Cool Links!

New York City & Northern New Jersey

People and places around the New York City tri-state region.

• New York, NY has its own official space on the Internet. You can learn a bit about the city and its government.
• New York has a CitySearch web site which is very useful for finding out about all sorts of businesses around the city.
• Check out NEXRAD weather radar for New York City (LaGuardia Airport). There's also a radar summary page, which has less resolution but shows cloud tops and the movement patterns of precipitation. For the ultimate in close-ups, The Weather Channel's radar for New York City will show you precipitation echoes precise enough to tell you what towns it's raining in.
• New York's famous daily, the New York Times, provides New York and the world with daily news and features. You'll have to register to view most news articles, but it's free.
• WNYC is New York's classical music public radio station, listened to locally on 93.9 FM and 820 AM.
• The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey operates most mass transit systems within New York City, including buses, subways, airports, and ferries. It's a little overwhelming, but a very informative site. Mass transit is very important throughout NYC because cars are such an incredible pain to own and use.
• New Jersey Transit has, after three years of being the worst web site in the state, cleaned up their act! Bus and train schedules for lines throughout New Jersey are available here.
• HX is a visitor's guide to gay life in the New York (and a good reference for locals, too).

Directory Resources

There is just so much stuff around the World Wide Web that trying to find anything or anyone is an occupation unto itself. Luckily, there are some well-established meta-information repositories that you can refer to when you need to find something on-line.

• The matriarch of all search engines, whether or not any others overtake it in size, is Yahoo. If it's out there, it's in here.
• AltaVista is not as neatly organized as Yahoo! but it is far more vast.
• Yahoo! People Search, formerly Four11 Directory Services is the on-line equivalent of the white pages. You can list as little or as much information here as you want. This is usually where I will keep my most up-to-date public information.

Gay & Lesbian Resources

These are some of the more useful sites I've found that contain information of interest to people interested in gay and lesbian studies.

• The Queer Resources Directory is the largest on-line compilation of lesbian, gay, and bisexual resources anywhere. Most of the other stuff that this page points to is also in the QRD.
• For fun in New York City, check out HX, a visitor's guide to gay life in the city (and a good reference for locals, too).
• Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) is an organization of interest to people who aren't gay, lesbian, or bisexual themselves, but know someone very close to them who is.
• The Gay and Lesbian Arabic Society (GLAS) is an organization for gay, lesbian, and bisexual people of Arab descent.
• Utopia is a resource site of particular interest to gay, lesbian, and bisexual Asian people.
• Trikone Magazine offers a resource to non-heterosexual people originating from South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tibet). There's also a Khush Mailing List, which has existed since 1993.
• The Advocate, America's oldest running national gay periodical.

Computer Science and Society Organizations

These are organizations that are of interest to people in computer science and related fields, including the impact of computer technology on our lives.

• PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a public-key encryption system that allows for both extremely secure encryption and formidable digital signatures. (I have a page of my own which has my public key; this key can also be found on your friendly neighborhood key server.)
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been working for a number of years advocating for users on-line.
• EPIC - The Electronic Privacy Information Center.
• The Center for Democracy and Technology.
• The List may be the only source of information you'll ever need for first-glance research on Internet service providers (ISPs) around the world.

Miscellaneous Sites

Okay, so I was too lazy to categorize the remaining stuff. It just wasn't worth it. But you still might find something useful in here.

• The comic strip "Dilbert" is immensely popular among techno-geeks, but almost anyone who's ever had a boss will probably appreciate it. The strips shown here are one week behind their official publication dates in newspapers.
• A database of ZIP+4 codes is maintained by the United States Postal Service (USPS). This is an on-line interface to the same database that the USPS sells to organizations who need to access this information in bulk. (This interface is great for looking up individual addresses, however.)
• The White House. Need we say more?
• Looking to go somewhere? Check out Travelocity.com.
• Outpost.com (formerly known as Cyberian Outpost) is an on-line store which sells computer software and hardware for Macintoshes and PC clones.
• Being a coffee lover, I thought you might like to know more about one of my favorite beverages. The Coffee FAQ will tell you everything you've always wanted to know about coffee, and more.