List of (mostly) Cool Links

WWW Related Stuff

• NCSA Mosaic home page

• The NCSA Mosaic Demo Document is here.

• The Netscape Home Page

• What's New on the Web

• This is the HTML Primer. (This is how I figured out how to make this home page.)

• This is the HTML Quick Reference.

Penn Related Stuff

• This is the University of Pennsylvania Home Page. Quite nice.

• SEAS Home Page

• The University of Pennsylvania Physics department home page.

• The Dining Philosophers the Computer Science student organization of Penn.

• SEAS Personal Home Page list

• STWing (Science & Technology Wing) home page

• Penn InTouch: If you're a Penn student, use this to check your courses, your tution bill, etc.

• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online: Use this link if you are at Penn to get access to the knowledge of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Other Links

• Need help in UNIX? Then check out the Penn's physics deptartment's Unix and X-Windows help pages. Or try UNIXhelp fo r users, located somewhere else.

  UNIX, Sun and X-Windows Help is also very good, and includes Frequenty Used UNIX Tasks and Common Unix Command Quick Reference

  The UNIX Reference Desk appears to be a complete souce of UNIX information.

• The

  Expo

  Visit the Expo, a really neat on-line museum with lots of exhibits. Dinosaur lovers (not Barney lovers) must see the Paleontology exhibit.

• Learn a new language! Esperanto is the language (maybe) of the future. Click here for a (in)complete hypercourse in the language that everyone (except 99.9% of the world) w ill be speaking.

• The GNN Home Page A WWW information service.

• Free for All, a listing of links to people's home pages and other things from around the world. (Caveat: This link is very slow if it even works.)

• Dr. Fun, a daily comic in the Far Side mold. It's often very good.

• 3D Stereograms: Cross your eyes and see neato 3D images. And have your eyes bug out for hours afterwards.

• Computer-related WWW/FTP/Newsgroup Resource is a pretty useful listing of computer sites.

• WWW Virtual Library - Links to info in a myriad of subjects.

• WWW Virtual Library's On-line Books and Magazines listing

• CMU's Books On-line listing

• You can access many Internet resources (such as Gopher, FTP, and telnet) by clicking here.

• Graphics viewers, editors, utilities and info: A useful page.

• Next to Nothing: A page full of free stuff you can get over the Internet, phone, and mail. Really great.

• The Art of China Homepage: a nice site full of Chinese art, literature, etc. Even has Sun Tzu's Art of War.

• Joseph Wu's Origami Page: A cool site with really nice photos of really complex origami, and has numerous actual diagrams so you can fold origami yourself!

• Shidoshi.

• This is a link to Lu Wang's Asian Movies Homepage.

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• Paul Shinn's SPYNET homepage.
• Erwin Lau's Homepage: My bother, of course. I can't believe he actually puts music on his page. :P And his opening graphic is even more gaudy than mine... ;)

Anime (Japanese Animation) Links

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  The Animation Society of the University of Pennsylvania
  

  

• A good intro to
  Japanese Animation
  
• Anime Web Turnpike: Currently, perhaps the best listing of anime and manga Internet reseouces.
  
• Anime and Manga Resources List: One of the best lists of anime and manga Web resources.
• The unofficial list of Anime FTP Sites Names and Addresses
• Susan's Anime Links
• MIT Anime Server
• The Relief Goddess Office Homepage
• Aa! Megami-sama (Ah My Goddess)
• Skuld Shrine: The web site of an obvious Skuld fanatic, there are over 300 pics of Skuld here.
• The Sasami Shrine: A site belonging to yet another fanatic. Has a nice animation.

  Check out my Shrine of Anime Shrines and please help find me more anime shrines.

• The Ranma 1/2 Universe: A home page of one of my favorite animes!
• You know your addicted to Ranma when...: Must read for Ranma 1/2 fans!
• Maison Ikkoku Home Page: A great romantic comedy!
• Venice Anime FTP server
• Anime Picture Archive: a good picture site. Warning, if you are in the US, this may be slow or worse at times.
• Hitoshi Doi's Home Page
• Anime and Manga Corner: Rabi has many very well done and complete pages about her favorite anime/manga.
• Vampire Miyu Home Page: An eerie, dark anime, but extremely good.
• Alf's Anime Grab Bag!
• Chi's Home Page: An anime page in the UK
• ANIME & STUFF: Page with pics captured from a couple Ranma 1/2 opening/ending Quicktimes and a bunch 'o links

• The Anime Review: Reviews of anime and the Editor's Choice of the Week for the best anime Web pages.

• Manga and Movie Original Story Competition: If you think you could write a better story, than do so and send it to these guys. There's a $30,000 grand prize.

• Animego: A commercial distribution, subtitling, etc. company that relases anime such as Bubblegum Crisis and Kimagure Orange Road.
• Anime Newsgroups
  • rec.arts.anime
  • rec.arts.anime.info
  • rec.arts.anime.marketplace
  • rec.arts.anime.stories
  • upenn.anime: UPenn's own anime newsgroup.

Fractals

Want to see more really cool images like the one here?

Then click here for more on the amazing, awesome (and other mind-blowing adjectives) world of Fractals!

Linux WWW Info (More to come)

• Linux Documentation Project: Plenty of Linux documentation here. HOWTO's, entire manuals, user groups, FTP sites, etc.
• Linux Home Page: A good general info page.
• The Linux Gazette: a source for tips and other stuff for Linux.
• The Linux Library: Misc. documentation for Linux.
• Linux Toys: a collections of nice (in one person's opinion) programs for Linux.
• WINE: the MS-Windows emulation project for Linux. Perhaps the ultimate mainstream application solution for Linux? Eventually will even run Win95/NT apps.
• DOSEMU: the DOS emulator for Linux. The other possible ultimate mainstream application solution for Linux. Even runs MS-Windows (of course your milage may vary).
• Executor for Linux: If you just gotta run those Mac apps. A commercial Mac emulator for Linux (and other systems). A FAQ also exists.
• A page with Apple2 Emulator, an Apple ][ emulator for Linux. Not a mainstream application solution by any means.
• Linux Counter: See how many people are using Linux around the world.
• Linux kernel changes: Figure out what the latest and greatest kernels have to offer.
• Linux versions in use: see which kernel versions most people are using.
• ftp.cdrom.com: home site for Slackware, one of the best Linux distributions.
• The Redhat Distribution: Or this could be the best linux distribution... for sure one of the easiest to install.
• Can your OS do this for free?: A 1024x768 GIF showing the power of Linux... a MS-Windows App, a DOS app, a Solaris app, and a Mac app... all at the same time under X-windows!
• Linux in Action: The above pic is one of the many from this cool page. See X-windows look almost exactly like Win95. See X-windows look better than Win95. See how flexible X-windows and L inux really are.
• sunsite.unc.edu: one of the best ftp sites for Linux programs, docs, distributions, etc.
• comp.os.linux.announce: Linux announcements
• comp.os.linux.help: Linux help
• upenn.linux: Linux at UPenn

Amazingly, you are visitor number since September 1995.

Let me know what you think of this page and maybe how you found it (just wondering).
You can e-mail me:

Herman K. Lau / lau@force.stwing.upenn.edu