Well, here it is, the obligatory links page. What would a personal website be without one? Hopefully they all work. But I'll be honest - I haven't checked most of them in years.
Note: Even though I may have a lot of links here, I don't participate in link exchanges. Please don't send me any requests to do so. If you know of a site that you think I may be interested in, go ahead and send me a link, and if I like it enough I may add it here, but I won't add links just to try to improve my Google ranking.
- Friends & Family
- Other Jeff Lewis's
- Misc Links
- Good Freeware
- Personal Websites & Blogs of People I Don't Know Personally
- Aviation Links
Friends, Family, & Acquaintances
- My Brother John's Homepage If he ever gets around to putting anything on it.
- TerrapinTables.com This is a site me and a few of my friends put together. It now focuses on beer pong.
- IndianCaves.com This is a site one of my friends from high school put together. It's a way for us all to keep in touch. (Don't miss the webmaster's art portfolio.)
- Dirty Frank on MySpace Same guy as above, but a different site
- Wayland Kramer's Home Page A guy that I worked with at the airport
- Skoop's page One of my brothers' good friends
- Vince Rowe's Web Site A guy that I worked with during my co-op with Lockheed Martin/EnergoTech
- aerogeek.org Glen Dimock's page- a guy I went to school with
- The Ant Hunter Scott Solomon's blog- a guy I met on the 2006 Guatemala Medical Mission
Other Jeff Lewis's
Jefflewis.net was originally my fourth choice after lewis.org, lewis.net, and jefflewis.org, but those were already taken, so I took what I could get. I guess that's one of the problems of having a common name. Anyway, here are some other people that wanted to use jefflewis.something or lewis.something.
- jefflewis.com An artist, showing some of his works.
- jefflewis.info Some guy's online resume - pretty nice, actually.
- jefflewis.ca Some musician, apparently from Canada.
- jefflewis.org What are you doing to my namesake? At least make the site look good.
- jefflewis.name Looks like someone got a domain name and Internet hosting account, but hasn't done any actual work on a site, yet.
- jefflewis.museum Noone's using this, yet, but it links to a listing of all sites using the .museum extension.
- lewis.org Okay, it looks like this guy's had a website for a while. But come on, do something more interesting with it.
- lewis.com A software company, I think. They should pay attention to Rule 2 from Web Pages That Suck.
- lewis.edu A middle school in San Diego.
- lewis.net You're not doing anything with this page! Make something, or give up the domain name so that somebody else can do something.
- lewis.name Hmm. Looks like some hosting company registered this domain and they're ready to sell it.
- lewis.museum Same as any .museum not currently in use - links to a listing of all sites using the .museum extension.
Misc Links
- Lake Atitlan Network Lots of information about the area surrounding Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. Buy their souveniers to support the hospital in Solola.
- news@nature.com Science news - probably the site I visit more than any other on the web
- University of Maryland my alma mattar
- Linganore High School My old high school
- Texomah Hash House Harriers A running/drinking club I was in when I first moved to Wichita Falls, TX
- World Adult Kickball Association A bunch of adults still playing kickball- mostly in the D.C. area
- Skate Whirl The rink where I played roller hockey in Wichita Falls, TX.
- Wichita Home Brew The site for the beer homebrewing club in Wichita Falls
- MTSI The place I worked when I first graduated from college
- CarterCopters Where I work now
- Official TI Calculator Home Page
- TICALC.ORG
- US Naval Observatory Official Time
- Sailor Maryland's Online Public Information Network. (This was my first Internet provider.)
- POVRAY.ORG The official home of POV-Ray, a freeware raytracing graphics program
- The Literature Classics Library
- Juggling Information Service
- American Yo-Yo Association
- Lake Arrowhead Water Level History
- Lake Kickapoo Water Level History
- Wichita Falls Water System with current lake levels as percentage
- Symbol Table A list of symbols and how to write them in HTML code.
- TinyURL.com A site that gives free re-directs for long links. I use it for some links on this site.
Good Freeware
- Irfanview A really good graphics viewer. It can't match a program like Photoshop for editing, but it's good enough for the common website requirements of cropping, resizing, rotating & renaming, and it has batch support for all those functions. But where this program really shines is plain old viewing, browsing through directories. This is the first program I install every time I get a new computer or fresh OS installation.
- Lavasoft USA Makers of AdAware- a program that automatically deletes spyware and related unwanted programs.
Personal Websites & Blogs of People I Don't Know Personally
- The Panda's Thumb A discussion forum on evolution.
- Pooflingers Anonymous A personal blog from someone named Matt, with the own self-description, "Just an average skeptic who likes to start an argument now and then. Way too much time spent on the Creation/Evolution debate."
- Pharyngula The personal blog of PZ Meyers, an associate professor of biology at UMM. Focuses mainly on evolution & science, with some politics & social commentary thrown in.
- Respectful Insolence The personal blog of a surgeon who goes by Orac. Focuses on science & medicine, and debunking pseudo-science (particularly alternative medicine and holocaust deniers, and to a lesser degree ID & literal creationism).
- The Loom The blog of science writer, Carl Zimmer, focusing mostly on biology. It's very informative and entertaining, at least for nerds.
- Science Blogs Since three of the above blogs are now hosted on this site, I might as well just link to it.
- Frink Tank Science commentary from guys who like the Simpsons. What could be better? Besides, these guys are so cool they got booted from Science Blogs. update - Frink Tank is now defunct. No more new posts, but you can still check out the archives.
- Confessions of an Anonymous Coward An interesting blog by a person coming to grips with abandoning their religion
- X-Entertainment A nostalgia website, focusing mainly on the 80's, which I find pretty interesting, since hey, I grew up in the 80's. Also has a blog with slightly more varied topics.
Aviation Links
- The Autogyro- Strange but True An article on autogyros
- Autogyro.com A site dedicated to model autogyros.
Unofficial & Personal Web Pages
- gyroplanepassion.com- A website, in its own words, "dedicated to all things relating to gyroplanes, autogiro, autogyro, gyrocopter, autogir, autogyre, autozyro, ect." It looks to be especially useful to somebody wanting to own their own autogyro.
- Fatboy's Aviation Graphics Page- My web page on GeoCities, with many aircraft images
- Peroxide Propulsion Using peroxide rockets to power helicopter & autogyro rotors, and for a personal jetpack
- AOPA The largest pilot association in the nation.
- AirNav A great resource for airport, navaid, and fuel information.
- Popular Rotorcraft Association
- University of Maryland's Aerospace Department
- Ercoupers.com A nice Ercoupe site, home of the Mailing Lists and their archives
- Ercoupe.net A nice site with Ercoupe information
- Ercoupe.com Another nice Ercoupe site
- Boeing The largest airplane manufacturer in the world.
- CarterCopters, Inc. A compnay working on a new, experimental autogyro/airplane hybrid
- Cessna The web site of the largest manufacturer of general aviation aircraft
- Diamond Aircraft Makers of general aviation aircraft, including the Katana.
- Groen Brothers Aviation A company working on making new, practical autogyros
- Lockheed Martin Corporation Lots of military airplanes, lots of products outside aviation.
- EnergoTech- Solid Rocket Motor Disposition in Russia Program The project where I had my co-op.
- Mooney A manufacturer of very nice airplanes
- Northrop Grumman Lots of military airplanes, including the B-2 Stealth Bomber.
- Raytheon Maker of Hawker and Beech Aircraft
- Scaled Composites The company run by Burt Rutan, many innovative designs.
- Velocity Aircraft Maker of an interesting homebuilt canard aircraft