R. Sterner's Hot List

Most Useful Sites
GTOPO30: Global 30 Arc Second Elevation Data Set // MAPQUEST! // University of Michigan Geographic Name Server // The Perry-Castaneda Library (PCL) Map Collection // BARTLEBY LIBRARY // The Directorate of Time, U.S. Naval Observatory // Encyclopedia Britannica (internal only) // Deja News UseNet Searches // Residential/Business Phones // Government Servers // Internet Tools by John December // From The Ground Up: A Guide to C++ //

ETOPO2 data set
FTP: global_topo_2min = ETOPO2 data set. // ETOPO2 home //

Guides to the Web and creating Web Pages

Web Search
ALTA VISTA // eBLAST // Inktomi // Yahoo // Lycos Search // WebCrawler Search // Excite // Yahoo's list of Web Search Engines //

Picks of the Web
Cool Site of the Day // The Spider's Pick of the Day // Scott's Earth Science Site of the Week // Point's "The Top Sites of the Web" // Eisenhower National Clearinghouse "The Digital Dozen"//

Web Catalogs and Guides
YaHoo // WebWise // EINet Galaxy // City.Net // USA CityLink // Planet Earth: United States of America // USA Travel Library // Site list by geography // World-Wide Web Servers // Virtual Tourist - World // Virtual Tourist - United States // List of Servers (USA - Federal Government) // The Whole Internet Catalog // Usenet FAQs // Searchable FAQ index // The Best of the Web '94 Recipients // Resources Arranged by the Dewey Decimal System // What's New on the Web // Point: the top sites of the web // Submit It! Multi-catalog registration // Frank's Favorite Web Sites for Browsing // Internet accessible library reference tools // Frank Potter's Science Gems //

HTML Guides and building Web Sites
HTML Station // Cascading style sheets // YaHoo's list of page Validation and Checkers // NetMechanic (page checker) // Web Developer's Virtual Library // CGI Programming 101 // HTML Quick Reference (UKans) // A Beginner's Guide to HTML // A Beginner's Guide to HTML (another copy) // Web Forms and CGI Scripts // The Web Tools Review by Philip Greenspun // The Evolution of The North Hagerstown HS Web Site // HyperText Markup Language (HTML) // Netscape Navigator Extensions to HTML // Document specific background and foreground control // Netscape 1.1 Tables // The Table Sampler // Table of special characters // WWW VIEWER TEST PAGE // Doctor HTML // Java: Programming for the Internet // Texture Land // W3C HTML Validation Service, Web Page Checker // The Scripts Home (CGI Perl scripts) // How do they do that with HTML? // Creating HTML -- A simple guide // Authoritative Guide to HTML // THE BARE BONES GUIDE TO HTML // ZSPC Super Color Chart // No Dither Netscape Color Palette // Using Color on Web Pages // HTML examples // CLIENT-SIDE IMAGE MAPS // Special Characters (iso8859-1 table) // Web Review (lots of info) // WWW-related "Stuff" (shareware/freeware) // Stupid Table Tricks // The Single-Pixel GIF Trick // HTML Table Tags Examples II: Advanced // Dmitry Kirsanov's Top Ten Web Design Tips! //

Reference and General Writing Tools
Encyclopedia Britannica (internal only) // Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style // Hypertext Webster Interface // The Virtual Reference Desk //

Other Hotlists and interesting Home Pages
Roy Williams (Caltech) Hot List // S1R Group Hot List // Ed Draper's Home Page // Clifford A. Pickover's Home Page // Pete Riley's page // Mike Boschat's Astronomy Page // Preston Crow's Home Page (Crow's Nest) // Brandon's Totally Incorrect Web Page // Salmon Pond // Jason Mathews // Bob Shannon // Rich Signell's Home Page //


News

Current News on the Web
The Newsroom // USA Today Nationline // Excite Headlines // Reuters News Summary // Pathfinder News Now // Nature magazine What's New //


U.S. Links

Links to states
Washington Post News from the 50 States // PLANET EARTH: United States of America // National Parks by State // National Park Foundation // Data Maps (Census TIGER maps) // United States Highpoints // University Pages // eGO travel information // United States Surface-Water Data Retrieval //


Web pages of local interest

Local
Current local weather report// Maryland Yahoo Page// Maryland · Tourism & Facts// Maryland Net// News clari.local.maryland// Maryland State Archives// Maryland City Net Page// Maryland EINet Galaxy Page// Maryland Outdoor Recreation: Boating, Camping, Fishing, Hiking, Horsback Riding, Hunting, Swimming, Winter Sports// An Appalachian Adventure//  <>  Howard County Chamber of Commerce// WebColumbia // Baltimore Charm Net // Baltimore CityLink // District of Columbia // The Washington DC City Pages // The Washington, D.C. Motorcade // National Address and ZIP+4 Browser // Vietnam Wall Memorial //


Hobbies

Dive Destinations// GORP - Great Outdoor Recreation Pages// An Appalachian Adventure//

Some stereo image links

The Principal of Stereoscopic Viewing// How to See Stereo Modelling Pictures !// STEREO SITES INDEX// Three-Dimensional Imagery// A Collection of 3D pictures //


Education related web pages

Education
United States Universities// K-12// Web66 WWW Schools Registry// General Education// CNIDR Education Servers// The World Lecture Hall// The Globewide Network Academy//


Computer related

Algorithms, Techniques, Specifications
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming // On-Line Computer Graphics Notes // GeoTIFF Resource Pointers //

Software and Commercial sites
The Liverpool (UK) HP-UX Software Archive // Directory of Commercial Services // Commercial Services // IDL Information // Transparent Background Images // FrameMaker // Windows shareware (JASC) // Perl // PC Software: OAK.OAKLAND simtel/win3 //

Computer Hardware and Info
CURT'S HIGH SPEED MODEM PAGE //


Science

Astronomy and Space
Sky & Telescope // Views Of The Solar System // The Nine Planets // Astronomical pictures - Images astronomiques // Sacramento Peak Observatory // Abstract Service // Space Calendar // Comet Shoemaker-Levy Home Page (JPL) // SETI Institute Home Page // billa Comet Shoemaker-Levy Page // Orion and other Starships // The U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) // Keplerian Elements Tutorial // Keplerian Elements Formats // Latest Orbital Element Sets (GFSC) // Latest Orbital Element Sets (U.Alberta) // Mission To Earth: EOS Views the World (Nick Short, Jr.) //

Earth, Sea, and Sky
1 x 1 degree DEM index map from EROS // Western United States Multi-Scale Map // Coordinate Systems Overview // Terrain Modeling Project Office // 1:2,000,000-Scale Digital Line Graph // EROS home page // The Satellite Imagery FAQ // ORES: Online Resources for Earth Scientists // NAU Geology // Geography Links and Sources // Cascades Volcano Observatory // VolcanoWorld // DeLorme Paper Atlas Series // Earth and Environmental Science // Current local weather report // Satellite Images // Antarctic weather images // The Geological Survey of Canada // Scott's Earth Science Site of the Week // Iowa Geological Survey Bureau Home Page // Advanced Cartography Final Projects // Satellite Oceanography Laboratory // Internet Resources for Geographers // GEOSCIENCE-RELATED LINKS // ImageNet // Sprites and Jets // EarthWatch Communications, Inc // Data Maps (Census TIGER maps) // The Terraformers' Guild //

Biology and Medicine
Dale Clark's Brown Recluse Spider Saga // Ebola // CDC Prevention Guidelines // Agriculture-Related Information Systems, Databases, and Datasets //

General
Weather Education Resource Links (plus a lot more) //


Online Reading

InfoSites
The Atomic Duty of Pvt. Bill Bires //
Magazines
PC Magazine // Cyberwest // Nature Magazine // NEXUS magazine // Discovery Channel Online // Pathfinder Home Page // The Electronic Telegraph // The CIA World Factbook, 1993 // Electronic Newstand Gopher // Mother Jones Magazine // Hot List to Campus Newpapers //
Travel Related
ALASKA DIARY // Adventure West On-Line // Travels to Los Alamos, New Mexico // Travels with Samantha // Web Travel Review // Around America by Rail // Maryland Hiking //
Books and Newsletters
The On-line Books Page // The Hacker Crackdown // Books On-line // AstroNet newsletter // Wiretap Books //
Other
Frank's Case Book // US Constitution // US Historical Documents // THE GROOM LAKE DESERT RAT and THE PARANOID NEWS // Make your own Newspaper (CRAYON) // The Risks Digest: Risks to the Public in Computers // Patriot Journal on WWW // Brandon's King James Bible Page // Project Censored: News that did not make the news // Corruption in America // Kerry Lynch // The Environmental Crisis and NASA's Proposal //


Cartoons
Doctor Fun// bizarro// United Media Comics Page//

Online Images
VASC Image Database// 3D Stereoscopic Video Display Project Page// Directory of /pub/images/planets/moon//

Odd or Interesting Places
World Birthday Web (WBW) // Gargoyles at Duke University // The Electric Postcard // Justin's Links from the Underground // GNOME's Science Vessel // WebWorld // ComputerMan // Vegetarian Pages // Welcome to the UCMP // NBS at the University of Minnesota (WWW) // Morning Star Technical Services // Independent Birth of Organisms // OUTRIDER Home Page (some funny stories) // History of Cremation // The High Energy Weapons Archive // HAARP: High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program //

Other pages to link to one of my pages or maps
The Washington, D.C. Motorcade // Discovery Channel Online// Roger Rowlett's Highpoints (for each state)// Lynn Salmon's list of map links// Charm Net Baltimore Page// Andrew Birrell's Relief Maps of the United States// NC State Meteorology (Regional Weather Map)// Amir-Homayoon Najmi's Home Page// ROUTE 66// What's New On the JHU/APL Network// Maps of the Olympic Peninsula (Relief map of the Olympic Peninsula)// The ULTIMATE List of Mineral/Earth Science Information Servers (under Data, Images, Maps and Books)// West Virginia Information Servers// Structural Geology Resources on the World Wide Web// World Christian Resources On The Net// Science: Astronomy: Clubs (coming soon)// D. Allen Bassham's Home Page// Timo Saarinen's Home Page// 910 General Geography:// Yahoo: Science: Geography: Maps (Shaded Relief Maps of the U.S.)// Cartography Resources// California Online Resources for Education (CORE): Gopher Menu// Geographical and Geological Sites// DeLorme Paper Atlas Series// German link to TAMU// Pennsylvania Information Servers// Relief Map of Los Angeles Area // The Iowa Virtual Tourist// Mike and Anthony's Wired Room (the SD map)//