My Favorite Web Sites

• Miscellaneous

Enjoy

Movies

• Roger Ebert on Movies
• Internet Movie Database
• Moviefone, Showtimes and tickets
• Netflix, rent DVDs by mail
• Hulu, Free movies online
• Russian Corner, Russian Movies

Music

• KSP US, American site for KSP fans
• Sheet Music Plus, Here you can buy sheet music
• Sheet Music Archive by Boris Tarakanov, Free sheet music (In Russian)
• Classical Archives, Archives of Classical Music — restrictionally free
• Russian Bard Songs
• Tone Memory Game

Art

• Web Museum
• National Gallery of Art
• Tretyakov gallery
• Gallerix, A huge collection of paintings from Russian museums
• Geometric Sculpture by George Hart
• Art Librarian, comprehensive guide to Art resources

Books

• Amazon.com
• Kniga.com, Russian Bookstore
• St. Petersburg Publishing House, Buy Russian books, CDs, DVDs etc.
• Vavilon, Modern Russian Literature — Online texts
• Boris Akunin
• Bartleby Books Online
• Maxim Moshkov Library
• Bibliotekar.ru, non-fiction literature in Russian
• e-reading, Books in Russian and English by author

Humor

• Anecdotes from Russia
• Chertovy Kulichki
• Dumb Laws
• Jokes
• Art. Lebedev
• Soup Jokes
• Mathematical Humor
• Science Jokes
• Math Jokes
• Profession Jokes: Mathematicians

Dance

• Boston Dance Net
• SuperShag, My favorite dance studio in Boston
• Dance Vision, Dance Store with Good Instructional Videos
• NYC Dance Connection
• Standard dance figures
• Blue Tango, The Best Argentine Tango classes in Boston

Think

Math

• Mathematical Encyclopedia by Eric Weisstein, MathWorld, This is the most famous and complete mathematical dictionary on the Web
• The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
• FAQ in Math
• Math Alive, Great general math course at Princeton University
• Math Forum: Math Resources by Subject
• American Mathematical Society
• Mathematical Art Links
• Mathematical Models of Love & Happiness
• Mathematics Genealogy Project, Find your mathematical ancestors
• Malyy Mehmat MGY, Archive in Russian
• Free Math Books, in Russian
• Internet Math Library, in Russian
• problems.ru, a huge collection of math problems for competitions in Russian
• Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
• Project Euler, solving problems online
• Art of Problem Solving, A community for math students
• Mathematical Association of America: MAA Online
• Mathematician Biography Index
• Mathematical Quotations Server
• The Mathematical Atlas
• Mathematical discussions
• MathPages
• QuickMath, Automated solutions in algebra, equations, inequalities etc.
• Dario Alpern's Calculators, Calculators, equation solvers, and factorization engines
• The Nth Prime Page, calculates the n-th prime, and, alternatively, pi(n)

Fun Math and Puzzles

• Cut the Knot!, Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles by Alexander Bogomolny
• Puzzles FAQ
• rec.puzzles Archive
• Kvant
• Mudd Math Fun Facts
• Quantum Magazine, Sister magazine of Russian Kvant
• Math Magic, Nice collection of math puzzles links
• Math Puzzles
• Barry Clarke's World of Puzzles
• Small Collection of Math Puzzles, Some of my favorite puzzles are here
• Ken's Puzzle Links
• Ponder This, Monthly Puzzle by IBM Research
• Torus and Klein Bottle Games
• Tasteful personal collection of math problems by Sam Steingold
• Nice personal collection of math problems
• World Puzzle Federation, USA Team
• Web Sudoku
• Mathematical etudes, Small educational cool movies about mathematics; the website is in Russian, but the movies are silent and do not require Russian knowledge
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
• Lateral Thinking Problems
• Nikoli, Japanese puzzles play online
• Braingle, collection of brainteasers
• Nick's Mathematical Puzzles
• Wu's Riddles
• A Moving Jigsaw Puzzle
• BrainDen, I especially like the river-crossing page
• Quirkology, Math and Magic
• BrainBashers, Games and puzzles

Math and Art

• George Hart, Geometric sculptures
• Bulatov, Math Sculptures
• Klein Bootle, Glass models of 3D Klein bottle projections

For Kids

• CyberTeaser Archive, Fun problems for kids by Quantum
• Math Forum, Sites with problems administered by others
• Wacky Web Tales

Toy Puzzles

• Spilsbury Puzzle Co.
• Bits and Pieces
• Mindware
• Math Art Fun, You can buy here things inspired by polyhedra, fractals, tesselations, Escher etc.

Math Compatitions

• International Mathematical Olympiad
• Peterburg's Math Olympiads, in Russian

Psychology

• Paul Ekman, writes about how to read people's faces, especially how to tell a lie
• Killer Quiz, Can you tell a programming language inventor from a serial killer?
• TypeLogic: Type-Related Links
• C.G.Jung Institute of Boston
• 9 types, Enneagram Personality Dynamics

Work

Control Theory

• Levenshtein Distance

Internet Research

• CAIDA, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis
• Domain Name System Basic Lookup
• Internet Traffic Report
• The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR)
• University of Oregon Route Views Project

Programming

• TopCoder
• TopCoder Training Camp by Stefan Pochmann
• Java Language Specification

Cryptography and Security

• A huge overview of cryptography
• SpamFAQ
• Matt's Unix Security Page
• RSA Data Security Inc.
• Ronald L. Rivest: Cryptography and Security
• Truth Or Fiction, Email reality check — verify rumors

Telephony

• Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
• Bell Labs
• Telcordia

Data Warehousing

• The Data Warehousing Institute

Jobhunt

• Monster.com

Use

HTML

• W3C World Wide Web consortium
• W3C Markup Validation Service
• An Introduction to HTML, Jon Edwards' tutorial
• HTML Writers Guild: List of HTML Resources
• HTML Code Tutorial
• Floatutorial,tutorials on CSS floats

Health

• MayoClinic
• WebMD
• Institute of Russian Healing Arts

Cars

• Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides
• ParkatmyHouse, you can buy or sell a parking space here

Information Services

• OneLook dictionary search searches several dictionaries at the same time
• A Web of On-line Dictionaries
• Yahoo! Real Estate
• Merriam-Webster
• The START Natural Language Question Answering System

Dating Services

• Match.Com: Online Matchmaking
• JDate, The Largest Jewish Singles Network
• TypeTango Find your match by personality type

Go

Russia

• Russian Boston
• Russian NY
• Translit helps type in Russian
• Multitran translates into Russian from many languages — good quality
• Moscow State University
• Lenta.ru, Russian News

Princeton

• Princeton University
• Family Works!
• Fine Hall Mathematics Department of Princeton University

Orienteering

• New England Orienteering Club
• Cambridge Sports Union (serves Boston Area)
• Hudson Valley Orienteering Club

Misc

• Mensa the International High I.Q. Society
• Interesting Optical Illusion
• Many Optical Illusions

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Last revised July 2011