Here is a set of links that I have found useful:

• Search Engines and Indexes
• Google. Apparently, it's even a verb now.
• Yahoo.
• Alta Vista advanced search.
• HotBot.
• Lycos.
• Google Image Search.
• Dictionaries and Other Language Stuff
• The DICT Group's facility for searching multiple on-line dictionaries simultaneously.
• Dictionary.Com, a similar utility, with some other useful facilities, too (thesaurus, foriegn language dictionaries, etc.).
• The Wordsmyth, a dictionary that is pretty good at guessing the word that you meant to type.
• Matisse Enzer's online glossary of Internet terms.
• Rob Slade's glossary of communications, computer, data, and information security terms.
• An on-line thesaurus.
• A pretty good French-English/English-French dictionary.
• Other Reference Tools
  • The Wikipedia.
  • The Encarta online encyclopedia .
  • Switchboard's nationwide yellow and white pages.
  • Atlases from the University of Texas at Austin.
  • US street maps and directions from MapQuest.
  • US street maps, directions, and satellite photos from Yahoo.
  • World time zone map.
  • Universal currency converter.
  • The Snopes website on urban legends.
  • How Stuff Works.
  • About.com.

• Web- and Computer-related Resources
  • The NCSA's excellentBeginner's Guide to HTML - I highly recommend the "minimal html file" from this site.
  • Style Guide for Online Hypertext from the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium -- the group that hammers out Web specifications). This document describes what constitutes good, platform-independent HTML. It's slightly out of date, but still, more people need to read it.
  • Answers to the top 10 myths about copyright law and how it relates to the Internet.
  • Information on computer viruses and computer virus hoaxes from UM's ITCS. I suggest that if you receive a warning about a virus, you should check this information first before forwarding a warning to anyone. Viruses can be harmful. So can MILLIONS of well intentioned false alarms that clog mailboxes and network connections.
  • The Graphics File Formats Page(s).
  • A link to Karl Sims'evolved, locomoting virtual block creatures (click the MPEG lonk on this page).

• Architecture-Related Reference Links
  • UM Image Library Search.
  • Great Buildings Online.
  • Link to the UM-licensed Architectural Graphic Standards.
  • Michigan AIA.
  • National AIA.

• A Few Digital Fabrication Links
• Chroma foamcutters.
• A cheap foamcutter. I don't know what its quality is like.
• One of the few lasercutting services that states their prices on the web.
• Other Universtity of Michigan Links
• The University of Michigan.
• College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
• MERLYN.
• Web Mail.
• Wolverine Access (password required).
• Information Technology Division.
• The UMCE page, that you use at the U of M to look up or change information about your Univeristy computing account.
• How to get one of the basicU of M Internet Access Kits that you can install on your home or office computer if you are U of M faculty or staff, or a U of M student.
• The U of M Rideboard.
• CAD Links
• The Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)-- a society of CAD researchers, primarily in North America.
• Education in Computer-Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe)-- a society of CAD researchers, primarily in Europe.
• Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)-- a society of CAD researchers, primarily in Asia and the Pacific.
• Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital (SIGRADI) -- a society of CAD researchers, primarily in Latin America.
• The International Journal of Design Computing -- an on-line publication of the University of Sydney's Key Centre for Design Computing.
• CumInCAD -- A cumulative index of papers presented at CAD conferences around the world.
• Case-based reasoning site at ASU.
• Genetic Algorithm and Fly Morphology Links
• Repeated Structure and Dissociation of Genotypic and Phenotypic Complexity in Artificial Ontogeny.
• Another .PDF that I wanted to go back to.

• Comics
• UComics.Com.
• Comics.Com.
• Piled Higher and Deeper .
• Dungeon Crawl, Inc.
• Fuzzy Knights .
• The Order of the Stick .
• Game Links
• UPuzzles on-line games.
• Popcap on-line games.
• GameHouse online games.
• Wolverine Game Club schedule.
• Scared online Java-based first-person shooter.
• Lazylaces index of new online "click games."
• "3 Wish Rat" click game.
• Musashi's Street Fighter RPG page on-line games.
• The Diplomatic Pouch -- an on-line resources about the Hasbro's board game Diplomacy, which has a surprisingly large and enduring following.
• UComics.Com.
• Job Links
• Monster.Com.
• Yahoo HotJobs.
• AcademicKeys.Com.
• HigherEdJobs.Com.
• ACSA Job Center.
• AIA Career Center.
• AutoDesk Jobs.
• Other Links
• Weather Channel weather for Ann Arbor.
• CNN News.
• ABC News.
• TV Listings from TV Guide.
• Movie Listings for Ann Arbor, from Yahoo.
• The Internet Movie Database.
• WebMD.
• Product reviews.
• Autoshop 101 -- Info about how cars work.
• Sperling's Best Places cost-of-living calculator.
• UPS package tracking.
• DHL package tracking.
• Reaper Miniatures.
• The Elfwood on-line amateur fantasy art gallery.

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Last update: August 23, 2005

Scott Johnson (sven@umich.edu)