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 Cards — Spread 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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