My Favorite Places
These are some of my favorite haunts on the web.  All are active as of mid 2008.

SCIENCE and ASTRONOMY:

• Project Cassini The awesome Cassini probe is orbiting Saturn and sending back incredible photos and data about this gas giant planet and it's incredible moons.  Find out all about Titan- a moon with methane lakes and an atmosphere denser then Earth's!  See the ice water eruptions on tiny Enceladus or the unusual looking moon, Hyperion!  It's all here!  This probe has successfully completed it's planned mission with flying colors and is now in extended-mission mode.
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• Phoenix Mars Mission The Phoenix lander has touched down near Mars' north pole and has already discovered water-ice just below the surface dust!  Follow the latest reports from this satellite here!
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• Messenger A satellite mission to the planet Mercury!  No mission has gone there since 1974!  Now this probe will be making more discoveries about this little world so close to the Sun.
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• Dawn Mission A satellite being sent to explore the asteroid Vesta and the largest asteroid belt satellite, Ceres.  Follow the mission as it unfolds here.
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• Hubble Telescope  Go here to see what discoveries this incredible instrument of science has made this week!  If anyone out there still thinks spending money on science is a waste of money, this page should change your mind.
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• The Nine Planets Bill Arnett's page is the most comprehensive, up to date, Solar System information source I have ever seen. If you need some quick facts about the Solar System, you'll find them here.  It's official name is now "The Eight Planets" but Arnett has kept the URL the same as before.  You never know... Pluto might be voted back up to planet hood in the future.

CRUISE HOME PAGES:

• Ship Parade  Bart de Boer's extremely comprehensive and very well laid out page devoted to cruise ships (I'm envious!).  If you're thinking about cruising on a ship, chances are good Bart's been on it and has excellent pictures to boot!  Visit here first!
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• Cruise Critic's Cruise News  The source for all cruise news and cruise ship information.  Also features Boards for cruise ship discussions by cruise company preference.
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• Celebrity Cruise Line  Celebrity cruise line's home.  Read all about the exciting and new Solstice class ships!
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• Royal Caribbean Cruise Line  The incredibly exciting ships of Royal Caribbean.  Check out the Oasis of the Seas site as well! (Soon to be the biggest -By Far- cruise ship in the world!!!)

STAR TREK & SCI-FI PAGES:

• Star Trek  This is a Star Trek Page, straight from Paramount Pictures!  If you read or see it hear, it's true. If you read it anywhere else, it's probably hearsay.
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• Trek Today A page devoted to Trek news collected from various media outlets.  Lots of great Trek news.
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• Star Trek Phase II ((Formerly called "Star Trek The New Voyages") New, fan-created Star Trek movie-episodes set in the Kirk era of the old series.  Fun stuff.  Picks up where the original series left off.
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• Starship Exeter (More fan-created Star Trek features set in the Kirk era of the original series.  This one follows the adventures of the crew of the Starship Exeter.
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• Starship Farragut  Even more fan created Star Trek movies set in the Kirk era.  This one follows the exploits of the crew of the Starship Farragut.  Recently there's been some collaboration between this group and the folks above at Star Trek Phase II with actor cross overs.
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• Sci Fi Weekly All things science fiction with a link to their News of the Week for the latest dirt on sci-fi!
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• Marc Martin's UFO Series Home Page If you are a big fan of UFO, the Gerry & Sylvia Anderson sci-fi action series from the late sixties, this page must not be missed! Marc Martin does a superb job of keeping us all up-to-date on everything in the UFO universe.

REFERENCE PAGES:

• CNN Cable News Network on the web. Get the news in a balanced format unlike that other "news" network.

• Map Quest A real cool site!  This one allows you to input any address- and then draws you a printable map!  All for free, too!  Check it out!  Has all new interface which is far faster!

• The Presidents of the US Need to know some quick facts on any of our commander-in-chiefs? This page has it all, from highlights and low lights, to inaugural speeches and pictures. The page starts with George Washington and covers all the way to William Jefferson Clinton. A must see for the history buff in all of us.

• Tom's Hardware Guide This guy tests just about every new fangled piece of computer hardware that comes to market, then reviews it in an honest, unbiased way.  He's done more to save me money on computer purchases then he'll ever know!  Go to this site and read the latest before you make any new computer purchases.
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• James Randi Educational Foundation  A site dedicated to baloney detection and exposure.  Before you buy into UFOs, Ghosts, Clairvoyants and every other sort of silly nonsense out there paraded as real or (worse yet) "science", you need to visit this site for the real deal.  The truth is out there alright.

COMPANY PAGES:

• Asus Computers This Taiwanese company is known for high quality components at incredibly affordable rates!  I buy all of my motherboards from these folks!  Check out their page for their latest offerings!
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  Klima Gro This company builds the world's best indoor greenhouses!  Their products are incredibly well built, and extremely attractive!  They are often used in museums.  If you want to do indoor gardening, check out their beautiful product line.  All Klima-gro products can be ordered via their homepage or 1-800-KLIMAGRO.  Tell Tom Davidson I said, "Hi!".

UNUSUAL PAGES:

• The Death Clock This silly little site tries to predict your death date (based on what, who knows?) with just a few personal facts fed into it.  It's all in fun.  (I should start worrying about things in the fall of 2034 according to this site...)
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• Find A Grave  Ever wonder if that favorite celebrity is still living or where their mortal remains are today?  Well, this (poorly designed) site might be able to help you find out.  Check it out... it's not as morbid as it sounds.
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• The Smoking Gun  Every celebrity's worse nightmare... getting their mug shot posted here!

My pictures of Hale-Boop are still on NASA's comet site at:
http://comet.hq.nasa.gov/

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