• Portals ; BBC News / Google News / CNN / NOS [dutch]
• Dutch newspapers (kranten) ; NRC Handelsblad / Volkskrant / De telegraaf
• British newspapers ; The Guardian / The Observer / The Independent / The Times / Financial Times
• US papers ; Boston Globe / Washington Post / New York Times
• Tech News ; Slashdot / Wired / ZDNET (UK) / Linux today / The Register / The Inquirer / Ars Technica / Digg
• The Google Universe; search / mail / maps [mars] / news / pages / video / blog / talk / more

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Databases
• SIMBAD (US/FR)
• AstroBrowse
• Query Atomic line list / other atomic data / Kurucz line list / Physical Constants
• Variable star networks: AAVSO / VSNET / BAAVSS
• Cataclysmic Variable catalogs ; Ritter Catalogue (CV/LMXRB) / CVCAT / Downes & Shara
• Digitised Sky Survey ; SkyView / STScI / ESO
• Sky Surveys ; SuperCOSMOS / 2MASS / 2dF/QSO / SDSS
• Standard stars ; Landolt / Stetson photometric stds / spectrophotometric stds via ESO
• Spectral libraries : Pickles '98 / UVESPOP / Gray digital / NOAO cflib / other links
• Synthetic spectra ; Kurucz / TLUSTY / PHOENIX
• Handbook of Space Astronomy & Astrophysics online reference work
• What date and time is it ??

Observatories
• Harvard-SAO Facilities ; MMT / FLWO / Pairitel / [Mt.Hopkins weather/Arizona satellite] / Magellans [weather station] / Giant Magellan
• La Palma ; ING (ISIS / IDS) / NOT / Liverpool Robotic / GranTeCan [meteo station/staralt]
• The European Southern Observatory at La Silla (NTT) and Paranal (VLT: UVES / ISAAC / FORS) / schedule query and ambient conditions
• The Gemini telescopes ; UK support / GMOS / schedules
• Other ground based; AAO / UKIRT / SAAO (SALT) / CFHT / Calar Alto / NOAO (CTIO/KPNO) / Keck / Subaru
• UV ; GALEX / HST (archive/duplication) / FUSE / EUVE [Galactic Extinction Calculator]
• X-ray ; Chandra / XMM (cookbook) / XTE (ASM light curves) / SAX [PIMMS countrate converter]
• Other; Spitzer / proposal admin; NSPIRES / GSFC grants / open sollicitations
• Instrumentation; OmegaCAM / ULTRACAM / x-shooter

Departments
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ; HEAD(syshelp) / OIR / Calendar
• Astronomy Group at Southampton University
• The Astronomy Group at the University of St. Andrews
• The Astronomical Institute at Utrecht University
• The Starlink Project and sites
• Jobs; AAS Job Register / RAS / StarJobs / rumour page

Journals/Magazines
• ADS Abstract service : paper-worm
• astro-ph preprints ; search / most recent
• Telegrams: ATEL / GCN / IAUC
• Astrophysical Journal ; author info / TeX style / web submission
• Astronomy and Astrophysics ; author info / TeX style
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ; author info / TeX style
• Scientific American, Science, Nature and New Scientist on-line

Images
• Hubble Space Telescope's latest' and heritage project
• Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (I personally like this one).
• current EUMETSAT satellite images; europe / north america

• Royal Dutch Airlines , and KLM UK
• Lonely Planet
• Campus Travel, with Fare finder
• Up to date currency exchange rates

• Red Hat distribution/ Fedora / Rawhide
• Linux on a Dell Latitude D600 / Panasonic W-2 / Sun W2100z Workstation
• The KDE desktop / KDE Look / KDE Apps
• Kernel development news
• Linux Today