OK,
here's a few places to wander when you're not basking here with me: For those
who yearn for REAL Light in a DARK BLEAK world (hey,
it doesn't take a morbid personality to realize this - just cable TV access),
here's a sample of my links to Christian Literature:
To get
a FREE front-row center seat to the writings of one of THE GREATEST preachers
in the history of the English language, ya GOTTA check out m'man, SPURGEON
at The Spurgeon Archive—Main
Menu or at Spurgeon's
Sermons
The Christian Literary Classics Library has got an extensive selection of Christian lit written by the greats of Christianity from the Early Church Fathers on up through the centuries. A WONDERFUL compendium of books many of whom are no longer in print, or are next to impossible to find in stores.
Here's a New American Standard Bible "on-line" for you to peruse: The WWW Bible Gateway
Want to find a place that REALLY knows how to teach great theology and teach it >well<?? Take a look at Dallas Theological Seminary - now THESE folks have got it right!
And here's where the ol' Iguana is going to Church now-a-days - try NOT to hold that against them since maybe all it >really< proves is that THESE folks know how to love ANYone! If you live in San Antonio TX, I'd urge you to come visit and see what I mean - you can at LEAST be sure of getting a free cup of coffe out of the deal, so HOW can you lose?? And take a look here at some of the sermon's I have the delight to listen to and learn from, given by the pastor of this church, Pastor Dave Smith.
Want a good example of what's available for a Christian on the WWW? Try the Ray C. Stedman Reference Library.
But HEY, that ain't ALL I got
here abouts...check out THIS stuff:
MDConsult
Personal Home Page You can search a BUNCH of medical text books and
journals for free for about 10 days before they make you sign up for $s,
or invite you off their service. Did your Doctor tell you that you got
something
weird sounding? Look it up here!
OR, you can take a peek at
the Merck
Manual- a mighty handy reference that has something to say about pretty
much EVERYthing, including some exotic diseases and environmental and occupational
stuff.
What's New Too! A great place to wander around the WWW universe at random - man, you NEVER know what yer gonna find here...
What
time is it? Hey!
Howzabout getting a time hack from the Naval Observatory Time Clock?
If ya liked >that<, then
take a peek here
It's a cooooold and cruel world out there, so ya better get dressed proper before ya go out. Now, you can always call yer Mom, but y'KNOW >she's< gonna tell ya to put on a sweater ("...but MA! We live in Death Valley and it's 200 degrees out there...!" "I don't care, >I< felt a chill...put it on...") OR you can check The Weather Channel. Your call...just remember that >wool< always makes your skin itch and break out (eeeewwwww)...
While yer checking out the climate, you might as well find out if yer gonna need to put on BODY ARMOR under that wool sweater (go on, I just KNOW yer gonna end up wearing yer sweater ANYway, AREN'T ya, ya nancy-boy). So, why not give the happy-go-lucky good-news gang at CNN Interactive a squint?
Now, for
some links to General Literature!
So, get ready and DOWN LOAD the thoughts and dreams, declarations, hopes,
beliefs and aspirations of all humanity all through the AGES! HA! And YOU
thought the Web was just for lookin' at neked peeples and confirming your
wacked out conspiracy theories, like the one regarding Elvis, Capt Kangaroo
(the REAL ORIGINAL one, OF course), the Illuminati AND The Secret Ninth
Beatle in their evil bid to DOMINATE the UNIVERSE!! mwuhHAhahahahaaaaa!!!.
(Oh s-u-u-u-re, like you've never heard of THAT one before....).
The 1st,
foremost and maybe the BEST of them ALL is
PROJECT
GUTENBURG. This has many thousands of files comprised of books, papers
and other writings from darn near ANY category, covering hundreds (OK,
MAYbe thousands of years) of Human History. TOO COOL. They are simple text
files that take up just a little space, download quick, and can be read
by any text reader (even that cheapo program Wordpad). They are always
looking for folks to help out, scanning, reviewing and other such stuff
to continue to add to this most marvelous Universal Library of Humanity.
Hey, beats sitting around, thumb firmly lodged up one nostril, staring
glassy-eyed at a bunch of over-paid reeeely big guys (hmmm...so, ok maybe
they are NOT "overpaid", OK fellows? Hmmm? Guys? little joke??) clobber
each other, who would NOT stop to give you the time of day for all your
slavish devotion to them. JUST a thought...
BTW, another
place to get access to Gutenburg is
here.
And here's
another place to wander around looking for that obscure tome ya just can't
get those "on-line" booksellers to mail ya: The
ETEXT Archives
And if you'd like to see a
REAL cool "Library of Libraries" presented in a really cool way, check
out THIS site...The Universal
Library - Hyperbolic Tree Demonstration.
Maps: Gee.
I dunno, there's just something about MAPS that appeals to me. I just >love<
being able to look at stuff like this using the automation of the Web.
Here's a couple of simple but really useful ones:
MapQuest!
Interactive Atlas Welcome!
StudyTech
(TM) Study Technologies
Cyber
411 Invites You To Map It
Univ.
of Iowa Map Library
PCL
Maps of the World Collection
ANd for those REEEELLY weird
vacation plans...
Global
map of Mars
Project
Galileo (JPL)
Medical Links
>Biological
Warfare/Bio-Warfare<
And YOU whiners thought
Y2K or the death of Elvis was a "real" problem? Let me introduce you to
the REAL world - or at least the nasty little part of it you can get to
learn about through >open< sources. After wandering around this little
garden of earthly delights, you're gonna BEG for Y2K (or what ever the
next generic equivalent of it will be) to be the ONLY thing you got to
worry about. And burying gold coins in yer backyard AIN'T gonna do you
the square-root of squat-all if some of those monsters in
human form get what THEY asked Santa for in their stockings...
Here's the BEST intro to BW that you can find - YOU heard me, this is ABSOLUTELY THE BEST WMD site on the Web. It has the MOST comprehensive set of links to every possible NBC site imaginable on the web. What's it's location? Here it is...:
Here
the USAFE Anthrax Web Page. It should be available even to those who
are NOT operating from a "*.mil" domain web site.
You can
also take a peek at the JAMA
(that's
"Journal of the American Medical Association" to the uninitiated) article
on Anthrax (NOT the band, you nit-wit,
the DISEASE).
And if
THAT didn't chill you just a tad, take a squint at the Scientific
American article on the same subject
And here's a few other places
to look for BW past, present and future:
But hey, lets not forget the old standbys, like Nuclear War. Though, I gotta admit, it's the bugs more than than the bombs that give me the creeps of late...
But
NEVER let it be said the Ol' Iguana didn't give you a helping hand.Here's
a whole BOOK of helpful handy hints to try out should the neighbor's dog
suddenly start to cough up blood and drop dead while fetching the morning
paper from the front yard - and >you<? Hmmm, you know...YOU ain't looking
so peachy-keen >either<... Shoulda read the book a little sooner, ya
reckon??
Take a
long thoughtful look through the HANDBOOK
ON THE MEDICAL ASPECTS OF NBC DEFENSIVE OPERATIONS.
NOT to
mention some sources for other handy hints and advice when wandering far
from home...
And just
so's ya don't get all self-righteous feeling about all them sicko-crazies
out there in them furrin' countries but not here in the good ol US of A,
no-sirree BOB....well, then guess again Jethro...check these out:
CNN
- Food terrorism a possibility, report warns - August 5, 1997
And also
the CDC's article on the use of THREATS of BW as acts of terror in the
US entitled - Bioterrorism
Alleging Use of Anthrax and Interim Guidelines for Management -- United
States, 1998
Lest you
fuzzy-thinking types think it's a lovely warm huggy koom-by-yah existence
out there amongst the "natural" world, good ol' Mommy Dearest Nature
is always cooking up sumthin' special fer her human kiddies (here's a hint
for the "clue-challenged" in the audience - "NATURE" DON'T CARE IF YOU
"LOVE" IT OR NOT - Yer just FOOD on the HOOF to it) - and here's a couple
of places where those-in-the-know try to keep track of "Mom's" more recent
homicidal efforts. I mean, just the titles >alone< ought to keep you
from wandering aimlessly around in yer own backyard, much less entertaining
that moronic idea to vacation out in the wilds of East Africa or the Amazon
Basin this season, hmmmmm? And I >don't< think an extra can of bug repellent
is gonna hack it fer ya, >either<:
FAS
Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED); Outbreak;The
Hot Zone, Emerging
Infectious Diseases, and, of course, last but not least, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention Home Page.
Aviation Medicine happens to be a specialty of mine, so I >couldn't< have a links page and not offer at least a token gesture to "that which pays the bills", now COULD I? So, give the Aviation Medicine Home Page" a peek, not to mention these sites:
Lest you
think I am lacking in the finer sensibilities, I'd like to point you towards
these fascinating folks:
The
Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity - These guys will make sure
you don't EVER think you've "heard the whole story" on Medical Stuff in
the News till you have checked with them >1st<. Can't >really< call
yerself "informed" till you get several >different< sides of an issue
(unless yer one o'them mental troglodytes who l-u-v-s the web cuz it offers
you all the favorite personal biases you can possibly wallow in without
ever running the slightest risk of challenging that l-i-t-t-l-e pea-sized
brain of yers...)
Gotta Web-related
info-itch ya just can't seem to scratch? Well, here's 3 MASSIVE
search engines that can >really< get ya plugged into what's out there
(whether it's the "Truth" or not has still gotta be YER call, amigo - so
get over it and start digging):
Google.com
MetaCrawler
Searching
Northern
Light Search Engine
For the
TRUE Literati out there (and we DO know who we are...heh heh), I offer
you these toothsome tid-bits.
Mystery
Science Theater 3000 Now THESE guys knew how to >really< see a movie...pity
that the legal types kept 'em from "doing" >recent< stuff...I'd of payed
a LOT more money to see THEM "do" that movie about that B-I-G boat with
that embarrassing "flotation" problem (gotta avoid the legal types m'self,
so I ain't naming names here) than I actually paid to SEE that movie without
their presence.
The
Calvin & Hobbes Comic Gallery
The
Dilbert Zone
Sites for
Sounds - Why not add some fun to those bland System sounds?
Down
Below Sound Archive For Babylon 5
Tiger's
Sound Archive
And for
those wanting to learn what the common ordinary media just don't wanna
tell ya:
DRUDGE
REPORT®
Keyes
2000 - Alan Keyes for President
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