K. M. Peterson's Bookmarks
Last Updated 10 December 2000
Personal
- Conestoga High School I went to High School here (also see the Alumni site).
- This Modern World - Tom Tomorrow
- The Pat Metheny (Fan) Homepage
- Pat Metheny plays the soundtrack of my life... even if the movie is pretty boring, the music is always excellent. This is a "fan" home page, from France.
- The Pat Metheny (Corporate) Home Page
- a/k/a The Pat Metheny Group Listener Network. Lots of information on Pat and Lyle and associates, RealAudio clips, etc.
- Joni Mitchell Homepage
- The Geek Times of Michael Sattler
- A good friend from San Francisco.
- CarTalk.com
- Everyone's favorites... Tom and Ray, on the web.
- CarTalk webcam (Hahvahd Square)
- Star Trek - Official Site
- Discovery Channel Online
- c|net online front door
- c|net is a web site with a television show. The weekly show is interesting, if not Mac-oriented enough.
- HotWired
- MassBike: Bicycle Activity in Massachusetts
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- SYLVIA HOME PAGE A favorite strip.
- The Dilbert Zone ...although I'm now a pointy-haired manager myself, so I consider it in bad taste to put them up on my door.
- Brookline people - a listing of other folks who live here in Brookline, Mass.
- The Dr Foo Home Page and Fun-o-Rama!
- Gary Dryfoos... who else?
- KMP's Home Page (Home)
- The Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research
- This is the Center for Genome Research's main webserver.
- KMP's Resume
- This is my resume, in Adobe Acrobat format, as of 1998 (update coming soon!).
You are here: motormouth.com An acquaintance across the Ether, and an interesting person.
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Time/Design: Home Page These folks make the calendaring system I use - the Time/Design system.
David Allen & Company David's consulting firm trains people in time management. The current coursework is called "Getting Things Done".
Net Meta-Indices and Guides
- Northern Light Search Highly rated.
- Google Another excellent search engine.
- Lycos: Hunting WWW Information
- The "catalog of the Internet".
- Yahoo Search
- Well organized site with links everywhere.
- Alta Vista: Main Page
- One of the older search engines -- web and usenet.
- c|net's search.com
- Switchboard - Online US "White Pages"
- Including names, addresses, phone numbers. Also including email addresses and home page URLs when a user has added them.
- About.COM
- Another wide and occasionally deep resource.
Miscellaneous Net Resources
- PGP Public Key Server at MIT
- This is a public key server for use with PGP. This database lists the public keys for various individuals on the 'net.
- Whois Query
- This queries Network Solutions for information on domains -- often an easy way to find out if a company or organization has a presence on the net. InterNIC has a more general facility.
- RealAudio Home Page
- Merriam-Webster!
- The dictionary people. Look up a word!
SPAMCOP Currently the best SPAM reporting service.
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- Boston Online!
- NPR Online
- BBC/The BBC News Front Page
- New England Cable News "The news you need is online right now."
- MBTA Home Page The Boston Transit Authority
- NETransit: The New England Transportation Site
- The New England Transportation Site has news and information on most forms of transportation, focusing on the New England area.
- Official Central Artery / Tunnel Project Web
- The successor to the "unofficial" site - Boston's Big Dig, merely concerned with taking a six-lane elevated highway down and replacing it with a better underground road - the largest public works project ever attempted in these parts...
- Kurumi's Humble House of Most Things Roadly
- TrainRiders/Northeast A local train advocacy organization.
- Massachusetts Driving Manual If a tree falls in a forest... if a book exists that no one has read...
- M.G.L. - Chapter 89 - Table of Contents On a similar note - the "Rules of the Road" in Mass.
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- MIT + MassGIS Digital Orthophoto Project An image library of aerial photographs of the Boston area.
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- The Boston Globe Online - Part of Boston.COM, the site for Boston.
- Sidewalk/Boston Restaurants
- United States Postal Service Public WWW Server
- Tiger - Experimental Mapper
- Time - Naval Observatory Directorate of Time
- Time Server
- The purpose of this server is to provide the latest information on Network Time Protocol (NTP) and other related clock synchronization products.
- Computer for Sunrise, Sunset & Twilight
- What time is the sun going to rise tomorrow? You can find that out here, for wherever you are.
- Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles
- Magritte Art Gallery
- A pointer to Magritte's work online (Europe).
- A Periodic Table of the Elements
- Need the chemical symbol for yttrium? How did Tung sten (W) get it's name? Here's a good place to look... there are also pointers here to yet other periodic tables on the web as well.
- UCook - a recipe source.
- Sessions at West 54th The PBS series - interesting music, Saturdays at Midnight.
Macintosh Resources
I've spent a lot of time over the past several years supporting the Apple Macintosh. Here's a selection of some of the Web-based resources that I've found.
Apple Computer Resources
Apple resources on the web - files and information.
- Apple Computer
- Apple Technical Support Home Page
- Apple's general technical support home.
- Apple Technical Support Online
- The Apple "Get Info" pages... technical support for the Macintosh.
- Apple Developer Services and Products
- Developer World -- Apple Developer products and services; reference information and tools.
- Apple Speech Technologies
- Welcome to Mac OS!
- Always Apple
- Apple Macintosh Products - Reference
- This Mac OS Software and Hardware Page lists software and hardware products available for the Mac from both Apple and Third-parties, including commercial, shareware and freeware products!
- Apple Software Updates - New Files
- Files added to the Apple Software Library in the past 14 days. Look here frequently for new files made available by Apple.
- Apple Tech Info Library
- This is Apple's "Technical Information Library", allowing keyword searches through Apple's online articles.
Mac Publications and Periodicals
- MacInTouch Home Page
- The best Macintosh resource for a daily update on what's happening with the Macintosh - Apple's moves, new products, updates, general news.
- MacWEEK Online
- The best source of breaking information and news about the Mac market, including fresh news, reviews, and opinion.
- The Macintosh Resource Page
- DaveNet
- Mac Today Magazine
Macintosh "Self Help" and Individuals/Organizations Help Pages
- Mac-Mgrs Home Page
- The Mac-Mgrs mailing list and Web page are sources of information for people who manage Macintoshes (generally in rather large numbers). Excellent "front lines" information source.
- BMac Home
- Boston's BMAC User Group, the followon to the BCS*Mac group.
- The ULTIMATE Macintosh
- MacSOURCE: Current Mac News & Updates
- Welcome to MacCentral!
- MacDirectory - The "Yellow Pages" for the Mac.
- "MacDirectory Online offers one stop surfing for breaking news, purchasing advice, links to other online resources, user groups, and seasonal specials."
- Understanding DRAM chip numbers
- MacFixIt
- Ted Landau's directory of Mac Problems and Solutions (formerly the "Sad Macs" page after Ted's book).
- Macintosh MP3 Information
- NAI's Virux Update site
- INFO-MAC HyperArchive (at MIT)
- Created by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, the Info-Mac HyperArchive provides an easy Web interface that helps you search for files in the massive Info-Mac Archive of freely distributable software.
- Nathan's Everything Macintosh
Macintosh Design and Fonts
- euripides
- ITC's resource to preview fonts from their library.
- MyFonts.COM
- Bitstream's font site - with an engine that will take a type sample and search out the name and ordering information for a font!
Macintosh Product Vendors of Interest
- FAXstf/stf Inc.
- Makers of fax software solutions for the Mac.
More to come... page updated Sun, Dec 10, 2000, 12:53.