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911, COVID-19 and the First Casualty of War
Why You Can't Trust the Bureaucrats at the NIST Any More Than You Can Trust the Bureaucrats at the CDC
By Gary Kohls
--Lew Rockwell, 25 May 2020

Deadlier than Covid? Medics sound alarm as lockdown suicides SOAR in US - and health officials knew it would happen
By Helen Buyniski
--RT, 23 May 2020

Scientists believe cannabis could help prevent and treat coronavirus
--New York Post, 21 May 2020

Help! I'm in an Abusive Relationship
By Ellen Finnigan (video)
--Lew Rockwell, 22 May 2020
Help! I'm in an Abusive Relationship
By Ellen Finnigan
--Youtube, 20 May 2020

Lockdowns failed to alter the course of pandemic and are now destroying millions of livelihoods worldwide, JP Morgan study claims
--Daily Mail, 22 May 2020
REPORT: JP Morgan Finds Infection Rates Are Decreasing In States That Ended Lockdowns
--Daily Caller,20 May 2020

Nigella Lawson shares her recipe for delicious chocolate chip cookies - and fans say they're 'hands down the best' they've ever tried
--Daily Mail, 21 May 2020

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Books
- FreeComputerBooks.com
- ibiblio the public's library and digital archive
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- Library of Congress has an Online Catalog and the U.S. Copyright Office
- Online Books from University of Pennsylvania
- Project Gutenberg has thousands of free online books
Charity Navigator - Find a charity you can trust.
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Country Codes (2 characters long) and Root Zone Database from IANA
US State Codes (2 characters long) and other US Post Office Abreviations
List of Device Bit Rates and speeds
Dictionaries and Thesaurii
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Encyclopedia
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Find Someone
- Find your elected officials with help from Common Cause
- The Dead People Server shows which celebrities are still alive and is one of the pages on dpsinfo.com
- Find a lawyer in West's Legal Directory
  Or for low-income help try the Legal Aid Association of California
  Get Divorce help from the Divorce Helpline
- Find Someone's Personal Information, Phone Number, Credit Report, etc
  - PhoneNumberTrace.com
Language Translators
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- Ulukau The Hawaiian Electronic Library
- Google Translation
- GramTrans is from Denmark
Libraries
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Loan calculate the monthly payment for a loan
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Measure convert Fahrenheit to Centegrade, Feet to Meters, Pounds to Kilograms
Medical Research on Pub Med
Periodic Table of the Elements
Phone Number
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Test your knowledge
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from the National Institute of Standards Time and Frequency Division
What date is it? See the Calendar Zone
National Weather Service
National Hurricane Center

Astronomy

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ESA (European Space Agency)
Rosetta rendezvous with a comet
Max Planck Society (Deutsch)
NASA Human Space Flights
Near Earth Astronomy
- Asteroids and Near Earth Objects
  - The B612 Foundation is working to protect earth from asteroid impacts.
  - Barringer Crater in Arizona
  - Catalina Sky Survey
  - IAU Minor Planet Center and the Guide to Minor Body Astrometry
  - NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
    - JPL Near-Earth Object Program and Earth Close Approaches
      Stadium sized Asteroid flew by Earth 3 Days BEFORE it was Discovered
      -Nasa NEO Program June 19,2002
    - Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program.
    - WISE Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer
      WISE Mission Site
  - NEODyS 2 Earth Impact Possibilities
  - Pan-STARRS Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System
  - The Planetary Society and the Planetary Defense Page
  - The Spacewatch Project at the University of Arizona
- Comets
  - Nasa Comet Page
  - Date
  - Comet Event
  - 2004 Jan
  - Nasa's Stardust flew by comet Wild 2
  - 2001 Sep
  - Nasa's Deep Space 1 flew by comet Borrelly
  - 1997 Mar
  - JPL Comet Hale-Bopp
    Russell Sipe's Comet Hale-Bopp
  - 1996 Mar
  - JPL Comet Hyakutake
    Fred Burger's Hyakutake Pictures
  - 1994 Jul
  - JPL Comet Shoemaker-Levy Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Images from the
    Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories
    The Shoemaker-Levy comet is why I named this website "comet".
    I downloaded notes and pictures of Shoemaker-Levy striking Jupiter from Usenet astronomy newsgroups during the event.
- Planets
- Satellites
  - The Marshall Space Flight Center used to have the International Space Station location here.
Far Earth Astronomy
- What is at the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy? Perhaps a Black Hole...
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey / Skyserver has pictures of stars, galaxies, nebula, quasars, etc.
Orbital Mechanics
- JPL Solar System Dynamics Group
  Their Ephemerides are available in several formats as described in the
  JPL Planetary Ephemeris Export Information including DE200, DE403, DE405 and DE406.
- Moshier Astronomy and Numerical Software
- Neil's Original Astrodynamics is gone!
  But here is a copy of most the site as of Dec 20, 2000 with Qbasic programs for solar orbit determination from 3 or 5 observations.
  And here is a copy of most of the original files/directories: neiljacoby.tar.gz
- OrbFit Software Package in FORTRAN for computing orbits
- Paul Schlyter (English) and (svenska) has some excellent information including
  How to compute planetary positions and
  Computing planetary positions - a tutorial with worked examples
Time
- What Time is it?
  Since the U.S. Naval Observatory website is down until April 30, 2020 ..., here is the US Government Time from the National Institute of Standards Time and Frequency Division
  See the U.S. Naval Observatory Animated GIF clocks
  Naval Oceanographic Portal Web Based Time Syncronization
- The UK Greenwich Observatory instigated the invention of the world's first accurate pocket watch, the H4 by John Harrison, as a means of measuring longitude.

Internet

stopBADware.org keeps track of websites that can infect your computer.
Broadband DSLReports.com
BBS - Bulletin Board System
- The BBS Corner
CERT has information on internet/system security
DNS
- DomainTools has an nice WHOIS search
- OpenNic is a project to allow more root domains
Down Detector tracks the online status of many companies
down for everyone or just me?
Electronic Freedom Foundation
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and NO FRAMES FAQs
Web Authoring FAQ
HTML Codes Table Characters and Symbols
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has
Important Links and Time Zone database
INTERNIC, Web site
Internet Systems Consortium supports BIND, DHCP, INN, NTP and more
Let's Encrypt is a free, open and automated certificate authority (CA).
Netcraft collects information about web servers and has a
Web Server Survey and can help answer the question,
What's that site running?
What is the uptime for popular hosting sites?
Pinyin is a guide to the writing of Mandarin Chinese in romanization. Included is a tool which will
Convert Chinese (Japanese, Russian,...) characters to Unicode
Request For Comments (RFC)
Ripe NCC maintains domain registry info in Europe.
Shell Accounts
- Arbornet in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Nyx in Denver, Colorado
- SDF in Seattle, Washington
Speed Test from Sonic.net
Web Browser Online Spyware Watchdog Article Directory
SSL/TLS is a protocol used in https:// web communication and with email communication.
The current (Feb/2014) standard is TLS 1.2, everything else is older and has known security flaws...
Test your web browser at Hows My SSL.com
CheckTLS.com is a TLS email server checker.
USENET - nntp servers
Specialized Public NNTP News Servers
- gmane.org news.gmane.org
- aioe.org nntp.aioe.org
Virus Total can check a file for viruses.
Word Wide Web Consortium has many pages including
- Web page validators for
  - correctness to W3C Standards
  - missing links
  - CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
- Specifications for the DOM (Document Object Model)

San Francisco Bay Area

ba.announce newsgroup
Berkeley Parents Network has lots of information including House & Garden Services
Bookstores
- The Other Change of Hobbit is a Science Fiction and Fantasy Bookstore.
California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park including:
- Morrison Palentarium
- Steinhart Aquarium
- Kimball Natural History Museum
Coffee
- Blue Bottle Coffee Co. was voted "Best Coffeehouse" in the Bay Guardian 2011 Readers Poll
- Philz Coffe was voted "Best Cup of Coffee" in the Bay Guardian 2012 Readers Poll
- Peet‘s Coffee & Tea started on the Southwest corner of Walnut and Vine Streets in Berkeley in 1966. Starbucks bought coffee from Peets in 1971 when it first started.
Commonwealth Club of California
Computer
- Computer/Electronic Equipment - Used/Recycle
  - Recycle old Computers, Televisions, etc at the ewasteCollective
  - Junktronix sells old electronic equipment and has a good list of Silicon Valley Surplus Sources
  - The MightyOhm Wiki has a list of electronic surplus around the country including the
    San Francisco Bay Area
  - Universal Waste Management in Berkeley is closed
    Shuttered Berkeley Steel Foundry's Toxic Footprint Poses Risk for Workers
    --CBS SF Bay Area, 1 August 2019
  - WeirdStuff is now closed...
- Computer Groups
  - BALE SF Bay Area Open Source/Linux Events
  - BayPIGgies Bay Area Python Interest Group
  - BUUG Berkeley Unix User Group
  - Noisebridge a "hands on" group.
  - Hacker Dojo in Mountain View
  - SF-LUG San Francisco Linux Users Group
- Computer Shows
  - Shows seem to be gone but Junktronix lists Swap meets/Flea markets and other 'used' computer equipment suppliers.
- Computer Stores
  - Central Computers
  - Fry's Electronics
NorCal Corgi Con has bi-annual Corgi conventions in San Francisco, spring and fall
East Bay Recorder Society
Exploritorium, a "hands on" Science Museum
San Francisco Bay Ferry
Flea Markets
- Berkeley Flea Market
- San Jose Flea Market since 1960
Free Food, Housing Medical Care, etc
- Bay Area Services Directory from the Project Homeless Connect
- Free cell phones for low income Californians
  FCC Lifeline Program
  - Assurance Wireless (Virgin Mobile, Sprint network)
- Free Food, Housing, Medical Care, etc in San Francisco
- Free Food
  - Alameda Food Bank
  - St. Anthony Foundation
  - Richmond: Bay Area Rescue Mission
  - CalFresh is California's food stamp program
  - Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
  - SF-Marin Food Bank
  - Project Open Hand
  - San Francisco Food Bank
  - Second Harvest of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties
- Free Medical Care
  - San Francisco Haight Ashbury Free Clinics now has a clinic at Mission and Duboce
  - Berkeley Free Clinic
- Free Discounts on Transit (as of 17 April 2013, 62.5% off on BART)
  - Regional Transit Discount Card for disabled people
Fun Cheap SF has a calendar of fun things to do in SF and the East Bay.
Gardening
- Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour and information
Movie listings from the SF Chronicle
Castro Theatre in San Francisco shows a variety of old movies every week
The Rialto Cinemas serve food, beer and wine at their theater in El Cerrito.
San Francisco Best Parking
San Francisco Sex Information
Television Listings from Zap 2 It
Theater
- Berkeley Repertory Theater
- San Francisco Mime Troupe
- SHN operates the Orpheum, the Curran and the Golden Gate theaters in San Francisco
Transportation
- 511.org Transit Info for the whole Bay Area
- AC Transit (Alameda and Contra Costa counties) bus system
- BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) the modern passenger train system
USGS Earthquake information including the new Map
Weather for San Francisco from the National Weather Service and the Radar Image
Web Cams
- CalTrans District 4 Traffic Cams
- Alameda - Live Telerobotic Camera at CityNight.com is one of the oldest web cams in the Bay Area.
- CBS 5 Traffic Webcams
- Exploratorium Roof Cam
World Affairs Council of Northern California
zpub San Francisco

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Around the World
- Netherlands - Amsterdam
  - Hotel American
  - Marriott Hotel
- United Kingdom - London
  - Explore London - photo tour guide
  - UK Real Ale Guide
  - Londontown.com has a list of Museums and Art Galleries
- United States of America
  - Hostelling International USA American Youth Hostels
  - Hawaii
    - Maui
      - Grand Wailea
      - Kihei Kai
  - Nevada
    - Reno - Sparks - Lake Tahoe
      - reno.com
        
        Atlantis
        Circus Circus
        El Dorado
        Grand Sierra
        Harrah's
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        Silver Legacy
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