Welcome to McGee's Closet

where you can find information on almost everything
(or at least everything I am either knowledgeable about or interested in)


Why McGee's Closet? Back in the 1940's and 50's there was a weekly radio show called Fibber McGee and Molly. McGee kept everything; he never threw anything away. Where did he keep all that stuff that was either "too good to throw away" or that he "might need some day"? Why, in his closet of course! Each show (and the audience expected it), McGee would go looking for something and remember he had it in his closet. After digging around (and having everything fall out of the closet because it was packed full), he'd find exactly what he was looking for.

Although McGee's Closet has several connotations, to me it's a place that has everything (and I mean EVERYTHING, including obscure and unusual things; you never know what you might find). It's a place where you can find anything.

I didn't want to develop a web site that just repeats information that can be found elsewhere on the net; I wanted share some new, innovative information and insights. But, the information that already exists on the net is both important and useful. So, in addition to my new material, the pages on this site are are comprised of links to those other excellent sites. Why reinvent the wheel?



This site has no graphics or java, just good old plain hand-coded HTML text

Updated: 5/30/2002


Here's what I have "packed" in the closet....

(For your conveinence, everything is alphabetized. You can also use your browser's "search" or "find" command.)

Languages (French and Spanish)
Macintosh and Classic Macs
The Mojave Desert Phone Booth (off site) - It's a Phone Booth that's REALLY out in the middle of nowhere! (unfortunately, PacBell removed the phone due to excess traffic)

...and last, but not least, we can't forget about McGee himself :-)
Unofficial Fibber McGee and Molly Home Page
Fibber McGee and Molly FAQ
Another Fibber McGee and Molly Page


Here's a list of stuff I plan to add (when I find the time :-)
Amateur Radio
Apple ][ computers
Atari computers
Aviation
Backpacking and camping
Battlestar Galactica
Boating and nautical information
Engineering (Mechanical, Civil, and Nuclear)
Environmental resources
Homeopathic Medicine
Internet Privacy
Lasers and Laser Information
Laws and Regulations online
Linux
MacGyver
Maps online
Meterology and Weather
Organic Farming and sustainable agriculture
Railroads and Railroading
Spam prevention and elimination
Theater Lighting and sound
Theoretical Physics (including superstrings)
Tai Chi and Chi Gong
US Air Force Aircraft
....I will probably add to this list....


The best (in my opinion) Search Engines

Google - probably the best search engine out there

Teoma - a new search engine that is supposed to be as good as Google.

Alta Vista Advanced Search - Text version - The best thing that AV offers is the NEAR boolean opeartor.

Yahoo! Advanced Search - A phrase can be used on the advanced search page, again to get more specific results.

Metacrawler - Metacrawler is a site that will search many search engines, like Yahoo! and Alta Vista, at once (a metasearch site).

Profusion - another metasearch site like Metacrawler

Dogpile - still another metasearch site

Looking to download a particular file? Try these sites:

Fast FTP search - a great site where you can find almost anything. If you don't know how the file is listed on the FTP servers, you can even type in part of the file name you're looking for and you will probably find it. One word of advice with this site: if you're searching for several words (or parts of words), they must be in the order they should appear in the file. For example, if you're looking for Font DA Mover, you must type in something like "fon da " (without the quotes) in the search box. If you type in "da fon", the serach will come up empty.

Other file search sites to try are Pure Mac, Macdownload.com, Download.com, Version Tracker and Shareware.com.


Well, that's all I have for now. Thank's for looking around.
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