W. Robert J. Funnell

General reference tools and resources

• Bus schedules | Weather: Victoria Ottawa Montréal , Sherbrooke, U.S.A., World
• McGill; MUHC; 411.ca
• Language(s); Bookshops and books; other shops; Classic Cat, 78 RPMs
• Photography, photographs; cycling; skiing; beer; maps etc; news etc; official time

Science & engineering resources

• Ovid* (esp. MEDLINE), Web of Science* (esp. Cited References search), Engineering Village* (esp. INSPEC & Compendex) * Restricted access
• Library home page (esp. Advanced Search by title and author name)
• PubMed, IEEE Xplore*, ACM Portal*, Google Scholar, CiteSeer^X, Computing Research Repository in arXiv
• Stop Predatory Journals includes lists of predatory journals and publishers; Ulrichsweb provides detailed information on periodicals (restricted access); SCImago journal rankings
• unit conversions, currency conversion
• Visionlearning ‘provides high-quality science learning modules’

Computer-related resources

• Software I like; Tips for new Unix users and Tips for MS Windows users
• Web authoring and site management
• Usenet FAQ's from ftp://rtfm.mit.edu: all groups by hierarchy, news.answers
• SPEC; John DiMarco’s old SPEC benchmark data

Miscellaneous

• Spam-identification tools
• CGI test
• Books to read
• Wikipedia, Uncyclopedia, faqs.org (incl. electrical wiring)
• Dave Slaven's The Page of Entropy (from archive.org)