The Outdoors

• Trail Link: find the best trails for outdoor recreation

Camera

• Digital cameras, reviews and FAQs
• Olympus digital cameras
• Olympus tech forum (non-official)
• TsuruZoh Tachibanaya's CAME software
• NEW: PhotoPC software

Movies

• IMDB:
    All Titles My Movies People Characters Quotes Bios Plots All (old)
  adv search ~ glossary ~
• Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive (old movies in public domain)
• Movielens (suggests based on my ratings)
• Movie-a-minute (ultra-condensed)
• Movie Buff Checklist on-line version
• MovieMistakes.com
• Movie scripts at Drew's Scripts-o-Rama
• Movie Sounds Page (.WAV clips)
• Movie clichés (logic flaws)
• Movie Palace (stills and sounds from classic films)
• PopcornQ (gay/lesbian film)
• GenXClent's list of gay films

Movie reviews

• Movie Review Query Engine ~ Movie Review Query Engine (old?)
• Ain't It Cool: film/TV reviews and gossip 97/09/07
• James Berardinelli's ReelViews movie reviews
• Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies ~ (rentals)
• Chad Polenz's movie page
• Scott Renshaw's Screening Room
• Mr. Showbiz (TV and movies) 97/05/10 ~ movie reviews
• NEW: www.internetreviews.com

DVDs

• non-JS DVD Price Search
• The Complete Region-Free Guide for PC DVDs
  The Firmware Page (region-free firmware)
• DVD FAQ
• VideoHelp.com
• Anthony Haukup: How to Adjust Your TV
• Jake Kesinger: DVD cases illustrated
  Aaron Bossig's version
• NEW: 7th Zone searchable list of DVDs (problems accessing 2001-04-22)
• DVD Lister searchable database of DVDs
• Home Theater Info's list of available R1 DVDs
• NEW: Image Entertainment's list of all available DVDs
• Cross-region comparisons at DVD Beaver and NEW: DVD-basen
• Download covers

Panasonic DVR-640H-S HDD DVDR:

• AVS Forum: DVD Recorders
  burn disks for Auto Menu Play
  Universal Remote Control
  Pioneer 640 User Reports (long)
  Wanna fix the Pioneer DVR-640H-S Timer Event Title Name Issue?
  Hints & Tips for PIO640 users
• Pioneer official site: (main page) ~ (documents page) ~ Operating Instructions (PDF) ~
• Vanns product page

DVD reviews: (* = multiple recommendations)

• **The Digital Bits
• DVD Angle's Easter egg list
• DVD Angle's list of which DVDs come out in both SE and regular
• DVD Authority
• DVD Breakdown
• NEW: DVD Easter Eggs.com ~ NEW: Eeggs.com
• *DVD File (more news than reviews)
• **DVD Review (also lists "Easter eggs")
  (lousy navigation — jump to reviews)
• *DVD Talk (LOTS of searchable reviews)
• DVD Verdict (no access 2001-04-30)
• *IGN.com ~ Easter eggs
• Moose Shack
• The Big Picture DVD
• Wide Screen Review
• adult DVD reviews

Art

• POV-Ray Hall of Fame (digital art)

Music

• Jewel Sleeves & Cases CD storage solution
• BBC Radio 3 (classical netcasts and downloads)
• CDDB, the CD Database 97/12/10
• International Lyrics Server
• Lyric Wiki
• Melody Hound (name that tune based on melody contour)
• Edith Piaf song lyrics ~
• my list of music shops on line
• Gilbert & Sullivan archive
• Gilbert & Sullivan parody archive

• Operatic Websites (lots of dead links in March 2003)
• NEW: Opera America (some pages require membership)
• NEW: Opera Magazine
• NEW: Opera USA
• NEW: Operissimo
• NEW: Virtual Opera House (facts, anecdotes, photos)
• Metropolitan Opera: plot summaries

• NEW: EMusic.com (PC Mag: "one of the few legitimate")
• NEW: Listen.com (links to lots of MP3 sites' plays, but only legal ones)
• Gardner Museum concerts (well laid out, nice commentary)
• Classical Music MP3 Free (links to free or low-cost downloads)
• MP3.com
• MP3 Fiend (downloadable software searches 11 databases)

iPod

• Apple iPod service and support ~ repair center
• Apple tips for iPod:
  • How to Reset iPod ~
  • Putting iPod into Disc Mode
  • iPod Missing in iTunes or My Computer ~ iPod shows up in Windows but not in iTunes ~ iTunes 7 for windows doesn't recognize iPod
• User Manual (PDF)
• iPod FAQ at Everymac.com
• All Things iPod at iLounge (Excellent!)
  Secrets of iTunes 7.1
  Disable auto-sync temporarily
  Backing up the iTunes library
• Kensington Digital FM Transmitter and Charger ~ Easter egg (set station below the official range) ~ iLounge review
• Apple's universal dock

iTunes

• Allmusic album covers and tracking
  Artist/GroupAlbumSongClassical Work advanced search
• iTunes Tutorial and Tips (intermediate level)
• Digitisation/compression (Australian site, tested MP3, MP4, bit rates)
• Apple's discussion forum
• iArt (Shareware $10), searches album art and lyrics
• Guide: Converting audio book files,CDs,& mp3s with iTunes5+ to Bookmarking iPod files (iLounge)

• Allmusic.com for metadata and album images
• Extremetech: Free Music Recommendation Services rated
• Free Classic Audiobooks
• Free Audiobooks at Gutenberg (poor selection when checked, late 2005)

iHome

• Tech Support page
• iLounge topic

Television

TV schedules

• Time Warner channel lineup
• Scientific Atlanta Hardware: cable box & modem, diagnostic screens, etc.

• The Futon Critic: Network grid ~ New episodes (tonight or other nights) ~ rundown on coming pilots
• Television without Pity
• Zap2it What to Watch
• Customized: Excite (needs Javascript)
• Planet Out TV Guide
• TV at Yahoo ~ search listings
• NEW: Titan TV
• TV Guide ~ program grid ~ search (details require Javascript)
• Washington Blade's listings
• Customized: zap2it ~ pre-June 2006 interface
• Primetime Grid at Epguides ~ Fall 2009 grid
• Freeguide-TV — download schedules and view off line (free)

TV programs

• The Ultimate Homefront Episode Guide and more ~
• Jeopardy
• Monty Python's Completely Useless Web Site (unofficial)
• In the Life 97/02/16
• Last Exit to Springfield (The Simpsons)
• Seinfeld at stanthecaddy.com (with full-text script search)
• Saturday Night Live Transcripts

• Ultimate TV List
• Classic Sitcoms (from the book) ~ Barney Miller ~
• The Classic TV Archive
• TV scripts at Drew's Scripts-o-Rama
• Episode Guides at epguides.com ~
• episode guides at TV Tome
• The Media Database (most of the old TV Tome)
• Television without Pity: lengthy episode summaries
• TV Net ~ Interactive TV Index
• Tardis (UK comedy) ~ ftp
• Sitcoms Online
• Ultimate TV Themes Page

TV: Remotes

• NEW: Remote Central
• HiFi Remote (courtesy Patrick Timlin)
  RS 15-1994 better manual ~
  The JP1 Interface (PC-driven programming for RS and AllForOne)
• OneForAll remote control

TV and radio broadcasters

• A & E cable 96/04/21
• A B C 96/09/07
• C B S
• N B C home page ~ Prime Time
• Fox
• Lifetime cable 96/04/21
• P B S
• WCLV-FM 95.5

Online fun

• Win Ben Stein's Money (Web game)
• NEW: free online trivia games
• The Smoking Gun: Celebrities in bad straits
• Findsounds.com (results come in Javascript pages; view source)
• Web Sudoku
• Sudoku in Excel

Radio programs

• Michael Feldman's What d'ya Know? quiz
• Car Talk

Humor

• Humor Archive
• Lab Report
• Mike Adams: Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome
• Scott Adams: Dilbert today's strip ~ archives
• Annals of Improbable Research
• Cruel site of the day
• Esther's Massive Signature File Collection of DOOOM! ~
• Stan Freberg scripts
• Randy Glasbergen: Today's cartoon (and many more) ~ "dysfunctional family" ~ "not on the team any more" ~ "detects high levels of hostility" ~ "company with a heart"
• Google search engine "PigeonRank" technology
• Joe Lavin's humor column
• Lego
  Lego Users Group lugnet
• Tom Lehrer complete lyrics ~
• Judith Martin: Miss Manners ~ in the Buffalo News ~ MSN
• Wendy Northcutt: Darwin Awards: really dumb actions, usually fatal
• The Onion
• Nick Park: Wallace and Gromit 97/08/29
• The Anna Russell Shrine
• Chuck Shepherd: News of the Weird (weekly) ~ latest issue on MSNBC
• Allan Sherman lyrics and discography
• Tom Tomorrow: This Modern World ~ Archives in Salon mag ~ Starr-I-Are
• Mark Twain: The Awful German Language
• Demotivation (recommended by Ed Lieser)
• Wayne & Shuster: script to "Rinse the Blood off My Toga"
• "Lost sperm" cartoon
• How a cursor works (requires Flash)

Books

• my list of bookshops on line
• Alternative-history book list
• Book-a-Minute ultra-condensed for humor
• NEW: Booksense.com (Consumer Reports): reading list, order directly via independent booksellers
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database — index of science fiction (sf, sci-fi) stories
  The Contento Index, >38,000 pre-1984 stories
  The Locus Index for ≥1984
• NoveList — series search, etc
• Encyclopedia Mythica (Scandinavian myths) Nordisk Mytologi (Danish Wikipedia)

Books: Reviews

• Searchable book reviews
• Literature and Writing Resources on the Web
• NEW: BookBrowser (suggestions for reading)
• NEW: Rachel's Compendium of Online Book Discussions

Books: Libraries

• Finger Lakes Library system catalog ~ Dryden library
• Suny Cortland library: telnet (username "library") ~ HTTP
• Library of Congress catalog
• Infoball (in German; searches LoC, British Library, Bavarian Library, and many others all at once)
• Hytelnet - Links to library sites
• Worldwide on-line libraries (gopher)
• Alex Catalog: search full-text books

Books: Full text on line

• NEW: U Penn — 10,000 books in full text
• Developer.com online reference ~ Que publishing full text of books ~ MCP Personal Bookshelf
• The Electric Library: full-text search accesses many books and magazines (but slowly) 96/11/09
• Internet Public Library from U of MI
• The Online Books Page
• Project Gutenberg
• Internet Public Library ~ searchable index (beta)
• Bibliomania

Books: J.R.R. Tolkien

• Steuard Jensen's Tolkien FAQs ~ back door to book list
• FAQ, LessFAQ, Movie FAQ, Book List
• Chapters of the Week (AFT-RABT Web page)
• Tolkien Site List
• The Encyclopedia of Arda ~ previous link ~ via Internet Wayback Machine
• Tolkien bibliography acronyms (LROW, etc.)
• The Tolkien Timeline (biographical)
• Second Prophecy of Mandos
• Emblems and Heraldry
• Tolkien reads passages from LotR (sound files)
• Books:
  Jack Barker: Riddles in the Dark (side-by-side comparison of editions of the Riddles chapter)
  Mike Brinza (Stug): FAQs answered by the Letters ~
  Mike Brinza (Stug): information on editions
  Steuard Jensen: Custom Booklist ~ unfiltered raw version
  Larry King: Chronological Tolkien (page-number conversion table) ~
  Ninni Pettersson: What's in HoME? (detailed contents of all volumes) ~
  Lisa Star: unpublished and slightly published works
• Humor and satire:
  Richard Drushel's additions to Bored of the Rings:
       Appendix A ~
       The Scouring of the Shire ~
  Dave's cheat notes on The Hobbit
  Your homework done for free: mis-summary of LotR ~ Tolkien Sarcasm Page
  Tolkien Crackpot Theories
  Lord of the Rings if written by different authors
  Tolkien Song Parodies
  The Similarrion by JRR "Jar-Jar" Tolkien by "Flame of the West"
• Languages:
  Ardalambion (the tongues of Arda)
  Elvish Linguistic Fellowship
  Tolkien Language (TolkLang) List ~ duplicate
  NEW: Webpages featuring tengwar
  NEW: Quenya course in RTF
  NEW: another Quenya course
  Howard Ensle: Dictionaries and grammars for Sindarin and Quenya
• Fonts:
  NEW: Tolkien fonts
  NEW: Dan Smith's Fantasy Fonts
  NEW: Dan Smith's Tengwar (rec. by Conrad Dunkerson)
• Pictures:
  Bruce Hietbrink: Lord of the Rings in Lego
  NEW: Tolkien Collector ~
  NEW: Rolozo archive
  Sunet archive ~ Middle-earth map ~

Food and cooking

• Country Fare for City Folk: recipes
• Digital Chef
• Electronic Gourmet Guide ~ Global Gourmet cookbook
• Epicurious (Bon Appétit & Gourmet mags, with menus) 96/08/18
• Euro cuisines
• Food TC
• Recipes from the Net (list of sites) 96/06/24
• Road Food (Jane & Michael Stern)
• Vegetarian low-fat recipes