News and Information Links

Generally useful pointers:

• Search Engines
  • Google, the *best* for relevance
  • Northernlight, does a pretty good job
  • Yahoo
• News sources:
  • the condensed New York Times (including the crossword!)
  • the NandO Times, for headline stories updated hourly!
  • Homepage of NPR, with links to Real Audio (with today's broadcasts)
• Movie info:
  • Philadelphia movie listings in general
  • Ritz Filmbill in particular
  • Mr. Showbiz site, a great source of current reviews

• Info-Mac Hyper-Archive (has all kinds of internet support software for the Macintosh, available for downloading), and lots of general software for many platforms is also available at WashU, St.Louis' own (huge!) wuarchive
• useful links that an old friend put together @ John M.Olin Business School (for everything fun or useful that I'm too lazy to compile for myself)

• the Philadelphia homepage, and weather forecast
• and for when I get nostalgic, the St.Louis homepage
• the U.Penn. index

• the Hoaxkill site, for verification of virus warnings, internet petitions, and other potential hoax materials. Urban legends generally (as well as requests for help with science fair projects) should be checked at Snopes, which does a great job of tracking changes and reincarnations of such things. A more official site for virus information is collected by the Department of Energy at their Computer Incident Advisory Capability site -- PLEASE CHECK ONE OF THESE OR A SIMILAR SITE BEFORE FORWARDING EMAIL WARNINGS AND REQUESTS!!

Other Serious Stuff