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Trans Furry Named Best In Show At National Dog Show
--The Babylon Bee, 30 September 2022

Twitter Stops Enforcing COVID-19 Misinformation Policy
By Tyler Durden
--Zero Hedge, 29 November 2022

WCCUSD declares impasse in negotiations with teachers union
Mike Aldax
--The Richmond Standard, 18 November 2022

Breaking: Hong Kong Court Finds 90-Year-Old Cardinal Zen Guilty for Pro-Democracy Support
By Joe Hoft
--The Gateway Pundit, 26 November 2022

Reefer Madness: Demand for Illegal Pot Soars in California Due to High Taxes
"The illegal industry is competing with the legal industry and essentially putting them out of business"
--Jonathan Turley, 25 November 2022

Growing Body Of Evidence Shows 'Social Influence' Is Causing Teens To Undergo Sex Changes
Laurel Duggan
--Daily Caller, 25 November 2022

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- The Dead People Server shows which celebrities are still alive and is one of the pages on dpsinfo.com
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- Find Someone's Personal Information, Phone Number, Credit Report, etc
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      Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
    - JPL Near-Earth Object Program and Earth Close Approaches
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    - NEOWISE Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer is the WISE program repurposed for NEO
    - WISE Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer
      WISE Mission Site
  - NEODyS 2 Earth Impact Possibilities
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  - The Planetary Society and the Planetary Defense Page
  - The Spacewatch Project at the University of Arizona
- Comets
  - Nasa Comet Page
  - Date
  - Comet Event
  - 2004 Jan
  - Nasa's Stardust flew by comet Wild 2
  - 2001 Sep
  - Nasa's Deep Space 1 flew by comet Borrelly
  - 1997 Mar
  - JPL Comet Hale-Bopp
    Russell Sipe's Comet Hale-Bopp
  - 1996 Mar
  - JPL Comet Hyakutake
    Fred Burger's Hyakutake Pictures
  - 1994 Jul
  - JPL Comet Shoemaker-Levy Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Images from the
    Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories
    The Shoemaker-Levy comet is why I named this website "comet".
    I downloaded notes and pictures of Shoemaker-Levy striking Jupiter from Usenet astronomy newsgroups during the event.
- Planets
- Satellites
  - The Marshall Space Flight Center used to have the International Space Station location here.
Far Earth Astronomy
- What is at the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy? Perhaps a Black Hole...
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey / Skyserver has pictures of stars, galaxies, nebula, quasars, etc.
Orbital Mechanics
- JPL Solar System Dynamics Group
  Their Ephemerides are available in several formats as described in the
  JPL Planetary Ephemeris Export Information including DE200, DE403, DE405 and DE406.
- Moshier Astronomy and Numerical Software
- Neil's Original Astrodynamics is gone!
  But here is a copy of most the site as of Dec 20, 2000 with Qbasic programs for solar orbit determination from 3 or 5 observations.
  And here is a copy of most of the original files/directories: neiljacoby.tar.gz
- OrbFit Software Package in FORTRAN for computing orbits
- Paul Schlyter (English) and (svenska) has some excellent information including
  How to compute planetary positions and
  Computing planetary positions - a tutorial with worked examples
Time
- US Government Time from the National Institute of Standards
  NIST Time and Frequency Division
- US Naval Observatory Precise Time Department
- The UK Greenwich Observatory instigated the invention of the world's first accurate pocket watch, the H4 by John Harrison, as a means of measuring longitude.

Internet

stopBADware.org keeps track of websites that can infect your computer.
Broadband DSLReports.com
BBS - Bulletin Board System
- The BBS Corner
CERT has information on internet/system security
DNS
- DomainTools has an nice WHOIS search
- OpenNic is a project to allow more root domains
Is a website down or up?
- Is it up?
- Website Down Check
Electronic Freedom Foundation
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and NO FRAMES FAQs
Web Authoring FAQ
HTML Codes Table Characters and Symbols
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has
Important Links and Time Zone database
INTERNIC, Web site
Internet Systems Consortium supports BIND, DHCP, INN, NTP and more
Let's Encrypt is a free, open and automated certificate authority (CA).
Netcraft collects information about web servers and has a
Web Server Survey and can help answer the question,
What's that site running?
What is the uptime for popular hosting sites?
Pinyin is a guide to the writing of Mandarin Chinese in romanization. Included is a tool which will
Convert Chinese (Japanese, Russian,...) characters to Unicode
Request For Comments (RFC)
Ripe NCC maintains domain registry info in Europe.
Shell Accounts
- Arbornet in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Nyx in Denver, Colorado
- SDF in Seattle, Washington
Speed Test from Sonic.net
Web Browser Online Spyware Watchdog Article Directory
SSL/TLS is a protocol used in https:// web communication and with email communication.
The current (Feb/2014) standard is TLS 1.2, everything else is older and has known security flaws...
Test your web browser at Hows My SSL.com
CheckTLS.com is a TLS email server checker.
USENET - nntp servers
Specialized Public NNTP News Servers
- gmane.org news.gmane.org
- aioe.org nntp.aioe.org
Virus Total can check a file for viruses.
Word Wide Web Consortium has many pages including
- Web page validators for
  - correctness to W3C Standards
  - missing links
  - CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
- Specifications for the DOM (Document Object Model)

San Francisco Bay Area

Bay Area Air Quality Management District - Air Quality Index
ba.announce newsgroup
Berkeley Parents Network has lots of information including House & Garden Services
Bookstores
- The Other Change of Hobbit is a Science Fiction and Fantasy Bookstore.
California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park including:
Coffee
- Blue Bottle Coffee Co. was voted "Best Coffeehouse" in the Bay Guardian 2011 Readers Poll
- Philz Coffe was voted "Best Cup of Coffee" in the Bay Guardian 2012 Readers Poll
- Peet‘s Coffee & Tea started on the Southwest corner of Walnut and Vine Streets in Berkeley in 1966. Starbucks bought coffee from Peets in 1971 when it first started.
Commonwealth Club of California
Computer
- Computer/Electronic Equipment - Used/Recycle
  - Recycle old Computers, Televisions, etc at the ewasteCollective
  - Junktronix sells old electronic equipment and has a good list of Silicon Valley Surplus Sources
  - The MightyOhm Wiki has a list of electronic surplus around the country including the
    San Francisco Bay Area
  - Universal Waste Management (www.unwaste.com) in Berkeley is closed...
    Shuttered Berkeley Steel Foundry's Toxic Footprint Poses Risk for Workers
    --CBS SF Bay Area, 1 August 2019
  - WeirdStuff (www.weirdstuff.com) is closed...
- Computer Groups
  - BALE SF Bay Area Open Source/Linux Events
  - BayPIGgies Bay Area Python Interest Group
  - BUUG Berkeley Unix User Group
  - Noisebridge a "hands on" group.
  - Hacker Dojo in Mountain View
  - SF-LUG San Francisco Linux Users Group
- Computer Shows
  - Shows seem to be gone but Junktronix lists Swap meets/Flea markets and other 'used' computer equipment suppliers.
- Computer Stores
  - Central Computers
  - (Fry's is closed)
NorCal Corgi Con has bi-annual Corgi conventions in San Francisco, spring and fall
East Bay Recorder Society
Exploritorium, a "hands on" Science Museum
San Francisco Bay Ferry
Flea Markets
- Free Food, Housing Medical Care, etc
  - Bay Area Services Directory from the Project Homeless Connect
  - Free cell phones for low income Californians
    FCC Lifeline Program
    - Assurance Wireless (Virgin Mobile, Sprint network)
  - Free Food, Housing, Medical Care, etc in San Francisco
  - Free Food
    - Alameda Food Bank
    - St. Anthony Foundation
    - Richmond: Bay Area Rescue Mission
    - CalFresh is California's food stamp program
    - Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
    - SF-Marin Food Bank
    - Project Open Hand
    - San Francisco Food Bank
    - Second Harvest of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties
  - Free Medical Care
    - San Francisco Haight Ashbury Free Clinics now has a clinic at Mission and Duboce
    - Berkeley Free Clinic
  - Free Discounts on Transit (as of 17 April 2013, 62.5% off on BART)
    - Regional Transit Discount Card for disabled people
- Fun Cheap SF has a calendar of fun things to do in SF and the East Bay.
- Gardening
  - Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour and information
- Lawrence Hall of Science has a great bay view from their Web Cam
- Movie listings from the SF Chronicle
  Castro Theatre in San Francisco shows a variety of old movies every week
  The Rialto Cinemas serve food, beer and wine at their theater in El Cerrito.
- San Francisco Best Parking
- San Francisco Sex Information
- Television Listings from Zap 2 It
- Theater
  - Berkeley Repertory Theater
  - San Francisco Mime Troupe
  - SHN operates the Orpheum, the Curran and the Golden Gate theaters in San Francisco
- Transportation
  - 511.org Transit Info for the whole Bay Area
  - AC Transit (Alameda and Contra Costa counties) bus system
  - BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) the modern passenger train system
- USGS Earthquake information including the new Map
- Weather for San Francisco from the National Weather Service and the Radar Image
- Web Cams
  - Caltrans :: Live Traffic Cameras
  - Alameda - Live Telerobotic Camera at CityNight.com was one of the oldest web cams in the Bay Area.
  - CBS 5 Traffic Webcams
  - Exploratorium Roof Cam
- World Affairs Council of Northern California
- zpub San Francisco
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- Around the World
  - Netherlands - Amsterdam
    - Hotel American
    - Marriott Hotel
  - United Kingdom - London
    - Explore London - photo tour guide
    - UK Real Ale Guide
    - Londontown.com has a list of Museums and Art Galleries
  - United States of America
    - Appalachian Trail
    - Hostelling International USA American Youth Hostels
    - Pacific Crest Trail Association
    - Hawaii
      - Maui
        
        Grand Wailea
        Kihei Kai
    - Nevada
      - Reno - Sparks - Lake Tahoe
        
        reno.com
        
        Atlantis
        Circus Circus
        El Dorado
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        John Ascuaga's Nugget is in Sparks
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