QUAD CITIES LINKS

Heritage Wesleyan Church A fast growing, contemporary church for the Quad Cites and surrounding areas

TOP PICKS

CD Now If you like music, want good deals on CD's, or are looking for hard-to-find or import CD's and videos, try this!

Project Gutenburg hundreds of complete books in etext form, free for the downloading!

32-Bit Freeware Free and for Windows 95/NT? It's probably here.

TUCOWS One of the best download starting points out there..

USA Today Online Free online newspaper

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet Keep an eye on exactly what congress is voting on via the Library of Congress

ThinkGeek.com Stuff for the Smart Masses. There are 10 types of people: those who can read binary and will love this site, and those who won't.

COOL SOFTWARE

IrfanView Wonderful Multi-format Freeware Graphic Viewer & Converter

Everett Kaser Software Everett makes brilliant logic puzzles and games. If you're looking for a fun workout for your brain; this is definately the place to check out.

Babylon Translator An excellent translator that sits in the system tray and translates words with a click

Trellian Software This guy is working hard to make a name for himself. Lots of cool software, mostly internet related. Chances or if you spend much time searching or building the 'net, you'll find something handy here.

FONT LINKS

Mary Forrest's Free Font Fiesta Free Font's & Mega Free Font Links

FontFace The Definitave Font of the Day and Link site

Ray Larabie's Free Fonts Larry is the absolute guru for all amateur fort makers

Mircosoft Typography Some freebies (software and fonts) and technical info on the TrueType format. Also has a good index of font foundry links.

Treehouse Graphic Design Original and fun designs; lots of movie-title lookalike designs too.

PROGRAMMING

4 Guys from Rolla A Great ASP Site.

Planet Source Code VB, C++, JAVA, ASP, PERL, PSP... More! Find some code, submit some code. Also has a nice chat & bulletin board area ('Ask A Pro') for your programming questions, plus 'Rent-A-Coder' and job listing sections.

ASP 101 Like the name says...

Allen Browne's Access Tips (for Developers and Users)

December Communications Communcations Company site that also offers a good collection of Web Developement , HTML, & Java Resources

VBCode.com Another well-organized snippet submission & search site.

Blackbelt VB Hints, tips & samples from one of the Masters... Matt Hart.

MVPS.org Jumping off point for several good help sites including:

• Randy Birch's VBNet
• Bryan Stafford's VBVision
• Dev Ashish's The Access Web
• Karl Peterson's One-Stop Source Shop
• Brad Martinez' VB-32 Programs & Samples
• Felix Kasza's Win32 Samples
• Mark D. Stotzer's WINDOWS, DOS and MAC Help

Learn ASP.com Again, just like the name says...

CodeGuru C++ Java VB

PHP Hypertext Preprocessor No web server should be without it.

ONLINE RESOURCES

Internet Movie Database The place to go to search for answers like "What's the name of the guy who plays Edgar Montrose on Red Green? I think the same guy was in 'Dances with Wolves'?"

Jeffery's Japanese<->English DictionaryGreat online reference; with or without kanji

Mark Harden's Artchive Art information & tons of fine art scans

Educator's Reference Desk Help for Teachers

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus

Info Please On-Line Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, & Almanac Reference

What Is... A comprehensive collection of definitions for just about every tech term and acronym ever invented.

The Programmer's File Format Collection what's a .JWZ file? I don't know. But many other extensions are listed here, and links to format specs for many of them.

ENTERTAINMENT LINKS

The Lurker's Guide to Babylon-5 For fans of this original Sci-Fi series

Clint Eastwood The Good, Bad and Ugly are all here

Joke Wallpaper Just what it says -- very funny stuff

The Dilbert Zone Scott Adam's technodweeb comic strip -- strips & merch for you

Humor Centre A Collection of 'net humor without all the >>>'s from forwarded emails.

This Is True (Syndicated Humor Column by Randy Cassingham)

"A COMPLETE WASTE OF CYBERSPACE"

Find The Spam An online challenge that defies description

The Complete Lyrics to 99 Bottles of Beer on ...Do I really need to describe this? Special! C++ Version

OTHER INTERESTING LINKS

Diamond Willow Walking Sticks and MUCH, MUCH more. Don't need a really cool walking stick? Try this link anyway--there's such large a variety of STUFF here you're bound to find something interesting

World of Escher Info & merchandise from MCE's 'own' website

Hard@Work If you work, you must try this!

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC on the WWW!

Constructed Human Languages Interested in real languages created completely from scratch? Klingon? or Lojban? you'll find out about those and more here...

The Internet Dictionary Project Um, self-explanatory.

NetNoir Home of Afrocentric culture on the web

Burn All Gifs The most visible of all software patent debacles is chronicled here