The Internaut's Traveling Companion

Places to go, things to see.

The Condiment Packet Museum, The Gallery of Nose Art Babes, and The Museum of HP Calculators.

Isn't the Web grand?

New to the Net
A brief beginners guide.

NPR Online
Radio intelligence.
The Internet Movie Database [IMDb]
Listings of films and stars, all cross linked for your surfing pleasure.
Robin Garr's Wine Lovers' Page
What's your pleasure?.
Content rich, wine appreciation on the Web.
Cartalk
Tom & Ray: NPR's auto mechanic superstars.
Travelocity
Travel Reservations, Informations and Merchandise, etc.
Amazon.com Books! Earth's Biggest Bookstore.
Internet commerce done right.
Search though over 2.5 million titles, most at a discount.
Dilbert
$2,500 for a computer so you can read a comic strip.

Toto, I have a feeling that we're not in Kansas anymore. --Dorothy Gale

HotWired
The online sibling of Wired magazine.
All About the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Defending you cyber civil rights.
Abandoned Missile Base VR Tour
Dr. Strangelove, we hardly knew you.
The New Hacker's Dictionary
The Jargon File: a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang.
How to tell the Wizards from the Wannabees.

Greed is Good --Gordon Gecko

Money and Investing: Model Portfolios for Asset Allocation
Several random ideas for asset allocation from the Old Internaut.
Investor's Business Daily
The online edition of the great source of investor information and wisdom.
MartinWeiss.com
Safe Money Report and other useful, ideosyncratic information.
The Motley Fool
The Famous Semi-Contrarians from AOL.
TheStreet.com
Cramer talks, should you listen?
Morningstar: Stocks, Mutual Funds and Investing
Plenty of useful information from the folks who gave us the not so useful star ratings.
BigCharts: Stock Charts, Sdreeners, Interacive Charts and Research Toools
Lots of useful info, too.
SEC Filings
A little light reading.
The Wall Street Journal Online
The Wall Street Journal has a rich Free Features section.
Quote.com
One of the best of the free and not so free streaming (15 minute delayed) quote sites.
Quiken Home Page
The website of the worlds most popular personal finance software.
CBOE Options Quote Tables
Options quotes 20 minutes delayed, from The Chicago Board Options Exchange.
The Red Herring
The Business of Technology.
From the Land of Vulture Capitalists.
Fast Company
How Smart Business Works.
The New World of Work.
ICLUBcentral
An internet directory for investors.
Heavy on NAIC, DRIPs, and CANSLIM.
The Gilder Technology Report
The investment newsletter.
Motto: Nothing but the Net.
Lost me lots of money in the 90's.

RealData - Real Estate Investment and Development Software
The real deal. Do the numbers, or the numbers will do you.

Microsoft Developers Network
Know how from Chairman Bill and the microserfs.
Dr. Dobb's Journal
Just what the doctor ordered.
Windows Development Exchange
The online site for Visual Basic Programmer's Journal, etc.

DV Live Magazine
Digital Video Magazine in digital form.
RES The Magazine of Digital Filmmaking
The Future of Filmmaking.
D.FILM Digital Film Festival - reinventing the medium.
A traveling and online showcase of films made with the new filmmaking technology.
The Blue Screen / Chroma Key Page
A great place to start for all your compositing needs.
Videoguys.com - The Electronic Mailbox
Another place to buy stuff, plus the home of The Desk Top Video Video Handbook On Line Version 10.0.
Digital Juice
Great royalty free professional animations, layered graphics, sound effects, etc.

Photoworkshop.com
Photographer Robert Farber's 3D, VR photography seminar and gallery.
One of the best sites the web has to offer!
The Kitchen
The New York Performance Art Space's Web Site.
The U.S. Constitution
Know it. Use it. Defend it.
DScriptorium Home Page
Go to the source. Original texts from the depths of history.

She blinded me with science! -- Thomas Dolby

Roentgen X-ray Centennial
The 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Invisible Light.
The Virtual Museum of Computing
You don't need to stand on line for the exhibits in this museum.
NASA/Kennedy Space Center Home Page
From historical archives to the next space shuttle countdown.
National Hurricane Center
Watch the skies...
The National Library of Medicine
Has a great History of Medicine division with a great picture archive.
The Oath of Hippocrates and The Oath of Miamonides
Two different views of medical ethics.

I think it would be fun to run a newspaper. -- Charles Foster Kane

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
The guru of web standards.
css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
A designers playground. Styling the same source code in a myriad of ways.
Kaliber10000 { The Designers' Lunchbox ™ }
Idiosyncratic design inspiration.
Authentic Boredom ~ Delivered weekly by Cameron Moll
Home page for another great web designer. Zeldman calls it “Minimal/Gothic”.
/* Position Is Everything */ — Modern browser bugs explained in detail!
Bug fixes for all occations (and browsers).
Hillman Curtis
The Original Flash Oracle.
VisiBone
Web Design Reference Guides. Cool Tools.
W3 - The World Wide Web Consortium.
The official governing body of the Web.
Site Builder Network
From that small company in Washington state.
Web Developer Magazine
Tricks of the trade from the online cousin of one of the early print web magazines.
webreference.com
The Webmaster's Reference Library.
Wow! More tools for Web mastery than you can shake a mouse at.
The HTML Writes Guild Website
The first international organization of World Wide Web page authors and Internet Publishing professionals.
Web Design from Scratch
A great resource, including a Web 2.0 how-to design guide.
37signals
Developers of web based applications such as Basecamp, Highrise, and Backpack, as well as Ruby on Rails and the ebook, Getting Real.

Yahoo - A guide to WWW
The definitive.
Firefox
Our favorite browser.
Network Solutions
The dot com folks, formerly known as InterNIC Registration Services.
The keeper of the holy net address book.
Babblefish
Alta Vista' translation service.
Fun and mostly useful.
BigBook Directory Search
US Business listings for all occasions.
Switchboard
Let you modem do the walking. Phone directories from across the U.S.
Yahoo! People Search
The Internet White Pages. EMail listings and more.
MapQuest!
On line, real time, interactive street maps on any address in the U.S.
Actually useful, as well as fascinating.
Google
Yes, that search tool, and lifestyle substitute.