Stephen’s list of interesting documents

My stuff

• Stephen Gildea’s welcome page and home page
  • Software: links to home pages of software packages.
  • Friends: links to home pages of friends.
  • Log of my sail to Bermuda
  • Classic square dance singing calls
  • Humor: links to pages I found funny.
• Tech Squares - MIT’s Square and Round Dance Club.
• Sd - A Square Dance Caller’s Helper
• Oxy Systems, whose web site I implemented.
• phling.com, a site originally implemented by me.
• 2009 MIT Open Ballroom Dance Competion, a site designed and implemented by me.

HTML References

• HTML validator - a free HTML page validation service from the W3C.
• The Web Standards Project
• HyperText Mark-up Language
• Overview of HTML elements - HTML 3.2, but a nice summary.

Standards

• HTML 4.01 Specification
• XHTML 1.0 Specification
• Cascading Style Sheets 2.1 Specification
• Cascading Style Sheets 2 Specification
• Cascading Style Sheets 1 Specification
• Single Unix Specification, Version 2, from The Open Group.
• PNG (Portable Network Graphics) - info about
• ISO 8601, Date/Time Representations - summary
• ISO 8859, 8-bit character sets - discussion and charts

Internet Information

• List of USENET FAQs
• Internet Mail Consortium
• Internet Systems Consortium, home of BIND

General Information

• Wotsit’s Format - file formats, algorithms, specs, etc.
• Typing Injury FAQ - protect yourself from RSI
• International Dark-Sky Association
• Directorate of Time at USNO.  What time is it?
• Dilbert, the last four weeks.
• Eclipse

Databases

• United States Postal Service ZIP+4 lookup
• Maps of ZIP Code areas
• Reverse lookup, by telephone number or street address
• Telephone prefix locator (NPA-NXX search).
• Yahoo: look up people by name.
• Merriam-Websters’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus

PGP

• PGP distribution site at MIT
• PGP keys of various Gildeas
• PGP Key Server

People and Organizations

MIT

• The Official MIT Home Page
• MIT Earth Resources Laboratory
• MIT Computer Science and AI Lab
• MIT IAP Mystery Hunt
• MIT Ballroom Dance Team
• MIT Blood Drive
• MIT Athletics Association liability waiver for the MITBDT

NASA

• NASA/Johnson Space Center
• NASA Human Space Flight

Other

• GNU (official site)

Dancing

• Modern, Western square dancing
• Tech Squares, the MIT square and round dance club
• DanceNet - Swing and other partner dancing in Boston
• Jeff and Sherri Grossman’s Round Dance Site
• Paul Tyler on Good Dancing

Boston area information

• The T - public transit in Boston
• The New Boston Garden
• Aerial photographs of the Boston area.
• Coolidge Corner Theater - Boston’s only non-profit movie theater.
• Boston Phoenix movie listings

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