Tim's Favorite Links

• Bicycling
  • Adventure Cycling Association - One of my favorite bicycling organizations and one of the original sponsors for BikeNet, a now defunct bicycling forum on America Online.
  • Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute - Lots of great information on bicycle helmets and why you should wear one.
  • Cyber Cyclery - formerly known as the Global Cycling Network - Lots of connections for bicycle advocates and enthusiasts. Also runs a large number of bicycle discussion email lists with discussion archives on the web.
  • International Mountain Bicycling Association - A great organization for mountain bicycling.
  • League of American Bicyclists - The oldest bicycling organization in the U.S.
  • National Center for Bicycling and Walking - Also known as BikeFed. Another great bicycle organization. Focuses on how to make communities better for bicycling and walking. An excellent resource.
  • Sheldon Brown's Homepage - Lots of useful bicycle information including some great articles.
  • USA Cycling - Formerly the USCF. The organization that handles all aspects of bicycle racing in the US.
• Directories
  • Google - Currently the best web search engine. It's so good it's scary.
  • Open Directory Project - This is now my favorite web directory since overall it is larger and more accurate than Yahoo. It's also fun being a volunteer editor for them ;-)
• 4-H
  • 4H4U.org - the 4-H Marketing Project - All about 4-H, how to join, and how to market 4-H.
  • Rolling Hills 4-H Club - Our local 4-H club.
• Project Management
  • Project Management Institute - The premier professional project management organization in the United States.
• Reference
  • Infoplease.com - A quick and helpful combination of Encyclopedia and Dictionary. Not that in-depth but fast and useful and family oriented.
• Shopping
  • Amazon.com - I've been very happy ordering books, CDs, and other merchandise from Amazon. They have a good shopping experience, they are reasonably secure, it's easy to find related books, and it's nice to read reviews by professionals as well as everyday people.
• Soccer
  • American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) - One of the best youth development and recreational soccer organizations around. Its philosophy provides its inner strength.
  • AYSO Region 44 -Sunnyvale - A local AYSO Region where I coach & referee.
  • AYSO Region 64 - West San Jose - A local AYSO Region where I coach.
  • Game Card - An AYSO game card with fillable fields for coaches.
• Web services
  • Yahoo - My favorite web service. I use them for maps, yellow pages, financial information (companies, stocks, etc), email services, calendar, Yahoo Groups, etc. I currently think that everyone should use Yahoo or some other reliable web service as their central email depot so that they can have a stable email address that is ISP-independent. Yahoo email supports pop3 access as well as email via any web browser.
  • Yahoo Groups - This is the BEST group organizational and communication tool/service that I've found yet. For the price of a few discrete ads, they provide email and web-based discussion lists, calendar, file sharing, databases, and more. [Formerly a separate company called eGroups. Acquired by Yahoo in the year 2000.]
• World
  • Centrail Asia Institute - Now here is a group that is taking the best approach to preventing terrorism. Please also see US urged to find root cause of terrorism and Karakoram '99: Climb of Courage. I first learned about Greg Mortenson and his work in a Parade article April 6, 2003.