Links

• Important academic homepages:
  • Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
    • Fakultät für Informatik
    • Institut für Betriebs- und Dialogsysteme (IBDS), Abteilung Geometrisches Modellieren, Prof. Dr. H. Prautzsch
  • University of California, Davis
    • Campus map
    • Department of Computer Science
      • Graduate Program
    • Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV)
    • W.M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences (KeckCAVES)
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • The Visualization Group
  • Association of Computing Machinery
    • The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH)
  • Politecnico di Bari, Italy
    • Virtual Reality and Reality Reconstruction Lab (VR3Lab)
  • SGI Last chance to see! Visit the web site of a species about to become extinct!
• Research resources:
  • University Library - Online Catalog
  • The ACM Digital Library
  • IEEE Xplore
  • The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
• Search engines:
  • Brand new: Do your Google searches from right here!
  • Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • The Internet Movie Database

    All Titles My Movies People Characters Quotes Bios Plots

  • Oxford English Dictionary The ultimate reference of the English language
  • Dictionary.com For when you are lacking that correct word...
• For the straight dope on what's going on:
  • The Onion - America's finest news source
  • Drew Curtis' FARK.com - It's not news, it's Fark.com
  • snopes.com - Urban Legends Reference Pages
  • spinsanity -countering rhethoric with reason
• Not-so-important recreational homepages:
  • YouTube - Broadcast yourself
  • The Davis Wiki
  • The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5
  • South Park "Oh my god! They killed Kenny!" - "You bastards!"
  • The Complete R.E.M. Lyrics Archive If you always wanted to know what Michael Stipe is actually mumbling.
  • Dribbleglass.com Take a sip from the dribble glass of life!
  • ilovebacon.com - dumb but fun
  • dumbentia - the parody place Chris Condon - maker of great spoofs
  • The Institute of Official Cheer Helping tomorrow feel superior by scoffing at yesterday
  • dack.com This guy has more than one agenda, but I agree that Flash is evil. Check out his web economy bullshit generator.
• Online shopping:
  • Amazon.com
  • CDnow.com
• Miscellaneous:
  • SelfHTML The ultimate online HTML guide - sorry, only in German!
  • Graphics file specifications
  • Bella Macchina Imagine this: My cousin set up a complete homepage, just to worship his motorcycle (sorry, it's a chopper, baby).
  • Kaiserstraße 22 The homepage of my former Wohngemeinschaft! Enter if you dare! (But I'd rather suggest not to enter if you are easily offended by... well, you'll know it when you see it!)