General useful links

• Urban Legends reference: Snopes
• CIA fact book about every country
• BugMeNot: If a website asks for registration, go here first
• Etymological dictionary

Funny links

• Info. on your birthday?
• User Friendly: the comic strip
• General Protection Fault: the comic strip
• Tina's humor archives
• Humor index

Math Groups

• American Mathematical Society
• Mathematical Association of America
• Mathematics Science Research Institute
• U of Washington: A list of math seminars
• Various university and college math department websites

My favorite places to get preprints

• AMS
• MSRI
• Univ. Illinois
• Los Alamos

Organizations I'm a part of

• Malibu Presbyterian Church
• Alpha Phi Omega ("What it is" page)
• Alpha Phi Omega (for members page)
• MIT Alumni Association

Christianity links

• General

  • Religious Resources on the Net
  • All in One Christian homepage
  • Guide to Christian literature on the Internet
  • Answering Islam: Christian challenges to Islam
  • Catholic Encyclopedia and other useful stuff
  • List of popes
  • Beliefnet: General religion page

• Links on the Bible

  • Bible Gateway: online Bible search engine
  • Blue-letter bible at Koinonia House
  • Bibles in several languages
  • Duke Papyrus Archive
  • World Wide Study Bible
  • Hebrew Tanach
  • Greek Bible
  • Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism
  • Canterbury Tales Project

• Non-canonical books

  • NT Apocrypha and commentary
  • Noncanonical homepage
  • Biblical Studies Homepage
  • Gospels (canonical and non-canonical) and the historical Jesus

Volunteer opportunities

• Helping.org charity database
• Effective Compassion
• Reachout
• 54 ways you can help the homeless
• Rates charities to donate to, based on fiscal efficiency

History (esp. history of math/sci.)

• History of math topics list
• MacTutor History of math archive
• Internet History of science sourcebook

Places to buy books

• Amazon.com
• Ecompare: see several online prices for books
• Christian Book Distributors
• UMI Out of Print Book Service
• Bibliophile antique books
• Advanced Book Exchange (ABE)
• Library of Science book club
• Mathematics online bookshelf (incl. lists of Dover books)
• Dover books

Cheap airlines

• ITA software low fare airlines
• Lowestfare.com
• Low airfares
• More low airfares
• United Airlines
• Southwest Airlines
• Northwest Airlines
• Travel brochures
• Travel and language info site
• Say Hello in many languages
• Say Hello in Swahili
• Kenya information
• Swahili dictionary

Other fun links

• An interesting solution to the three-body problem
• Java spring-and-mass constructor kit
• Buy a glass Pyrex Klein Bottle
• Look at virtual reality polyhedra