Interesting and Useful Web Sites

EMC Corporation: Where I currently work. Intelligent, reliable storage by the terabyte.
The Open Group: Formerly known as OSF. I used to work, in the Research Institute, which has been dismantled.
IETF: The Internet Engineering Task Force - network protocol standards development. For details:
SNIA: The Storage Networking Industry Association.
T10: SCSI standards organization.

CMU SCS | U of Illinois at U-C CS | MIT LCS | U of Washington CS&E | U of Utah CS | UC Berkeley CS Division: Useful university CS links.
DARPA: Past sponsor of much of the research program that I worked on at OSF/The Open Group. Most of this funding was from:

Yahoo Finance: Quotes, charts, and historical stock data (one of the few quote servers that will provide the data behind the chart).
Morningstar: info on mutual funds and other investments.
Search SEC EDGAR Archives: On line access to SEC forms (e.g., 10-K, 10-Q).
The Motley Fool: Independent commentary and analysis on stocks, investing and the market.
The Vanguard Group: Major mutual fund company, specializing in low cost funds, also handles on-line brokerage.
Middlesex Savings Bank: Local bank with offices in suburban Boston. No ATM surcharges at SUM ATMs.
IRS Forms and Publications: Where to get the forms and information to deal with federal taxes.
Mass. Department of Revenue: Same thing for the state of Massachusetts.

The Boston Globe: The Boston Globe joins the online age. This is part of the boston.com site that contains other interesting and useful Boston information.
CNN: Up to the minute news from the Cable News Network.
MBTA: Boston public transit maps, schedules, fares, etc. Current service information is available from SmarTraveler.
United States Postal Service : Zip code directory and postage rates.
Internet 800 Directory: Lists 800 (and 888) numbers regardless of who services them.
Fonefind: Inverse lookup - find out where a phone number is based on area code and exchange.
Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides: Exhaustive information on prices for new (including incentives and holdbacks) and used cars..
Switchboard: Online white pages as well as yellow pages. Superpages: Online yellow pages.
Amazon.com: Find almost any book you're interested in and buy it. Has expanded into other areas.
Internet FAQs: Like it says, includes Usenet.

AirTran | Frontier | Jet Blue | Southwest: Low-fare airline links.
American | Continental | Delta | Northwest | United | US Airways: Domestic airline links.
Orbitz: Travel portal sponsored by the airlines. Very good flight and connection info.
Expedia: On-line travel service/agency. WARNING - it doesn't list Southwest Airlines flights.
Utell International: Alternate source for international hotels, particularly for non-chain hotels in major foreign cities.
Steve Kropla's Help for World Travelers: Really useful international phone and electricity info.
Mapquest: Online maps and directions, find that hotel in a city you've never been to..
Master Card/Cirrus | VISA/PLUS: ATM Locators.

WebMuseum: Bienvenue! (ticket office): Cyber-Louvre
Cyberspace World Railroad Home Page: Best starting point for railroad stuff on the web.
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum: Trolley museum in Washington, PA (just south of Pittsburgh).
Cyndi's List: Best starting point for genealogy on the web.
NEHGS: Website of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
The Dilbert Zone : If you need an explanation, you can't join Dogbert's New Ruling Class.

TUCOWS: The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software. Serious online software library. Includes the following packages I currently use:

FTP Commander: A graphical ftp client. Try this and you'll never willingly use a command line interface to ftp again.
WinZip: The most reasonable way to deal with ZIP archives (standard PC file distribution format) under Windows.

DeLorme Mapping: Producers of very good map CDROMs -- Street Atlas USA in particular

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH): One of the most effective advocacy organizations for for non-smokers' rights.
Tobacco BBS: Good starting point for tobacco related news and information on the web.

Fight Spam on the Internet: What you can do about unsolicited email. Complaining to the sender usually doesn't work, but complaining to the sender's ISP often does.
Buy.com: Distributor of lots of stuff, including new computer gear with good prices and a flashy web site.
Overstock.com: Online liquidator of excess inventory. New stuff, good prices, often from dead .com's.
Price Watch: Source for current market (street) prices on new, used, refurbished computer gear of all sorts.

Virtual Church of the Blind Chihuahua, an interesting mix of religion, humor, and (of all things) common sense.
Concentration, starring Cindy Crawford.