HyperCard
HyperCard will always be my favourite programming environment - simple
and elegant. Apple has an
official HyperCard page. HyperCard
Heaven is a great place for information and links, as is the
HyperCard Resource Page.
For the greatest collection of HyperCard externals, visit Frederic Rinaldi.
Another useful collection of externals is
Parnassien's Little Page of Externals.
Animation
I used to be big into anime (Japanese animation), but finally got rid of
most of my tapes before moving to Brisbane. I kept all the Miyazaki films though, as well as my
favourite series, Kimagure Orange
Road.
Check out The
Anime Gallery for a wide range of anime images, and the
KISS page
for dressable anime dolls! I also like other animation - as a patriotic
Tasmanian I have to include the Taz-Mania Page, though it has nothing to do with
the real Tasmanian devil! Plus the icon of the new establishment, The
Simpsons.
Calendars
A small interest of mine is ancient astronomy and calendar systems.
Calendar Zone has stacks of information about various calendars and related issues.
Also check out my Aztec page and my Lufkan Calendar page.
Chocolate
Check out the
Chocolate Lover's Page.
Friends
Rodney has recently become Dr. Rodney and is now working at Hitachi in
Yokohama. Ben
is living the good life back in Hobart, with info on his performances
and samples of his compositions.
Joanna has a great page of
information and photos. Rob and Anita have just unveiled their lovely
Liberty Kids
Church page.
Information
The Telstra White Pages are
very useful for finding phone numbers, and the
Internet
White Pages are great for finding people on the net.
With MapQuest you can get Maps
from around the world.
Language
A hobby I never have enough time for is constructing languages, but
there are plenty of people on the web who do have the time. Check out
the pages from Jeffrey
Henning,
Dirk Elzinga,
Chris Bogart, and
Richard Kennaway.
The Ethnologue
Database is an incredible encyclopedia of world languages. The
Micronations
page gives details of the many unknown countries of the globe.
Macintosh
Apple Australia has general
information about Macintosh, with special sites for HyperCard, Mac OS, QuickTime, CyberDog, and OpenDoc.
There is also plenty of information at the
Ultimate Macintosh
page, at The Cult of
Macintosh, and at
The Well Connected Mac.
If you're after PowerBook information, try O'Grady's PowerPage. In
Australia, useful software archives are Info-Mac, Tucows, and
Apple
Software Updates. The weekly electronic publication TidBITS is good to read.
Chris Johnson has written an excellent
cron for
the Mac.
Mathematics and Mathematica
Some of my mathematical interests not directly related to my work are the
History
of Mathematics (and a course at UCSD),
Linear Programming,
prime numbers,
integer
sequences, and
mathematical constants.
The Maths FAQ is also a good source of interesting information.
Simon Plouffe has made available
Plouffe's Inverter for looking up mathematical constants.
Mathematica is a computer algebra package produced by
Wolfram Research.
Paul Abbott is
an Australian Mathematica guru.
Mathematica World is an
electronic Mathematica journal (see my publications for references to my
contributions).
Movies and Television
The Movie Database has
stacks of info about everything a movie-buff could want. My local
cinemas are the Schonell
Theatre, the Balmoral Cineplex,
the Dendy, Greater Union, and Hoyts.
I used to be a big Peter Greenaway fan - gorgeous visuals and sounds.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation
runs the best radio stations in the land, Triple J and Classic FM.
Visit the Australian Television Guide to find out what's on.
Favourite shows: Star Trek,
Blake's 7, ...
Music and MIDI
My favourite contemporary artists are, in no particular order,
Laurie Anderson, Phillip Glass,
Nick Cave,
Bjork, and
Tori Amos.
I love the idea of Enhanced CDs,
though I've only got one so far.
And what page would be complete without a link to the Internet Cello Society?
For a few years now, the Macintosh has come with free software for
playing MIDI files, a wonderfully compact way of storing music. Visit
the Classical MIDI Archives,
or the
Alternating Currents MIDI
page, for some good files to download.
Medieval MIDIs
sound pretty cool as well.
Science
For all the news and pictures from Mars, visit the Mars Pathfinder
pages.
The astronomy software with the most beautiful graphics has to be Starry Night. To see
the latest Hubble pictures, check out the
Space Telescope Information Service.
The UN Population
Information Network has some fascinating data and models about the
future of world population.
AI, Cognitive Science and Robotics
Resources is a great resource for these interrelated fields.
Travel
Tasmania Online is the
best starting place for information about Tasmania on the web.
Lonely Planet publishes my
favourite guide books.
There is lots of good reading on the Chile page.
City Net has access to information
about cities around the world, and
Hotel Anywhere can tell you about accomodation in them!
Graphical Arts
I've always liked the paintings of Maxfield Parrish - examples can be
found at the Art of Maxfield Parrish
and the
Maxfield Parrish Gallery.
The WebMuseum has
many great paintings. For general links try
World Wide Arts Resources or
the Virtual Image
Archive. George Ryon has a huge list of QuickTime VR
links, or visit the MPEG
Monster List for MPEGs. Visions of Space
has some great images.
Web
Every web author needs an
HTML Quick Reference.
I'm also a big fan of Cascading Style Sheets.
For simple interactivity try out Perl.
Internet Interactivity is one of the most interesting applications of the web.
Bill
Hart's Web Design is an excellent guide to writing usable web
sites.
Robots are everywhere, so it's good to know what they can know...