Scott McGregor's Favorite WWW Links Page

Information, Fun & Games

• The latest news items are available on San Jose Mercury News, PC Week, Computerworld, Infoworld, USA Today, or search the AP, NYT and other newspapers on the News Page.
• Get stock quotes from SECAPL or USA Today, Graphs, a NASDAQ summary, and a Software summary.
• The Internet has a wealth of information on topics such as: Weather Maps and Photographs, Earthquakes, CPU Performance, William Shakespeare, Sports Information, (800) Phone Numbers, Maps, Wine, Patents, Music, Science Fiction, Stereograms, Bay Area Real Estate, Pi to 1,254,539 digits, Movies, US Census Info, and Hubble Space Telescope Pictures.
• Read about Chile Peppers and then order the hottest pepper sauces imaginable from HotHotHot!.
• Pick a place for dinner in the Bay Area Restaurant Guide, or the Peninsula Restaurant Guide. Afterwards, stay in a hotel or B&B listed in the San Francisco Reservations list.
• Visit art exhibits at the Library of Congress, starting at the EXPO Ticket Office, then see the sights at Le Louvre, including (besides the masters) a good collection of M.C. Escher.
• There is excellent travel information on the net, including the US State Department's Travel Advisories, GNN's Travel Resource Center, SUNY/Buffalo's Virtual Tourist interactive system, and the University of Manitoba's Travel Library. See also some excellent home pages for Japan and most of the European Countries.
• See Dilbert and Doctor Fun cartoons.
• Get a personal Tarot Reading.
• Learn about how to do business in Japan from the US-Japan Technology Management Center.
• If you're feeling bad today, see who is worse off in the Obituary Page, or see who wants to die on Highway 17.

Links to Other Places

• Probably the richest sets of links are Yahoo, Lycos, and AltaVista.
• There's an excellent Directory of (nearly) all companies doing business on the internet, or check out the California Yellow Pages.
• The latest New Stuff on NCSA.
• The Whole Internet Catalog.
• EINet's Galaxy and other Jewels.
• Home pages from technology companies: SCO, Apple, DEC, Hitachi, HP, Microsoft, Novell, SGI, Sun, Xerox.

Cool Commercial Examples

• Get the best price on a Rock/Pop CD with an agent that searches all of the virtual stores on the internet from Smart Store.
• Order pizza on the internet from PizzaHut.

Concept Demos

• Your tax dollars at work; here's a direct link to the White House
• An internet directory assistance service is available from Four11.
• Use the US Census Tiger Map Server to make a Map of where you live.
• If you wonder if there's fresh coffee brewed at the Univerity of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in England, you can get an updated-every-second picture of their Coffee Pot, or see CMU's online Coke Machine. Also check out other Machines on the Net.

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