New Stuff

201026

• Removed countless dead links across all pages.
• Updated EFF Blue Ribbon banner and link

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• Removed all references to the "search engines on the web" page and the "Exploding Stuff" pages as they had run out of useful links.
• Removed PGP keys section as both of the keys referenced are far too weak and have been revoked. 1024 bit keys may have been overkill in 1994-1995, but that was a very long time ago.
• Removed countless dead links and updated others. Still need to update computers.html, space.html, and politics.html.

  100808

• Removed countless dead links, updated others, and replaced some with wikipedia references.
• On the "Computer Stuff" page: Warning: Most of the links on this page were collected during the early 90s, when any presence on this new-fangled "world wide web" thing was worthy of note. By now, it's just a disordered list of links that shrinks every time I trim out the dead or parked pages.
• On the "Exploding Stuff" page: Practically all of the links on this page have died since they were originally collected. Very sad. Exploding grills, exploding whales, exploding peeps, all gone.

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• The Dork Tower moved

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• The AMA also publishes a free on-line magazine: Model Aviation's Sport Aviator

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• Radical RC custom-builds their own battery packs.

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• RC Buyers Warehouse is a store in Nashua, NH,
• Hobby Fever is a store in Billerica, MA.

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• xkcd
• LFG
• PvP
• Something*Positive
• Brat-halla
• The Noob Comic
• Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic - frequently NSFW
• The Academy of Model Aeronautics is the world's largest model aviation association and the official national body for model aviation in the US.
• The 495th R/C Squadron is a flying club in Tewksbury, MA.
• The Burlington RC Flyers is a flying club in Burlington, MA.
• The Middlesex County R/C Fliers is a flying club in Billerica, MA.
• Tower Hobbies

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• Updated the gaming page to eliminate obsolete and broken links.
• Updated the index page to eliminate obsolete and broken links.
• Updated and reorganized the Random Amusement page to eliminate obsolete and broken links.
• Updated the MIT activities page to eliminate or fix obsolete and broken links.
• Updated the outdoors page to eliminate or fix obsolete and broken links.
• Updated the web search page to eliminate obsolete links.
• Added a link to the wiki for my Rolemaster campaign.
• Dork Tower
• Girl Genius Online Comics
• The Order of the Stick
• Some new boffer LARPs that look interesting: Alpha Colony, Radiant Dragon, and Endgame
• The Official town of Billerica web site and the Billerica Public Library
• Google Maps
• The Charles River Canoe and Kayak Club rents flat-water boats and equipment.
• Weather Underground
• Boston Movie Times
• Ctrl+Alt+Del
• NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day

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• RPGNow sells a wide variety of gaming-related "books" in pdf-format, including most of D&D and AD&D.
• The Guild Companion is an "Unofficial On-Line Gaming magazine supporting ICE products". They also sell ICE-related PDFs, via RPGNow.

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• A free real-time HTML Validation Service provided by the W3C.
• Cavalier is an interesting one-year-long campaign that uses the same base rules system as Madrigal and Atlas.
• I'm currently in a Rolemaster run, which has a site by the GM and run logs on the web.

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• Lawrenceville class of 1990

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• New Hampshire Outdoors
• Attitash Bear Peak
• Bretton Woods
• Cannon Mountain
• Killington
• Loon Mountain
• Stowe Mountain - requires Javascript
• Sugarbush
• Waterville Valley
• Wildcat Mountain
• An official(?) web site for the Tuckerman and Huntington Ravines

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• Jane's International Security

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• Packet Storm Security
• Cygwin is a fairly successful attempt to provide a real Uni*x-style command-line environment onto a dos box.
• DOS sucks! I vastly prefer Macs over PCs running mickey$oft operating systems. For all you other mac fans out there, here's a giant list of Macintosh ftp sites. Warning - I have no idea how many of those sites are still active - I acquired the list before this new-fangled "world wide web" became popular.
• Dr. Dobb's hosts Intel Secrets: what Intel doesn't want you to know. (Ironically enough, his web site uses the DOS-style ".htm" file extension, instead of ".html".

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• Fun with grapes

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• Security Space

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• Dave Barry archive at the Miami Herald
• Must be destroyed!
• cygwin attempts to place real command-line tools onto a dos box.
• Fine Games is a gaming store specializing in strategy games, including used and out-of-print games.
• TCFS -- Transparent Cryptographic File System
• Anonymizer.com
• The Bunnies Strike Back, a sequel to the Bunny Survival Tests.
• The Blair Family Circus Project
• segfault.org (satirical)
• Salon
• Crazy Egor's game and hobby store
• HIP smartcard
• M.U.S.C.L.E.
• Schlumberger smartcards
• Gemplus smartcards

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• RootPrompt.org
• SecurityFocus
• Security Portal
• cr.yp.to
• LinuxSecurity.com

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• Hacker News Network

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• Phoenix DSL
• NorthPoint DSL

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• DouglasAdams.com
• gnutella and FreeNet
• DSL Reports, a cross-indexed listing of many, many DSL providers with reviews.
• Sealand
• Doom as a tool for system administration
• OpenSSH
• Star Office is an attempt by Sun to build a multi-platform "office" application that can read MS files, and it actually works fairly well.
• DVD links: OpenDVD.org, T-shirts with the source to css_descramble.c from copyleft.org, and a Cryptoanalysis of CSS.
• BBspot (humor)

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• Added a number of Ferret Links to the Random Amusement page.

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• Updated the Web News page, eliminated dead links, added some new ones, and alphabetized what was left.
• Updated the games section of the news page.

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• Google
• OpenSSL
• SSLeay and documentation

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• Great news - Amarillo Design Bureau, the company that actually designed Star Fleet Battles, has finally managed to buy the rights to SFB from Task Force Games, and is reprinting many of the modules, rulebooks, and games that have been out of print for years.
• Starfleet Command is a computer game based on SFB that is currently being written by Interplay.

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• Archives of old Calvin and Hobbes strips, as well as fairly recent Foxtrot, Doonesbury, and other strips have been placed online by the Universal Press Syndicate.
• Here are a few highly entertaining web-based comic strips: Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet, User Friendly, and Sluggy Freelance.
• Some entertaining bloopers at The Internet... On a Stick!
• Some newer wander-around-in-the-woods style LARPs: Madrigal, Atlas Agenda, and Legends Roleplaying.
• BBC Online
• Scientific American
• Aviation Week
• New Scientist

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• Here are two web-based comic strips, Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet and User Friendly.

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• Updated 1024-bit PGP key

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• Forbes Magazine

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• Time Magazine
• News of the Wierd

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• Here are some Cryptography Links Outside of North America which can be freely accessed without worrying about ITAR.
• The Rainbow Series
• Some Randomness Resources
• Denning's Cryptography Project
• Information Warfare
• Unix Review
• The Dream Cafe (Steven Brust's Home Page)
• Avendale has taken over Nero-NY's old campground.
• Agents of Gaming is a fairly new gaming company that is currently working on a game set in the Babylon 5 universe.

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• I'm in a White Wolf crossover run, for which the GM has constructed a neat web page, even if it does neglect the werewolves in the party. :)
• I'm keeping run logs for an Amber diceless gaming run that I'm playing in.

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• Here are some slides from an NCSA talk, Introduction to Web Security
• Countepane Systems, Bruce Schneier's security consulting company, has a vast amount of interesting information on the web.
• Pandemonium Books & Games is a small SF bookstore in Harvard Square.

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• Senator Leahy has an excellent web site that includes his PGP key.

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• Air & Space Magazine
• The IETF and IAB have spoken out against key escro, export restrictions, and other governmental inanities in RFC 1984.
• Download a 30 day beta evaluation copy of FTP Software's Secure Mail, with integrated PGP support. Unfortunately, it only works under Lose95 and WinNT 4.0.
• In March, Phil Zimmerman acquired some venture capitol, formed Pretty Good Privacy, Inc., and ate ViaCrypt for lunch. And there was much rejoicing.

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• According to a recent report from O'Reilly, the only OS-level difference between NT Server and NT workstation is a mere registry entry or two.
• Robot Wars® ; an annual contest where RC robots try to destroy or immobilize their opponents.

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• the Onion, satirical news

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