W. Robert J. Funnell

Depts. BioMedical Engineering & Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

General reference tools and resources

Tour of McGill's
trees and gardens

• Bus schedules | Weather: Victoria Toronto Ottawa Montréal , Sherbrooke
• McGill; MUHC; Canada411, postal codes
• 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 Online*, ISI citation databases*, INSPEC & Compendex *, IEEE Xplore*, ACM Portal*, Books24x7.com* * Restricted access
• Muse, Library home page, PubMed, Google Scholar, CiteSeer^X, Computing Research Repository
• unit conversions (cf. Google category), Currency conversion
• Visionlearning ‘provides high-quality science learning modules’

Computer-related resources

• Software I like
• My personal Tips for new Unix users and Tips for MS Windows users
• Linux: Debian, AlphaLinux; The Linux Documentation Project; Linux Online!, Linux Today, Linux Headquarters, freshmeat.net; Matt Chapman's guide to window managers
• Graphics
• Web authoring and site management
• Scripting and Programming Languages, Jeremy Sanders' concise overview aimed at graduate students needing to do scientific programming
• Usenet FAQ's from ftp://rtfm.mit.edu: all groups by hierarchy, news.answers
• John DiMarco's SPEC benchmark data; SPEC; PDS; data of personal interest
• Dave Slaven's The Page of Entropy

Miscellaneous

• Spam-identification tools
• McGill Open House 1996
• CGI test
• Books to read
• Wikipedia, Uncyclopedia, faqs.org (incl. electrical wiring)