- My own home page
- Department of Geography & Environmental
Studies
- Active Courses
- Inactive Courses (since 2005)
- Science Building Advisory Group, which I once chaired (now defunct) and bag mailer
- Plagiarism Page and survey
- Bergman Edition 2, and Development site -- project for Prentice Hall
- BUGHOUSE, an NEIU open forum I created with Cameron Rex about 2003
- Send Mail to Students and alumni (password protected)
- Blackboard -- our local course depot (which I do not use)
- Pioneer Tree
Farm -- parent-owned,
cut-your-own Christmas tree farm in McHenry Ill
IP address, and site control - My directory -- the files themselves
- Street View Panoramas and NEIU Icon (Integrated Street View)
- Zoom tools -- Zoom tools and satellite images
- Hyperlinks -- move map to new center
- Split Screen -- map and satellite images side by side
MY EXPERIMENTS
ABC NBC BBC CNN WGN I-Feminism NewsHub School Closings PBS NPR WTTW Discovery Economist LiveRadio Newslinks Ten by Ten Zdnet Shash Dot News Map The World Tom Paine Ted.com Chicago Tribune
- LOCAL INFORMATION
- Chicago Tribune -- local news
- Catalyst -- Chicago Public Schools
- Northwest Herald for far north suburban news
- Pioneer Press, 46 local newspapers
- Reader --Chicago's most hip weekly newspaper
- Sun Times
- Transportation Information 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
DESKTOP REFERENCES
GENERAL REFERENCES
- Encarta, an on-line encyclopedia
- CIA's World Fact Book -- with country listing and reference maps.
- Learn2.com tutorial$ on Windows and productivity software
- Lexus-Nexis -- the granddaddy of all databases, including full text to 7,500 publications
- Library of Congress -- main U.S. government library
- Megabus -- cheap bus tickets!
- Periodic Table/Data Visualization -- visual resource on visual resources
- Reference Desk -- a well organized collection of references, including the most esoteric.
- Google Guide -- advanced search terms
- Gazetteer -- find lat/long for U.S. cities and places
- Geocode.com -- find lat/long coordinates for any U.S. street address
- GeoCoder, Bulk -- converts street addresses en mass to lat/long!
- Geocoder U.S. -- Free lat/long and zip for any U.S. address
- How far is it? -- Indonesian page that delivers euclidean distance, and maps
- Unit converter
- Waypoints -- find lat/long for any place
- Acronym Finder.com -- an excellent search engine but, if that isn't enough, use this one.
- American Dialects Links -- a fascinating, extensive source of information on U.S. dialects
- Anagram generators for phone numbers and for names
- APA style -- a nice style manual for academic papers
- Bartleby Library -- find poems on a topic by searching keywords.
- Citing on-line sources -- advice from WorldWide Words
- Dialect converter is amusing, for text and existing web pages
- Dictionary of Unsual Words (The Phrontisery) -- careful, you'll spend all day here
- District Officials by Address -- send them a letter
- Internetiquette -- behave.
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary -- Just what it says
- Plagiarism -- everything about this criminal activity
- Plagiarism.org, a "gotcha" tool for educators, and another
- Quote Links -- many many links to quotes of all categories. Try the search engine too.
- Translations -- Babel Fish, translates to/fro many languages
- Yamada Language Center's extensive hub for links relating to virtually languages
- AAG's Healthy Department Resources -- Help for growing departments
- Association of American geographers -- look for the specialty groups
- Chronicle of Higher Education -- a major source for news about academia
- College Catalogs -- that's right. Almost 40,000 Colleges, for years back too
- Department Chair -- quarterly journal for department chairs
- Google Scholarly Search: "Geography Higher Education" -- using new google search engine
- Geography Classroom -- needs updating, but this is still good for teaching materials
- Geography Departments -- search engine for 860 geography departments worldwide
- Geography & Environment -- by University of Texas at Austin
- 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
- Journal of Geography in Higher Education -- summary of articles, with abstracts
- Urban Geography -- journal with tables of contents
- Amazon.com -- Books, CDs, and more... on-line shopping
- Baxter -- shop for parts for old British bikes, mail order from Iowa
- Cabinet Parts and Hinges -- Best for hinges, great company
- Craig's List -- for the Chicago area
- Dealtime -- comparison shopping
- Fix My Blinds -- blinds repair stuff not at Home Depot
- Home Controls $10 min shipping, but better prices than Smarthome
- It's Deductable -- track your donations through the year
- Paypal.com -- pay anyone by e-mail instantly
- Smarthome -- home automation
- Union Plus-- credit card
- CLASSIFIED ADS
- Daily Herald -- northern suburban classifieds
- Live Deal -- Chicago listing
- Freecycle.org -- Chicago chapter of this giveaway/getfree community
- Reader -- classifieds
- Tribune -- login necessary
- AT&T Consumer Services -- on - line account management
- Chase -- my bank
- Better Business Bureau -- start at the Chicago site, but go to the source if necessary
- Consumer Reports, pay money or get little, no break for print subscribers
- DOW Jones industrial average, real time, and more indicators too
- Economic indicators -- an exceptional site for economic data, by www.dismal.com
- Federal Communications Commission -- keeping pace as best as possible
- Fund Analyzer -- study the funds
- Kelley Blue Book -- street values and trade-in values on vehicles: cars, trucks, bikes, boats.
- Salary Comparisons -- broken down by region and profession
- Center for Disease Control -- source for national health information
- Merck Manual home edition
- Med Help International, a non-profit source of medical information
- Household Product Database health & safety information on household products
- Toxic scorecard -- find about all about the toxic materials released near you by companies you know
- World Health Organization of the United Nations
- 49th Ward Democratic Committeeman -- David Fagus
- 49th Ward Alderman -- Joe Moore
- CAP Index -- a source for crime data in Chicago
- 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 Parking Ticket Services -- View and pay tickets
- 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 GIS department -- data and maps
- City of Chicago and the
- Chicago page For Residents (make requests here)
- City of Chicago GIS Mapping and Information -- Click on map for interactive Chicago GIS
- Community Calculator -- find other communities in the U.S. similar to one you know
- Illinois Board of Elections -- who's your rep and what can you do
- U.S. Postal Service
- UPS tracking service -- to track packages with tracking code
- 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)
- 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
- Now Showing -- movies playing in Chicago, with reviews, by The Reader
- 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
- Ebird.org -- Audobon's birding database
- Tree Identification -- identify trees by leaf, by leaf, fruit, or name
- Yellow Pages
- Switchboard
- Infospace
- 555-1212 (directory assistance)
- Live HUMAN -- secret phone codes to reach a real person
- 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
- Genographic -- National Geographic's trace-your-ancestor project
- Richard Dawkins' Home page
- Pat Condell's Home Page
- Reason Project -- Sam Harris's thoughtful site
Dawkins' hour-long Lecture in Berkley
Johnathan Haidt on the moral mind
- Aerial photo and topo quad maps -- searchable
- Alexandria Digital Library Gazette Server -- with gazette and more
- 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
- Census bureau's map maker -- improved mapper of demographic data -- U.S. to blockgroup
- Comp.infosystems.gis -- the usenet newsgroup on GIS topics
- Census Data from Bureau site, to detailed geographies
- David Rumsey's Map Collection -- thousands of high-resolution historical maps. Zoom in.
- DeLorme topographic maps, extraordinory resource available at the RWL multimedia lab
- Earth Science Data Interface -- search, browse, and download data
- Geocode in batch -- another free geocoder with several nice options, from USC
- Geographic Locater -- find the names of quad maps for entire U.S.
- GE Source -- Geography and Environment site (extensive)
- Geocomm This is a premier source for those with GIS/mapping interests, a wonderful site
- GIS Datasets -- a little difficult to navigate but worth the effort for large datasets
- GIS Discussion Forum -- by GIS Cafe
- Global Land Cover Facility -- huge array of on-line and freely downloadable imagery
- Global Climate animated maps -- U. of Oregon's world maps: soil moisture, temps, etc.
- GPS information site -- links to articles, discussions, information
- Illinois Natural Resources Geospatial Data Clearinghouse -- DOQs, DRGs, Orthophotos, etc.
- Keyhole -- delivers high quality remotely sensed images for a fee GPS
- Library of Congress Map Collection -- maps from 1500 "biggest map collection in world"
- Live Training -- by ESRI, periodic courses
- Lizardtech Software -- download Mr. Sid Viewer, and many other utilities
- 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.
- Moon Phase -- Shows the moon now and any specific day/time
- National Map Server -- USGS National GIS with SVG
- National Atlas -- major source for data download
- National States GIS Council -- promotes states use of geospatial technologies
- National Geographic.com searchable database: maps, news, features/updates
- Odden's Bookmarks -- 20,000 cartographic links, searchable
- Outline maps, suitable for use as base maps
- Perry Castaneda Library -- an extensive collection of maps by U. of Texas
- Public Data by State -- by the University of Arkansas
- Seamless USGS Data Set --
U.S. or international data
- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission updates
- Slash-Geo -- current news, materials on GIS
- Terraserver -- with some free orthophotographs, nicely delivered
- 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
- U.S.G.S -- U.S. Geological Survey, with a search tool for this extensive site
- 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 PROGRAMS and TOOLS
- ArcPad -- ESRI's software
- BASINS -- EPA watershed, waterquality GIS
- Caliper Corporation -- maker of Maptitude and TransCad
- DIVA -- Free GIS program designed for plant/wildlife ecology
- ESRI -- home of ArcGIS
- ET Geo Wizard -- utilities for ArcMap
- FGIS -- reads makes and edits shapefiles, free GIS for forestry
- GeoDa -- Spatial
Analysis tool
- GeoVista -- open source GIS from Penn State
- Golden Software, maker of surfer and didger
- Manifold -- an inexpensive GIS
ArcMap Add-onsINTERACTIVE MAPS and MAPPING
- ALOV Map -- free java mapping program for the net
- Atlas of Cyberspaces -- site showing cyber exchanges in geographic space
- Car on google mashup -- cute google map hack shows car icon on route
- Carto Net Conference -- documents conference papers relating to internet mapping
- Carto Net Projects -- links to interesting cartography initiatives
- Color Brewer -- helps with map colors
- Colorblindness an on-line image converter
- Common Census -- creates, displays maps of perceived regions, interesting project in beta stage
- Flight Maps -- track jets and airplanes, realtime
- Gapminder -- plot two data in five dimensions, interactive
- Geobloggers -- ongoing discussions
- Geoclip -- another applet for interactive maps
- Geosphere -- java applet, globe and pins
- Google's API -- the API for google maps, you can get your own key here
- Google Hacks Book -- supplementary info for Google Hacks
- Google Maps API Tutorial --
excellent tutorial with lots of topics
- Housing Maps -- Google & Craig's list together -- find rentals, buys.
- Illinois Market Maker -- maps IL county tracts with demographic/market data
- JigZone - smooth on-line jigsaw puzzles of your own photos
- Living Earth, sunlight map projected, from sun, moon, or night side.
- Mapping Hacks -- info on mashups
- Mapresso -- java applet uses shape files to make cartograms and unclassed choroplethic maps
- MapView -- for SVG delivery
- Hotpads -- interactive map for renting and buying, nationwide, nice! Neighborhoo -- impressive interactive mashup with variety of housing-related variables
- Netlogo -- modelling program, must install, excellent
- Photosynth -- stitches your vacation images for virtuall panorama, cool!
- Rectifier for maps! -- rectifies, georeferences and even warps maps
- SmartStats -- some local information for would-be home buyers SVGmapper -- another svg delivery program
- TimeMap -- another java applet for interactive and animated maps
- TypeBrewer -- Like Color Brewer, but for fonts on maps
- World Mapper -- Excellent source of country cartograms, hundreds, indexed!
- Zip Codes -- by the U.S. Postal Service, including a Zip+4 look-up.
- Zip Code Map -- find zip code by fabulous map
- MY OWN LINK TO POPULATION SOURCES, for population geography classes I teach
1upinfo Country Guide -- detailed source for older country profiles (pre-1992?)- American Demographics -- journal devoted to demographics and marketing
- CensusBureau -- The U.S. Census Bureau's home page
- Census Summary -- Excellent Google mashup -- summary for 1, 3, 5 mi address radius
- Center for International Earth Science Info Network -- good source of data
- Ethnic Geographies -- religion maps for U.S. and Canada
- 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
- alt.home.repair -- a newsgroup on home repair
- Alt.rec.woodworking, newsgroup for woodworkers
- Energy Federation -- all sorts of products to conserve energy
- Hometime -- Dean and Robin have an internet site: friendly help with home improvements
- Homier.com -- Mobile merchant, inexpensive dept. store
- Instructables -- how-to-make-stuff, lots of projects, by users
- Inventor's Handbook -- and other invention information, by MIT
- McMaster-Carr -- supply company
- Natural Handyman -- a quick drop-down menu will guide you to specific home improvement articles
- Wiimote Smoothboard -- screen-run programs for $30, really: check the TED video of an earlier version
- WonderHowTo -- Vidos how to do cool things
- Allmusic.com -- info on bands, history, similar sounds, etc.
- Audio Books, free -- by Project Gutenberg
- American Science Surplus -- overstock gadgets and gadget parts
- Breeds of Dogs -- with photos and summary information
- Failblog.org -- want a quick chuckle? look here
- Freebies -- a source for free stuff
- GAMES
- Addicting Games -- like miniclips: quick fun games
- MiniClips -- loads of quick easy fun games
- EBaum's World -- goofy funny stuff
- Jackson Pollock -- just look at it for half a minute, you won't be sorry
- Line Flyer 2.0 beta -- sketch lines, watch mini moto guy ride them, cool!
- Sodaplay. Wacky spring and stick creatures
- Googlisms -- search the net for phrases (interesting...)
- Geography Olympics -- take a quiz and represent your country/state
- Geography Quiz -- by jet punk, interactive
- Geoquiz -- Geography quiz without the small island states!
- Geog: Name the States -- you have to do it in 10 minutes or lose
- Happiness Quiz -- happiness quiz
- IMDb movie source, or movies.reviews by critics, or a discussion group
- Leonard Cohen website and newsgroup.
- Monkey Mail -- send a monkey with your voice or message -- a gas!
- Morality Quiz -- a thorough measure of morality
- Mr. Almighty -- amaze your friends with the power of the internet
- Nick Cave's website
- OMG Games -- fun games with other people, login optional, awesome
- Puzzle Choice -- many on-line puzzles and printable ones too. Nic site.
- Real Age calculator -- Extensive questionnaire, great health tips -- more thorough than most.
- SelectSmart will help you pick the best candididate, pet, lawn grass, tv show, ...
- Smoking Gun -- "revealing" scraps of paper, scanned and made public. Yawn. ... oh my.
- Snopes -- check snopes to determine whether you should believe that outlandish story you heard
- Way Back Machine -- old web pages lingering...
- Wonder How To -- How to do all sorts of weird things
- 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
- Catalogs (NEIU), from 1994 to present.
- 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 -- you must.
- Faculty Books -- Retailer for textbooks
- Phone Directory -- campus phone directory
- Faculty and Staff Resources -- from the neiu web site
- 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 - hey hey, 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 -- grudges and all
- Ronald Williams Library
- Search & Screen Manual -- the new one circa 2008
- Sick Leave Form
- Stage Center -- 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
- Train-me -- Client Service Center training sessions
- University Computing Client Support page
- University Computing Newsletter
- UPI -- University Professionals if Illinois
- Writing Lab Form -- for classroom visitations
- 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 -- 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
- Big Nose Bird Scripts -- source for .cgi, graphics, tutorials
- Drop Down Menu Generator -- creates code for dropdowns
- Internet Speed -- check it instantly
- 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
- 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
- RealAudio -- a good audio source on the web, with the free plug-in, of course.
- Save This saves links -- I don't need it but someone might.
- Site Search, a free search engine for web sites
- Sound Effects -- by A1. Careful, opening page has sound
- 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 too
- Virus Hoaxes by datafellows. Alphabatized, searchable bogus warnings
- 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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