A Special Selection from Hotlists Past and Present

The Essentials

• Search engines: Yahoo, AltaVista, and Dogpile

• News: The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Daily Hampshire Gazette, CNN, Worcester Telegram and Gazette, and a rather arbitrary list of the "Top 100 newspapers"

• EurekAlert!

Astronomy and Planetary Science

• The Extrasolar Planet Search Project (Geoff Marcy and Paul Butler)

• The Harvard-Smithsonian mirror site for the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia by Jean Schneider

• A Dutch astronomer's talk on microlensing

• The Gemini Project

• The Astronomical Society of the Pacific and Mercury magazine

• Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures

• Carnegie Institution of Washington

• The Planetary Society

• The Shallow Sky -- lunar and planetary observing

Physics and Other Sciences

• Physical Review Focus

Music

• Midnight Oil links: the band's official site, The Dead Heart, Redneck Wonderland, an interesting essay entitled "The Power and the Passion Remain" and so forth....

• The Stompers and the Boston Rock & Roll Museum

• Kevin James -- local performer, purveyor of Irish and folk tunes

• Glenn Carter, English actor and songwriter -- talented and handsome too!

• The Poozies -- angelic Celtic music from England

• Gaelic Storm -- the "steerage band" from Titanic is a band in real life

• The Capitol Steps -- superb political satire

• Dave Matthews Band

• The Chromatics (who once performed for DCSWA)

People

• Harvey Gould (because he provided a link to me!)

• Robert Gruendl

• Paint Branch Unitarian Universalist Church -- a whole bunch of wonderful people I know!

Computers and the Internet

• The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC)

• DC Webgrrls

• The SCXY conferences

• IEEE Computer Society, which handles the editorial work for CIP's successor publication, Computing in Science and Engineering

• Netscape's Table Sampler

• ASCI (this isn't an endorsement -- this project has just been a recurring theme in my CIP news articles)

Lithuanian and French-Canadian Stuff

• Rootsweb

• Another branch of the family tree

Other Reference Material

• A Journalist's Guide to the Internet (by a fellow Daily Free Press alum!)

• Montgomery County (MD) Public Works and Transportation

• Anne Frank Online and the Anne Frank House

Just for Fun, Entertainment, and a Bit of Edification

• Sound & Spirit, one of my favorite radio programs (WETA-FM, Sundays at 9 p.m.)

• The Complete Northern Exposure Episode Guide

• Siskel & Ebert -- with a tribute to Gene Siskel

• Single Volunteers of DC

Links That Seem to Be Deceased

• D'Cuckoo -- a way cool cybertribe!

• Leslie Schur Pearson -- who is now Leslie Gottlieb!

Last updated June 1, 2001
© 1999-2001 Patricia Daukantas
E-mail: patd@nasw.org