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Most links verified 15-FEB-2007, but please let me
know of any dead or moved links you find. Thanks.
know of any dead or moved links you find. Thanks.
AUTO REPAIR & GEN'L VEHICLE INFO
Alldata Recall and TSB Index, new address 12/98
ASE aka Institute for Auto Service Excellence, w/ car links
AUTOPEDIA The Automotive Encyclopedia, lots 'o carstuff
Carfax Title history and basic VIN-decoder, cars only
Chrysler Manuals owner's, repair, bulletins, etc
Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides prices, specs, equip.
Hawkman's another web-based auto mechanic with LOTS of good links
iATN aka International Auto Technicians Network; wrenchin' on the 'net
Kelly Blue Book car pricing info
Mr. Fixit Online mechanic-type info
NHTSA car-page Recall and TSB Index must be searched separately
NADA Price Guides values on cars, boats, motorcycles, etc...
Vehicle Specs Sources:
Neptune Engineering
4N6-Expert Systems
Vehicle Info Profiles, Inc.
Canadian Vehicle Specs database by Transport Canada, available online at
CATAIR has it online, but only up to 2004 as of today
Visual Statement has the database through 2007 online
or download as a zip file from Keva Engineering
HEAVY TRUCK STUFF
FMCSA aka the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admin.
Heavy Truck Repair info & links
Radlinski & Associates Mr. Heavy Truck Brake Testing & Design
School Transport News School-bus safety issues, and more
BOOKS, PUBLISHERS, and other WORD-TYPE STUFF
Brown Book Shop lots of technical texts & documents
Chicago Style Manual, or at least some importants parts of it. The full manual is online but costs money to access, HERE.
Charles C Thomas, Publisher - Police Science, AI and AR books
ISO 690-2 How to properly format bibliographic references to electronic media
Elsevier Publishing Lots of European (and more) Technical publications/journals
Including Accident Analysis & Prevention, Journal of Safety Research, and Engineering Failure Analysis Journal
John Wiley & Sons Publishers of much technical stuff, including their Wiley Interscience site
Lawyers and Judges Publishing Company Lots of reconstruction / forensics / litigation books & stuff
Mediafinder newsletters, journals and magazines finder
National Academy Press On-line bookstore w/ browsing
Powell's Books new, used, out of print. This is where some of the big bookstores find hard-to-find books.
A Thesaurus English Words and Phrases
MW Dictionary "based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary, Tenth Edition"
FIND AN EXPERT WITNESS
ARCCA Engineering experts specializing in safety issues (seatbacks, airbags, belts, etc)
Claims Providers of America An expert witness directory
Consolidated Consultants They find an expert for you. Fees are through them.
eWorksMarkets Find a consulting firm.
Expert Pages List of experts - annual fee to list with them, free to look at the list
Expert Witness Network Pay a fee, see their database of experts
Florida Recon The best recon guy I know in the southeast.
Forensic Safety Occupant safety experts
Insurance Adjusters Resource Center Advertising for expert witnesses
Juris Pro Witness Directory
National Directory of Expert Witnesses Online listing and paperback
The Round Table Group finds "scholars" for speaking engagements, litigation support, and more....
SEA Forensic Engineers
TASA Expert finders, they bump regular rates up and resell experts' time. Fees paid through them.
Tech Med Experts Expert referral
GENEALOGY STUFF
The Genealogy Toolbox A good research place,
Ancestry.com Lots of info & searches & links
Link-O-Mania Genealogy Reference LOTS of Genealogy Reference Resources.
LAW / LAWYERS COURTS / LITIGATION
The Code of Federal Regulations aka CFR's - the search engine is a bit clunky, but it's free. Whatcha want?
Emory Univ. Law School A ton of law-type info
Meta-Index for Legal research searching legal databases (court decisions, etc...)
Virtual Law Library, Univ.of Indiana state gov't web sites and searchable law resources database
FindLaw From West's Legal Directory..Find info on a lawyer....
Washburn Univ. School of Law State laws, court rulings, lots of stuff
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
American Society of Mechanical Engineers as the name might imply...
ANSI homepage..... Internet resources: a big list of standards organizations on the ANSI site, including ASTM, SAE, ISO, etc
Conversion Factors for about a zillion units
DATRON & Corrsys non-contact velocity sensors and more
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society no comment required
McMaster Carr industrial supplies, but they won't send me a catalog 'cause my company is too small
Machine Design Online magazine for enginerds
MatWeb Materials data
NCEES The people who write & administer PE tests
NSPE aka National Society of Professional Engineers
NAFE or Nat'l Academy of Forensic Engineers, a subgroup of NSPE
Society of Automotive Engineers a self-explanatory title
Techstreet.com formerly CSS Info - purveyors of a variety of standards.
Testmart used testing equipment.
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers Like the paper version, only FREE
US Patent Office A big database of, you guessed it, patents.
Working Model Really cool motion analysis software
Zeno's Forensic Page you name it in forensics, it's here
MISCELLANEOUS
The Dilbert Zone Need I say more?
eBay internet-Auction Classifieds
Mapquest Maps and driving directions (which seem to be way off on expected travel time lately)
Mapsonus My preferred route planner these days
Rec.humor.funny laughter is the best meds: lots of jokes here
Those Were the Days This day in history
CENSUS STUFF all kinds of data compiled by the feds with the 2000 census
Webring A neat place for surfing.
MOTORCYCLE LINKS
Moc'l Consumer News The most honest magazine; with the best bike-value guide.
Cycle News
Motorcycle Online an e-zine and general bike-site
Motorcycle Safety Foundation Who are they and what do they do? for more interesting stuff, Visit the MCN website (above) and search MSF - there's a bunch of articles on what the MSF appears to REALLY be up to...a little scary.
Roadracing World motorcycle roadracing news...
Burden to Society An article refuting the "riders are a burden to society" argument
PAGE-BUILDING TOOLS
Color test-page a page to play with color combos & get BRG values
HTML Code Tutorial One of the sites the NCSA now sends people to since they took their HTML guide offline. Looks good.
HTML goodies some of everything for HTML reference & use (one of my favorites)
SPEED TEST 3 free connection speed-tests per month
RECONSTRUCTION / SAFETY / TRANSPORTATION
ACTAR the only national recon. cert program. There were 725 accredited folk in Jan 2001, and over 1000 as of 02/07. I'm one of them.
The ARC Network Accident Reconstruction stuff, directory, services, newsletter, etc...
Canadian Road Safety Professionals
C-Design A big list of reconstruction resources
Ergoworld Transportation Ergonomics links
IIHS Insurance Intitute for Highway Safety
Institute of Traffic Accident Investigators a UK group
Macinnis Engineering Fifth wheel & low-speed gurus
Neptune Engineering The crush-data people
Traffic Accident Reconstruction Origin interesting discussion page and more
Tar-Weblog A Web-Log for Traffic Accident Recon, get it?
Traffic Accident Report Forms for all States Compliments of the US Gummint
UKCar UK car info, including some dimension & performance specs
Vericom a cool tool for measuring car stuff
Vista Event Timers for timing bulls, cars, horses, etc
RESEARCH & SEARCH ENGINES
Alta Vista Used to be my personal favorite, but now I mostly just google
Beaucoup Search Engines Gateway to LOTS of engines
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts fee-based searches
Dogpile Another gateway to search several engines at once.
Engineering Information Inc. Search a bunch of databases, small fees
Excite NetSearch popular....
FOUR 11 email & name finder (apparently bought out by Yahoo)
Galaxy "the professional's guide to a world of information"
Superpages Formerly GTE, now Verizon Yellow Pages and more, search by company, state, name, etc..
InfoSpace Infospace search
Lycos Latin for Wolf Spider, I'm told, I like this one ok, but has "internal spider errors" when I try to submit my site to it. Go figure.
I-Tools A GREAT all-in-one research site: language translators, thesaurus, mailing services, phonebooks, currency converters and more
WebCrawler From America Online, works pretty well
Yahoo
Transport Research Board look-up service based on titles, authors, source of the document etc.
NTIS More tax dollars at work.
UMTRI Library They'll copy anything they've got for $.30 per page - much cheaper than NTIS for the same stuff!
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