adrik's cool links

Professional links

The Anomalocaris Homepage Awesome, very nicely designed site about the presumed sister group of the Arthropoda
Arachnida catalog Organized by Joel Hallan, a huge checklist covering most arachnid orders.
Arachnology pages A repository and directory of arachnological information on the Internet, now within the ISA page.
Cladistics.com Software for computer-assisted systematics
Digital Taxonomy An information resource on biodiversity data management by the brilliant Mauro Cavalcanti.
Gonzalo Giribet The cypho-club...
Index to Organism Names Far from complete but nevertheless an extremely useful resource.
International Society of Arachnology (ISA) The arachno-professionals...
The Scorpion files A cool page full of nice pics of many scorpio-species from different families...
Tree of Life The diversity of organisms shown in the form of a phylogenetic tree.
The World Spider Catalog All world's spiders... An Herculean task by Norman Platnick
Colour Terminology in Biology Ever wondered what's the meaning of croceus or caeruleus? The Latin names of colors as used in Biology with correspondence with the color centroids!
The Perseus Digital Library A cool Greek and Latin dictionary.
The NBS/IBCC Color System The famous color centroids -- a dear fave of adrik's.
Nomenclator Zoologicus Neave's list of generic names of animals.
Australian Faunal Directory Animals from the land down under.
Biographien der Entomologen der Welt Do I have to say more?
Peripatus "a brief systematic overview of the Arthropoda, from their origins to the present."
WWF Ecoregions adrik's favorite slicing of the world.

 

Personal links

Ardalambion — Incredibly well done pseudo-scientific exercise on the (Elvish, etc) tongues invented by Tolkien.
Digital Atlas of South America — Maps in the Arc View format.
Global Gazetteer Version 2.1 — All cities and towns of the world.
Identify a Font — this is a very cool dichotomic key to find out a specific font.
Movie Database — WIth this power search resource you can easily locate that old movie which impressed you in 1972.
Project Gutemberg — A wealth of ebooks for all...
Regnal chronologies — An impressive catalogue of the kings of all past and present kingdoms in the world.
What the font? — you upload a sample of your font and... voilá - the program tries to match the shapes with those of its database. Very good.

Individual Tarot CardsSpread the cards and know yourself.
ORBIS LATINUS online — Latin names of cities.
Discogs — An immense database of musical albums and CDs.
Flag identifier — awesome vexillological database and searcher.

Denshi Jisho — Online Japanese dictionary
Theoi Project — a site exploring Greek mythology and the gods in classical literature and art.


 


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