Web Links of the month

• Home Heating Systems - HeatingHelp.com : Contracting web site for heating problems, with a lot of information on solving your steam, hot water and other heating problems, plus how to get in touch with a pro.
• defective yeti: Xyzzy : Very funny post, done in the style of the old text adventure games like Zork, explaining the Bush foreign "policy".
  
• Logan Intl Airport - AirportMonitor : very cool (Java-powered) site showing near real-time view of the Logan air traffic.  You can rewind time to pretty much any point and see what was flying around when.  It was used by a recent poster to the
  
• Bill Mauldin : Some very funny combat-oriented cartoons by the dean of them, Bill Mauldin.
• anti-telemarketing counterscript : very cute flowchart to help you out when called by telemarketers, to turn the tables on them and have you follow a script!  Of course, these days it isn't quite as important.  Since signing up with the various "do not call" lists, our spam phone calls have dropped to almost nothing.
• IP Spotting - How interesting is your IP address? : this page takes your  IP address and tries to figure out how "interesting" it is.  Mine is a 4, darn near a record low for uninteresting IP addresses.
• MailBigFile.com : a site that does one thing, and one thing only - allow you to send big (up to 1gb) files via email! If your ISP puts unreasonable limits on the size of file you can email, this is the place to go.
• dafont.com : Fonts. A gazillion of them.  And all for free!
• Images - 30 Great Westerns : Yet Another Film List. This time, it is a list of 30 great westerns.  I'm disappointed my favorite one (Winchester '73) isn't on here, but still a very interesting list.
• C.O.R.E. : The Center for Orsten Research and Exploration. Orstens are Cambrian sea fossils and this page has some really beautiful pictures.  See the Gallery link.
• Gather.com : Join your blog to lots of other blogs and spread some content!
• John Allen Paulos Home Page : Author of the fascinating book Innumeracy as well as a professor at Temple University, this page contains lots of his writings, and how people are generally statistically clueless.  See especially his critical view of the exit polling errors in the stolen 2004 election (his view - it wasn't the exit polling that was in error).
• crates and barrels : pictures of crates and barrels as found in video games.  I've seen lots of them:-)
• THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 : Each year, The Edge asks a provocative question to many leading thinkers. This year, the question is "What is your dangerous idea?" and there are some fascinating answers.
• And finally, a couple of freeware specialized word processors you might find useful:
  • Tranglos software: KeyNote : a tabbed notebook, where different files are kept in different tabs, rather than new windows, like Microsoft Word does.  It also includes the idea of hierarchical notes, kept in a tree view.
  • RoughDraft : a word processor specifically geared towards screenplay and novel writing.