Broadcast Equipment Manufacturers

Nautel Manufacturer of excellent, extraordinarily reliable AM and FM broadcast transmitters.  KNOM's has not failed once.
Prophet Systems  Reliable, full-featured radio broadcast automation systems.  At KNOM, we love ours!
Aphex  Systems  Astounding professional audio processing.  We use their 2020 FM processor, which is astonishing.
 

Other Broadcast Links

Audio from classic radio jocks
Jim Hawkins' Broadcast Technology Page  An astonishingly rich site, with photos, information and links of interest to broadcast engineers
1955 RCA Broadcast News article on WLDB-AM Atlantic City, NJ,  where I once worked
fybush.com.  Scott Fybush "lives, breathes, sleeps and eats North American radio and television."  Don't miss the Tower Site of the Week, and tons of fascinating archives of interest to broadcast fans.  For me, a fascinating site.
 Countdown clock to the end of analog television transmission, courtesy of the Association for Maximum Service Television

Webcams

Top 25 webcam sites  
NOAA  live webcam at the North Pole!
University of New South Wales live webcam at the South Pole!  (and links to Antarctic weather conditions and other information)

Language and Wordplay Sites

Make an anagram
Translations into hacker, redneck, pig Latin, and the Swedish Chef!
Misheard song lyrics (such as "Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you") from kissthisguy.com
Wonderful "George of the Jungle" script piece.  I have lost its original URL source.
Dictionaries for 17 languages
Like crossword puzzles?
Dictionary of British slang by J. M. Duckworth
Learn survival Chinese from chinatour.com
Bad Scrabble Hands
Tom Swiftie sites.  "I've dropped the toothpaste," Tom said, crestfallen."  Mark Wutka's.  Mark Israel's, including a formal definition of the humor genre.  More from Web English Teacher.
wordcount.org.  Find the usage ranking of your favorite word among the 86,800 words in their database.  (Bummer: the word xiphiplastral is not in there.)
Lorem ipsum generator.  Generate random Latin text for formatting documents, from lipsum.com.

Astronomy/Space Links

Sky and Telescope magazine
Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft images
Galileo spacecraft images of Jupiter and its moons
Hubble Space Telescope images
THE Hubble galaxy image, Ursa Major, a region the size of a dime viewed from 75 feet, showing 1,500 galaxies
Gallery of GeoEye, with high resolution satellite imagery.  A nifty site!
NASA-based 3-D image of 500 current satellite positions in real time, designed by Patrick Meyer. Fascinating!
Incredible calendar/time page with many celestial links.  This page is almost overwhelming.
badastronomy.com debunks "urban legends" of astronomy and earth science.  No, sinks don't drain in one direction in the Northern Hemisphere and the other in the Southern Hemisphere.  There is no "Planet X."  Etc.
SpaceWeather.com, a fascinating site with news and images concerning the earth/sun environment
An astronomy image a day from NASA, with archives dating to 1996.  That's more than 3,200 images!  Search by calendar or by category, or just enjoy today's.
Extensive information on 2003 UB₃₁₃, the most distant planet? discovered in our solar system, from Michael Brown's discovery team page.
Mars images, including recent ones, from the Mars Odyssey Mission, with lots of features from Arizona State University.
Archive of NASA's interesting daily astronomical photos
High resolution video, looking forward, from  Japan's Kaguya orbiter's view of the moon as it orbits from 62 miles up.  Taken October 31, 2007.
Stunning images and flash videos of Saturn and its moons from the Cassini spacecraft team
Satellite tracking page by N2YO.
Tour Jon Lomberg's Hawaiian Galaxy Garden to get a sense of scale of our Milky Way galaxy.

Comics and Cartoons

Disney comic characters - the duck universe.  E.g.  What colors did Huey, Dewey and Louie wear?
Mother Goose and Grimm by Mike Peters
comics.com from United Media, with 90 strips, including "For Better or For Worse" and "9 Chickweed Lane"
"Tundra" comic strip by Chad Carpenter
 

Movies/Television

Movie goofs from nitpickers.com
Internet Movie Database with a boggling amount of information.  Who was Vance Colvig, Jr.?  Who was his dad Pinto?
Over 200 bloopers from the Star Wars series of movies
Vote on when your favorite TV show "Jumped the Shark" (first lost its edge)
Robby the Robot site, with lots of information on this Hollywood "robot" star of 1957's "Forbidden Planet," arguably the first A-budget science fiction film.
metacritic.com provides distilled movie reviews by 35 critics, as well as from people like you and me.
imdb.com, the Internet Movie Data Base
 

Software

The Panorama Factory, a stunning shareware program that stitches images into panoramas.  Powerful, and at $35, inexpensive, too.
 

Humor Sites

The Onion, the web's funniest newspaper
The scientific method applied to Hostess Twinkies
Just Born, manufacturer of Marshmallow Peeps (not a humorous site, but a balance to  peepresearch.org, a hilarious peep investigative site
The opposite of motivational office art:  photographic prints depicting ineptitude, mediocrity, etc.
KIRO Seattle's daveross.com, including links to Dave's "Chip Talk" and much thought-provoking and fun material
dumb.com, with lots of dumb products, some of which you have to see to believe!
tomcruiseisnuts.com  The name says it all.
customize comic Windows XP error messages at atom.smasher.org.  Have a blast.
The Vegetable Rights Militant Movement.  I sure hope it's intended as a humorous site!

Numbers

Bill Gates' wealth expressed in terms folks like us can understand
Generate random numbers from Fourmilab Switzerland, using a Geiger Counter's detection of the decay of Krypton-85
Currency converter
Inflation Calculator, by Morgan Friedman.  Determine the relative value of cash for dates between 1800 and 2002
 

Places and People

salary.com -- calculate your theoretical earning potential
bestplaces.net.  Compare US cities, such as, say,  Nome, AK and Fargo, ND.  Note:  some Nome data is inaccurate.
CIA World Fact Book with country profiles.  Easily answer questions such as: Who owns the Spratley Islands? (they're disputed)  How many Tajikistani somoni to the dollar?  (2.2)  Where is Comoros?  (In the Mozambique Channel)
Social Security Administration's baby names page.  A wealth of information!

  Joe Davis'  accounts (1, 2)  of a teaching trip to Afghanistan, with stunning photos.  Check out the thermometer reading 135.8º in the shade:  Joe said the thermometer would quit above 140º.
 

Favorite Places

Conestoga Style Pizza, Rosemont, PA.  The center of the known universe, if you like Philly-style cheese steak or Italian hoagies.  Sadly, this domain has disappeared.  I hope the restaurant has not done the same.

Image of Conestoga Style Pizza, September 2002

Even More Miscellaneous

National Hot Dog and Sausage Council with hot dog information and...links
Reference books, such as Gray's Anatomy, on line, by bartleby.com
Pickled Garlic recipes.  Wow!
Satellite/Geodetic Survey Images for most Lower 48 locations; in Alaska, only Anchorage
thesmokinggun.com, with incriminating documents describing your favorite celebrity's misdeeds
Don Lancaster's home page.  Look for his "featured tutorials" on topics from web design to pseudoscience.
www.worldtimezone.com by Alexander Krivenyshev.  Learn what time it is anywhere.
History of Cartography by Tony Campbell of the British Library, with many interesting links if you like maps.
Norma "Duffy" Lyon's life-size sculptures made of dairy butter, including the Last Supper, at thebuttercowlady.com.
FlightView from RLM software.  Graphically track any airline flight in the United States -- or all of them at once.
Structural analysis of why the WTC buildings collapsed, from the University of Sydney
Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age
History of food timeline by the Morris County, NJ Library, with hundreds of links, ranging from the beginning of agriculture (10,000 BC) to the introduction of the grape tomato (1998), including many historic recipes.  You could spend days rooting around this fascinating site.
The Spamhouse Project, fighting and tracking the Internet's worst spammers
Yugo Nakamura's unique digital clock, on yugop.com
Mosquito movies, such as Aeres Sollicitans Inserting Proboscis into Host, from Rutgers University
"Dr. Bombay's Stuff," links to many computer solutions, and with an attitude, by Michael Gerst
The Skeptic's Dictionary:  a reference book that debunks many common beliefs
Along the same lines, TruthOrFiction.com, a web site devoted to debunking rumors and urban legends
A.L.I.C.E., a chatbot at the A.L.I.C.E. A I Foundation, an improvement from the old ELIZA Fortran  program.  Carry on a conversation with a virtual person!
satanslaundromat.com.  You'll immediately discover the humorous reason for the name, and find literally hundreds of photographis of various areas of New York City, some of them absolutely stunning.  Among my friends, this site has kept everybody in rapt attention.
Calculate the bee-line distance from almost any point on earth to any other, thanks to indo.com.  Also, links to currency exchange rates and easy Indonesian.
Global Consciousness Project
The Abacus.  A site with fascinating information on this ancient calculator.  When we visited Provideniya, USSR in 1989, the stores used them.
thememoryhole.org, Russ Kick's site with information you're not supposed to have, such as a 9/11 United flight 93 air traffic control recording.
explodingdog.com, a collaborative art project by Sam Brown, with really weird angst-ridden drawings.
Fun fireworks on the New Jersey Assembly of God's Youth Page
International Confederation of Competitive Eating.  The name speaks for itself.
papertoys.com.  Free paper models of the Taj Mahal, Wrigley Field, and even Bruce Lee.  Incredible!
The Brick Testament by Rev. Brendan Powell Smith.  The Bible, portrayed in Lego art.  Whoa.
Things You Never Knew Existed that are on sale on line.
The Gigapxl Project, documenting American scenes with one gigapixel resolution
Video of Chris Bliss, an astonishingly dazzling juggler. 

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