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Web Search and Reference Sites

• Altavista http://altavista.com/
• Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com
• Finding People: http://www.whowhere.com/
• Google http://www.google.com
  • Google tricks http://www.google.com/help/index.html
  • Calculator http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator
  • Definitions http://www.google.com/help/features.html#definitions
  • Phone Book http://www.google.com/help/features.html#wp
  • Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
• Intute - internet resources, reviewed and evaluated. http://www.intute.ac.uk
• OneLook—http://www.onelook.com/ online Dictionary
• Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/ and Yahooligans http://www.yahooligans.com/
• Vivissimo (clusters search results) http://vivisimo.com/
• WWW REFERENCES

The CIA Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ 

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• http://www.w3.org/
• http://www.cast.org/

Airline Tickets, Hotels

• flightsfrom.com (main focus is non-stop flights)
• Flight info http://www.trip.com/ -- use "Flight Tracker" to find out if particular flights are on time.
• http://www.cheaptickets.com/
• http://www.expedia.com [no Southwest]
• http://www.hotwire.com/ must commit before seeing details
• http://travel.priceline.com/ Once you enter credit card info, you're committed
• http://www.travelocity.com/

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

Archeological models http://www.learningsites.com/ Learning Sites designs and develops interactive three-dimensional digital models that are based on actual archaeological evidence

ART

• Eric Grohe's Murals - see http://www.ericgrohemurals.com/
• Escher http://www.worldofescher.com/

Astronomy URLs - look in left nav at the site of the Astronomical Association of Northern California.

Atomic Web Clock http://www.time.gov/

Automobile Safety

• Insurance Institute for Highway Safety http://www.iihs.org/
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration http://www.nhtsa.com/

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Bicycles

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• Effective cycling http://www.johnforester.com/
• California Bicycle Coalition http://www.calbike.org/
• California Vehicle Code on bicycles http://www.csaa.com/about/education/code.asp
• League of American Bicyclists http://www.bikeleague.org/
• Ohlone greenway http://www.bpfp.org/SFRW/OhloneGreenway.htm
• Register your bike - https://bikeindex.org/
  
• San Francisco Bicycle Coalition http://www.sfbike.org/

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 ONLINE -- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
• BANNED BOOKS ONLINE -- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html
• powellsbooks.com/
• University of Arizona -- http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/online.htm
• University of Michigan -- http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/ Making of America series.

Books to buy

• http://www.bibliofind.com/ -- Amazon.com
• http://www.tomfolio.com -- an international cooperative of used and rare booksellers

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.

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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

• Calendars Through the Ages http://webexhibits.com/calendars/

CARTOONS

• comics.com http://www.comics.com/
• Uclick http://www.uclick.com/

CERN http://www.w3.org/

Charity/Nonprofit Org Info

• Charity Watch -http://www.charitywatch.org
• Charity Organizations - http://www.actiondonation.org/articles/charity-organizations.html
• GuideStar -http://www.guidestar.org/

• http://www.barrysclipart.com/

COMPUTERS

• Apps
• Search for Apps - https://www.quixey.com/ - describe your problem and they'll find an app to solve it.
• Hackers
  • From Analog Jul-Aug 2004, Open Minds, Open Source, by Eric S. Raymond.
    • The Cathedral and the Bazaar - http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar
    • The New Hacker's Dictionary - http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon
• Mac help
• Apple
  • Support - http://www.apple.com/support/
  • Discusion forums - http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa
• EveryMac - http://www.everymac.com/ - specs, FAQs, Mac freeware
• Ripping DVDs http://guides.macrumors.com/How_to_Rip_a_DVD_to_a_Gen5_iPod
  • Handbrake http://handbrake.m0k.org/ - DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter

Crystal Set Society http://www.midnightscience.com/

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Dictionary

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Online--http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
• OneLook—http://www.onelook.com/

Dinosaur Sounds Sandia Labs http://www.sandia.gov/media/dinosaur.htm

Discover Magazine http://www.enews.com/magazines/discover

• DVD resources http://www.mpeg.org/~tristan/MPEG/dvd.html
• DVD Reviews http://www.dvdreview.com/

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Email

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• Email and chat abbreviation dictionary http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/chat.html

Electronic field trip - Journey North http://informns.k12.mn.us

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Free photos http://www.freefoto.com

ENTERTAINMENT http://www.tickets.com/

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FOOD

• Chez Panisse http://www.chezpanisse.com/
• Chocolate http://www.godiva.com
• Coop America about food - http://www.greenpages.org
  • Beer and Wine - Organic - http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney/articles/beerandwine.cfm
  • Bananas - http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney/articles/bananas.cfm
  • Chocolate
    • http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney//articles/chocolate.cfm -- Sources of fair trade chocolate
  • Coffee -- http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney//articles/coffee.cfm -- fair trade coffee.
  • Good Food - http://www.coopamerica.org/PDF/CAQ60.pdf
  • Eat less meat - coull the planet http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney/articles/lessmeat.cfm
  • Rice -- http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney/articles/fairtraderice.cfm
    
  • Safe Sustainable Seafood - http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney/articles/seafood.cfm
  • Sushi - 8 things worth knowing about eating sushi - http://en.ilovecoffee.jp/posts/view/89
    
• Farmers Markets http://www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/map.htm
• Pumpkin Land http://boutell.com/%7Egrant/Misc/pumpkin-pie.html
• Seafood buying guide (NRDC-June 2016) - https://www.nrdc.org/stories/smart-seafood-buying-guide
  

Free Speech

• Freedom forum -- http://www.freedomforum.org/

• BBEdit (Mac)http://www.barebones.com
• Encyclopedia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/
• Eudora (E-mail) and Fetch FTP software (Mac) http://mac.map.com/mail.html; http://www.eudora.com/
• Fonts
  • http://www.erik.co.uk/font
• Itunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/
• Music
  • http://www.prs.net/midi.html (Classical synth)
  • http://www.napster.com/
  • http://www.iuma.com/
• Nisus Writer http://www.nisus.com/

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GIZA PLATEAU MAPPING PROJECT http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/GIZ/Giza.html

GOVERNMENT

• NOAA
• Comprehensive Large Array Data Stewardship System (CLADSS)
• USGS
• On-line Geologic Publications of the Western United States -- http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/

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HOAXES and MYTHS on the Internet

• http://www.snopes.com/
• Vmyths -- http://www.Vmyths.com/ a very complete site on computer viruses hoaxes. Learn about computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban legends, hysteria, and the implications if you believe in them.

Hostels

• http://www.hostelworld.com/
• http://www.hostels.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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• Illusion and Art http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/art/

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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Javascript article http://macworld.zdnet.com/1999/07/create/yourjavascript.html

JOBS:

• America's Job Bank http://www.ajb.dni.us/
• JobWeb http://www.jobweb.com/

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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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Law

• http://www.nolo.com
• Law Firm Directory from LexisNexis
• Lawyers Directory from Martindale
• Bankruptcy from Martindale
• Traffic violations from LexisNexis

Libraries

• San Francisco Public Library http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/

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Macintosh

• Macs http://www.info.apple.com
• User Group Store cataloghttp://www.ugconnection.org/ugstore.html To Order call 1-800-350-4842 (NEW Extended Hours) M-F 6:00am-8:00pm & Weekends 8:00am-5:00pm Pacific Time

• Cobb Homepage http://www.cobb.com/
• Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/
• National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
• Popular Science http://www.popsci.com/
• Scientific American http://www.sciam.com/

• Eagle Geocoding Technolgy http://www.geocode.com/
• Green Maps http://www.greenmap.org/
• Maps http://www.mapblast.com/
• Coop's Maps http://www.coopsmaps.com/ specialty travel maps e.g. locations of Breweries, Train places, Dinosaur places.
• Terraserver http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
• Topographic Maps http://www.topozone.com/
• USGS

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

• Database http://us.imdb.com/
• Moviefone http://www.moviefone.com/
• What's in theaters nearby -- http://www.moviefone.com/

• Guide to Informal Science Centers - http://www.scienceadventures.org/
• List of museums - http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/usa.html
• Museum-L listserv FAQ text file at: ftp://ftp.nmmnh-abq.mus.nm.us/museum-l/museum-l-faq.txt -- The file has the URL for the list archives on the web. Also, you can read the Museum-L postings on the usnet newsgroup bit.listserv.museum-l
• American Museum of Natural History - http://www.amnh.org/ - Science Bulletins - http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/
• Bay Area Discovery Museum http://www.badm.org/ Sausalito, CA
• Exploratorium, San Francisco, Ca, USA - http://www.exploratorium.edu
• Franklin Institute http://www.fi.edu/ - activities at http://Sln.fi.edu/tfi/activity/act-summ.html
• Institute and Museum of History of Science, Florence, Italy http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/index.html Photos and text about many of Galileo's original telescopes and experiments...as well as his middle finger! at http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/genindice.asp?appl=SIM&indice=54&xsl=sala&img=si&lingua=ENG&chiave=600004
• Japanese American National Museum - http://www.janm.org/
• Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley - http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art - http://www.lacma.org/
• Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago - http://www.msichicago.org
• Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle - http://www.sfhomeworld.org
• St. Louis Science Center - http://www.slsc.org
• The Tech Museum of Innovation On-Line Exhibits - http://www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/

MUSIC

• http://allmusic.com/
• MP3 Sound
  • http://www.mp3.com/
  • http://macworld.zdnet.com/1999/07/features/
• Boston Symphony http://www.bso.org/
• Countdown (Opera) http://www.xs4all.nl/~yavelow/docs/CnDnIntro.html
• Iasos news http://iasos.com/news/
• Jukebox of oldies - http://www.tropicalglen.com
• Last FM - http://www.last.fm/music
• Opera---New York Opera Company http://www.nycopera.com/
• Record Albums (LPs; vinyl)
• http://www.goldengaterecords.com
  
• http://discogs.com 0
  
• Sheet Music (free)
• International Music Score Library Project - http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
  
• http://www.free-scores.com/free-sheet-music.php?CATEGORIE=190

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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

• http://www.topix.net/
• ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/
• News: http://www.sfgate.com/news/
• BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/
• CNN http://cnn.com/
• Franklin Institute reprints of Philadelphia Inquirer articles on science and medicine http://sln.fi.edu/inquirer/inquirer.html
• New York Times http://www.nytimes.com
• The Onion¨ http://www.theonion.com/ "America's finest news source" [Jokes]
• San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com
• San Francisco Examiner http://www.examiner.com/
• San Jose Mercury News http://www.sjmercury.com
• Sports http://www.cnnsi.com/
• Mindy McAdams Page http://www.well.com/www/mmcadams/index.html
• US News http://www.usnews.com

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:

• Make an amazing optical illusion
  http://www.planet-science.com/categories/extras/planet-science-loves/2012/09/make-an-amazing-optical-illusion.aspx

ORGANIZATIONS

• 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
• 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/
• 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
  • Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation http://www.ucinet.com/~umatribe/
• Native American Rights Fund - http://narf.org - National Indian Law Library - http://narf.org/nill/
• Oxfam http://www.oxfam.org/
• 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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• New Baby Sibling: Helping Your Older Child (or Children) Adjust - Even if your little one is already an older brother or sister, the addition of a new family member is a big change. This article has helpful tips on how to help your child adjust to your new bundle of joy.
• Helping Your Child Make New Friends - Friendships during early childhood are an important part of your child’s development, and this PBS article will help you encourage your youngster to cultivate these relationships.
• How to – Safely! – Introduce a Dog to Your Children - Even the coyest of kiddos can be animal lovers. This guide will assist you in helping foster the bond between your child and four-legged friend.
• 10 Tips for Transition to Child Care - The journey of going to daycare or school after being cared for at home by mom or dad can be an exciting experience, even if your child is initially hesitant. This article offers suggestions on how to overcome obstacles during this transition.
• How to Introduce Your Children to a New Partner After Divorce - Introducing your child to a new significant other may feel a bit intimidating at first, both for single parents and their children. This article offers valuable insight on how to support your child through this process.