Lloyd Watts' Favorite Web Sites
Financial Stuff
Search Engines
- goto.com
- Alta Vista Advanced Search
- Zip2 (directions)
- Yahoo
- go2net.com
- Who Where?
- InfoSeek
- Search
- Magellan
- Lycos
- Excite
- DejaNews
- OpenText
- Inktomi
- Dialog (paid service)
- Knight-Ridder (paid service)
- Inspec
- Science Citation Index (paid service)
On-Line Banking/Investing
- Wells Fargo On-Line
- First USA
- Principal Financial Group (old)
- Mid-Atlantic Pension Group (new)
- Datek On-Line Trading
- Schwab
- BigCharts
- Yahoo Stock Quotes
- Vanguard Mutual Funds
- Gruntal Technology Mutual Fund
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Gomez (rates internet brokers and bankers)
- The Motley Fool
- E-Trade
- AmeriTrade
- Sure Trade
- SEC/APL Stock Quotes
- Exchange Rates
- Intuit (Quicken)
- Web Turbo Tax
- First USA
- First Virtual
- Washington Mutual
- Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad
- John T. Reed (real estate investing), critical assessment of Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad
- BuyandHold.com
- Sharebuilder.com
- UCAP tax lien certificates, tax liens.com
News / Magazines
- Slate
- Time Magazine
- Fortune
- People Magazine
- Entertainment Weekly
- Pathfinder (Time Warner's central site)
- San Jose Mercury
- USA Today
- Point Cast Network
- Palo Alto Daily News
- Palo Alto Weekly
- Metro
- Bay Area Musician
General Reference / Literature
- Literature On-Line (Darwin, Doyle, etc.)
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
- Encyclopedia Britannica On-line
- Periodic Table of Elements
- On-Line Web Elements
- U.S. Gazetteer (map and census information)
- How Stuff Works.Com
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Directions
Television Listings
Movies / Events / Concerts / Tickets
- MovieLink
- Bass Tickets
- Metro
- Bay Area Musician
- Concert Search
- Concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Ticket Master Home Page
- Ticket Master California Concerts
- Great American Music Hall
- Yoshi's
- Ultimate Band List
- Palo Alto Weekly
- Shoreline Amphitheater
Tax Related
- Web Turbo Tax
- IRS Forms
- California Tax Forms
- US Tax Code
- California Tax Code (Contents)
- California Tax Code (Sections)
Immigration
Other Government Services
- US Postal Service
- California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
- The White House
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- FBI
- CIA
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Canadian Passport Office
- Canadian Consulate in Los Angeles
- U.S. Gov't Printing Office
- Mountain View Local Business Requirements
Technology / Business / Politics
- 21st
- Upside
- Red Herring
- Upside's ongoing diary of startup Diba
- Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
- Brentwood Venture Partners
- Byte
- William Bridges' JobShift
- Newt Gingrich interview by Esther Dyson
- "Intellectual Value" by Esther Dyson
- Esther Dyson's EDVenture
- George Gilder articles
- CNIDR Patents
- Marvin Minsky
Communications Technology
Homeowners
The Game of Go
Direct Marketing / Small Business
- Brad Richdale
- Kitchen Table Millionaire
- Don Lancaster's Incredible Secret Money Machine
- Mountain View Local Business Requirements
Books
- Amazon Bookstore
- BiblioFind (used books online)
- Computer Literacy Bookstore
- Barnes And Noble
- Nolo Press
Libraries
- Silicon Valley Library System (searchable)
- Palo Alto Public Library
- Sunnyvale Public Library
- Mountain View Public Library
Humor
- My Joke Collection (password protected)
- Dilbert
- Mirsky's Worst of the Web
- Monty Python
- Official Darwin Awards
- Apple News
- Bill Gates Net Worth
Airlines
Arithmos Related
- Arithmos
- Vivid Semiconductor
- Hitachi
- NeoMagic
- D. Hopper's Technical Links
- Fire Wire Organization
- Fire Wire Links
- Adaptec Fire Wire Description
- TI's Fire Wire Page
- Chris Kendall's EMI Testing Labs
- Data Compression FAQ
- JPEG FAQ
- Silicon Image
- National Semiconductor
- Texas Instruments
- VESA
- Analog Devices
- ICS
Engineering
Handheld PCs
Chip Design
- Magic (IC layout tool)
- IC CAD FAQ
- Tanner Research
- Physcmp MOSIS page
- MOSIS home page
- MOSAID
- Avanti (or is it Avant!)
- PMC-Sierra
- TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor)
- CSM (Chartered Semiconductor)
- Listing of IC Mfgrs, CAD Companies, etc.
- Berkeley Intelligent RAM (IRAM) project
- Bob Zeidman Verilog Consultant
- UC Berkeley Extension
Music (Equipment / Software / Suppliers)
- Music Mart
- CD World
- Commercial Music Resources
- Cakewalk, Cakewalk User's Group
- Opcode (MusicQuest 2PortSE support)
- MediaTriX (AudioTriX sound card)
- GoldWave
- CoolEdit
- Winamp MP3 player
- Marantz PMD 201 Musician's Cassette Deck #1, #2
- GeneralMusic
- Alesis NanoPiano
- Alesis NanoPiano
- Alesis NanoBass
Music (News and General Info)
- Harmony Central
- Musician's Referral BBS
- Ultimate Band List
- Christine Insell's Bay Area Music Scene
- ba.music Newsgroup
- Wedding Dance Song List
- Bay Area Musician
- Rolling Stone Magazine
- Metro
- Concert Search
- PBS
- South Bay Folks Open Mic at Intermission Cafe in San Jose
- Yoshi's
- Palo Alto Weekly
- Stanford CCRMA
- Stanford Jazz Workshop
- UNC Music Tutorial Library
Music (Artists)
- Soul Commitment
- Marsalis on Music
- Dave Grusin
- Elton John
- James Taylor
- Billy Joel
- Bruce Hornsby
- Harry Connick, Jr.
- Carole King
- Diana Krall
- Chick Corea
- GRP Index
- Ben Folds Five
- Steve Winwood
- Windham Hill Label
- Anton Schwartz Trio
- the girl and i
- Primarily A Capella
- jhno (John Eichenseer)
- Vienna Teng
- Mark Levine
- Reed Kohtler
- Louie Louie Page
SongWriting
- Singer's Workshop
- Singing For a Living by Marta Woodhull
- Taxi (A&R demo submission)
- Billboard
- Tim Sweeney's Guide to Releasing Independent Records
- Rein Menke's Songwriting Course
- Seth Jackson's Songwriting Page
- Hollywood U. Songwriting Books
- L.A. Songwriter's Showcase
- Berklee College of Music
Music/Spatial Skills/Learning/Emotion
- Rauscher article
- Tunes for the Brain
- Details of Study
- NAMM Music and Education Page
- Berkeley Psychophysiology Laboratory
- Bibliography of Hearing References
Graphics
- SIGGRAPH
- SIGGRAPH Bibliography search
- Graphics resource index
- Computer Graphics Job Listings
- Persistence of Vision (POV) Ray Tracer
- Ulead's Morph Studio
- bCAD modelling package
- Radiance WWW server
- Rayshade WWW site
- Blue Moon Rendering Tools
- Pacific Data Images
- Microsoft Graphics Group
- Pixar
- ViewPoint Data Labs
- Wave (Michael B. Johnson)
- Andy Witkin
- Ken Musgrave
- Dan Farmer
- Custom Color Lab in Palo Alto
- Calypso
ScreenWriting / Movie-making
- TV Production course
- Alex Epstein
- Doug Pray's Hype!
- Story Sense ScreenWriting Page
- Richard Michael's Megahit Screenplays
- Hollywood U. Moviemaking Books
- DFilm Festival
- Resfest Digital Film Festival
Animation
- Animation References
- Bud Plant's Catalog of Drawing Books
- How to make Animated GIFs
- Alchemy MindWorks (GIF Construction Set)
- Andatech Videocraft GIF Animator
- AutoDesk (AAWin Flic viewer)
- Raytracing Rules Cool Stuff - all the best tools for Rendering and Animation
- QuickTime Viewer for NT
- VMPEG (MPEG Viewer download)
- Motion Picture Experts Group (mpeg.org)
- AVI to MPEG converter (with audio)
- AVI Constructor
- Making Animations for the Web (all the free-ware tools to make AVI/Quicktime movies)
Art / Painting / Sculpture
Artists
Photography
- Foto SFX
- Ofoto (online photo prints)
- PhotoAccess(online photo prints)
- Shutterfly (online photo prints)
- Bignose (Poster-sized prints)
- Calypso Imaging
- Joe Decker's Rock Slide Photo
- John Gavrilis Photography
Project Management
Writing / Getting Published
Psychology / Individual
- Keirsey Temperament Sorter, INTJ Profile, ESFJ Profile, Myers-Briggs Prayers, Hacker Profile
- Jung
- Jung Index
- CentACS (Big Five model of Personality)
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
- Transcendental Meditation
Psychology / Relationships
Buckminster Fuller
Personal Productivity / Creativity
- Anthony Robbins #1, #2, #3
- Stephen Covey (7 Habits of Highly Effective People)
- Franklin Quest Day Planner System
- Creativity Books
- Murli's Creativity Page
Sports / Fitness
- Internet Squash Federation
- Squash Drills
- US Squash
- Max Weithers' Squash Page
- Panther Karate
- Kenneth Funakoshi Karate
- HardGainer Training
- MuscleMag International
- Muscle and Fitness Magazine
- Trish Stratus, Fitness Model
Hang Gliding / Human-powered Flight
- Fort Funston Weather
- Bay Area Wind Map
- Ed Levin Weather (Hang Gliding training site), Ed Levin hour by hour
- SWIFT sailplane/hang glider design
- Daedalus human-powered flight
- Human-powered Aircraft
- Paul MacReady's AeroVironment
- Stephen Morris' MLB
- Sonoma Wings Hang Gliding Club
- Mission Soaring Center
Performing / Acting
- Juggling Information Services
- Juggling Educational Videos
- Juggling Equipment
- Break
- River Dance
- Cirque de Soleil
- Frank Pinetti Monologues
- ELAC Play and Monologue Collection
- Fratelli Bologna
- SF branch of AFTRA
- The Reel Directory
- The Gate
- Director's Guild of America
- Hollywood Reporter
- Writer's Guild of America
- American Conservatory Theatre
- Falcon Education Link
- Ed Hooks Acting Training
- Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
- Dan Norton's Acting Resources Page
- Bay Area Casting News
- Dramatic Web - Bay Area Theatre Listing
- Poz Productions (actor's resources, casting directors, etc.)
- LA-Actors Resources
Games
Web Page Construction
- Any2djvu -- convert documents to DjVu format
- LinkExchange
- Corbis on-line images
- Yahoo WWW programming
- Web Tutor (includes restricting access)
- Web Counter
- Submit-It!
- Web Robots
- HTML Guru
- Web Doctor Site Building Tools
- Animated GIFs, cool icons
- How to make Animated GIFs
- Alchemy MindWorks (GIF Animation tool)
- GIFs with transparent backgrounds
- Clickable GIFs
- Paint Shop Pro
- Fractal Design (Painter)
- Java Home Page
- Java Tutorial
- Java Graphics Info
- Java Applets
- Java Developers Kit Documentation
- Gamelan Java Archive
- Browser Test Page
- Andrew Glassner's Home Page
- Mike Vanier's Home Page (with Java Neuron Simulation)
- Project Cool
- Microsoft Training Roadmaps
- CGI Resources
- Inprise JavaBuilder
- Echo Echo Tutorials (Javascript, Flash)
Free Internet Service Providers
- Net Zero (free dialup internet access)
- Geocities (free web page hosting and email)
- Juno (free email/web with modem access)
- HotMail (free email hosting)
- Xoom (free web hosting)
- cjb.net (free domain name redirection)
- Onebox (free email, voicemail, fax)
- EFAX (free fax)
- Myplay (free online MP3 storage)
General Internet
- Bigger.net
- Mindspring
- Aimnet
- Verio Northern California
- America On-Line (AOL)
- @Home
- Microsoft
- Netcom
- Yahoo
- Netscape
- Simtel Shareware and Freeware
- Bay Area Internet User's Group
- All Usenet FAQs
- Interactive Games
- PGP Cryptography
- EFF Blue Ribbon
- Kleinman Report
- Ghostscript (and other downloadable software), Ghostscript #2
- Microsoft Word Viewer (Freeware)
- Tabnet Domain Name Registration
- InterNIC Domain Name Registration
- Internet Companion
- Tera-Byte Domain Name Registration and Forwarding
- Cisco's Internetworking Technology Overview
Community Service
Driver Downloads
Patent-Related
- Delphion Patent Server
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Aviation Navigation
- Nolo Press -- Patent It Yourself
Chip Design
- Magic (IC layout tool)
- IC CAD FAQ
- Tanner Research
- Physcmp MOSIS page
- MOSIS home page
- MOSAID
- Avanti (or is it Avant!)
- PMC-Sierra
- TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor)
- CSM (Chartered Semiconductor)
- UMC (United Microelectronics)
- Toshiba ASIC
- Fujitsu ASIC
- LSI Logic
- NEC
- IBM
- Chip Express
- Aspec
- Listing of IC Mfgrs, CAD Companies, etc.
- Berkeley Intelligent RAM (IRAM) project
- Bob Zeidman Verilog Consultant
- UC Berkeley Extension
- Doctor Design
- Aspec
- Tritech Micro
- Good CAD/VLSI links
- University of Idaho VLSI page
- MOSIS User Group
RISC Processor Design
- Homebrew RISC Development in FPGA
- Advanced Microprocessor Design
- Berkeley CPU Info Center
- MicroDesign Resources Online
- Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present
Parallel Computing
- Internet Parallel Computing Archive
- Parallel Processing References
- Parallel Computing Links
- Dynamically Programmable Gate Arrays
- Is Parallel Processing Dead?, by Hank Deitz
- Oxford Transputer Archive
- Transputer Technical Notes from INMOS
- Transputer Assembly language Programming
- Parallel Discrete Event Simulation
- Transtech Parallel Computing Systems
- T9000 Transputer System
- Stanford Concurrent VLSI Architecture Group
- Logic Design for Array-based Circuits
- Cilk (MIT's Parallel Processing Language)
- Aspex
- S. Lennart Johnsson
Consciousness / Mind / Brain / Neuroscience
- William Calvin
- Neuroscience Tutorial
- Neuroscience on the Net
- Human Brain Project Servers
- Computer as metaphor for Human Mind
- Regena consultants
- Annotated Bibliography: Science and Consciousness
- Harvard Whole Brain Atlas
- SNNAP Simulator for Neural Networks and Action Potentials
Interactive Intelligent Systems
Classic Neural Algorithms / Hardware
Networks of Spiking Neurons
- Wolfgang Maass
- Pulse-Coded Neurons Literature
- Neural Network Hardware
- Review of Neural Network Hardware
- Neural Network FAQ
- CNS98 Meeting
- Hugo de Garis -- Brain Building
- Raytheon Robot
InterComputer Communication / General Programming Resources
- Traveling Software / LapLink
- Blue Water Systems (WinRT low-level driver kit)
- AMS I/O Enhanced Ports
- Accqu-Data (Parallel port peripherals)
- Warp Nine's Parallel Port Page
- Windows Source Code Page
- Win32 Serial Port Communications
- Win32 Developer's Site
- Internet Resources for Windows Developers
- Code Guru
- Code Cupboard
- Windows Developer FAQ Serial Communications
- Sam Blackburn's Win32 Foundation Classes
- Sound Input Example
- Recording Wave Audio
- Audio Capture
- Code Cupboard
- C++ classes on the web
Website Administration
Friends / Family
- Family
- High School Friends
- 1981 Kingston Summer Theatre Alumni (West Side Story)
- Queen's University Friends
- Mark Whittall at Augustine College and SyBridge
- Lorenzo Longo's Newport Microsystems (acquired by Broadcom)
- Graeme Luke
- Greg Pottie at UCLA, Sensoria
- MPR/SFU/Vancouver Friends
- Caltech Friends
- Bay Area Friends
