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Main - The key sites for all Stoners

The Stone FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions, answered
The Commons - When broken, congregate here [Yahoo Group], Lodge members go here [Yahoo Group]
The Stone - The Game itself
The Immediate - Solve over a 100-and-counting puzzles towards the Enigma(?)
The Unknown - 9 *relatively* easy puzzles, free for all
The Movement - Solve up to 38 Stoner-authored puzzles [Now head to The Stone Unturned... see next]
The Stone Unturned - Stoner-authored puzzles WITH NEW ONES ALL THE TIME!!
Scarecrow's Field - New Stoner-authored puzzles (plus AWESOME reference databases!!)

[Note: The Stone (Abject) links assume you're already logged into The Stone in another window]

Community - Places to congregate, share stories, help each other, analyse, play

The Commons - Base Camp for all Stoners, first stop is the PG board [Recent technical problems here, so...]
Stoneplayers - New Yahoo Group for when The Commons are down
poobah's Playground - Another place to go for when The Commons are down. Wear shades! ;-)
lodgeofthestone - Yahoo Group for members of the Lodge only!
The Uncommons - A major hugfest and place to lighten-up :-) "Only a Stone's throw away!"
The Green - The Stone Unturned's very own bulletin board and nudge-exchange
manifestdestiny - Yahoo Group historically used for collaborative solving of new Immediate puzzles
Disgruntled Stone Players - Lycos Club set up for whining, but now apathy dominates
Dark-o-Clock's Forum for The Stone - Old lycos Club sometimes used when The Commons are down (but now go to Stoneplayers)
Gears Behind The World - Very comprehensive boards prepared by PolarFlame in case The Commons dies
The Unofficial Newbie Stone Site - Timber's very unfinished newbie site
UK Stoners - Was the home base for all those mad UK Stoners!
The Quarry - Was the online radio station for Stoners
Things Enigmatic To Discuss - Was Arthur's old discussion area
Ring of Stone - Was a webring of Stone links
The Stone Mailinglist - Was a listbot primarily for new puzzle announcements
subconsciouslip - Was a Yahoo Club for teenage Stoners
The Sissybar - The Lodge's *exclusive* tiki-bar! Members only, so no link, sorry! :-)
Stone Community Lists - Long list of Stoners, their Stone symbols and location [Welcome back!]
Romancing the Stone - TekBird's great analysis and fan site (includes the famous Community Lists)
The Pebble - Cool fan site linking the FAQ, Gallery, Unturned [Not the same as The Mighty Pebble, BTW]
The Mighty Pebble - Another MiCTLaN (comedic) masterpiece, now hosted by the wonderful Akee!
The Rally Site - Red Lethe's great community site (includes the famous Determinant)
MiCTLaN's Community List - An early stab at a Community List

Stone Gatherings - Intended as a central place for Stone Gatherings
Photos: Stoners Picture Album - See the faces behind the names! Yikes! Gatherings too!
Photos: UK Stone Gatherings - UK Gatherings central archive
Photos: Winnipeg 2000 - Home of The Stone Gathering, Canada
Photos: Portia UK 2001 - Mini-gathering at Portia's place, UK
Photos: Poobah UK Grand Tour 2001 - Poobah's roving "the gathering comes to you!", UK
Photos: Red Fraggle's Home Page - UK gathering pictures and Poobah's tattoo!
Photos: Madcap's Gathering Photos - Miscellaneous!

[See also Tools] - Stone communities exist on ICQ and IRC, for example

Surrogate Stonemates - email stonemates@hotmail.com and be connected with an experienced Stoner
Volunteer Stoners - email aclark@kc.accentonline.com to offer yourself to adopt newbies

Nudges - Places to help (or sometimes cheat) yourself

Apepoo's World - New nudges for the Immediate and Unknown, monkey city!
The Illuminous - The Rally Site's nudge section
Nudgefest 2000 - Arthur's pretty good set of nudges [was incomplete but useful]
The Paradox - Zpyder's very useful nudge collection [decapitated, but was usable, now dead]
The Paradox (mirror) - Apparently a mirror of The Paradox [To Be Checked]
Stone Hints - Old nudges [To Be Checked]

[See also Community] - While the above can be useful, many nudges can be searched for in The Commons (PG)

Analysis - Places to delve deeper into the Enigma

Angus's Puzzle List - Handy comprehensive list of all the puzzles!
Poobah's Puzzle List - Handy list of all the SK puzzles
ctown's Puzzle List - Handy list of all the player-produced puzzles
The Determinant - ethelred's masterful analysis tool (see also Scarecrow's Field!)
MiCTLaN's Unofficial Fan Page - Great analysis site focusing on Black and White books, plus other goodies
Romancing the Stone - TekBird's great analysis and fan site (includes the famous Community Lists)
Smallkat's Stone Page - Smallkat's adorable weblog musings on the Stone (and life)
Trpl2u's Stone Pages - Trpl2u's extensive Stone pages [WARNING: contains spoilers]
Jim's Stone Observations Site - Various analysis musings [WARNING: contains spoilers]
LeXman's Notes - Various analysis musings, with a very early stab at a Determinant
The Nominator - ethelred's masterful analysis tool, for The Unturned -- check out the others too!

Extensions - Beyond the Immediate, including player-produced puzzles and the Journey

Scarecrow's Field - New Stoner-authored puzzles (plus AWESOME reference databases!!)
The Stone Unturned - The original Stoner-authored puzzles!
The Movement - Solve up to 38 Stoner-authored puzzles [Now head to The Stone Unturned...]
The Alternate - Excellent new lighter Stone-style puzzles from The Perplexxed Ones
The Eventual - Spoof puzzles. Funny! :-)
Beale's Revenge - Another interesting puzzle from Perplexxed!
The Mine - Atom Gold's own puzzle site
Arabanth - Star Wars themed puzzles in the Stone style
Journey Jigsaw - Meritor's jigsaw page, with zoom capability! (appropriately roving URL!)
The Shards - Includes the Journey Jigsaw, gathering all the Journey pieces and stories together!
The Last Supper - By Leonardo -- cf. the Journey Jigsaw...
The Dutch Journey - Not yet on The Shards... (not official)
Buried Clues - The main Journey site at The Stone [presumed on hold]
Journey at MiCTLaN's site - Incomplete, but complementary status reports
UK Journey - The UK Journey story, gone?
Journey Mailinglist - Was here, apparently

Tools - Supplementary programs and stuff for Stoning (see below for Search Engines)

ICQ - Instant messaging with community features, head for the Stone's Active List #48726530 (thestone.net) on PCs
IRC - Online live chat, head for the Stone's channel at #thestone on any DALnet server

[See also Yahoo IM, AOL AIM, MSN Messenger, et al] - These are more spontaneously and sporadically used

Engines - Search Engines are critical for efficient Stoning

Google - Has become the most comprehensive and clever single-site search engine, even works for lyrics!
Metacrawler - Still nice for phrases as well as general searches, multi-engine search
Alta Vista - Shadow of its former self, but good controllability and topic searches
Yahoo - Definitive hierarchical search engine aka directory
About - Definitive hierarchical content site
Copernic - Multiple-engine search in real-time in a standalone application. Very cool.
Sherlock - Mac-specific quasi-Copernic. Mentioned because Copernic stopped Mac development. :-(

There are many other search engines. If you really want more:
Google Engines Directory  - Get your search engines!
Google Hierarchical Engines Directory - Get your Yahoo-like hierarchical engines!

Topics - The best sources of information on the web for Stoning

Encyclopedia: Britannica - THE definitive encyclopedia, alas full text no longer free
Encyclopedia: .com - Not as good as Britannica, but free!
Encyclopedia: Encarta - Ditto
Encyclopedia: Columbia - Ditto
Encyclopedia: Britannica 1911 - Ok, this one is free, but a little dated!

Info: Great Books Online - Wonderful collection of classic books online (ref, verse, fiction, non) at Bartleby
Info: Concordances of Great Books - Great place to search the full text of classic books, plus crossword solver, dictionary, etc.
Info: Electric Library - Handy set of references and search, but no longer free
Info: Lycos InfoPlease - On-Line Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, & Almanac Reference
Info: Yahoo! Reference - Comprehensive collection of basic reference sources
Info: Research-It! - All sorts of goodies! (was Research-It)
Info: Coolest reference sites - Nice list
Info: Symbols.com - Encyclopedia of Western signs and ideograms
Info: Flags - Flags of the World (rather a lot!)

Language: Merriam-Webster - Great US English dictionary and thesaurus
Language: Roget's Thesaurus Alphabetical Index - Synonym city
Language: AltaVista Translations - The Babelfish at AltaVista
Language: Google Translations - Google's language tools
Language: InterTran - Another free translator
Language: Anagram Tools Directory - Google directory of Anagram tools
Language: Internet Anagram Server - One of many anagram solvers
Language: Familiar Quotations - A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs, John Bartlett, 10th ed 1919
Language: Hieroglyphs - Downloadable Hieroglyph Library

History: A Moment In Time - History radio programme with Dan Roberts
History: TheHistoryNet - Where History Lives on the Web
History: The History Channel - Excellent TV channel, with search
History: The History Buff - Unexpected part of Discovery channel

Numbers: Integer Sequences - Cool tool for checking integer sequences
Numbers: Maths Encyclopedia - Mathworld at Wolfram Research (Mathematica)
Numbers: Magic Figures - Magic Squares, Triangles, Cubes, and Hypercubes
Numbers: Maths Games and Puzzles - All sorts!

Science: Periodic Table - Comprehensive table of chemical elements
Science: Classic Chemistry - Interesting chemisty and science history site
Science: The DNA Learning Center - Nice, but heavyweight
Science: Space.com - Start here for astronomical stuff

Maps: PCL Map Collection - The wonderful Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at UTexas
Maps: National Geographic - Lots of maps
Maps: USGS Online Map Lists - Nice maps from the nice US government
Maps: Cartographic Images - Lots of maps, including ancient ones
Maps: HRW Atlas - Lots of maps
Maps: Map Locator - You want more maps?

Art: Art-Bridge - General Art resources portal
Art: WebMuseum - See especially the Famous Paintings section
Art: ModernArt.com - A guide to modern art museums
Art: WWW Art Resources - Weird art site
Art: Portraits - Long list of historical portraits

Music: Google Lyrics Directory - If Google itself no good, try a site in its directory
Music: International Lyrics Server - A lyrics search engine, now only in German? Just use Google...
Music: Let's Sing It - Another lyrics site
Music: Hitlist Front Page - Just another lyrics site

Special: Encyclopedia Mythica - An encyclopedia of mythology, folklore and legend
Special: Calenders Thru the Ages - Neat calendar site!
Special: Roman Numerals & Date Converter - Just what it says, nice
Special: Works of Shakespeare - Nice Shakespeare site
Special: (Not) Complete Works of Shakespeare - You need more Shakespeare?
Special: Smithsonian Institution - Useful specialised info
Special: UnMuseum - Weird stuff
Special: Inventors at About.com - Good example of About's range and capabilities
Special: The Engines of Our Ingenuity - Interesting site of cool stuff
Special: The Telson Spur - Interesting site of cool stuff... for Snark Hunters!
Special: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Self explanatory
Special: Artcom Museum Tour - Over 1700 US museums online
Special: Discovery Channel - Excellent TV channel, with search
Special: IMDb - The Internet Movie Database
Special: Trivia - Trivia from Uselessknowledge

Misc - Other sites of interest to the Stoner kommunity !

Netfysh's Stone Stuff - Mixture of stuff here, and still sells The Stone! [June 2003]
Four Fat Chicks review - The Stone at Four Fat Chicks
Where can I buy a Stone? - Just go to Netfysh! (above)
Firebox review - Was a review of The Stone at Firebox (ex-Hotbox)
Amazon review - The Stone at Amazon.com/ToysRUs
Marchnoir stone jewelry - Get yer fancy pendants here!

Abject - Inventors and (present?) owners of The Stone
Lost Lil' Alien - One of Abject's simplified Stone-like games for littl'uns
Earthlings Beyond - The other of Abject's simplified Stone-like games for littl'uns
Intrinsix - Original web designers for The Stone
Dark Century - Intrinsix's new post-Stone game, under development forever
Pyroto Mountain - A lot of Stoners love this online game, sometimes swapping Stone ideas here
Planetarium - Excellent story puzzle game from 1999 which some Stoners enjoyed, still playable
Timehunt - Very cool Stone-like puzzle game from 2002, still playable

The Hock Report - Dark-O-Hock's Stone site (misc)
Ask the SKs - The Quarry's old Ask The SKs page [in stasis]
Little Den of Darkness - Spooky links, maybe useful
Expecting The Stone - More spooky links, maybe useful
Metropol - Old, tiny but not unuseful bit of advice on puzzle-solving
Simon's Reference Guide - Mixture of stuff here [old]
Palisi's Page - Was here, apparently
Meritor's Crazy Stonepages - Was a fan site linking the Journey, and much fun stuff!
thE SOuNdTrack - Was a nice collection of specially-composed puzzle-solving music by Phonos...
Adam Rowe @ MP3.com - ...Yay! Some of it is now here. :-) Well done Phonos!
Crooty's Fantasy Book Database - What some Stoners get up to in their spare time...

SETI At Home group for The Stone - Join fellow Stoners in the search for ET and other random aliens!
UD Cancer Research group for The Stone - Join fellow Stoners in the search for a cure for cancer!

The Long Now - It's about TIME. A *lot* of TIME!
The Megalith Map - It's about STONES. A *lot* of STONES!
Pi Day - It's about Pi. A *lot* about Pi!
Dirk - It's about connections. A *lot* of connections!
Ducks - If you miss The Journey and like The Web, then this may be for you! :-)
Duct Tape - For more fans of The Web :-)
Enigma US - The German cryptographic machine one, at the US NSA museum
Enigma UK - Where Enigma was decoded, UK
Apostrophe Protection Society - The most abused punctuation mark on the planet :-/
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US - Because they do and it's cool, so there! :-P

New entry!   Live, useful/entertaining   Dormant/quiet, but still worthwhile   Dead site :-( May return? :-)

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If a useful site is missing or has changed state, please email Stewart (dswtan) A44 7A2

Last updated 2004-Jul-8

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