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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Web Search and Reference Sites
The CIA Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
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Accessibility to the web (for visually impaired)
Age Gauges (enter your birthdate and get interesting info)
Airline Tickets, Hotels
American Intercultural Student Exchange (AISE) http://www.sibling.org/ a non-profit, educational foundation for high school students, dedicated to the promotion of worldwide intercultural learning and living experiences.
Alternate View http://mist.npl.washington.edu:80/av/ (John G., Cramer--Analog Magazine)
American Ballet Theater http://www.abt.org/
Ancient Egypt Research Associates http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/nova/pyramid/excavation/lehner.html
ANTHROPOLOGY--Combe d'Arc cave painting http://www.culture.fr/gvpda.html
Archeological models http://www.learningsites.com/ Learning Sites designs and develops interactive
three-dimensional digital models that are based on actual
archaeological evidence
ART
Atlas Online http://www.nationalatlas.gov/
Atomic Web Clock http://www.time.gov/
Automobile Safety
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Bed and Breakfasts online -
http://www.bbonline.com/
Bicycles
BirdSource http://www.birdsource.org/, the interactive World
Wide Web database for bird information operated by the Cornell
Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society.
Online database records bird sightings -- by casual backyard
bird-watchers as well as serious bird enthusiasts -- and reveals
where the birds are anywhere in North America.
Books online
Books to buy
http://bookcrossing.com/ gives you a simple way to share books with the world, and follow their paths ...Register a book at the website (along with journal comments), get a unique BCID (BookCrossing ID number), and label the book . Then release it for someone else to read (give it to a friend, leave it on a park bench, donate it to charity, "forget" it in a coffee shop, etc.), and get notified by email each time someone comes here and records journal entries for that book.
Bullying
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California State Automobile Association (CSAA) http://www.csaa.com
Calculators http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html
More than 18655 calculators available online divided into categories
mathematical, science, engineering, other.
Calendars
Cameras
CARTOONS
CERN http://www.w3.org/
Charity/Nonprofit Org Info
Clip Art (for non-profit use)
COMPUTERS
Crystal Set Society http://www.midnightscience.com/
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Date Converter
http://www.calendarhome.com/converter/
Death Penalty - http://deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu/
Dictionary
Digital Library (UC)
http://www.cdlib.org/--The California Digital Library (CDL) is a tenth library for the University of California (UC). A collaborative effort of the nine campuses, it supports the shared collections of the University of California.
Dinosaur Sounds Sandia Labs http://www.sandia.gov/media/dinosaur.htm
Discover Magazine http://www.enews.com/magazines/discover
DVDs
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Electric Library
http://www.elibrary.com 900 magazines, 150 newspapres, 2000 books, 20,000 photos--costs $9.95/mo
Email
Electronic field trip - Journey North http://informns.k12.mn.us
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Freecycle -- A grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting)
stuff for free in their own towns. Reduce waste by connecting individuals who
are throwing away goods with others who are seeking them. Each local group
is run by a local volunteer moderator.
http://www.freecycle.org/
Free photos http://www.freefoto.com
ENTERTAINMENT http://www.tickets.com/
FOOD
Fraud Control
http://www.fraud.org National Fraud Information Center. Scam reports.
Free Speech
FREEWARE:
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Genome -- Human Genome guide --
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/human/
GIZA PLATEAU MAPPING PROJECT http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/GIZ/Giza.html
GOVERNMENT
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Highway Loss Data Institute --
http://www.carsafety.org/ -- comparative safety test data for automobiles/cars; also see Insurance Institute for Highway Safety --
http://www.highwaysafety.org/
HOAXES and MYTHS on the Internet
Hostelling International - American Youth Hostels (HI-AYH) --
http://www.hostelweb.com/ -- over 150 hostels throughout the United States and over 5,000 hostels throughout the world.
Hotel Hotline - http://www.hotelhotline.com
HTML -- see WorldWideWeb
Human Rights
- http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/hrp_reports_mainhp.html Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress. The reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Illusions
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/ -- librarians have become skilled at finding the good stuff, organizing it, and making it easier for people to find and use. Librarians also fight for important ideas like freedom of expression and thought, equality of access to information, and literacy.
Invention
- Alliance for American Innovation (AAI) http://www.InventorEd.org recently formed to provide a Washington presence for individuals and organizations across our nation which are interested in the United States entrepreneurial process, and the laws that provide its basis. The Alliance also serves as a depository of information on issues, particularly on intellectual property.
- Professional Inventors Alliance (PIA) http://www.rjriley.com/pia/; Ronald J. Riley, President, Inventor & Entrepreneur
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Java Applets & Info http://www.taxon.demon.nl/JW/javawoman.html
Javascript article http://macworld.zdnet.com/1999/07/create/yourjavascript.html
JOBS:
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Kaiser Permanente Medical http://www.ca.kaiserpermanente.org
Kiva - http://www.kiva.org - Micro-loans made from one individual to another... around the world. Nonprofit company, founded in 2005 based in San Francisco, Calif., connects individual borrowers or "entrepreneurs" with lenders who make direct loans of as little as $25.
Kodo (Taiko Drum Group) 12/97
JDC0300@niftyserve.or.jp
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Landmines
Law
Learn2.com -- http://www.learn2.com/ -- life-skills learning site. How to do things like change a tire, ship a bicycle, apply eyeliner.
Libraries
Literature: The Etext Archives
http://www.etext.org
Little Silver NJ
http://www.monmouth.com/~lsboe
Los Alamos National Laboratory http://www.c3.lanl.gov
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Macintosh
Magazines:
Maps
MOSAIC--http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Homepage/Platform.html--NCSA Mosaic is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (141.142.20.50) in directory /Mac/Mosaic as NCSAMosaicMac.103.sit.hq
Movies
MUSEUMS & SCIENCE CENTERS
MUSIC
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National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/main.html
National Science Foundation http://www.nsf.gov/
Netscape Homepage http://home.netscape.com/
Newsgroup Search engine: http://www.dejanews.com/
NEWSPAPERS --NEWS
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
NSF http://www.nsf.gov/
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Old Farmer's Almanac http://www.almanac.com/preview2000/lunar.html
Optical Illusions:
ORGANIZATIONS
- Alliance for a Media Literate America -- http://www.AmediaLitAmerica.org/ -- The AMLA is committed to promoting media literacy education that is focused on critical inquiry, learning, and skill-building rather than on media-bashing and blame.
- American Automibile Association -- http://aaa.com -- trip tiks
- Amercian Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) http://www.aclu.org ; Freedom Files (TV shows) http://www.aclu.tv
- Amnesty International
- Campaign for Justice. http://www.campaignforjusticejla.org/ - The US government during WWII financed and planned the abduction and forcible deportation of 2,264 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry from 13 Latin American countries to use as hostages to exchange for American POWs. Their passports were confiscated and without due process, they were imprisoned in Department of Justice camps in the US from Dec 1941 to February 1948. The Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which gave an official apology and $20,000 per internee, was limited to American citizens or permanent resident aliens at that time. US maintains that the Japanese Latin Americans were illegal aliens. The fact that they were abducted and forcibly brought into the US doesn't seem to matter. They have no rights. This group is struggling to be allowed the same redress as other Japanese-Americans before everyone passes away.
- The Center for Victims of Torture http://www.cvt.org/
- Global Exchange http://www.globalexchange.org/ - a human rights organization promoting environmental, political, and social justice around the world. Founded in 1988.
- International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) http://www.ippf.org/
- International Right To Know (IRTK) http://www.irtk.org
- NAACP http://www.naacp.org/
- National Society of Black Physicists http://nsbp.org
Native American Organizations
- Native American Rights Fund - http://narf.org - National Indian Law Library - http://narf.org/nill/
- Oxfam http://www.oxfam.org/; Make Trade Fair http://www.maketradefair.com/ -- The rich world tells the poor world to get rid of subsidies, but continues to spend $1 billion a day subsidising its own farming enterprises. Rich countries dump subsidised produce on developing countries, driving down the price of local produceÊ- with devastating effects on the local economy. This unlevel playing field has made many poor farmers even poorer, or forced them off their land completely.
- Post Carbon Institute - http://www.postcarbon.org/ - MuseLetters - http://www.richardheinberg.com/museletter/archived
- Red Cross http://www.redcross.org/
- Solar Cookers International http://solarcooking.org/
- Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.splcenter.org
- TV turnoff http://www.tvturnoff.org/
- Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation http://www.vvaf.org/
- United Nations Association--US http://www.unausa.org/
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Pacific Gas & Electric
http://www.pge.com
Phobias -- http://phobialist.com/
Phobias A to Z: Provided by psychology.about.com http://psychology.about.com/library/bl/blglos_phobias.htm
Picturesofplaces.com http://www.picturesofplaces.com/
Physics--Interactive Physics Sites
Physics-About Temperature
http://unidata.ucar.edu/staff/blynds/tmp.html (For more information, contact: Beverly Lynds, Unidata Education Programs Coordinator, Unidata Program Center, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307; telephone: 303-497-8654; email: blynds@unidata.ucar.edu)
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RECIPES
REFERENCES
Reno http://www.globaldialog.com/~obsessiontscp/
Robots
Hazardous duy robots (NOVA/PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/robots/hazard/
Robot Wars http://www.robotwars.com/ 12/97
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Safety & Emergency Information
SCIENCE
Shareware ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/
September 11, 2001 Destruction of World Trade Center -- Fractured Fundamentalisms http://www.Beliefnet.com/story/88/story_8849_1.html Extremism
exists in every major faith, and sometimes turns violent.
Socially Responsible
Investing/Buying
SOFTWARE
- Backup software to miniDV: http://www.coolatoola.com -- shareware
- Bento (Filemaker Lite) - http://www.filemaker.com
- Carbon Copy Cloner (Mac) - complete, bootable backup of your hard drive
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
- Collaboration software
- Freeware
- Handbrake - http://handbrake.fr/ - DVD to MPEG-4 converter
- Language -- translation software -- Language Engineering Corporation -- http://www.lec.com/
- Metacreations: Bryce3D, Kai's Power Tools, Painter http://www.metacreations.com/
- iView Multimediahttp://www.scriptsoftware.com/ -- makes thumbnails with links to full-size image files.
- NIH Image http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/
- PageSucker -- http://www.pagesucker.com/ -- a small
utility that allows entire Web page hierarchies to be downloaded
automatically. The pages are modified in such a way that
they can then be viewed off-line (even after copying them
to a CD-ROM or the like).
- PC Virus protection (for Intel Macs running Windows)
http://www.macworld.com/2006/04/firstlooks/pcantivirus/index.php
- Powerpoint Viewer for Mac; for PC
- Shareware for Mac http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive.html
- SheepShaver is an Open Source PowerPC MacOS run-time environment --http://gwenole.beauchesne.info//en/projects/sheepshaver -- enables you to run PowerPC Classic MacOS software on your computer
- SketchUp - 3D modeling software http://sketchup.google.com/
- Super Duper (Mac) - backup and clone drives, or update an existing clone with the latest data (Smart Update)
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
- Unite! http://www.uniteunion.org/
- Uniview http://haydenplanetarium.org/universe/uniview/
- Version tracker http://www.versiontracker.com list of
updates and searchable database of software titles (commercial,
shareware, freeware, etc) for MacOS (Classic and OS X),
Windows, AND PalmOS software. For Mac, there is also http://www.macupdate.com
- Web applications (applications that run online) http://www.xplane.com/xblog/webapps.shtml
Soil--National Soil Survey Center http://www.nssc.nrcs.usda.gov
SPAM
STAR TREK--Klingon http://www.kli.org
Surf Watch http://www.surfwatch.com
--Basically this program does not allow access to any site that contains sexually explicit material. Updates can be subscribed to for a small fee. The educational price is only $25 and $36/year for updates. Volume prices are also available for schools and museums. For more info: write to info@surfwatch.com---Peter Michaud (MICHAUD@BISHOP.BISHOP.HAWAII.ORG); Bishop Museum Planetarium; Voice (808)847-8235
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Tax Information http://www.irs.gov/
Telephone Directory (white pages)
http://people.yahoo.com/
http://www.switchboard.com/
http://www.whitepages.com/
http://www.infospace.com/
THEATER
Tibet
Time
Time Travel http://www.mkaku.org/
Tolerance.org http://www.tolerance.org/
Traffic Jams - NY Times article http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03traffic-t.html?th&emc=th
Traffic jam solutions - http://trafficwaves.org/seatraf.html - http://trafficwaves.org/ - http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/links.html - and article: To fight traffic clumps: Go slow, not with the flow (SF Chronicle) -
Traffic Schools Online
TRANSLATE English<--->
Transrow project http://www.goals.com/transrow/index.htm (Mick
Bird) to row around the world (alone!) in a 28ft. row boat.
TRAVEL
TV & Radio
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U.S. Postal Service http://www.usps.gov
United Nations Association 12/97--http://www.unausa.org
US National Information Infrastructure http://nii.nist.gov/
Used Cars/Automobiles/Vehicles -- Prices/Values -- NADA -- National
Appraisal Guides, Inc. http://www.nadaguides.com/
Usenet FAQs ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/
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Vegetarian Resource Group http://www.vrg.org/
Vehicle Safety -- Insurance Instutute for Highway Safety http://www.highwaysafety.org/
Video editing online
Virtual Tours of the World -- http://www.airpano.com/List-Aerial-Panoramas.php
Virus threats -- http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ (Symantec's "security response" Web
site which addresses legitimate computer virus threats)
Vote Smart http://www.vote-smart.org/ tracks performance of political leaders
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Weather
WebCams http://www.webwaste.com/webwaste/ (live cameras)
Wine
Wolfram|Alpha Reference Site: - http://www.wolframalpha.com/ - a free online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data. Subject areas include Mathematics, Statistics & Data Analysis, Physics, Chemistry, Material Properties, Engineering, Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, Transportation, Web & Computer System, Units & Measures, Finance, Dates & Times, Places & Geography, Socioeconomic Data, Weather, Health & Medicine, Food & Nutrition, Words & Linguistics, Culture & Media, People & History, Education, Organizations, Sports & Games, Music, Colors. See examples at http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples and Stephen Wolfram's introduction at
http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
World Socialist Web Site http://www.wsws.org/
WorldWideWeb
- Archive of many Internet sites http://www.archive.org- The Wayback Machine
- Code for Passthrough Page
<head><meta http-equiv=refresh content="5; url=00000000000"></head>
- Code for specific size target window [advise backup link in case of popup blocker]
<a href="targetURL" onclick="window.open('targetURL', 'myWin', 'toolbar=yes, directories=no, location=no, status=yes, menubar=yes, resizable=yes, scrollbars=yes, width=1000, height=500'); return false">
- COLOR TABLES and TOOLS
- Doctor HTML http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/ Check webpages, hyperlinks
- HTML
- Internet connection speed test at ToastNet http://performance.toast.net/
- How to publicize your Web site over the Internet http://www.samizdat.com/public.html
- Neighborhood Social Networks - https://nextdoor.com/
- Next Generation Internet http://www.ngi.gov -- research on a new Internet, a thousand times faster and more reliable than today's -- for 21st century researchers
- A NATION ONLINE: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use of the Internet Washington, D.C. February 2002 -- http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/dn/nationonline_020502.htm
- Real Audio Player http://www.realaudio.com/index.html
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Yosemite info http://yosemite.com/
YouTube movie conversion/capture - ZAMZAR - http://zamzar.com
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Zip Codes http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html
Zoos http://www.mindspring.com/~zoonet
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