1. Reference Desk - (The biggest and best I have ever seen)
2. Financial Calculators
3. Unit Conversion.org
4. Online Conversion
5. Calculators and Converters - Easy Calculation
6. Reference Librarians' Index to the Internet
7. Marylaine Book Dealers and Reference
8. St Ambrose Univ - Best Info On Net (Their title)
9. This file lists all counties and equivalent areas in the United States defined as of January 1, 1990, alphabetically by State with related codes. There are several codes shown: FIPS MSA/CMSA/NECMA code, PMSA, FIPS State and County, then State and County Name
   1. If not on census site
   2. Fips state and county codes only
   3. All Counties and CMSAs (FIPS Codes) with 1999 MSAs (with C/MSA codes not approved by Census, etc)
10. State Abbreviations
11. Acronyms and Abbreviations
    1. Air Programs
    2. Enhanced Monitoring
    3. From Blue Book
    4. DOE Ames Lab
12. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is replacing the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system
13. File Extensions - database of file extensions and the various programs that use them
14. Area Code look up
15. Postal Info
    1. ZIP Code database(maps, everything you can think of) USPS (limited info)
    2. US Postal Rates, Postage Calculator, Domestic Rates, Fees
    3. Mailbox Locator: find a USPS mailbox in your area
16. The Internet Public Library
17. Calculator - Scientific, Finance, many others.
18. Metric Conversions
19. Time
    1. US Naval Observatory EST Clock (If clock stops, enter Control- F5 to refresh)
    2. National Institute of Standards and Technology CLOCK - TIME Clock using Java Clock without Java (In Netscape do View, Reload to update clock) Clock using Internet Explorer Another Clock Time Zone Conversion
    3. Time in Raleigh, NC (link to all other cities)
    4. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
    5. Time by Phone - dial (303) 499-7111 for WWV (Colorado) This is not a toll-free numbers; callers outside the local calling area are charged for the call at regular long-distance rates.
20. Decimal to Minutes-Seconds Converter and Latitude And Longitude Lookup
21. Univ. of Michigan Reference - Census etc
22. 107 Congress - House Of Representatives
23. 107 - Congress Senate
24. Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
25. Bartleby Library - Great Books Online
26. 435 Mystery Audio CDs at Wake County Library, North Carolina as of Jan 16, 2006
27. Dictionaries
    1. Dictionary.com - English definitions, synonyms, spelling, audio pronunciations, example sentences
    2. The Free Dictionary.com - English, Medical, Legal, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine
    3. Ask Dr. Dictionary!
    4. Misspelled Words, Names and Places
28. Thesaurus
29. Grammar Book
30. An Elementary English Grammar
31. text analysis tool
32. Encyclopedia.com
33. Meanings and Origins of Phrases, Sayings and Idioms
34. Shmoop is a way to get into history, poetry, or classic literature. Developed by masters students and faculty at some of the country's top universities. The service is designed to provide students, teachers, and everyday readers with a resource to help them get engaged.
35. Info Please Almanacs http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/frameset.php?frame1=talk
36. Text to Speech - enter text (app 200 char) , select a language and hear it spoken Natural Readers Text to Speech 200 characters Free online
37. Translation
    1. Google language translation
    2. Translation.net - Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese.
    3. Free Translation - Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese.
    4. Travlang's Translating Dictionaries (many languages)
    5. Freedict.com - Translator for Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish
    6. Balel Fish - Altavista
    7. SYSTRAN
38. Audio Pronunciation of a Name (Pronounce Names)
39. Audio Pronunciation Guide of Names (How to say that name)
40. Currency Converter
41. Barcode - Ultimate Product Search Engine
42. True Cost of Driving
43. Cost of Driving
44. Military Alphabet
45. How many people have your name?
46. Check out Rumors to see if Truth or Fiction Urban Legends (Scopes.com)
47. User Manuals for Consumer Electronics
48. Tax valuation guide for goods donated to charity Salvation Army Fun With Taxes.com
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1. Harvey Jeffries - information of interest on photochemistry
2. Scientific Journals
3. National Journal's Greenwire, The Environmental News Daily
4. Large List of Environmental Web Sites
5. World Resources Institute
6. Earth Trends - World Resources Institute
7. NC Green Power (improve North Carolina’s environment through voluntary contributions toward renewable energy)
8. The Power Scorecard is a rating mechanism that assesses the environmental impact of different types of electric generation.
9. Green-e.org lists energy providers certified to meet certain environmental and consumer protection standards
10. Research green power programs at this Department of Energy Web
11. Piedmont Biofuels
12. Wake Co, NC, TRASH TAKERS online directory
13. NC Swat-A-Litterbug Program 856-5700 or 1-877-DOT-4YOU (1-877-368-4968)
14. Earth911 - Recycling Services
15. Sierra Club in Raleigh
16. Clean Air Visibility Rule - Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART)
17. Green-Label Programs - These 15 green-label programs are recognized as good benchmarks by experts and retailers such as Green Depot and Office Depot.
    1. Green Seal (www.greenseal.org)
    2. Energy Star (www.energystar.gov)
    3. EPA Design for the Environment (www.epa.gov/dfe)
    4. WaterSense (www.epa.gov/watersense)
    5. Forest Stewardship Council (www.fsc.org)
    6. Scientific Certification Systems (www.scscertified.com)
    7. EcoLogo (www.ecologo.org)
    8. Greenguard (www.greenguard.org)
    9. Cradle to Cradle (www.c2ccertified.com)
    10. Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (www.epeat.net)
    11. Global Organic Textile Standard (www.global-standard.org)
    12. Biodegradable Products Institute (www.bpiworld.org)
    13. FloorScore (www.rfci.com)
    14. Totally Chlorine Free (www.chlorinefreeproducts.org)
    15. Carpet and Rug Institute's Green Label/Green Label Plus (www.carpet-rug.org)
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This is for my personal use only and is not a sales pitch for any web site.

1. Meta-Search sites: Debriefing Dogpile Metacrawler Savvy Search
2. Search: Google Experimental search Google Cheat Sheet (help) Yahoo Dogpile MSN Several Search Engines with Descriptions of Uses About Ask LookSmart
3. Startingpage search engine protects your Privacy by NOT recording your IP address (Google does and uses it to track you)

4. Google Search using Startingpage Privacy

5. Search for Best Prices: Bottom Dollar Price Scan Shopzilla Shopper Shopping
6. Discount Coupons: Current Codes Deal Taker ebates Gotta Deal
7. Find the title of a Song: Lyrics Freak at Yahoo at Find Me a Tune Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
8. News: Drudge Report NY Times LA Times Washington Post CNN Scientific American Environmental News Network
9. The Onion - American news satire website featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news.
10. Medical Kosmix health search site
11. Web Cams
12. PC Magazine Good Sites
13. USPS Postage Price Calculator Buy Stamps online at USPS
14. Lightning Safety
15. Print Large Photos (up to wall size)
16. Digital Photography Review Digital Camera Resource
17. Publish a Book: Blurb Picaboo SharedInk Lulu
18. Greener Choices (Consumer Reports) Buying cleaner products and recycling
19. National Do Not Call Registry
20. How to stop Unwanted Spam on Your Cell Phone
21. Identity Theft
    1. FTC ID Theft If not available on FTC site
    2. Another FTC Identity Theft site
    3. Ric Edelman's suggestions If not available on Ric's site
    4. Michigan State
    5. World Privacy Forum - responses to medical identity theft
    6. Identity Theft 911
22. MIB will provide consumers with health record disclosure once annually without charge
23. Public Health Service COA Foundation
24. Campbell Interest and Skill Survey (CISS) Vocational interest and skills inventory with career planner (the best)
25. Career Orientation Placement and Evaluation Survey (COPES)
26. Valuation Guide - determine an estimated value of donated items (Salvation Army)
27. Social Security
    1. Social Security Administration (1-800-772-1213)
    2. Online Retirement Estimator
    3. Retirement Estimator
    4. Social Security Detailed Calculator
    5. Social Security Handbook
    6. AARP
    7. Information about Social Security
    8. AARP Social Security Benefits Calculator
    9. Maximize My Social Security costs $40 by Laurence Kotlikoff Professor of Economics Boston University and President of Economic Security Planning, Inc. (Wall Street Journal)
28. Advanced Directives - Living Will etc
    1. North Carolina Advance Health Care Directive Registry - forms Advance Health Care Directives and Organ Donor Card
    2. Caring Connections provides free advance directives and instructions for each state
    3. How you want to be treated if you are seriously ill and unable to speak for yourself
    4. AARP
    5. US Living Will Registry
    6. Amer Bar - choose Health Care Decisionmaking
29. SaferProducts.gov is the Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database website of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission http://www.saferproducts.gov/
30. The Writer's Almanac Poetry - Garrison Keillor
31. The Poetry Foundation
32. Poet Betty Adcock
33. Under Milk Wood (Dylan Thomas)
34. Dr. Mardy Grothe's: Aphorisms, Oxymoronica, Repartee, Ifferisms, Neverisms and I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like
35. Celia Rivenbark's latest column Past columns
36. Birthday Messages More Birthday Messages
37. Jokes
38. WebCams
39. Health Info
40. National Association of State Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans (NASCHIP) - state governments to serve the medically "uninsurable" population.
41. NeedyMeds is a 501(3)(c) non-profit with the mission of helping people who cannot afford medicine or healthcare costs
42. RxAssist can help you learn about ways to use pharmaceutical company programs and other resources to help reduce your medication costs
43. 4,500 photographs documenting natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities
44. Perfectly Timed Photos is a collection of Pics taken at just the right moment.
45. Google Art Project - view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Explore museums with Street View technology: virtually move around the museum’s galleries, selecting works of art that interest you, navigate though interactive floor plans and learn more about the museum and you explore. http://www.googleartproject.com/
46. Grooveshark - Free online music streaming
47. Rocky Top Tennessee Mark Easley Kate Campbell The Classical Station WXYC 89.3 FM is the non-commercial student-run radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
48. Montana Skies Montana Skies (cello guitar fusion) - "L.C.P." You can listen to six songs off this one page Interview Gringo Flamenco House of the Rising Sun Nocturne (Roberto Di Marino) Another Brick in the Wall Classical Gas for electric cello and guitar Montana Skies and Vivaldi Malaguena The Edge of Night December Mourning Pink Floyd "...the Wall" Canyon Breeze El Gitano 3 Interview clip
49. Vintage Music (free)
    1. Digital Archive of Cylinder Recordings
    2. The Roots Music Listening Room
    3. Library of Congress
    4. The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
    5. Cultural Equity - Alan Lomax - folk lore music (very large collection and free) and photos
50. The Speek - finds, rescues and restores classic music performances, captured on film and videotape, of the Rock & Roll Era
51. You Tube type Videos - art, culture, research, how-to, lectures
    1. FORA.tv delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to join the conversation.
    2. ResearchChannel - Remarkable speakers, researchers and professors present revolutionary thoughts and discoveries on ResearchChannel.
    3. University Channel makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public
    4. Research-TV produces cutting-edge research news stories on behalf of universities and research organizations.
    5. Traditional Fine Arts Organization - a comprehensive catalogue of online full motion videos streamed free to viewers - art oriented videos
    6. TotalVid allows you to select from thousands of videos in over 50 categories, for as little as $1.99. Browse through our library of hard-to-find videos in categories like action sports, martial arts, how-to, anime, travel, etc (not free)
    7. Energy Policy TV - video of leaders in energy and the environment as they propose and implement policies and market responses.
    8. uVu is a video sharing website and companion digital broadcast channel powered by WPBT Channel 2, South Florida ’s PBS station. - art and culture
    9. Technology, Entertainment, Design - the best talks and performances from the TED Conferences available to the public, for free.
    10. PBS
    11. Teacher Tube
    12. blip.tv Stage6 Brightcove Veoh MSN Soapbox YouTube Vimeo Jumpcut MySpace
    13. Video of over 300 miles of trails from: Great Smoky Mountains, Yellowstone and Grand Canyon National Parks (Hint: on trail you can turn in all directions w/ your mouse)
52. Text Messages (free) by Joopz
53. Text Messages (free) by Pinger
54. When Is Good - Set Up a Meeting - find out when everyone is free for your next meeting or event
55. Google Images Scholarly papers and books To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word "define," then a space, and then the word(s) you want defined.
56. Instructions for projects around the house
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