Jeff Powell's Links Page

I don't maintain a huge list of links, but sometimes I save things here for reference. I hope you find them entertaining.

Astronomy Picture of the Day Good stuff. Astronomy related pictures and links.
Dilbert For engineers, Dilbert is a documentary, not fiction.
Sluggy Freelance A great comic. Read it and understand.
xkcd A comic for nerds. Very funny. Updated M/W/F.
Arts And Letters Daily A good set of links to interesting articles.
paperbackswap.com A club for swapping used books via the mail. Try it!
Google Search Obvious. Though if there was a demonstrably better search engine I'd use it.
Google News An excellent news aggregation app.
Google Maps The best mapping application I have found so far.
Amazon.com I know they're huge (and some say evil) but they do ecommerce right.
Anne Powell's home page My wife and a serious software (and/or hardware) test engineer.
Peninsula Symphony Orchestra Anne plays cello in this symphony.
Pacific Art League I teach stone carving through this group.
Doug Shaw's website I went to college with Doug.
Doug's bulletin board I post book reviews on and help moderate Doug's site.
USGS CA/NV earthquake map Earthquake data for CA & NV. I live in CA, so...
Salle DeCesare A fencing club in Sunnyvale CA.
Salle Santa Cruz A fencing club in Santa Cruz CA. Yes, I fence. Epee.
Stanford Blood Center I donate blood here regularly. Please donate regularly if you can.
Loma Prieta Fire and Rescue I am a volunteer fire fighter with this department.

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