PUBLIC AND COMMERCIAL TRANSPORTATION:

• 511.org
  S.F. Bay Area Transportation Information covers all major and minor transit operators.
• New Orleans Regional Transit Authority
  Streetcar and bus operator in the City of New Orleans.
• Jefferson Transit
  Bus operator on the East Bank and West Bank of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
• APTA U.S. Local and State Transit Links
  The American Public Transit Association maintains pages of links to a variety of transit providers by state.
• RTS Regional Transit Service
  "The Movie Bus People." Owner Scott Richards offers a diverse fleet of vehicles for use in film, television, and advertising work.

TRANSPORTATION FAN AND VOLUNTEER SITES:

• CanalStreetCar.com
  by Edward J. Branley. New Orleans streetcar and other local interests.
• Canal Street: A Street Railway Spectacular
  by H. George Friedman. An excellent pictorial chronicle of the history and development of streetcar service on the main drag in New Orleans. Look for some of my own pictures in there!
• Market Street Railway
  Volunteer proponents of historic streetcar operation in San Francisco.
• Tom's North American Trolley Bus Pictures
  Historic and contemporary coverage of all ETB operations on this continent.
• Bus Bus Bus: Bus Images from Creative Commons for you to enjoy
• Western Transit
  Western United States transit information in a monthly newsletter.
• Northern California Bus Fans
  A great group of bus enthusiasts offering excursions, discussions, photo archives, and a quarterly newsletter.

MEDIA (RADIO, TELEVISION, MOVIES):

• Gold 104.3
  Melbourne, Australia classic hits station that's rather talkative and gossipy, but offers a great variety of good songs, some of which I haven't heard before.
• 93.1 Jack FM
  Los Angeles radio station "Playing What We Want." Offers primarily classic rock, alternative, and pop from the 1970s and 1980s.
• Television Production Music Museum
  "Dedicated to the preservation of music scored and recorded for television productions." This archive offers MP3 files of TV theme and background music, especially for game shows. There is a members only vault where full production reels can be heard.

NEW ORLEANS:

• The Gumbo Pages
  by Chuck Taggart. Louisiana culture. My inspiration for creating a page about K&B Drug Stores.

SOFTWARE:

• IrfanView
  Image viewer and manipulator by Irfan Skiljan. Freeware for non-commercial users. Irfanview lets the user resize, edit, caption, and thumbnail pictures for website presentation. It makes a great default viewer for a variety of media types. Registration or donation is only 10 euros and worth it.
• Jalbum
  Javascript photo album creator.
• JDownloader
  Recognizes links to file sharing/sharing sites and facilitates the downloads.
• FileZilla
  Freeware FTP program.
• Orbit Downloader
  Media capture freeware. Integrates into Explorer so you can just click a tab at the top of the browser window to download music and video. Contains Grab++ plugin to facilitate downloads.
• PhantomEFX
  Makers of Reel Deal casino games.
• UnFREEZ by Whitsoft Development
  Free GIF animator.
• Free Download Manager
  An excellent no-cost way to organize multiple downloads from a page or zip archive.

GRAPHICS AND CODING:

• Banner Fans
  Easy, professional-looking banners hosted online or downloadable.
• ACME Heart Maker and Label Maker
  Create Valentine candy hearts and Dymo-like labels with personal messages.
• ImageMagick
  Downloadable source code for image manipulation.
• ImageMagick Studio
  Online image annotations, decorations, and manipulations. Offers FTP uploading of finished images.
• WebFX
  Fun special effects applied to images.
• Hype's Color Specifier for Netscape v.3
  Hexadecimal and 256 color codes. My color selection guide since 1998.
• ColorCombos.com
  Explore color combinations for web pages.
• The Free Site
  Comprehensive list of links to free software, graphics, code, etc.
• Flaming Text
  Banners with burning letters and other effects.
• R.T.'s Blank Plates
  Blank license plates from the United States and Canada.
• ZyWeb
  Graphics source with a free 30 day trial.
• JavaScript Kit
  Useful Javascript routines I've incorporated on this site from time to time.
• Dynamic Drive
  is another great Javascript site. The wonderful Simple Controls Gallery introduced in January 2010 comes from there.
• The Site Wizard
  CSS navigation menu bar buttons wizard.
• favicon.cc
  Create a favorites icon for your website.