| The_Lehigh_Group Covers common marine knots, plus the Hangman's knot, the Scaffold knot, and the Gallows knot. Illustrations and common uses. |
| New_Zealand_Speleological_Society Covers common caving knots including the Figure 8, Figure 9, Alpine Butterfly, Italian hitch, and Tape knot. Illustrations and common uses. |
| Notable_Knot_Index New, useful, and interesting bends, loops, hitches, and knots. |
| The_Prusik_Knot Discussion, comments, and tips regarding use for both sailing and climbing. History. |
| Rec_crafts_knots_FAQ Frequently asked questions for the newsgroup, covering resources, recommendations, and links. |
| Rope_Rescue Presentation paper which exposes new students to safe, basic rope rescue fundamentals. Advanced students gain knowledge of proper techniques. All experiences are based on current testing and review |
| Ropers_Knots_Pages Index of knots with links, illustrations, and descriptions. |
| Ropeworks A book of knots, hitches, splicing, lashing and rope making. |
| Ruckus_Society Short climbers' knots manual. |
| Six_Exploding_Knots Covers six knots that untie easily, including the Sliding Butterfly, Double Carrick bend, and Clove Hitch Biting a Bight. Step-by-step illustrations with instructions and a table of properties. |
| Sophia-Antipolis_Speleogical_Society Covers common caving knots including the double figure-8 on a bight and the farmer's knot. Illustrations. |
| Team_Whiskers_Knots Catfishing Team. Includes information on baits, knots, rigs, tackle, recipes, and tournaments. |
| University_of_New_England_Mountaineering_Club Covers the Alpine Butterfly, Bowline, Clove hitch, and Fisherman's knot. Animation and common uses. |
| ABMaps Online interactive map of the world, with detailed street atlas for North America. |
| Atlapedia_Online Contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world. |
| Atlas_of_the_Biosphere A collection of maps, schematics, and information about human-environment interactions, directed at the education community. |
| CIA_World_Factbook_-_Reference_Maps Various maps of the world in both jpeg and pdf format that are updated annually. |
| Cornell\'s_Digital_Earth Use this interactive atlas to create maps displaying land, oceans, borders, roads, lakes, rivers, roads, railroads, faults, mines, seismic, and other geological, geographical, and geophysical data. Re |
| Expedia_Maps Offers searchable listing in the United States and Europe by address and driving directions. |
| Google_Maps Provides directions, interactive maps, and satellite/aerial imagery of the United States. Can also search by keyword such as type of business. |
| Great_Circle_Mapper Shows great circle path between specified points on the globe with an aviation focus. |
| Map_Up Provides continental, oceanic, and country-specific maps, followed by geopolitical analysis. |
| Maporama Generates maps for a desired address or point of interest. Output is also viewable on handheld computers. |
| MapQuest Find directions for and explore towns and cities worldwide. Display addresses on a map, view nearby businesses, get driving directions and maps, and plan a trip with city information. Also includes ae |
| Maps_of_World Online maps showing countries of the world and continents. Too wide for smaller monitors. |
| MSN_Virtual_Earth Provides directions, interactive maps, and satellite/aerial imagery of the United States. Can also search by keyword such as type of business. |
| Multimap Global mapping service including street maps of Europe, North America and Australia. |
| Planet_Observer Displays country and ocean maps, followed by demographic data on each reviewed area. |
| Readmap_Project Online maps collection with political and economical overview of each country. |
| TerraFly Searchable aerial views of cities and towns in the United States. |
| TerraServer View maps and aerial photos of various parts of the Earth. |
| United_Nations__Cartographic_Section General country and special issues maps. |
| United_States_Library_of_Congress_Map_Collections Top-level categories include cities and towns, cultural, landscapes, conservation and environment, military battles and campaigns, discovery and exploration, transportation and communication. Searchab |
| Windows_Live_Local Combines online mapping and local search, uses a scratch pad to take notes, and allows to search questions around the United States in a geographical context. |
| Atomic_Clock_Time Displayed in a variety of useful formats. Site is a front-end to U.S. government atomic clocks. |
| The_Calendar Summarizes the history of various calendars developed and used over the centuries. |
| Calendar_Studies Information about calendar history and calendar reform. |
| Calendar_Zone A categorized collection of calendar related sites. |
| Date_Algorithms Provides descriptions, proofs and computer programming implementation examples to convert dates to various calendar dates for Julian, Gregorian, and Rata Die calendars. |
| English_Calendar Includes an ecclesiastical calendar and a section on old and new style dating. |
Ian's Shoelace Site - Bringing you the fun, fashion & science of shoelaces
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Welcome to Ian's Shoelace Site!
Fun, fashion & science in this quirky site about shoelaces. Whether you want to learn to lace shoes, tie shoelaces,
stop shoelaces from coming undone, calculate shoelace lengths or even repair aglets, Ian's Shoelace Site has the
answer!
You can find out more About This Site, or you can dive right in below.
Table of Contents
Lacing Shoes
Are all of your shoes, sneakers and boots still laced up the way they were when you bought them? This section
presents some of the many fascinating ways of lacing, either for different functions or just for appearances. Why
not take the plunge? Whip out those laces and re-do them to suit your needs or personality.
Tying Shoelaces
Most people learn to tie their shoelaces around the age of five. Why then would anyone older than that visit a web
site about tying shoelaces? Whether you're a parent, teacher, occupational therapist, academic, knot enthusiast, or
just after some self-help, there's something for you.
Slipping Shoelaces?
Do your shoelaces always come undone? If so, you're probably tying a "Granny Knot", and one simple change to your
technique will result in a balanced knot that sits straight and stays secure.
Crooked Bows?
Do your shoelace bows sit vertically instead of across the shoe? Do your hair ribbons refuse to sit straight? What
about crooked bows on wedding invitations? All of these can be fixed with one simple change to your tying technique,
creating a "balanced" knot that sits straight.
Shoelace Lengths
Many shoes nowadays come with shoelaces that are way too long. On the other hand, breaking a shoelace can leave it
too short. Calculating the correct shoelace length for a particular shoe with a particular lacing method involves
some pretty complicated mathematics. This section presents a Web-Based Calculator plus the underlying Shoelace Length Formulas
to allow manual calculation.
Shoelace Tips
This section covers two meanings of the word "Tips". Firstly, there's "Shoelace Hints" for teaching children, for
sportspeople, disabled people and everyone. Secondly, there's info on "Shoelace Ends" (= Aglets), including how to
repair or replace them.
Shoelace Marketplace - NEW!
Looking to buy shoelaces or related items? Ian's Shoelace Site doesn't yet have a web store, but it does have a
marketplace, where you'll find selected merchants of shoelaces, accessories, gadgets, books, teaching aids, and
anything else I've been able to track down.
Shoelace Polls
Here's your chance to take part in some web polls on your preferred methods of lacing or tying your shoelaces.
Hopefully these polls will give us some picture of which methods are the most popular, as well as showing whether
this site has taught visitors something new.
Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.)
You'll find the answers to Frequently Asked Questions here, mainly for the benefit of people typing those questions
into search engines. It's also worth looking here before you send me a question for which I've already posted an
answer.
Shoelace News Stories
Shoelaces are common, useful items. Here's some links to recent news stories, where you'll discover some of the
good and bad, happy and sad events either caused by or involving shoelaces.
Shoelace & Knotting Links
Here's some links to other shoelace and knot related web sites. Providing links is good "Netiquette", enabling the
Internet to effectively become its own index.
What's New?
07-Oct-2008 - Updated all of the
Lug Lacing Methods.
Added a
Comparative Shoelace Length section to each of the Lug Lacing Methods.
28-Aug-2008 - Updated
Shoelace Length Calculator.
Added length formulas for three different
Lock Lacing variations.
28-Sep-2008 - Updated
Hash Lacing.
Added variation without gaps at each end, which looks less uniform and which requires longer laces.
Shoe Lacing Photo of the Week
Patterned tan, brown & white New Balance 574s with cyan, blue, navy blue & grey Double Lacing.
Photo sent to me by Larry E.
Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot was used to secure the quadruple laces
More Lacing Photos.
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