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Aircraft and Aviation

• Arrow Recovery Canada
• Homage to the Avro Arrow

Animation

Let's start off with some Wallace and Gromit. Cracking!

• Aardman Animations
• Wallace and Gromit - The Official Site
• Wallace & Gromit's World of Cracking Ideas

And now for some other assorted items

• Pixar Animation Studios
• Warner Bros. Looney Tunes Animation
• The Simpsons Archive: Blackboard openings
  Also has LOTS of other details on the episodes!

Art and Photography

• The Ansel Adams Gallery
• The art of Chesley Bonestell

Astronomy

• Canadian Astronomical Society
• Royal Astronomy Society of Canada
  Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Toronto Centre
• American Astronomical Society
• The Planetary Society
• Sky and Telescope Magazine
• Views Of The Solar System
  A vivid multimedia adventure unfolding the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more.
• Dr. Sky

Books, Periodicals, and Journals

• The BYTE Magazine Web site
• HotWired
• Banned Books On-line
• Internet Public Library

Company/Commercial Sites

In case you ever have a problem with a company

• Better Business Bureaus

Computer companies on Internet

• Lotus
• Microsoft

Computer Imaging

• Dreamworks Pictures
• Pixar Animation Studios

Want to know if a company is on the Internet? Try one of the following sites.

• World Wide Yellow Pages
• Open Market's Commercial Sites Index

Other commercial sites.

• Bear St. (For my sister who likes bears)
  Bear St. presents the wide wild world of GUND.

Computer Graphics - 3D

3D Modelling Software

• IronCAD
  Primarily a surface modeller with some very innovative features.
• Rhinoceros 3D
  A NURBS based surface modeller for Windows.
• Blender A modelling, rendering, animation, and gaming tool. Originally created for a unix OS, but other versions now exist.

3D Rendering Software

• 3Delight
  A fast RenderMan^®-compliant renderer designed to produce photorealistic images for serious production environments. Available for Windows and Linux.
• Aqsis Renderer
  A RenderMan^® compliant 3D rendering toolkit. Version are available for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.
• Pixie
  A RenderMan^® like photorealistic renderer.
  NOTE: This site is no longer maintained.
• Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer

3D objects and meshes

• 3D Cafe
  The ultimate resource for computer graphic artists, web developers, CAD architects, and scientific visualization.
• The Star Trek Meshes and Objects Collection
• Rhino Gallery

Other 3D related sites

• RManNotes (from Internet Archive)
  General information about writing shaders in the RenderMan^® Shading Language and using the two most commonly available RenderMan^® renderers (PRMan and BMRT).
• The Blender Artists Community
  has lots of stuff relating to the Blender program.

Computer Graphics - General

2D Software

• GNU Image Manipulation Program
• The GIMP Plug-In Registry

Computer Stuff

HTML

• World Wide Web Consortium
  Lots of information on HTTP, HTML, and CSS
  • HTML Design Notebook
• The W3C Markup Validation Service
• OneWorld/SingNet WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation
• HTML Design Notebook
• Colorblind Web Page Filter

Linux related web sites

• Linux Foundation
• The Linux Documentation Project
• Summary of Linux kernel changes

BSD-style Unix sites

• The OpenBSD Project
• FreeBSD Home Page
• The NetBSD Project

Windows

• The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software

Visual Basic

• Microsoft's Visual Basic Developer Center
• Open Directory Project links for Visual Basic

Information related to software development

• OSMA (NASA's Software Assurance Technology Center)
• WinSock Development Information

Miscellaneous computer related sites

• DOSEmu: A DOS emulator for Linux
• Ghostscript, Ghostview & GSview
• The Wine Project: A Windows emulator for Unix/X
• Samba

Conventions/Faires

• Ad Astra
  An annual literary fan-run convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Polaris (formerly Toronto Trek)
  An annual fan-run science fiction and media convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• FilKONtario
  The greater Toronto area's annual filk convention
• SFContario
  An annual Toronto science fiction convention
• MediaWest

Education

Some sites that run online courses

• Academic Earth
• edX
  A joint initiative from MIT and Harvard.
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Udacity
• Coursera
• Khan Academy
• Eneradi on YouTube
  This site has some interesting lectures on electronics.
• University of the People
  The world's first tuition free online university.

Fun Stuff

Adventure Games

• Infocom: Classic text adventure masterpieces
• The Infocom Gallery

Flight Simulators

• FlightGear
  FlightGear is an open-source multi-platform flight simulator.
• X-Plane
  X-Plane is multi-platform and calls itself the worlds most advanced flight simulator.
• X-Plane community

Machines on the Internet

• bsy's List of Internet Accessible Machines

Some other sites with fun stuff

• Zarf's List of Interactive Games on the Web
• Need a tag line? TagLines Galore! has over 450,000 tag lines.
• National Post Cryptic Crossword Forum

Government Sites

Canadian Government sites

• Canadian Security Intelligence Service

U.S. Government sites

• Central Intelligence Agency
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Visit The Whitehouse in the United States

Other government sites

• The British Monarchy official web site

Hobbies and Recreation

Model Kits (Makers and Sellers)

• Airfix Models From The Official Airfix Web Site
• Round2
  Round 2 LLC., is a collectibles company that has AMT®, MPC® and Polar Lights® model kits.
• Revell-Monogram
• Model Expo, Inc.
• Comet Miniatures
• Small Art Works (EIMB)
• Monsters In Motion

Model Making and Kit Building

• Welcome to the Testors Web Site!
  This is the company who makes the model paints I've always used.
• CultTVman's SF Modeling Page!
  This is not about computer modelling.
• Gasoline Alley Antiques
  Dealers in Toys for Collectors since 1974
• Starship Modeler
  A complete web resource for science fiction, fantasy, and real space scale modeling.

Internet Information

• Looking for something? Try using Google or Metacrawler
• Looking for someone living in Canada, try Canada 411
  Its data consists of phone books from all over the country. Over 10 million listings!
• Infobel Telephone Directory
• Phone Book of the World
• To find the Postal Code for Canadian addresses, go to the Canada Post Find a Postal Code page.
• To find the ZIP code for addresses in the United States, go to the Find a ZIP Code page.
• Looking for someone in the UK? Then try BT's Directory Enquiry, the UK online phone directory.
• If you want some reading material, try some of the Internet Newsgroups
• Internet RFC's
  • Here is the IETF Request for Comments (RFC) page
  • The Internet Request For Comments (RFC)
    These documents are the written definitions of the protocols and policies of the Internet.
• The InterNIC Home Page Provides the public information regarding Internet domain name registration services
• Internet Engineering Task Force
• The Web Robots Page
• World Wide Web Robots, Wanderers, and Spiders

Job Listings

• NetJobs Information Services Homepage
  Canada's premier employment site
• MONSTER Board (Canada)
• VirtualResume
• The Internet Job Locator
• The Job Board
• Headhunters: On the Web since 1995!
• Overseas Jobs Web
  Your Guide to Work Abroad, Overseas Employment and International Careers, Jobs and Travel.
• *The Write Jobs -- Job Listings for Journalists, Editors and Writers

Language

• The Human Languages Page
• Inuktitut Our Language
  The Language of the Inuit People
• The Klingon Language Institute
  A comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources.

Movies and Television

• The Internet Movie Database

Sites about television programmes having a science fiction theme

• the Max Headroom chronicles
  A M-M-Max Compendium from the Max Headroom project
• The official Star Trek web site for all series

Some companies that produce movies and/or television programs

• Buena Vista MoviePlex (aka. Disney)
• MGM Studios
• Paramount Pictures
• Sony Pictures Entertainment Canada
• Sony Pictures Entertainment

Museums

• The Ontario Science Centre
• Royal Ontario Museum
• Science North
• Virtual Museum of Canada
• The Louvre museum in Paris, France
• The Smithsonian Institution
• The Smithsonian Institution
• The Smithsonian Institution's National Air & Space Museum
• WebMuseum, Paris: The WebMuseum network
• The Tech Museum
• The Computer History Museum
• Personal Computer Museum in Brantford, ON
• Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
• The Franklin Institute Science Museum
• The Science Museum in the UK

Music

• The official Susan Aglukark website
• The official Chris de Burgh home page
• The official Dido site
• The official Enya Website
• The official Al Stewart home page
• The official Thomas Dolby home page
• The official James Galway website
• The official Klaatu website
• Liona Boyd The First Lady of the Guitar
• Andreas Vollenweider
• The official "Weird Al" Yankovic website
• The official Rhonda Vincent website

Science

• Polywell Generator
• Infinite Energy Online
  Information on cold fusion and new energy technology

Space

• APOLLO 11 IN REAL TIME A real-time journey through the first landing on the Moon
• Canadian Space Agency
• Space shuttle information
  • NASA Human Spaceflight
    Contains information on both the space shuttle and the international space station.
  • Retransmissions of Shuttle Audio
  • If you want to track the shuttle here are the shuttle orbital elements
• NASA eduction for students
• NASA Information Services
  • Goddard Space Flight Center
• The Artemis Project
  Read about plans for the establishment of a permanent base on the moon within the next 10 years. This is real science although it may sound like science fiction.

Sports

• International Cricket Council
• ESPNCricInfo: The home of cricket on the Internet
• Special Olympics Ontario (Canada)
• Special Olympics Canada Foundation
• Special Olympics International
• Equestrian Sport in Canada

Travel and Tourism

For people planning a trip to Canada:

• Canada Tourism Commission
• Nunavut Tourism
• Aboriginal Canada
• Ontario Travel

United States

• Grand Canyon National Park
• Yellowstone National Park
• Information about Hawai'i
  • Hawai`i
  • Go Hawai`i

United Kingdom

• Information Britain

Some Other Countries and Places to Visit on Internet

• Tahiti Explorer
• Australia
• New Zealand On The Web

Planning a vacation? Check out these sites.

• Carnival Cruise Lines
  I have travelled on the MS Celebration. It is a nice (and large) ship!
• Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
• Cayole Cruises
• Club Med