Other Sites of Interest

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Local/Austin Area
- Professional/Social Networks
  - Austin Tech Happy Hour
  - Door64 (Matt Genovese)
  - GeekAustin (Lynn Bender)
  - I.E.E.E. Central Texas Consultants Network (Robert "Bob" Spiegel, et al)
  - Launch Pad Job Club (Kathy Lansford)
  - Refresh Austin
- Austin Film Commission: part of the City of Austin
- Austin Film Society: a non-profit film production society
- Goodwill Computer Works in Austin, Texas, which operates an excellent computer museum
- IGDA Austin, TX Chapter, formerly Austin Game Developers (AGD)
- Steve Jackson Games: Austin-based longtime purveyor of quality tabletop/paper-based games including Car Wars, Generic Universal Role-Playing System (GURPS) and Munchkin
Computers
- Computer History
  - Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California -- includes the artifacts of the former Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, now part of Compaq) Computer Museum from Boston, MA, USA
  - DigiBarn Computer Museum
  - Old Calculator Web Museum
  - Goodwill Computer Works in Austin, Texas, which operates an excellent computer museum
- Computer Software
  - Commercial Software
    - Red Hat: a leading commercial distributor of and support provider for the Linux operating system
  - Free/No-Cost/Donation-Supported Software
    - Linux.org: free operating system software
    - Mozilla.org: free (donation-supported) World-Wide Web browsers with tabbed browsing, bug trackers, etc.
    - OpenOffice.org: free (donation-supported) office application software, similar to Sun's StarOffice
    - Grisoft AVG: If you absolutely must run Microsoft Windows, this product can help cover some of its serious security holes. For non-institutional users, Grisoft offers a free version, which may be phased out soon
    - NASA WorldWind: explore Earth, the Moon, Mars, etc. in three dimensions (free, with open source code!); runs on Microsoft Windows relies heavily on DirectX, so be sure to check video card compatibility before downloading
  - Software Development
    - SourceForge.net: collaborative open-source programming projects and resources
- Internet Infrastructure
  - Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN): the authoritative source for information regarding Internet domain names
  - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): the authoritative source for information regarding publishing on the World Wide Web
  - Web Statistics
    - Alexa (an Amazon.com company)
    - Quantcast
  - Search Engines and Web Portals
    - Google (be sure to see its "advanced search" tips)
    - Alta Vista: from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), now part of Compaq
    - Yahoo!
Entertainment
- Games
  - Cheapass Games: cheap, fun, tabletop/paper-based games
  - Steve Jackson Games: Austin-based longtime purveyor of quality tabletop/paper-based games including Car Wars, Generic Universal Role-Playing System (GURPS) and Munchkin
  - Warehouse 23: Steve Jackson Games' on-line store for many brands of paper-based games
- Electronic Entertainment and Game Development
  - Electronic Entertainment Exposition (E³ Expo), sponsored by ESA
  - Entertainment Software Association (ESA)
  - Game Developer Magazine, published by CMP United Business Media
  - Game Developers Conference (GDC), sponsored by CMP and IGDA
  - International Game Developers Association (IGDA)
  - IGDA Austin, TX Chapter, formerly Austin Game Developers (AGD)
- Filmmaking/Motion Picture Production
  - Austin Film Commission: part of the City of Austin
  - Austin Film Society: a non-profit film production society
  - Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
  - MovieFX Video Magazine
  - Texas Film Commission: part of the Texas state government, run from the Office of the Governor
General Interest
- Job Listings
  - Indeed.com: job listing aggregator
  - CareerBuilder.com
  - Dice.com
  - Monster.com
  - WorkInTexas.com: a service of the Texas Workforce Commission
- News
  - Cable News Network (CNN): Turner Broadcasting
  - Wall Street Journal: Dow Jones, now part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
- Reference
  - Wikipedia: free on-line encyclopedia with information available in many languages, all contributed by users; note that Star Wars fans now have their own version, called Wookieepedia
  - Dictionary.com: free on-line dictionary
  - Alta Vista's Babelfish: on-line translator
  - Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
  - Gracenote Compact Disc Dadbase (CDDB)
- Shipping
  - DHL: named for 1969 founders Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom, and Robert Lynn, part of German Deutsche Post AG (apparently an offshoot from the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis)
  - Federal Express (FedEx)
  - United Parcel Service (UPS)
  - United States Postal Service (USPS): a self-funded division of the United States federal government
- Shopping
  - Amazon.com: new and used consumer goods
  - Digi-Key: excellent stocking distributor of electronic components
  - eBay: Inc.: on-line auction in which nearly anything goes

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