Charles Plager's Home Page

Favorite Web Sites:

• My physics career
  • My Thesis (ps.gz, pdf)
  • My Résumé and C.V.
  • My public talks
  • My work page
• My Emacs page.
• My My mobile home page
• My blog, The Recumbent Quant
• Popular search engines
• The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Funny HTML Characters
• ZDNet
• Exact time according to the US Naval Observatory
• Look at new and used car prices.
• Maps and Traveling:
  • MapQuest directions
  • List of pet friendly hotels
  • Maps and images from Google
  • Microsoft's TerraServer.
  • Calculated distances (FNAL Map)
• Find out about different dog breeds.
• What's the U.S. federal government doing.
• Send an electric postcard
• Find out what your phone number spells.
• What is this phone number on my bill?
• Entertainment
  • Yahoo!'s TV Guide
  • Yahoo!'s Movies information
  • United Media comics
• Museums
  • Web Museum
  • Exploratorium Science Museum
• Online Dictionaries and references:
  • Reference.com
  • A French-English English-French dictionary
  • AltaVista's babelfish.
  • Wikipedia (french version)
  • List of Francophone dictionaries and thesauri

Friends' and Family's Pages:

• David and Jennifer Chance
• Mark Gleberzon
• Ulrich Husemann
• Alex Kamilewicz
• Tom Meyer
• Katherine Plager's résumé - Bombyx Eco Redesign
• Max Plager
• David Saltzberg (South Pole pictures)
• Mats "Trigger Happy" Selen
• Andreas Warburton
• CDF Run Too - CDF running group

Bicycle Links:

(blogs below)
• Magazines, Manufactures, Bike Stores, etc
  • BentRider Online (forum)
  • Velo Nation
  • Recumbent Journal (Recumbent TV)
  • Commute by Bike
  • Bike Commuters
  • Bike Radar
  • Bicycle Traveler Magazine
  • Recumbent forums on BikeForums.net
  • Bicycle Touring Pro
  • Recumbent bike links
  • Cruzbike (forum, Sofrider)
  • Recumbent Forum on Cycling Forums (not updated recently)
  • Atomic Zombie Extreme Machines
  • Recumbent Cyclist News
  • New York City Recumbent Bike Supply
  • Cycling News
• Blogs
  • The Recumbent Quant (my blog)
  • Crazy Guy on a Bike
  • Pjor320
  • Eco Velo (No longer updated)
  • Cyclelicious
  • Dan's Training Blog
  • Recycing the World (Not updated recently)
  • Bent Up Cycles Blog
  • E.Z. Biker (often "colorful")
  • Bike Snob NYC
  • An American Explorer
  • Lovely Bicycle!
  • Urban Velo
  • Bike Hugger
  • Recumbent bikology in the urban jungle
  • La Tortue and the Moose (not working last time I tried)
  • Crusing Tiger
  • Retrocycler
  • Ya Mind??...I'm Pedaling Here!!
  • The Monkeywrangler's Blog
  • Bike hacks
  • Chic Cyclists
  • Recumbent Ron
  • Bent Up Cycling Journal

Newspapers:

• Anglophone
  • Google News
  • New York Times (A.P. News, Reuters news, CNET News).
  • CNET News
  • Slashdot
  • Washington Post
  • BBC News
  • Bloomberg News
  • Wall Street Journal
  • CNN
  • Chicago Tribune (Ask Amy, Dear Abby)
• Francophone
  • Google Actualités
  • Yahoo! Actualités
  • Le Monde

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Social Media, etc.

• Google + (gmail, voice, calendar, docs)
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Linkedin

Shopping

• Amazon.com
• Woot!
• Deal News
• 1 Sale a Day
• Yugster
• Schnoop

Weather and Traffic:

• The Weather Channel
• CNN's weather
• NOAA Weather
• Chicago Tribune Weather
• Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee Corridor
• Chicago Tribune Traffic

Searching:

• Search Google Yahoo! Wikipedia French Wikipedia MSN about on all the Cygwin the Root the Fermilab the CDF  the D0 websites
• Google : Froogle, Scholar, Maps, and services
• AltaVista (Babelfish)
• Yahoo (Yahoo.fr)
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