Miscellaneous Links
This is the page for general links that don't completely fit in to the other categories. Also check out the links on the Worldbuilding Page
| Search Engine | Time | Finding People & Places | News |
| Weather | Dictionary & Encyclopedia | Trivia | Fun Fun Fun |
| Film Links | Books and Music Stores | Music Stations | Financial Links |
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| Science | Politics | Genealogy | Misc TV |
| Health |
| Yahoo | Ask Jeeves | Dogpile |
| A guide to time zones, calendars and more, and The OFFICIAL U.S. Time. |
| What Time Is It? |
| Tarek's Hijri/Gregorian/Julian Converter |
| Sunrise/Sunset data |
| Calendar Zone |
| Astronomy and tidal calculators from the Old Farmer's Almanac. |
| Moon Phase Calendar that displays phases by month. |
| White Pages Phone Directory | Bell South Search Page | Reverse Phone Directory | People Lookup |
| Mapquest | Google Maps | ||
| Switchboard | Anywho | ||
| US Postal Service: get zip codes and such here. | Yahoo People Search | ||
| Reuters | MSNBC | BBC News | National Public Radio |
| CNN | Fox News | Radio Telefís Éireann News | The Week -- British News Magazine |
| Topix.net internet news site | |||
| The Weather Channel | MSNBC Weather | National Weather Service | |
| Ga. St. Climatologist | Weather Underground |
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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
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| WorldCat: Search for books, movies and music in libraries near you. | ||||||||||||||||
| Library of Congress | ||||||||||||||||
| Scanned Images, Engravings, and Pictures From Old Books. | ||||||||||||||||
| Carol Hurst's children's literature site. | ||||||||||||||||
| Click here to find out Who's Alive and Who's Dead | ||||||||||||||||
| Last Words Browser | ||||||||||||||||
| Bartlett's Quotations | ||||||||||||||||
| A site for Useless Knowledge | ||||||||||||||||
| Is it true about gerbils and duct tape? Will that computer virus really jump to my bookshelf and erase all the text? Find out at the Snopes Urban Legend. | ||||||||||||||||
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Check out The Onion online, it's a scream. |
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Darwin Awards celebrate Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by commemorating the remains of those who improved our gene pool by removing themselves from it. |
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| Despair, Inc.: makers of fine demotivational posters, mugs and other paraphernalia for the workplace. | ||||||||||||||||
| SomethingAwful.com The name fits. I rather enjoyed Christmas in Middle Earth, though. | ||||||||||||||||
| Anecdote page. | ||||||||||||||||
| Long list of one-liners. | ||||||||||||||||
| The Pegasus Awards: Filk music at its best. | ||||||||||||||||
| Society for the Prevention of Plate Tectonics. Won't you help? | ||||||||||||||||
| Ban DHMO before it frickin' kills you. | ||||||||||||||||
| April Fools Day on the Web. | ||||||||||||||||
| Geographics : Science on T-shirts. | ||||||||||||||||
| Loompanics: Books and such, from the merely controversial to the downright weird to the technically illegal but for the "information purposes only" disclaimer. | ||||||||||||||||
| The Institute of Official Cheer | ||||||||||||||||
| YouTube: When you think you're interesting enough to have everyone else see you. | ||||||||||||||||
| Ship of Fools: Magazine of Christian Unrest. | ||||||||||||||||
| Engrish.com: That word. . . I don't think it means what you think it means. . . | ||||||||||||||||
| XKCD webcomic. | ||||||||||||||||
| Trebuchet Challenge | ||||||||||||||||
| Internet Movie Data Base | ||||||||||||||||
| The Digital Bits: "Celebrating Film in the Digital Age" | ||||||||||||||||
| "The Greatest Films" | ||||||||||||||||
| AFI's 100s lists. | ||||||||||||||||
| American Rhetoric: Movie Speeches | ||||||||||||||||
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Movie Mistakes: Movie trivia, Easter eggs, mistakes |
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| What is an Easter Egg? Plus the Easter Egg Archive, DVD Easter Eggs, and Easter eggs from DVD Review. | ||||||||||||||||
| Amazon.com | Spree Music Store | Powell's Books -- great selection of new and used. | Bookfinder.com |
| Alibris: Hard-to-find books | Loganberry Books | LB's Book Stumper Form | Hastings |
| LibraryThing: Catalog your books online | Deep Discount DVD | ||
| Kids-in-Mind: rating movies for youngsters. | |||
| GoodReads: see what your friends are reading. | |||
| WorldCat: Look up books in over 10,000 libraries. | |||
| Pandora: You program it. | WFUV | |
| Dave FM: "Adult Hits" | Jack FM: ditto. | |
| Fact Index |
| Specialist Calculators |
| Magnetic Declination Calculator |
| Metric/English conversions |
| True Random Number Service |
| Mnemonic devices for science, music, history and so on. |
| How Stuff Works |
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The American Institute of Philanthropy and Charity Navigator help potential donors make informed choices. |
| Federal Consumer Information Center |
| E-bay the uber-auction. |
| Freecycle: You can give it away! |
| Suggestions for care packages to soldiers. |
| Operation Shoebox: one of many groups sending care packages overseas. |
| Craigslist |
| The Straight Dope: Fighting Ignorance Since 1973. |
| Kelly Blue Book: Resource for pricing new and used vehicles. |
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British Feudal Investments: Noble titles for sale. |
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A slightly more frill-filled website for noble title purchase. |
| Kim Komando: Digital Goddess. |
| Webring for Abandonware. |
| Earth cam: cameras everywhere |
| Graniteland: the natural stone catalogue |