George Bendo's Webpages:
Links
General Web Resources
Search Engines
- Bing
- Microsoft's alternative web search engine.
- DuckDuckGo
- A privacy-oriented search engine.
- Google
- The world's most popular web search engine.
- TinEye
- An image-oriented search engine.
Web Utilities
- Downdetector
- UK-based tracker for websites, mobile phone service, and
other internet-based services.
- Is It Down
Right Now? - Another tracker of whether websites are
online.
- Speedtest
- An online tool for checking internet speeds.
- Whois
- A website for looking up IP addresses.
Astronomy
Observatory Information
- Optical and Near-Infrared Observatories
- ESO
- The European organization that operates European
telescopes in Chile.
- NOIRLab -
The US organization that runs public observatories in the
US and Chile.
- Space Telescope
Science Institute Home Page - The operation center
for the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space
Telescope.
- Mid-Infrared and Far-Infrared Observatories
- Submillimeter and Radio Telescopes
Journals and Publications
Databases and Scientific Image Archives
Software
-
Astronomy Tools - Useful almanac information for
amateur and professional astronomy.
- CARTA - The
image viewer designed specifically for radio and millimeter
data.
- CASA -
The software package used for general radio astronomy data
reduction.
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Dartmouth Stellar Evolution Database - Multiple
tools for modelling the brightnesses and colors of stars.
- DS9 - The most
flexible professional astronomy image display program.
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Starburst 99 - A professional astronomy model that
produces synthetic stellar population data.
- SunCalc -
A tool that overlays the position of the Sun on world maps.
Images
- General Astronomy Images
- Interactive Maps
- ESASky - An
interactive sky map with access to ESA's
catalogs and images.
- Legacy
Survey - Interactive maps from multiple
professional surveys.
-
WorldWide Telescope - All sky maps including insets
from many press releases.
General science
Scientific Publications
- Overleaf -
A website for writing journal articles online in LaTeX.
- Scopus -
A comprehensive index of scientific publications.
- Web of
Science - An alternate but heavily used index
of scientific publications.
Medicine and Psychology
- Center for Disease
Control and Prevention - The US government agency
for researching and preventing diseases.
-
NHS - Information on both UK government medical
services and general health issues.
- WebMD - General
health and medicine reference information.
Pseudoscience and Urban Legends
-
Circlemakers - The people who have made the
most famous crop circles.
- Skeptical
Science - A website devoted to debunking claims that
global warming is not happening.
- Snopes.com -
A famous archive of analyses of urban legends and other
rumors.
Miscellaneous
-
Nukemap - Maps with overlays showing the effects of
simulated nuclear bombs.
- Units of
Measurement - Information and historical background
on almost all units of measurement.
- What's New by Bob
Park - A weekly column about science and politics
written between 1987-2013.
Computing
Software Repositories
- GitHub -
The very popular software development website.
- SourceForge.net
- A repository of open-source software.
General Coding Information
Web Page Development
- General Web Development
- W3 Schools
- Excellent tutorials and information on multiple web
development topics.
- Bootstrap
- A very popular webpage design system.
- Toptal
Utilities - Multiple tools for webpage design and
development.
- Validation Tools
Fonts
- 1001 Fonts
- A large collection of free fonts.
- DaFont -
A broad library of fonts.
- Font Library
- A selection of fonts with Creative Commons licenses.
- Google Fonts
- A small selection of free fonts from Google
Graphics
- Icons and Clip Art
- Backgrounds
- Miscellaneous
-
Coblis - A color blindness simulator.
- watabou -
A selection of fantasy map generators and other image
generators as well as games.
Culture and History
Language
- English Language Information
- General Language Information
Art
- Anish
Kapoor - The official website of a modern artist who
specializes in large geometric sculptures.
-
Drawing How To Draw - Various comic drawing
tutorials.
- Erwin Wurm -
The website for the surrealist sculptor and performance
artist.
- Felt
Mistress - Unusual plush creatures created by a
fashion designer.
- Marwencol -
WWII scenes created with dolls and action figures.
- Simon
Stålenhag - The homepage of the artist known
for his retro science fiction art.
- Slinkachu -
Photography of miniature figures in urban scenes.
News
World News
- BBC News - The
news from the United Kingdom's main broadcasters.
- CNN - News
from the popular cable network.
- Political
Wire - Short notes on American political news.
- Retro Report
- Videos from the New York Times examining past news
stories.
United Kingdom
Government
- GOV.UK - The official
website for the UK government.
- Embassy of the
U.S. London - Includes information for United States
citizens living in the United Kingdom.
-
Environment Agency - The United Kingdom agency charged
with environmental protection and flood defense.
Manchester
- Tourism and Transportation
- Miscellaneous
Travel
Maps
- General Purpose Maps
- Specialty Maps
Travel Tools
- time and
date.com - Worldwide time and calendar information.
- World
Standards - Reference information on electrical,
driving, and other standards.
- XE -
Currency conversion tools.
Ocean Travel
-
CruiseMapper - Interactive live maps of cruise
ships and other passenger ships.
- Marine
Traffic - General ship tracking information.
Rail Travel
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Chronotrains - A tool for showing train
travel times from any European city.
-
UrbanRail.Net - Commuter rail transport maps for
locations around the world.
Recreation
Comics
- Comic Collections
- Comics
Kingdom - A collection of both old
newspaper comic strips, rebooted newspaper comic
strips, and original webcomics.
- GoComics -
Popular newspaper comic strips as well as other comics
from the web.
- Webtoon -
A large webcomic platform with multiple webcomic
stories.
- Ongoing Comics
- The Automan's
Daughter - A cyberpunk story set in a
futuristic Ottoman Empire.
- Ava's
Demon - A story set in the far future
about a girl who makes a pact with a
demon-like sorceress.
- Buttersafe
- Simple but surreal comics.
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Daughter of the Lilies - A fantasy-based story
featuring a quartet of psychologically-complex
mercenaries.
- Em
Cartoons - An autobiographical comic strip
about living in London.
- For
Tomorrow - A fantasy webcomic set in the
early twentieth century.
-
Kamikaze - A story set in a dystopian future
about a freerunner in a socially stratified society.
- Miss
Melee - A webcomic about a martial artist
balancing her housewife and superhero
activites.
- Optipess
- Short, cynical comic strips featuring a man with square
glasses.
-
Questionable Content - A long-running webcomic
about hipsters and robots.
- Savage
Chicken - Cartoons on sticky notes.
- Scary Go
Round - Stories about supernatural events in
small English towns.
- Selkie
- A story about an adopted amphibious humanoid girl and
her human father.
- Sleepless
Domain - A complex story featuring
magical girls.
- The
Specialists - A story about WWII-based
superheroes.
- Vanguard
- Superhero comics set in the United Kingdom.
- xkcd - The
popular science-oriented webcomic.
- Completed Comics
Games
- Computer Games
- GameFAQs -
Hints and walkthroughs for many popular video games.
- GeoGuessr
- A web game based on identifying random scenes from Google
Streetview.
- Board and Card Games
-
BoardGameGeek - A large database and discussion
board for board and card games.
Humor
- Scientific Humor
- Other Humor
Music and Broadcast Audio
- Music Archives
- Bandcamp -
A source of music and other audio from small labels and
independent artists.
- Filmmusic.io
- Creative commons music for audio and video production.
- The Mod
Archive - An archive of computer-generated
music in various 1990s module formats.
- SoundCloud
- Another popular source of online music.
- Internet Radio
- Digitally
Imported - A collection of electronic internet
radio stations.
-
RadioTunes - A broad selection of internet
radio stations with various music genres.
- SomaFM
- An eclectic mix of electronic, lounge, indie, and pop
music radio stations.
- Miscellaneous
Sports
- NFL.com -
The official website of the National Football League.
- Six
Nations - The official website for the international
rugby competition.
- Strava -
The popular workout tracking app and website.
Video, Film, and Television
Miscellaneous
-
Character Name Generator - A broad set of random name
generators.
- H I Sutton -
Expert creator of ship diagrams.
- Metacritic.com
- Compilations of critics' scores of movies, TV, music,
and games.
- Nobelprize.org
- The official website of the Nobel Foundation.
- Paper Sizes -
Straightforward information on paper sizes and formats.
- Random Lists -
A website for creating lists of random words, names, addresses,
and other things.
-
TopTenREVIEWS - A broad range of reviews with a heavy
emphasis on computers.