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Web Pages About DBQ

• Home page
• Consulting
• Favorite web sites
• Offices held
• Patents issued
• Patents referenced
• Philatelic awards
• Philatelic citations
• Philatelic letters
• Philatelic offices
• Philatelic publications
• Photographic galleries
• Popular publications
• Posters
• Professional
• Research
• Resume
• Scientific abstracts
• Scientific citations
• Scientific publications
• Seminars
• Teaching

Family Surname Sites By DBQ

• Boynton Ancestors
• Boynton Family Tree
• Paine Ancestors
• Quine Ancestors
• Quine Family Tree

Family Individual Sites by DBQ

• Douglas Boynton Quine
• Marjorie Boynton Quine
• Robert Quine
• Willard Van Orman Quine

Family Individual Sites by DBQ

• Guest Books
• Boynton family
• Douglas B. Quine
• Quine family
• Willard V. Quine

Music Web Sites: DBQ

• Beatles albums: USA
• Beatles albums: Foreign
• Beatles CDs: USA
• Beatles CDs: Foreign
• Beatles song list A-Z
• Beatles recordings
• Beatles FAQ
• Beatles latest Guest Book
• Robert Quine - guitarist
• Too Old To Care

Philatelic Web Sites: DBQ

• Auxiliary Markings Club
  • Bibliography
  • EKU
  • Exhibits
  • Listing
  • Newsletter
  • Press releases
• Awards to DBQ
• Citations to DBQ
• Letters by DBQ
• Offices Held by DBQ
• Publications by DBQ
• Postal acronyms (A-L)
• Postal acronyms (M-Z)
• Postal acronyms (0-9999)
• Postal barcode decoder
• Postnet error 404
• ZIP code list 00001+
• ZIP code list 10001+
• ZIP code list 20001+
• ZIP code list 30001+
• ZIP code list 40001+
• ZIP code list 50001+
• ZIP code list 60001+
• ZIP code list 70001+
• ZIP code list 80001+
• ZIP code list 90001+

WVQ Web Pages by DBQ

• About WVQ
• Audio recordings
• Awards
• Books on WVQ (partial)
• Book reviews (popular)
• Degrees: honorary
• Dictionary references
• Family genealogy
• Feedback
• Fiction by WVQ
• Guest book
• Home Page for WVQ
• Mass media references
• News of WVQ
• Newspaper - biography
• Newspaper - Kyoto prize
• Popular references
• Prizes
• Published Interviews
• Quine in / on dictionaries
• Quotation Queries
• Quotes about WVQ
• Reviews of WVQ's books
• Search WVQ web site
• Students: Ph.D. listing
• Students: undergraduate
• Videotape Interviews
• Web page review
• Web sites by others
• Web sites - obsolete

Resources

• Blank Page (TPILB)
• Javatest, browser info
• Privacy statement
• Public service site
• Triskelion Ltd (host)
• Versions (web logs)

My Shortcuts page has links to the favorite pages I use everyday. The recommended web sites below have links and brief descriptions to additional web resources and also my home page. Some may have changed so I welcome corrections and updates (see feedback section at the end of the web page).

ART - OFF THE BEATEN TRACK

• Gargoyles
• Graffiti Art Art Crimes: The Writing On The Wall
• IBM atom photographs - artwork at the atomic level
• Stone Carver art in stone and pixels

ART - TRADITIONAL

• Hudson River School painter Bierstadt is seen at Fruitlands Museums and in The Hudson River School : American Landscape Artists.
• Metropolitan Museum of New York
• National Gallery of Art
• Shaker Round Barn (photo on right) at Hancock Shaker Museum
• Shaker architecture and furniture at Fruitlands Museums and June Sprigg's book By Shaker Hands
• Whitney Museum of American Art

AUTOMOBILES

• Art cars! Decorate your auto for fun or profit!
• AutoList Search for new and used cars of interest in your area
• Car and Driver Magazine Automotive News and Auto Reviews
• AutoByTel Auto by Internet Buying Service [from Time]
• Edmund's Auto Buyer's Guide - new and used car pricing by model and options; find out what the dealer pays and get the best deal on a new car
• GreenHybrid.com Hybrid Car Information (the classic)
• Honda Civic Hybrid (For fun, I painted my old Honda Civic 2005 silver logo to be green in the day and to glow at night)

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• Kelley Blue Book - automobile prices
• Roadsters
• Toyota Prius Hybrid - the Prius Eco is extraordinary - the highest mpg production gas vehicle ever made - and lots of fun to drive

BUSINESS, FINANCE, and MONEY

• Ameritrade on-line broker discounts [Business Week]
• Briefing.Com extensive Bond Market coverage
• Business.USA.gov Business Advisor
• Business Week full text and archives - one of my favorite magazines
• Coldwell Banker On Line 190,000 listing featuring photographs zeroing in on room details [Business Week]
• Fidelity Mutual Funds includes IRA worksheets
• Financial Engines Asset Allocation and Evaluate Risks [Business Week]
• Interactive Brokers on-line broker DEEP discounts - my personal favorite
• Microsoft Investor recommended for portfolio tracking and research [PC Magazine]
• Morningstar Mutual Fund Statistics fine tune a portfolio [Business Week]
• National Fraud Information Center
• New York Stock Exchange financial education resources
• Owner's Network by Abele houses for sale by owners [Business Week]
• Personal Wealth by Standard and Poor extensive data, original editorial content, and asset allocation model [Business Week]
• Quicken Daily Mortgage Rates and Calculator [Business Week]
• Quote.Com for Options Investors including basic quotes, charts, and futures [PC Magazine]
• Realtor.Com Lists 1,200,000 homes, with good search and mapping tools [Business Week]
• Roth IRA Financial Planning for Individual Retirement Accounts [Business Week]
• T Rowe Price Financial Planning Resources [Business Week]
• Vanguard Mutual Fund Financial Planning for Individuals [Business Week]
• Vistaprint for affordable online services and print solutions for business and home
• Zillow home price check - the gold standard

COMPUTING and TECHNOLOGY

• B&H Photo, Video, and Computers
• Cam Central KremlinKam to KeikoCam [USA Today]
• Cauce Anti-SPAM Organization
• CNET computer and life in the digital age [PC Magazine]
• Computer Emergency Response Team - Anti-Virus (Carnegie Mellon)
• Euro Font (free download from Adobe)
• Gamelan: Java Applets and Java Information [PC Magazine]
• HTML Station: HTML Language reference and information [PC Magazine]
• Internet Domain lookup (DomainCrawler) - simple interface for who owns ???.com
• Internet Domain lookup (InterNIC) - who owns ???.com, or is it available?
• Internet Domain lookup (Register.com) - who owns ???.com, or is it available?
• Internet security: International Computer Security Association
• Internet Speedometer - Comcast free site to measure your connection speed
• Internet Speedometer - McAfee's free site to measure your connection speed
• Internet Traffic - regional
• JavaScript test page - with browser display and cookie demonstration
• MacConnection order computers, software, and peripherals for next day delivery!
• MacWorld
• PC Connection order computers, software, and peripherals for next day delivery!
• PC Magazine industry standard for product reviews and technology updates [Business Week]
• Ping Test - Measure the response time of your server and check for status errors including DNS-related problems with Dotcom-Tools.
• Snopes - the definitive Internet reference source for checking urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation
• Symantec: Computer Virus & Hoax information center
• Urban Myths - a newsy "debunk your life" website
• Website Speed Test - Check the speed and performance of your website from 23 locations around the world with Dotcom-Tools.
• What Is glossary of technical terms from A to Z [USA Today]
• Wired magazine technology, security, investigative reporting, gear to buy, business, and entertainment packaged in leading edge graphics

EDUCATION

• Cornell University Ph.D. 1979
• How to Study for the GRE: Example Questions, Resources, and Study Hacks was written by Prof. Dennis Masino and Jackie Giuliano, Ph.D. It includes such topics as the basics of Graduate Record Examination (GRE), Verbal and Quantitative Reasoning, Analytical Writing, and Common Mistakes Made on the GRE. Best of all, it is free.
• Princeton University class of 1973
• Princeton University Alumni Weekly (Nassau Hall stamp on right)
• Roxbury Latin School class of 1969
• Park School class of 1965
• Peterson's Education Center college, school, and camp guides

EMPLOYMENT

• CraigsList a simple job hunting site
• Indeed one of the top two national job posting sites
• Krazoom the innovative Connecticut site for employers and job seekers that employs a skill based algorithm to find good job fits; well designed and efficient
• LinkedIn is the essential business and employment-oriented social networking site
• Monster Board a well known consolidator of job postings
• Schegg Group an excellent Connecticut resource for job networking, coaching, and outplacement (with connections elsewhere)
• ZIPrecruiter one of the top two national job posting sites

GENEALOGY - Boynton

• My Boynton family 32 generations
• My Boynton family tree since my grandfather
• My Marjorie Boynton Quine teacher and Egyptologist
• Ellis Island Web Site - a great resource

GENEALOGY - Paine

• My Paine family 13 generations

GENEALOGY - Quine

• My Quine family 11 generations with Triskelion image - Isle of Man national symbol
• My Quine family tree since my grandfather
• My Willard van Orman Quine (philosopher and 1996 Kyoto prize winner) web pages
• Isle of Man Quine family ancestral home
• Isle of Man Family History Society Quine family ancestral home
  

GENEALOGY - General - SOCIAL MEDIA

• Archives.com a commercial genealogy web site with a wide variety of links
• ClassFinders.com helps find lost / former classmates (very powerful and mostly correct)
• Facebook.com my social networking personal website
• LinkedIn.com my business networking website
• National Archives and Records Administration

GOVERNMENT RESOURCES

• Census
• Data.gov Public ACcess to Government Databases (new)
• Congress.gov text, live video, and information about Federal legislation (formerly Thomas.gov)
• Naval Observatory Time
• Patents: European Patent Office - search international patents
• Patents: United States Patent and Trademark Office - free search of all USA patents
• Patents: United States Patent and Trademark Office - free Patent Information Information Retrieval (PAIR) for detailed studies of individual patents
• SEC corporate information such as S-1, 10-K, 10-Q corporate filings; also SEC's "Edgar"
• Social Security Online user friendly information, forms, legislation
• TreasuryDirect.gov - US Treasury Department Bond Direct Purchase
• USA.gov - consolidated web site for government information and resources: government made easy
• WhiteHouse.Gov White House website: including President Barack Obama's weekly video address

HUMOR

• Monty Python Flying Circus TV Series Episode Guide from Wikipedia with a list of sketches in each episode
• Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) the funniest thing on television (just saying his name makes me start laughing); this web site allows you to view some of his wonderful clips - if you can tolerate the miserable cartoon interface

KID-FRIENDLY WEB SITES

• Books help young minds grow. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling is a remarkable book in the series that got a new generation of children excited about reading again.
• Childrens Literature Guide
• Disney commercial site - that kids visit in droves
• PBS Online has pages for children's shows

MOVIES

• Internet Movie Database search by stars, movies titles, cast character names, or Academy Award years
• Forrest Gump all about the movie - cast, characters, critics, dates, goofs, hyperlinks, images, quotes, ratings, reviews, scripts, trivia
• Mr. Holland's Opus all about the movie
• Rocky Horror Picture Show all about the movie

MUSICIANS - BEATLES (other groups in next section)

• My Beatles Frequently Asked Questions
• My Beatles complete alphabetical CD song list
• My Beatles complete alphabetical song list including unreleased songs and first release dates
• My Beatles Guest Book part 1
• My Beatles Guest Book part 2
• My Beatles Guest Book part 3
• My Beatles Guest Book part 4
• My Beatles Guest Book part 5
• My Beatles Guest Book part 6
• My Beatles Guest Book latest
• My Beatles complete album list with dates and songs
• Dave Haber's Beatles Web Site albunms, biographies, history, recordings, and essays in an elegant interface
• Beatles Lennon - Jesus (a lesson about speaking your mind while standing in the public eye)

MUSICIANS (Beatles in section above)

MUSIC REFERENCES

• Amazon: 3,000,000 book and music titles to search by author, title, subject, or keyword
• Billboard's Current Top Hits
• MTV music, video, and pop culture resource
• Rhino Records a trteasure trove of otherwise out of print Rock and Roll hits
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, OH
• Rolling Stone.com the newspaper of record for popular culture and music
• Ultimate Band List links to every band and musician I enjoy including Fleetwood Mac, Meat Loaf, Mozart... as well as the ones that you like
• Yahoo Music current music news and videos,
  

NEWS and HISTORY

• Bloomberg Business Week with extensive news and financial information - a long time favorite of mine
• Cable News Network actual news, sports, and weather radar (get past the talking heads and filler that gets broadcast on TV)
• Cable News Financial Network
• Google News - the best news source on the Internet
• gURL Web magazine for precocious teenage girls
• New York Times online one of the iconic American newspapers
• PR Newswire corporate press releases
• USA Today newspaper on-line [Business Week]
• Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. They have been recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial - "the wall" in Washington DC website at Wikipedia with additional links
• Washington Post online another iconic American newspaper (and recently purchased by Jeff Bezos)
• Wall Street Journal online the third iconic American newspaper
• WeatherUnderground a weather channel who are looking for weather information (and you can create customized home pages for your location)
  

PHILATELY - STAMP COLLECTING

• I host the Auxiliary Markings Club - learn about "return to sender" markings and many others
• My Quine Philatelic Letters
• My Quine Philatelic Presentations and Awards
• My Quine Philatelic Publications
• My Quine Plate Number Coil Exchange
• My Quine POSTNET software manual and barcode information
• My Quine POSTNET Online barcode decoder
• My Quine POSTNET 404 Error resource
• American Philatelic Library On-Line
• American Philatelic Society
• eBay the mass market auction site for stamps ... and everything else
• First Day Covers James McCusker
• Isle of Man Post Office Philatelic Bureau
• Linn's Stamp News (weekly newspaper)
• Subway Stamps (comprehensive stamp supplies)
• Zillions of Stamps Linn's Stamp News dealer sales site
  

POSTAL AUTOMATION and MAILING

• My Quine POSTNET Online barcode decoder
• My Quine POSTNET software manual and barcode information
• My Quine POSTNET 404 Error barcode resource
• My Postal Abbreviation Glossary
• Canada Post home page and postal code lookup
• National Address Server Given a valid U.S. postal address, this server attempts to rewrite the address in the proper format along with the ZIP+4 code. If it is successful, you can retrieve a Postscript or a GIF file of the address for printing, with a barcode! You can also view a street map of the address, from 2 different Internet map sites (MapBlast and MapQuest).
• Pitney Bowes postal automation leader (disclosure: I'm a retired research fellow from PB)
• Postal News - on-line current postal news
• United States Postal Service - home page (including ZIP code lookup)
• United States Postal Service - Hold Mail
• United States Postal Service - National Address Server
• United States Postal Service - Postal Bulletin - information for mailers
• United States Postal Service - Postal Bulletin historical archives by Tony Wawrukiewicz - information for stamp collectors
• United States Postal Service - Postage Calculator
• United States Postal Service - Postal Rate Commission
• United States Postal Service: An American History 1775-2002 (pub 100) download from Douglas Quine
• United States Postal Service ZIP code list by Douglas Quine

QUINE PAGES

• Auxiliary Marking Club (stamps) - learn about "return to sender" markings and many others
• Beatles Frequently Asked Questions
• Beatles complete alphabetical CD song list
• Beatles complete alphabetical song list including unreleased songs and first release dates
• Beatles Guest Book latest
• Beatles complete album list with dates and songs
• Boynton ancestor genealogy
• Boynton family tree
• Boynton Guest Book
• Guest Book Index
• Home Page
• JavaScript test page with browser display and cookie demonstration
• MORE web sites - (this page)
• Offices Held, Professional Consulting and Society Memberships
• Paine ancestor genealogy
• Patents awarded to Douglas Quine
• Philatelic Awards and Presentations
• Philatelic Letters
• Philatelic Publications and postal automation
• Plate Number Coil Exchange
• Popular Publications
• Poster Sessions
• POSTNET Online barcode decoder
• POSTNET software manual and barcode information
• POSTNET 404 Error resource
• Professional Employment and Research
• Quine ancestor genealogy
• Quine family tree
• Quine Guest Book
• Douglas Quine Guest Book
• Marjorie Boynton Quine
• Willard van Orman Quine philosopher and 1996 Kyoto prize winner (extensive web site)
• Willard van Orman Quine Guest Book
• Willard van Orman Quine Obituaries
• Scientific Publications
• Scientific Publications: Abstracts
• Seminars and Lectures
• Teaching
• USPS Abbreviation Glossary
• Versions: Quine home pages statistics, demographics, versions (no longer updated)

REFERENCE

• A Libris Out of Print Books (formerly Interloc)
• ABE Books (Advanced Book Exchange) Out of Print Books
• Amazon: 3,000,000 book and music titles to search by author, title, subject, or keyword
• American Memory at the Library of Congress [Business Week]
• Barnes and Noble Book Store [Time]
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

• City Search [Business Week]
• Commerce Business Daily - CBDNet is the Government's official FREE electronic version of the Commerce Business Daily that announces upcoming US government bids and contracts
• DARE: Dictionary of American Regional English is a multi-volume reference work that documents words, phrases, and pronunciations that vary from one place to another place across the United States.
• Library of Congress
• Maps Online Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection of the University of Texas at Austin
• New York Public Library
• Online Computer Library Center searchable online card catalog for 22,000 libraries
• Project Bartleby - public domain online books
• Shakespeare complete even the obscure works - also includes a hyperlinked glossary to decipher those pesky obsolete words
• SuperPages yellow page searcher - PC Magazine Editor's choice [Business Week]
• Switchboard web based Telephone White Pages find people, businesses, Web sites, phone numbers [Business Week]
• Unit Conversions for Weights, Measures, Lengths, Temperature, Angles, Data Storage, and Time Zones
• US Legal Code law reference desk at your fingertips
• Web-Counter - GetDigits
• Web-Counter - ReliableCounter - my current choice
• Who Where web based Telephone White pages and Yellow pages [PC Magazine]

SCIENCE, HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT, and FOOD

• Amusement Park Physics [USA Today]
• Atmospheric Optics Light playing on water drops, dust or ice crystals in the atmosphere produces a host of visual spectacles - rainbows, halos, glories, coronas and many more. Some can be seen almost every day or so, some are once in a lifetime sights. Find out where to see them and how they are formed. Then seek and enjoy them outdoors.
• Earthquake (nearly) real time bulletins - from the USGS
• Environmental Defense Fund local maps showing pollution sources
• Greenpeace environmental
• IBM Research - the world is our laboratory [Business Week]
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Medical: American Cancer Society - Relay for Life raises money to help fight cancer. Maryclaire has been a dedicated volunteer for over a decade serving as a team captain, town coordinator, and award winning New England Task Force member
• Medical: American Childhood Cancer Society has helped over a million children beat cancer and is dedicated to cancer research and awareness
• Medical: Guideline - treatment guidelines from the National Guideline Clearinghouse
• Medical: Health Council info - disease information and links to medical societies and organizations
• Medical: Macular Degeneration Foundation
• Medical: Mayo Clinic Health Information
• Medical: NIH library - National Library of Medicine with MEDLINE entries range from general medical information to technical articles
• Medical: Pediatric House Calls by Dr. Greene search for answers to your questions [Business Week]
• Medical: Publications On Line from the National Library of Medicine
• Medical: Visible Human through photographs and scanners
• NASA Comet site photographs and news
• National Audubon Society
• New York Academy of Sciences
• Real Beer Microbrewery Pages
• San Diego Zoo animals and conservation
• San Francisco Exploratorium
• Science Magazine from AAAS
• Scientific American magazine
• SETI @ home analyze radio-telescope data for evidence of extra-terrestrials
• Sky and Telescope extraordinary picture and information

TAXES

• Internal Revenue Service stylish, up to date site to download federal and state forms, use questionnaires to compute deductions

TELEVISION

• TV Guide on-line [PC Magazine]

THEATER

• Playbill's Theater Site on-line directory by show, theater, cast and old Playbill covers

TRAVEL and PLACES:

• Athens, Greece the ancient city (thanks to Erin who improved upon a broken link)
• Berlitz language home page - avoid "faux pas"!
• Boston, Massachusetts - the Boston Globe comprehensive Boston news page
• Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
• Expedia by Microsoft Search for the cheapest airfares and hotels - my favorite as a frequent business traveler
• Fodor's - top travel information
• GOES NASA Satellite pictures of the USA
• Google Maps the BEST Interactive USA atlas with directions by car, foot, or public transportation
• Killahevlin - A Touch Of Ireland in the Historic Shenandoah Valley Historic Edwardian mansion bed and breakfast in Front Royal, Virginia
• Lonely Planet - down-to-earth travel information
• Map Blast [mast magazine]
• National Museum of the American Indian
• National Park Service
• Roadside America Plan your next vacation from this list of funny or unusual roadside attractions.
• Smithsonian Museum list of national museums, archives, and searchable databases
• Smithsonian Museum - National Postal Museum
• US Department of State Travel Warnings and Advisories [Business Week]
• TerraServer Satellite Photographs zoom into aerial photographs of most locations at 1.5 meter resolution... find your backyard! [Business Week]
• Travelocity Search for the cheapest airfares and hotels
• TravLang Travel information including Foreign Languages for Travelers, translations between 60 languages and sound files from native speakers; on line currency conversions [Business Week]
• Yankee Magazine New England Guide the traditional New England guide

WEB SEARCH ENGINES (this site is broadly listed)

• Top Resources
  • Google THE DEFINITIVE SEARCH engine since 2004
  • Internet Archive THE RESOURCE to VIEW HISTORICAL web pages and trace their history
• Other Search Engines
  • DogPile combines multiple search engines
  • MetaCrawler metasearcher combines multiple search engines [PC Magazine Editor's choice for simple searches]
  • WebCrawler Web searcher
  • Yahoo web searcher

WEB COMMERCIAL SITES and BUYERS GUIDES

• Amazon.Com the extraordinary on-line shopping site
• Ebay largest Online Auction site

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