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DEPARTMENTS

• academic resources
• address
• art
• awards
• entertainment
• geography
• health
• history
• humor
• language
• music
• news sources
• politics
• radio shows
• religion
• reference works
• search engines
• telephone numbers
• transportation
• TV
• typeface
• variety
• Web publishing
  

NEWS SOURCES

• Daily newspapers
• Create your own newspaper.
• MSNBC Cover Page
• Institute for Global Communications
• Get the whole story -- DisInformation
• Finding Dulcinea: Librarian of the Internet
• Technical news from ZD Net
• News about computers and the Internet
• Weather Channel
• Weather from USA Today

HUMOR

• Changing sexual mores
• Comparing sex and banking
• Yankee jokes
• New Jersey glossary
• Poem about a political machine
• Broken news
• TV spin-offs we'd like to see
• Lifeboat ethics test
• The world's greatest development for TARTAR CONTROL (Warning: large files!)
• Murphy's Laws
• Quotes
• Rodney Dangerfield's Joke of the Day
• Gallowglass Pipers

REFERENCE WORKS

• Metric quantifiers (prefixes).
• Dubious metric weights and measures.
• Check whether a celebrity is dead or alive.
• List of phobias
• ALMANACS
  • Today in History
  • Information Please
  • Funk and Wagnalls
• ENCYCLOPEDIAS
  • Wikipedia in many languages
  • Internet Oracle
  • Resource Central
  • Library Spot
  • Virtual Reference Desk
  • Electric Library
  • Health

HEALTH

• Health encyclopedia
• Medical Letter
• Consumer Reports

ACADEMIC RESOURCES

• PLANET EARTH HOME PAGE -- colleges and universities
• Graduate schools ranked
• Lehigh Links to Advancement Services
• NESL: Resources on the World Wide Web
• Library of Congress
• Academic libraries
• Law libraries
• FindLaw

LANGUAGE

• Language translation
• Logos dictionary
• InterTran thesaurus and translator between English and 26 other languages.
• BABELFISH TRANSLATOR between English and five European languages.
• Conjugate verbs in 20 languages.
• Find dictionaries and reference texts at HARRIS Mountaintop.
• Look up juicy slang around the world in The Alternative Dictionaries.
• Slang dictionary
• Dictionary of sexual terms
• Chat Lingo
• Chat room abbreviations
• Language families
• Orthography:
  • Omniglot: a guide to written language
  • Alphabet Street
  • Transliteration of Cyrillic Alphabets
• Computing Languages List
• Dutch
• English
  • Dictionary
  • Merriam-Webster dictionary
  • Roget's thesaurus
  • Dictionary with thesaurus
  • Thesaurus with dictionary
  • Dialect (example)
  • English dictionary
  • Dictionary by Labor Law Talk
  • How languages are related.

TYPEFACES

• Georgian TrueType Fonts

ENTERTAINMENT

• RADIO SHOWS
  • A Prairie Home Companion
    
  • Car Talk
    
• TELEVISION SHOWS
• AWARDS
  • The Oscar (Academy) Awards
  • The Darwin Awards

GEOGRAPHY

• Map libraries:
  • California Geological Survey.
  • University of Texas at Austin.
• Geography World at Lakeland Junior-Senior High School in Jermyn, Pennsylvania
• Geographic Information Center at University of Virginia
• National Geographic Society
• US Census Tiger maps.
• Tiger Map Server of US Census
• Topographic Maps
• World Concentrations of Population
• Television Designated Market Areas of A. C. Nielsen
• World Model Home Page
• Map Projection Home Page
• American Congress on Surveying & Mapping
• Ocean sensing group at Johns Hopkins University
• Great Globe Gallery
• Great Circle Route Drawing Utility
• Great Circle Distance Calculator
• Cultural Information
• Top 25s of the World
• Important Rivers of the world
• Railroads of the world
• Flags of the World
• Google earth

TELEPHONE NUMBERS

• Phone numbers and addresses
• multiple choice
• Area codes:
  • International
  • Area code changes
  • North American Numbering Plan
  • New North American codes
  • Introduction of future North American codes
• Prefixes:
  • Telephone Prefix Search

ADDRESSES

• Addresses and phone numbers
• multiple choice
• Postal Service
• Zip codes
• Postal Service zip codes
• Abbreviation
• Nuclear power plants

SEARCH ENGINES

• Search Engines -- Beaucoup!
• Metasearch
• All-in-One
• Windweaver
• The Internet Sleuth
• Guide to Meta-Search Engines

VARIETY

• Technical advice about how to use communication and information systems
• The Straight Dope - Fighting Ignorance Since 1973
• Guru's Lair
• Joseph Rosenzweig's page
• Creep of the Week
• MATHEMATICAL GAMES
  • Polyominoes
• Pentominoes

WEB PUBLISHING

• EDITING
  • Webmaster's Starter Kit
  • Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide
  • Avoid design mistakes -- see Web Pages That Suck.
  • Net Tools
  • SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)
  • Introduction To HTML and URLs
  • HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
  • Creating HTML Documents
  • How to write HTML files
  • HTML Reference Manual
  • HTML Quick Reference
  • HTML Quick Reference
  • HTML Quick Reference Guide
  • HTML Style Guide
  • HTML errors to avoid
  • Hypertext links in HTML
  • Library of Congress HTML links
  • HTML Specification
  • HTML extensions for Netscape 1.0
  • HTML extensions for Netscape 1.0
  • HTML extensions for Netscape 2.0
  • HTML extensions for Netscape 2.0
  • HTML extensions for Explorer 2.0
  • HTML extensions to read applets
  • Drafts of proposals for HTML extensions
  • Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
  • Make sure your text can be read by most browsers. Use the ISO Latin 1 Character HTML Entity Names
  • Advice on ISO8859 Latin-1 character set
  • List of XML and HTML character entity references
  • Graphic punctuation:
    • HTML Icons.
    • Commonly Confused Characters
  • Learn how to use Frames.
  • Andy's Netscape HTTP Cookie Info
    
  • More First Class links.
  • Music notation software
  • GRAPHICS
    • images
    • images
    • backgrounds
    • horizontal bars
  • understanding file extensions
• MARKETING
  • Search Engine Watch -- how to submit your site.
  • SignPost ...Directing Traffic to Your Site!
  • Rank This! -- improving search engine ranking
  • Make every hit count!
• LEGAL ASPECTS
  • U.S. Copyright Office
  • Common myths about copyright

HISTORY

• Internet timeline
• Living Internet

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