Links

A word of warning about these links: they all take you off my webpage. As such, they are not maintained by me, and do not carry my family-friendly guarantee. So, navigate at your own risk.

For descriptions of the links listed here, check the detailed link descriptions by category after this section.

Family:
Charles Mom Dad
Friends:
Patrick Pei-Hsin Chanda Quantumcat Dan David Jason
Science:
Treasure Troves MathWorld APOD
Resources:
Google Time Babel Fish Factbook
Academia:
Villanova (Astro VAS) Harvard (Astro)
Fun:
Straight Dope Onion SA Homestar HSP
Games:
StarCon Ocarina
Groups:
MOS Amensty ACLU StarFleet

Family

Charles' Website o' Resplendence
This is my brother's website. I haven't read it because there's too many big words, but you should!
Karen's Home
My mom's webpage. Some fun family pictures and things like that.
John Pilman's Home Page
A few cute passages and interesting links. Not updated regularly.

Friends

Patrick's Web Space
My friend since before I can remember, Patrick Damiani is currently a graduate student in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and is an all-around friendly guy.
pacing at MIT
The standard yet inviting webpage of my old friend Pei-Hsin Lin, who's currently an undergraduate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Chanda's webpage
Chanda is an astronomer friend who graduated as an undergrad from Harvard in 2003. She's now at UCSC.
DNA for Everyone
A beginner's guide to genetics, written and maintained for fun by my online science-minded friend, Quantumcat. She says she's going to update it. It looks like it's offline now, but that may be fixed soon.
Dan Bambeck's Web Page
Dan is another good friend, from Villanova in this case. He graduated back in 1999, and he's now a graduate student at Montana State University, and a relativistic physicist! Photo gallery updated occasionally. Be sure to check out his chess set.
David Montgomery's Web Page
Also called Daxid's Pages, this is the official site for all your Daxid-related needs. Not updated in a long time.
Rick Briggs Private Eye
An interactive online story written and hosted by my good friend Jason. Currently suspended.

Natural Science

Eric Weisstein's Treasure Troves of Science
An astoundingly useful resource for Physics, which is also linked with MathWorld, an astoundingly useful resource for Mathematics.
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Everybody's favorite site for astronomy-related images, along with professional explanations. Updated daily!

Web Resources

Google
The best search engine ever. No other web resource matches Google's simplicity, thoroughness, and speed.
The Official U.S. Time
Find out the time in your US time zone, as regulated by the US Naval Observatory.
AltaVista's Babel Fish Translation Service
Online translator that currently handles Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. It produces horrible translations, but they get the point across.
The World Factbook 2002, by the Central Intelligence Agency
This exhaustive resource gives political, sociological, geographic, and economic information on all the world's countries.

Academia

Villanova University
My undergraduate institution, 1998-2002. Located in Villanova, PA, USA.
Villanova University's Astronomy Department
Astronomy was my primary major at Villanova.
Villanova Astronomical Society
The student organization devoted to Astronomy at Villanova.
Harvard University
My graduate school, 2002 on. Located in Cambridge, MA, USA.
Harvard University's Astronomy Department
My department. You should be able to find me under the People link eventually.

Fun

The Straight Dope
An online version of The Straight Dope, by Cecil Adams, a superbly informative question-and-answer colmunist, dedicated to stamping out human ignorance. Contains information on a plethora of topics.
The Onion
An online satirical newspaper. Updated every Wednesday.
Something Awful
An irreverent humor site, with a new article every day!
Homestar Runner
A wonderful and hilarious flash-based cartoon website. Watch some toons. Don't bother with the games, though; they're not that great. Updated about once a week.
Harvard Satyrical Press
I write for this satirical online magazine.

Games

The Pages of Now & Forever
The best resource on the web for all games in the acclaimed Star Control series for the computer. In my opinion, and the opinion of many people at this page, Star Control 2 is the best video game ever created.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Forum at GameTalk
A message board I have participated in, dedicated to Nintendo's Ocarina of Time for the N64. In my opinion, Ocarina of Time is the second-best video game ever created.

Organizations and Groups

Museum of Science, Boston
A fun science museum on the Boston-Cambridge border with regular new exhibits. I volunteer here on the weekends.
Amnesty International
The well-known international organization dedicated to fighting human rights abuses everywhere.
American Civil Liberties Union
A major group dedicated to defense of the Bill of Rights in the United States.
StarFleet International
The largest fan-run Star Trek organization in the world. I am currently a member of their local Birmingham, AL chapters, the USS Hephaestus.