The Links

Local

Stevens Community Humane Society ♦ Morris Theatre

Social Justice

Amnesty International ♦ tolerance.org ♦ Outfront Minnesota ♦ Oxfam America

Resources

Merriam-Webster

Auto Racing

Formula 1 ♦ nascar ♦ indy car ♦ Greg Moore

Celtic

The Clan MacQuarrie ♦ Surname Lists ♦ The Whistle Shop ♦ Celtic Jewelry

Charities

oxfam ♦ The David Suzuki Foundation ♦ The Hunger Site

Computer

Unix admin horror stories ♦ computer virus myths ♦ Comprehensive Tex Archive Network (CTAN) ♦ Hypertext Help with LaTeX ♦ linux online ♦ linux journal ♦ Suse Linux ♦ Red Hat Software ♦ Linux on Laptops ♦ MOLSCAT: quantum nonreactive molecular scattering code

For LaTeX on a Windows platform I suggest the following

Latex Distribution: either MikTeX or TeX Live
Editor: WinEdt - Windows Editor useful for LaTeX (shareware) or TeXnicCenter - Windows IDE for LaTeX (GNU GPL)
You might need the following to view postscript files: Gsview and Ghostscript

For LaTeX on a Mac platform I suggest the following (I have no personal experience with this software; Mac friends have used it)

CMacTeX (A version of LaTeX for Mac) ♦ OzTeX (A version of LaTeX for Mac)

A student who uses LaTeX on Mac recently recommended the following (comments are his):

Texmaker. This is actually cross-platform LaTeX editor that can be used for Windows, Linux, and Mac. It is open source. Others that you pay for might be better, but I thought it was awesome for a college budget of $0 dollars.

Another editor specifically for mac is TeXShop. The editor has some really helpful features for experienced TeX users, but for beginners the previous one is much better. The greatest thing about this site is not the editor but the installation instructions for TeX on mac. First download i-installer from http://ii2.sourceforge.net/ and then follow the installation instructions on the TeXShop page. Using this makes installing TeX on mac easy.

Massively useful LaTeX style files

Prosper & Seminar (transparencies, slides) ♦ sciposter (posters) ♦ PSTricks (postscript manipulation)

nix here, nix there, *nix should be everywhere (personal mantra)

If a dual boot of Windows/Linux is not possible, you might find cygwin useful.

cygwin (just install the entire thing and enjoy!) ♦ Xfig ♦ Gnuplot

Literature

Jim Carroll ♦ Neil Gaiman ♦ Harlan Ellison ♦ Spider Robinson ♦ Theodore Sturgeon ♦ Philip K. Dick ♦ Robert A. Heinlein ♦ Sam Kieth ♦ Kurt Vonnegut ♦ Douglas Adams

Music

Canadian Classic Rock Page ♦ Streetheart ♦ Spider ♦ Bob Ego ♦ The Headpins ♦ Big Sugar ♦ The Pumps ♦ Queen City Kids ♦ Payola$ ♦ April Wine ♦ Tom Cochrane ♦ David Wilcox ♦ Bruce Cockburn ♦ Kick Axe ♦ Bill Henderson (Chilliwack) ♦ Santers ♦ Stan Rogers ♦ Great Big Sea ♦ Irish Rovers ♦ The Dust Rhinos ♦ Sammy Hagar ♦ John Waite ♦ Queen ♦ Ian Hunter ♦ Mott The Hoople ♦ The Doors ♦ The Kinks ♦ John Sykes ♦ Roger Waters ♦ Steve Earle ♦ Rory Gallagher ♦ The Angels ♦ The Rainmakers ♦ Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ♦ Julian Lennon ♦ Snowy White ♦ Steely Dan ♦ Nigel Kennedy ♦ Pat Travers ♦ Concrete Blonde ♦ Split Enz ♦ Holly Cole

News

alternet ♦ rabble ♦ The Guardian ♦ CBC Newsworld ♦ BBC News ♦ Znet

Online Journals

Scirus ♦ Science Direct ♦ e-Print archive (lanl.gov) ♦ Physical Review A online ♦ The Journal of Chemical Physics ♦ Institute of Physics

Acronyms

CAP ♦ CMS ♦ APS ♦ AMS ♦ SIAM ♦ NSERC ♦ MAA ♦ NASA

Teaching

Project NExT -- New Experiences in Teaching ♦ Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Television

Babylon 5 ♦ The Prisoner Appreciation Society (Six of One) ♦ PythOnline ♦ The Furniture Guys ♦ Reboot ♦ Red Dwarf

Labs and Universities

National Research Council Cananda ♦ USA Labs and Facilities Servers ♦ American Universities ♦ Canadian Universities/Universites Canadiennes

University of...

Toronto ♦ Toronto Chemistry ♦ Toronto Physics ♦ Waterloo ♦ Waterloo Mathematics ♦ Manitoba ♦ Manitoba Physics and Astronomy ♦ Manitoba Mathematics ♦ Winnipeg ♦ Winnipeg Mathematics and Statistics ♦ Winnipeg Physics ♦ Minnesota, Morris ♦ Minnesota, Morris Mathematics