Reference Sites
Distant friends
How far is it? - Find the latitude and longitude of two places, then calculate the distance between them. (sort of as the crow flies...)
Time Zones of the World - What time is it there?
Worldtime - Is it daylight where your friends live? This site features an interactive world atlas, information on local time as well as sunrise and sunset times in several hundred cities, and a database of public holidays worldwide. You can actually turn the Earth and see where the sun is shining right now.
Computer and Internet
Brad's Internet-help.net - Wonderful Brad has compiled links to all computer manufacturers, sites to track down updated drivers or missing DLL files & the like, info on how to do things like traceroutes, and links to info on Windows 98, Usenet, IRC, HTML, Web Phones and more.
Drivers Headquarters - For Windows 95/98
Updates.com - Software and driver updates
HouseCall: Online Virus Scanning Service ICQ - A popular program for chatting with friends & relatives online. ICQPlus - For when you want to get fancy-looking with your ICQ
Internet Traffic Report - Just how busy IS the Internet today?
InterNIC Whois - Search for domain name; NIC handle; host IP or lastname, firstname.
The List: The Definitive List of Internet Service Providers - Claims to be the most comprehensive and accurate directory of ISPs .
Netzero.com - Free Internet access with local dial-up from many US cities. Also good for a back-up ISP in case your regular ISP is having some problems. My mom and niece use this and it works great for them. I use it for a back-up ISP. After awhile you barely notice that advertising banner they require you to keep on your screen. :-)
Urban Legends - Are people continually forwarding bizarre Internet myths to you?! You know the ones: The Disney/Microsoft $5000 e-mail contest, the Mrs. Fields or Neiman Marcus $250 cookie recipe vendetta, that kind of thing... Well, when your friends pass along those "too good or weird to be true" stories to you, send them to this sight and watch the sheepish looks appear on their faces.
Free Drive - Your own disk drive on the Internet. You get 20 MB worth of hard drive space where you can upload & download any files you choose from absolutely anywhere. Allow access to friends so they can share files with you.
Internet File Zone - Another Internet file storage site. Another 10MB of free online storage for your files that you can access from a Web browser on any PC in the world.
Art, Books, Games & Music
Art Museums Online - Visit online art museums from around the world
World Wide Web Virtual Library museums pages - A comprehensive directory of online museums and museum-related resources
The Internet Public Library - The first public library of the Internet. A good source for reference & literature online.
Cardgames.com - Tips, tactics, and tutorials for your favorite card games.
Games Kids Play - Remember all those games you played as kid out in the backyard? Where did those rules come from? Obviously there was no "official" rule book, just knowledge passed down from older kids to younger kids. Check out this site for rules and variations to hundreds of games!
Misheard Song Lyrics - You have the books, now visit the Web site! Over 1700 bungled song lyrics listed here. You can even share your own versions of misheard song lyrics. This site can always make you laugh.
The Old Farmer's Almanac - Grandma's favorite!
Pollstar.com - A handy concert tracker for my musical niece Tobie who calls to ask me to find out some concert info for her on the Internet!
Educational (Not just for kids!)
How Stuff Works - Have you ever wondered how the engine in your car works or what makes the inside of your refrigerator cold? Then this is the place for you! Click on the categories to see hundreds of cool articles!
Learn2.com - Is there something you always wanted to learn how to do? Look here for thousands of free tutorials, low-cost courses and answers to everyday problems.
Food: (There are 1000s of food & recipe sites online; this is just a handful of some with lots of info on them. I'm sure we'll add more here as we finish doing a bit of bookmark reorganizing!)
AllRecipes.com - An awesome recipe site with 1000s of recipes
Cook's Thesaurus - Suggests substitutions for thousands of cooking ingredients
Epicurious - Dictionary of more than 4,000 food terms. Also includes metric equivalents and an herb-and-spice chart.
Great Jerky Recipes - They have some good ones, including some for game.
Top Secret Recipes on the Web - Get original recipes for kitchen clones of your favorite brand-name foods and restaurant favorites. They also have a "Secret Recipe Message Board."
Interesting and/or Cool Things:
The Geo-Images Project - This project attempts to make images (mostly photographs) that are useful in teaching geography more widely available using computers and the internet.
Psychedeliscope - You'll need to have Java enabled. Click on the button to open the display window.
Solar System Simulator
Worldwide Holiday and Festival Site - Large list of holidays observed all over the world.
Legal & Medical/Health:
Free Legal Advice and Law Information
Virtual Medical Center - Martindale's Health Science Guide
Media Resources
City Newspapers - Check to see if your hometown or former hometown's newspaper is online here
Total News - A search engine and directory of news sites. Search for current news stories by keyword.
Travel: Trip Planners & Mapmakers:
DeLorme - Plan a road trip. Links to local news, weather, road construction updates, etc.
Freetrip - Plan a road trip.
Mapquest - Plan a road trip.
National Geographic Map Machine - Links to local news, weather, road construction updates, etc.
Rand McNally Online - Links to local news, weather, road construction updates, etc.
FlightTracker: Where's that plane? - Track flights in real time! With flightTRACKER, simply type in a tail or flight number and you'll get up-to-the-minute information such as flight speed, altitude, heading, arrival and departure times, and even what kind of plane it is!
Animal names in various languages
Collective terms for animals (ie. herd. flock, etc)
Movies & Television: Internet Movie Database - Simply the best movie and television database on the 'net. You can search this site in many, many ways!
All Movie Guide - Another movie and television database
Games:
All Game Guide - Search by game, company, character or developer. (Playstation, Nintendo, PC games, etc)
Music & Lyrics:
All Music Guide -
All Classical Music Guide -
Annie's Place: Tunes of the 50's and 60's - Many .wav files of the 50's & 60's
Koala's List of Lyrical Links - Links to all sorts of lyrics resources on the 'net.
Top 40 Lyrics Archive - Look up lyrics by artist or band name
KIDiddles Mojo's Musical Mouseum - Find the lyrics to your favorite kids' songs
Music Review - Music industry search engine
Television Theme Song Lyrics (Lyrics only)
MattyG's TV Theme Songs & More (Music only)
America's Roof - Gives location, height, height rank, and climbing information for all of America's peaks
Atlapedia Online - Full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
Flags of the World Graphics of all the world's flags
50 States - What's the size of Texas? The state bird of Ohio? Find out the basic facts of any state in the Union.
Historical Calendar - Click on a date for a list of significant events which occurred on that date.
Monarchs of Britain - Everything you ever wanted to know about them!
Political Graveyard - Enormous political database that lists over 18,000 former U.S. Presidents, state governors and members of Congress (past and present) among many other political figures. Numerous ways to search here, including alphabetically, by state and office, by birth or death date, and many others."
Presidential Useless Facts - Self-explanatory
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The White House - Info about Past Presidents and First Families
BioTech - Enrich your knowledge of biology, life science and chemistry. Their illustrated Dictionary will give you information on thousands of life science terms. They also have a Chemical Acronyms Database.
Calculators Online - Calculate anything!
megaConverter - For just about anything you can think of, megaConverter can show you its equivalent. It allows users to discover things like how many seconds old they are, the difference between a gallon in the USA and a gallon in the UK, how many nanometers in an inch, how many quarts in a chaldron, and what the heck a nebuchadnezzar is.
Periodic Table of the Elements - Java version
Time-Life Plant Encyclopedia - Looking for a plant, tree, or shrub? This searchable database contains almost 3,000 species selected for general use in North American horticultural practice. Search by keyword or plant attributes. Link to plant encyclopedia is in upper left corner.
Aesop's Fables Online - A collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. Included are Real Audio narrations, Classic Images, Random Images, Random Fables, Search Engine, Message Forum and much more on the way. Recently added are 127 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen with 209 Grimms Fairy Tales coming soon, along with much more mythology and stories for your reading pleasure.
Dictionary of Phrase & Fable -
Land O' Useless Facts -
Of Gods and Men: The A to Z of Mythology and Legend -
Biographical Dictionary - Includes more than 27,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by name, birth year, death year, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, miscellaneousachievements, and other keywords.
Biography.com - Over 20,000 personalities
Biography Find - Their database puts over 20,000 of the greatest lives, past and present, at your fingertips.
Nom de Guerre - The definitive list of pseudonyms used by entertainment personalities, athletes, writers and historical figures.
Ask Jeeves - Make your search in plain English
Dr. Webster's Big Page of Search Engines - Many search engines on one site
RefDesk.com - Plenty of reference links here
Research-It! - Your one-stop reference desk. Includes links to a biographical dictionary, Bartlett's quotations, language translators, an acronym link, various dictionaries, an anagram solver, a language identifier, zoomable maps, a currency converter, postal Zip codes, and more...
Search Engine Watch - Learn to use them better, compare them, etc. If it's related to search engines in some way, you'll find it here.
Yes, We Have References - Links to many different reference sites
Quibs On-line - A U.K. site with misc. trivia information regarding people, history, nicknames, politics, language, and lots more. Poke around a little and you'll find lots of trivia info here. A good browsing site.
Foreign Language & Translation sites -
Alta Vista Babel - Translate words, phrases, or entire Web sites.
Language & Translation Dictionary Center
Anagram solvers: Just plug in the word or phrase you want to unscramble. Andy's Anagram Solver, The Anagram Engine, Anagram Insanity, Internet Anagram Server BlackStump WebWords - LOTS of links for word-related sites: Anagrams, Books, Cliches, Dictionaries, Encyclopedia, Grammar, Jingles, Language, Letters, Limericks, Palindromes, Poetry, Proverbs, Quotations, Shakespeare, Spelling, Sonnets, Tongue Twisters, Words, and Writing.
Gry, Gry, Everywhere and In Search of Gry - Are you as tired of this one as I am?!
Jumble and Crossword Solver - Database of over 230,000 words.
Phrase Finder - Collection of 5000 English phrases and sayings. Give it a single word and it will return a list of phrases and sayings that are related to the word in some way. There's also a list of phrases complete with their meanings and derivations.
Rhyming Dictionary - Find words that rhyme. Good for caption contests. Sometimes this one can be really funny.
Encyclopedia.com
Free Internet Encyclopedia -
Thesaurus.com -
WWWebster Dictionary and Thesaurus
Webspanol - Spanish language resources online. Promoting the study and appreciation of the Spanish language.