Garry Garrett's Homepage

The World

• One of the best ways to get yourself aquainted with the rest of the world (IMHO), is to host a foreign exchange student:
• I used to be a Community Represative for AYUSA foreign exchange student agency.
• I've also heard good things about Youth for Understanding exchange programs.
• The Rotary Club International also has an exchange program.
• AYA Exchange
• Exchange Rates from TravLang.
• I now keep a separate page for weather information
• Maps for directions
• I have semi-related a page on GPS receivers.
• Mapquest (the original)
• Yahoo's Maps (my preference)
• The US Geological Survey makes a number of maps which are quite useful for hiking. There is an on-line version called NationalMap. (includes Longitude/Latitude info)
• GeoCoder allows you to look up addresses and find the latitude/longitude. Their blog has an article on how to get lat/long info from Google
• US Census Bureau's mapsurfer ( instructions )
• JDMCox Software makes software that downloads photos from space along with GPS coordinates to make "Photo Maps" of the USA. [Win32]
• ePodunk contains information about places.
• I have a separate page on Languages that has resource for foreign languages on it.
• World Timezones has become an interest of mine
• I have a page on Timezones from my Address Book.
• Yahoo has a page on page on Timezones .
• The U.S. Navy has a page on World Timezones
• The Timezone Converter is an excellent conversiont tool.
• Greenwich2000 looks like a page to promote Greenwich England, but it has some nice information about timezones too.
WorldTimezone is another page that has timezone information.
• Netscape's tips on Internationalizing HTML pages

And Beyond...

• I keep up to date on what's going on is outter space by reading Jonathan's Space Report by Jonathan McDowell.
• John Walker has an interesting discussion Inconstant Moon: The Moon at Perigee and Apogee on why a full moon is brighter on somedays than it is on others. (see Misc Software to download John's many interesting astronomy related programs)
• SkyMaps.com has free maps of the night sky you can download and other on-line resources.
• Bill Harwood's Space Space.
• NASA watch
• If I find something cool in space that I want to keep my eye on, I look at SkyView image retrieval facility.
• I have a link to the Des Moines Astronomical Society on my Iowa page.
• If you can't wait for the 23rd century to contact alien life, then you can contact The Planetary Society, a major sponsor of SETI - the search fo extra-terstrial inteligence.