Audio
AdTunes.com
Information on music used in television commercials, shows, movie trailers, soundtracks, and video games. Features updated ad music blog, resources, and message forums. |L|
AllMusic Guide
Comprehensive guide to the best music recordings in every genre. Cross-indexed source of reviews, essays, and ratings. Uses submissions from readers. |@r|
AM FM TV Online
Searchable directory of radio and television stations in the United States.
BBC Radio Player
Portal to the audio selections of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
BBC World Service
Provides world business, politics, science, entertainment, and arts news.
Broadcast-Live.com
From this site, live television and radio broadcasts are available from a number of countries including Belgium, Croatia, Canada, France, Germany, and the UK.
KNHC-FM 89.5 Seattle - C89.5fm
Run by Seattle high-school students. Dance-oriented hits and public affairs programming.
KUBE-FM 93.3 Seattle
Plays the latest hip-hop and rhythm and blues hits.
KUOW-FM 94.9 Seattle
NPR, BBC, and local news and talk. University of Washington.
Lala
Upload music, purchase online-only songs, share songs with friends and discover new music through the Lala community. |@LL|
Last.fm
A personalized online radio station for sharing and streaming music. Every user builds their own online record collection and taste profile, and shares their musical tastes instead of actual files. |LML|
Ministry of Sound Radio
Streaming music from a large, UK independent record label of dance music.
Music One
News, playlist, forums, and dance music. |L|0|
Odeo
A podcast directory and search engine. |LL |
PublicRadioFan.com
Features a database of program listings for hundreds of public radio stations around the world. Includes audio links.
Radio FG
Techno radio, live from Paris. |L|
Radio-Locator
Directory of radio stations. Searchable by location and call sign.
Real.com Guide
Internet broadcasters guide from Real.com, with links to over 2500 stations selectable by genre and keyword search. |@LL|
SHOUTcast
A free streaming audio system. Anyone can broadcast music through this cutting-edge streaming technology. Site features documentation, downloads, news, and station showcase.
WBUR-FM 90.9 Boston
Boston’s NPR station broadcasts New England news and features programs such as Only a Game, Here and Now, The Connection, BBC News, and BBC World Service programs overnight.
Winamp
Windows high-fidelity music player with original features and support for many formats of audio files. |LLarson|
WindowsMedia.com Media Guide
A portal for streaming media using the Windows Media format. Includes music videos, radio stations, and news headlines.
WNYC-FM 93.9 and WNYC-AM 820
The New York City affiliate of National Public Radio. FM 93.9 and AM 820.
Directories
BUBL Link
The Bulletin Board for Libraries covers all academic subject areas. All items are selected, evaluated, cataloged, and described by experts.
Google News - News and Resources
Exhaustive links list to news resources reporting on the people and government of the United States.
Lucas Larson Internet Directory
Exhaustive links between you and the best of the internet. |wrf1|
New York Times Newsroom Navigator
Starting point for a wide range of journalistic and research functions.
Open Directory Project
Searchable web directory compiled by volunteer editors at dmoz.org.
WebRing
Find websites, share ideas with peers, and participate in topical communities. |lucasl|llarson|
Film
All Movie Guide
Search for films using flexible criteria. Film listings include general information, cast and crew, synopses and reviews. Allows users to rate films on several dimensions.
Google Movies
Showtimes and locations for current releases.
Internet Movie Database
Features plot summaries, reviews, cast lists, and theatre schedules. |LL|
Moogle
Movie information via Google API.
Movie Criticism for the Retarded
Reviews through the eyes of video store clerks. Current articles, archive, and links.
New York Times: The Best 1000 Movies Ever Made
The best in cinema since 1927, as chosen by the film critics of the New York Times.
Project Hessdalen - Short Films
Strange, unexplained lights appear in the night sky over a remote Norwegian valley.
Red Without Blue
A documentary of the gender, identity, and unswerving bond of Mark and Clair (née Alex) Farley.
Trailervision
Satirical trailers of movies that do not exist.
Ustream
User-created video broadcasts. |/id|
YouTube
Hosts user-generated videos. Includes network and professional content. |LML |
Graphics
BBC News - In Pictures
The best news photos of the week.
CG Channel
Computer graphics and VFX magazine. |L|
Esquire Cover Gallery
Hundreds of covers dating from 1933 to the present.
Eurobad
An exhibition of the worst interiors of 1974.
Face of Tomorrow
Attempts to find the prototypical human face of different worldwide locations by taking photographs of the current inhabitants and composing their faces to create a typical face.
gif2png web interface
Upload and convert a GIF file to an optimized PNG file, which has no quality loss and is usually smaller than the source.
GIFWorks
GIF file editor. Resize, edit, and optimize both static and animated files.
Google Images
The most comprehensive image search on the web.
GUIdebook
Online gallery, preserving historical graphical user interfaces.
Here is New York
Exhibit of over 5000 images related to 2001-09-11.
Identifont
Typeface identifier. Users are guided through illustrated multiple-choice questions of features of a font to arrive at font identification. Covers fonts from over 200 publishers; typefaces can also be looked up by name.
King County Snapshots
12000 historical images of Seattle and King County, Washington.
Media Convert
Free online file conversion for audio, video, images, and documents.
Memefest Gallery
Gallery images from the International festival of radical communication.
myImager.com
Upload or call images from anywhere on the web and edit them online with dozens of tools such as resizing, trimming, adding text, changing file formats, and reducing file size.
Panoramas.dk
Weekly full-screen QuickTime panoramas and a directory with over 20000 panoramas.
Panoramio
A combination of travel photo galleries and Google Earth provides photos from around the world. |LL |
Peerbot
A favicon search engine.
Photobucket
Free video and photograph sharing, online photo albums, image hosting, and linking. |LL |
Photoshop.com
A free, web-based version of Adobe Photoshop where users can edit, store, and share photos online. |LML |
Pouet
Multiplatform database of news, groups, and productions. |L|
September 11th Photo Archive
Before and right after.
Signs of the Times - Protest Photos
Collections from the first half of 2003; mostly New York and Washington.
Time Covers Since 1923
View images of Time magazine covers from 1923 to the present.
VectorMagic
Free, online bitmap-to-vector conversion tool that improves picture quality by eliminating the pixelation that occurs in bitmap images. |@g|
WhatTheFont
Analyzes uploaded images and returns the font style matching the font used in the image.
Wikimedia Commons
A central repository of free images, music, sound, video clips, and spoken texts. |LL|
Windows through the Curtain
Photographs of Communist store windows taken between 1986 and 1990 by David Hlynsky.
World Wide Panorama
Photographers in 40 countries around the world celebrate the equinox and solstice by creating QuickTime VR panoramas of their locations.
Internet
A List Apart
Weekly magazine for people who make websites.
Ad Blocking with CSS
CSS rules to block ads. The technique works for any CSS-compliant browser or mail client.
anti-banner.css
A CSS that makes use of commonly found attributes associated with banners. It currently uses element dimensions and DOM location, href fragments, link targets, borders, and common alt attributes to try to remove banner ads.
BetaNews
Insider information on various soon-to-be-released software titles. |LL|
bit.ly
URL redirection with real-time link tracking. |@LL|
BroadbandReports.com
Information on DSL, cable, and other high-speed internet services. |p|
Browser-Safe Colors
All-browser-safe 216 color chart and 16 million color checker and converter.
Color Blender
Find evenly spaced midpoints between any two given colors. Hexadecimal and RGB supported.
CSS Optimizer
Optimize CSS code and remove redundant values.
CSS Page Layout Templates
Open source templates built with XHTML1 and CSS2.
Deja Vu
A timeline of internet history and a browser emulator to view sites as they would have appeared in early browsers such as Mosaic, Netscape 1.0, Internet Explorer 2.0, and HotJava.
Designing More Usable Websites
Guidelines, projects, browsers with accessibility features and other information related to website accessibility.
Digg
Technology-focused news site where the stories are chosen by community members rather than editors. | L|
Experts Exchange
Ask questions about all things related to computers. |LMLarson|
Feed Validator for Atom and RSS
A validator for syndicated feeds. It works with RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, and 2.0. It also validates Atom feeds.
FileFormat.info
File format standards, online file conversions, and detailed file specifications, including Unicode characters, MIME types and file extensions.
Freshmeat
Unix and related software in all stages of development. Daily release announcements. Not restricted to open-source software. |LLarson|
GeoCities
15 MB with three GB monthly bandwidth limit. Browser uploads and online editor. Banner or pop-up advertisements on each page.
Ghost Sites
Long running online museum provides screenshots of defunct sites.
gozer.org - Mozilla - Ad Blocking
Hide certain elements based on their attributes and values with CSS. In the case of banners, the ads are downloaded, just not displayed.
HTML Tidy
Remove sloppy and redundant code from HTML documents.
HTML-Kit
Edit, format, lookup help, validate, preview and publish HTML documents from an easy to use environment. Full featured web page editor that can point out errors and optionally autocorrect the HTML code. |L|
Identical Websites
A comparison of the websites of 10 famous designers through elements of their layout: styles, page construction, and elements.
IE Add-ons Gallery
Add-ons that enable you to personalize Internet Explorer. |L|
JSLint - The JavaScript Verifier
Scans JavaScript source and describes potential problems. It does not prove that a program is correct. It just provides another set of eyes to help spot problems. It is almost a JavaScript validator.
Juicy Studio Color Contrast Analyzer
Uses the W3C algorithm to check for sufficient contrast between background and foreground colors.
Juicy Studio CSS Analyzer
Tests for basic accessibility errors such as color contrast and units of measurement.
Mac OS X Hints
Hints and tips for the Mac OS X operating system. |g|
Mac OS X Hints Forums
Forum for users of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system. |LLarson|
MacScripter AppleScript Forums
Comprehensive site with news and resources for AppleScript users. Features include example scripts, scripting additions and a bulletin board for scripting discussions. |L|
MacUpdate
The largest Macintosh-only software and games download site on the internet.
Missing Manuals
Full written manuals for popular consumer software and hardware products that come with no hardcopy manuals, or for which manuals are very poor.
Mozilla.org Bugzilla
The Mozilla bug database. Search for reported bugs, and report new ones in Mozilla products. |@L|
MozillaZine
Mozilla advocacy with builds, screenshots, polls, and interviews. |LL |
OCAWA Accessibility Validator
Operational Control and Analysis for Web Accessibility tests the accessibility of your website using international accessibility standards.
Open Source Web Design
Free web designs submitted by web designers behind the open source movement. |L|
Opera
Producers of the fast, small, reliable Opera browser for multiple platforms. Features include mail, news and ICQ clients, RSS, IRC, projection mode, WML support, mouse gestures, and extensive keyboard support. |LL |
PC Magazine
Complete guide to personal computers, peripherals, and upgrades. |w4in|g|
PDFUnlock
Unlocks PDF files online for free.
Persistent Uniform Resource Locator
URL redirection. |g|
ResearchBuzz
Internet research news and information.
Robots.txt Checker
Robots.txt syntax validator based on the Robot Exclusion Standard.
Search Engine Watch
Search engine marketing and optimization.
SelectORacle
Plain-English and -Spanish translations of CSS2 and CSS3 selectors.
Site Meter
Small graphic counter with real-time traffic reporting. |s18LL|
Sitepoint.com
Provides tips, expert advice, and articles about DHTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML, ASP, CGI, Perl, ASP, PHP, and MySQL with a hands-on approach in building a successful website. |LLarson|
Sitescore
A free tool that rates a website’s design, popularity, and accessibility.
Slashdot
Technology-related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues. |LL|
SourceForge
Free hosting for open source projects. Offers mailing lists, bug tracking, and forums, 100 MB of web hosting with MySQL, full backups, and total web-based administration. |LL|
Surfin’ Safari
Safari news and updates. |L|
Table of Unicode characters from 1 to 65535
All Unicode characters alongside equivalent numerical ampersands.
UITest.com: Site Check
Test a URL with the W3C, WDG, ATRC, WebAIM, WebXact, Bobby, Cynthia Says, HiSoftware, Site Valet, Colorblindness filter, and Google Viewer, all from the same page.
VersionTracker: Mac OS X Software
Lists current versions of shareware, freeware, and commercial software for Macintosh. |@LL|
W3C Spell Checker
A tool to check the spelling of text on a webpage.
W3Schools Web Tutorials
Large collection of tutorials. HTML, XHTML, and JavaScript.
Web Standards Project
Devoted to adhering to W3C standards in webpage design. Links to other sites and tutorials on CSS and HTML.
WebKit Open Source Project
Build and browse the burning edge of the frameworks used by Mac OS X.
Webmaster World
Discussion board for search engine optimization professionals. |L|muerto|
What Is My IP Address?
Free service automatically determines one’s address on the internet.
Whois Source
Domain search tool that allows a wildcard search. |@LL|
World Wide Web Project
The first ever page written in HTML and published on the internet.
X-Philes - List of XHTML Sites
The XHTML 100: sites where the home page validates; three random secondary pages validate; the correct MIME types are sent.
X11 Color Names
Colors sorted by X11 name, hexadecimal values, and RGB.
XHTML, CSS, and HTML Optimizer
Compress your code to speed loading time.
Zoho
A suite of online web applications geared towards increasing productivity and easy collaboration. Office tools include a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, hosted wiki, notebook, mail, and CRM. |ll|
Language
16 Rules of English
The 16 rules of Esperanto and their English-language counterparts.
Akademio de Esperanto
Documents related to the Esperanto Academy including decisions and current works.
Alternative Esperanto Dictionary
Esperanto slang, profanities, insults, and vulgarisms.
Atlango
The new international language for Europe.
Bazaj Radikoj Esperanto-Esperanto
Baza radikaro kun klarigoj en simpla Esperanto. 2500 radikoj faras 25000 vortojn.
Columbia Journalism Review - Language Corner
Collection of various rules of the English language and usage tips organized by topic and parts of speech.
Ebonics Translator
Enter your text to translate from English to Ebonics.
edukado.net
Service for teachers and students of Esperanto. |p|
Esperanto Grammar
Scholarly thesis written in English with an emphasis on morphology.
Esperanto Learning Aides
Websites, online courses and local classes. Hosted by the United States Esperanto Youth Organization.
Esperanto-English Dictionary
15000 words defined on one page. |iwgx|kt78|ktkg|jzd2|wrze|
Esperanto-Radikala Asocio - Por Internacia Lingvo
Politika agado por internacia lingvo.
Esperantujo
Brief description of the language and a short Esperanto-to-English dictionary of essential words. Includes a list of all official affixes.
Fagan Finder Translation Wizard
Translate text or webpages to many different languages.
Free Translation
English to Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Norwegian. Translate to English from Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, and Portuguese.
From Language to Language
Type a known term in Esperanto, English, French, Russian, Italian, German, Turkish or Spanish and search for the corresponding term in the language of your choice. |L|
Galerio de Babilemuloj
Photographs of users of popular Esperanto chat rooms. |L|
Getting Started With Esperanto
An overview for computer users.
Glosa.org
Information on Glosa with learning and text materials, links, a mailing lists and supporting organizations.
How to Build a Language
A general overview of many constructed languages. Introduction with personal analysis and conclusions.
How to Talk Dirty in Esperanto
A collection of rude words and how to use them.
Ido, the International Language
Exhaustive links regarding the reformed and improved version of Esperanto.
Ido-English Dictionary
The 4000 most-used words in Ido. |ji6x|
iLoveLanguages
A comprehensive catalog of language-related internet resources. 1900 human-reviewed links.
Interlingua, Union Mundial pro (UMI)
Official website, with news, documents in Interlingua and information in other languages. Also, free translation service, bookstore. Created by the International Auxiliary Language Association. |L|
Internet Vocabulary
In Dutch, French, English, Esperanto and Polish.
Italian Language - Forms of Address
Explanation of the four Italian second personal pronouns.
Komputada Leksikono
Referenca verko pri komputado de Sergio Pokrovskij.
Language Construction Kit
In-depth introduction to language creation.
Learn not to speak Esperanto
An accurate argument against Esperanto.
Lernu
Best online source for learning Esperanto. |L|
Ligoj pri Tradukado
200 tools for Esperanto translation: dictionaries, translators, grammars, and search engines.
Lingua Franca Nova
Simple and consistent language for international communication.
Modern Language Association - Map of Languages in the United States
Map uses data from the 2000 US census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States.
Mondezo
A simplified Esperanto, free of accents, the accusative ending, asymmetrical sexism, adjectival concord, and obligatory tense. |2jz5m|
Non-Verbal Dictionary
From Adam’s-Apple-Jump to Zygomatic Smile.
Ogden’s Basic English
Auxiliary language composed of 850 English words.
Online Speech Bank
Links to internet sites with full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures and interviews.
Optimal Auxiliary Language Guidelines
Revised edition of an article discussing the design factors to be considered in creating an artificial language for global communication.
Pop vs. Soda Page
Plots the geographic distribution of the terms “pop”, “soda”, and “coke” when used to describe sweetened carbonated beverages.
Reta Vortaro
Collaborative multilingual Esperanto dictionary.
RhymeZone Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus
User poetry and quotation submissions. Includes a rhyming dictionary and thesaurus.
Speech Accent Archive
Examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same paragraph.
Stanford University Level 1 Vocabulary List
The 500 most-used words in Esperanto.
The Little Prince in 100 Languages
German-language website with audio samples of “The Little Prince” in many of the world’s languages.
Thesaurus.com
Searchable version of Roget’s Thesaurus of English words and phrases.
Tradukilo Esperanto-English Translator
Create results in Latin 3, UTF-8, X-convention, and H-convention.
Traduku.net
Translate any phrase or website to or from Esperanto.
Translate.ru
Bidirectional text, webpage, and email translations between Russian, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Uniono por la Linguo Internaciona Ido
Ido dictionaries for English, German, French, and Italian.
Universala Vortaro de la Lingvo Internacia Esperanto
Published by the Akademio de Esperanto.
Useful Esperanto Phrases
An introduction to the most-common phrases in Esperanto.
Verbix Online Conjugator
Verb conjugator for all languages.
Vikipedio en Esperanto
Rete konstruata enciklopedio. |L|
Why is the holiday Hanukkah spelled two different ways?
There is no definitive way of translating the Hebrew characters into English.
Wiktionary
Collaborative project for creating a free lexical database in every language, complete with meanings, etymologies, and pronunciations. |L|
Zompist BBoard
Conlanging bulletin board.
Maps
American FactFinder - Reference Maps
Locate United States Census geographies and view Census data in map format. Create, print, or download both reference and thematic maps.
Bing Maps
Provides directions, interactive maps, satellite, and aerial imagery of the United States. Search by keyword such as type of business.
Earth and Moon Viewer
View either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in Earth orbit, or above various cities around the globe.
Fool’s World Map
Visualizing a map of the world based on popular misconceptions of country locations and sizes.
Google Maps
Drag-and-drop mapping from Google. Provides options to search for locations, businesses, driving directions and a general search box to key in your destination.
iTouchMap.com
Maps and utilities for the iPhone and iPod touch. |L|
Library of Congress Map Collections
Digitized maps of North America in the public domain from 1544 to today.
Maporama.com
Fully interactive maps and door-to-door itineraries. Localization of businesses around any given address.
MapQuest
Find directions for, and explore towns and cities worldwide. Display addresses on a map, view nearby businesses, get driving directions and maps, and plan a trip with city information.
Metrobot
Map-based search engine and city guide that displays listings and links for businesses on either side of individual street segments in chosen US cities. |muerto|
Microsoft Research Maps
Repository of aerial photographs and satellite images of the United States (formerly TerraServer USA).
Missoula County Parcel Map
Search by address or map for property tax information and owner.
New York City Subway: Google Maps + Flash
New York City Subway map, overlaid on top of Google Maps with Flash.
New York City Zoning Maps
From the New York City Department of City Planning.
New York Subway Diagram
New York City Transit, PATH, LIRR, Metro North, SIRR, New Jersey Transit, Amtrak, Newark City Subway, Hudson Bergen Light Rail, Newark Airtrain, JFK Airtrain and local ferries.
NYC OASIS
New York City Open Accessible Space Information System.
NYC Subway Map
User- and eye-friendly version of the Metropolitan Transit Authority subway map with descriptive symbols.
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
Maps covering every area of the world.
Seattle Municipal Archives Map Index
750 historical and current digital maps of the city of Seattle.
Subway Info
Provides door-to-door directions via the New York City subway, including options for different times of day.
TopoZone
US Geological Survey topographic maps.
New York
Chowhound.com
Non-commercial information on great eating and restaurants in New York.
Citidex
Manhattan maps, including neighborhoods, parks and complexes, transportation, theater plans, stadium plans and ZIP codes.
Citysearch - New York
Searchable guide to New York City events, hotels, nightlife, restaurants, shopping, museums, theater, and arts. |L|
Commissioners’ Plan of 1811
Detailed history of Manhattan’s street grid.
Exploring New York City
Columbia University Libraries’ guide to New York City.
Foodada Restaurant Menu Guide
View and print restaurant menus and find ordering information. Search by restaurant name, neighborhood, cuisine, or ZIP code.
Forgotten NY
Information about old forgotten relics in New York City, including roads and signs.
Gotham2go.com
Guide to takeout menus and restaurant food delivery for New York City.
Historic Districts Council
The advocate for New York City’s historic neighborhoods.
HopStop
Door-to-door subway and walking directions in New York City. |@g|
Manhattan User’s Guide
Offers opinionated reviews and information on services, restaurants, shopping, and hotels. |w8bk|
MenuPages
Search by cuisine or area. Includes interactive map of Manhattan, ratings, reviews and restaurant location maps. |@r|
New York City Housing and Neighborhood Information System
Allowing a wide variety of New Yorkers to gain access to previously unavailable data on housing and neighborhood conditions in the city.
New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority
Manages bridges, tunnels, and transit in New York City and on Long Island.
New York City Subway Resources
Features historical and technical information about the New York subway system.
New York Songlines
Detailed descriptions of walking tours of some of Manhattan’s famous streets and sights.
Not For Tourists - New York
Detailed maps and directories of Manhattan neighborhoods.
NYC and Company
Official city tourism site with accommodations listings and a calendar of events. Also includes information on conventions and group activities.
NYC Serv
New York City payment and information center. Search for and pay city parking tickets and obtain information related to property taxes and water charges.
NYC.gov
Provides the public with quick and easy access to information about New York City agencies, programs, and services. |10018|
Open Table
Real-time reservation network for the finest restaurants in major American cities.
Privately Owned Public Space of the City of New York
Electronic database with detailed information about every public space created through the city’s incentive zoning program.
PropertyShark
Type in any address to get consolidated New York City property records.
Restaurants.com
International restaurant and bar guide searchable by location, cuisine, and special features. Includes user submitted reviews and ratings.
September 11th Digital Archive
Uses electronic media to collect and present the history of the attacks.
Skyscraper Museum
Private, not-for-profit, educational corporation devoted to the study of highrise buildings.
Times Square Cam
Three webcam views of Times Square, New York.
Undercity.org
Steve Duncan’s site features photography of underground or unknown sites in New York. Contains stories, research, tips, and tricks.
World Trade Center Health Registry
Comprehensive and confidential survey regarding the health consequences for those most directly exposed to the events of 2001-09-11 in New York.
WTC7.net
An attempt to uncover the truth about 2001-09-11.
Yelp
A local business guide with results based on user recommendations. The directory covers a number of major US cities and includes restaurants, services, and shopping. |@g|
News
American Civil Liberties Union
Advocating individual rights, by litigating, legislating, and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom. |L|
Associated Press - News
The latest headlines from around the nation and the world. Updated 24 hours a day.
BBC News
United Kingdom and international news headlines. Contains articles, forums and video and audio webcasts. |x35z|
CBC News
Canadian and international headlines, articles, wireless services, email digests and live internet radio.
Daily Kos
Daily blog with political analysis on United States current events from a liberal perspective. |L|
Disinformation
The subculture search engine, providing access to up-to-date alternative news. |L|
Fark.com
Interesting, bizarre and amusing news stories, along with regular photo manipulation contests. |LL|
FindArticles.com
Offers full-text news articles and features from over 300 publications. Allows for keyword searches and refining searches by subject or magazine.
Fortean Times
A journal of strange phenomena.
Free Republic
Online message boards for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. Gather at Free Republic to check notes, plan strategy and talk about the issues of the day. |L|
FundRace 2008
Candidate rankings and money maps identify from, and to whom campaign contributions are going.
Google Alerts
Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google news and web results based on your choice of query or topic.
Google News
Aggregated headlines and a search engine of many of the world’s news sources.
Gotham Gazette
Daily publication covering New York City politics and city news including policies for police, housing, transportation, arts, education, and finance.
Korean Central News Agency
The government news agency of the Democratic People’s Republic of (North) Korea.
Le Monde
Actualités à la une. Quotidien d'information francophone, version partielle de l'édition papier du jour, des dossiers, des forums. |@r|
Memory Hole
Documents released under the United States Freedom of Information Act that reveal government activities rarely reported by the mainstream media.
Missoula Independent
Western Montana’s weekly alternative newspaper of people, politics, and culture.
New Republic
A journal of politics and the arts. Liberal tradition though more recently, has developed a neo-liberal bent. |LLarson|
New York Observer
Weekly covering media and society, arts and entertainment, opinions, politics and the business and real estate of Manhattan and the world.
New York Times - Most-Emailed Articles
Most popular articles sent by New York Times readers.
New York Times Politics Navigator
Selective guide to websites about politics, government, and political issues.
NPR
National news and programming organization.
Onion, the
Humor and satire magazine.
Pollster.com
Featuring polls and analysis of the 2008 presidential primary race including key overviews of key states and candidates.
Slate - Other Magazines
Summaries of what is in Time, Newsweek, et cetera.
Slate - Today’s Papers
Daily summary of what is in the major United States newspapers.
Smoking Gun
News gleaned from court records and other public documents.
Technorati
Real-time search engine for blogs that tracks what is current and popular. Searches blogs by keyword or links. |L|
Topix.net
News from thousands of sources, sorted geographically for American cities, as well as a wide variety of subjects.
Viceland
Urban monthly magazine, focusing on 21st century culture, music, fashion, and multimedia. Excerpts from the print magazine as well as unique content.
Village Voice
Offers New York City news, features and opinions along with arts, fashion, gossip and restaurant reviews.
Washington Post
Comprehensive access to today’s newspaper contents plus past stories and special reports on politics. |LL|
Wikinews
Free-content news source for citizen journalists to report the news independently and collaboratively. |L|
Xinhua News Agency
State news agency of China.
Zogby International
Offering polling, market research, and information services worldwide based on accuracy and detailed strategic information.
Recreation
Age Gauge
Find out who is older than you, who is younger, and what world events have occurred relative to your birth date.
Anomalies Unlimited
Investigations of the peculiar.
Betty Bowers is a Better Christian than You
So close to Jesus, communion tastes like leftovers.
Creation Education: Evolutionism Propaganda
Hypnotically encased iMacs trick unsuspecting computer users into accepting Darwinism.
ESP?
Pick one of six cards and click on one of six eyes and this website will successfully tell you which card you chose.
Evite
Offers event planning and invites. Features tracking, maps, and reminders.
FaceTheJury
Rate peoples pictures that they have submitted, or submit your own picture to be rated. Meet new people through message boards and live chat. |LucasL|
Friendster
Online community connecting people through networks of friends for dating or making new friends.
Gay.com
A global portal for people who are, or have interest in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. |g|
HOT or NOT?
Rate photos of others and post one of yourself. |g|
I Despise You and Your So-Called Taste
Type in a band, singer, song, or album to retrieve a review laden with disgust.
Landover Baptist: America’s Favorite Church
If you are unsaved, you are not allowed at this church or on this website.
Meetup
Helps groups of people with shared interests to meet up in places around the world.
Ning
Online service where users can create, customize, and share their own social network. |@L|
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - David Horsey
A gallery of cartoons from the past year by P-I editorial cartoonist and 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner David Horsey.
Slydial
A voice message service that connects directly to someone’s mobile voicemail. |L|
Take 2
Funny errors and clever headlines from the American Journalism Review.
Urban Legends Reference Pages
Attempts to give accurate information about rumors and urban legends on a variety of topics.
Reference
Additives Found in American Cigarettes
A list of chemicals commonly found in cigarettes.
Archinform
International architectural database with over 8000 built and unbuilt projects. 20th-century architecture is the main theme.
Archive.org
Working to build a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
Baby Name Wizard
Track the popularity of given names across time, either by typing in a name, for a graphic depiction of its decade-by-decade use, or by moving your cursor down the screen through an alphabetical listing that notes each name’s peak year.
CNN/Money: Best places to live
Search on housing costs, tax rates, and crime stats for over 1200 places.
Creationist Claims
A comprehensive index to creationist claims.
Dark Bible - Home to Freethinkers
Quotations from the Bible on atrocities, pornography, questionable morality, the alleged inferiority of women, and logical paradoxes.
Death Online
Exhibition exploring death and the rituals that surround it.
Debating Creationists: Some Pointers
Eugenie Scott, director of the National Center for Science Education, argues that public debates with creationists do little to further the cause of quality science education. Among her reasons are that creationists usually fill the audience with their supporters, who are unlikely to have the educational grounding necessary to understand the arguments presented in favor of evolution.
Dewey Decimal System of Classification
An outline of the Dewey Decimal System, broken down into its ten major divisions and one thousand subdivisions.
Evangelistic Atheism: Leading Believers Astray
Article originally appeared in the January/February 1993 issue of Freethought Today, published by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Flags of the World
Very large noncommercial source on vexillology. Searchable database, glossary, bibliography, and related links.
Glass Steel and Stone
Offers photographs and descriptions of outstanding buildings across the world, historic and modern.
Google Watch
Arguing that Google’s privacy policies are undermining the web.
Great Buildings Online
Documents hundreds of buildings and leading architects across the world with three-dimensional models, photographs and drawings, commentaries, biographies and bibliographies.
Guide to the Logical Fallacies
Catalogs and exemplifies over 70 logical fallacies. |L|
ibiblio
Internet library and digital archive containing links to online collections.
InfoPlease Conversion Calculator
Provides helpful information in many categories including: length and distance, area, volume, weight and mass, cooking and time.
International Encyclopedia of Sexuality
Information about patterns and trends in sexual attitudes and behavior in 32 countries around the world.
Internet Scout Project
Publishes new and newly discovered online high-quality resources of interest to researchers and educators. |LL|
Intute
Directory of the best web resources for education and research created by a network of UK universities and partners. Cataloged and annotated resources covering the humanities and social sciences (formerly Humbul Humanities Hub). |L|
Librarians’ Index to the Internet
Annotated directory of internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians. |@g|
Love Letters
300 love letters that your boyfriend is waiting to see modified.
Meta-Wiki
Support website for Wikimedia Foundation projects. |L|
Museum of Modern Art: Tall Buildings
Addresses issues of technology and urbanism for 25 buildings designed within the last decade. Compare height, area, and geographic locations.
National Register of Historic Places
Official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation.
New York Public Library
Largest research library in the world with a circulating system.
Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network
All about earthquakes and geologic hazards of the Pacific Northwest.
Project Gutenberg
A library of 17000 free online books with expired copyright. Book listings, search engine, newsletter, and articles.
Seattle Public Library
Access catalog, renew and reserve books, find news and events, virtual reference desk and reference links. |1000014100522|
Simpsons, The
Memorable quotes.
Skeptic’s Annotated Bible
Bible reference for unbelievers, with all embarrassing and questionable parts highlighted for easy reference.
Skyscraper Page
Illustrated database of the world’s tallest buildings. The illustrations drawn to one scale make it easy to compare heights. Includes dates and architects. | L|
SkyscraperCity
News, photos and discussions on skyscrapers, skylines, cities, architecture and urbanity |LucasL|
Skyscrapers.com
Information and news about tall buildings.
Squashed Philosophers
Condensed and abridged books that define the way the West thinks now.
Suicide, a Practical Guide
A how-to for novices.
SuperPages.com
Search for people or businesses, or browse by category. Includes consumer guides and city pages. |g|
Telephone Exchange Name Project
The historical relationship between North American telephone exchange names and numbers.
Things Creationists Hate
Explanations of the rational: evolution, creationism, creation science, fossils, science, genesis, and Bible science.
Trulia
Independent and unbiased residential real estate search engine that offers open access to real estate information.
USPS Abbreviations
Official abbreviations used by the United States Postal Service: state abbreviations, street suffixes, and secondary unit designators.
Vexilla Mundi
Pictures of all national flags including Pantone colors and specifications.
Wikia
A wiki-farm of many different wikis. |LL|
Wikibooks
Dedicated to developing and disseminating free, open-content textbooks and other classroom texts. |L|
Wikipedia
Free, open content, community-built encyclopedia with thousands of articles. Available in dozens of languages. |LLarson|
Wikiquote
An open-source database of meaningful or memorable quotes in multiple languages. |L|
WikiScanner
Lists anonymous Wikipedia edits from interesting organizations.
Wikisource
Repository of source texts in any language that either are in the public domain, or released under the GNU Free Documentation License. |L|
World Flag Database
Covers organizations, countries, territories, and sub-national regions.
XXX-Rated Bible
Positive Biblical references to the best and worst of humanity.
Zillow.com
Estimates on home valuations and detailed information about property sales.
Search
Alexa
Provides a search powered by Google and the Open Directory Project. Directory listings can be ordered by popularity, user rating or alphabetically and there are links to Alexa’s information on each site.
Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator
Search the database using the inmate’s Register Number, DCDC Number, FBI Number, INS Number, or by first and last name.
Google
Enables users to search the web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results and an option to find similar pages. |2v56o|
Google Guide
An interactive tutorial on searching with Google.
Google Phonebook
Search residential telephone numbers for their owners.
GooTop at ResearchBuzz
Get search results only from the top of domains. Gets Google to act more like a searchable subject index and less like a full-text search engine.
johnny.ihackstuff.com
Google hacking. |L|
NYS Department of Correctional Services Inmate Search
Search for current and past New York State inmates.
Search Engine Relationship Chart
Bruce Clay’s graphical view of how search engines provide data to partner engines and directories.
SreeTips.com
Smarter surfing thanks to Sreenath Sreenivasan.
SurfWax
Meta-search engine that provides real-time page summaries. Those who open free accounts can select from a list of hundreds of search sources, and save and share what they find. |LL|
Yahoo! Search
Search engine results from the first large scale directory of the internet. Offers free email.
ZabaSearch
A people finder service offering public domain telephone number and postal address information.
Shopping
Amazon
Books and music; includes personalized recommendations and wish lists for registered users.
Barnes & Noble
The largest book retailer in the United States. Online bookstore includes ebooks, bestsellers, college textbooks, music, software, and online courses. |@g|
eBay
International person-to-person auction site, with products sorted into categories. |g|
FedEx
Shipping company offering integrated transportation, information, and logistics solutions. |g|d3|h|ee8|
Google Product Search
Google’s product search engine and shopping directory.
Grooming Lounge
Offers classic barbershop and modern health spa services.
MoMA Online Store
Classic modern and cutting-edge design products for adults and kids, including items produced exclusively by MoMA and items represented in its collection. |g|D3|
Time
Australian Skeptics - The Calendar
A history of calendars developed and used over the centuries.
Burtz 13-Month Year
13 months composed of 28 days each. All 13 months have exactly four weeks of seven days each. Weeks and months correspond with the phases of the moon.
Calendar Converter
Convert dates to and from a variety of calendars.
Calendar Zone
Dates in history; links to biographical and geographical events. Also includes recipes and poetry.
Current Local and World Standard Percentage Metric Time Clock
Gives the current time as the percentage of the day that has elapsed thus far for both your local location and Greenwich.
DIME = Decimal Time
Shows correlation between decimal and 24-hour time.
Guide to Metric Time
10 decidays per day, 100 millidays per deciday, and 100 quintodays per milliday.
Hearod.com - Metric Time
A cumulative gathering of data from different websites regarding decimal time.
History of the 13-Month Calendar
The Positivist Calendar of 13 months of 28 days each.
iCalShare
Directory of shared calendars and ICS files with over 1500 calendars in more than 35 different categories. |L|
Metric Time
A proposal for an entire system of measurement of time, following the metric ideal of units divisible by ten to the maximum extent possible.
Official United States Time
Public service cooperatively provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory.
Walk Through Time - The Evolution of Time Measurement through the Ages
Ancient calendars, early clocks, and world time scales and time zones.
World Clock
Current time in many places in the world.
World Time Zone
A map of time zones around the world, each showing the current time.
Travel
BestPlaces.net
Economic and quality-of-life data about cities. |87357|
Cheap Tickets
Provides travel services, including airline tickets, cruise tickets, auto rentals, and hotel reservations. |g|
City-Data.com
Statistics about American cities including maps, race, income, education, crime, weather, area codes, ZIP codes, and similar cities.
ePodunk
Profiles of 25000 cities and towns, with vintage post cards, information about historic sites, museums, parks, colleges, and schools.
Expedia
Compare prices, shop for a vacation or cruise, reserve a room, or rent a car.
FlightView.com: Flight Tracker
Track flights by airline, flight number, cities, airport code, or time. Includes departure and arrival times, altitude, speed, flight path weather, and status.
Fodor’s Travel
In-depth restaurant and hotel reviews in cities around the world and smart travel tips to make vacation planning easier. |L|
Frommers.com
Comprehensive site lists extensive information on destinations around the globe. Includes activities, featured articles, guidebooks, and message boards.
HistoryLink
Chronicle of the history of Seattle and King County, Washington.
JetBlue Airways
A low-cost airline, headquartered in New York, running flights to and from JFK, LGB, and BOS. |@H|e8|
Lost in Seattle
Interactive map showing thousands of shops and buildings; the ultimate local street map.
Missoulian Webcam
Downtown Missoula as seen from the Missoulian.
Online Highways
Guide to travel, recreation, and leisure in the Pacific Northwest and across the United States.
Orbitz
Provides customers with access to the broadest choice of airfares and some of the lowest prices for flights, hotels, and rental cars.
Places OnLine
Annotated links to the world’s best place-based websites from the Association of American Geographers.
Priceline.com
Name your own price for airline tickets, hotel rooms, new cars, and home finance.
Seattle Shmeng
The mystery of why Seattle sucks. |L|
Seattle Times Webcam
Looking west toward the Space Needle and the Experience Music Project from South Lake Union.
Step into Places
Guide to almost 12000 museums, historic houses, zoos, airports, parks, and tourism agencies.
Tomy.morel Webcams
View webcams from around the world, one continent at a time.
Travelocity
Offers a variety of travel services, including fare finder, hotel and car rental information, reservations, and destination information. |g|
VRSeattle.com
QuickTime virtual tour of Seattle.
Webcams.travel
Webcams from all around the world. Navigate through 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional maps, and find webcams by tags. |L.L|
Weather
AccuWeather - Missoula
Features radar, satellite images, and a 15-day forecast for Missoula, MT.
AccuWeather - New York
Features radar, satellite images, and a 15-day forecast for New York, NY.
AccuWeather - Seattle
Features radar, satellite images, and a 15-day forecast for Seattle, WA.
National Weather Service Forecast - New York City
The federal government’s best determination of weather in the coming week.
US Current Temperature Map
Graphic with Fahrenheit temperatures of many locations in the contiguous United States.
Weather Channel - New York
Monthly forecast and current conditions.