David L. Burkhead's Links Page

This isn't much, just some links that I use a lot.

Search Engine Links

Both of these have lots of good financial information for both personal and professional finances.

Bob Dooley's A good starting point for Mustang aficionados
Miata.net Web site devoted to the Mazda Miata
- Miata forums Miata discussion board
Indy Miata. Indianapolis region Miata club.
SCCA Home page The Sports Car Club of America
- Indy SCCA The Indianapolis branch of the SCCA
- SCCA Forums (Discussion area for people interested in and involved in the SCCA).
- SCCA Solo II Rules
SCCA classes descriptions Descriptions of the various racing classes in the SCCA. Provides information not on the SCCA homepage.
Design your own racecar
Club DSM A "club" and set of web pages devoted to cars from "Diamond Star Motors" (Mitsubishi Eclipse, Eagle Talon, and Plymouth Laser).
Evolution Performance Driving School
Links to Auto manufacturer's web pages.
Car purchase search engines
Local Auto Dealers

Softseek A good source for shareware, freeware, and evaluation software.
Download.com Ditto
Tucows Specializing in Internet software
Shareware.com Was the best place for shareware and freeware but other folk have largely caught up.

The Judo Information Site
- Judo discussion board
Yawara (A Japanese comic featuring a talented Judoka)
- Yawara on DVD site A web page dedicated to bringing the Yawara TV series to the US on DVD. The series has comedy, romance, and a lot of Judo action. I recommend it.
Mudokwan (Where I train--The web page is a bit out of date but the contact information is good.)
Kodokan (The world headquarters for Kodokan Judo)

SWFA Science Fiction Writers of America
Critters critique group This is a really nice group if you are a writer or trying to become a writer and want some folk to critique your work
SFNovelist Another critique group, this one specializing in hard science fiction Novels.
SFF.net An SF oriented web service with its own NNTP server for members
SFSite A collection of web pages including several important SF magazines
Locus's calendar listings Here's where I find conventions author appearances and other items of interest.
Jerry Pournelle One of my favorite writers with some good stuff on computers and other topics as well.
Market listing Once you write it, where do you sell it?
Evil Overlords List A humorous send-up of a number of the common mistakes made in writing "the bad guys"

Rome I Some nifty stuff about ancient Rome
Roman Daily Life Some more good stuff here
Elizabethan England I A "Compendium of Common Knowledge" regarding England of the time of Elizabeth I.
StrategyPage News and other information about military issues.

Dejanews Check for current and old Usenet messages and post new ones. Text messages only--no binaries
Weather.Com The Weather Channel's Web page. Weather reports for cities in the US and worldwide (great for travelling).
MapBlast Best mapping engine I've found, produces both maps of locations and door to door driving directions. However, I find I'm using Microsoft Mappoint more these days.
Smart Shopping:

buy.com My online bookseller of choice. Deeper discounts and better shipping rates than either Barnes and Noble or Amazon. My first purchase from them actually came to less than the bookstore price even including shipping and handling.
Bottom Dollar An online price comparison service

Bigbook Online super-phonebook
Infospace Assorted this and that directory type information.
IRS Nothing is sure but death and taxes. I can't help you with death, but the IRS's web pages may help you with taxes

Why Kirk is better than Picard I get a few chuckles out of this.
The Dogpatch A simply awesome collection of information, articles, and links about my favorite mammals--dogs!
Alexandria Digital Literature An extraordinary way to find books. You "rate" the books you like and, based on those ratings, they recommend other books you may like. Pretty accurate in my opinion.
Webcomics A listing of webcomics that I check out from time to time.