Sites related to Frank Zappa

• Big List of Frank Zappa Links

• United Mutations --- huge collection of info about FZ, Captain Beefheart, Sun Ra, and The Residents

• Zappology --- a wealth of information about specific albums, movies and more.

• Zappa Quotes

• List of Concert Bootlegs from '67-'70

• Ever wonder what a Florentine Pogen is?

Former Zappa Band Members

• List of Musicians who played with FZ

• Ike Willis

• Adrian Belew

• Jimmy Carl Black

• George Duke

Bands/Festivals Performing Zappa's Music

• Ed Palermo Big Band

• Zappanale --- German festival

Other bands and musicians worth checking out

• Steve Vai --- played with Zappa, talented composer and guitarist

• Joe Satriani --- taught Steve Vai to play guitar, out of this world!

• Ozric Tentacles --- often categorized as space-rock

• Vinnie Moore, guitar virtuoso and his current band, UFO

• The Allman Brothers

• John Fogerty --- the man behind Creedence Clearwater Revival

• Galactic --- funky jam band from New Orleans

• Lonesome Lencat --- a Zappa-influenced friend of mine

"Kozmic Dreams" the song

• "Kozmic Dreams" --- a song composed for me in 2009 by Lonesome Lencat, complete with Youtube video

Music-related sites

• Homegrown Music --- info about jam-bands, etc.

• Pooter's Psychedelic Shack --- Mother of all Psych Links

Detroit Music

• The Motor City Music Archives --- lots of info about the history of Detroit music

• The Ark --- small venue in Ann Arbor with lots of great musicians

Nature and Wildlife

• inaturalist.org --- See what organisms have been found in a particular area and upload photos of your findings

• Register your backyard as a certified wildlife habitat with the National Wildlife Federation

• Photography of Various Invertebrates --- great photos of arachnids, lobsters, shrimp, millipedes, etc.

• Hans Van Rafelghem --- macro nature photography

• Methuselah Tree --- the oldest living thing on earth

Insects and Spiders

• Bugguide.net --- great source of information on insects and spiders of North America

• Whatsthatbug --- great insect and spider resource

• Arachnology.be ---learn about the different subgroups of spiders

Pets

• Petfinder - Find your new best friend by choosing a rescue

• Caring for a Paralyzed Dog --- excellent info and resources

Fossils, Rocks and Minerals

• Virtual Fossil Museum

• Paleoart --- Russian fossils for sale

• Enter the Earth --- nice fossils, rocks, minerals and gems for sale

Health and Safety

• Purple Air - Check the air quality around the world using data from sensors maintained by the public.  Get your own sensor and become a community scientist.

• American Forests' Wildfire Map - See where wildfires are burning in the U.S.

• USA Today's Wildfire Map - See where wildfires are burning in the U.S.

• Sunrise Redeemer --- Learn about the health and biological effects of electromagnetic radiation (i.e. the microwaves transmitted by wireless devices like your cell phone and wi-fi router), and how to make your home safer for you and your family.

Science and Mathematics

• Carolina Biological Supply Co. --- excellent resource for science-related items, even living organisms.

• Hubble Telescope Photographs --- see unbelievable photographs of the cosmos.  The nebulae are the best!

• Circlemakers.org --- England's best-known crop circle artists

• Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena

• Mathematical Knitting

• Roman numeral converter

• Date Calculator - calculate the date after a specified amount of days have passed

• Date Difference Calculator - calculate the number of days between two dates

• Full Precision Calculator - obtain calculations with up to 10,000 decimal places (try dividing the number of days in a year (365.25) by 47 to at least 300 decimal places to obtain a fascinating result!)

Teaching/Education

• My High School Art Lesson Plans --- lessons I designed for the high school art class I taught during the school year of 2003-2004.

• Nasco Education --- teachers' resource for arts, crafts, educational supplies, etc.

Amusing Things

Pinball, Toys and Games

• Internet Pinball Database

• Marco Specialties Pinball Parts Superstore

• Pinball Resource --- parts

• Completed Scrabble Boards from games I've played

• Stretch Armstrong World

• What's That Song --- list of sites and apps to determine an unknown song

• Make your own Jackson Pollock digital painting

Other fun links

• Track your paper money and see where it goes and where it's been

• Word Origins --- Discover where all those unusual sayings came from

• The Wayback Machine --- check out websites as they were from years past, archived at this site.

Shopping

Clothing (especially tie-dye and music-related), stickers, patches, jewelry, etc.

• GraphicRats Studio  --- The East Coast's Finest Tie Dye

• DharmaRose --- Great resource for tie-dye and concert T-shirts

• Dharmatrading --- Fiber Art supplies and clothing blanks for dyeing

• Purple Moon --- stickers, patches and jewelry

• Sunshinejoy --- tapestries, tie-dye shirts and more

• Old Glory --- music- and sports-related shirts and stickers

• Wolfgang's Vault --- Music T-shirts, posters, etc.

• It's Only Rock and Roll --- Rock and Roll merchandise and auction goods

• Dolls Kill --- unique clothing from various companies

Other sales-oriented websites

  Snipe eBay and win more!   Use E-Z sniper to win your auctions

Collecting

• World Coins and Currency

Recreation

• Trails.com---information about hiking trails in the U.S.

Spirituality

• The Foundation for the Law of Time --- information about the Mayan 28-day/13 moon calendar movement.

• Determine your sign according to the Mayan calendar

• LifeGem --- have the carbon from your loved ones' ashes (pets and people) turned into a gem