Angela Lilleystone's Eclectic Mix

Useful Computer Hardware Resources

Price Watch(tm) - Street Price Search Engine
A good place to find the lowest price for hardware. You can search by component (lowest PII/450) or narrow down your search by specifying the manufacturer.
Ars Technica - Top notch hardware site with buyer's guides, reviews, a geek's diary, forums and more.
Tom's Hardware Guide
Don't go here if you know the difference between JEDEC SDRAM, PC100 SDRAM, DDR SDRAM and ESDRAM. If you don't, look no further! The ultimate independent resource with reviews, benchmarks and discussion boards.
System Optimization PC Hardware and Performance Guide
Thinking of overclocking? Want to know how to use the CtCHIPZ Chipset Setting Alteration Utility? Looking for a BIOS upgrade? This is the place! You need an Asus motherboard to qualify - just kidding! Also has user reviews.

Andrei Tarkovsky Homepage - new URL
Perhaps best known for his movie Solaris, the Russian director Tarkovsky (1932 - 1986) is considered the master of poetic, philosophic and spiritual imagery. This great Web site offers a biography, filmography, essays, pictures and a discussion board for Tarkovsky fans. Finally! The picture shown here is from the movie Stalker.

Humor for Programmers

A recipe for the Italian dessert Tiramisu rephrased as a consumer/producer system calls algorithm and presented as a standard scientific paper.

Internet Shopping Resources
Here is a (growing) list of companies that delivered the goods. I'll keep on adding to the list in the future.

eBay Online auction house. There are good deals to be had for computers and electronics but make sure you know the street prices before getting carried away in bidding wars.
PC Power & Cooling Excellent power supplies and CPU coolers for your computer. Check out the Silencer power supply - it is very quiet. Excellent technical support.
Wordsworth Bookstore, Cambridge, Mass. - often cheaper then amazon.com!
City Schemes Ultra contemporary furniture store in Cambridge, Mass. Many Italian imports and modernist classics. They now sell a selection of their furniture over the Net.
Black Belt: Martial arts related magazines, books and videos.

The Shrine to Bruce Lee
" Learning techniques corresponds to an intellectual apprehension of the philosophies in Zen, and in both Zen and Jeet Kune Do, an intellectual proficiency does not cover the whole ground of the discipline. Both require the attainment of ultimate reality, which is the emptiness or the absolute. "
The Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee (1940-1973)
Bruce Lee is thought of to this day is the greatest of the Chinese martial arts masters known in the west. A highly creative individual, Bruce Lee developed and perfected his own style, Jeet Kune Do. Challenged to fight by many, he remained undefeated throughout his life. Here you will find descriptions and pictures of Bruce's movies, an FAQ, a time line of his life and links to other sites.

In memory of Kalu Rinpoche
Kalu Rinpoche (1905 - 1989) was the senior meditation master of the Tibetan Kagyu Order. He also was the spiritual teacher of the present Dalai Lama. Kalu Rimpoche was one of Tibet's religious meditation masters I had the privilege of of meeting and so it was a beautiful surprise to find a picture of this memorable teacher on the Web.

Hubble Space Telescope Gallery - new URL
This breathtaking picture of embryonic stars, shrouded in clouds trillions of miles high was taken by Jeff Hester and Paul Scowen from the Arizona State University in conjunction with NASA. This is the Web site that brings you the entire collection of Hubble telescope pictures. There is a special section with wallpapers for your desktop, too!

WebMuseum: Famous Paintings exhibition
A site I keep going back to again and again. Biographies and fast loading thumbnail pictures of paintings (you can view their bigger sized cousins as well). Includes Munch, Goya, Duerer, Kandinsky and many, many others. This picture is a detail of Dance Class at the Opera. Edgar Degas painted it in 1872 and today it resides in the Musee d'Orsay, Paris.

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