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Internet Search Engines

  • All in One Search Page - This mega-search facility permits searching lots of other web search engines from one central location with a consistent interface. It may look a little intimidating at first, but give it a try - you'll save lots of time surfing for the information you need.

  • Box Office Guru - An unbelievably comprehensive and constantly updated collection of film box office stats, including opening/total grosses for over 1600 pix released since 1989; current and past opening weekends; monthly averages; a release schedule for the coming four months, and some very pithy commentary by Gitesh Pandya, whose site this is. Gitesh deserves a medal.

  • Alta Vista - Offering compact or detailed searches through 16 million Web pages. It also provides a full-text index of more than 13,000 newsgroups.

  • Arfie (Dogpile Search Engine) - This mega-search facility simultaneously looks at about two dozen top Internet search engines, adjusting boolean and proximity operators to each one. And it's really fast!

  • Debriefing Meta Search Engine - This super-search engine forwards your search request to the AltaVista, Yahoo, Infoseek, Excite, Webcrawler, Lycos and Hotbot search engines. It then collates the results, ranks them, removes duplicates, and then gives you what it thinks is the most significant domain name for your search. (Note: Java must be enabled in your browser for Debriefing to work.)

  • DejaNews - Search the Usenet news archive with DejaNews to find articles by date, author, subject, and newsgroup.

  • Excite - Excite tracks down information by searching for concepts, not just keywords.

  • HotBot - This super-search engine from the folks at Wired magazine claims to index more than 55 million web pages. You can also search Usenet News and top news sites.

  • InfoSeek Net Search - Type in words and phrases to Search the Net.

  • The Internet Sleuth - Meta-search facility.

  • Lycos - Comprehensive catalog of the Internet.

  • Magellan - Provides reviews and ratings for a vast collection of Web, FTP, and Gopher sites, and Usenet newsgroups.

  • Netsearcher's Ultimate Cheat Sheet - From PC Magazine, here are the tips, tools, tricks, and know-how you need to search the Web, Usenet, White Pages services, and MetaSearch sites.

  • Northern Light Search Engine - A speedy new search engine that automatically organizes the results of your search into customized folders.  For example, a search on "lasers" created folders named Optics, Laser Safety, Semiconductors, Ophthalmology, Lenses, Military Sites, etc.

  • WebCrawler Searching - Internet search tool.

  • Yahoo Search - The granddaddy of Internet directories.

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Art, Music & Theater

  • All Music Guide - A complete on-line database of recorded music.

  • Billboard Charts - Weekly listings of the Billboard Top 200, Hot 100 Singles, Top R&B Albums, Top Country Albums, and a collection of the #1's on various Billboard charts.

  • ELAC Theatre - This East Los Angeles College Theatre Department site features an Internet theater library, a facility for answering theater-related questions, and a section where you can publish your own plays or read some written by other aspiring playwrights.

  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - With over 65,000 works of art, this is currently the largest searchable art image database in the world.

  • International Lyrics Server This lyrics database comes with a simple but flexible search feature.

  • Kyrie's Architecture Page - An enormous collection of links to websites about current and past architects and architecture from around the world.

  • MOMA - On-line site of the famous New York Museum of Modern Art.

  • National Museum of Women in the Arts - Billed as "the only museum dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists."

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Children

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Directories

  • Associations Directory - This service takes you directly to many of the associations currently operating on the World-Wide Web.

  • BigBook - An impressive Yellow Pages directory that lets you search by category, complete with location maps.

  • Bigfoot - Huge directory of e-mail addresses and white pages.

  • Four 11- A comprehensive directory of e-mail and white page listings, along with a few nice bonus features like government and celebrity listings.

  • InfoSpace - Directory including Internet Yellow and White pages, local city information, and complete Federal, State, County and City government listings for the United States.

  • International Telephone Directory - white and yellow pages and fax directory for countries around the world. A wide collection for the U.S., though most other nations just have fax listings.

  • Law schools and Legal Associations - International listing of Law Schools and Legal Assoiciations.

  • Liszt - Often, people interested in the field you're writing about are the best source for research information. This site lists over 70,000 mailing lists devoted to specific and general topics.

  • Switchboard - U.S. residential and business listing White Pages.

  • WhoWhere? - White Pages service for locating people and organizations on the Net.

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Film & TV

  • Box Office Guru - An unbelievably comprehensive and constantly updated collection of film box office stats, including opening/total grosses for over 1600 pix released since 1989; current and past opening weekends; monthly averages; a release schedule for the coming four months, and some very pithy commentary by Gitesh Pandya, whose site this is. Gitesh deserves a medal.

  • Cinematter - A searchable database of scheduled movie releases "from now until the end of time" (currently through 2005). Includes capsule reviews mentioning the stars and director but, sad to say, no writers.

  • Cinemedia - Monster film/TV/radio/new media site with great magazine links.

  • Coming Soon... - Want to know if somebody else has already hatched that great film idea you're thinking of speccing? Point your browser at this web page. It's got brief synopses of near-future releases as well as films in development through the year 2003, courtesy of philm phreak Matt Williams.

  • The Complete Motion Picture Database -- a detailed collection based on the famous 23-volume Motion Picture Guide filmography and the Film Encyclopedia biography collection.

  • Cyberspace Film School - Official website of the Hollywood Film Institute. Mostly for budding talent, the site includes some useful info on how to produce a film, find an agent, contact a star, direct your first feature or sell your script.

  • Done Deal - A constantly-updated list of recent film script deals, including title, log line, studio, agent, price, and other info. A truly great resource. Be sure to check out the New Archives section.

  • Early Motion Pictures (1897-1916) - Five early motion picture collections from the U.S. Library of Congress.

  • Entertainment News Daily - The latest goings-on in film, TV and music.

  • Film Festivals

  • Film Festivals Server - Comprehensive worldwide festival coverage.

  • GIST - National daily TV programming listings by genre and time zone, entertainment gossip, home technology news and more.

  • The Independent Filmmakers Internet Resource Guide - Terrific reference resource for the independent film and video community.

  • Internet Movie Database - The Mother of all Internet movie databases.

  • Intertainment Cybercenter - Links to Theaters, Studios, Networks, Music, Newsstands, Radio WWW sites.

  • Mega-Media Links - Media index on the web of film, radio, television, cinema and new-media site listings.

  • Motion Picture - TV Guide's on-line movie magazine includes articles on current releases, a database that includes over 40,000 titles and bios, and a filmography with 750,000+ entries.

  • National Cable Television Association - All about cable technology, cable programming, and new developments in the cable industry. Includes ACE awards, history of cable technology, parental guidelines.

  • Screaming in the Celluloid Jungle - Offers screenwriters links for craft, resources, and research. The site includes a signatory agency list, a list of production company phone numbers and addresses, a filmmakers glossary, a regularly updated list of script sales and deals, and a screenwriters' message board.

  • The Silent Artists Index - Bios of featured stars, supporting players and character performers who worked in films back when silence was golden. From "The Silents Majority", the on-line journal of silent film.

  • The Twilight Zone - Credits and episode summaries from five seasons of Rod Serling's TV classic.

  • Ultimate TV - Everything you want to know about TV from listings to jobs.

  • Westerns.com - Re-live the Golden Age of Westerns (the 30s, 40s, and 50s) with audio and video clips, photos, songs, trivia, and plenty of facts about the Wild West (Hollywood style).

  • Yahoo! Movies - From the granddaddy of all search engines, this site features current reviews, upcoming releases, top box office listings, selected items from the Hollywood Reporter and Variety, and a nifty feature that lets you search for the show times of movies in your area.

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Government

  • The British Monarchy - This official website of the Monarchy in Britain includes historical and present-day information about The Royals and their palaces, as well as photographs from The Royal Collection of art.

  • The CIA - Lots of facts; no secrets, but a good suggested reading list.

  • CIA 1997 World Factbook - The newest version of the CIA's very useful global guide. Contains facts on every country in the world, including information on each country's geography, population, government, transportation, defense systems and more.

  • Congressional Email Directory - If an elected official in any of the fifty states or U.S. territories has an email address, you can find it in this searchable database. Allows search by both name and state/territory.

  • DefenseLINK - The World-Wide Web Information Service from the Department of Defense with links to the Office of the Secretary, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Reserve, National Guard and more.

  • The Embassy Page - Links to U.S. and other nations' Embassies and Consulates around the world.

  • FedStats - On-line access to the full range of public statistics and information produced by over 70 US Federal Government agencies. Stats from crimes to crops are downloadable in ready-made spreadsheet form.

  • The Federal Web Locator - A citizen's guide to Federal government information on the web, provided by the Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy.

  • FedWorld InformationNetwork - a one-stop location to access or order U.S. Government information, created through an agency of the Department of Commerce.

  • GovBot - A searchable database of over 600,000 U.S. Government and Military web pages from around the country.

  • Government Information Locator Service (GILS) - GILS records identify public information resources within the Federal Government, describe the information available in those resources, and assist in obtaining the information.

  • National First Ladies Library - On-line version of the national archive devoted to U.S. First Ladies and other important women in history.

  • Roberto Ortiz de Zarate's Political Datasets - A host of facts on world leaders from over 180 countries dating back to 1945. Includes current leaders, women world leaders, and rulers dead in violent circumstances.

  • The Patent Office (UK) - This offical website of the United Kingdom's Patent Office can be browsed by category or searched with keywords. Includes a feature story on widgets. Yes, they do exist, and you'll never guess what they are.

  • Rulers - Lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders which don't occupy either of those formal positions) of all currently existing countries and territories.

  • U.S. House Of Representatives - Home Page - Provides public access to legislative information as well as information about Members, Committees, and Organizations of the House and to other U.S. government information resources.

  • U.S. Senate Home Page - Access to information about members, committees, and publications.

  • The White House - Press releases and White House documents.

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History

  • The American Civil War Homepage - Well-organized links to sites and documents dealing with the Civil War.

  • Document Center - Detailed archive of historical and current federal, local and international papers, from the University of Michigan.

  • Douglass Archives of American Public Address - An electronic archive of American oratory and related documents.

  • Early America Archives - Original newspapers, maps and writings from 18th Century America-- the Colonial Period, the War of Independence, and the presidencies of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

  • The Historical Text Archive - Created for historians for the study and teaching of history. It contains links to many sites in the world.

  • History Buffs Home Page - A site devoted to newspaper press coverage of events in American history, it includes every Presidential Inaugural Address, as well as searchable categories like the Civil War, Crime Figures, and the Old West.

  • Historynet - Comprehensive resource for information on national and international history, including eyewitness accounts, personality profiles, great battles.

  • HyperHistory Online - Cyber-companion to Nothinger's World History Chart. It presents 3000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, maps, and descriptive text files. A great way to catch up on what's been happening in the world for the last few millenia.

  • Inaugural Addresses - Inaugural addresses for all the presidents from Washington to Clinton.

  • National Archives and Records Administration - Documents--diaries, letters, drawings, and memoirs--created by those who participated in or witnessed the events of the past.

  • National First Ladies Library - On-line version of the national archive devoted to U.S. First Ladies and other important women in history.

  • Russian History - From students in the Russian Studies Program at Bucknell University, this site contains links to other sites dealing with Russia's history, its dynasties, genealogies of Russian nobility, and other interesting historical aspects of our ex-Cold War enemy.

  • U.S. History Out Loud - Fascinating audio clips from world leaders of history in the making, especially personal notes by JFK regarding meetings on the Cuban Missile Crisis, and phone conversations by Lyndon Johnson to various Congressional leaders as he wheels and deals his way through the Vietnam War, the Warren Commission, and civil rights legislation. Requires RealAudio player.

  • Voice of the Shuttle: History Page - General history resources of Prehistory, U.S., World, Economic history, and Military History.

  • Web Sites for the History Profession - Web sites, Internet news, and web search information on extensive History subjects.

  • Women in American History - An on-line guide to the women indicated by the title. From the Encyclopedia Britannica.

  • Yosemite Park Centennial 1890-1990: A History - This on-line version of a 1990 publication of the Modesto Bee provides a rich historical view of one of our national treasures.

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Law & Crime

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Libraries

  • Book Stacks - Electronic Library - Free public service for the dissemination of electronic books (ebooks).

  • CARL - Searchable keyword index to 17,000 periodical titles; online article delivery.

  • Internet Public Library - A library of and for the Internet community which organizes books and reference sections in books and stacks.

  • Libweb - Links to public and academic libraries across the U.S. and around the globe. Many of the text and image collections physically housed at UC Berkeley are available here in digital form.

  • U.C. Libraries - University of California library references.

  • University of Virginia Electronic Text Library - Academic treasure trove of medieval and modern literature, including prose, poetry, and religious resources. Literary masterpieces in English, French, German, Japanese, and Latin.

  • The WWW Virtual Library - Distributed subject catalogue.

  • World-Wide Web Virtual Library - Intensive subject catalogue.

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Literature

  • Acses Bookfinder - A multi-national on-line facility, Acses checks out prices, availability, shipping times and shipping costs of any book at over 25 online stores.

  • Aesop's Fables - This online version of Aesop's Fables includes the full public domain texts of all 393 fables, indexed in a single table with each fable's moral listed.

  • Amazon.com Books The original online mega-bookstore (and slugging it out with Barnes and Noble for the title of "world's largest"), this site lists millions of books, searchable by author, title, ISBN number, subject, and keyword. Who says books are dead?

  • Barnes and Noble On-Line - Billing itself as the "world's largest on-line boosktore", this site features lots of reviews and other book-related information.

  • Eighteenth Century Studies - Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period.

  • The ETEXT Archives - Electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the profane, from the political to the personal.

  • Hugo Awards - Part of a larger site called the Hitchhiker's Guide to Science Fiction: Travelogue and Phrasebook, this page lists winners of the annual Hugo awards in all categories from 1953 to 1997's nominees.

  • On-line Literature Library - Literary works from many writers.

  • The Online Medieval and Classical Library - A searchable collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.

  • Realms of Myth, Legend and Folklore - A collection of stories from around the world, plus histories of some American holidays and links to related sites.

  • Science Fiction Links - Space and science fiction links including libraries, magazines, tv shows, film, and the Internet Resource Guide.

  • Shakespeare (Complete Works) - Complete works of Shakespeare, some annotated

  • Sherlockian Holmepage - Everything you ever wanted to know about the famous Baker Street detective, his sidekick Watson, and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

  • Works of the Bard - Collected works of Shakespeare.

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Miscellaneous

  • Absolutely Positively Useless - "All the information displayed in this site has been deemed a total waste of time, effort and space," it says, but a lot of it sure is interesting (e.g. the United States national anthem is the only anthem in the world that doesn't have the name of the country in it.)

  • Acses Bookfinder - A multi-national on-line facility, Acses checks out prices, availability, shipping times and shipping costs of any book at over 25 online stores.

  • Baby Name Finder - Not just for babies. Gives definitions and origins of first names (find out what you really named your characters --- or your kids.) Or, look for names by searching for (e.g.) a 3- syllable Russian girl's name.

  • Calculator.com On-line versions of every type of calculator you can imagine. And some you can't. Twenty different categories of calculator from Agricultural (e.g., seeding rates) to Time (e.g. an Islamic Calendar converter).

  • Calendarland - More different calendars than you ever dreamed existed. Includes links to calendar software you can download.

  • Cliche Finder - Looking for the perfect cliche? Search this site's database of over 3,300 cliches. Remember, a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.

  • Inkspot - A comprehensive resource for all kinds of writers (including screenwriters). It contains up-to-date market information, tips on improving writing, articles, interviews with professional authors and editors, networking opportunities, and a guide to the resources for writers on the net.

  • Land O' Useless Facts - Example: "The most common name in Italy is Mario Rossi."

  • Roberts Rules of Order - The Official Roberts Rules of Order website. Everything you ever wanted to know about running an orderly meeting.

  • Statistics Every Writer Should Know - Here, described in plain English, are some basic concepts in statistics that every writer should know. Includes an area where you can post questions.

  • The World's Richest People - 1997 - Forbes Magazine's current list of international billionaires. Broken down by name, country, net worth, and source of all that $$$.

  • The Writers Website - A potpourri of links aimed at all kinds of writers.

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Medical

  • Achoo - Comprehensive health care directory of 5,000 sites.

  • Alphabetical List of Specific Diseases/Disorders Diseases/Disorders - Complete alphabetical listing A - Z of diseases and disorders.

  • Bill's Net World - A family-medicine resident's alphabetical compilation of useful medical links, from AIDS to Trauma.

  • CDC Diseases Information Page - Information page featuring diseases, health risks, specific populations (women, children etc) injuries, and disablities.

  • Dr. Steve Price's World of Medicine - Useful resources to reach diverse medical and biological sites, information on doctors and hospitals, health facts, information about health-related publications, a glossary of terms and a variety of fun material.

  • Emerging Infectious Diseases - This journel highlights new and reemerging infectious diseases.

  • Medicine Online Inc. - Provides up-to-date medical resources, information, references, and connections for just about anyone in the medical field.

  • On-Line Medical Dictionary - This searchable dictionary contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology. It includes acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions, projects, eponyms, and history.

  • Virtual Medical Center - Contains information about medical, dental, nursing, pharmaceuticals and public health.

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News Sources

  • BBC News - On-line site of the British Broadcasting Corporation news division.

  • The Biz - Online magazine devoted to Show Biz.

  • Chicago Tribune - On-line version of the Chicago Tribune.

  • CNN Interactive - World news, sports, weather, showbiz, technology, style and fun.

  • Drudge Report - Daily compendium of news items from a vast array of standard and non-standard news sources, including daily print columnists.

  • The Electronic Newstand - Very well organized links to 2,000 magazines online, with even some limited search capabilities for articles.

  • Entertainment Weekly - Feature articles, movie and multimedia reviews.

  • Excite Live! - an overwhelmingly wide range of current news, sports, stocks, entertainment, links and other information, which you can organize and save for your own personalized page.

  • The Hollywood Reporter - On-line edition of Tinseltown's daily entertainment trade magazine.

  • Hollywood Scriptwriter - Screenplay excerpts and writer interviews.

  • In-Box Direct - Spend less time surfing for news. In-Box Direct gives you free subscriptions to the best publications on the web, delivered straight to your email in-box.

  • L.A. Weekly - On-line version of LA's leading alternative newspaper.

  • London Times - The venerable 200-year-old newspaper, along with the Sunday Times. Well-organized with back issues and a searchable archives.

  • Los Angeles Times - On-line version of the LA Times newspaper.

  • Los Angeles Times - Washington Post News Service - The Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service, which bundles the news-gathering resources of Times Mirror- and Washington Post-owned newspapers.

  • The MoJo Wire - Mother Jones Magazine Online: Alternative view of news.

  • MSNBC - The online version of the "interactive" all-news network with news, technology, commerce and commentary.

  • Nando Times - A continuously-updated online news service drawing from a number of daily and non-daily newspapers, as well as the Associated Press, Reuters, etc.

  • National Association of Newspapers - Hotlinks to hundreds of newspapers throughout the U.S.

  • New York Times

  • New York Times Books - Updated daily, the site includes the entire Sunday Book Review and a searchable archive of over 50,000 New York Times book reviews, dating back to 1980.

  • News Central - Links to over 2,700 newspapers from all parts of the planet. Everything from the New York Times to the Haveenu Daily (the newspaper of record for the Maldives).

  • News Index - Search for breaking news stories and topics of interest from this continuously updated database of articles from hundreds of news sources from around the globe.

  • Newsbot - Another Wired magazine spin-off, they're touting it as "the ultimate guide to news online." Items can be searched by category (business, entertainment, etc.) or with keywords.

  • NewsWorks - Search the contents of over 100 of America's top newspapers.

  • Pathfinder - A complete, online collection of all Time-Warner magazines.

  • PBS NewsHour Online - Daily and archived transcripts from the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

  • People Magazine

  • San Jose Mercury News - News and information.

  • Sports Illustrated

  • Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University) - Since August 5th, 1968, The Television News Archive has systematically recorded, abstracted, and indexed national television newscasts. These are abstracts only, but include the time an item appeared during a broadcast, so it's a great way to track down stock footage.

  • Time Daily - Continuously-updated news from Time magazine, with links to related stories.

  • Time-Life Photo Site - A collection of photos from Life magazine, including a searchable database of their cover photos from 1936 to 1972.

  • TIME World Wide - TIME Magazine.

  • Trib.com - News, weather, sports, and many links to other on-line news resources.

  • TV Guide

  • USA Today - News, sports, money, life, weather.

  • U.S. News Online

  • Variety - Net Gets Showbiz Vet. Selected daily articles from the venerable Hollywood trade paper. Complete on-line version available by subscription. Boffo Bid For Webwise? You decide.

  • Vibe Magazine Online

  • The Village Voice - On-line version of the venerable New York City alternative weekly newspaper.

  • Wall Street Journal - Products and services available on the Internet, including Money & Investing Update as well as information on the Journal's various educational programs.

  • Wire Services - An assortment of on-line newswire services and other news-oriented links.

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Reference

  • Airliners.net - Features photos of commercial and military airliners and helicopters, including cockpit views. The site also contains airport overviews and photos of aviation accidents, if you're into that kind of thing.

  • Alta Vista Translation Page - We have no idea how it works, but this site provides a rudimentary translation of any web page from French, Spanish, Italian, German or Portuguese into English (and vice versa). You can also input plain text phrases. Very cool.

  • American Sign Language Dictionary - This cool site uses animated photos to teach basic American Sign Language (ASL). Although kind of slow, it's an excellent use of the Web, and includes resource links of interest to the deaf community.

  • Ariga - A glossary of Yiddish expressions. An indexed-by-first-letter listing of familiar and not-so-familiar Yiddish words and expressions with their English translations.

  • Ask An Expert - A directory of links to people who have volunteered their time to answer questions and webpages that provide information.

  • Ask Jeeves - Ask Jeeves allows you to ask a question in plain English and, after interacting with you to confirm the question, takes you to one and only one web site that answers your question.

  • Babel - A list of spelled-out computer-related acronyms (without definitions, however).

  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - Searchable database.

  • Bible Gateway - Search through six different English translations of the most widely read book in history. Besides English, you can search in French, German, Swedish, Spanish, Latin, and... Tagalog!

  • Cockney Handbook - A dictionary of London slang wot's sweet as a nut, suss? (= that's absolutely perfect, understand?)

  • College and University Home Pages - Home pages for universities and colleges all over the world.

  • Common Errors in English - A great place to check those tricky little spelling and grammatical quirks of our language. Are you sure you know the difference between "imply" and infer"?

  • The Commonwealth Yearbook (1998 edition) - A compendium of information about the family of nations originally linked together in the British Empire, including the history, geography, constitution, major institutions, government and economy of each of its members and their dependent territories.

  • Country Studies - Information on 85 countries around the globe, including photographs, tables, glossaries, and bibliographies.

  • The Elements of Style, William Strunk - Classic aid for basic writing.

  • Encyclopedia of Conspiracies - Everything you were afraid to ask about conspiracy theories, neatly indexed by alphabet.

  • The Encyclopedia Mythica - An on-line encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, legends, magic and more, with over 2,300 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world.

  • ERIC - The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a database of educational information and materials.

  • The Farmer's Almanac - On-line version of the venerable print publication.

  • FAQ Finder - FAQs are documents with answers to Frequently Asked Questions about a particular subject. This site helps you find a wealth of useful FAQs on the Web.

  • Forensic Science Web Pages - Provides layperson-level explanations of the main disciplines within forensic science. Includes links to more technically-oriented forensic sites.

  • French Reference Library - Potpourri of information including French national holidays, an on-line metric conversion program, a list of French departements (the French equivalent of states), a glossary of French legal terms, even French wine vintage tables.

  • Glossary of Hardboiled Slang - A guide to the English language as spoken by Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, and Mike Hammer.

  • GovBot - A searchable database of over 600,000 U.S. Government and Military web pages from around the country.

  • Government Information Locator Service (GILS) - GILS records identify public information resources within the Federal Government, describe the information available in those resources, and assist in obtaining the information.

  • The Human-Languages Page - Devoted to information about the languages of the world, ranging from dictionaries and general reference works to language tutorials and spoken samples.

  • Information on Militias - A single page of links to websites of, and articles about, some of the scariest folks around.

  • Information Please - From the folks who bring you the printed almanac, a searchable site linked to IP's on-line almanac, encyclopedia and dictionary.

  • Infonation - A great source for up-to-date statistical information on all the member states of the United Nations.  The database contains dozens of statistical categories including largest city, major imports, life expectancy, population growth, etc. And you can compare the stats for up to seven different countries.

  • Infowar.com - Large collection of articles concerning computer hacking, cyber-terrorism, espionage, privacy issues, and more. If you're not paranoid, you will be after you read some of this stuff.

  • Jane's Defence Glossary - Over 20,000 defense-related acronyms and abbreviations from the publisher of England's famous "Jane's All the World's Aircraft."

  • Jargon File Resources - Everything you ever wanted to know about computer-speak, and more.

  • Journalist's Guide for Finding Data on the Internet - Statistics geared to writers, basic reference data, and topics ranging from aviation to weather.

  • Legal Dictionary - English and Latin legal terms translated into plain English, with internal hyperlinks.

  • List of Dictionaries - Links to lots of useful on-line dictionaries, including language-to-language, technical, rap, hackers dictionaries, acronyms, etc.

  • The Literary Dictionary - An assortment of words that first made their appearance in books, plays, poems, comic strips and mythology.

  • MapQuest - This site will generate a zoomable map of any location in the U.S., down to the street level! You can find business addresses, get the distance between any two points, obtain personalized driving directions and shortcuts, etc. Includes interactive maps of six continents. Very cool.

  • Merriam-Webster On-line - This website of the venerable dictionary publisher includes a hyperlinked dictionary and thesaurus, a handy pronounciation guide, and a daily word game.

  • My Virtual Reference Desk - Exhaustive and efficiently organized, with nearly 10,000 links. Very useful stuff, from encyclopedias to publications to search engines.

  • NASA Thesaurus - Sound like you know what you're talking about with this low-tech, but detailed site.

  • The Nobel Channel - This rich and gorgeously-designed site boasts exclusive access to the largest archive of Nobel materials in the world. Its many multimedia and interactive features cry out for a speedy Internet connection, but it's worth a long look even at 28.8.

  • The Nobel Prize Internet Archive - Information on current and past Nobel Prize winners in all categories.

  • Onelook Dictionaries - A comprehensive dictionary/glossary resource. Words can be looked up (with wild cards if you're not sure of the spelling) in a variety of dictionary classifications including general, medical, scientific, computer, military, religious, and acronyms.

  • The Patent Server - Access over two million patents dating back to 1971, as well as images from 1980 to the present.

  • The Pulitzer Prizes - Contains the works and profiles of Pulitzer Prize winners past and present.

  • Realms of Myth, Legend and Folklore - A collection of stories from around the world, plus histories of some American holidays and links to related sites.

  • Reference.com - This site facilitates finding, browsing, searching for information and participating in more than 150,000 newsgroups, mailing lists, and web forums.

  • Reference Desk - A comprehensive collection of reference links; it's like sitting in the middle of your public library research area.

  • Research-It! - A smorgasbord of research books and unique resource tools.

  • Resources for Writers - Links to scores of Websites for writing and research.

  • Rhyming Dictionary - An on-line rhyming dictionary that matches perfect rhymes, rhymes for last sounds in a word, and homophones.

  • Roget's Thesaurus - An on-line version of the standard reference book.

  • SYMBOLS.com - Contains more than 2,500 Western signs (ranging from Cro-Magnon ideograms to hobo signs), arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics, plus 1,600 articles about their histories, uses, and meanings.

  • The 50 States of the United States - Listings of state capitals; population figures; official birds, trees, flowers, and songs; government representatives; etc.

  • Time Zone Converter - Handy on-line program that converts dates and times between major cities and countries all over the world.

  • The Totally Unofficial Rap Dictionary - Get wit' dis.

  • Travlang's Translating Dictionaries - Translate between a large assortment of languages, including Portuguese, Afrikaans, and Esperanto.

  • Universal Currency Converter - Fast on-line program that converts the current value between any of over sixty currencies, as well as gold, silver and platinum.

  • U.S. Census Bureau - Searchable statistics on social, demographic and economic information for the United States from the official 1990 census. Maps, customizable search matrices and numbers galore.

  • War, Peace and Security Guide - This site from the Canadian Forces College provides useful links to global information on military forces, weapons, theory, history, contemporary conflicts, etc.

  • A Web of On-Line Dictionaries - A fabulous compendium of on-line dictionaries and thesauri of every imaginable description, including foreign language, acronyms, biographical, multilingual, and the ever-popular Pimbly's Dictionary of Heraldry. If you can't find it here, it's probably not a word.

  • Webgator - Investigative resource for tracking missing persons, getting info on local and state governments. Includes national databases and unique items like terrorist group profiles.

  • Webster's Dictionary (Hyperlink Webster Interface) - English dictionary on the Web.

  • WordNet - An extremely useful searchable on-line dictionary/thesaurus. Includes how terms are used in context.

  • World Wide Words - For the wordsmith --- this site contains articles delving into the usage of new, old, and unusual words, like "alexipharmic" (having the quality or nature of an antidote to poison.)

  • Writing Resources - Writing guides and other resources.

  • WWWebster Dictionary - Merriam-Webster's searchable on-line dictionary provides hyperlinked definitions, word origins and pronounciations.

  • Yahoo's Phone Number Reference Section - Look up businesses and individuals, find national and international area codes, and convert your phone number to words.

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Science

  • Animal Network - Information about animals, mostly of the domestic variety.

  • Animal Terms For Baby, Male, Female, and Group - Did you know a group of crows is called a "murder", and a baby wombat is a "Joey"? You would have if you'd visited this site.

  • Best of Breed Online - Searchable database of information on dog breeds, including great photos.

  • Biotechnology Information Center - Guides, directories and newsletters -- along with tons of things you won't remotely understand.

  • Computational Science Web Resources - Computers, space, physics, math, and general science links.

  • CSICOP - Skeptics unite! This site from the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) investigates paranormal and fringe-science claims.

  • EurekAlert - A comprehensive news server for up-to-date research in science, medicine, and engineering. Tracks the latest advances in cancer treatments, gene mapping, global warming, space probes, etc.

  • The Galileo Project - A hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time. Includes maps and timelines.

  • NASA Kennedy Space Center - information on recent missions, manuals, phone contacts and space-related links

  • PhysLINK - Includes links to equations, online periodic tables, nuclear and particle physics resources, physics journals, newsletters, and publishers.

  • PLANTS - Provided by the US Dept. of Agriculture, the PLANTS Database provides a single source of standardized information about plants. PLANTS provides standardized plant names, symbols and other plant attribute information. What does PLANTS stand for? Plant List of Attributes, Nomenclature, Taxonomy, and Symbols. Hey, it's a government acronym, after all.

  • Frank Potter's Science Gems - Physical science, earth science, life science, mathematics, and engineering.

  • SciCentral - Maintained by professional scientists, this site's mission is to identify and centralize access to the most valuable scientific resources online. It provides a gateway to over 50,000 sites pertaining to over 120 specialties in science and engineering.

  • Science - Great resource of collections, periodicals, and directories for a wide range of scientific topics.

  • ScienceNet - Includes a searchable database of scientific facts, scientific articles, the history of some of science's greatest discoveries, interviews with scientists, and best of all: a facility that allows you to ask specific questions of experts in a given field.

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Screenwriter Sites

  • Box Office Guru - An unbelievably comprehensive and constantly updated collection of film box office stats, including opening/total grosses for over 1600 pix released since 1989; current and past opening weekends; monthly averages; a release schedule for the coming four months, and some very pithy commentary by Gitesh Pandya, whose site this is. Gitesh deserves a medal.

  • Hollywood Writers Network - Beginning material and current industry information.

  • PAGE - The Professional Authors Group Enterprise - a full-service bulletin board system for and run by professional writers, with dozens of forums on writing, as well as general information topics.

  • Screenwriters & Playwrights Home Page - Designed to meet the special needs of screenwriters and playwrights.

  • Screenwriters Utopia - Lots of interviews, articles, and links of interest to both new and seasoned screenscribes. The site also has bulletin board and chat areas.

  • Wordplay - From working screenwriters Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott, this site reveals some of the secrets of writing and selling scripts. Scripters just breaking in will find Terry's and Ted's answers to questions in the Letters and Q&A sections especially useful. Pros might, too.

  • World of Writing - Many writing-related links.

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Weather & Travel

  • City.Net - Comprehensive international guide to communities around the world which provides access to information on travel, entertainment, and local business, plus government and community services for all regions of the world.

  • CNN - Weather Main Page - CNN world maps, weather, satellite images, updated every 12 hours.

  • Harris-Mann Weather and Elliot Advisory - Transmits detailed weather information and commodity forecasts daily.

  • Lonely Planet - Very comprehensive travel guides and detailed commentary.

  • MapQuest - This site will generate a zoomable map of any location in the U.S., down to the street level! You can find business addresses, get the distance between any two points, obtain personalized driving directions and shortcuts, etc. Includes interactive maps of six continents. Very cool.

  • Travel.org - A detailed travel directory with well-organized links to countless international sites.

  • WeatherNet - Provides access to thousands of forecasts, images, and a huge collection of related weather links.

  • World Weather Database - Short-term forecasts for major cities around the world.

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