Donovan Loucks' Favorite Places

This is my list of favorite places on The Web. Yeah, I could do this via bookmarks, but what if I'm away from my machine at home?

Artists -- I became interested in both Escher and Giger years before it was "cool" to like them.
- Maurits Cornelis Escher
  - Escher Directory (Rob Malick) --
  - Escher Image Gallery (Internet Business Systems) --
  - The Work of M. C. Escher (Joey Hess) --
- H. R. Giger
  - H.R. Giger Art Gallery (Luc Girardin) -- Dozens of images of Giger's work!
  - Some H.R. Giger Pictures (E. de Vos) -- More pictures, and information on Giger's books and films.
  - Stephen Booth's H.R. Giger Gallery -- Although it only has 13 images of Giger's work, this is a very attractive web page!
Authors
- Ambrose Bierce -- Includes a searchable index to The Devil's Dictionary.
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft -- Is it wrong to have a link to my own page?
- Edgar Allan Poe (Jeff Wickel and Thomas Conrad) -- This site contains much of Poe's written works.
Bibliographic Databases -- I may end up designing my own in FoxPro, and use these others as reference. If one of these suffices, I'll just use it.
- Bibliographic Programs (Todd Blayone and John G. Norman) --
- The Bibliographical Society of America --
- Niles & Associates -- Makers of EndNote and EndLink.
- Personal Bibliographic Software -- Makers of ProCite and BiblioLink II.
- A Survey of Bibliographic Tools (Dana Jacobsen) --
Film Directors
- Stanley Kubrick (Patrick J. Larkin) -- The director of such great films as Spartacus, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and The Shining. Wow!
Films
- Blade Runner (Jon Van Oast) --
- Indiana Jones (Micah Johnson) -- A very complete page about the character and films.
Fonts and Graphics
- DTP Internet Jumplist (Geof Peters) -- A way-station for finding fonts and clipart on the Internet.
- The Internet Font Archive (Norman Walsh)
- Internet Font Browser (Simon Gibbs) -- View numerous TrueType fonts using this handy utility.
- Sandra's Clip Art Server (Sandra Loosemore) -- A big collection of pointers to clip art archives on the net.
Internet Reference
- Elm Documentation
- Infinite Ink's Mail Filtering and Robots
Musical Groups
- The Cult (Jon Taylor) --
- Billy Idol (Carole Page) -- There's finally an Official Billy Idol Home Page.
- The Police (Dan Gorelick) -- Sting's vocals, Andy Summers' guitar licks, and Stewart Copeland's jackhammer drumwork. It's a damn shame they broke up...
- The Sisters of Mercy -- I didn't discover The Sisters of Mercy until late 1995, but when I did, I went nuts over them.
  - Sisters of Mercy Home Page (Ian Grimstead) -- The Sisters page.
  - Sisters of Mercy Lyrics (Brian Singerman) --
  - Pär's Sisters of Mercy Pictures (Pär Svensson) -- 10 pictures of the Sisters.
  - The Sisters of Mercy Sound Clip Heaven (Christopher James Bush) --
- Tangerine Dream (Official) -- The theme music from Risky Business turned me on to this group. Their music is good for any occasion, from driving to working to...you know.
People I Know
- Derek Hohls -- Derek lives in South Africa and has blindtested my card game, The Game Game. He set this page up for an organization known as Science Fiction South Africa.
- John Kittelsrud -- John is an electronics wizard that I used to see just about every weekend, but since he's moved I haven't seen him at all! He's amazed me many a time with feats of technology.
- Daniel Madero -- Dan is a database consultant that I work with every day, and a damn good one at that. However, he probably has the worst luck of any individual I know; perhaps he'll write about it on his web page one day.
- Charles Myler -- Charles is one of my friends that I get together to play boardgames with every other weekend. He has a fascination with Japanese culture, and his web page deals mainly with his trips to Japan.
- Grant Stewart -- Grant is another FoxPro programmer that I work with every day. He's pretty snappy!
Phoenix, Arizona -- My home town
- Arizona Highways -- Not only the home page for the magazine, but a "Virtual Tour" of Arizona as well.
- Arizona's WebHub --
- INTELLiCast: Phoenix Weather -- Check the forecast for the next four days and view weather satellite images and movies.
- Restaurant Guides -- I thought of this idea back in 1986, but the proper medium for it (the Internet) didn't yet exist. Now it does, and at least two folks have beaten me to the punch. Story of my life...
  - Buzz Club Phoenix (Enternet Corporation)-- Includes a clickable map and will eventually allow searches to within a mile of a pair of cross-streets.
  - Phoenix Metro Restaurant Guide (AzMetro.Com) -- Really just a bunch of lists, but still informational.
Reference Materials
- AT&T 800 Directory (AT&T) -- A complete reference to 1-800 numbers, including category searches.
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th Edition --
- Ecclesiastical Calendar (Marcos J. Montes) -- I'm Protestant (not Catholic), but I've always found calendars (particularly the ecclesiastical calendar) fascinating, and the date of Easter can only be calculated using it.
- Four11 White Page Directory --
- Hypertext Webster Interface (Bennet Yee) -- An online dictionary that even has some etymological entries.
- Interactive Weather Browser (USG) -- Need to know the current weather conditions anywhere in the U.S.? Click on any major city in this mouse-sensitive map and find out now.
- NYNEX Interactive Yellow Pages -- The complete business yellow pages for the northeastern United States.
- The Library of Congress -- I read somewhere that the password for copyright information is "Copyright Information", but haven't seen a need for it yet.
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- Patent Search
- Roget's Thesaurus (Mark Olsen, University of Chicago) -- Can't find the word you're looking for? This thorough thesaurus will give you more than enough synonyms.
- The Straight Dope Archives (Matt Jetmore) -- Need your questions answered? Search this archive of Unca Cecil's columns.
- USGS Mapping Information: GNIS Data Base Query Form -- Search the entire United States for geographic place names.
Services
- Amazon.Com Books -- Wow! These folks claim to be able to get 1.1 million out of the 1.4 million books in print...
- Book Stacks Unlimited -- Order books online. I've ordered through them and they were able to get items my local BookStar couldn't!
- Compact Disk Connections -- Their database can even be searched by song title...
- Virtual Book Shop -- Includes rare first editions.
Television Shows
- Friends (Andy J. Williams) -- An attractive home page for this runaway sitcom.
- Late Show with David Letterman (CBS) -- Including a searchable archive of all the Top Ten Lists.
- Twin Peaks (Jon Yager) -- Despite having a gaudy background, it's probably the best Twin Peaks page around.
Vacation Spots
- Disneyland (Douglas Krause) -- Plenty of pictures of Disneyland!
- Find-A-Grave (Jim Tipton) -- A lot of people think that graveyards are a weird place to go. But many of them are beautiful plant and animal preserves filled with historic monuments to great people. Find the final resting places of some of those people and pay your respects.
- Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut -- I was there on my New England trip, but it was closing in an hour and admission was $16! I'll not miss it in 1997!
- The Old Court Bed & Breakfast, Providence, Rhode Island -- Two web pages exist for this lovely B&B. One is kept by First Traveler's Choice and the other is kept by TravelASSIST.
- Rhode Island World Wide Web Resources (Andrew Green) -- Find out the current weather (and forecasts) for Rhode Island, as well as links to local universities and organizations.
Women
- Madchen Amick (Dan Boardman) — This lovely actress played Shelley the waitress in Twin Peaks.
- Jennifer Connelly (Jean Bergeron) — This gal has talents like you never imagined...
- Sherilyn Fenn (Dan Boardman) — This better-known (and just as lovely) actress played Audrey Horne in Twin Peaks.
- Jean Louisa Kelly (Christopher Rivers) -- This beautiful young woman is best known for her roles as the MCI operator and Rowena Morgan in "Mr. Holland's Opus".
World Wide Web Reference Materials
- Yale C/AIM WWW Style Manual (Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media) -- An excellent reference to designing WWW pages.
World Wide Web Search Engines
- DejaNews Research Service -- Wow! A complete, searchable database of all the Usenet newsgroups...
- Web Crawler
- Yahoo's Indexed list
Other Stuff
- North Shore Access home page -- Serving the north shore of Massachusetts.
- Providence Business News

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