Month: April 2006

A good overview of the types of microphones one might use to record one’s voice on a computer is at http://www.netyak.com/microphone.htm.

Wi-Fi Networking News is a weblog and index to current happenings in wi-fi network access–check it out at http://www.wifinetnews.com.

If you do, here are three sources to check for help. There is a booklet from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health you can download (in either English or Spanish) on depression at http://www.nimh.nih.gov.publicat/depression.cfm. The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance has a helpful web site at http://www.dbsalliance.org and the International Foundation for Research and Education on Depression offers resources at http://www.ifred.org.

You can find out by checking the public disclosure files online at http://clerk.house.gov/pd.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s web site–http://www.fda.gov–is a useful source of the latest information on recalls and other food, drug, and product-related issues.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety offers a website full of state law information, statistics, and crash information at http://www.iihs.org. You can also use http://www.hwysafety.org to get to the same site.

American Theater Web, at http://americantheaterweb.com, provides up-to-date information about current live theater in the USA–including Broadway, off-Broadway, and local/regional theater.

Golf Magazine‘s Golf Course Guide to 20,000-plus courses worldwide will prepare you for your trip at http://www.golfcourse.com.

From the National Motorists Association comes a speed trap database at http://www.speedtrap.org. Know before you go.

There are two interesting sources for mushroom research and information. One, from the Canadian Forest Service, National Resources Canada, is called “Matchmaker–Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest” and is available at http://www.pfc.forestry.ca/biodiversity/matchmaker.
The other, from the Department of Plant Pathology at Washington State University, is the Pacific Northwest Fungi Database, available at http://pnwfungi.wsu.edu/programs/aboutDatabase.asp.
Happy hunting!