A few useful links:

Click here for the US patent office patent searcher/server.

NASA's full-sky-survey online server

And Now for Something Completely Different

If you have a taste for extreme cooking try these:

• Vegetarian Vindaloo
• Vegetarian Spicy Alien Hatching Calzone
• Extreme Baklava
• Extreme Double Scotch Hot Sauce
• Spicy Sesame Beef
• Voodoo Black Bean Soup

Here's how to true up your bicycle wheels

I admit to being a Linux bigot; I run Red Hat linux at work and at home. I even run it on my laptop; here's how I have my hitachi configured. Good general references for Laptop Linux are the Linux on a Laptop page at Linux.org, and the Linux Laptop page at UTexas

I also have a cheat-sheet of hints for Red Hat Linux 4.2 (with 5.0 and 5.1 updates) , which may be applicable to other versions as well.

My quotefile . I've been collecting quotes since about 1976. Go ahead, try to identify the sources of these quotes. Some are from rather obscure sources, don't feel bad if you don't get them all.