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Jim Loy's Links To Other Places

Topics:

• Miscellaneous links
• Search links
• Reference links
• More specific topics: Arts, Billiards/Pool, Bridge, Checkers, Chess, Computers, Egyptology, Gambling, Games, History, Humor, Languages, Mathematics, Movies, Pseudoscience, Puzzle, Science, Sports

Miscellaneous links:

• America's Most Wanted (TV program)
• Useless Information (Strange, true stories)
• Amazon.com (I'm an associate of this online bookstore, which has 1.1 million titles)
• FBI's 10 Most Wanted List
• PBS
• Discovery Channel

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Search links:

• Google (Probably the best search engine)
• Yahoo (Search engine)
• Lycos (Search engine)
• Excite (Search engine)
• Infoseek (Search engine)
• LookSmart (Search engine)
• Netscape Net Search (links to various search services)

• Look up any ZIP+4 code USPS
• American Directory Assistance (USA phone book)
• Four11 (Internet White pages)
• WhoWhere? (Internet email directory)
• Switchboard (People & business directory)
• At Hand Network Yellow Pages

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Reference links:

• U.S. Census Bureau
• Encyclopedia Britannica(they gave me this award)
• WWWebster Dictionary
• Internet Public Library
• WWW Virtual Library
• Refdesk.com
• Bartlett's Quotations
• Infoplease.com
• Dictionary.com
• Official U.S. Time

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More specific topics

Arts links:

• My Music Page (was a part of this page)
• Read a free Lord Meren (of ancient Egypt) short story at Death of a Place-Seeker.
• M&R Technologies, Inc. (makers of PCStitch, good cross-stitch design program)
• See Stage Coach, my favorite Pissarro, at the WebMuseum
• The American Spirit "A serious, literary site of elegantly written prose that you may study and write a report on!" (weird and funny)
• 221B Baker Street

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Billiard/Pool Links:

• 1998 Artistic Carom Billiard Championship on the Internet (I took first place) at Pedro Perez' Club de billar II Milenio
• Mark Avlon's List (many pool, billiards, snooker links)
• Accu-Stats Video Productions (excellent pool and billiards videos)
• email: In CueHoots (Cat)or In CueHoots (Suzie)(pool accessories & apparel)
• Carom TV (3-cushion billiards videos)
• Riley Net (billiards around the world)
• 3 Cushion.com (see the Ceulemans cigar labels)
• USBA Carom Corner
• Billiards Digest (magazine)
• Billiards Atlas (Walt Harris' book on diamond systems)
• Darrell Paul Martineau's Universal Billiard System (Secrets of 3 Cushion Billiards ~Doctoral~)
• Monk Billiard Academy (instructional pool videos)
• Robert Byrne (about his books, tapes, and non-billiard works)
• Drunk & Stupid pool team (I was stupid, but never drunk, really)
• Advance Your Pool Game (some of the basics)

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Bridge links:

• Usenet newsgroup: rec.games.bridge (all)
• rec.games.bridge FAQ archives (several years old)
• tournament bulletins
• ACBL (American Contract Bridge League)(good source of news)
• The Bridge World (Magazine)
• Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies
• Bridge Base (Respected tutoring software)
• Learn To Play Bridge (Free tutoring software from ACBL & Bridge Base)
• IPBM Book Shop (email)
• yahoo bridge page
• Common Bridge Format (CBF) (at the bottom)
• Portable Bridge Notation (PBN) & KGB batch converter
• Bridge playing programs:
  • Q-plus Bridge
  • Great Games (Bridge Baron)
  • GIB
  • Micro Bridge
  • Thinking Games (Oxford Bridge)
  • Meadowlark Bridge
  • BridgeWare (Bridge Buff)
  • Blue Chip Bridge
  • WinBridge
  • Oxford Soft Works (Bridge Champion with Omar Sharif)
  • Interplay (Bridge Deluxe II with Omar Sharif)
  • Positronic Software (Perfect Partner)
  • Easy Bridge
  • GOTO Informatique (GOTO Bridge)
  • Wild Card Software (Finesse Bridge)
  • MVP Software (MVP Bridge)
  • Terry, Inc. (Let's Play Bridge)
  • Butler Software Development (Bridge for the Dummy)
  • Digital Frontier (Play 'n Learn Bridge)
  • SmartBridge
  • Artworx (Bridge 8.0)
  • Wellscom (Contract Bridge 2.8)
• Bob's Bridge Book Bonanza
  • Kelsey's Slam Bidding (I contributed this review)
• Svein Parnas (Norwegian bridge page)
• IMP Magazine
• Bridge Today Magazine
• Flexb (software to test your bidding system)
• Lessons by Kitty Munson

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Checkers links:

WWW links:

• Play in the 2000 Asa Long Memorial U.S. National Checker Tournament in Toledo Ohio, August 14-19, 2000.

• American Checker Federation(I designed their checkers diagrams)
• British Draughts Federation
• play checkers with Chinook (World Champion Checkers program - University of Alberta)
• Alpine Electronics (World leader in games fonts for Mac or Windows)
• Triplejump Checkers
• ShadowCasters One Stop Checkershop (checkers site)
• Infinite Loop Software - home of WCC (checker program)
• PC Solutions - home of Sage 5000 (checker program)
• Colossus (checker program)
• Nexus (checker program)
• Yahoo Checkers (Draughts) page
• Checkers newsgroup: Usenet newsgroup: alt.games.draughts (all) may work for you. Alternative: Deja News
• The Gaming Zone (play Bridge, Scrabble, Backgammon, Spades, Go, Chess, Checkers, Hearts, Reversi, and other games)
• GameColony.com (play Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Gin, Spades, Hearts)
• Mind Sports Worldwide
• Board Game Central
• It's Your Turn (Checkers... server)
• Sherman Gardner's Checkers Pages
• Howard Gain's Home Page
• Checkers Elf (Checkers server)
• Windames 3D Winbraz 3D and Winpool 3D (some checkers programs)

10x10 checkers links:

• Digitale Stad St@dsk@n@@l
• Mike's draughts page
• Draughts with Harry
• Harm Jetten

Email links:

• American Checker Federation
• Gil Dodgen & Ed Trice (WCC checkers program)
• Martin Bryant (Colossus Draughts program & DraughtsBase)
• PC Solutions (Sage Draughts program)
• Murray Cash (Nexus Draughts program)
• Carl W. Reno (World's Greatest Lover of Checkers)

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Chess links:

• Montana Chess Association

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Computer links:

• Aqua (Run by a talented friend of mine. He designs Web sites)
• Fight Spam on the Internet! (Spam=junk mail)
• Microsoft - Free Downloads
• Netscape SmartUpdate (Update your Netscape browser, automatically)
• Kevin Mitnick Home Page (Mitnick has been out a while, but he will never be free)
• The Switchroom, Kevin Poulsen's (got 5 years for hacking) home page
• amazon.com (WWW's book store)
• eBay (WWW's market place)

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Egyptology links:

• Theban Mapping Project (Tomb KV5)
• Egypt WWW Index (Egyptology page)
• Hieroglyphic texts
• True Origins: Egypt
• Reeder's Egypt Links
• Stephen Fryer - Egyptian Language and Literature
• Glyph for Windows and MacScribe (Egyptian text editor (MacScribe is the Mac version))
• The Tomb of the Chihuahua Pharaohs (some nice graphics)
  • Egyptian Clip Art: Gods & Goddesses
• The Egyptionary (an Egyptian/English dictionary)
• KMT Egyptology magazine
• Kelly L. Ross - The Pronunciation of Ancient Egyptian
• John Heise - The Akkadian Language (Babylonian and Assyrian)

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Gambling links:

• gambling.com

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Games Links:

Also, see my Bridge, Checkers, Chess, and Sports links.

• WZebra 2.2 (good free Othello (Reversi) program)
• Classic Mastermind (Play this Java game)
• Jelly Fish 3.0 (Strong Backgammon program)
• Happy Puppy (Computer games)
• Yahoo - Chinese Checkers page
• Yahoo - Board Games page

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History links:

• Read the story of the 1800 mile walk of Dull Knife and the Northern Cheyenne (on Glenn Welker's pages).

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Humor links:

• The Dilbert Zone (Dilbert comic strip)
• The American Spirit (Stories in which the main character gets hit on the head)
• Totally Useless Office Skills (and the Institute of Totally Useless Skills)
• Firesign Theatre

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Language links:

• Cheyenne Language Web Site
• Jennifer's Language Page
• Babelfish translates between English and French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

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Mathematics links:

• my Gambling pages
• my Logic pages
• my Puzzle pages
• Science Fair Projects

• S.O.S. Mathematics
• Interactive Mathematics Online
• Go Math Online Tutoring
• SAT Math Online Tutoring
• MathNotes.com
• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
• Sci.Math Frequently Asked Questions in Mathematics
• Usenet Mathematics FAQ Archive
• Ask Dr. Math
• Super-Index of An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
• Charles Sturt University mathematics courses
• Perseus Project - Heath's Euclid's Elements (complete)
• D. Joyce - Euclid's Elements (complete)
• Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
• Robert Nemiroff - Digit Warehouse (millions of digits for free)

Also:

• Rik Littlefield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
• Participate in The Most Pleasing Rectangle Web Poll
• Dr. Ron Knott's Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section

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Movie links:

• Roger Ebert On Movies (Chicago Sun Times)

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Pseudoscience links:

• Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)
• The James Randi Educational Foundation
• Quack Watch
• Junk Science
• Bad Astronomy
• Crank dot net (They called me an antiCrank!)

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Puzzle links:

• Dave Coles' Triangle Game (rules, diagrams, my contributions)
• Visit and download X-Sums 98 Cross Sums demo. Buy the full version, and generate random Cross Sums.

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Science links:

• Museum of the Rockies!
• NASA
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Edmund Scientific
• Glenbrook South Physics Home Page

Science fair links:

• Yahoo's Science Fair Projects Ideas Page
• One of the Excite Science Fair Projects Queries
• Virtual Avenue's Science Fair Projects Page
• Science Fairs Home Page
• Cyber-Fair Project Steps
• Science Fair Primer
• WWW Virtual Library Science Fairs Page
• The Ultimate Science Fair Resource
• Canadian Mathematical Society Science Fair Page
• University of Texas General Libraries Science Fair Projects Page (with Ideas links)
• LookSmart's Projects & Experiments Page

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Sports links:

• ESPN Sports Zone
• CBS Sports Line
• Major League Baseball
• National Basketball Association
• National Football League
• National Hockey League
• Bozeman Icedogs (local hockey team)

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