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1995 December

03) Mystery of the Maya (Check out these Mayan stories)
10) Galileo Homepage mirror (week probe entered Jupiter)
17) Ibrahim Shafi's ISLAM Homepage (Don't believe all you read)
24) Send a postcard from: Electric or Digital Postcards, vacations.com, or The Park

1996 January

01) Cosmic Baseball Assc: Alphatown Ionians 1996 (the Philosophers), '97, '98
14) The J.R.R. Tolkien Information Page
21) The Last Day of Calvin and Hobbes
28) Journal of Buddhist Ethics

1996 February

04) Classic Greek and Roman Texts
11) The Surrealist Compliment Generator (favorite one)
18) Mandelbrot and Julia Set Explorer
25) John Mount's Homepage
--- (Old one, where I got the Opus tesselation)

1996 March

03) WebDictionary, but seriously, HTML Webster Interface
--- Casey's Snow Day Reverse Dictionary (and Guru)
10) NAME YOUR GAME(tm) by James and me.
17) Kooks Museum Dedicated to Dan Burke
22) Moller International Maker of the SkyCar
31) Adopt-a-Vegetarian I'm a veggie, but I thought it was funny

1996 April

07) Westwood Studios (where James works as of 1996 Jul) (Not browser friendly)
14) Volvo Cars (No Frames) (I just got a 1982 Volvo 240.)
21) Riverside, CA Where La Sierra is located.
28) Register to Vote 1996 (Only in the US.)
--- From NetVote by Rock the Vote and MCI

1996 May

05) Encyclopedia Britanica
12) T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S and Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches
19) SouthWestern Archaeology Weekend of Archaeology trip.
26) USA CityLink Anyone know of a good global form?

1996 June

02) Infoseek(R) Great source of information
09) Buy a pen off of the net for US$225K????
16) What is the value of pi? Original page go bye-bye :(
--- The Quest for the Holy Value
23) Page of useless facts
30) Taoism Information Page

1996 July

07) Wescon Electronics Show, Anaheim, CA, USA, Oct 22-24
14) Net@ddress or PostOne "The last e-mail address you need"
--- Juno and HoTMaiL provide free e-mail.
21,28) The 1996 Summer Olympics - International Olympic Committee and
28) Yahoo's Site

1996 August

04) EarthLink My net provider (until 1997 Feb).
11) Project Gutenberg (mirror) - Electronic books
18) Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
25) Artificial Intelligence

1996 September

01) MapQuest
08) National Space Science Data Center
15) iPizza from Internet University is out of business :(
22) The Coming of Shadows won the 1996 Hugo Award
--- (Severed Dreams, 97 98)
--- Lurker's Guide to B5 (Good site!) Official Site
--- Impeach Pres. Clarke Shadow Bumper Stickers
29) Oops... missed one

1996 October

06) Glam-o-Rama Wedding Chapel: Stop the 'net, I want off.
13) Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Program (Home of the X-33 / VentureStar)
20) The Nine Planets, Planet Finder, and Solar System Live
--- USNO's Astronomical Applications Department (sun/moon data) (VR moon image)
27) The Church of the Quivering Otter

1996 November

03) W.M. Keck Observatory
10) Mars Global Surveyor: Project Homepage Launch: 1996/11/07 17:01 UTC
--- Mars 96 (Failed to leave earth orbit 1996/11/16 *sigh*)
--- Mars Pathfinder Launch: 1996/12/03, Landing: 1997/07/04
--- *NOTE* Only 7 of 22 probes to Mars have made it, one Russian.
17) US Fish and Wildlife Service's Endangered species program
24) SPACE.EDU Check out the course in Telerobotics

1996 December

01) day without art
08) God's Homepage
15) Flying Contraptions
22) Dr. Carl Sagan Died 1996 Dec 20. Honorary Web Page
--- NASA Admistrator Goldin, SETI, The Planetary Society, and
--- Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims Of the Paranormal
29) On vacation... distracted :)

1997 January

05) On vacation... distracted :)
12) NASA's, non-astronomer, Funny, and index to other pages for comet Hale-Bopp
19) David Ulansey's unique, and a more traditional, interpretation of Mithraism
26) 2.5 million year old stone tools found in Ethiopia
--- Article in Nature Reuters Newswire story

1997 February

02) And Adam Knew Eve A dictionary of sex in the Bible
--- [D�rer: Adam and Eve]
09) Very Long Baseline Interferometry (HALCA): ISAS, NRAO, NASA, JPL: 12 Feb Launch
16) Letters to My Son by Jerry Linenger (Astronaut on Mir)
23) Scientists at the Roslin Institute publish in Nature about cloning an adult animal

1997 March

02) (SpaceWeek) Origins project, Extrasolar Planets, Exoplanets
--- Lunar-Mars Life Support Test Project briefing 03 Mar
--- Planetary disk around binary star see Nature and Science
09) I moved
16) Zen Stories to tell your neighbors
--- 22 Mar Comet Hale-Bopp's closest approach to Earth.
23) Project HALO 22 Mar launch delayed. Partial success May 11 ( Space Today)
--- (First amateur to break space barrier? Not yet. Only $12,000)
30) The WetPC. I like the Chordic GUI

1997 April

06) Astronomy Week + city that greeted Columbus = 10 commands for space travellers
--- (We must say goodbye to Pioneer 10 this week)
13) 25 Mar Toyota announced a Hybrid Power Vehicle. Also see JPL's new fuel cell
20) legopolis.com

1997 May

04) Interested in paleontology? Go to China
--- Science - US and China to team up on dinosaur digs.
--- CNN reports Scientists find fossil of dinosaur with downy fluff and first fossilized internal organ found in one
11) Deep Blue beats Kasparov

1997 June

08) Nuclear Power: Uranium Institute, Fossil Fission Reactors, and Integral Fast Reactor

1997 July

Well, I was on vacation, but here are some things that happened.

25 Jun) J. Y. Cousteau died (Cousteau Society)
25 Jun) Progress M-34 collides with Mir
--- 17 Jul) Mir loses power
27 Jun) NEAR Mathilde encounter
02) Jimmy Stewart died
03-06) The Planetary Society's Planetfest for the Mars Pathfinder landing
21-22) Cheap Access to Space symposium

1997 August

Computer problems prevented me from being on.
31) X-Prize(SM), Space Frontier Foundation, making private space flight possible

1997 September

07) Voyager Project Homepage: 20th anniversary of Voyager I and II launches
14) Mars Global Surveyor arrives at Mars
21) The Floccinaucinihilipilification Homepage
--- It even has a link to my forbidden page :)
28) Dr. Hopewell of Beaver Medical Group operated on mom

1997 October

05) Cassini Launches perfectly 97/10/15:0843UTC
12) 10/14, X-1: Fiftieth Anniversary
--- 10/13, ThrustSSC breaks Mach 1 on land at Blackrock - 10/15 official record
19) CalTrans road conditions for CA. ( Trip to La Sierra)
26) Ariane 5 (CNES, ESA) launches successfully

1997 November

02) I had to switch ISPs again. My new one is: DreamSoft Online Services
09) Thebian Mapping Project, home of the KV5 project

1998

Feb 15) The Tomb of the Chihuahua Pharaohs
Apr 12) The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
Apr 26) The Virtual Mammoth Project (Center for Indigenous Research)
May 03) Ship of Fools: The Magazine of Christian Unrest
May 10) The Website Garage If you do web authoring, they has some nice tools
May 17) [Hubble] Space Telescope Science Institute
Jun 07) Monty Python Heaven
Sep 06) NASA's New Millennium Program

1999

Jan 10) Tom Elmer @ Argonne National Lab

Last updated: 1999 Jan 12