Links to My Favorite Sites

"My own strategy," says Dirk Gently, the hero of The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, "is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere that I needed to be."

If you wish to use this strategy while surfing the net, you are invited to follow me, and visit my favorite sites.

Jokes are a very popular topic on the Net. You can find easily many collections of jokes. However, most of them are dully designed, or, more exactly, not designed at all -- they contain just the plain text of the jokes. Here are some jokes sites which are well designed and really funny:

JimJr's Classy Classic Collectibles Jokes

When You Grow Up

The Oracle's Archives (Jokes)

LaughWEB

Loonie Bin of Jokes!

HumorShack

Paw Prints Jokes Archives

TheClyde's Searchable Humor Archive

JokingAround

Joke-of-the-day

Lori's Mishmash Humor Page

Asylum; Funny pictures, really funny jokes & office humor

BigPuns.com is an original humor site, with puns, wordplay, comics, e-zines and more humorous stuff.

The-Jokes.com: Lots of jokes and humor, funny pictures, cartoons, fun pages, gags and pranks, tests and more.

Try ComedyGig, a site providing free new jokes, entertainment, humor, and comedy information daily.

Don't miss HumorSearch, the jokes search engine.

JokeBoy! - Free Jokes and Cartoons by Email!

Glowport Jokes for thousands of clean jokes, audio files, movie clips, cartoons, pictures, daily humor, and more.

www.nuttyjokes.com is a small new site.

Laugh Lab is devoted to the science of humor. Yes, I am not joking.

My "Profession Jokes - Doctors" page was "in the spotlight" at the CRAPCO Comedy Connection. Visit their funny site!

My "Profession Jokes" site was "MyAngel.com's Sight of the Week". If you need a job in eastern Asia, this is the site for you, and you can find also some good links to work place humor sites.

Zoinkies: The Hip Stuff Homepage - "We know what you're looking for even before you do."

Like some football fans, who like to watch the game but never touch a ball, I like to read about mathematics, especially about its history. Mac Tutor is the best site about the history of mathematics. It contains many biographies and some very interesting topics.

You will find a nice collection of articles about modern math at Frequently Asked Questions in Mathematics.

Mathematics, like any other science, has a very large collection of concepts and ideas. What to do when bumping into an unknown term? Can you sleep without knowing what is a metric space? Everything you wanted to know about mathematics, and much more than you ever dreamed to ask in Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics.

If you know already all the mathematics that a person should know, you can check it in the MAthematical TRIvia Xcursion.

MegaMath brings to elementary school pupils the ideas and problems of modern math: logic, infinity, graph theory etc. If you never understood math, but want to see its beauty - this is the site for you (no matter how old you are).

Cut the Knot is a must for math lovers. It is a rich and magnificent site, packed with interesting ideas from all fields of mathematics. Many pages contain Java and Javascript programs, which makes the visit in the site to an interactive experience. Links to other math sites and popular mathematical literature make this site an excellent starting point to anyone who searches math on the Internet.

mathepower.com: This site calculates math exercises of class 1 till 10.

A quick visit in the puzzles sites may create the impression that puzzles are the second most popular topic in the net. There is a newsgroup, an archive with some difficult puzzles, and a ring that allows jumping among various puzzle sites.

Ponder this is the monthly puzzle of IBM Research. The puzzles are mathematically oriented, and you can spend a weekend trying to solve one.

Math Magic is a web site devoted to original mathematical recreations. Every month it publishes a new puzzle.

Ken's Puzzle of the Week has a large collection of mathematically oriented puzzles.

The Grey Labyrinth is a very nice site, with all kinds of puzzles. All puzzles are presented in a very original way, so even if you see a known puzzle -- it's a real pleasure to read the version of this site. The graphical design of this site is the best you can find in puzzles sites.

Send greetings to a friend, using 123gretings.com, a site with really nice greetings for every occasion.

Use MediaBuilder: Animation Factory Free Animated GIF Library to add animation toyour website.

Bored with the same old new mail greeting? Then change it! You've Got Mail! is a cool archive of WAV files that you can use for your new mail noise.

For many years I was a manager of a software development team using mainly PL/I, a powerful and efficient language that was developed in the 60's, but did not get the success it deserves. The newsgroup of PL/I is the place to meet PL/I fans and C++ foes.

My favorite programming language for leisure time is Logo. It is a powerful language with a very simple syntax. To draw a hexagon you have to write REPEAT 6 [FORWARD 50 LEFT 60]. Logo is not just a graphic language, it has list processing commands, and implements recursion easily. The free version of Logo contains an excellent Windows interpreter.

JavaScript is a tool that allows including programs in HTML pages, and enabling us to create dynamic and interactive pages. You may find much information about JavaScript at Yahoo. If you want to write JavaScript code use Netscape's JavaScript Guide. The book "Learn Advanced JavaScript Programming" contains many good examples.

You can find many basic and popular JavaScript tricks at Nic's Javascript Page and at The JavaScript Source. Some of the JavaScript programs in my site where taken from these sources.

Many magazines have Internet sites. In the site of Scientific American, for example, you can find the table of contents of each issue, and the full content of some articles.

News and fun from the mathematical world you will find at the monthly column of Keith Devlin, the biweekly column of Frank Morgan and the weekly column of Ivars Peterson, which appear in the electronic magazine MAA Online.

Start here if you want to find other electronic magazines.

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