Indexes of Top Web Sites

• The Web 100
  "The Web 100 presents the best sites on the Web, as rated by users. The rankings change hourly, with new sites added each day. Site reviews and listings by topic help guide you to the most useful, interesting and unique sites on the Web."
• LoveToKnow Top 10 Best Web Sites
  "LoveToKnow top-best-websites offers the fastest and most thorough way to learn about and shop for almost anything. Our team of professional editors search for the 10 best sites where people can LEARN about a topic as well as the 10 best sites where one can SHOP for related goods and services. We do the looking FOR you by reviewing hundreds of web sites for any given category and picking only the very best."
• Webbieworld Web Directory presented by The Academy of Web Design

Search Engines

• Search Engine Watch News, Tips and More About Search Engines.
• Google "Google searches more sites more quickly, to bring you the most relevant results."
• Scirus for scientific information
  "Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to quickly; pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web; find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals that other search engines miss; offer unique functionalities designed for scientists and researchers."
• AlltheWeb.com Find it All. Over 2 billion web pages indexed.
• HOTBOT
  Offers the option to search using one of four engines: FAST, Google, Inktomi or Teoma.
• AltaVista
  "You can search through AltaVista's entire Web index -- approximately 200 Gigabytes of data -- in less than a second."
• Ixquick Metasearch The world's most powerful metasearch engine
  "Ixquick submits your search to the major search engines and finds sites that are universally ranked in the top ten!"
• Dogpile the Friendly Multi-Engine Search Tool
• Yahoo - A Guide to the WWW.
• excite Netsearch The intelligent way to navigate the net.
• Lycos, Inc. The Catalog of the Internet
• WebCrawler
• Open Text Index
• Google Groups (formerly known as Deja News)
  "Google offers complete 20-year Usenet Archive with over 700 million messages"
• FindArticles.com A searchable online archive of quality magazine and journal content.
• Infoseek Guide Your roadmap to the Internet! Search and browse the Net for free!
• Nerd World Media Internet Subject Index
• Four11 White Page Directory Internet's largest white page directory with over 5 Million listings.
• Yahoo! Yellow Pages
• Access Business Online BizWiz Web^tm

WWW Cruise Ship HMS Surfin'

• HOT SHEET web quick reference
• Cybertown
  The purpose of Cybertown is to create a virtual community where people can have fun, be entertained, learn things and explore the best of the Earth Internet.
• Librarians' Index to the Internet
  "A searchable, evaluated, and annotated subject directory of more than 3,400 Internet resources selected for their usefulness to the public library user's information needs."
• WebRing
• Virtual Tourist World Map
• EarthCam
  the most comprehensive and easily navigated reference directory for locating live video cameras on the Internet.

Fun and Frolick in the Surf

• TIME Magazine: Coolest Inventions 2003
  "TIME Magazine picks the top new inventions of 2003. The Apple Music Store is honored as the Invention of the Year. Runners Up: Camera phones and a water purifier."
• Hot AIR: rare and well done tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research
• The Riddler Solve the Riddle for $$$!
• The Dilbert Zone
• Dave Barry
• DIGITAL CLOCKTOWER
  The home page of Gene Ziegler, who is the author of A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer. This masterpiece is commonly reproduced in part, rather than in its full glory, and given a title such as "If Dr. Seuss were a Technical Writer". To make matters worse, the attribution is nearly always wrongly given as "anonymous". You owe it to Gene to read his response.
• The Doctor Fun Page "Doctor Fun is not a newspaper comic. The cartoon occasionally contains mature themes and/or strong language and may not be suitable for younger viewers."
• The Dialectizer
  Browse the web or read text in any of several comic English dialects (Redneck, Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, Moron, or Pig Latin).
• Wacky Uses "Little Known Uses For Well Known Products"
• Brown & Michaels - Weird and Wonderful Patents
  "Over the years, inventors have tried to solve many of the problems of daily life. Who could forget these vital advances to the state of the art?"
• Welcome to the Renaissance Faire
• East Kingdom Home Page
• All Hallow's Eve A collection of Halloween links to amaze, amuse, and horrify you.
• PhoneSpell What does your phone number spell?

Art, Music & Entertainment

• ArtsEdge National Arts and Education Information Network.
• M. C. Escher Artwork URL's
  
• Music on the Internet
  
• The Internet Movie Database
• The Fennec Awards Database
  "All major film awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, The Directors Guild of America, The Producers Guild of America, The Writers Guild of America, The Screen Actors Guild, The American Society of Cinematographers, The American Cinema Editors, The Society Of Motion Picture and Television Art Directors, The Costume Designers Guild, The Cannes Film Festival - Plus FENNEC's very own awards."
• Greatest Films
  "Detailed synopses of many of America's greatest films - specializing in classic Hollywood or American films. With vintage movie posters, a fun film quotes quiz, and film genres and film history."
• moviemistakes.com
  "A huge collection of continuity mistakes, goofs, trivia, and other fun things to spot in films and TV shows, updated daily."
• Sundance Institute
  "Dedicated to the support and development of emerging screenwriters and directors of vision, and to the national and international exhibition of new, independent dramatic and documentary films."

High Brow Hangouts

• The WWW Virtual Library Directory of the Virtual Library, an expert-run catalog of sections of the web.
• The Internet Public Library
  "Online public library for the Internet community. Includes directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials; plus special sections for youth and teens."
• BIBLIOMANIA, The Network Library Reference, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry
• Bibliofind
  "Seven million old, used and rare books offered here for sale by three thousand booksellers around the world make this the largest and possibly the most interesting bookselling site on the Web." (Now a part of Amazon.com).
• The English Server A member-run cooperative at Carnegie Mellon University
• FAQ Finder Your Guide to Finding Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
• The Straight Dope
  Home of Cecil Adams' weekly question and answer column - "Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 (It's taking longer than we thought.)"
• Quicken.com Investments Investing Basics, Stocks, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Morningstar and Value Line Profiles, Retirement Tools.
• Investing : Stock Investing, Investing News provided by Business Week
• MarketWatch Stock Market News and Commentary and Investor Research
• EF Moody, Financial Planner, Investment Instructor, Expert Witness
  "Largest comprehensive financial planning site on the Internet designed for consumer knowledge and protection that debunks the marketing hype of the securities, insurance and planning industries."
• Mutual Funds & Free Investor Materials - Dian's Fund Freebies
  "The place to learn & research all sorts of stuff from informational sources about mutual funds for free!"
• FundAlarm Know when to hold'em, know when to fold'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.
  ``Objective information to help individual investors make the mutual fund "sell" decision.''
• Penny Stocks Guide Get started investing in penny stocks by knowing the facts
  "The Penny Stocks Guide is a comprehensive and impartial resource for investors interested in penny stocks. This website will teach you the basic principles of penny stock investing, including how to do it intelligently and safely. The Penny Stock Guide also offers investors additional resources and research tools, and much, much more."
• EdSurf Online Distance Education Learning Resource for Adult Students
  "User friendly online student learning resource for computer training, adult distance education, online courses, university degrees, certification training and learning options available via the Internet."
• American Studies Web
• OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
• NIH Desk Reference Tools
• Government Documents in the News
• Einstein Archives Online
  "The Einstein Archives Online Website provides the first online access to Albert Einstein's scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and to an extensive Archival Database, constituting the material record of one of the most influential intellects in the modern era."
• Electronic Textbook for PFP 95
  Interdisciplinary Course in Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics.
• Exploratorium Home Page
  Welcome to ExploraNet! - access to, and information about, science, nature, art and technology.
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• The Directorate of Time
  U. S. Naval Observatory timekeeping is based on an ensemble of cesium beam and hydrogen maser atomic clock.
• timeanddate.com
  "This site includes lots of information that is time and date related, such as yearly and monthly calendars, counters, countdown, and the world clock which shows current time in cities all over the world."

Maps

• TerraServer Homepage
  "The Microsoft TerraServer Web site is one of the world's largest online databases, providing free public access to a vast data store of maps and aerial photographs of the United States."
• National Geographic Map Machine - online atlas, street maps
  "Locate nearly any place on Earth, find country facts, and search and print historical, weather, and population maps, and more with our dynamic atlas."
• Earth View
• MapQuest
  "MapQuest is the leading consumer Web site and business application for getting people where they need to go - anytime, anywhere."
• U.S. Census Bureau's Mapping and Cartographic Resources
• Earth and Moon Viewer
• Cyber-Geography Research
  ``CyberGeography is the study of the spatial nature of computer communications networks, particularly the Internet, the World-Wide Web and other electronic "places" that exist behind our computer screens, popularly referred to as cyberspace.''

Dictionaries, Quotes, etc.

• Webster's Dictionary
• A.Word.A.Day--Today's Word
• Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Almanacs An exhaustive list from Rutgers University Libraries Electronic Ready Reference Shelf
• OneLook Dictionary Search
  "Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, we'll help you do that too. No word is too obscure: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine."
• World Wide Words Home Page
  "More than 400 pages on the history, origins, evolution and idiosyncrasies of English. New words and words in the news regularly featured. World Wide Words is devoted to the English language - its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution. The Words site is organised into sections, each with its own index to help you find your way about."
• Online Etymology Dictionary painstakingly compiled by Douglas Harper
• The Origin of Words and Names
  "The English language has developed from an Anglo-Saxon base of common words: household words, parts of the body, common animals, natural elements, most pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions and auxiliary verbs. Other modern words in English have developed from five sources: Words Created From Nothing; Words Created In Error; Borrowed and Adopted Words; Changes In Words; Words Created By Subtraction Or Addition."
• Common Errors in English
  "The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak."
• Fun With Words The Wordplay Web Site
  "Dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities, and oddities of the English language: wordplay. Playing with words and language is both entertaining and educational. Here you can have plenty of fun with words with over 500 pages of word puzzles, games, amazing lists, and fun facts."
• More Words - Search Dictionary Word Games Crosswords and Anagrams
  "More Words is a way to search word lists. It's a crossword puzzle solver, anagram lister, codeword decoder, and a helper for other word games. You can use it to find words (optionally of a specific length) that start with, end with, or contain certain letters."
• Urban Dictionary Define Your World
  "Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with your definitions."
• WordSkit Quotations, Linguistic Eccentricities & Heenan's Universal Dictionary
• Verbix Conjugate verbs in 100+ languages
• RhymeZone
  "A rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, spell checker, and word finding tool for poets, writers, musicians, and language enthusiasts."
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• The Quotations Page
  "A large site devoted to quotations from famous people and literature. Over 10,000 quotations are available for searching and browsing. Includes the popular Quotes of the Day, Quotes of the Week, Quote Search, and Random Quotations pages."
• The Quote Garden
  "Quotations sorted by subject. Fall in love with the art of words, get inspired, laugh, think, and feel! Plus, quotes for occasions and greetings."
  The Quote Garden and The Quotations Page are neck-and-neck in the contest for my favorite source for woven words.
• WorldOfQuotes.com Quotes and Proverb Archive
  Searchable database. Browse by topic or author. Proverbs are organized by nationality. Abbreviated list of historical documents. Mailing list and forums.
• QuotationsBook.com
  Famous quotations, quotes listed by subject and author.
• 'Top 10' Famous Quotes and Quotations
  "Looking for the best famous quotes? Find 'Top 10' lists -- the best of the best -- in lots of famous quotations categories."
• BrainyQuote
  Over 43,000 famous quotes by 10,000 authors from Aristotle to Zappa! Browsable by category or author; and searchable, too.
• Mark Twain quotations Mark Twain Quotations, Newspaper Collections, & Related Resources
• Things People Said Ordinary people can be drop dead funny.
• The Totally Unofficial Rap Dictionary
• The Skeptic's Dictionary, by Robert T. Carroll
• The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce. Also online at this mirror site.
• The Unofficial Smilie Dictionary
  Also worth noting is All the Smileys in the Known Universe
• Ready Reference: Computer Dictionaries
  "A Portal Designed for Librarians to Locate Internet Resources Related to Their Profession."
• BABEL A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms.
• The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
• The Modem Dictionary © Copyright 1993 R. Scott Perry
• The Jargon File
  Also available from this mirror site.

Atmospheric Attractions

• Sunrise, Sunset Calendars and Local Time
  "SunriseSunset.com provides a free service that creates a custom calendar with sunrise, sunset and twilight times for any location around the world."
• National Weather Service
  "Government Internet Service Home page. The starting point for official government weather forecasts, warnings, and meteorological products for forecasting the weather."
• UM Weather
  "The Internet's premier source of weather information. Providing access to thousands of forecasts, images, and the Net's largest collection of weather links, UM Weather is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of weather data on the Web."
• Intellicast.com Intellicast Weather for Active Lives
• The Weather Channel (Of cableTV fame)
  "The Best Source of Weather Information on the Web, offers forecasts for over 1600 cities worldwide as well as numerous radar and satellite maps. From the latest weather news stories to allergy information, The Weather Channel web site is your complete source of weather information."
• TV Weather Dot Com The TV, Weather, Meteorology, and Science Resource Supersite
• Live Weather Images
  "This site pulls together the best and most frequently accessed weather data on the Internet and puts it all into one easy to use site with weathercams, radar and satellite images, forecasts, and a message board."
• Atmospheric Optics
  "Light playing on water drops, dust or ice crystals in the atmosphere produces a host of visual spectacles - rainbows, halos, glories, coronas and many more. Some can be seen almost every day or so, some are once in a lifetime sights. Find out where to see them and how they form. Then seek and enjoy them outdoors. Explanations, images and downloadable freeware."
• KOIN-TV - WeatherCenter 6
• Todd Gross' Weather/Astronomy Page
• Storm Chaser
  "An extensive collection of severe weather related images, film, links, data and products, including the work of Warren Faidley, the world's only full-time, professional Storm Chaser®"
• Storm Track news page
  "The Storm Track megasite is a combination of two entities: Storm Track Online, the official website of Tim Marshall's 25-year magazine that is scheduled to end in 2001, and Storm Chaser Homepage, the massive chasing resource created by Gilbert Sebenste in 1995. Both were ended in September 2000 due to their size and the difficulty in keeping the sites up to date. Therefore the sites merged and the content was delegated to a team of editors."
• Tropical Storm Risk Website
  "We offer long-range forecasts of tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic, NW Pacific and SW Pacific ocean basins."
• The Weather Warrior
• USGS National Earthquake Information Center Earthquake Information for the World
  "The NEIC has three main missions. First, the NEIC determines, as rapidly and as accurately as possible, the location and size of all destructive earthquakes that occur worldwide. The NEIC disseminates this information immediately to concerned national and international agencies, scientists, and the general public. Second, the NEIC collects and provides to scientists and to the public an extensive seismic database that serves as a solid foundation for scientific research, principally through the operation of modern digital national and global seismograph networks and through cooperative international agreements. The NEIC is the national data center and archive for earthquake information. Third, the NEIC pursues an active research program to improve its ability to locate earthquakes and to understand the earthquake mechanism. These efforts are all aimed at mitigating the risks of earthquakes to mankind; and they are made possible by the fine international cooperation that has long characterized the science of seismology."

Space Shots

• Earth from Space A dataset of selected astronaut-acquired imagery of Earth.
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Science @ NASA : Satellite Tracking
  2D and 3D tracking of Spacecraft (Shuttle, Station, Hubble, Chandra, etc.), Weather Satellites, Amateur (HAM) Satellites, and Search and Rescue Satellites.
• NASA - JSC Digital Image Collection
• EROS Data CenterEarth Resources Observation Systems
  "EDC has stored, processed, and distributed a variety of data, including cartographic data, satellite data, and aircraft data. The EDC houses a variety of USGS digital cartographic data products collectively referred to as US GeoData. The EDC's archives also hold the world's largest collection of civilian remotely sensed data covering the Earth's land masses, housing millions of satellite images and aerial photographs. As part of its role as a data archive, the EDC operates the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive, a legislatively mandated program designed to maintain a high quality data base of space-acquired images of the Earth for use in studying global change and other related issues."
• Space Telescope Electronic Information Service
• ESA Space Science website
  "Top stories of the European Space Agency's scientific programme missions, including: Cluster 2; FIRST/Planck; Hipparcos; Hubble; Cassini/Huygens; Integral; ISO; IUE; Mars Express; Rosetta; SMART 1; SOHO and Ulysses"
• Open Directory - Science: Astronomy
• Celestia
  "A real-time 3D space simulation featuring a database of over 100,000 stars, nearly a hundred solar system, objects, and a complete catalog of extrasolar planets."
• Interactive Sky Map
  SKY-MAP.ORG is an attempt to show the beauty of the Universe to everybody - to small children and their parents, to the amateur astronomer and to the professional astrophysicist.

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