Links to the Universe and Beyond

The staff and management of the Ether Frame tirelessly troll the Internet in search of the most significant, outstanding, and up-to-the-minute external links to grace this site. In the constant pursuit of customer service excellence, we also attempt to read Usenet dry each evening. Unfortunately, by the time we've finished the essential abstracts of alt.conspiracy.martians.ate.my.sneakers, it's 3am and whatever falls onto the keyboard is what you get.

The Usual Suspects
People I know and... um... trust. Sorta.

Christchurch Polytechnic, New Zealand
It's where I work. Psst, you wanna buy some tertiary education, slightly used?

Projeto Casa Esperanca (The House of Hope Project)
It's where my brother works. Wanna rescue Brazilian street kids from drug gangs?

GOD 101
A friend's page. Life, the universe, God, that kind of cool stuff.

Phoebe's Heaven on Earth
Another friend's page. Java, graphics, music, and poetry. Check it out.

Stars & Wishes
Big dreams and tall tales

NASA
From the US Government agency that brought you Tom Hanks' Apollo 13 and Ronald Reagan's sadly missed Nuclear Armageddon In Orbit, comes... um... a few robot probes doing Saturn and Mars. Will Global Surveyor get some good snaps of Cydonia? Could Lunar Prospector really find water on the moon? What about that International Space Station thingy? Find out here.

Mars as the New Frontier
Robert Zubrin is a hard-core space enthusiast with a Mars fixation. Sure he's a loopy idealist, and this essay proves it, but don't it make you think just a little? What if we really are running out of dreams?

NASA's X-Files.
You've never heard of the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project? Neither had I until I surfed across this. Take a look - are these guys serious about breaking the lightspeed barrier? I hope so.

The Institute of New Energy
Tesla. Townsend Brown. Cold Fusion. Scared yet? You will be. You... will... be.

Was Einstein Right?
Relativity is a Bad Thing. Because it means you can't go faster than light, and the stars are too far away to walk. 'Course, that doesn't mean the big E was wrong, but what if maybe...?



Page Turners
If it's a good yarn, it's better on the Web.

Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5
It did Star Trek better than Star Trek, and here's all you need to know.

Star Wars: The Official Site
So I'm a shameless Prequel junkie. You won't find any spoilers here at the official Lucasfilm hangout, but you will get some really neat artwork and a few tantalising snippets of sanitised goss.

Critters
Wanna critique some amateur sci-fi short stories? Or get your own works critted? Join up here and get your dreams shattered. Or ruin a budding author's life. Cool!

Terminator 3: The Script
It's a tacky piece of fanfic written by a paranoic, but it's presented really well and you'll get a few laughs. James Cameron he mightn't be, but you web design wannabes out there, watch and learn.

The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks
It's poetry, and very good poetry too. Better than mine. D'oh! I didn't say that!

The Gutenberg Project
Run for your lives! It's the original mother of all monster E-text projects that vowed to get all the dead-tree classics online - and free. When will science learn?

Deep Thoughts
If the answer is 42, what's the question?

Transparency
Ever reckoned you could learn a lot by psychoanalysing pop culture? So has this guy. And I think he's onto something. Freudian/Jungian analysis of Logan's Run and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, anyone?

Recovery Anonymous
The 12-Step programme isn't just for alkies. At least that's what these guys have to say, and maybe they're right. Then again, maybe they're just psychos. Aren't we all?

Search Engineering
Places to get stuff. Stuff you need. Because it's there.

Yahoo
The first, the best, the thinnest search page on the Web... why start anywhere else?

AltaVista
... unless it's the full-text search site with the biggest grunters on the planet.
Now with crunchy Babelfish!

Internet Movie Database
You can do all kinds of serious research on the Web. Waste your time here instead.

The Ziff-Davis Network
I use it all day at work, might as well drop 'em a mention here. Everything you never wanted to know about computers and were afraid someone might tell you.