Links
Astronomical
Professional sites
Non professional sites
- Sky View Café (very cool interactive planetarium)
- Your Sky (interactive planetarium)
Sky Weather
- X-ray Sky (RXTE ASM X-Ray Weather Map)
- Gamma-Ray Burst Sky (Gamma-ray Burst Real-time Sky Map - Swift)
- spaceweather.com (meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, asteroids)
Nature
Generic
- WWF - (wwf.it - italian section)
- LIPU (Lega Italiana Protezione Uccelli)
- Audubon Society
- eNature (American's Wildlife Resource)
- Mexico's Biodiversity
Natural Parks
- USA National Parks (Yosemite - Death Valley - Joshua Tree)
- California State Parks
- Italian Parks
- Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo
- Parco Nazionale della Majella
- Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e dei Monti della Laga
Butterflies
- Butterflies of North America (USGS)
- Butterflies of Orange County, CA
- Butterflies and their larval foodplant (by P. J. Bryant - Orange County)
- NABA (North American Butterfly Association)
- Farfalle d'Italia (Database of Italian Butterflies)
- LEPS (Moths and Butterflies of Europe)
- Captain's European Butterfly Guide (photographic guide to Europe's butterflies)
- Lepidoptera and some other life forms (lots of systematic and tons of images)
Birds
- World Bird Guide (photos and songs)
- Birds of Orange County (by P. J. Bryant - Orange County)
- Orange County birding links
- Birds of North America
- All about birds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
- Birding.com
Reptiles and Amphibians
- California Reptiles and Amphibians
- Reptiles and Amphibians of Coastal Southern California (USGS)
- Reptiles and Amphibians (San Diego Natural History Museum)
- Horned Lizards
Mammals
- American Cetacean Society
- Where to Whale-Watching
- Whale Watching in Baja California
- Friends of the Elephant Seals
Marine life
Insects
- La macrofotografia degli insetti (Italian Insects Macrophotography)
- Chrysis.net (Hymenoptera Chrysididae & Macrophotography)
- Coleoptera
- Spiders of North-West Europe
- Cerambycidae
- European Beetles
- Chilean Insects
- Macrophotos of Insects and Flowers
Flora
Minerals
- www.minerali.it (the first italian website of mineralogy)
- Amethyst Galleries' Mineral Gallery (a very complete site)
- Minerali - home page (A collector's webpage)
Gardening
Generic
- Giardinaggio.it (Italian Gardening Magazine)
- Piante e Arbusti d'Italia
Cactus and Succulents
- The Cactus and Succulent Plant Mall (starting points for cactus lovers)
- Cactus & Co (International Italian Association of Succulents)
- Pungilandia (italian nursery)
- Panarotto Cactus & Succulente (italian nursery)
- Botanike (italian nursery)
- Living Rocks (Ariocarpus Genus)
- Astrophytum Genus
- Coryphantha Homepage (Coryphantha Genus)
- Echinocereus Online (Echinocereus Genus)
- Turbinicarpus Information Exchange (Turbinicarpus Genus)
- Lithops... an introduction (Lithops Genus)
- Sempervivophilia (Sempervivum & Jovibarba Genera)
- Houseleeks (Sempervivum & Jovibarba Genera)
Bulbs
- bulb.com (information on flower bulbs and garden trends)
- TulipWorld (tulips and bulbs in general)
- IBS (International Bulb Society)
Carnivorous plants
- AIPC (Associazione Italiana Piante Carnivore)
- Sarrazin's (italian site with a lot of nice stuff)
- Carnivorous Plant Database
- Italian Carnivorous Plants
- California Carnivores
Photography
Generic
- Nadir (photography magazine)
- Sito di Michele Vacchiano
- Formule Calcoli e trucchi del mestiere (by Michele Vacchiano)
Digital Cameras
- dpreview.com (Digital Camera Reviews and News)
- dcresource.com (Digital Camera Resource Page)
- Imaging Resource (Digital Camera Reviews and more)
- Steve's Digicam (reviews, information and news)
- megapixel.net (The Digital Camera Web Magazine)
Juggling
Generic
- Juggling Information Service (one of the most comprehensive juggling site)
- Internet Juggling Database (my preferred website)
- Giocoleria.org (nice site)
- Perceptual Motion (lots of juggling tricks)
Tutorials
- TWJC Tutorials (it covers a lot of tricks)
- 1001 figures de jonglerie (lots of juggling tricks and animations)
- Juggling with balls (a few but nice tutorials)
Contact Juggling
- Contactjuggling.org (nice the moves section)
- Shiftys-Spheres.com (amazing tricks!)
Other Juggling Techniques
- Modern Club Swinging and Pole Spinning (pdf lessons)
Web Stuff
Web authoring resources
- World Wide Web Consortium
- W3Schools (Online Web Tutorials - CSS2 Reference)
- HTML.it (first italian resource)
- risorse.net
- A List Apart (one of the best web magazines)
- css Zen Garden (The Beauty in CSS Design)
- Quirksmode
- irt.org (Internet Related Technologies - very good the FAQ sections)
- WebReference (The Webmater's Reference Library)
- HTML guru (wonderful DHTML based website)
Web graphics
Operating systems
Linux
- Appunti di informatica libera (the bible for italian UNIX users)
Other mirrors: 1, 2, 3 - Documentation for GNU software
- PLUTO (ILDP - Italian Linux Documentation Project)
- Zio Budda (italian linux site)
- Italian Linux Society (italian linux site)
- Selectorweb.com (lots of resources)
Programming and Scripting
Programming
Sed (stream editor)
- sed.. the strem editor
- The seder's grabbag
- On-line tutorial (The canonical reference to sed)
Awk
- Learn just in 1 hour (awk tutorial from Selectorweb.com)
- Another awk tutorial
- Awk: introduzione (from Appunti di informatica libera)
- Eric Pement Homepage
Perl
- The source for Perl
- HTML documentation
- Practical Perl Programming (HTML perl notes)
- Introduction to Perl (perl tutorial)
- Perl Tutorial: Start
- Introduzione a Perl (from Appunti di informatica libera)
- Introduzione al Perl (Dispense del corso di introduzione alla programmazione in Perl, di Marco Liverani)
- The Perl CD BOOKSHELF (Learning Perl, Programming Perl, Advanced Perl Programming and more)
Text processing
Emacs
LaTeX
- Advanced LaTeX (advanced guide)
- LaTex Help Pages
- LaTeX Home Page
- (La)TeX navigator
- The TeX Catalogue Online
- Latex tables tricks
Image processing
Gimp
Computer miscellanea
Dictionaries
Tutorials & tools
Astronomy
- Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (by M.V. Zombeck)
- Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (need a subscription)
- The Net Advance of Physics (review and articles - astronomy sect.)
- Level5 (knowledgebase for Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology)
Physics & Chemistry
- HyperPhysics (nice physics tutorial!)
- Physics tutorials (links)
- Chemistry tutorial (hosted by HyperPhysics)
Mathematics
- Paul's Online Math Notes (terrific math tutorials)
- Mathworld (the web's most complete mathematical resource)
- Integrator (from Mathworld)
- Matematica (sito carino)
- HyperMath (mathematics tutorial)
- Trigonometria sferica
Statistics
- Statistica
- HyperStat Online Textbook
- Introductory Statistics: concepts, models, and applications
- The Data Analysis BriefBook
- Concept and Applications of Inferential Statistics (nice site)
- Statistica.it
- Statistica con Javascript
- Web Pages That Perform Statistical Calculations.
Earth events
Weather Forecast
- Weather.com
- AccuWeather
- Weather Underground
- EuroMETEO (weather forecast for Italy and Europe)
- Meteo.it (weather forecast for Italy)
Earthquake monitoring
- USGS Earthquake Hazards Program (maps and info for any earthquake)
Time Zones
- Worldtimezone.com (with maps showing the time zones)
- The World Clock
Other phenomena
- NASA Eclipse Home Page (current, present and future eclipses)
- spaceweather.com (meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, asteroids)
- Tide and Current Predictor (Newport Beach)
News
Italian
Foreign
Travel
Geography
California
For a better world
Nature & Environment
- WWF - (wwf.it - italian section)
- Greenpeace
- LIPU (Lega Italiana Protezione Uccelli)
- Audubon Society
Human Rights
- Amnesty International - (AI - italian section)
- Unicef
- Amref - (Amref - italian section)
- Emergency
- Medicins sans frontieres
- Manitese
- Peacelink
- Control Arms
Fair Trade
- The International Fair Trade Association
- TransFair (Fair Trade in Italy )
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