Cool sites arranged in no particular order

• RefDesk.com Gateway to every reference source available...dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, news, facts, etc, etc.
• NY Times "Navigator" NY Times provides a wealth of reference sources. Used by the newsroom of The New York Times.
• OneLook Dictionary Service Search 3922099 words in 740 online dictionaries with one query.
• Acronym Finder Look up the meaning of acronyms.
• The Glossarist Need a specialized definition? Try one of the 4577 glossaries. Searchable.
• Wikipedia Accurate and comprehensive free-content encyclopedia.
• USGS Geographic Names Information System Contains information about 2 million physical and cultural geographic features.
• Babelfish Translate any web page (or any other text) from or to English.
• PhoneSpell Convert phone numbers to word combinations.
• On this day in history...
• Virginia Dept of Public Health Restaurant Inspection Results Check out the results of your favorite restaurant's last inspection.
• Worst-Case Scenarios Instructions to survive unusual catastrophes (e.g. shark attack, falling elevators, sinking cars, alligators, etc.)
• All you ever wanted to know about time!
• Where's George Track where your dollar bills have traveled around the U.S. and how many hands it's touched.
• Library of Congress Search the library of Congress for any conceivable subject.
• Track bills before Congress Find the status of bills up before the Senate and House of Representatives.
• Write your Representative Locate the phone, fax, address and email address of your Representative.
• Write your Senator Locate the phone, fax, address and email address of your Senator.
• Annual Credit Report Source for free annual credit report from the three major credit bureaus. (Based on recent law change.)
• Zillow.com Get real estate appraisal of any house plus tax value and structural characteristics.
• Class Rings, Lost and found Lists of class rings, either lost or found in hopes of reuniting them with the owners.
• How Stuff Works Unbelievable database explaining how things work -- worth a look.
• Get Human.com Phone numbers and tricks to by-pass voice mail and talk to humans at large companies.
• Price comparison shopping - find the best prices on the web.
  • Google's Froogle
  • Price Grabber
  • Yahoo! Shopping
  • Price Watch
  • Street Prices
  • Dealtime
  • Bizrate Shopping Search
• Search for people, addresses & phone numbers
  • Zoom Info. Search engine dedicated to archiving info on people and companies.
  • SearchBug - Find anything on the net. 100's of searches.
  • Any Who Search - people/business/phone/email searches
  • Yahoo People Search - people/email searches
  • Lycos People Search- Search for people by name
  • Switchboard - phone number searches
• Search for photo's and pictures
  • Google - Google image search.
  • Altavista image search.
  • Picsearch.
  • Lycos Multimedia Search
  • Ditto
  • Search.com image search
  • Click here for Mac Desktop Pictures, icons and graphics
• Geographic Searches and Maps on the web
  • Gmap Pedometer Calculator Automatically calculates running, jogging, walking route in Google map-type web page.
  • Google Maps Google's location finder similar to mapquest, but includes maps and aerial photographs.
  • MS GoLive Maps Microsoft's mapping and aerial photo web site with special birdseye photo feature.
  • Terra Server USA Free public access to a vast data store of maps and aerial photographs of the United States.
  • USGS National Map Viewer View maps and aerial photographs of the United States (plus lots more geographic information).
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System Contains information about 2 million physical and cultural geographic features.
  • MapQuest! Interactive Atlas and route planner.
  • MSN Maps & Directions (formerly MapBlast!)
  • Maps On Us
  • Rand McNally Maps
  • National Geographic Maps
  • Maps.com
  • Maptech Map Server View Topo maps, Nautical charts, aerial photos and aero charts.
  • TopoZone Topographic maps from USGS.
  • Quick maps A wealth of map resources.
  • Multimap Maps of the world.
  • Mapathon Maps and Guides for the US.
  • Outline Maps Download maps for classroom and personal use.
  • Ogden's Map bookmarks 20,000 catagraphic bookmarks
  • View historic maps & charts.
• USPS Zip Code Finder Enter an address and it finds the zip code.
• Airline flight trackers
  • FlightView Airline Flight Tracker
  • FlightAware Flight Tracker>
  • Flight Arrivals>
  • Air Travel Center Airline Flight Tracker.
  • Norfolk Int Airport flight info Up to the minute arrival and departure information for Norfolk Int flights.
• FAA Airport Status Gives up to the minute info on delays of incoming and outgoing flights.
• US Airport info Good information on airports nationwide especially for pilots.
• Aircraft Wrecks Information on aircraft crash sites from 1909 to 2004.
• Federal Highway Administration Nationalwide road conditions and travel info.
• Genealogical Research (Thanks to Bob Rankin's TOURBUS list)
  • Cyndi's List. 98,500 genealogical resources on the Internet.
  • GENEALOGY RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET.
  • ROOTSWEB.
  • USGENWEB. Genealogical resources broken down by state.
  • WORLDGENWEB. Similar to USGENWEB but broken down by country.
  • Family Search. Mormon site to access the top level documentation available from the LDS archives.
  • Ellis Island. Records of immigrants who arrived through Ellis Island.
  • Ancestry.com
  • About.com Genealogy Site
  • Family Tree Maker
• Urban Legends and Internet Hoaxes
  • Snopes.Com A good resource for Net myths and rumors.
  • Urban Legends Another good resource for Net myths and rumors.
  • ScamBusters Check out internet scams, email hoaxes & uban legends.
  • Break the Chain Common-sense evaluations of e-mail chain letters.
  • Truth or Fiction Quickly get infor about eRumors, warnings, offers, myths, hoaxes, virus warnings, or inspirational stories circulated by email.
• IP2Location Lookup Country, State, City, Latitude, Longitude and ISP of any IP address.
• Travel Information
  • Steve Kropla's Help for World Travelers Information for anyone traveling outside the US with a laptop or cell phone.
  • Trip Advisor.com Good information on destinations worldwide.
  • Lonely Planet Good information on destinations worldwide.
  • Aircraft SeatGuru Information on best seating on aircraft in the major airlines.
• Wireless computer access sites
  • WNN Wi-Fi Net News Latest information on Wireless Networking.
  • Wi-fi ZONE Finder Official database of the WI-FI Alliance.
  • WiFinder Searchable database of Wi-Fi hotspots
  • WiFi Free Spot Directory of free Wi-Fi hotspots
  • WiFi 411 Searchable database of Wi-Fi hotspots
  • AirPath Searchable database of Wi-Fi hotspots
  • Community Wireless Node Database
  • JiWire Searchable online database of Wi-Fi hotspots and downloadable list.
  • Wi-FiHotList.com Searchable database of Wi-Fi hotspots
  • Hot Spot Haven Global Wi-Fi hotspot directory
  • About.com Wireless info Guide to wireless networking.
  • Wireless FAQ For Older Apple PowerBook Computers Ken Vann's FAQ dealing with wireless installations for older Mac's.
• Password security
  • Microsoft Password tester Test the security of your passwords.
  • SecurityStats Password checker Test the security of your passwords.
  • Security Focus Password security Good information on ways to secure your passwords.
  • Geodsoft Password security How-to Good information on ways to secure your passwords.
  • Ask Bob Rankin Security Info Good information on ways to secure your passwords.
• Anti-SPAM sites
  • Spamhaus Site dedicated to stopping Spam.
    • Spamhaus ROKSO database Spamhaus list of known spam operations.
  • Stop Spam Things to do to stop Spam,from C/NET.
  • Death to Spam New and devious ways to stop Spam
  • SamSpade Online tools to track down spammers
  • Great C/NET Spam-off More ways to kill spam from C/NET
• Lots of good sites to test your connection speeds.
  • CNET Bandwidth Meter
  • Speedtest.net
  • Bandwidth Place Easy to use with good explanations. Limted to 3 test per month.
  • Verizon speed test
  • MySpeed speed test
  • SpeakEasy.net
  • Broadband Reports
• Web sites that list "dollars off" codes you can use when ordering over the net.
  • Retail Me Not Search the greatest source of coupon codes.
  • CurrentCodes.com Hundreds of well-known online stores have "secret" discount codes that gives a percent or dollar amount off your purchase.
  • NaughtyCodes.com List of ALL of the coupons and promotional codes used by on-line stores.
  • Online Coupons.com More coupons and codes for online stores
  • Score a Deal Deals, bargains, lowest prices, coupon codes, sales, and freebies
  • JumpOnDeals.com Even more coupons and codes for online stores
  • KeepCa$h.com More deals, rebates and coupons. (Thanks Steve)
• Discount Magazines Hundreds of magazine subscriptions (e.g. MacWorld, MacAddict, etc). Most for $6.00.
• NADA appraisal guides The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) appraisal guides for automobiles, motorcycles & boats.
• Sites that sell books on the internet.
  • Biblio.com Source for used, out of print, and rare books from over 1700 professional booksellers.
  • Powell's.com Unbeliveable online bookstore for new, used, out of print, and e-books.
    • Powell's Macintosh Books Great source for discount Mac books.
  • BooksPrice, Book Price Comparison Searches for books online, singly or in groups and give you the best price.
  • Campusi Book Finder Online Marketplace searches 100 bookstores an 80,000 book sellers.
  • Bookfinder.com The Online Marketplace for over 60 million new, used, rare, and out of print books at your fingertips.
  • Book Closeouts
  • Amazon Bookstores "Earth's biggest bookstore".
  • Barnes and Nobel Bookstores "World's Largest Bookseller Online"
• Recipes online.
  • Saveur Recipes from Culinary Traditions from around the world.
  • RecipeSource Tens of thousands of recipes.
  • Just Recipes Lots of recipes and more.
  • Food TV Recipes Recipes from the Food Network.
  • Epicurious Recipes Epicurious Recipe Site
  • Cooks Illustrated Cooks Illustrated Site - techniques and recipes
  • GOOD COOKING! Features food, wine and cooking with professional recipes, submitted recipes, and recipe links.
  • CDKitchen.com Recipe Archive
  • All Recipes Recipe Archive
  • Chef2Chef Recipe Archive
  • Mad's Recipes 1000's of Recipes
  • Copy Cat Recipes
    • Top Secret Recipes Creating kitchen clones of America's favorite brand-name & restaurant foods.
    • Cd Kitchen Copy Cat Recipes Restaurant recipes and "copy cats" of well know dishes.
    • Copy Cat Recipes More "copy cats" of well know dishes.
    • The Kitchen Link Copy cat recipes and cookbooks.
    • The Recipe Goldmine More copycat recipes.
• World Fact Book Information about all the countries of the world.
• NationMaster.com Everything you want to know about all the countries of the world.
• U.S. Geological Survey Maps and Aerial Photos
• GlobeXplorer satellite photos
• NASA's Visible Earth Hundreds of high-resolution snapshots taken from orbiting satellites.
• Internet country codes Names countries for all those two-letter country codes in email addresses and URLs.
• Live365.com Lists hundreds of radio stations that can be played or downloaded into iTunes.
• Shoutcast More radio stations that can be played or downloaded into iTunes.
• Lots of good sounds to play in Quicktime
  • You've got Mail Lots of short sound Clips
  • Fun Wavs Lots of movie sound Clips
  • Sun-Sounds! Clips from movies, TV, songs, etc.
  • Wav Central Sound clips from movies, TV and sound effects.
  • Wav List Even more sound clips
  • Movie Sound Central Even more sound clips from movies
• Internet Bumper Stickers
• Project Gutenberg 10,000+ books, digitized and available for download.
• FetchBook.Info A quick way to locate and compare prices of new and used books.
• Nitpickers Site Like to identify problems in movies and TV. This is the site for you.
• Movie Mistakes A compilation of mistakes in Movies and TV shows.
• The Internet Movie Database Absolutely everything you want to know about any movie.

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