Let me know if you find any dead links — or if you know of a web site that would be a good addition to my list!

AFRICA

The 153 Club has great material about the Sahara. Photos. Index a little hard to read.

African History Sourcebook is one of several praiseworthy Fordham University history sourcebooks on the web. The quality varies, but all range widely, with links, images, maps, articles, and excerpts from primary sources. This one's weak point is the Medieval period.

Africa South of the Sahara, Stanford's sourcebook, mostly lists resources, not texts. You must dig deep here to get results!

A Journey Through Ethiopia is a nice travel journal with many photographs. Well-designed site.

Nubia Salvage Project is an online exhibition brochure from the U. of Chicago about Nubian history and art.

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AMERICA

Mexico, Splendor of Thirty Centuries has many fine images of ancient Mexican art. Lavish. Uses frames.

ANCIENT HISTORY

Ancient History Sourcebook, where "ancient" means Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome. No China, India, or America. Good as far as it goes.

BYZANTINE EMPIRE

Byzantium 1200 displays 3-D models of Byzantine monuments. Slightly weird but definitely cool! Slow to load.

Byzantium: Gallery is from a Metropolitan Museum show. Well-designed site with visual index.

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CENTRAL ASIA

Afghan Attractions doesn't look like much—but scroll down to find links to excellent pictures, including the colossal Bamiyan Buddhas.

Buddhism Along the Silk Road has some wonderful pictures. It's just a page on the Silk Road Foundation site.

EAST ASIA

East Asian History Sourcebook represents much of Chinese history only by image.

A Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding is a scholarly article with no pictures but a long bibliography (without links).

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EUROPE

Brunelleschi's Buildings shows many views. Nice pix.

The Catholic Encyclopedia is a good sourcebook for many topics in European history

Internet Biblia Pauperum lets you interact with a "pauper's bible," one of Europe's pre-Gutenberg block-printed comic books.

Loom History has many pictures of old-fashioned looms, most for sale.

Medieval Sourcebook serves up more good stuff from Fordham, but definitely Eurocentric.

Modern History Sourcebook is even more Eurocentric than the Medieval, but full of good stuff anyway!

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INDIA

Indian History Sourcebook. Good but spotty.

Mishra Yantra shows how the old astronomical observatory worked, maybe.

Photos of India has many fine ones, including shots of a medieval astronomical observatory.

MIDDLE EAST

Gallery of Islamic Pictures has fourteen small but good ones.

Islamic History Sourcebook is much more comprehensive than some of Fordham's other Sourcebooks.

Race and Slavery in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis. Long and very interesting article.

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HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Alchemy Web has tons of, er, matter on alchemy.

History of Science Sourcebook is very good on the Scientific Revolution and after, less good earlier.

WORLD

The Costume Page has them from all over the world.

Genetic Study Dates Malaria to Advent of Farming comes from the NY Times, which may mean you can't read it without subscribing (which is free).

Global History Sourcebook is weak on the pre-modern period, but does have some early Chinese descriptions of the west.

Humanity's Last 50,000 Years is a NY Times article describing recent genetic historical research.

Late Medieval Maps has maps from China, Korea, and Europe.

World History is an impressive one-man production by a knowledgeable and tireless amateur historian.

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ABOUT HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

History Matters has a number of topics on the teaching, study, and writing of history.

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ASTRONOMY

The Blue Marble has beautiful pictures of earth.

NASA homepage has the Blue Marble on it, among other things.

Planet Quest is about the search for extra-solar planets.

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BIOLOGY/ENVIRONMENT

The Albatross Project is a cool, school-oriented site about the big birds.

Bioscience and Biotechnology is really a historical archive of biotech's development at Berkeley. Some of my comics are on this site!

The Blue Marble has beautiful pictures of earth.

Genetics Activists Create Superweed is an anti-genetically modified food story. True? Who can say? This is the web! More can be found starting here.

Gray's Anatomy is all here. An amazing compilation. Cookies.

Nexia makes spider silk from recombinant goat's milk. Really!

World Resources Institute is an amazing trove of information about the current state of the earth.

CHEMISTRY

Chemistry on About.com has assorted resources, cookies, ads.

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GENERAL/MISCELLANEOUS

The Exploratorium is everyone's favorite funky, hands-on science museum!

Nanotechnology, imposingly text-heavy, does contain Feynman's famous talk on the subject.

The Natural History Museum of London covers this fabulous museum.

Nature.com is the fine British science magazine. Cookies, but no ads.

New Scientist is a more popularly oriented British site, also with cookies.

Quadnet offers frequent summaries of breaking news stories in science.

Science Magazine is America's premier science journal and requires a sponsored membership for full access. Some material is free, though.

Science Daily has up-to-the minute science news.

Scientific American has a rather busy-looking version of the famous magazine.

The Smithsonian Institution has a good science section.

US Geological Survey for earthquakes and maps and other things.

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LANGUAGE

Altavista World-Translate translates text from one language to another. Try retranslating back and the fun begins!

MATH

Stat Trek has a user-friendly statistics tutorial, plus analytical tools and online statistical tables.

Computing disasters describes three awful numerical goofs.

Dror bar-Natan has good visuals.

History of Mathematics, while not comprehensive, ranges widely.

Ken Perlin has zappy pix!

Karl Sims' Puzzles.

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute gave me an office for six months. A cool place for the math-infatuated.

TopOpt has some cool software tools that "design" optimal structures. Build your own!

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SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

Federation of American Scientists is a platform for scientists who favor arms control.

The Garwin Archive contains papers by this expert on high-tech warfare.

LBNL ELSI stands for the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Science Project. Excellent in conception and execution. Uses frames.

TECHNOLOGY

Sandia National Labs lets you watch the weapons labs expanding their repertoire.

ZDNet is a center for computer-related news.

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COMICS, CARTOONS, CARTOONISTS

Donna Barstow

Bizarro

Comics.com has a big selection of comics, old and new.

Lloyd Dangle does Troubletown!

Phoebe Gloeckner has great technique, stories, etc. Truly twisted. Frames

Paul Palnik is an artistically gifted, spiritual, slightly obsessed-type guy. Frames.

Rhymes with Orange has a full archive. Maintained by the National Cartoonists Society. Unfortunate graphic design. Many ads.

Sylvia has a nice-looking site.

uComics features most well-known syndicated cartoonists. Many cookies and ads.

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SEMI-RANDOM

Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie

Bartleby.com has full text of many standard (Bible, etc.) and reference works. Many cookies and ads.

Bibliomania has the text of 2000 books online--with study guides. Searchable.

Classic Reader has full text of more than 650 books and 900 short stories. Searchable. Ad-free.

Fan Rooting Supplies is where to get your "We're Number One" giant hands. Nice little tune they play, too.

How to Find Lost Objects is by the inimitable Professor Solomon.

Dan Hubig Illustration is a superbly done illustrator's site.

Muse Fan Page has an assortment of background goodies about the magazine and its contributors.

Muse Magazine Group takes you to the Muse and Cricket Magazine family.

Online Library of Literature is a no-frills trove of full-text books by great authors.

The Postmodernism Generator churns out a totally random postmodern essay at a mouse click!

Wheeler Machines is an office supply place with high-quality imported paper cutters, pencil sharpeners, etc. My idea of a good time. Nice to deal with, too.

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