Welcome to EllHoo

Below you can find a list of links that I find habitually useful, or newly found ones worth a look.

Report a dead link or add a reciprocal link to your hoo.

News

• DEC Press Releases - including weekly DEC Forest Rangers Week in Review.
• Empire Report - New York State news aggregator

Literature and Art

• The Color of Art Pigment Database
• Cricket Magazine covers - 1973 - present
• Online Books by Martin Israel
• Upstate 2050 - Fragments from possible Upstate futures

Music

• Accordion Revival - helping you maintain, repair and modify your accordions.
• Cool British Singles - comprehensive monthly review of UK pop/psychedelic releases of the late 1960s
• Fantastic Music - lo-fi
• Poolsuite.net - formerly Poolside.fm

History

• Fascinating Horror - fact-based presentation of human-caused catastrophes.
• Old Fulton NY Post Cards - digital repository of NY newspapers
• Ready to Harvest - Christian schisms and sub-denominations explained concisely.

Online Shops

• JetPens - still the best source for Japanese and worldwide pens and stationery.
• Present and Correct - London based office and desk items. See their vintage ephemera offerings.
• St Louis Art Supply

Travel

• AndyArthur.org - New York camping, offroading, state forest and DEC maps
• Brave Dave's Big Fat Freight Hop - four-part epic journey across Canada.
• Dave's Walks - British countryside walks presented without commentary.
• It's Time to Travel - Japanese onsens and towns off the beaten path, commentary in subtitles.
• The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans
• The Mission Across Wales - man attempts to cross Wales in a straight line. (Also: Norway.)
• ReserveAmerica
• Virtual Roadtrips

Weather and Science

• NYS Mesonet
• Real-Time Animated Wind Map - see also Windfinder
• The True Size - tool for comparison of state and country sizes, corrected to overcome map projection distortion.
• Things I Won't Work With - amusingly horrifying lab substances, by Derek Lowe of Scientific American.
• USCSB Case Studies - animated studies of recent industrial accidents by the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.

Web and Computing

• DeGraeve.com
• HTML Energy

Utilities

• Incompetech - graph papers and calendar generators
• Zipdecode - visual Zip code mapper

Fun Stuff

• iiiiiiii.com
• Open Places Map - freely editable public map where you can change placenames

Third Act Resources

• Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) Test - useful for aphasic patients
• What's Your Grief - articles and resources for grief support. Recently switched to a paid model, but still many free articles available.
• Working Daughter - resources for family caregivers.