Dave's Miscellaneous Links Page

Miscellaneous Links:

• American Cancer Society.
  • The Great American Smokeout, an annual event.
• American Sleep Disorders Association.
• Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation - Charter School, Las Vegas, NV.
• Association for Responsible Medicine.
• California Avocado Commission.
• Barney's Page. One of my roommates is a Labrador Retriever. See his picture, taken March 25, 1997. Also, links to various lab pages you might enjoy.
• Baker-to-Vegas Challenge Cup Relay. This is a yearly, 20-stage foot relay race for law enforcement officers that starts in Baker CA and ends in Las Vegas NV, running through the desert (CA), through the city of Pahrump (NV) and through the mountains over a period of two days.
  • Baker-to-Vegas Support Headquarters, ham radio operators from the south San Francisco Bay area that assist several law enforcement teams.
• Bay Area Garden Railway Society Internet Depot.
• Bay Area Travel Information - 511 dot org. In cooperation with the California Highway Patrol, Caltrans, and dozens of transit and paratransit agencies, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission created Bay Area Travel Information as a public/private partnership to bring ground transportation information as close to you as the nearest telephone.  And because it is a state and federally funded project, the information is FREE! If you are going to drive, take public transit, carpool, or even ride your bike, just dial 511 anywhere in the San Francisco Bay area.
• Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America
  • Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Santa Clara County
    • I had two "Little Brothers" at different times. Eddie lives in another state and I haven't seen Danny for over 10 years. I sure miss hearing from them. I have a little time that I would enjoy sharing with someone who needs it.
• The British Monarchy, the official web site of the monarchy in Britain.
  • The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles' web site.
• Broadcast.com, with picture and sound links all over the place.
• California Association of Highway Patrolmen.
• California Fire Chiefs Association, Communications Section, Northern Division.
• California's Gold, the only program about California that airs on all 13 PBS stations in California. I had the privilege of talking to series producer/host Huell Howser on the telephone and he's as nice a person as you'd ever want to talk to. Watch for the program on your local PBS affiliate, including these Bay area stations:
  • KTEH-54 San Jose
  • KQED-9 San Francisco
• California Highway Patrolman Magazine.
• California Highway Patrol Officer Network.
• California Lottery.
• California State Automobile Association, the AAA affiliate club for Northern California, Nevada and Utah.
• CalTrans' Stupid Tricks from Assemblyman Don Perata.
  • "This site has been taken down due to cooperation from CalTrans." However ... you never know ...
• Canine Companions for Independence National Website. "Exceptional Dogs for Exceptional People."
  • "CCI is a nonprofit organization that provides highly trained assistance dogs to people with disabilities and to professional caregivers providing pet assisted therapy."
  • This is a wonderful organization. I've been to the National Headquarters in Santa Rosa and to Graduation Ceremonies at the nearby Luther Burbank Center. It's amazing how hard the staff and volunteers work at training dogs to help people.
  • South Bay Chapter, a volunteer group supporting CCI with local activities in Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.
• Coinstar, "turn your coins into cash."
• Computer Related Acronyms Page (C.R.A.P.) by Juan del Real.
• Darwin Awards Official Home Page. The Darwin Awards are given, usually posthumously, to the individual(s) who remove themselves from the gene pool in the most spectacular fashion. However there is an exception to the requirement to die. If said individual does not die, however does render him/her self incapable of producing any children - they may be eligible for the dubious honor of receiving the award while still alive.
• Dave's Manifesto: if you're brave enough to hear the way things really ought to be.
• Dave's Pronunciation Page can help you to help your friends pronounce certain English words correctly.
• Dave's "So You're Getting Started In Retail" Page.
• Daylight Virtual Museum, for railfans.
• Dealing with the City of San Jose. And you thought dealing with Fry's Electronics was a pain!
• Defunct Amusement Parks.
• Dispatch Monthly Magazine, The Premier Source of Public Safety Dispatching News.
  • National Telecommunicator Week, in April of each year.
• The Drudge Report.
• Drum Corps International
  • Concord Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps. Includes information about Precision West, their annual show.
  • Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps Website, including information about Pacific Procession.
• The 555 List, a list of phony telephone numbers from movies and television programs.
• Former Child Star Central.
• Gilroy & Garlic, a question and answer session.
• The Gorilla Foundation, Woodside, California; home of Koko and Michael.
• Harveys Resort Casinos at Lake Tahoe NV, Council Bluffs IA and Center City CO.
• Highway 17 A short history, some maps, some links, and coming soon (they say), a camera at Summit Road.
• Hwy 17 Page of Shame Yes! This is the home of the "Jerque du Jour!"
  • Emil got a job in Scotts Valley at the end of May 96, so no more updates, but he left the page up for your enjoyment.
• Enter Highway 17 with a camera focused on Highway 17 at Satellite Curve (north of Summit Road).
• Free Willy Keiko Foundation home page.
• Helispot, a site featuring helicopter photographs and many other services.
• Hoops Nation. Chris Ballard wrote a book called "Hoops Nation: A Guide to Pick-up Basketball in America". Chris, his brother and two friends traveled the country in a van looking for places to play basketball and documenting their tour on the web. My e-mail to them. Their e-mail to me.
• Institutional Fitness Products, Inc., in Trenton, New Jersey. Fitness for Everyone!
• Ivory Haven - Laura the Elephant's House on the Web.
• Kid Craft, northern California distributor for Best personalized children's books.
• League of Women Voters, non-partisan election information.
• Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific.
• LOSTRIDE: International Stolen Motorcycle Registry.
• The Lucy Stone League is dedicated to:
  1. Equal rights for women and men to retain, modify and create their names, as a person's name is fundamental to her/his existence.
  2. Equal actual frequency of name retention, modification and creation between men and women at marriage and throughout life.
  3. Equality of patrilineal/matrilineal name distribution for children.
• Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa CA.
• Map Collection of the Earth Sciences and Map Library at the University of California Berkeley.
• The Marine Mammal Center, with only two employees but forty volunteers that help with rescues, rehabilitation and release of orphaned, injured or stranded marine mammals along the California coastline, from Mendocino County to San Luis Obispo County, including the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Mississippi River Restoration and Beautifation Project, as seen in TIME Magazine.
• Monopoly, the board game.
• Monterey Bay Aquarium including the "Outer Bay" exhibit.
• National Sleep Foundation.
• National World War II Memorial, to be built on The Mall in Washington, D.C., with your help.
• Interested in getting a free NetAddress forwarding address? Check this page.
• News from the Gulf from the U.S. Navy.
• Nikola Tesla - Erased at the Smithsonian.
• 911 Magazine.
  • 911 Times.
• Palm Springs Aerial Tramway.
• PassengerRights.Com, including assistance lodging complaints with people who can do something about the problem.
• The Police Complaint Center from Diop Kamau, formerly Don Jackson, as seen on ABC Nightline, CNN Crossfire, Dateline NBC and others.
• Schwan's Sales Enterprises, Inc., The Uncommon Company®. Frozen food delivered to your door.
• Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, "local solutions to hunger since 1974."
• Shuteye Online, online help for insomnia and other sleep problems.
• Smokey Bear's Official Home Page.
• SPEBSQSA, Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America.
• Tahoe Air; San Jose to Lake Tahoe.
• Telemarketer Tormenting Techniques. (Usually, I just say I'm not interested and replace the handset without waiting for a response.)
• Tom Petro's World of Fitness.
• The Travelite FAQ, Learn how to travel with just one carry-on bag.
• Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, AL.
• United States Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio.
  • Boeing VC-137C 26000 was moved to the Air Force Museum on May 20, 1998.
• United States Early Radio History, by Thomas White.
• Where's George, an amusing little diversion where you can enter a dollar bill's serial number and then see where that bill has been or where it shows up next.