Useful Stuff (Links to Interesting Places, aka Link-O-Rama)

The links on this page are websites we've found to be useful. We only list sites of businesses we've used.

Computer Software

• Linux Documentation Project Guides (older material but still very useful)
• Advanced BASH Users Guide (EPUB, created from the Advanced Guide on the LDP website)
• Advanced BASH Users Guide (Kindle, created from the Advanced Guide on the LDP website)
• Reading E-Document Formats, including the documents above.
• Calibre - Read and Convert E-Documents
• Free Software By Bob Swanson Available from GitHub.
• Ubuntu Linux, our current operating system
• Bobs Other Free Software [Out of date, but works...]
• Open Source Downloads
• Alternative To...:Try Software that does the same for less

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Finding Things

• Find a Mailbox (U. S. Postal Service Boxes)
• UPS Tracking
• Search Without Being Tracked (we hate being tracked)
• Beaucoup! (search engines)
• FAQs

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Opinions (we have 'em)

(Sadly, it appears that "NumberWatch", John Brignell's web page, http://www.numberwatch.co.uk, no longer seems to be responding.)

• How Statistics Can Be Used to Mislead
• Don Surber (opinions)
• ChicagoBoyz (excellent opinions)
• 'The ZMan' makes you think
• 'The Babylon Bee' makes you laugh, then think
• Hillsdale College
• Institute for Justice
• Claremont Institute
• Reason Public Policy Institute
• Hudson Institute
• Many Opinions
• National Center for Public Policy Research
• Bob's Rants (and they ARE rants)
• Deadly Chemicals in Our Environment
• Alternative to Twitter

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Money Matters

• Bank Rates
• The Motley Fool
• Money, Economics, and (gasp) Opinions

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Miscellaneous

• Make a Print-Friendly Version of a Web Page
• What Time Is It??
• History of Words
• 10 Top Lists of Lists
• Manuals for Just About Anything
• Check Amazon Prices
• Great Books in English
• All Kinds of Calendars
• Stain Solutions
• Get Unsubscribed from a Troublesome Account
• Our Weather Page

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Food and Drink

• Crystal hot sauce
• "French" (really Belgian) Fries
• Cheese
• Food and Wine from Professor Bainbridge
• British Ale
• Tea
• Bourbon
• Trader Joes
• The Chowhound
• Jane and Michael Stern
• Roadfood
• Great Cookbook
• Great Foodie Book

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Hobbies

• Our Former Hobby: Pleasure Boating
• Our Current Hobby: Cruising [will resume when virus is controllable]
• Stamps and Postal History
• Teddy Bears
• Ham Radio

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U.S. Government Information

• THOMAS

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Other Home Pages

• Our Humor Page

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Web Information/Opinions

• Jakob Nielsen
• About Design Awards

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Computer Hardware

• ZaReason - Personal Computers with Linux Installed
• Fry's Electronics
• Ebay
• WOOT! has more than computers....

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More Links

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Contact Info

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Updated 2 October, 2020