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by William Eric McFadden

revision 10092008-1322

"People don't understand time. People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff..." -- The Doctor

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My Own Sites (return to top)

"Sans peur et sans reproche--maiden-rescuing done cheaply, special rates for parties"

McFaddenPhoto.com (and stats & email)
MarxTinPlateTrains.com (and stats & email)
William Eric McFadden on Frognet.net, including Amateur Radio & Railfanning
VintageGirlwatchers.com (and stats & email)
Ellen Von Unwerth monograph

pointer pages:

on SEORF
on OAK
on Frognet (and email)
wd8rif on QSL.Net
at wd8rif.ham.org

self-promotion photography portfolios:

ModelMayhem #622158 (http://www.modelmayhem.com/mcfaddenphoto/)
MuseCube
Garage Glamour
old portfolio (no images)
new portfolio
Photo.net:
old portfolio, made before photo.net lost my account
new, empty, portfolio (and log in)
MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/williammcfadden)

pages maintained for organizations:

ACARA Meeting Minutes
ACARA Members' Library
QRP ARCI Quarterly -- Index
The Southeast Ohio Radio Adventure Team

email:

at frognet, including managament tool for hosted domains
at Gmail

Live-Steam Toys and Models (return to top)

Live Steam by Father Finelli

Manufacturers

Jensen Steam Engines--American (new URL)
Mamod--British
Tiny Power Steam Engines--American
Stuart Models--British
The Steamworks--British
Historic Steam Models
Reliable Steam Engine Company--full size powerplants

Live steam at Cabbages & Kings:

The Steam Engine--description and drawings
engines by Wilesco
engines by Mamod

The Great Toy Steam Company: 4473 Ackerly Darm Rd., New Albany, Ohio 43054 614-933-9159

American Science and Surplus--has little steam boats

PM Research, a source for Esbit Dry Fuel

Executive Model Design with Jensen engines and parts

Hedgehogs (return to top)

The International Hedgehog Club
Hedgehogs International--lots of links
International Hedgehog Registry

Hedgehog_Help forum on Yahoo (and sign in page)
HedgiesUnlimited forum on Yahoo (and sign in page)

Max--click to enlarge

Ohio University (return to top)

Ohio University
College of Osteopathic Medicine

Ohio University Policy and Procedure Manual

Language Translation Tools (return to top)

From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams:

"The babel fish is small, yellow, leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brain-wave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and then excreting telepathically a matrix formed from the conscious frequencies and nerve signals picked up from the speech centers of the brain. The practical upshot of which is that if you stick one in your ear you instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech you hear decodes the brain wave matrix."

Babelfish at AltaVista--new URL
FreeTranslations.com

Search Engines (return to top)

Google!
Ms. Dewey
Wikipedia
Yahoo--search engine and indices
BigKid Internet Searching--choose your own search engine
Switchboard--people, businesses, and information
Yahoo! People Search--find a person

Internet Archive Wayback Machine--"Universal Access to human knowledge"

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--The Earth Edition

Banking (return to top)

"Smart investing means buying what you desire, not what you think you should have or can afford"--Donna Karan

Ohio University Employees Credit Union--new URL
Hopewell Federal Credit Union

Fleet Mastercard at www.fleetcso.com and at mycard.fleet.com
Discover Card
CapitalOne

Maps (return to top)

Google Maps with satellite imagery
Dig Through the Earth
Google Moon

MapQuest--online maps
DeLorme

USGS Store--download USGS Topo Maps in PDF format

Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas

Historical Atlas of Europe & the Middle East by Tony Belmonte

ILGARD GIS in Athens OH

PUCO Statewide Maps of Utilities including railroads
Railroad Lines and Crossings in Ohio
Transportation Maps at RailsandTrains.com

TerraServer-USA with aerial photos and printable topo maps

The Full Lunar Atlas at The Lunar Republic

Electronic Calculators (return to top)

Viktor T. Toth's Programmable Calculators
Radio Shack EC-4000
Texas Instruments TI-30 | TI-57 | TI-58 | TI-59
Hewlett-Packard HP-15C

David G. Hicks' Museum of HP Calculators

HP-15C

Datamath Calculator Museum

Texas Instruments TI-30 | TI-57 | TI-58 | TI-59

search eBay for HP-15C (and completed auctions)
Search eBay for TI-57

News Magazines, Broadcasters, etc. (return to top)

WOUB radio & television, Athens, Ohio

PBS
NPR
PRI

CNN Interactive
Washingtonpost.com
The New York Times on the Web
Newsweek Magazine
The National Post

Slate.com
BuzzFlash.com

Athens Messenger
The Athens News
The Post (Ohio University)

Columbus Alive
The Other Paper--Columbus, Ohio

Games (return to top)

Railroad Games
Abracadata--railroad software
Yahoo - Recreation: Games: Railroad Games
Lou's Game Corner--Railroad Game Links
Blackwater Station by Chris Lawson -- 18xx series games

Card Modeling (return to top)

Steve Brown's Card Models--includes the FAQ

Looks Like...--models by Louis Van Winkle--new URL
Fiddlers Green--including some free downloadable models
Paper Paradise--purchase-online and download paper models; some free models
Paper Models International--new URL
Dover Publications
Spacecraft Models at Delta Seven Studios
Odissey Paper Models with free wargaming buildings suitable for Tinscale scenery
MicroTactix with free wargaming buildings (register and then "buy" free buildings)
Crates suitable for train loads at Stone Edges

Readymech -- paper toys

The Dirkon paper pinhole camera

Cubecraft.com

An "Abridged FAQ" sent to me by Steve Brown

LIBWMF--a library to convert .WMF files to useful formats

Find brick & block walls at Miniaturama.com in the imprimables section

R/C Toys (return to top)

Megatech
Megatech "X-EC Diversion" R/C airplane is $69.99 at RC Hobby Explosion
Megatech "Airship-1/Area 51" R/C blimp is $69.95 at RC Hobby Explosion and $49.97 at Radio Shack
Megatech "Ocean Explorer 1" R/C submarine $69.95 at RC Hobby Explosion
Megatech "MegaStorm" R/C hovercraft is $59.00 at RC Hobby Explosion

West Coast Blimps & Electronics with micro-sized R/C components

Friends and Family (return to top)

ToriGriffith.com (and stats)
Steve Brown
John Engle on frognet and on Google
Tom Witherspoon
QRPer.com--"low power radio fun"
SWLing.com--"your beginner's guide to shortwave radio listening"
Ears to Our World--"a shortwave radio distribution project for classrooms in the developing world"
Ecotypes.com--"simple sites: we plant the seed, you grow your business"
Heather Pittillo's MediaFolks.com
Drew McDaniel
Jim Chapman's ContriosYachtClub.org
Tim Creamer on OAK & TimCreamer.com
Ginnie Englehardt's Hardt Works (coming soon)
Larry Hamel-Lambert's EyElement.com
Dave Dupler
Don Bilski
Kari Gunter-Seymour, coded with my help (and old page coded by me)
Kathy Jacobson's Broadwell Hill Learning Center in Stewart, Ohio

Miscellaneous (return to top)

DemocracyMeansYou.com
CREDOaction (formerly WorkingforChange)
Doonesbury
Electoral-Vote.com
MediaMatters.org

Notes & Errata by Mark Morford at SFGate; he also contributes to CultureBlog

"eBay lets you reassemble your childhood piece-by-piece, unaware of any pattern until the stuff starts showing up at your doorstep." -- Joseph Dougherty, Comfort and Joi

eBay and the My eBay Sign-In
PayPal
Consumer Price Index at U.S. Department of Labor (and Inflation Calculator)

Ohio Secretary of State with election issues
59 Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena by Michael Bach
Frontier Spirit 1799 in Lancaster, Ohio
Build Your Own Hot Air Balloon & Tissue Paper Hot Air Balloon
Science Toys You Can Make With Your Kids
Funorama--Fun for Kids
Knots for Scouts--illustrated
How Stuff Works
Experiments at SteveSpanglerScience.com
NAD Electronics
45701.com--Athens, Ohio
AthensI.com
Athens, Ohio Weather Forecast at weather.com
Tiny URL--"Making long URLs postable!"
Starship Dimensions by Jeff Russell
Fabrice Brun's Vent et glace sur Genčve (26 Janvier 2005)
GHS Class of 1981 Reunion at Classmates.com
GAMO airguns
Compasseco airguns

Ohio Renaissance Festival, Harveysburgh, Ohio
The Great Lakes Medieval Faire, near Cleveland, Ohio
Medieval & Renaissance Fair at Ohio State University, free (held in the spring of the year)

BrickLink, the unofficial online Lego marketplace
LGauge.com--"information about models and Lego trains..."

UPS--track packages
Federal Express--track packages
US Postal Service--track packages

The Wilds in Cumberland, Ohio
The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium

Ticking away the moments that make up the dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way.

Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find that ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

And you run and run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines.
Hanging on in a quiet desperation is the English way.
The time is gone the song is over, thought I'd something more to say.

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can.
And when I come home cold and tired,
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire.
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells. -- Pink Floyd

Cool clocks:

Industorius Clock--way cool!
ClockBlock

The Official US Time Clock

One Person is One Pixel--6.5 billion people, graphically

Websites as Graphs--artsy

domain name registrar: dotster.com
Tom W. recommends Startlogic for hosting, maybe


Disclaimer:

This is a collection of links that I have found useful or interesting, either professionally or personally. It is maintained for my own use, and is subject to change at any time. No claims are made to completeness, accuracy, or competence. No endorsement of any site, individual, product, or corporation is intended. With these caveats, anyone is welcome to browse these links or to use this page.

Attributions:
Sans peur et sans reproche quote: Robert A. Heinlein, 1958, Have Spacesuit--Will Travel