English Server
• The Electronic Text Center at UVa has an archive of online academic stuff.
• The Eris Project gopher seems to be the best collection of online classics.
• lots of online bookstores from this list of booksellers
• Bordeaux and Prague, one of the first interesting web sites: hyperliterature.

Design

• Grafica Obscura, computer graphics notes with a combination of design and technology.
• Razorfish Blue Dot, info on typography and design (associated with Emigre?)
• Atomic Vision, an online design shop with some worthwhile digital design reading.

Scientific information

• The Santa Fe Institute
• Bibliography of complexity measures
• Collected complex systems information
• Alife online
• Protect your hands, go to the Typing Injury faq and archive
• The Geometry Center has neat interactive demos about geometry.
• Quadralay's Cryptography archive and index

Political information

• A good list of queer infoservers
• The EFF provides Computers and Academic Freedom
• Queers Read This, one of the best polemics I know.

The real world made virtual

• Geography of Cyberspace
• Map Quest, detailed street maps for the US. Incredible!
• New York Times online.
• Southwest Airlines online! Fares, schedules, etc.
• A good collection of Internet providers sorted by area code.
• City Net, information about cities.
• An integrated geography index: names to coordinates, maps.
• A wonderful world Map Viewer
• Weather
  • USGS weather server
  • Meteorology index
  • Sometimes one can find Current Weather Maps
  • A hypertext version of the sci.geo.metereology FAQ
• Money
  • networth, a personal investor service.
  • Processed quotes for stocks, funds, etc at MIT.
  • EBB, collected info from the US government.
  • PAWWS, online stock trading etc. Their market watch.

Technical documentation

• VRML index
• Gamelan, well edited Java index.
• libwww-perl is an excellent toolkit for hacking the Web.
• PNG, a new graphics format that's the best thing going.
• GIMP, a free Unix-based Photoshop-like program.
• PGP stuff
• A list of open NNTP servers
• References on filtering information
• Linux: Yahoo and a good ftp mirror.
• Netex sells PC hardware for good prices and seems to know what they're doing.
• PCI FAQs are a good guide to high end PC hardware.
• Internet Engineering Task Force with some forward thinking Web and Internet ideas.
• Also the IETF working group archive for HTML, HTTP, URIs.
• Pad++, an infinite precision image widget with fast zooming.
• GNU info pages from Cygnus
• HTML index of the CTAN TeX archives
• Majordomo FAQ
• Index of Tcl/Tk Resources
• Perl stuff
• ftp site containing garbage collection references (especially the Big Survey)
• Home of the LaTeX2HTML processor
• Patches for SunOS
• Automatically HTMLified Usenet FAQs
• MPI, a message passing standard
• Object oriented stuff
• References on POV