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A boiled down selection of sites for gathering information, editing, making travel arrangements, and other helpful stuff.
REFERENCE
http://www.libraryspot.com/ Go here first. Look at the yellow left column of this site for well organized information sources.
Thesaurus
http://thesaurus.reference.com/ Need a good word? Dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia.
The Best Travel Site
http://www.sidestep.com/hotel/ This beats them all. Why? Simple. No fees to Orbitz, Travelocity, Priceline, etc. It searches the websites of the actual service providers and takes (or sidesteps) you to their sites.
Mapquest
http://www.mapquest.com/ Wanna know how to get there and how far it is?
Weather
http://www.wunderground.com/ The local weather around the world. Get it all in about three clicks.
Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/ Encyclopedic knowledge about nearly all
subjects.
Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org/ Just a ton of easy to find information on all subjects.
Almanac
http://www.infoplease.com/ Almanac, atlas, dates in history.
Phone Numbers
http://www.anywho.com/ Get phone numbers and addresses.
Medical Info
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ National Library of Medicine. The world’s largest medical library.
Medical Info
http://www.merck.com/pubs/ Quick guide to diseases.
SEARCH FOR NEWS
BBC News
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CNN News
The New York Times
Extremely Reliable
http://www.theonion.com/content/index Hard breaking news. The kind no one else can deliver (or is looking for). Alcoholic Kindergarten Teacher Stretches Naptime To Three Hours. Goldfish Can't Stand Bowlmate. Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People
SEARCH THE WEB
http://www.google.com/ everyone looks here first.
ALTERNATIVE
http://www.alltheweb.com/ a fast alternative.
ALTERNATIVE
http://lii.org/ Librarians Internet Index. Features dozens of high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by a team of librarians
OTHER
Movies
http://us.imdb.com/ Internet movie database
TV
http://www.tvguide.com/default TV listings.
Sports
http://www.allsports.com/ Professional sports
http://www.howstuffworks.com/ How does a telescope, a cell phone, sleep, organ transplants, an airplane, etc. work? This site will let you know.
These links, compendiums of sites put together by the NY Times, will bring you to a very wide variety of information on:
BUSINESS
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/business-navigator.html
HEALTH
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/health/health-navigator.html
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