- My own home page
- Department of Geography & Environmental Studies
- G&ES 104: World Geography, Networked, Handout page
- G&ES 312: Economic Geography
- G&ES 362: Population Problems (undergraduate) and population sources
- G&ES 377: Computer Cartography Students' Index
- G&ES 387:Interactive Mapping and Students' Page
- G&ES 391: Research With GIS and Students' pages
- G&ES 446: Population Problems (graduate seminar)
- Mail to G&ES Lists
- Science Building Advisory Group, which I chair and bag mailer
- Plagiarism Page and survey
- Bergman Edition 2, and Development site -- project for Prentice Hall
COURSES
- BUGHOUSE, an NEIU open forum -- with tech. by Cameron Rex
- Send Mail to Students and alumni
- Blackboard -- our local course depot.
- Street View Panoramas and NEIU Icon -- my latest so far, uses the street view
- Fly over NEIU -- with hack "googles," Hit Start twice, then use arrows
- My directory -- the files themselves
- Zoom tools -- Zoom tools and satellite images
- Hyperlinks -- move map to new center
- Split Screen -- map and satellite images side by side
- Pioneer Tree Farm -- parent-owned, cut-your-own Christmas tree farm in McHenry Ill., IP address, and site control
GOOGLE EXPERIMENTS
- Acronym Finder.com -- an excellent search engine but, if that isn't enough, use this one.
- APA style -- a nice style manual for academic papers
- Atlas study materials with country map tests
- Bartleby Library -- find poems on a topic by searching keywords.
- Better Business Bureau -- start at the Chicago site, but go to the source if necessary
- Access to Insight, with a searchable database
- Craft of the Heart -- by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo, translated from Thai
- Gloria Taranya Ambrosia -- mp3 files of dharma talks
- Midwest Prairie Sangha
- Living Dharma -- Andrew Getz and others
- Shinzen.org -- science of Vipassana meditation
- Richard Dawkins' -- 56 min lecture in Berkley, and Home page
- Johnathan Haidt on the moral mind
- CIA's World Fact Book -- with country listing and reference maps.
- Citing on-line sources -- advice from WorldWide Words
- College Catalogs -- that's right. Almost 40,000 Colleges, for years back too
- Consumer Reports, pay money or get little, no break for print subscribers
- Dictionary of Unsual Words (The Phrontisery) -- careful, you'll spend all day here
- -- send them a letter DOW Jones industrial average, real time, and more indicators too
- Ebird.org -- Audobon's birding database
- Encarta, an on-line encyclopedia
- Economic indicators -- an exceptional site for economic data, by www.dismal.com
- Federal Communications Commission -- keeping pace as best as possible
- First Measured Century -- "an illustrated guide to trends in America 1900-2000, Caplow et. al book Google Guide -- advanced search terms
- Household Product Database health & safety information on household products
- Illinois Board of Elections -- who's your rep and what can you do
- Kelley Blue Book -- street values and trade-in values on vehicles: cars, trucks, bikes, boats...
- Learn2.com will give how-to information on just about everything
- Lexus-Nexis -- the granddaddy of all databases, including full text to 7,500 publications
- Library of Congress -- main U.S. government library
- Med Help International, a non-profit source of medical information
- Megabus -- cheap bus tickets!
- Merck Manual home edition
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary -- Just what it says
- Periodic Table/Data Visualization -- visual resource on visual resources
- Plagiarism -- everything about this criminal activity
- Yellow Pages
- Switchboard
- Infospace
-
555-1212 (directory assistance)
- Live HUMAN -- secret phone codes to reach a real person
- Quote Links -- many many links to quotes of all categories. Try the slightly clumsy search engine too.
- Reference Desk -- a well organized collection of references, including the most esoteric.
- Salary Comparisons -- broken down by region and profession
- Tree Identification -- identify trees by leaf, by leaf, fruit, or name
- Toxic scorecard -- find about all about the toxic materials released near you by companies you know
- Translations -- Babel Fish, translates to/fro many languages
- U.S. Postal Service
- UPS tracking service -- to track packages with tracking code
- Population Reference Bureau
- Way Back Machine -- old web pages lingering...
- World Mapper -- Excellent source of country cartograms, hundreds, indexed!
Buddhism and Religion
Calculators
Phone Books
- Chronicle of Higher Education -- a major source for news about academia
- Journal of Geography in Higher Education -- summary of articles, with abstracts
- Google Scholarly Search: "Geography Higher Education" -- using new google search engine
- AAG's Healthy Department Resources -- Help for growing departments
- Department Chair -- quarterly journal for department chairs
- Geography & Environment -- by University of Texas at Austin
- Geography Departments -- search engine for 860 geography departments worldwide
- Geography Departments -- on Google Earth, COOL!
- GeographyCollection -- alphabetical listing of sites relating to geography subtopics
- Geography source -- about.com's extraordinary hub for geography information
- Illinois Geographical Society -- Illinois' Geography Organization, with juried journal
- Illinois Geography Alliance -- for geography instructors in Illinois
- National Geographic Magazine -- starting at the current issue
- Urban Geography -- journal with tables of contents
- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission updates
CARTOGRAPHY & GIS
- Alexandria Digital Library Gazette Server -- with gazette and more
- Association of American geographers -- look for the specialty groups y
- Atlas of Cyberspaces -- site showing cyber exchanges in geographic space
- Boundary Links -- by the International Boundaries Research Unit
- Bureau of Land Management public utilities relating to GIS (many use DOS)
- Cameron Rex's links -- includes data sources by state
- City of Chicago GIS Mapping and Information -- Click on map for interactive Chicago GIS
- Color Brewer -- helps with map colors also see TypeBrewer
- Community Calculator -- find other communities in the U.S. similar to one you know
- Comp.infosystems.gis -- the usenet newsgroup on GIS topics
- Slash-Geo -- current news, materials on GIS
- Census Data from Bureau site, to detailed geographies
- CAP Index -- a source for crime data in Chicago
- City of Chicago GIS department -- data and maps
- Earth Science Data Interface -- search, browse, and download data
- GE Source -- Geography and Environment site (extensive)
- Global Land yCover Facility -- huge array of on-line and freely downloadable imagery
- Illinois Natural Resources Geospatial Data Clearinghouse -- DOQs, DRGs, Orthophotos, etc.
- Motherload of Public Data -- by the University of Arkansas
- Terraserver -- with some free orthophotographs, nicely delivered
- U.S.G.S -- U.S. Geological Survey, with a search tool for this extensive site
- Find aerial photo and topo quad maps
- National Map -- What's the best new geo data server in 2006? Maybe this. National Atlas -- major source for data download
- Seamless USGS Data Set -- U.S. or international data
- Gazetteer -- find lat/long for U.S. cities and places
- Geocode.com -- find lat/long coordinates for any U.S. street address
- Geocode in batch -- another free geocoder with several nice options, from USC
- GeoDa -- Spatial Analysis tool
- Geographic Locater -- find the names of quad maps for entire U.S.
- Geography Classroom -- needs updating, but this is still hot for teaching materials
- Geocomm This is THE source for those with GIS/mapping interests, a wonderful site
- GIS Datasets -- arcane to the uninitiated, home to large datasets
- GIS for the Internet -- University of Minnesotta course 5574
- BASINS -- EPA watershed, waterquality GIS
- Caliper Corporation -- maker of Maptitude and TransCad
- -- Free GIS program designed for plant/wildlife ecology
- ESRI -- maker of ArcView and ArcInfo
- ET Geo Wizard -- utilities for ArcMap
- FREE Forestry GIS -- reads makes and edits shapefiles
- GeoVista -- open source GIS from Penn State
- Golden Software, maker of surfer and didger
- Manifold -- an inexpensive GIS
- Mapresso -- Cartogram, unclassed choroplethic shapefile mapper
- MapView -- for SVG delivery
- SVGmapper -- another svg delivery program
- Global Climate animated maps -- U. of Oregon's world maps: soil moisture, temps, etc.
- GPS information site -- links to articles, discussions, information
- How far is it? -- Indonesian page that delivers euclidean distance, and maps
- Keyhole -- delivers high quality remotely sensed images for a fee
- Census bureau's map maker -- improved mapper of demographic data -- U.S. to blockgroup
- David Rumsey's Map Collection -- thousands of high-resolution historical maps. Zoom in.
- DeLorme topographic maps, extraordinory resource available at the RWL multimedia lab
- Evidence in Camera -- The aerial reconnaissance archives
- Google Earth -- This program will make you buy a fast computer and broadband
- Historical Cultural Maps -- quick set of maps showing cultural features
- Living Earth, sunlight map projected, from sun, moon, or night side.
- Library of Congress Map Collection -- maps from 1500 "biggest map collection in world"
- Local Live -- Microsoft's higher res answer to Earth.Google (cities only, tho not ours!)
- Map List -- huge list of map sites
- The Map Machine -- extraordinary search engine for maps worldwide
- MapTech -- Topo maps, Nautical Charts, and Nav Photos for U.S.
- National Geographic.com searchable database: maps, news, features/updates
- Outline maps, suitable for use as base maps
- Perry Castaneda Library -- an extensive collection of maps by U. of Texas
- Topozone, a fabulous source for topographic maps. Interactive.
- U.N. Environment Network -- Data, Maps, Reports, excellent site
- USGS earthshots -- Remotely sensed images showing environmenal change
- World at night -- a NASA image, great resolution, fairly large scale
- World Atlas.com, an atlas of the world, designed for children
- Worldtime: adjust globe to see shadow from any angle, time at any place
- GIS Discussion Forum -- by GIS Cafe
- Live Training -- by ESRI, periodic courses
- Lizardtech Software -- download Mr. Sid Viewer, and many other utilities
- Moon Phase -- Shows the moon now and any specific day/time
- National Map Server -- USGS National GIS with SVG
- National States GIS Council -- promotes states use of geospatial technologies
- Odden's Bookmarks -- 20,000 cartographic links, searchable!
- Google Maps API Tutorial -- excellent tutorial with lots of topics
- Common Census -- creates, displays maps of perceived regions
- Flight Maps -- track jets and airplanes, realtime
- Neighborhoo -- impressive interactive mashup with variety of housing-related variables
- Housing Maps -- Google & Craig's list together -- find rentals, buys.
- Car on google mashup -- cute google map hack shows car icon on route
- Mapping Hacks -- info on mashups
- Geobloggers -- check this frequently!
- Illinois Market Maker -- maps IL county tracts with demographic/market data
- Photosynth National Geograhic -- must have download, famous sites
- ALOV Map -- free java mapping program for the net
- Carto Net Conference -- documents conference papers relating to internet mapping
- Carto Net Projects -- links to interesting cartography initiatives
- Geosphere -- java applet, globe and pins
- GeoCoder, Bulk -- converts street addresses en mass to lat/long!
- Google's API -- the API for google maps, you can get your own key here
- Google Hacks Book -- supplementary info for Google Hacks
- ALOV -- Java applet for interactive maps
- TimeMap -- another java applet for interactive and animated maps
- Geoclip -- another applet for interactive maps
- Rectifier for maps! -- rectifies, georeferences and even warps maps
- Waypoints -- find lat/long for any place
- Yellow Pages, for business data by city.
- Zip Code Map -- find zip code by fabulous map
- Zip Codes -- by the U.S. Postal Service, including a Zip+4 look-up.
Data
SmartStats -- some local information for would-be home buyers
- 1upinfo Country Guide -- detailedsource for older country profiles (pre-1992?)
- AAA Population Sources, my own page of population sources
- American Demographics -- journal devoted to demographics and marketing
- American Dialects Links -- a fascinating, extensive source of information on U.S. dialects
- CensusBureau -- The U.S. Census Bureau's home page
- Census Summary -- Excellent Google mashup -- summary for 1, 3, 5 mi address radius
- Center for Disease Control -- source for national health information
- Center for International Earth Science Info Network -- good source of data
- Ethnologue -- All about world languages
- Gross National Happiness -- Bhutan's revolutionary national accounting method
- National Center for Health Statistics
- Population Institute -- largest non-profit dedicated to bringing population in line with capacity
- World Health Organization of the United Nations
- Yamada Language Center's extensive hub for links relating to virtually languages
CHICAGO AND SURROUNDINGS
- 49th Ward Democratic Committeeman -- David Fagus
- 49th Ward Alderman -- Joe Moore
- Center for Neighborhood Technology -- community activism with environmental interests
- Chicago Botanic Garden and the Morton Arboretum; both great for local plants
- Chicago Park District -- includes park finder, news, and lots of information
- Chicago Police -- leads to local district pages
- Chicago Public Schools' home page
- Chicago Image database -- U.of I.'s site exclusively for maps and images of Chicago
- City of Chicago home page
- City of Chicago Parking Ticket Services -- View and pay tickets
- Community Renewal Society -- Serving the Chicago Area
- Congestion map -- Gary/Chicago/Milwaukee live map showing current traffic
- Cook County Assessor's Office -- for assessment reports ... (search)
- DevCorp -- Rogers Park development organization
- Friends of the Chicago River -- environmental group concerned with Chicago River
- GMC Travel -- current information, maps and images of region's roadways
- ICAM --Chicago Police with 14-day searchand Community Alerts
- McHenry County Defenders -- environmental organization
- Open Lands Project -- Northeastern Illinois Environmental Group
- Rogers Park -- Lots of info on this Chicago Community Area
- Rogers Park Builders -- developer info for Rogers Park
- Rogers Park Broken Heart -- skeptic's blog
- Chicago Tribune -- my own favorite for local news
- Catalyst -- Chicago Public Schools advocacy newspaper
- Northwest Herald for far north suburban news
- Pioneer Press, 46 local newspapers
- Reader --Chicago's most hip weekly newspaper
- Sun Times
- WGN
- TRANSPORTATION, from the Tribune
- CTA
- Metra Rail
- Amtrack
- OHare and Midway
- Real estate transactions -- Chicago Tribune or Rubloff will identify recent home sales by local address
- REMAX, and Baird & Warner, Coldwell Banker and CB's WEB ID look-up
- ABC -- pretty much like CNN but less with less international focus; NBC --is more feature -oriented
- BBC, the British news service covers the world well
- Chicago Tribune
- CNN -- the extensive news coverage you might expect; great for headline scanning
- Discovery Channel, news, features, and background information. Dazzeling too.
- Economist -- highest quality world news magazine, with an archive of stories for subscribers
- Latest Print EditionThe World in 2004
- Elections 2004
- I-Feminism -- the I stands for eqal-i-ty : a 21st century way of thinking
- Institute of Government and Public Affairs -- political news from Illinois
- Coalition Deaths
- Iraqi Deaths
- NewsHub - Very recent news releases from many publications, in reverse chronological order
- Newslinks - links to 5,000 newspapers, organized by location and also by periodical type
- PBS -- follow up on that PBS show you liked so much; for Chicago's station, try WTTW
- NPR, National Public Radio -- often with pictures to accompany stories you've heard.
- School Closings -- quick way to check
- Shash Dot -- nerd digest news from tech cutting edge
- Ten by Ten -- an hourly compilation of top images and news stories -- *must* see!
- Tom Paine.com -- a liberal newsmagazine
- Zdnet -- Technology news
- Iraq War
- Allmusic.com -- info on bands, history, similar sounds, etc. Must see for music lovers
- alt.home.repair -- a newsgroup on home repair
- Audio Books, free -- by Project Gutenberg
- American Science Surplus -- overstock gadgets and gadget parts
- Alt.rec.woodworking, newsgroup for woodworkers
- Alt.music.leonard-cohen -- fans like me of Leonard Cohen
- Breeds of Dogs -- with photos and summary information
- Breadbaking and breadmachine recipes
- Breadbaker's Forum -- discussion group
- Chicago Public School's secret resources for teachers
- Colorblindness an on-line image converter
- Anagram generators for phone numbers and for names, by Brendan Connell
- Dialect converter is amusing, for text and existing web pages
- Freebies -- a source for free stuff
- GAMES AND TOONS
- Addicting Games -- like miniclips: quick fun games
- AlbinoBlackSheep -- really goofy, but my kids like it at lot!
- MiniClips -- loads of quick easy fun games
- EBaum's World -- goofy funny stuff, not all suitable for children
- Googlisms -- search the net for phrases (interesting...)
- Geography Olympics -- take a quiz and represent your country/state
- Geoquiz -- Geography quiz -- no small island states!
- Homestarrunner.com -- funky cartoon characters, episides, games, etc.
- Hometime -- Dean and Robin have an internet site: friendly help with home improvements
- Instructables -- how-to-make-stuff, lots of projects, by users
- Inventor's Handbook -- and other invention information, by MIT
- IMDb movie source, or movies.reviews by critics, or a discussion group
- Jackson Pollock -- just look at it for half a minute, you won't be sorry
- JigZone - WOW! smooth on-line jigsaw puzzles you design -- timed too
- Line Flyer 2.0 beta -- sketch lines, watch mini moto guy ride them, cool!
- Leonard Cohen website
- Mazes -- generate mazes
- Monkey Mail -- send a monkey with your voice or message -- cool!
- MP3 dancer -- free little dancer moves in time to your .mp3 songs, on your taskbar
- Name the States -- you have to do it in 10 minutes
- Natural Handyman -- a quick drop-down menu will guide you to specific home improvement articles
- Netscape Music -- radio stations on line
- Nick Cave's official website
- Now Showing -- movies playing in Chicago, with reviews, by The Reader
- Photosynth -- EXTRORDINARY new mosaic of photos recreating place
- Puzzle Choice -- many on-line puzzles and printable ones too. GOOD site.
- Real Age calculator -- Extensive questionnaire, great health tips -- thorough!
- SelectSmart will help you pick the best candididate, pet, lawn grass, tv show, ...
- Smoking Gun -- scans of interesting documents (well, sort of interesting...)
- Sodaplay. There's no way to describe this, you have to try it.
- Urban Legends -- outlandish stories you've been tempted to believe -- some, you should!
NEIU
- Academic Computing
- Academic Affairs's faculty resources -- miss those official NEIU memos? Find them here.
- Assessment Web Page -- more than you want to know about measuring outcomes
- Budget Account Numbers -- detailed budget codes
- Client Services -- Lots of computer help for faculty and staff
- Client Services Software Request Form
- College of Arts & Sciences Academic Affairs Committee -- Minutes, forms, proposals, guidelines, etc.
- College Navigator quick comparative stats for all colleges
- Contract -- That's right, NEIU faculty contract
- Controller's Office Resources -- for things like financial forms, etc. etc.
- Course Articulation Tables -- which courses substitute at NEIU from Community Colleges
- Dove -- software updates
- Exempt Time Sheet --
- Phone Directory -- campus phone directory
- Faculty and Staff Resources -- from Student computing services
- Facit -- Faculty Advisory Committee on Instructional Technology
- Financial Affairs -- lots of useful forms, property control, etc
- NEIU -- NEIU's home page
- Network and Distributed Services -- for software updates locally
- Non-Accredited Schools - bogus degrees granted here! And here!
- Monthly Time Report -- every month, regardless.
- Projects Due Deadlines -- from the Dean's office
- Property Control Change Form -- on line form to get things moved
- Public Safety information
- Rate Your Professors -- for NEIU, take w/grain of salt
- Ronald Williams Library
- Search & Screen Manual -- the new one circa 2008
- Sick Leave Form
- Stage Center -- excellent student performances, free to fac/staff/students
- State Univ. Civil Service System -- for info on civil service
- Statistics on NEIU -- from the Education Trust
- SURS, State University Retirement System
- Student Client Support -- verify and get accounts on line, need pin and student ID.
- Train-me -- Client Service Center training sessions
- University Computing Client Support page
- University Computing Newsletter
- UPI -- University Professionals if Illinois
- Amazon.com -- Books, CDs, and more... on-line shopping
- AT&T Consumer Services -- on - line account management
- Baxter -- shop for parts for old British bikes, mail order from Iowa
- Bank One -- my bank
- Cabinet Parts and Hinges -- Best for hinges, great company
- Capital One -- a credit card company on line CLASSIFIEDS
- Daily Herald -- northern suburban classifieds
- Live Deal -- Chicago listing
- Freecycle.org -- Chicago chapter of this giveaway/getfree community
- Reader -- classifieds
- Tribune -- login necessary
- Craig's List -- for the Chicago area
- Dealtime.com -- good shopping prices
- Ebay -- Biggest and best auction anywhere ever
- Energy Federation -- all sorts of products to conserve energy
- Faculty Books -- Retailer for textbooks
- Home Controls $10 min shipping, but better prices than Smarthome
- Smith Barney -- financial group
- Homier.com -- Mobile merchant, inexpensive dept. store
- It's Deductable -- track your donations through the year
- Site Control
- Microcenter -- Computer Store on Elston
- McMaster-Carr -- supply company
- Netflicks -- Videos to your door
- Paypal.com -- pay anyone by e-mail instantly
- Smarthome -- home automation
- Union Plus-- credit card
- Action Scripts -- all sorts of action script tutorials
- AntiSpyware -- Microsoft's spyware/adware, good for NEIU
- Agentland -- all about those sneaky internet intellegence agents
- Backgrounds -- A quick source for backgrounds, and all that other stuff
- Counters -- lots of styles, all free
- Course Management Systems -- all of these are Open Source (i.e., free), see Moodle
- CSSZenGarden -- cascading style sheets all reading the same html, wow.
- Domain Names -- by Warp9hosting, all about domain names
- Efax -- one of the free sites for a FAX number, don't get a second line
- Font Freak, Fontface, Larabie Fonts
- Freedrive -- 50 meg internet space in exchange for getting ads
- Geocoder U.S. -- Free lat/long and zip for any U.S. address Scripts, Code, and sundry
- Big Nose Bird Scripts -- source for .cgi, graphics, tutorials
- Drop Down Menu Generator -- creates code for dropdowns
- Javascript.internet.com -- java code depot (free)
- Hacking GM and GE -- companion page to Wiley book
- Google Maps Hack Blog -- examples of google mashups
- Sketchup Download -- new Google Service, read blog
- Google Maps Mania -- blog showing examples of mashups
- Measure Polygon -- sketch polygon and find area, from googlemapsbook.com
- Weather Bonk -- amazing real time Google Maps Mashup, historical weather too
- Yelp -- Write and read reviews on this google map mashup
- Mouse-over and preload generator -- site generates code for you to cut and paste
- HTML help -- an excellent resource for advanced html, dhtml, etc.
- Dave Raggett's html help -- advanced features help
- PHP freaks -- source for php things, with reference libraryand script archive
- Php/MySql Tutorial -- also leads to other tutorials
- Pop up window maker -- generates and sends code to your specifications
- Sound Effects -- free ambient looping sound
- SQL Manual -- quick reference
- Zoom java script -- from vivaorange
- Netscape -- download the latest browser here
- NetSquirrel -- will help you with system configuration problems, esp. MSConfig (for start-up resource hogs)
- Netzero -- an alternative login (free) in case the going gets rough
- Pateman, Ron's home page -- source for programers
- Newsgroup about the palm pilot, and springboard modules
- Palmgear HQ -- the source for Palm Pilot ad-ons and accessories
- Palm Computing shareware site
- PKware -- Pkzip, Pkunzip etc.
- Plagiarism.org, a "gotcha" tool for educators, and another
- RealAudio -- a good audio source on the web, with the free plug-in, of course.
- Salomon Smith Barney investment firm
- Save This saves links -- I obviously don't need it but someone might.
- Site Search, a free search engine for web sites
- SubmitXtras, to submit web pages to search engines for free
- Sysnotes -- Ron Pateman's notes and tips
- Iarsn-- system software including TaskINfo, which shows current resource use
- Vivaorange.com -- java to make maps zoomable
- W3C.org validator -- web page code validator by the worldwide web consortium
- Who Is -- domain ID tool
- Virus Hoaxes by datafellows. Alphabatized, searchable bogus warnings
PDA Sites
- Temperatures in Midwest (Skilling)
- Blog of Tom Skilling -- for Chicago area
- Forecast for the Chicago area NBC Channel 5
- Pollen count for zip code 60625
- U.S. earthquake report
- World Earthquake map -- within one month or just today. Zoom.
- Travel weather for Midwest
- Ultraviolet 10-day forecast
- Current heat index
- Palmer Drought Severity Index, U.S.
- A hundred current maps relating to weather in the U.S. now
- Weather underground forecast
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