Phil's Favorites

Web Information
Internet Stuff
- RFC Web Site
- Web Caching
- Squid
- RFC's etc.
- Apache Web Server
- TCP Performance Tuning
- Performance Tips
- Internet Measurement Tools!
- Macroscopic Behavior of TCP
- Internet Service Providers
  - The List
  - Boardwatch
Government Information
Travel
- TravelWeb (flights, hotels)
- Marriott Hotels (rewards)
- Choice Hotels (Comfort, Econo, Quality, Clarion, Sleep, Roadway, MainStay)
- Travelocity
- Easy Sabre
- City.Net (travel/tourist info)
Financial
- Yahoo Quotes
- USA Today Money
- The Motley Fool
- Roth IRA Info (site with all the latest news and details)
- Wall Street Research Net
- Microsoft Investor
- Hoovers company profiles
- Barrons Online
- Kiplinger's good all around info
- TheStreet
- Free Historical Data
- NASDAQ Short Interest
- Good reading about the markets
- More good reading
- Good pointers
- Cyberinvest
- Futures Links
- Program Trading - their fair value calculation for the day
- Earnings Calendar - with whisper numbers!
- Brokerages
  - Fidelity Investments
  - Datek Online Brokerage
  - Discover Direct Brokerage (was Lombard)
  - Ameritrade
  - E*Trade
  - Brown and Company
  - WebStreet
  - Suretrade
- Day Trading
  - MBTrading
  - The Executioner
  - MTrader - Ken Wolff
  - Underground Trader
  - Daytraders.com
  - Pristine Day Trader
  - Townsend Analytics Ltd. (TAL data service, Realtick III)
  - Block Trading
- NASDAQ ECN's (with dates incorporated into NASDAQ system)
  - About ECN's (Ken's pages)
  - SelectNet
  - SOES (Small Order Execution System)
  - ISLD - Island and josh.com (Datek), Jan 97
  - INCA - Instinet (Reuters), Jan 97
  - TNTO - ARCA/ARCHIP - Archipelago (Terranova Trading LLC), Jan 97
  - BTRD - Tradebook (Bloomberg), Jan 97
  - REDI (Spear, Leeds, Kellogg), 3 Nov 97
  - ATTN - Attain (All-Tech Investment Group), 12 Feb 98
  - BRUT (BRASS Utility LLC), 27 Apr 98
  - STRK - Strike (Strike Technologies LLC), 18 Nov 1998
  - NTRD - NexTrade (PIM Global Equities, Inc.), 23 Nov 98
- Exchanges
  - NASDAQ (tech info)
  - NYSE
  - AMEX
  - CBOE (LEAPS etc.)
  - CME (Globex, Live Quotes)
- Quicken.com Market/Investment center
- Market Watch (delayed S&P, NASDAQ)
- Daily Holt Reports (Market Indexes, etc.)
- Edmunds Car Buying Info (new and used)
- Insurance News Network
- Home Mortgages
  - American Finance and Investment
  - Bank Rate Monitor
  - Intuit's Mortgage site
  - Microsurf Internet Services
  - HomeShark (also house hunting)
  - Countrywide (web discounts)
Weather
Astronomy
- SKY Online (Sky & Telescope)
- Astronomical Headlines (IAU CBAT&MPC)
- NASA Hot Topics (Space Shuttle Missions)
- The AstroWeb Consortium
  - Astronomical Resources List (STScI version)
  - NRAO Resources List (NRAO version)
- Space Telescope Science Institute
- Hubble Data Archive (Digitized Sky Survey )
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Cambridge Astronomy
- Grove Creek Observatory
- The Bradford Robotic Telescope!
- IRAS Postage Stamp Server (AstroVR)
- Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) (Jupiter impact archive)
- SkyView Virtual Observatory
- Comet Comments (Donald Machholz)
- Comets Currently Visible (Charles Morris, JPL)
- Current Comets (Gary Kronk)
- Meteor Showers (Gary Kronk)
- Scott's Astronomy Page (MAPUG, LX200, SBSat)
- The Asteroid Orbital Elements Database (Lowell, over 38,000 orbits!)
- Satellite Orbital Elements
- Satellite Tracking and Elements (TS Kelso)
PC Stuff
- Tom's Hardware - good tech info!
- C/net Shopper - the ultimate comparison shopper
- Pricewatch - comparison shopper
- Aberdeen Inc. - nice web site!
- Memory Man - good CPU/Memory price tables
- Multiwave - pretty good prices
- ComputAbility
- Computer Discount Warehouse
- PC Connection
- Diamond Multimedia
- Creative Labs
- Gateway 2000
- Zoom Telephonics
  - K56 Center (info/upgrades)
  - Modem Standards/Commands
- Webopedia - PC reference material
- Intel Technical Info - (e.g. AGP, i740, PCI Chipsets)
- Kingston Tech Memos
- Digital Eyes (scanners/cameras news)
- Computer Shows
- TUCOWS Software site (MD) - lots of good stuff!
Unix Linux/*BSD
Misc