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Way out and across the snow
To other links . . .

The links are divided between web access (right below), news and blogs, past and present wildlife, very useful sites, and people who have maintained a presence from the early years of the web.

Web Access

Pennswoods
Local access provider for State College, Pennsylvania.

Dotservant
Web hosting: Excellent service, features, prices, and help.


News and Blogs

Guardian
Comprehensive international news. Also, discover how the U.S. appears minus benevolent censorship.

A Family in Baghad
The personal blog of a family in Baghad and a human face to the horror of war.

Juan Cole *Informed Comment*
The site of a Chicago professor who has done an amazing job in summarizing and analyzing all the news from the Middle East.

Random Acts of Reality
An ambulance driver, in London, who is a very talented writer.

Shades of Gray
The life and adventures of good friend Jan Martin.


Wildlife Past and Present

Grey and Red: A Squirrel Journal
Curious about squirrels? The journal covers everything from daily life to rehabilitation. Good photos, good stories, great entertainment.

How to Locate a Wildlife Rehabilitator
The first site to go to if you ever come across an injured animal in the U.S. (Each state licenses its own wildlife rehabititators.)

Mountain MobileVet
If you live in or near State College, Pennsylvania, I highly recommend Renee Calvert, DVM, for "compassionate pet care at your home." Her site is very comprehensive too.

A Rat Adventure
Rats? Pets? Very adorable! There's much to learn at this site by Jan Martin.



Good and Useful

CBC 4 Kids
Excellent site with many activities for children. Pretty good for adults too.

A Collection of Icelandic Photographs and Landscapes
Icelandic photos (with many other references to Iceland)! Beautiful and extremely comprehensive site!

Core FTP
A fast, sensible, and intuitive FTP application, which also happens to be free. Highly recommended!

Critters Writers' Workshop
An online group for fantasy, horror, and science fiction writers who both critique members' stories and receive critiques of their own stories. It works amazingly well, and it's free. I personally find it extremely useful and wholehearted recommend Critters to anyone writing genre fiction.

Eye on Iceland
Online version of a newsletter about Iceland tourism.

The Golf Domain
A huge golf site whose motto is "Bringing you the best of golf on the web and much more."

Mad about Mountains
Many Lake District photos with links to other LD and mountain sites.

PC Connection or MacConnection
What better source of blame for my pages than this mail-order and online computer shoppe, from which I've been buying stuff for over 10 years. Their catalogs are great, the online store is great, and its sales reps, such as Paul Cioffi, well, they're great too.

Robin Kanta Photographic Supply
Filters and related equipment in profusion! My first stop for any filter.

Scientific American Frontiers
Bats, rainforests, computers as fashion, polls, contests, Alan Alda, and other wildlife and topics for the curious, children, and/or curious children.

Super Site for Kids
Activities and games for children, with a filtering system to oversee content and links. (Includes links back to my versions of Mancala and Paper Ships.)

Susan Hanniford Crowley
A professional science fiction writer, editor, and teacher who offers a series of online lessons for writing and who is also available to help you with your book-length manuscript.

University of Central Florida Libraries: Special Collections Department
Good collections and good people.

Web Clip Art
Excellent resource for free graphics on the web, compiled by Bobbie Peachey who is always celebrating Christmas.



Individuals

Anonymomma's World
A celebration of life, although it has been a few years since she has updated anything.

Vaellustarinoita Lapista
Although Antti's pages are in Finnish, the landscape photos from his annual hiking jaunt through northern Finland (the vidda) are well worth viewing.

Arun and Rekha
They have a lovely collection of photos from the State College, Pennsylvania, area, including ice and spring images.

Art or Life?
The web pipe tobacco reviewer himself. Professional animation too as well as various surprises.

Brigitte Zaczek
Exquisite pages that inspire visitors to write poetry in her guestbook. Also, her guitar cd is of such beauty as to make anyone want to visit Vienna to hear more.

Virtually Virtual Iceland
Garðar Jóhann's huge site with material on Iceland, SF, stamps, and more. His sequence of color interpretations of Icelandic landscape photos is a visual feast.

Gary L. Stair
Cartoons! Humor!

Renaissance Project & Gallery
One of Jan Martin's attractive and innovative sites.

Pipes and tobacco
A class by itself, but I'm not repeating the links here: Try my pipe and tobacco page for them.

Reykjavík

And if you followed the footprints across the snow in the first photo above, you'd come across this aspect of the pretty city of Reykjavík, Iceland. (Who says that Iceland doesn't have trees, anyway?)
 
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