Table of Contents

Cool (summer and not summer) jobs
Funky Stuff
Cell phones, plans, and carriers
Freeware, configuring your PC (ms windows only)
Online Research Resources (dictionaries, encyclopedias, movies, etc)
Academic Associations and Conferences
Online Resources for Developers (and other computer geeks)
Friends
Credits

NOTE: "Interdisciplinary philosophy programs" section and the "Graduate school rankings" section got moved to the schools page.

External Links

Free Stock Photography

Sick of Telemarketers?
National Do Not Call Registry

Don't know what to do with yourself? Looking to get out?
coolworks.com (ranch jobs, etc)
Jobs in the Great Outdoors (SCA, etc)
idealist.org (want to do something good?)
Semester in the Rockies (unfortunately, here you have to pay)
Apprenticeship program in New York State (want to become a carpenter?)

Funky stuff
Mister Ed goes vocal (horse a capella)
Mr. Nice (by Mr. Skettch)
No Pain, No Brain (philosophical collage)
Wheee!!! (squirrels think mad quickly)
Nobody Here (let op! drempel)
Funny Muffins (the dark humor'd disposition of August Strindberg)
tradesports.com - interested in probability theory? bet on propositions! (and it's not just sports)

Cell phones, plans, and carriers
1. Choosing a plan
2. If you work somewhere or go to school, find out if any carriers offer discounts for employees of your company or have student discounts.
3. Choosing a phone
4. See if you can get a better deal on the phone you picked. NB: I do not endorse this seller, nor do I know if they are reliable, etc.
5. Is it possible to make your old cell phone work with a new provider when switching carriers? Who knows... I didn't think it was worth the trouble to try hard enough. But theoretically, if it's on the same frequency (e.g. both Alltel and Verizon use CDMA 850 / 1900 and AMPS 850 MHz) then it's probably possible to at least get voice transmission (if not have all the other apps be fully compatible). One day maybe companies will standardize their shit. But for now, if you're still curious, you can find more on Deja.
So yeah, here's my mobile dream:

• Some day there will be cell phone portability, so you could take your cell phone with you (and actually be able to use it!) when you switch carriers, not just your phone number.
  
• Also, some day, cellular service will be offered as a twenty-dollar flat-rate,
• will include free incoming calls in the United States (without any extra expense to the caller). Sprint is starting to do this on some plans as long as you are not roaming.
• will have low minutes aleart -- alert you through your phone that you are out of minutes (or warn you when you start running out), and
• will let you set "do not disturb" times, just as you can already do on some voice-over-ip phone services (aka digital phone), e.g. AT&T's CallVantage. And if it's an emergency, the caller always has the option to press '2' to ring through. (I was very impressed with this CallVantage feature.)
• and cell phones will have clear voice quality (and voice-over-ip's too) -- remember how clear it is on an old-school landline? Well, it'll be just like that.
• oh yeah, and last but not least: people won't yell into their cell phones in public places. Car alarms will be silent and people will use vibrate more often on their cell phones and everyone will be more corteous when it comes to noise pollution.
• and while I'm thinking of this: cell phones won't be able to ring in concert halls. They will either automatically switch themselves to silent mode or to "do not disturb;" mode (see above), or else concert halls will be built out of concrete ;)

Windows tools and freeware
redo.el (Kyle Jones's redo/undo Emacs lisp library)
Emacs for Windows (here's my .emacs file with these colors)
Cygwin (UNIX environment for Windows)

Avant Browser (excellent web browser; blocks pop-ups)
Trillian (multiple IM client: ICQ, IRC, AIM, etc. all in one)

Zone Alarm (Firewall)
You probably already have some spyware/adware that you don't even know about.
Spybot Search & Destroy (Removes and protects you from spyware/adware)
Ad-aware (Removes and protects you from spyware/adware programs)
Keep in mind, however, that a lot of freeware (e.g. kazaa) installs adware, which is the price you pay for getting free stuff; so remove adware at your own discretion.

Here's how to stop MSN Messenger (msmsgs.exe) from running all the time.
How to use Equation Editor in Microsoft Word (Office XP).

Research resources
Merriam Webster's Online Dictionary
Visual Thesaurus (which uses work done at Princeton)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The MIT Encyclopedia of Congnitive Sciences (MITECS)
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Need a Stony Brook ID to login)
PhilosophyForums.com

Philosopher's Index: access through the University of Arizona or SUNY Stony Brook (Need school ID to login.)
CiteSeer (Computer Science publications index)
PBS online movies on physics

Academic associations and conferences
Cognitive Science Society (how come they don't use an acronym?)
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
American Philosophical Association (APA)
Computing and Philosophy Conference, Carnegie Mellon (CAP)
Center for Game Theory in Economics, Stony Brook
Game Theory Society

Online resources for software developers and other computer enthusiasts
Deja (stuck?)
MVPs.org (microsoft-related development)
DevX (online resource for developers)
Tom's Hardware Guide

Friends, et al.
ShadowSkillz, Masha, Fobinator, The Chuck, Chaostigerlily, Kat, Rex, J.C. (friends)
Musikschule Brainin (in Hannover, Germany)

Credits

Somewhere on this site there is a doodle that sometimes gets tired of standing still, drawn by Nichollette, as well as words from Walt Whitman and Robert Frost. The mouse-explorable funky flash pic on the cover page took its inspiration from A.S. Antonovich, Z. Pawlak's Rough Sets as seen through the eyes of A. Wasilewska (thanks to her in-class overhead projector slide drawings), Columbia University ID card, Miles Davis, and the cold virus that came to visit me in December of 2002.