The Library

As this page has grown, it has become somewhat amorphous, so I thought I'd use some minimal Library Science skills & classify it.

Art links
Bibliographic sources
Book Repair
Composer links
Computer-related
Dictionaries
Things gay
Investment research
Library Science links
Literary links
Literature Online
Media Transfer
Major National Libraries
Misc
Museums
Music-related links
Online newspapers
Online translating
Out of print material
Slavic links
Web design

Art Links

Artists whose artwork is in our house: Dennis Dahill - whose work I saw at an exhibition of the Cambridge Artists Cooperative; Pamela Day - a dear friend from Lawrence; Bob Hesse - WInchester, MA-based photographer. His October Light was taken at the Mohegan Museum, Mohegan Island, ME. I met him when they were taking down the Cambridge Art Association show & I ran down to grab the picture before it got away. I'm still trying to figure out which way it faces. Here's another link to his work.; Christopher Holmes - whose work I saw at an exhibition of the Cambridge Artists Cooperative; Melissa Kulig - although the pear painting I bought in 2006 is done on a black, wooden box, it is not one of the series shown here. Here's another link to her work.; Francie Riggs, a New Hampshire artist. I was immediately struck by her assemblage, Ascension, at a recent show of the Cambridge Artists Cooperative. What you can't see so well in this picture is that the artwork is housed in a lovely black-sided box.
David Avery Etchings: kind of a latter Richard Dadd
Hatje Cantz: German art-book publisher. I have their gorgeous catalog of the Wiener Werkstätte jewelry exhibition at the Neue Galerie, NYC.
Edition Q - a collection of male photographs, a one-night-only event to raise funds for Seattle's Gay City Health Project: the Avedon photos are quite stunning
Mark I. Chester: gay radical sex photographer, writer, performer and curator.
Constructivism: A synopsis of Constructivism; Wikipedia article
Designers
E-cards from various museums
Fine Arts in Hungary
Fluxus: fluxus.org/; Wikipedia article
From Russia with art
Gee's Bend Quilts: an incredible collection I've had the luck to see both in DC & Boston.
Harvard University art collection: Online search capability.
Paul Klee: a new cultural center in Bern, Switzerland
Gustav Klimpt
David Kupferman: Intriguing Boston-area artist
Jan Mankes: A Dutch artist I was quite taken with at the museum in Spanbroek
Jeffrey Melzack: Boston-area artist with some extraordinary paintings.
Ben Neubauer: Fantastic jeweler I just met at the Wellesley Composers' Conference. Also plays a mean viola!
Paper, Scissors, Rock: a website run by a friend of my friend, Pam Corwin, who runs the concern, works in acrylics and watercolors to make clocks, magnets and switchplates. Cute stuff.
NL: A SEASON OF DUTCH ART IN THE BERKSHIRES: SUMMER 2007
Odilon Redon: One of my favorites
Egon Schiele: Another of my faves
Sarah Sze: An amazing artist who does on-site one of a kind installations
The Victorian Web: The art links with biographical info re DG Rossetti, Burne-Jones, et al.calong with examples of their artworks are most wonderous
The Wessel + O'connor gallery an interesting art gallery in NYC http://www.wesseloconnor.com/
Podcasts from major museums - apparently you can also play these on your computer

Burlington Museum of Pez Memorabilia - Burlingame, CA

Hirshhorn Museum - Washington, DC

Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York (search for podcasts). Page can take awhile to load

Museum of Modern Art - New York

San Francicso Museum of Modern Art

Walker Art Center - Minneapolis

Bibliographic Sources

There's a great place on the web I just discovered for bibliographic referencing of information online. It's called Online! A reference guide to using internet sources and lists MLA, APA, Chicago, and several others for citations, as well as including book contents, links by chapter and more. The URL: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/index.html.
Another great bibliographic source is http://www.bartleby.com/. It contains fulltext reference works, nonfiction, and literature. This includes Barlett's Quotations, The Columbia Encyclopedia, and Harvard Classics.
Bibliography database software programs
Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information (http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM)
Wikipedia - great internet resource with source material from such publications as the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica.

Book Repair

Composer links

Here's an article, Le Gymnopédiste, I found on Eric Satie. I'm including it since he's one of my favorite composers. (Favorite being Ravel.) The article is part of a larger website (who knew there was a Satie newsgroup?).

Computer-related

CD recordable faq
Digital audio editors - LP to CD computer files: Audacity - free & open source; Goldwave; Tracer Tech
DVD Backup Software: CopyToDVD - Offers a free trial
DVD guides
DVD-ripping tools: a closer look at five of the best and most popular DVD ripping tools
Electronic gadgets (and other things) rating sites: Cnet.com - editors' reviews, price comparison and more; keepcash.com - coupon codes for major brands & big box stores; nextag.com - get your product number from Cnet or Consumer Reports, then search for the best price here (also has info on non-electronic merchandise); priceprotectr.com - keep track of your purchases and get your money back if the price drops; Pricespider.com - register with the site, set your price threshold and they will send you an email if it finds a listing; shoplocal.com - also has non-electronic listings within a 10-mile radius of your zip-code; other deal-shopping sites - from Pete Freitag
Firefox from Mozilla
Fireworks tutorials: Fading images - video tutorial; Another fading tutorial
Font links
HTML escape symbols
Internet acronyms - want to know what ROTFLOLPIMP means? Check this site out.
Mac links: How to Connect Audio Devices to Your Computer; Audio Hi-jack Pro - listen to audio when you want and how you want. Record any audio with Audio Hijack Pro; Bruji - library and CD cataloging software; Mac cheatsheet - keep important computer-related info on a cheat sheet; Dashboard widgets; Flip4Mac knowledgebase - digital media tools for the Macintosh; Keyboard shortcuts; Keyboard tips & tricks; Link Checkers; Macmeters - a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for Mac OS X; Mac/Windows integration; Max fix-it - troubleshooting for the Macintosh; Networking Windows with OS X; Russification of the MAC - a guide designed to provide you with everything necessary to read and write Cyrillic text on your Mac; Switch 101 - for PC users who have just switched to the Mac (like moi) and want to find out how to adapt old working habits to the Mac OS; Yahoo widgets - not clear how you determine whether they'll work with Intel-based Macs.; Zoho - browser-based software; Zoho library manager
http://www.mysql.com/
OLM tutorials
Organized home.com: printable planners for contacts, recipes, to-do lists, etc.
parallels.com: allows you to run Windows & Mac software simultaneously on a MAC computer.
http://www.ip2location.com/ - This tells you the location of your internet service provider
Weblogs Compendium

Dictionaries

Big Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary
Cyberitalian - free tutorials
De Mauro - il dizionario della lingua italiana (a.k.a. Italian language dictionary - all in italian, though)
Here is a great on-line French dictionary with genders
french/english dictionary (online use or download)
German word/phrase dictionary
Here is a link to an online medical dectionary: http://www.Online-Medical-Dictionary.org
Music dictionaries:

http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/ (general)
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Marble/9607/a.htm (general)
http://www.geocities.com/msicdic/ (French)
http://www.pianoinstructors.com/musicterms/term.html (Italian)

Oxford English Dictionary
Pronouning dictionary - from Iowa Public Radio - help with pronouncing the titles of classical music and the names of composers and performers
Rambler Russian/English Dictionary - type in Cyrillic & get the English translation
Russian Dictionaries
Here is a page with help on predicting the gender of French words. Le Truc de Genres.
Urban dictionary.com - a slang dictionary with definitions provided by users.
YourDictionary.com

Things gay

Adventure Travel Worldwide - provides gay men a supportive environment in which to venture out and explore the world
Calamus Bookstore - Boston-based store run by owner of former Glad Day Book store
The Estate Project for artists with AIDS
Places to find gay books on the web
- A Different Light Bookstorehttp://www.adlbooks.com/
- Gay Bookworld http://www.gaybookworld.com/
- The Oscar Wilde Book Shop - http://www.oscarwildebooks.com/
glbtq - an encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture
Craig Rodwell 1940-1993, founder of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop and a dear friend. His papers are at the New York Public library: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/rodwell.html
In doing some searching for gay hip-hop links - or homohop as it's called now, I guess, I found some interesting stuff:
- Holy Titclamps - a San Francisco (where else?) literary magaizine: http://www.holytitclamps.com/. Featured Boys Club: Queer Male Spoken Word in Sept. 2001.
- Karter Louis: "Prince of Hip-hop/Soul"
- BLARE (Black, Lesbian Arts REport) the latest news and information about the world of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, same-gender-loving, and transgender arts & entertainment
- Gay Hip-hop.com
Paris-Gay.Com propose aux visiteurs et aux parisiens un guide complet de la ville la plus gay de France
Gay.ru - Gay Russian history, lit, etc. Russian version at http://www.gay.ru/
The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome - a source book of basic documents in translation
The Knitting Circle - from London South Bank University - Resources on lesbian and gay issues with special emphasis on higher education. Includes art, biography, business, dance, drama, education, fashion, film, government, history, law, literature, media, music, photography, poetry, popular culture, psychology, science, sociology, sports, theatre, and other related topics.
Queer Resources Directory - an electronic library with news clippings, political contact information, newsletters, essays, images, hyperlinks, and every other kind of information resource of interest to the GLBO community (I'm not clear on what the "O" is - others?)
The Russian Out List - Famous gay or bisexual Russians

Investment Research
If you're interesting in researching stocks:

Securities & Exchange Commission - for companies' annual reports
Future earnings estmiates - Zacks.com

Library Science links

Links to Library Science degree programs & how to choose a school
- http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oa/lisdir.html#us
- Web Resources for Library School Students
  (see esp. the Choosing a Library School link)
- Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) - Home of BIBCO, CONSER, NACO and SACO.
I maintain the music librarianship website for Simmons College, which is where I keep most of my other library links. In case you're interested, that website includes a hip-hop bibliography and webliography that I put together for a music librarianship class, as well as links to major conservatories, performing organizations, and much more.
librarystuff.net - The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development
NEMLA (New England Music Library Association
RDA - Resource Description and Access - Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR

Literary links

Anna Axmatova
- A biography
- A google web directory of sites
In reading an article on Ian McEwan, British author, I came across a reference to Bergson's theory of consciousness, so I decided to look up what in tarnation that was. I fount this link.
Blake's The Tyger
Mixail Kuzmin

Kuzmin collection
Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Middlebury College bio
Mixail Kuzmin

Gladys Mitchell - Writer of the The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries recently on PBS.
Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie - Russian-language site
Stanislaw Lem - Polish-born Sci-fi writer
Osip Mandelstam
Victor Plevin
- http://urchin.earth.li/cgi-bin/twic/wiki/view.pl?page=VictorPelevin
- Review of The Second Circle
Perseval Press - Viggo Mortentsen's publishing house
Victor Xlebnikov

Includes: Introduction to Khlebnikov, Internet edition of Khlebnikov, Tvoreniia, Moscow, 1986, Poems by and articles on Khlebnikov (in Russian, and Selected Works (in Russian)
Poetryhunter.com

Literature Online (Full-text)

Jane Austen - Project Gutenberg
Biblioteka Maksima Moshkova - Full-text Russian lit online. Sadly, the English version seems to have disappeared. Tf you can read Cyrillic, however, there are some English versions available, e.g. Bulgakov's The Master & Margarita.
Charles Dickens - the complete works
East of the Web - short stories & ebooks online (including several Oscar Wilde short stories)
From the Ends to the Beginning: A Bilingual Anthology of Russian Poetry - even some sound files of Kuzmin
Nikolai Gogol Books Online - Some of his texts available free online.
Here is a good link for foreign language literature complete text online.
Housman poetry online
Konek-Gorbunok's The hunchbacked pony - subject of Shchedrin's ballet
Leonardo Digital Review is the work of an international panel of scholars and professionals invited from a wide range of disciplines to review books, exhibitions, CD-ROMs, Web sites, and conferences. Collectively they represent an intellectual commitment to engaging with the emergent debates and manifestations that are the consequences of the convergence of the arts, science and technology.
Victor Pelevin - Russian science fiction writer. This URL has a link to one of his novels that has been translated & is available online.
Poetry about love - Russian love poetry (in Cyrillic)
Poetryhunter.com
Poets.org - poets and poetry online. For some reason clicking on "K" in "Search by author's last name" brings you to a list of poems by Akhmatova and others, so I couldn't find if they had any Kuzmin. Searching for Balmont also came up bupkis.
Project Gutenberg is a wonderful web undertaking that provides full text versions of classic literature, among many other services.
Russian literature online

http://studyrussian.com/literature/main.html
Russian and Russian Emigre Literature and Authors (and Some Literary Critics, Linguists, etc.)

University of Adelaide
Vavilon.ru - contemporary Russian literature - texts, biographies and more
Words without borders - Foreign language lit translated & available online

Major National Libraries:

Visual Information Accesss - digitized images from Harvard's collection

Library of Congress
Die Deutsche Bibliothek
National Library of Canada/Bibliothèque Nationale du Canada
National Library of New Zealand
The National Library of Russia - which also has Images of St. Petersburg and History of the National Library of Russia (formerly Saltykov-Shchedrin Library)

Media transfer

LPs: Audacity - Free

Miscellaneous links

Anniversary names
Anti junk mail sites

41pounds.com $41 for 5-year membership
greendimes.com - pledges to plant one tree/mo. for every person who registers - $15 registration fee
stopthejunkmail.com - couldn't easily find out membership charges

Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, MA
Buber's Basque Pages - music folklore & more
Celsius to Fahrenheit
Cell phone plan comparison links

Chronological listing of the leaders of France - From 840 AD - the present
download.com - price comparisons, product reviews, etc.
Finding a human from an 800 number. Here's another link: Bringo Phone-tree killer
Free tax filing for anyone taxpayers with an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $52,000 or less
Enkoder Form 5.0 - Protect your Email address from Spam (unsolicited Email advertisements). Site appears to go down occasionally.
Finra.org - investment tools
Google maps
Gerard Hoffnung

IBM Thinkpad A22e - drivers
Jewish Holidays

Pesach

Here's a job tips list for Web folks from Webmonkey.
The Kings of France
The Labyrinth - Resources for Medieval Studies
The Library in the New Age - an article by Robert Darnton in the New York Review of Books
Listserv searching
Long distance comparison

Nelco Amica Sewing Machine User Manual
Online Health Information - Evaluating the Information You Find Online
Personality test
rathergood.com - Home of Kitty Vikings and more
Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams - Randy Pausch has pancreatic cancer and only months to live. This is a video of his last lecture at Carnegie Mellon University.
Specialty Search Engines
Titanium toothbrushes

Soladey - must be activiated by bright light
Tifnity - should last several years

Used Flutes.com
Wayback Machine - Browse through 55 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.

Museums

US Albuquerque, NM museums The Art Institute Chicago, IL The Bard Graduate Center New York, NY Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Williamstown, MA The Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA Denver Art Museum Denver, CO Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI The Field Museum Chicago, IL Fine Arts Museums Of San Francisco comprising the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor The Frick Collection New York, NY Georgie O'Keefe Museum Santa Fe, New Mexico J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles, CA Grand Rapids Art Museum Guggenheim Museum New York, NY Harvard University Art Museums Cambridge, MA Hyde Park Art Center Hyde Park, IL Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, IN Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA International Quilt Study Center & Museum Lincoln, NE International Spy Museum The Jewish Museum New York, NY LACMA Los Angeles, CA Lower East Side Tenement Museum New York, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art New York Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Morgan Library & Museum New York Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL Museum of Fine Arts Boston The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Stanta Fe, NM Museum of Jewish Heritage New York The Museum of Russian Icons largest collection in the North America and in Massachusetts yet. Who new? Museum of the Humanities - sponsored by McGraw Hill an online guide to the arts MOMA - New York Museum of the moving image - New York The National Cryptologic Museum Ft. George G. Meade, MD Neue Galerie - New York relatively new museum with an incredible collection of Viennese Secessionist artists like Klimpt and Schiele New Museum of Contemporary Art - New York now in its new location on Prince St. & the Bowery New Orleans Museum of Art New York Jazz Museum The Newark Museum Newark, NJ Newseum Washington, DC. An interesting sideline, their "Today's Front Pages" from about 80 newspapers around the world. The Noguchi Museum Long Island City, NY Oakland Museum of California Oakland, CA - an amazing collection of works from the 19th to the 21st centuries all about California or by Californians Georgia O'Keefe Museum Santa Fe, NM Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA The Norman Rockwell Museum Stockbridge, MA The Rubin Museum of Art - New York the first museum in the Western World dedicated to the art of the Himalayas and surrounding regions. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Seattle Art Museum Smithsonian Museums Washington, DC The Clifford Still Museum Denver, CO United States National Slavery Museum Fredericksburg, VA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Andy Warhol Museum Pittsgurgh, PA Whitney Museum New York, NY Yale Center for British Art New Haven, CT Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT
Belgium
Croatia: Modern Art Museum - Dubrovnik
England Lebrecht Music & Art Photo Library - photos of, among other things, performance spaces world-wide Tate London The Victoria and Albert Museum - London Very interesting textile collection and knitting section
France Centre Pompidou, Paris Fondation Maeght St. Paul de Vence Amazing comtemporary collection & sculpture garden. Louvre Museum - Paris Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris Musée du quai Branly - Paris Musée d'Orsay - Paris Musée national du Moyen Âge - Thermes et hôtel de Cluny - Paris Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris Musée Marc Chagall, Nice Amazing paintings comprising his Le Message Biblique Musée Matisse, Nice Le nouveau musée des Arts décoratifs - Paris
Germany German museums by geographical area Sort of requires a regional knowledge of the country Museum Quarters - Berlin Home of the Altes Museum, Bode Museum, Pergamon Museum & others
Netherlands: Kröller-Müller museum - a most amazing collection outside Amsterdam in Otterlo, NL. It has roomsful of Van Goghs, a vast collection of other artists, and is surrounded by an incredible sculpture garden and acres and acres of park.; Mauritz Huis - den Haag - rather boring page with just hours' info, address, etc. A collection of Dutch "masterpieces from the Dutch "Golden-Age", including excellent paintings by Vermeer (two when I was there), Rembrandt, Steen and Frans Hals."; The Scheringa Museum of Realist Art - Spanbroek (near Hoorn if that means anything to you. Interesting "Magic Realism" collection including some Magritte & de Chirico.
: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Online
Russia The Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts - Moscow In both Russian & English The Tretiakov Gallery - Moscow Vinzavod - contemporary art museum in Moscow
Spain: Prado. Madrid
Switzerland: museum Tinguely - Basel

Music-related links

21st Century Music: Full-text of the journal is available online from 2000 onwards
Bohemian Opera: Classical music in movies, and more
Centre of Contemporary Music - Sofia Gubaidulina Centre of Contemporary Music, Kazan, Tatarstan - Links to Tatarstan composers
The Classical Music Archives feature MP3 files and biographical information on many Slavic composers and others.
Contemporary Music Centre - good for Moscow Autumn concert programs since 2002
Dolmetsch online: The story of the members of this remarkable family and their pioneering work, for over one hundred and twenty years, in the field of early music
The Electronic Music Foundation
Flutist Quarerly index: Vols. XVI–XXX. Pdf file - requires Adobe Acrobat Reader
Glinka State Museum of Musical Culture
The Golden Pages: Links for musicians from Royal Holloway, Univeristy of London - classified links for bibliographic aids & links, composers' homepages, etc., as well as unclassified links from Aberdeen Bach Choir to the Yellow Pages.
Hear the turtle in the research port: .pdf file. by onnie Jo Dopp. The article discusses the Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, and reads in part:

Now, about those frogs: In Classical Music Library, you can listen to all of the short opera, The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Lukas Foss, with a libretto based on Mark Twain's famous story. Variations for cello and piano on the folk song, A Frog He Went a-Courting, by Paul Hindemith are there, as is English renaissance composer John Dowland's variations for flute, The Frog Galliard.
Helikon Opera Theater
Hoffmeister XIX: an on-line, searchable version of the Hofmeister Monatsberichte for the years 1829-1900. Containing some 400,000 records of music publications, it is the most extensive resource for establishing what was published where and when during that period.
The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection: an archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976
Werner Icking Music Archive: Free sheet music indexed by composer
Keepingscore.com: Website related to the Michael Tilson Thomas PBS Series
Klassic in Berlin: News and reviews from the Berlin cultural scene - operas and more
Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time: Addall list of online book sellers offering this title
The Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture - In the golden age of the Métis Nation, circa 1816-1869, the Métis traversed the landscape of present-day Western Canada and the American Great Plains
Music under Soviet rule from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (not the world's most attractive site, but informative, nonetheless.
Musical treasurers of Russia
Music under Soviet rule: from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (not the world's most attractive site, but informative, nonetheless.
Musica Ukrainica
Mutopia project: All music in the Mutopia Project is free to download, print out, perform and distribute.
Opera Italiana: the greatest italian composers and their operas and chamber music. Biographies, operas, librettos, curiosities and over 5000 mp3 files.
Online reference book for medieval studies: Medieval Music Glossary
Operaone.de: German-language site with almost everything about opera - composers, performers, directors, etc. Eastern and Western Europe, the USA
PER MUSI - Revista Acadêmica de Música: a free access publication of the Graduate Music Program of UFMG (Universidade Federal of Minas Gerais, Brazil) with articles in Portugese, Spanish, and English.
Polish Music Center
Pope Instrument Repair - Nilton Music Stands, etc. in Jamaica Plain, MA
Russian Music and Musicians: annotated bibliography at Brigham & Young University
Russian Musical Encyclopedia: Russian Musical Highlights of the 20th Century - unfortunately organized solely by year with no search function
Russian Sheet Music - available from ruslania.com
Spectral music: from Wikipedia
Warsaw Contemporary Music Festival
Zeroland: Great resource for most things musical. See esp the flute links under wind instruments - way to go Alexa! Beware, though. As you dig deeper,some of the links don't work

Online newspapers

The New York Times
The International Herald Tribune
NRC - Netherlands
The St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg, Russia
Tageszeitung - Berlin

Online translating

Omniglot
Payment Practices: the oldest and most extensive dataset related to the payment practices of translation agencies and other consumers of translation services.
Rustran.com
Translators Cafe
http://translit.ru: transliterates latin to cyrillic alphabets

Out of print materials

Finding out of print books on the WWW:

Finding out of print CDs

GEMM http://www.gemm.com/
Parnassus Classical Compact Discs and Records http://www.parnassusrecords.com/
Berkshire Record Outlet http://www.broinc.com/

Slavic Links

In doing translating work over the years, I've discovered many interesting links:: Abbreviations in Russian Language 1996-1999; Archives in Russia including RGALI (Russian State Archive of Literature and Art); Armeniapedia.com - the online Armenia encyclopedia; The Altai Republic; http://www.biblus.ru/ - book database with a virtual Cyrillic keyboard for searching; Bolshoi; Cherepnin project; English language edition of Pravda; Encyclopedia Krugosvet; Friends & Partners - Pages in Eng. and Russian on literature, music, art, etc.; Introduction to Slavic Information Resources - see esp. Resources For Russian Music And Opera and Biographical Sources For Russian/Soviet Music; Kireevsky Google search; Классика- XXI - Russian publishing company; Literatura - covers the best literary info on the net: Electronic libraries, new book reviews, literary competitions and more.; The Mariinsky Theater; ??? ???????? - links to all kinds of Russian dictionaries, biographical, etc.; Московский академический Музыкальный Театр - Moscow Stanislavsky/Nemirovich-Danchenko Academic Music Theater - lists artists & administration - with bios; Masterrussian.com - "free grammar lessons, useful vocabulary words and phrases, helpful tips on learning the Russian language, and hand-picked links to the best Web sites about the Russian language"; music@sumail.ru Muzikal'naya Academja email; Names and their nicknames - nicknames for common Russian male and female names; Resources for Russian music and opera; Ruslania - is a Helsinki-based bookstore specializing in Russian books and related products!; Russian cuisine; Russian Encyclopedia; Russian Jewish Encyclopedia - a translation of names and minimal personal data for 8,500 people included in Jewish Encyclopedia of Russia (Rossiyskaya Evreiskaya Entsiclopediya); first edition; 1995, Moscow; Russian Language Leaning on the Web - texts by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy & Blok with articles, quizzes; Russian language periodical bibliography; The Russian Virtual Library - Russian literature and poetry of the 18th-20th centuries; ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИИ САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГА - St. Petersburg Encyclopedia - 3523 articles, 8684 names, 4622 addresses; Slavic, East European, and Former USSR Resources - Selected Literatures and Authors Page - Russian Literature; CЛОВА.ИНФО - Russian language encyclopedia; Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow academic Music Theater (Stanislavsky Opera) - singer bios; Studies in Slavic Cultures - an interesting periodical put out by the University of Pittsburgh. Articles in .pdf format; http://www.translit.ru/ - get Cyrillic from Latin and visa versa

Web design

Accessibility

Accessibility: more than the right thing to do
Section 508.

Cgi links

Background images, colors, etc.
Bluerobot - CSS centering & more
CSS - a guide for the unglued
css dropdowns & more
css panic guide - css, a guide for the unglued
floatorial
CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit
evolt.org/
http://tantek.com/favelets/
http://www.htmldog.com/
Maxdesign.com - Sample CSS Page Layouts
http://www.meyerweb.com/
Three-wide layout without tables - example of use
Website tips

HTML

Web Accessibility Resources from UC Davis - CSS & more
Escape characters
Free tips & tutorials of Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks & Flash
HTML 4.0 Reference
A list apart - explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices
lynda.com - online subscritions to various web design tutorials
Dublin Core metadata generator
Web authoring gateways - courtesy of Candy Schwartz
XHTML Code standards

Image manipulation

FDR Tools - "turns even unimposing photos into expressive works showing a degree of detail and contrast that was not considered possible until recently" - free basic program
Photomatix - offers two ways to solve blown out highlights and flat shadows. Runs on Mac OS X and Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista. Freeware version puts a watermark on the finished product
Vector Magic - a way kewl website provided by Stanford University where you can upload your bitmap files & chamge them to vector images on the fly

Making a website Index in HTML

Javascript
PHP

http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/index.html - books, magazine articles, scripts, etc.
php editor
php faqs
http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/

XHTML
- Coding standards using XHTML
XML
- In a class on XML I looked up a link on XML tutorials, and an XML editor.
- I also discovered a link on the Text Encoding Initiative.
- Since we were discussing namespaces, I found several links about those.

johnranck.net

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