Interesting links
The following links I have collected over the past decade or so and found useful or interesting. I don't check for dead links though, so some of them might not work or point to other sites now. Responsibility for the content of the sites to which the links point lies entirely with the owners of the respective sites, and that content does not necessarily reflect my opinions or those of my employer.
- LaTeX
- GNU/Linux
- Programming
- Music
- Graphics
- Mantle dynamics and related topics
- Earth Sciences (general)
- Physics & Astronomy
- Mathematics
- Books, libraries, dictionaries, bibliographies
- Nice images/photography
- Micro$oft & accomplices pillory
- Miscellaneous
LaTeX
Q: "If you were young again, would you start writing TeX again or would you use Microsoft Word, or another word processor?"
A: "I hope to die before I have to use Microsoft Word."
Harald König asking Donald Knuth, Tübingen, 2 Oct 2001.
- Documentation
- LaTeX documentation collection, Mathematics Dept., University of Western Australia
- LaTeX documentation and links at the Dept. of Engineering at Cambridge University
- LaTeX tutorial collection of TUG India
- Help on LaTeX commands
- Il nuovo LaTeX - Font/command tables (in italian, but helpful anyway)
- Hypertext Help on LaTeX by Sheldon Green
- Reference of TeX primitive commands, by David Bausum
- TeX by Topic by Victor Eijkhout, now free for download
- DANTE TeX FAQ list (in german)
- LaTeX/TeX Help Page
- The PracTeX Journal, TUG's online journal
- METAFONT fonts list by Vincent Zoonekynd
- Tutorial for PostScript/PDF from LaTeX,by Ryutaroh Matsumoto
- Using TrueType fonts with teTeX and dvips at the Dante server
- Using TrueType fonts with (La)TeX and pdf(La)TeX by Damir Rakityansky
- A LaTeX to PDF Guide by Roger Kilian-Kehr
- LaTeX to PDF Howto at Ringlord Publications
- The No BS Guide To teTeX Font Installation
- LaTeX for Linguists
- Bibliographies according to DIN rules by Helge Baumann (in german)
- Resources
- Related stuff
- xindy - indexing tool for LaTeX
- MusiXTeX (LaTeX-based Music Typesetting) and Werner Icking Music Archive
- LaTeX<->Text processors converter list
- bibtex2html - a BibTeX-to-HTML converter
- TeX4ht - TeX and LaTeX for Hypertext
- PPower4 - PDF Presentations Post-Processor
- dvi2bitmap
- jPicEdt for LaTeX, Java-based drawing tool
- Eukleides - a TeX-related geometry drawing language
- TeXmacs - a TeX editor inspired by emacs
- Cuts & Caps, free cuts and capitals for typesetting by Briar Press
- freefont.de by SoftMaker
GNU/Linux
- Resources
- The GNU Project
- The Open Source Page
- LinuxISO, several Linux distributions for download as ISOs
- Debian home page
- Linux available from the ftp server at Erlangen university
- Sourceforge
- RPMfind
- LEO Linux archive
- Woven Goods for Linux archive
- L I N U X B E R G
- Tuxfinder
- Freshmeat
- LinuxHQ
- Linux Applications
- The Linux Metapage
- SAL - Scientific Applications for Linux
- Planet CCRMA, particularly focussed on audio
- LWN Penguin Gallery
- Linux logos
- Special software
- X Window Managers
- The XEmacs Home Page
- Emacs Lisp List
- The very unofficial dotemacs home
- OpenMotif
- Lesstif Home Page
- Xpdf, a fast PDF viewer by Derek Noonburg
- OpenOffice Project
- Scribus, a Desktop Publishing program
- LilyPond - the GNU Project music typesetter
- a2ps
- PGP - email encryption
- PGP guide (in german)
- procmail
- procmails links
- Spambouncer, a procmail-based spam filter by Catherine Hampton
- Turboprint
- Sound & MIDI software for Linux
- Decoding raw digital photos in Linux, software by Dave Coffin
- LightZone by LightCrafts; the Linux version is free
- UFRaw, an raw image converter
- Ted, an easy RTF processor for X Windows
- Tux4Kids - educational Linux software for children
- Memtest86 and Memtest86+ - memory diagnostic programs
- Documentation/News
- GNU Documentation @Goodie Domain Service
- The Linux Gazette
- Linux Standard Base
- Linux RUTE User's Tutorial and Exposition by Paul Sheer
- Linux Kernel Configuration Help
- Linux Administrator's Security Guide
- Linux Planet
- Linux Security
- Linux Hardware.Net
- Linux Hardware.Org
- Das Linux-Magazin
- The Linux Counter
- Linux developerWorks at IBM
- Sysadmin Portal at Sun Corp.
- Unix Guru Universe
- sysads.com
- Linuxmafia Knowledgebase
- LinuxPrinting
- Tips für Linux by Stephan Löscher (german)
- tcsh tutorial
- Linux Cross Reference of the kernel code
- Open Source Development Lab
- Unix Computer viruses
- Burn All GIFs
- Eric Raymond's FAQ Collection
Programming
- Fortran
- Netlib
- The Fortran Journal
- Free Fortran software
- Fortran Library - a scientific and technical programming resource
- Fortran resources list at Lahey
- Alan Miller's Fortran Site (Fortran 90)
- Free Fortran software at the University of Hannover
- FORTRAN program collection of John Burkardt
- Linux Fortran Information assembled by J.A. Templon
- The G95 Project, a free, open-source Fortran 95 compiler
- Intel Fortran 77/90/95, free for personal, non-commercial use
- F2KCLI, a free implementation of the proposed Fortran 2K command-line interface from SSI
- ftnchek - FORTRAN syntax checker
- Fortran 90 tutorials by M. Metcalf
- Fortran 90 Tutorial by Zane Dodson
- Modular Programming with Fortran 90, by A.C. Marshall
- OOP with Fortran 90
- Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77 programmer by Bo Einarsson and Yurij Shokin
- User notes on Fortran programming
- High Performance Fortran Course by A. C. Marshall, Univ. Liverpool
- Interfacing Fortran and C
- Perl
- CPAN - The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
- Perldoc.com
- Einführung in die Perl-Programmierung by Oliver Corff (german)
- CGI.pm Script Archive
- The Perl Module List
- SWIG - Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator
- Perl/Tk Homepage
- C/C++
- ACCU - Association of C & C++ Users
- Bob Stout's C Snippets
- Intel C/C++ Compiler, free for personal, non-commercial use
- cfortran.h, a C/C++ interface to Fortran by Burkhard Burow, DESY
- Other languages
- Java Tutorial at Sun
- The Scheme Programming Language, 3rd ed. by R. Kent Dybvig
- Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days by Dorai Sitaram
- BrookGPU and GPGPU: General-purpose computing with graphics processors
- Shell
- Advanced bash scripting guide by Mendel Cooper
- Softpanorama Virtual Library
- Numerics and other math stuff
- Netlib
- NCAR's Mathematical and Statistical Libraries
- Guide to Available Mathematical Software at NIST
- Numerical Techniques and Links
- Mathtools, a portal to math software and texts
- Free Linear Algebra software list by Jack Dongarra
- FFT links
- The FFTW Home Page, by Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson, MIT
- NFFT (non-equispaced FFT, based on FFTW), by Stefan Kunis and Daniel Potts, Univ Lübeck
- A collection of automatic differentiation tools
- Fortran Codes for differential equations by E. Hairer
- Multiprecision Software Library by D. H. Bailey, LBNL
- FMLIB multiprecision library and papers by David M. Smith, Loyola Marymount Univ
- GMP - GNU arbitrary precision arithmetics library
- GSL - GNU Scientific Library
- oonumerics - scientific computing in object-oriented languages
- TNT - Template Numerical Toolkit
- Decision tree for optimization software by H.D. Mittelmann and P. Spellucci
- WNLIB - Linear Algebra, FFT and optimization software by Will Naylor
- Code collection by John Burkardt, mostly numerics, but also some other stuff
- Numerical Analysis sample programs
- Intel Math Kernel Library
- PETSc - The Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation - parallel software for PDEs
- CLAWPACK - solver for hyperbolic PDEs by R.J.LeVeque
- deal.II - a Finite Element Differential Equations Analysis Library
- PSPASES - a Parallel Sparse Symmetric Direct Solver
- Mesh Generation
- Meshing Research Corner
- PIKAIA, a genetic algorithm for optimization
- CGAL - Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
- LEDA - library for combinatorial computing
- VSIPL - Vector/Signal/Image Processing Library
- DSP software at Rice University
- MGNet - Multigrid/multi-domain method
- GeoFramework, CFD resources in Geodynamics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics Resources Online
- Octave Home Page
- IFER - Internet Finite Element Resources
- CRAN - Comprehensive R Archive Network (statistics)
- Parallel Programming (technical)
- MPI Forum
- MPI/MPICH page
- MPI/LAM page
- An overview of different MPI implementations
- OpenMP
- PVM Homepage
- MOSIX Homepage
- The Beowulf Project
- Distributed Algorithms & Systems Home Page
- HPC Europa - Pan-European Research Infrastructure on High-Performance Computing
- Practical MPI programming, an IBM redbook
- Misc
- The Programmer's File Format Collection
- Image File Formats
- {Codepage 2.3} - programming and computer science index by Karim Ratib
- PGPLOT Graphics Subroutine Library (Fortran-/C-callable)
- YoLinux - a portal to various programming language infos and development tools
- The Great Computer Language Shootout by Doug Bagley
- Valgrind memory debugger, by Julian Seward and Nick Nethercote
- Network Common Data Format at UCAR
- Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) at NCSA
- Computer Physics Communications Program at Elsevier
- Objective Caml
- Catalog of Free Compilers, Interpreters and Language Tools
- Programming info page, a link list for a variety of languages and other programming issues
- Venkataraghavan's bookmarks
- LASSPTools - Graphical and numerical extensions to Unix
- Surface modeling links
- ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
- NHSE - National HPCC Software Exchange
- gd library by Thomas Boutell
- ePanorama - Hardware & Electronics
- Essays and tutorials
- Programming Texts/Tutorials - link collection
- Arnaud Desitter's technical recipes
- How to Design Programs - An Introduction to Computing and Programming by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi
- An Elementary Introduction to Scientific Computing by Charles Dyer and Peter Ip
- Links concerning the IEEE standard 754 (floating-point arithmetic)
- What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
- Linear Programming FAQ
- Nonlinear Programming FAQ
Music
- Classical Music Webradio
- Classical Webcast - Peter Ribbens' link list of webradio stations
- BBC Radio 3
- Danmarks Radio Klassisk, english site
- Sveriges Radio Programm 2
- Classical WETA 90.9 FM in the Washington, DC area
- Otto's Baroque Music, a small site specialized on medieval to classic music
- How to rip BBC web radio streams by Tom Taylor
- Oboe
- IDRS (International Double Reed Society), USA
- Brian's Double Reed Page
- Other oboe links
- Püchner Home Page
- Jürgen Krebs - Oboen und Zubehör (oboes and accessory material)
- Eva Füßlein - Oboenrohre (reeds)
- Piano
- Composers
- Resources
- The Classical Music Pages
- Klassik-Online (german)
- WWW VL Classical Music: Reference
- Werner Icking Music Archive, free scores
- Mutopia Project, free scores
- International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Sheet Music Archive: downloadable editions of public domain classical music
- fac-similé free music scores
- Karadar Classical Music
- Lilypond scores and articles by Nicolas Sceaux
- T.M.McComb Music Home Page, a collection of interesting essays about music
- List of Internet Music Resources
- The Classical Archives - MIDI files
- The Classical Piano Midi Page
- New Mozart Edition Online: the entire Mozart on the web
- Harpsichordist to the Internet by John Sankey
- The Lied and Art Song Texts Page
- Rimsky-Korsakov's Principles of Orchestration in an enhanced multimedia version by Garritan
- An essay about Bach's Goldberg Variations by Tjako van Schie
- William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of Music
- Instrument Jokes
- Software
- LilyPond - the GNU Project music typesetter
- Rosegarden audio and MIDI sequencer
- Canorus, a music score typesetter
- PJB Composing/Muscript
- BRAHMS sequencer/notation system
- CD-R resources by Mike Richter
- MPlayer
Graphics
- General software resources
- SGI/UNIX graphics software list
- The Gimp - the GNU Image Manipulation Program
- POV-Ray - The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (also see below)
- ImageMagick
- The Labs: GIFMerge
- The MPEG Home Page
- xfig
- Dia - a diagram drawing program
- Skencil - vector graphics program
- potrace - a vectorization program
- Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview
- xv home page
- Geomview at the Geometry Center
- vtk - The Visualization Toolkit
- MPlayer, MPEG player
- Heroine Warrior, motion picture software
- Tux Paint, a drawing program for children
- Index to Postscript documentation pages
- Internet Postscript resources
- Postscript and Ghostview Resources
- PostScript command summary
- The Internet Distiller
- gif2eps
- JPEG Tutorial at VIPER
- Graphics and analysis software
- Colour tables
- Math/Earth Sciences/Astronomy
- Gnuplot
- GMT - The Generic Mapping Tools
- OpenDX - the open source version of the IBM Data Explorer
- xd3d - 2D/3D data visualization tool by François Jouvé
- Vis5d+
- SciGraphica
- Grace
- GrADS - Grid Analysis and Display System
- IVE - Interactive Visualization Environment
- vhclmaps - map viewers package
- XEphem - plot astronomical datasets under X Windows
- dplot - ternary system plots, by C.M.John
- National Geographic Map Machine
- Data Graphics Research at the University of Oregon
- Computer Graphics Link List
- Screen Presentation Tools, reviewed by Michael Wiedmann
- Ray tracing links (mostly POV-Ray)
- POV-Ray - The Persistence of Vision Raytracer
- Ken Tyler's Bookmarks - probably the most comprehensive POV-Ray/Raytracing link list on the web
- MegaPOV
- The POV-Ray Include Files Page
- Texture Library
- NASA maps of the solar system
- 3D animations, planetary maps, 3D graphics rendering by Björn Jónsson
- Advanced POV Animation with ClockMod - a tutorial by S. Strickland
- The German PoV Magazine
- Web Stuff
- Web Design Group HTML reference page (Dutch mirror)
- Index Dot HTML - The Advanced HTML Reference
- Preparing Graphics for the Web
- WWW Consortium - Graphics Formats for the World Wide Web
- Computer Vision Software link collection of graphics software
- Royal Frazier's GIF Animation doc page
- Icon Bazaar link page to icon and animation websites
- NCSA Mosaic Web Tutorials - Online tutorials for Web programming
- Adding Images to Your Web Site
- HTML Converters
Mantle dynamics and related topics
Disclaimer: The lists below are more or less strongly biased by my own interests and by the people I happen to know either by name or even personally. Only researchers/institutes with somehow informative web pages are listed, so some significant people are missing.
- Research institutions/groups
- Geological Sciences, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
- Petrophysics, Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU, Australia
- Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth, Germany
- Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Berkeley, USA
- Structural Geology and Tectonics, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Geodynamics, CIRES, Boulder, USA
- Centre for the Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Earth's Interior (CETSEI), University of Bristol, UK
- Geological Sciences Department, Brown University, Providence, USA
- Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech, USA
- Earth Sciences Department, Cambridge University, UK
- Carnegie Institution, Washington, USA
- Geological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
- Department of Geology, UC Davis, USA
- Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, ENS Lyon, France
- Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Seismology and Geodynamics Group, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon at Eugene, USA
- Geodynamics, Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, J.W.Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
- Geodynamics, Göttingen University, Germany
- Geodynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Institute for Frontier Research on Earth Evolution (IFREE), Japan
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
- Geodynamics, Universita Karlová, Prague, Czech Republic
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, USA
- Earth and Environmental Sciences, LANL, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA
- School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, UK
- Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA, USA
- MPI Chemie, Geochemistry Division, Mainz, Germany
- Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, USA
- Earth Resources Laboratory, MIT, USA
- Laboratoire de Tectonophysique, Université Montpellier, France
- Geodynamics, Institute of Geophysics and Institute of Planetary Science, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany
- Geodynamics group, Norges geologiske undersøkelse (Geological Survey of Norway, NGU), Trondheim, Norway
- Institute for Study of the Earth's Interior, Okayama University, Japan
- Physics of Geological Processes (PGP), Univ. of Oslo, Norway
- Institut pour la Physique du Globe, Paris, France
- Geodynamics, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, USA
- Geological Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, USA
- Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington at Seattle, USA
- Department of Mineralogy, Petrology and Economic Geology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, USA
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokio Institute of Technology, Japan
- Earthquake Research Center, University of Tokio, Japan
- Institute of Geodynamical Research, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
- Geology & Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- People (by research field, in alphabetical order)
- Geochemistry
- Francis Albarède, ENS Lyon, France
- Paul Asimow, Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA
- Mike Bickle, Cambridge University, UK
- Mark S. Ghiorso, University of Chicago, USA
- Erik Hauri, Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
- Marc M. Hirschmann, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, USA
- Albrecht W. Hofmann, MPI Chemie, Mainz, Germany
- Craig C. Lundstrom, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- David W. Peate, Dansk Lithosfære Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Andrew Saunders, University of Leicester, UK
- Jean-Guy Schilling, University of Rhode Island, USA
- Nobumichi Shimizu, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
- Edward Stolper, Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA
- Wim van Westrenen, Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
- Robert S. White, Cambridge University, UK
- William M. White, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
- Geodynamics
- Einat Aharonov, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
- Don L. Anderson, Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA
- Jafar Arkani-Hamed, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Thorsten Becker, Dept. Earth Sciences, USC, Los Angeles, USA
- David Bercovici, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Susanne Buiter, Norges geologiske undersøkelse (Geological Survey of Norway, NGU), Trondheim, Norway
- Hans-Peter Bunge, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
- Ondrej Cadek, Universita Karlová, Prague, Czech Republic
- Ulrich R. Christensen, Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
- Hana Cizková, Universita Karlová, Prague, Czech Republic
- Alessandro M. Forte, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
- Andrew C. Fowler, Oxford University, UK
- Carl W. Gable, LANL, New Mexico, USA
- Abdolreza Ghods, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
- Saskia Goes, Imperial College, London, UK
- Michael Gurnis, Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA
- John Hernlund, UCLA, USA
- Christoph F. Hieronymus, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Greg Houseman, Leeds University, UK
- Garrett Ito, SOEST, Hawaii, USA
- Matthew Jull, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
- Richard F. Katz, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York, USA
- Georg Kaufmann, Göttingen University, Germany
- Boris Kaus, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Peter van Keken, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA
- Louise Kellogg, UC Davis, California, USA
- Chris Kincaid, University of Rhode Island, USA
- Nils Laudenbach, Göttingen University, Germany
- Alison M. Leitch, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St.John's, Canada
- Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA
- Gabriele Marquart, J.W.Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
- Ctírad Matyska, Universita Karlová, Prague, Czech Republic
- Dan P. McKenzie, Cambridge University, UK
- William Menke, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York, USA
- Jerry X. Mitrovica, Physics Dept., Univ. Toronto
- W. Jason Morgan, Princeton University, USA
- Richard J. O'Connell, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Peter L. Olson, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
- E. Marc Parmentier, Brown University, Providence, USA
- Yuri Podlachikov, PGP, Univ. Oslo, Norway
- Klaus Regenauer-Lieb, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Yanick Ricard, ENS Lyon, France
- Mark Richards, UC Berkeley, USA
- Allan Rubin, Princeton University, USA
- Harro Schmeling, J.W.Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
- Bertram Schott, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Gerald Schubert, UCLA, USA
- Norman Sleep, Stanford University, USA
- Christophe Sotin, Université Nantes, France
- Marc W. Spiegelman, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York, USA
- Bernhard Steinberger, Norges geologiske undersøkelse (Geological Survey of Norway, NGU), Trondheim, Norway
- David J. Stevenson, Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA
- Paul J. Tackley, UCLA, USA
- Manuela Tetzlaff, J.W.Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
- Donald L. Turcotte, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
- Ludek Vecsey, Universita Karlová, Prague, Czech Republic
- Robert S. White, Cambridge University, UK
- David A. Yuen, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, USA
- Petrology
- John Fitz Gerald, ANU, Canberra, Australia
- Timothy L. Grove, MIT, USA
- A. Dana Johnston, University of Oregon at Eugene, USA
- Paul C. Hess, Brown University, Providence, USA
- Bjørn Mysen, Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
- Dean C. Presnall, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
- Michael J. Walter, Okayama University, Misasa, Japan
- Youxue Zhang, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA
- Planetary Science
- Gerald Schubert, UCLA, USA
- Tilman Spohn, Münster University, Germany
- Ruth Ziethe, Münster University, Germany
- Rock/mineral physics
- Mark Bukowinski, UC Berkeley, USA
- Ian Carmichael, UC Berkeley, USA
- Anastasia Chopelas, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
- Ulrich Faul, ANU, Canberra, Australia
- Tibor Gasparik, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
- Claude Herzberg, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
- Ian Jackson, ANU, Canberra, Australia
- Shun-ichiro Karato, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- David L. Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, USA
- Rebecca A. Lange, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA
- Stephen Mackwell, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, USA
- Artem R. Oganov, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- David C. Rubie, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth, Germany
- Surendra K. Saxena, CeSMEC, Florida International University, Miami, USA
- Lars Stixrude, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA
- Yousheng Xu, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Earth Sciences (general)
Additional material may be found on the "Miscellaneous section".
- General
- Earth Reference Model
- The Geological Society
- The Royal Geographical Society
- GéoNet/EarthNet
- General interest publications of the US Geological Survey
- webGeology - geoscience teaching resources at the University of Tromsø
- Geotimes, a magazine from the American Geological Institute
- Google Maps
- Openstreetmap, a non-corp alternative to Google Maps
- Maps, maps, maps
- Maps and References list, CGRER, Univ.of Iowa
- The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin
- Online Map Creation (OMC), by Martin Weinelt, Geomar
- Worldmapper, cartogram mapping of geographical data
- The Visible Earth - satellite earth image directory from NASA
- QGIS, an open source geographic information system
- DigitalGlobe - high-res satellite images
- National Atlas of the US, from nationalatlas.gov
- LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica by the USGS
- GeoGuide from the universities of Göttingen and Freiberg
- Geocuriosa
- Geophysics (of more general interest)
- Current Earthquake Information from USGS NEIC
- The Global Seismic Hazard Map
- Lehman build-it-yourself seismometer
- Paleomaps
- The World Stress Map Project
- Earthquake Online Exhibition at the University of Bergen, Norway
- Images of Historical Earthquakes, a collection by Jan T. Kozak
- Samizdat Press - free geophysical lecture notes
- Theory of the Earth by D.L. Anderson, Caltech
- Seismic wave propagation in stratified media by B.L.N. Kennett, ANU Canberra (screen-enhanced version)
- Free books/lecture notes by Jon Claerbout
- AGU Digital Library (restricted access)
- Granular Volcano Group - granular processes and fluid dynamics in volcanic processes
- USGS National Geomagnetism Program
- Biographic Dictionary of the History of Geophysics (in german)
- Geology, Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry
- OneGeology.org, an attempt to provide digital geological maps of the whole earth (under construction)
- The Structural Geology Page
- Mineralogy links
- Mineralogy Database
- mindat.org - The Mineral Database
- Geochemistry links
- Atlas of Igneous Rocks, Minerals, and Textures
- The Mineral Gallery by Amethyst Galleries
- Making matter - 3D structures of inorganic materials
- How Volcanoes Work, by Vic Camp
- Global Volcanism Program at the Smithsonian Institution
- Geochemistry, an online textbook by William M. White
- Petrology lecture notes by Greg Finn
- Basaltic Volcanism on the Terrestrial Planets, provided by the Astrophysical Data System
- Inorganic Crystal Structure Database by Volker Greiner
- Treatise on Geochemistry - unaffordable, but there are free sample chapters
- Quick assays in mineral identification by Walter A. Franke
- Meteorology and Oceanography
- American Meteorological Society Glossary of Meterology
- Atmospheric Optics by Les Cowley
- Der Karlsruher Wolkenatlas
- Glossary of Physical Oceanography by Stephen K. Baum
- NOAA Tsunami Research Program
- NASA Earth Observatory
- Sea level changes, by H.Seyfried and R.Leinfelder (in german)
- Casino-21 - Climate Dynamics at RAL
- climateprediction.net, climate modelling during the idle time of (your?) PC
- Planetology
- The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery by William Sheehan, online at Arizona Univ. Press
- Mars Exploration Program Landing Sites
- MESSENGER home page
- NASA Solar System Simulator
- Earth Impact Database from PASSC, University of New Brunswick
- Planets of other stars
- The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
- Planetary science link list of Walter Kiefer, LPI
- Usenet groups
Physics & Astronomy
- General
- Fred Espenak's Eclipse Site
- Science @ NASA
- Space Weather Bureau
- The Nine Planets
- The Physics FAQ
- History of Astronomy
- BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), software and links for SETI@home-style projects
- PhysicsWeb
- Welt der Physik (german) by the German Physical Society
- Collection of Physics web articles by J. Calvert
- The Particle Adventure, from Lawrence Berkeley Lab
- Stellarium, a cool computer planetarium
- Celestia, a space simulation program
- PP3 - celestial chart generator by Torsten Bronger
- CFDsource, a computational fluid dynamics portal by K.T. Yoon
- Collaborative Computational Projects in the UK
- Sun Observation Tutorial
- Music Acoustics at the University of New South Wales
- Howstuffworks
- Biographies/history
- The Einstein Archives Online, by Caltech and the Jewish National & University Library
- The Galileo Project at Rice University
- George Green Homepage
- The Newton Project
- Lars Onsager Biographical Memoir, NAS
- Wolfgang Pauli, virtual exhibition at the ETH Zürich
- Sir Ernest Rutherford - Scientist Supreme
- Catalogue of the scientific community of the 16th and 17th centuries at Rice University (>600 entries)
- Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen
- Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics
- Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
- The Atomic Archive
- IEEE Virtual Museum of the history of electricity, electronics, and computers
- The Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek analogue computer
- Essays and reference material
- NIST reference on SI units
- Bureau International des Poids et Mésures (BIPM)
- WebElements - the periodic table
- Periodic Table
- Ionic Radii for All Species
- Nuclear Data Dissemination Home Page, LBNL/Univ. of Lund
- NuDat - nuclear structure and decay data, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Unit converter
- IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology
- NASA technical reports from the Langley Technical Report Server
- MIT Open Courseware
- Physics lecture notes collection (german)
- Classical Electromagnetics lecture notes by Bo Thidé
- Introduction to Digital Filters by Julius O. Smith
- Principles of Data Analysis by Prasenjit Saha
- Magnetars, Soft Gamma Repeaters & very strong magnetic fields, by Robert C. Duncan
- Acoustics and vibrations animations, by Dan Russell, Kettering Univ
- What are "all the colors of the rainbow"?, by Raymond L. Lee Jr. and Alistair B. Fraser
- Reaction-diffusion simulations, by Aric Hagberg, LANL
- Physics Textbook Errata, compiled by Doug Craigen
- Astrophotography
- Axel Mellinger's Astrophotography page
- Astronomical Imaging by Brad Wallis and Robert Provin
- Astronomy Picture of the Day (NASA)
- Astronomical Society of South Australia - Astrophotography/Auroral Photography
- EAAE astronomy and astrophysics hotlinks
- European Southern Observatory Homepage
- Photographs from the Anglo-Australian Observatory
- Galaxy Photography by Jason Ware
- Views of the Solar System by C.J. Hamilton
- Hubble Space Telescope
- The Web Nebulae by Bill Arnett
Mathematics
- Chaos/fractals
- Essays, Books, and Tutorials
- SOS Math
- Mathematik-Online from Stuttgart University (german and english)
- Mathematical Formula Collection (german)
- Example Problems, a wikipedia-style showcase of worked math example problems
- Analysis WebNotes by John Lindsay Orr
- Books on numerical methods for eigenvalue problems and iterative methods for linear systems by Yousef Saad
- Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems: Building Blocks for Iterative Methods, 2nd Edition by Barrett et al.
- The Matrix Manual
- Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra by Carl D. Meyer
- Chebyshev & Fourier Spectral Methods, 2nd ed., by J.P.Boyd
- The Statistics Homepage
- Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications by D.W. Stockburger
- Hypertext Maths Dictionary
- Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
- Biographies of great mathematicians
- Biographies of Women Mathematicians
- Unsolved Mathematical Problems, a collection of nice short essays about classical mathematical problems
- The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
- mathematik.ch by Bernhard Berchtold
- Pages on Logic, Math, and Reasoning by Christer Blomqvist
- Introduction to Probability by C.M. Grinstead and J.L. Snell
- Principles of Data Analysis, by Prasenjit Saha
- + plus magazine
- The Kepler Conjecture
- Web Resources for the History of Mathematics
- Euclid's Elements
- Alan Turing Home Page
- The Geometry Junkyard
- Yakow Trachtenberg's mental arithmetic methods
- The Prime Pages
- Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section
- The Uniform Polyhedra
- Symmetry, Crystals, and Polyhedra
- Some puzzles with polyhedra and numbers by J.M. Ribeiro Rezende
- Recreational mathematics
- Topics in Recreational Mathematics
- The Integrator
- Software (see the Programming links for numerical code)
- Links to mathematical software, collected at the University of Haifa
- Scilab
- Statistical Software from the Statistics Group at the University of Antwerp
- Maxima, a GPLed descendant of the Macsyma computer algebra system
- CalculiX, a free 3D FE program by Guido Dhondt and Klaus Wittig
- XmdS - the extensible multi-dimensional simulator, an open-source differential equation solver
- Other resources
- The Mathematical Atlas
- The Math Archives
- Mathematics ArXiv portal
- The Math Forum@Drexel University
- Numerical Recipes online
- What's New in Mathematics, AMS
- The Wolfram Functions Site
- NIST Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
- Links to Abramowitz & Stegun online (hi-res scanned)
- WWW Interactive Multipurpose Server at U Nice: tutorials, calculators, recreations
- Digital Library of Mathematical Functions at NIST (still in early stage of development)
- EqWorld reference
- The Spline Bibliography Database
- Wavelet Digest
- sci.math FAQ
- Numerical Analysis and Associated Fields FAQ
- Experimental Mathematics Website by D.H. Bailey
- Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
- The Mathematical Quotations Server at Furman University
- Quotations from mathematicians and/or about mathematics, collected by Arndt Brünner
Books, libraries, dictionaries, bibliographies
- Libraries
- Libweb - Library WWW Servers
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France
- The British Library
- Document Server at the Göttingen State and University Library
- The Online Medieval and Classical Library
- The Internet History Sourcebooks Project, edited by Paul Halsall, Fordham Univ.
- The Internet Public Library (swedish mirror)
- subito - german library service
- Dissertationen online - Liste deutscher Dissertationsarchive
- Literature search
- Books
- The Academic Book Center
- Quantum books
- Amazon
- The Internet Bookshop
- Bookfinder
- Bibliofind
- findmybook - find new & used books in english, german, spanish, french, italian
- DeutschesFachbuch.de, mit Blick ins Buch (in german)
- ZVAB - Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher
- Scientific publishing companies
- Antiquariatsnetz
- Books on Demand
- Software reviews in the "Physikalische Blätter
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
- Buchticket - book exchange (in german)
- Free books and lecture notes (mainly geophysics)
- Samizdat Press (european mirror) at the Colorado School of Mines
- Jon Claerbout's classroom
- New Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice of the IASPEI
- The World Lecture Hall
- e-print ftp server for physical and mathematical sciences
- Numerical Mathematics by Germund Dahlquist and Åke Björck (working copies)
- Classical Electrodynamics by Bo Thidé, Univ Uppsala
- The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing by Steven W. Smith
- Dictionaries/bibliographies
- LEO English/French/Spanish-German Dictionaries
- ARTFL Project: Roget's Thesaurus
- A Web of On-line Dictionaries
- Pedro's Dictionaries - a dictionary link list
- A list of several dictionaries
- Meyers Lexikon (german)
- SlangSite slang dictionary
- Global Statistics
- Juralinks (german)
- science-books, a bibliography of physics and mathematics textbooks
- FOLDOC Dictionary of Computing
- The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies of Alf-Christian Achilles
- The Jargon Lexicon
- Medicine-Worldwide, medical information and dictionary (in german)
- Typolexikon, a dictionary of western typography by Wolfgang Beinert (in german)
- Symbols.com, a symbols dictionary
Nice images/photography
Astrophotography links are on the "Physics & Astronomy section".
- Photography/image processing techniques
- Digital Camera Review by Philip and Joanna Askey
- Scanning tips by Wayne Fulton
- Photos (mostly landscape)
- Terra Galleria Photography by Quang-Tuan Luong
- Alfred Molon's Photo Gallery
- Sami Solanki's photo gallery
- The Photography of Jim Brandenburg
- Yang Fang's homepage with several galleries
- zwoje.com, photos (especially landscape in Scania) by Andrzej Kobos
- Cambridge in Colour by Sean T. McHugh
- Fine Art/Black & White Photography (not only landscapes) by Dan Massey
- J. P. Trenque's underwater and land photography
- Fritz Pölking's nature photography site
- Nature's Best Photography Magazine
- Several travel photo series (mostly US) by Soma Acharya
- Landschaftsfotografie.com, a German site with some nice pictures of western North America and Norway
- WWF Canon Photogallery
- fotocommunity.de, a forum for photography of all kinds
- photo.net
- Computer graphics art
- Movies
Micro$oft & accomplices pillory
- Micro$oft's scandals and misdeeds
- Technical/Anti-Virus software (for those who are chained to M$ boxes)
- Some other things I saw in different occasions on the net.
- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.
- The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s².
- In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
- Running Windows on a Pentium is like having a brand new Porsche but only be able to drive backwards with the handbrake on.
- Computers are like air-conditioners, they stop working properly when you open Windows.
- The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners.
- Ernst Jan Plugge
- Use of tools distinguishes Man from Beast. And UNIX users from WINDOZE lusers.
- When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*".
-Linus Torvalds- Linux, WinNT and MS-DOS. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- In 1968 it took the computing-Power of 2 C-64 to fly a rocket to the moon. Now, 1997 it takes the Power of a Pentium 133 to run Microsoft Windows 95. - Something must have gone wrong.
- - "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" - Bill Gates, 1981
- "Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM." - Bill Gates,1996
- "Nobody will ever need Windows 95." - logical conclusion
Miscellaneous
- People
- IPICAPE - a hispanoamerican cultural association my parents are active in (in german and spanish)
- Pale Blue Dot, Kaushik and Soma Acharya's Website, and their web and network services consulting company Bytesize Consulting, located near San Diego, Calif.
- The university orchestra of Hamburg
- Culture
- Project Gutenberg
- Projekt Gutenberg-DE- die digitale Bibliothek
- The Internet Classics Archive: 441 searchable works of classical literature
- The ORB - Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
- An Online Library of Literature
- The Online Books Page, Univ. Pennsylvania
- WessWeb, Western European Studies literature links, Univ. Virginia
- The Perseus Digital Library at Tufts Univ.
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- Classic Short Stories
- Die Fackel online: the entire Karl Kraus gazette provided by the Austrian Academy
- IRCAM - Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou
- Museum infonet - der virtuelle Museumsführer
- Museen und Ausstellungen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
- WWW Virtual Library - Museums around the world
- The Web Museum
- Mark Harden's Artchive
- 24 Hour Museum
- Masters of Photography
- Ingmar Bergman
- Michelangelo Buonarotti Home Page
- Musée National Picasso Paris
- The Official M.C.Escher Website
- History and Culture of India at UCLA
- The World of Famous Diamonds and other famous gems, by Ryan Thompson
- The Human Languages Page
- Endangered languages in Europe
- European Voynich Transcription Project
- The Encyclopedia Mythica
- Misc science
- The Official Website of the Nobel Foundation
- ScienceGov, a science gateway of the US Government
- Wikipedia, german version
- Frank Potter's Science Gems, a large collection of science links of various disciplines
- The World Lecture Hall
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries, Rice University
- Famous personalities in medicine (in german)
- Women in Science - 16 biographies of outstanding female researchers
- ZDF wissen & entdecken, science education of the Second German Public TV channel
- ATHENA, science and arts collection, University of Geneva
- Encyclopedia of Life (under construction)
- The Linnéan Society of London
- The Internet Bird Collection
- vogelstimmen.de - bird song database (in German... the site, not the songs)
- The Reptile Database by Peter Uetz and Jakob Hallermann
- FishBase, a database of fish species
- World History Database
- History of Inventions at about.com
- History links at the university of Düsseldorf
- Isidore of Seville, a portal to several historical topics
- Historical map collection by David Rumsey
- Cartographic Images through history
- Eternal Egypt
- The Silkroad Foundation
- The writings of Charles Darwin
- The Darwin Correspondence Project
- Mersenne Prime Search
- Writing systems
- Phonetics Books by Peter Ladefoged, UCLA
- The Ethnologue, a catalogue of the languages of the world
- The Complete Works of Immanuel Kant at the University of Bonn
- NOVA - Science in the News, from the Australian Academy of Science
- Xplora, the European science education platform
- Organizations
- Amnesty international
- BUND - Freunde der Erde (Bund für Umwelt und Natur Deutschland)
- Deutscher Mieterbund (DMB)
- Greenpeace
- Naturschutzbund Deutschland
- National Audubon Society
- United for Peace and Justice
- International Peace Bureau
- U.S. National Park Sevice
- WWF - Global Network
- Stromtarife - get rid of nuclear energy
- International Economic Forum Renewable Energies
- Das 100.000-Dächer Programm für Solarstrom
- Deutsche Energie-Agentur
- co2online.de (in German)
- Foodwatch - find out which food is least poisoned (in german)
- The Hunger Site - Feed people by clicking
- OneWorld 24 - Feed people by clicking
- Politics and news
- Die Grünen/Bündnis '90
- MONITOR - WDR-Nachrichtenmagazin
- Panorama - NDR-Nachrichtenmagazin
- Kontraste - RBB-Nachrichtenmagazin
- Frankfurter Rundschau
- Digital Journalist - Photo journalist stories
- World Resources 1998-99
- Council for a Livable World
- The National Security Archive at George Washington University
- The Noam Chomsky Archive
- George Monbiot's Homepage
- Michael Moore's Homepage
- No War - why we oppose war on Iraq, by Greenpeace
- Cost of War
- Stop Esso, background info on ExxonMobil's climate crimes by Greenpeace
- Privatizing the University - the New Tragedy of the Commons by J.R.Brown, published in Science
- The Number That's Devouring Science: Richard Monastersky on that idiocy called "impact factor"
- Center for Public Integrity
- Indymedia (german)
- Disinfopedia - the encyclopedia of disinformation and propaganda
- X1000mal quer - against Castor nuclear waste transports
- Informationsdienst gegen Rechtsextremismus
- Netz gegen Rechts - Medieninitiative
- Courage to Refuse - Reserve soldiers of the Israeli army refusing service in the occupied Palestine territories
- Governments on the WWW, by Gunnar Anzinger
- Wahl-O-Mat, check which party matches best your political views (in german)
- Adbusters
- Energy saving
- Alliance to Save Energy
- Top Ten: Best Products of Europe
- Energy Star from the US Environmental Protection Agency
- Computer-related politics
- OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint by Eric Raymond and Bob Landley
- freepatents.org - protecting competition against the abuse of software patents
- No Software Patents!
- Die Lobbyschlacht um Softwarepatente by Florian Müller (in german)
- Linux Today: Richard Stallman - U.S. Congress Threatens to Establish a New Kind of Monopoly
- Newsforge: Richard Stallman - Can you trust your computer? (on TCPA/Palladium)
- TCPA/Palladium FAQ by Ross Anderson
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Burn All GIFs
- PubPat - the Public Patent Foundation
- Fight Spam on the internet
- SpamCop
- Internet privacy
- Computer Aid International, a british NGO transferring old, but still useful PCs for reuse in developping countries
- Humour
- Witze @ Wissen-im-Netz (german)
- Instrument Jokes
- Schlagseite, Cartoons from the c't magazine (german)
- PhD Comics by Jorge Cham
- Urban Legends Reference Pages
- Crank Dot Net - should really everybody be allowed to put stuff on the web?
- Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division
- Best of Craig's List has some hilarious stuff
- Rahul Kumar's Humour Page
- Economist Jokes
- Randy's Favorite Lawyer Jokes
- A Day in the Life of a Grad Student
- Other stuff for which I couldn't find a better place
- Martindale's Reference Desk
- FAQ.org - FAQs about everything
- Research-It!
- The Mail Archive
- The Internet Archive, where you can excavate ancient web pages
- A Collection of Manuals by Graham Williams
- Green tips for everyday from Greenpeace Canada
- Energy-saving tips from Greenpeace
- UNEP Greener Driving and Ecodrive - advice for a environment-friendly driving style
- Astrodienst - find geographical locations
- Archive links by Tjen-Sien Lim
- quoteland.com - Quotations on every topic, by every author, and in every fashion possible
- The Electric Postcard
- The Official Smiley Dictionary
Last update: 14 February 2008
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