111-122 Misc Links

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WWW

W3C XHTML Validation.
W3C CSS Validator. (Scroll down, use "Validate ... with a text area" option, omit the < style> tags.)
Browser Updates: NN, IE | Phoenix | Chimera (OS X) | Mozilla | Opera | Scope | Plugins
                           | Let 100 Browsers Bloom |
W3Schools.com. Excellent tutorials.
Web Standards Project
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Usenet Info Center, for every discussion group on the web.
Internet Cookies | Cookie FAQ

Text Editors for CIS 111

Download TextPad (pc only): Latest or Version 4.1.
TextPad's View Linenumbers command is essential for debugging JavaScripts. (You can configure TextPad to display line numbers by default: choose Configure -> Preferences -> View, and check Line Numbers.) See also How to Highlight JavaScript Keywords in TextPad.

For 111 Mac users: Free BBEdit Lite download. Here's a product review.

Computer Science

Programming Pearls Website. "A celebration of program-design-in-the-small." Read a review.
UO Computing Center Newsletter
Computer Science Book Reviews
CS1 Quotes
The Binary Homepage
9 Rungs of the (Computer) Inferno.

Legal Issues

No Electronic Theft (NET) Act, and the UO student who ran afoul of it.
Another UO copyright conviction.
State of Oregon v. Randal Schwartz.
UCLA Institute for Cyberspace Law.
UO Acceptable Use of Computing Resources.
U.S. Electronic Commerce Policy.
Copyright Myths.
The Software Police vs. the CD Lawyers.
Richard Stallman's Amazon.com boycott page.

Color, Graphics, Images

Extended Color Names in CSS. Cornflowerblue, aquamarine, lightgoldenrodyellow, ..
The X11 Color Set: color names and RGB values for all colors in the X11 set.
Browser-Safe Color Palette (now history).
freegraphic.com. Illustrate your web page.
Flamingtext.com & Cooltext.com. Free logos, headings, etc.
HTML "Special Character Entities". ß, £, ©, µ, ¿, etc.
Ditto.com: search engine for images (returns thumbnails).

Oddity'd Therein

SETI .
Big Prime Nets Big Prize.
Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)
The names billion, trillion, ... nonillion, ...

Converters, Calculators, etc.

Megaconverter.com. The Web's best place to figure out what = what.
Dictionary of Units of the System Internationale (SI). Units R Us! Click SI Prefixes for tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta, etc.
Calculator's Online Center
A "Download Calculator"
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