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Activism

-- Club Earth's Homepage. This is an environmental awareness club that I co-founded while I was at Chabot College. It has tips on how to save money while helping the environment, some of our past activities, environmental essays and links to other environmental websites. Since I left Chabot the site has not been updated much but I hope to add stuff as I find time.
-- The Hunger Site. Just by clicking on a banner, you can help make donations of food to places that need it most. A fraction of a cup of food adds up to a lot of food for a lot people if everyone on the net, once a day, visited this site and clicked on a banner. Just imagine, credits towards a place in heaven and it does not cost you a thing.
-- The Rainforest Site. Brought to you by the same folks who built The Hunger Site. Works pretty much the same way. Nothing to buy and a couple of mouse clicks gives you the feeling of making a difference to make this planet a better place for generations yet to come.
-- Webreleaf. Click to plant a tree. Actually for every ten clicks, a tree is planted to restore forest ecosystems that are vital, not only for the plants and animals that share the ecosystem, but for the rest us humans as well since trees help replenish the earth's oxygen supply and purify water.
-- EcologyFund.com. This site helps raise money to protect what left of Amazon Basin Rain Forest, Canadian Wild Lands, American Wilderness, and Patagonian Coastal Reserve. Use their Tell A Friend link to spread the word about EcologyFind.com and they will donate an extra 100 sq. ft. of land to the Amazon Basin Rain Forest fund.
-- DonationJunction. A chance to do goodness all over the world from one place. This site has all the click-to-donate programs that are available on the 'net in one place; well, almost. Doing good deeds has never been easier.

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Science

General

-- New Scientist. My favorite general science magazine. Brief, right to the point, articles make it interesting to read and non-technical language makes science available to the general population.
-- Science Daily. My favorite general science e-zine, although I do not bother with anything other than the physical science news.
-- Eric's Treasure Troves of Science. This is a great place to find general info on Chemistry, Biology and Physics plus few other things. Equations, definitions, history, you name it, this site has it. Well, not exactly, not everything but if you know something about stuff that is not there they will gladly take your submissions but I am not sure how that works so you should check it out for yourself.

Specific
-- SETI@Home. Help find little green men and women. Distributed computing technology allows you to process a little chunk of data received from the largest radio telescope located in Arecibo, Puerto Rico in an effort to find intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy.
-- GLAST. Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope, as the name implies, is a high energy gamma ray orbiting observatory. I am currently working on a small sub-project of GLAST, doing long term testing on silicon detectors.
-- Astronomy Picture of the Day. Great site for a daily picture of different parts and objects of the universe. Has a little description of each picture. Highly recommended.
-- Tesla Research Systems. My friend's Tesla Coils manufacturing company website. I have seen his coils in action and I must say, they are amazing. Has cool pictures of electric arcs. Email him if you want to learn more about Tesla Coils and I am sure he will email you back.
-- Warp Drive, When? Ever wondered about interstellar travel? This site provides a non-technical, no nonsense information on what has been done, what is possible and what are the obstacles we have to overcome in order to travel to the stars.
-- NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program. This site is complimentary to Warp Drive, When? for you folks out there who are into the technical stuff. Has info on current research, theory that will become research and just plain theory which may or may not become research topics.
-- Spacetime Wrinkles. "In 1916, when Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, he made some bold predictions about the nature of the universe. The curvature of space-time and the existence of black holes have been two of the most convincing discoveries in favor of Einstein's theory. Yet, the theory is being put to test to this day, since until every aspect, every prediction made by the theory is confirmed it cannot be considered complete and therefore valid. Gravitational waves are one of the first predictions of Einstein's theory but the most difficult one to validate. As elusive as they are, the detection of gravitational waves will be the most convincing confirmation of Einstein's theory to date." This quote comes from an essay that I wrote about gravitational waves and this site has the necessary background information on understanding gravitational waves, presented in a not too technical language.
-- Human Genome Project. What more can I say. This is probably one of the biggest undertakings of medical science and when it is completed, it will give us wonderful insights into what we now call life. Cures for diseases, longer life and other secrets lie in the human genome waiting to be discovered. A word of warning though, this site makes no attempt to reach out to the general public, however they do have links to press releases and published news articles that will make sense to the average person.
-- General Chemistry. This is a very helpful, general chemistry resource for students and teachers alike. There are tutorials, online quizes, interactive guides, chemistry exam survival guide plus other resources for you to take advantage of.

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Computers

Games

-- DX-Ball. A great Breakout clone for arcade fans. I remember, as a kid in Fiji, never having enough change or the time to enjoy this games although I liked it very much. Now I do not need change, I have all the time in the world (not really) so it was lucky for me to stumble across this game.
-- Vintage Gaming. If you miss old arcade games like Dig-Dug, Breakout, Galaga and others, I suggest you check this site out. It has tons of resources on emulaters (programs that mimic arcade type machines) that will help turn your computer into your own personal arcade station. Has hundreds if not all old arcade games available. You will need to download ROMs (the actual game files) and an emulater (eg MAME32) to play the games.
-- Wing Commander: Secret Ops. This is not a demo or shareware! It is a full length game brought to you by the creators of Wing Commander series (as a way of saying thanks to all the Wing Commander fans out there, I guess). The initial download is over 100 megabytes (this is where GoZilla! [look in utilities below] comes in handy if you have a slow connection to the internet) but subsequent missions are relatively small. Has killer graphics, new ships and is pretty challenging.

Utilities

-- Cookie Cop. Worried that your wanderings on the internet is monitored. Fear no more. This very handy and free utility only allows exchanges of cookies that you authorize. Works with Netscape and/or Internet Explorer. Also available is Cookie Cop Plus, an addon program, that lets you restrict access to hate related or pornographic sites.
-- DateTime. Does your computer sometimes fall behind on keeping time or tries to tell you that you a day or so behind your schedule? Well, this little program will take care of that. Get the most accurate time as kept using atomic clocks on various government organizations and update your system clock immediately.
-- GoZilla! The best download manager out there. Searches the webs for alternative, faster servers worldwide to bring you the fastest download possible. Has a resume feature that lets you continue downloads later if you decide to stop for some reason or become disconnected. The channels feature lets you review new freeware and shareware and download them from various download sites. There are actually two versions of this program. The freeware version displays banner ads and does not have all the features of the full version. I use the freeware version and cannot think of how the non-freeware version could be any better.
-- Arachnophilia. This is CareWare (Check out the website for more info). I think that CareWare a pretty good idea. It is still a fully pretty good fully functional program that is free. Arachnophilia is a text-based HTML editor. It has a lot of cool features that make HTML editing so much easier like color coding tags, site analysis, beautify script, ability to create custom buttons to insert commonly used HTML code, ability to create custom keyboard macros, etc, etc. Most of this website was created using Arachnophilia.
-- SETI@Home. SETI@Home is a screensaver program that you can run on your computer to help determine whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in our galaxy. The program has two modes, run always (use this feature only if you have more than 64megs of RAM) or run when computer is idle. You get ranked according to how many data sets you have analyzed and join/form teams, if you want, to see how your team ranks with others. But of course this makes things just a little more interesting; the main purpose of the program remains scientific and whatever help you provide, in terms of computer power, is much appreciated.
-- RamBooster. Do not expect this program to double the amount of RAM memory you have. But you can expect this program to monitor how much free RAM memory you have avaliable and with a click of a button free up memory without have to reboot your computer or close programs. Can be setup such that RamBooster automatically tries to free a specified amount of memory if it falls below a specified alarm level.
-- Freeware Network. Tons of free goodies ranging from very useful business utilities to fun, time-wasting games. Added descriptions and ratings makes it easy to decide whether you will find a particular freeware worth your download time and bandwidth.

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Education

General

-- How Stuff Works. Ever wondered how a computer works or maybe how a cars works or what makes lightening. Well if you did not find the answer then, check out this site and it will very likely have answers to common questions children and adults usually ask and some uncommon answers to uncommon questions as well.
-- Askme. If you did not find your answer at How Stuff Works then check out this website to post your question to volunteers all over the world willing to further your knowlegde. I use this to both pose and answer questions and have found it very helpful in both the answers I received and the review I had to do to answer questions that were asked of me. Check out my AskMe profile.
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