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Boston College Voicemail

Boston College Email

Boston College Library Search

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Quotes I happen to like

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Wayback Machine

COVID-19 Info:

• CDC COVID-19

• COVID-19 Global Cases

• COVID-19 Cases by US State (in progress)

• COVID-19: National Wastewater Surveillance (CDC)

• COVID-19: Wastewater Surveillance selected sites

• CDC Isolation & Exposure Calculator

US News Outlets:

• US Weather National Doppler Radar

• Christian Science Monitor

• ABA Journal

• Google News 

• Fox News

• New York Times

• Los Angeles Times

• Washington Post

• CNN

• Bloomberg 

• Huffington Post

• San Jose Mercury News

• Boston Herald

• Boston.com

• Boston Globe

• ABC News

• MSNBC

• Wall Street Journal

• Drudge Report

• Daily Beast

World Regional News:

• World Weather

• Africa Online

• EuroNews

• Latin America/Caribbean News

• USA Today

Presidential Race Meta-Analysis:

• Princeton Election Consortium

• 538

Commentary:

• The Baseline Scenario

• Web3 is going just great

Mindless Fluff (for lack of a better name):

• Thought Catalog (Warning: Most articles are poorly written by functionally illiterate authors.)

List of Newspapers of the World on the Internet <------

A few specific overseas papers

• Irish Times (Ireland)

• La Monde (available only in French)  (Google English Translation)

• South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)

• Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

• The Telegraph (England)

• The Independent (England)

• The Guardian (England)

• The Globe and Mail (Canada)

• The Nation (Pakistan)

• Jerusalem Post (Israel)

• Haaretz (Israel)

• Arab News (Saudi Arabia)

A few government subsidized/owned papers

• Aljazeera english - Aljazeera arabic (Quatar)

• Australian Broadcasting Corp. (Australia)

• British Broadcasting Corp. (Britain)

• FARS english - FARS persian (Iran)

• North Korean News Agency (North Korea propaganda)

• RT - Russia Today (Russian propaganda)

• Voice of America (USA)

• Global Times (China People's Daily propaganda) 

• DNYUZ ("Dnyuz" is Russian for "Days". Plagiarizes stories from other sites, no original content. Domain registered in Armenia. Seems to not display stories critical of Russian or China.)

• Xinhua News Agency (China propaganda)

Politics & Intelligence News:

• The Politico

• National Journal

• Bellingcat (Intelligence)

• Intrusion Truth (Intelligence)

• The Intercept (Intelligence)

• SITE Intelligence Group (Intelligence)

• Cryptome (Intelligence)

• Wikileaks (Intelligence)

• The Nation (Liberal bent)

• National Review (Conservative bent)

• Op Ed News (Liberal bent)

• Reason (Conservative bent)

• The New Republic (Liberal bent)

Technology News:

• Aviation Week

• EE Times

• GreenTech Media

• IEEE Spectrum

• Physics Today

• Popular Mechanics

• The Register

• SemiAccurate

A few US college newspapers

• The Chronicle (Boston College Staff Paper)

• The Heights (Boston College Student Paper)

• Crimson (Harvard)

• Daily Bruin (UCLA)

• Daily Pennsylvanian (Penn)

• Alligator (UF)

• The Daily (Stanford

• The Tech (Caltech)

• The Tech (MIT)

Science, Environment, Legal and Medical News:

Science

• Physics Today

• Scientific American

Environment

• EPA

• Seafood Watch

• EPA Radiation Maps

• GQ self-reporting Radiation Map

• Audobon

• Nature Conservancy

• National Geographic

• EQ Zapp: California Earthquake Hazards Zone Application

• NOAA Hurricane Center & Central Pacific Hurricane Center

• NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (Space Storms)

• Gazelle

Medicine

• The Genographic Project

• Body Mass Index Calculator (BMI)

• Calories Needed to Maintain Constant Weight Calculator

• Blood Alcohol - Drink Number Charts

• Life Expectancy Calculator

• Sleep Calculator

• Ideal Weight Calculator

• Calories Burned

• Food Nutrition Data

• Mosaic Method of Threat Assesment Tool

• WebMD

• World Health Organization

• CDC

Genetics & Ancestry

• 23andMe

• Ancestry.com

• Promethease

Legal

• ABA Journal

• ABA Legal Fact Check

Cellphone & Camera Tools:

• SMS through E-Mail: Cingular, Nextel, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, Virgin Mobile

• SMS through E-Mail: US Cellular, SunCom, Powertel, ATT, Metro PCS and Alltel

• Lookout Mobile Security

• Where is my cellphone? (website calls your cell number)

• Eye-Fi (wireless SD cards for cameras)

• Google Play/Android Market

• iPhone/iPad Apps Store

• BlackBerry App World

• Windows Phone Marketplace

• XDA-Developers (Windows Mobile and Android hacking)

• AntennaSearch (locate cell towers)

• AntennaWeb (locate TV broadcast towers)

• TVFool (locate TV broadcast towers)

Internet Tools:

• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (the people who really give out domain names)

• Top Level Domian Codes

• InterNIC Whois (Network Solutions)

• ARIN Whois (American Registry of Internet Numbers)

• APIC Whois (Asian Pacific Internet Centre)

• RIPE Whois (Réseaux IP Européens)

• Latin American and Caribbean IP address Regional Registry

• US Government Whois (run by US Government)

• DNS/IP Lookup Routines

• IP Addresses by Country

• AccountKiller.com (Delete Facebook, Twitter, etc Accounts)

• HotSpot Shield

• AV-Test (Anti-Virus Testing)

• Multi-RBL Check

• Portable Apps

• Portable Apps Archives

• VirusTotal

• Robtex (looks up data about IP addresses or domain names)

• Rescam (forward spam emails to me@rescam.org)

• Test if Java working in your browser

• Test your browser fingerprint via Panopticlick

• Test your browser fingerprint via Privacy Analyzer

• Test a site's SSL Certificate

• Test if your email address was found in a data breach or hack (e.g. Home Depot hack, etc.

Tax/Tax-Rebate Related:

• Tax Credits Estimator (Rewire America)

• Mass Saves

Core Financial:

• The Conference Board Leading Economic Indicators

• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Leading Economic Indicators

• The Buffett Indicator #1 (Dailey, macromicro.me)

• The Buffett Indicator #2 (Monthly, currentmarketvaluation.com)

• The Federal Reserve

• The SEC

Financial:

• Yahoo Finance

• Yahoo Finance Cryptocurrency Page

• NASDAQ

• NYSE

• 2020 SPIVA® U.S. Scorecard (SPIVA = S&P Indicies vs Active) Mutual Funds Performance

• Historic S&P 500 metrics (e.g. PE ratios, etc)

• TIAA-CREF

• Stan the Annuity Man

• Freakonomics

• Zillow Online Home Valuations

• US National Debt and Gold

• US Money Supply and Gold

• Opt-Out of Credit Card & Insurance Offers

• EDGAR Database (SEC Filings)

• Bob Brinker

• Inflation Calculator

• City-to-City Cost of Living Comparator

• How Much? Understanding Money Website

Financial Blogs/Blog-like Things (that I like):

• Above the Crowd

Credit:

• Credit Karma Credit Score Tracking

• Statute of Limitations on Debts

• Request Federally Mandated Free Credit Report

• Place Equifax Credit Freeze

• Place Experian Credit Freeze

• Place Transunion Credit Freeze

Social Security:

• US Social Security Office

• AARP Social Security Calculator

• Social Security Choices

• Maximize My Social Security (requires subscription)

• Laurence Kotlikoff Social Security Columns on Forbes

• Laurence Kotlikoff Social Security Columns on PBS

Travel:

• GPS Coordinate Converter (Say, to convert Google Maps format Lat & Long to Garmin format)

• Orbitz

• The Flight Deal (searches for mistake fares)

• ITA Matrix (has calendar of lowest fares)

• Skiplagged (includes throw away ticket searching)

• Flightradar24 (World Wide Realtime Flight Tracking)

• Time Zones   

• Time Zones of Major Cities

• Airlines

• 1010 Discount calling plans

• The Trip.com (good for checking flight delays)

• US Government per diem rates (domestic)

• US Government (IRS) Mileage Rates

• US Government Automotive Fuel Economy (auto mpg)

• Currency Converter

Boutique Travel:

• Boutique Homes

• Design Hotels

• Design Tripper

• Mr. & Mrs. Smith

• Unique Home Stays

• Welcome Beyond

Databases:

• Airport Codes

• Find A Grave

• State Recording Requirements (1 & 2 Party States)

• Spokeo

• Stolen Camera Finder

• Telephone Area Codes

• Zabasearch

• Zip Cope Locator (US)

Charities:

• MSPCA

• Heifer International

Public Domain Resources:

• US Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog

• US Library of Congress Manuscript Online Catalog

Proposal Writing Resources:

• Heilmeier Questions

New England Power Utility Status:

• Connecticut State Power Outages

• Eversource Outages

• Maine State Power Outages

• Massachusetts State Power Outages

• New Hampshire State Power Outages

• Rhode Island State Power Outages

• Vermont Electric Coop Outages

• Vermont State Power Outages

Science, Math and  Technology:

General Knowledge:

• C.G.P. Grey

Science:

• Periodic Table of the Elements

• Unit Conversions

• World Statistics Updated in Real Time

• Last half billion years Earth temperatures

• Material Phase Diagrams

• Binary Phase Diagrams and other useful info

• Free Patents Online

• Nobel Prize Official Web Site

• NASA

• NASA Outgassing Online Database

• Discovery Channel

• SETI at Home

• Ologies Podcast (Science Education)

• Weather Balloon Trajectory Calculator

• Starlink, Oneweb & GPS satellite tracking<

• Upcoming & Recent Orbital Debris Reentries

• Nuclear Detonation Effect Simulator

Entertainment News & Streaming:

• NetFlix

• Hulu

• Tivo

• Movies.com

• Roger Ebert (movie reviews)

• Rotten Tomatoes (movie review aggrigator)

• Snopes

• Cable and Broadcast News

• The Smoking Gun

• You Tube

• Movie Schedules

• Internet Movie Database

• Hollywood Reporter

• Variety

• TMZ

• The Blast

• Showbiz 411

US Government (laws & taxes):

• US Senate

• US House of Representatives

• The White House

• IRS

• Social Security

• Department of Defense

• Look up your favorite Bill in Congress

• Welfare Statistics

University & Academics:

• Ranking of US University Rankings

• Worst ROI Colleges

Humor:

• BOFH at The Register

• KXCD

• Bonkers World

• Dilbert

• Darwin Awards

• Anagram Insanity

Humor (satire-parody-dark humor):

• The Onion

• The National Report

• The Daily Currant

• The Betoota Advocate

 

• Something Awful (the internet makes you stupid)

• Scrappleface

• The Borowitz Report

• Mad Magazine

Entertainment/Creative Writing:

• Wait But Why (Interesting Analysis)

• Creepy Pasta (Weird Stories)

Shopping (General):

• Reseller Ratings (Check out on-line merchants)

• Coupons.com

• CouponMom.com

• eBay

• Craigslist

• Amazon

• ABE Used Books

Shopping (Clothes):

• LLBean

• Lands End

Tin foil hat (UFO, etc.):

• Black Vault