Please post your 5-10 favorite websites

[jim_mc]

I like to think of myself as a Roaming Catholic (in that I roam a little far from Rome sometimes), but according to this list, I'm 100% Liberal Quaker! Well, I've never heard of 'em, and don't even eat oatmeal, but it said it on the internet, so it must be true.

[Darwin]

Hilarious results for me. I would have expected Jehovah's Witness to have come out higher, since I enjoy talking to them so much. (But maybe it would be more relevant to know whether or not they enjoy talking to me.) I wonder how Nontheist managed to come out so low.

What's "New Thought"? (I haven't had one in decades.)

I also took the spiritual type test, and came out as a "Spiritual Dabbler". Hurt my feelings!

I see they have a "Daily Offering" from the Dalai Lama. I saw him on UCTV t'other night, speaking at UC Irvine. That ol' boy talks so-o-o slo-o-ow. Looked cool with his UCI eye shade on, though.

1.  Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2.  Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (91%)
3.  Secular Humanism (91%)
4.  Liberal Quakers (89%)
5.  Theravada Buddhism (85%)
6.  Neo-Pagan (71%)
7.  Nontheist (62%)
8.  Bahá'í Faith (60%)
9.  Mahayana Buddhism (58%)
10.  Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (56%)
11.  New Age (56%)
12.  Taoism (55%)
13.  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (53%)
14.  Reform Judaism (47%)
15.  New Thought (45%)
16.  Sikhism (44%)
17.  Orthodox Quaker (40%)
18.  Jehovah's Witness (38%)
19.  Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (38%)
20.  Jainism (37%)
21.  Scientology (36%)
22.  Hinduism (30%)
23.  Eastern Orthodox (18%)
24.  Islam (18%)
25.  Orthodox Judaism (18%)
26.  Roman Catholic (18%)
27.  Seventh Day Adventist (12%)

[jim_mc]

Oh yes, the web sites:

Accordion-O-Rama. Just because there should be a place with that name.
http://www.accordion-o-rama.com

The Ancient Mariners – The answer to the eternal question, “what do you do with a drunken sailor?” This is the home page of one of the most popular ancient fife and drum corps.
http://www.ancientmarinersct.com/

Be A Fifer – Source for the excellent self-study course and for the Model F fife, along with lots of other information and goodies.
http://www.beafifer.com/modelf.htm

Brother Steve’s Tin Whistle Pages – a tutorial, tunes and lots of information. Great site.
http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/

Civil War Troopers – the pride of Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY! Okay, it's not a great site, but it's a great band, and I'm in it.
http://www.cwtroopers.com/

The Company of Fifers and Drummers – home of the ancients.
http://companyoffifeanddrum.org/

Cooperman Fife and Drum – Fifes, drums, music, accessories and bodhrans for sale. The Wal-Mart of the ancient world!
http://www.cooperman.com/

Dreaded Drummer Productions – Dom Cuccia’s site, offering his percussive and pedagogical services.
Dom rules!
http://dreadeddrummer.com/index.html

Elderly Instruments – very good prices on whistles and lots and lots of other cool and unusual instruments.
http://www.elderly.com/

Fife and Drum – Dave Noell of the Old Guard hosts this on line store, calendar, photo archive and message board. The store has a nice collection of fife and drum cd’s, Peeler fifes and fife and drum music and accessories.
http://fifeanddrum.com/

Fife and Drum.org – the resource page that links you to the on-line Company music books and various other related pages. Also the place to go to join the e-mail discussion group.
http://www.fifedrum.org

The Flute Site, also known as The Flute and Whistle Sound Sample Page – Hosted by the ever-knowledgeable James Peeples. A unique and especially useful site. James has put together an impressive collection of comparative sound files for various whistles and flutes, plus a fife and a recorder or two.
http://www.flutesite.com/

Flute History – Ardal Powell’s (of Folkers and Powell) incredibly informative site.
http://www.flutehistory.com/

Freecell – the free web version of the addictive solitaire game.
http://www.freecell.com/

Guide to the Irish Flute – Brad Hurley’s excellent site, with tons of information and links for Irish fluters and those aspiring to become such.
http://www.firescribble.net/flute/index.html

Healy Flute Company – Skip’s fifes, flutes and piccolos for sale, plus the Skip’s Tips archive, for flute playing instruction.
http://www.skiphealy.com/

Jig the Obscure – Jason Malli’s site, with original tunes and, um, other stuff.
http://www.jigtheobscure.com/

Lancraft Fife and Drum Corps - a traditional ancient corps hailing from North Haven, Connecticut. They’re great performers and carriers of the tradition.
http://www.lancraftfd.com/

McGee Flutes – Terry McGee makes Irish flutes (in Australia), and has amassed a huge amount of scholarly information about the originals on which these flutes are based. A highly recommended site.
http://mcgee-flutes.com/

Middlesex County Volunteers – The favorite fife and drum corps of many – a beautifully Revolutionary War-era costumed, ceremonial style corps. This is a visually and musically stunning group, and any chance to see them perform live should not be missed. They have some excellent CD’s available through the site. Jeff Donsbach is their webmaster (and bass drummer). Tell him I sent you.
http://www.mcvfifesanddrums.org/

Moodus Drum and Fife Corps - one of the oldest corps in the country, it traces its roots, its music and its drums back to pre-Civil War days. Their sound is truly unique. Another corps not to be missed.
http://www.moodusdrums.com/

The Old Glory Drum Shop – Bob Ubaldo, in addition to being a fine gentleman, makes drums and sticks for rudimental drummers, and outstanding fife cases.
http://theoldglorydrumshop.com/

The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps – the U.S. army’s ceremonial unit, attired in the uniform of the Continental Army. http://www.mdw.army.mil/fdc/index.asp

Orkon Flute – One of my all time favorite whistle players was a gentleman named Paddy Breen, from County Clare. Paddy was rarely photographed or recorded, but notes taken by David Kennedy, the BBC producer who did record Mr. Breen’s playing, refer to him playing an Orcon flageolet. After much painstaking research, we have fairly well determined that this unusual instrument was in fact the one to which Mr. Kennedy refers.
http://www.tjimaging.com/orkon/

Peeler Fifes – Ron Peeler’s replicas of historic fifes. Re-enactors love these fifes, which Mr. Peeler makes to an incredible degree of historical accuracy.
http://peelerfifes.com/

Pennywhistler’s Press – Bill Ochs’ site, with Clarke whistles, Micho Russell material and Bill’s tutorial for sale. This tutorial, by the way, might as well be the only whistle tutorial out there for beginners. It pretty much blows away everything else.
http://www.pennywhistle.com/

Sudbury Ancients – this top Massachusetts corps portrays the citizen soldiers of the early Revolutionary War period.
http://www.sudburyancients.org/


Sweetheart Flute Company – Ralph Sweet’s site devoted to his hand made historic woodwind replications and music books. A great variety of styles and woods are available. Ralph and his family have been of service to the music community for many years.
http://www.sweetheartflute.com/

Taps Bugler – a nice site with information for the historically oriented bugler.
http://www.tapsbugler.com/index.html

Tin Whistle/Penny Whistle – a Japanese language site for the whistle! I can’t understand it, but I love it just the same. It’s neat to see the photos and the few words you recognize, and realize that some things are just universal.
http://98.to/whistle/

Tippecanoe Ancient Fife and Drum Corps – home page of the dynamite Indiana corps that portrays 18th century French Marines.
http://tafdc.org/index.html

Weird Metronome – A Downloadable midi metronome is available for free at this site. It can be programmed for a wide variety of sounds and rhythms. I find it very useful.
http://www.pinkandaint.com/weirdmet.shtml

Your Connecticut Connection – Bob Castillo maintains these ancient fife and drum related pages, with a directory of players and a calendar of events, along with plenty of other information.
http://www.fifedrum.org/bobbyc/

Snopes - debunking internet mythology. No, Bill Gate will not send you $100 for testing this new e-mail tracking program.
http://www.snopes.com

Internet Movie Database.
http://www.imdb.com

Dead People Server.
http://www.dpsinfo.com/dps

Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music (by Alan Ng) - Really interesting stuff on playing Irish.
http://alan-ng.net/irish/learning/

Irish Traditional Music Tune Index - Alan Ng's Tunography.
http://www.irishtune.info/

What is Irish Traditional Music?
http://www.itma.ie/home/leaf1a.htm

Dayton C. Miller Collection - the Smithsonian's historic flute collection.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dcmhtml/dmhome.html

Places to find hard to find books:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst ... 45-0782306
http://www.abebooks.com/
http://www.biblion.com/
http://www.ilab-lila.com/
http://www.addall.com/
http://www.alibris.com/
http://www.bookfinder.com/

Places I work:

http://www.museumvillage.org/
http://www.bowne.com
http://orange.cc.ny.us/
http://www.umaccenter.com/

Photo and bio:

http://www.fifedrum.org/sjbaretsky/cgi- ... mMcC.shtml

Coming soon:

http://www.oldwind.com/

[BillChin]

www.beliefnet.com
(I take the belief-o-matic quiz periodically to check whether it still tells me I'm a pagan rather than a Presbyterian.)
www.dictionary.com
(I'm a certified lingo-geek)

I also like dictionary.com. There is also Word-of-the-Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/words/today.html

I took the first two quizzes at beliefnet. Scored 76 on strength of belief (76 is solid, 90 means candidate for clergy). On which faith I got Christian Science #1, New Thought #2. Considering that I am a member of the Church of Religious Science which takes ideas from Christian Science and New Thought, the quiz is accurate as far as it goes. However, the majority of questions seemed irrelevant to me and some choices seemed a poor match for my beliefs.

For the spiritually minded there is:
http://www.unityonline.org/read_daily_dailyword.htm
I set a spiritual tone for the day by reading this first thing in the morning.

Next I read daily articles on faith and home topics at:
http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/

As for Islam and its various forms, that could be a politically incorrect quiz. Most Americans and Western Europeans have little concept of how far out there some of the radical Muslim groups are. In some radical circles, wearing makeup is a death penalty offense, as is homosexuality, as is premarital sex by a woman, as is changing your religion from Islam to anything else. Death-penalty offenses, often administered without the need for a trial. Depending on how radical the sect is, each of the above may range from a strongly held belief that is a desireable goal for all of society (meaning everyone on the planet), to an anachronistic vestige from a primitive and violent past. I leave it to the imagination what kind of quiz questions might identify radical Muslims.
+ Bill

[MarkB]

For those who like abusing copyright in the art world try this site below for some fun.

http://www.illegal-art.org

Pssst....look for the Harry Potter rip off under the video link.

MarkB