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Boston Area Entertainment, Organizations, and other Resources:

  • Hey Let’s Go BostonBoston area activities news bulletin board. Join groups based on your activities preferences and interests.
  • Boston.comcheck out their movie and restaurant reviews and searches
  • Boston Vegetarian Society (BVS)Find a complete listing of vegetarian restaurants in Massachusetts including vegan macrobiotic and organic raw foods. Every year BVS also host a huge food festival at the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury — a great chance to meet new vendors, sample new foods, and organic products. BVS organizes monthly seminars with guest speakers on nutrition, compassionate ethics...
  • Craigslist Bostonfree apartment listings, discussion forums, personals...
  • Cambridge Forum — one of public radios' longest running public affairs programs. They have weekly free presentations on Harvard Square’s Church Street. They explore topics related to civic democracy, science and technology, history and the global environment, and include as well discussions about computers, education, art, and more.
  • Boston MBTAPublic subway transportation and commuter rail schedules
  • Free Shakespeare at Boston Common — annual Shakespearean productions are performed at the Boston Common during the summer...
  • Boston Center for Adult Educationthey offer many affordable, fun and educational courses to the community
  • Cambridge Center for Adult Educationalso a great resource for those who are seeking continuing education and fun activities
  • Boston Open Studios check out local artists' gallery exhibitions all over the Boston area especially Forte Point Channel's artwork if you like to see particularly cutting-edge creative work.
  • City of Boston Calendarsee listing of Boston area local events
  • Boston Event Guide: Annual Events Overview
  • Greater Boston Consortiumview a listing of choral groups in the Boston area if you want to join a local chorus or a cappella.
  • Museum of Fine Arts Film ProgramCheck out film festivals, and foreign and indie films at the MFA.
  • Boston Marathon — World's oldest annual marathon and ranks as one of the world's most prestigious road racing events. Marathon Monday falls on Monday, April 18, 2005 this year... Boston marathon always runs by Wellesley College at the halfway point.
  • Boston First Night — First Night New Year's Eve activities take place from 1pm to midnight on December 31st at over 30 indoor and outdoor venues throughout downtown Boston. Fun opportunity to check out the huge ice sculptures.



Resources for Entrepreneurs, Small Businesses and Companies:

  • Small Business SchoolPBS tv series on Sundays featuring case studies of successful small businesses. Learn some tips on improving your own small business.
  • ZipGlobal Inc. — Website Designer and Creative Director
    An inexpensive quality voice-over-IP broadband phone service. Save with rates as low as 1 - 2 ¢ per minute to Asia and the USA for $0/month or $39.95 a month for unlimited, FREE calls to China, Hong Kong, USA and Canada. It's as easy as plugging your own phone to the ZipGlobal gateway, a telephone adapter, to connect and dial out. No more hassles carrying calling cards or figuring out messy headsets and microphone hook-ups. No computers needed either.
  • Hoover's Business Reports on Companies
  • Business Know-HowYou can sign up for their newsletter for advice on how to grow your small businesses, home business, or career.
  • United Statesresearch statistics and facts i.e. healthiest states, crime index, government, etc.
  • Sperling's Best Places — Demographics research on best places to live, work and retire; learn more on cost of living, neighborhood profiles, city comparisons, climate profiles and more...
  • NASRO (National Association for Socially Resonsible Organizations) — check out Massachusetts Health Insurance Plans for the self-employed or small business owners
  • NASE (National Association for the Self-Employed) — leading resource for the self-employed and micro-businesses (up to ten employees); they also offer affordable health insurance plans based on your needs.
  • CircleLendinga specialty loan administration company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts; they design tools and resources used to manage interpersonal loans between relatives, friends, and other private parties. Great resource for startups who want to formalize their lending relationships with those within their personal network.
  • IRS: Small Business & Self-Employed One-Stop Resourceaccess info on e-files, bartering, EINS, small business forms, and taxes
  • Mom Inventors, Inc.If you're a mom, you might find this site particularly exciting. This firm offers web-based collaboration resources and participation for enterprising moms who want to invent products that benefit families.
  • MSN Ideas Happena resource for 18-29 year olds who can submit new entrepreneurial ideas to the site to win $25,000 that will give their ideas a head start into making their dreams come true.



E-community Sites / Networking Sites

  • Friendster a popular e-community for friends
  • TheSquarean e-community of folks from elite colleges/universities
  • Linked-Ina popular professional networking website where your contacts can post their testimonials and professional references for you and show you how you're networked to others.



Wellesley College Resources for Wellesley alumnae:

  • Wellesley Collegemy alma mater
  • WAAM (Wellesley Alumnae & Affiliates in Multimedia)A Boston-based organization that I founded for Wellesley and MIT alumni interested in project collaboration and independent work in new media, multimedia, creativity, arts, hi-tech and entrepreneurship. Join our Yahoo email list to attend our events. I often host dinner discussions with guest speakers on diverse topics including freelancing, online communities, evolutionary artificial intelligence, and multimedia.
  • Wellesley College Alumnae of Boston (WCAB)Wellesley College's Boston-based alumnae club. My organization WAAM is affiliated with WCAB.
  • Wellesley College Annual Ruhlman Conference
    This website above includes the abstracts from the Conference '98 of which two of my projects "Electronic Age Metamorphosis" and "Si-Ming: Field of the Heart" (A Dialogue) were featured.
  • Wellesley College Tanner Conference — an annual conference that serves as a venue for students and alumni to share their international experiences outside the college to enrich community learning and academic studies.



MIT Resources:



Resource for Designers:

  • Pantone™ to Hex Color Chartuse this color chart when designing web based graphics that require Pantone™ color matching.
  • Web Palettea great web color palette that gives you the RGB numerical values as well as the HTML code
  • Web Palettean interactive website with web color palette
  • CNET Bandwidth Meter check your internet connection speed against top DSL, cable modem, and other broadband services
  • TUCOWSThey have a big collection of free software for PCs
  • CNET Download.comdownload freeware and try out new products



Sites to download free fonts:
(Thanks to my friend Fish's pointers and comments below)

  • Chankstore Free Font Archive
    (lots of free stuff here — some of Fish's favorite fonts)
  • Swankarmy
    (amazing quantity of techno style stuff)
  • Fontlinks.com a directory created by Grilled Cheese listing other font sites
  • Grilled Cheese
    (funny site, lotsa bizzare CGI applications that control it all, but some good fonts in there too)



New Media Organizations — Find out what's happening in New Media:



Miscellaneous Interesting Sites



Personal Links to My Friends' websites:

  • My dear best friend Benjamin J. Walter's websiteMy project partner Ben Walter collaborates with me currently on freelance projects as my technical lead. He graduated at the top of his class with a B.S. degree in Computer Science and a Minor in Chinese at MIT where he also pursued his master's degree. He has worked for many well-known companies internationally in London and China including BlueSocket, ARM and Adero often as a lead engineer and managing partner for over ten years. Please contact me if you would like more info on our freelance design and development services.
  • My friend Alex Chou's websiteAlex holds a B.S. from Harvard and is working toward his Master's in Information Technology. He's currently a Software Engineer at a Covergence, a firm providing security and control for real-time communication over IP networks.
  • My friend "Fish" Bohn's website
    (Fish demos my fish Java applet from last year on his page)





     


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