Miscellaneous Information

• Academy of Achievement - "extraordinary individuals who have shaped the twentieth century."
• Amateur Radio - Leisure and Recreation
• American Sign Language Browser - QuickTime clips are used to demonstrate the signs for various words in this excellent site from Michigan State University's Comm Tech Lab. Each sign is also accompanied by a brief verbal comment.
• American Universities
• Annals of Improbable Research
• Antiques & Collectibles Guide
• Antique Steam & Gas Engines - engines include Witte, Jaeger, Novo, Fairbanks Morse, International Harvester, Gray Motor and a Cretors steam engine. Take your time and explore our world of the Antique Gas and Steam Engine Collectors, learning about abrasive blasting, magnetos, or buy engines and parts from the Classified Ads.
• Ask Yahoo! - What is Styrofoam made of? How many people are there in the world? What are some suggested vacation spots for a family with a 3-year-old? How do worms multiply? Can you suggest any good sites where I can find new cars? Answers to these burning questions and much, more.
• Bad Fads Museum - Divided into four sections: Fashion; Collectibles; Activities; and Events; each fad is accompanied by a picture and brief text. For the student of popular culture, this is a fun site about "the fads you wish would stay forever or (never come back)."
• Benefits Checkup - Site provides a free, easy-to-use service that identifies federal and state assistance programs for older Americans. You take 10 or 15 minutes to enter information about your financial situation into an online questionnaire. Then, BenefitsCheckUp explains what benefit programs you may be eligible for and how to apply for them.
• Ben's Cable Box - How you can hook things up to it. How to find, and fix your problems
• Biography.com - searchable database of 15,000 names
• Better Business Bureau, The
• Calendar Creator - Create a calendar for an entire year of your choice
• Card Games - Rules and Related Information.
• Charles Schwab Online
• CIBER - Michigan State Univ. - Centre for International Business Education and Research
• Classifieds 2000
• CoolSig - Signature files are a great way to make your e-mail more distinctive. "Like haiku poems, they're pure expression. They entertain the reader, while saying a little about you," explains CoolSig, which offers a diverse collection.
• Community College Web
• Computer Almanac
• Consumer Price Index
• DisInformation- everything you know is wrong.
• Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
• European Governments Online - Site offers access to principal European governmental Websites. For the fifteen EU member states, the site provides annotated links to the executive branch, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and sometimes other important national civil service sites, as well as several unannotated links to other governmental bodies.
• EverythingBlack - EverythingBlack is a directory of more than 1,600 links to information on black history, business, education, entertainment, and more. Each link is accompanied by a capsule comment about the site. There's also news especially for people living in some of the largest urban areas in the U.S., including Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C
• Famous Birthdays
• First Verified Walk Around the Earth
• Flags of all Countries
• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
• Frequently Occurring Names in America - from the Census Bureau
• Gallup Organization
• Grammar and Style Notes
• Great Buildings Online - from around the world and across history.
• Green Eggs Report - Listing of URLs cited in newsgroup postings
• Guinness World Records - You can browse world records by category and the Daily WOW, a Flash animated story about a particular world record.
• Hacker's Dictionary
• Harris Poll On Line - click in and be counted.
• High-Rise Pages, The - The tallest buildings, skyscrapers, tv-towers, bridges, churches and other structures from all over the world
• Houdini - Celebrate the brilliance of the rope-tying, chain-wearing, death-defying, handcuff-sporting man from beyond.
• How Stuff Works - "How Stuff Works is a great place to come to learn about how things work in the world around you."
• Inflation Calculator, The - adjusts any given amount of money for inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, from 1800 to 1998.
• Information & Referral Resource Network, The - lists agencies throughout the United States that provide a wide variety of human services to the public.
• Interesting Ideas
• International Universities
• Internet Braille Wizard, The - a real time braille translator on the Internet
• Invention Convention - "Gateway to the world of inventing."
• Jane's Information Group - weaponry catalogue
• Jargon File, The
• Learn to Type
• Legendry Lighthouses - This site explores the history, legends, lore and workings of lighthouses along American shorelines
• Magic Tricks - amazing tricks with cups, balls, eggs and other magical stuff.
• Marilyn is Wrong! - Herb Weiner, a C++ software engineer, has it in for Marilyn vos Savant, the all-knowing Parade Magazine columnist. Herb systematically pores over Marilyn's weekly column, searching for errors or discrepancies, which he then posts on this impressive vendetta site
• Martindale's Reference Desk
• Measure 4 Measure - Sites the do the work for you
• Mensa Home Page, The
• Mensa Workout - This quiz is provided for entertainment purposes only, it is not an IQ test. This score will not qualify you for Mensa. The questions on the "Mensa Workout" are biased for people whose primary language is English.
• MIDAS Consortium, The - Medical Informatics and Decision Science Consortium
• Morse Code and Phonetic Alphabets
• Morse Code Translator - translates to and from Morse code, and plays the sounds for you.
• My Hero - discover real live heroes from around the world
• National Flags
• Notice Company, The - site that helps consumers participate in class action suits, file complaints, and check for product recalls. The product recall section is extremely useful for making sure your car, playpens, tools, appliances--and myriad other products--are safe to use. You can also sign up to receive weekly notifications of new recalls and class actions.
• Old Farmer's Almanac
• Online Intelligence Report, The
• Opinion Polls - listing of all major public opinion polls
• Parliamentary Procedure - site provides basic instruction on important topics in Parliamentary Procedure, an opportunity to ask a real Parliamentarian questions, and a Q&A section.
• Patent Cafe - Comprehensive site for patent and invention resources. Includes links to how-to information, patent searching, invention groups, government agencies, and international inventors.
• Princeton Review, The - College Test Preparation
• Public Agenda Online - provides eighteen issue guides that cover topics such as crime, education, environment, immigration, social security, and welfare. Each issue guide contains an overview of the issue, a news digest of recent stories, background data, various perspectives on the issue, resources for more information, and analyses of related public opinion drawn from major public opinion polls.
• Pulitzer Prizes
• Rand - Public policy think-tank
• Relocation Salary Calculator
• Reporters Network, The - directory of reporters, editors, freelance writers and other news professionals
• Restaurant Row - This dining resource has listings for over 110,000 restaurants in 7000 cities in 47 countries. It offers ratings, customer reviews, menus, photos, maps, and driving directions. Reservations can be made online.
• Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey - the greatest show online.
• Robert's Rules of Order -Official Web Site
• Roller Coasters - Encyclopedia Britannica Presents: Inventing the Scream Machine
• Rulers - Large listing of heads of state
• Seeing Eye, The - site of a New Jersey guide dog school founded in 1929. The site includes a database of dog guide laws in Canada and the US, full-text books and articles about seeing eye dogs, and canine care guidelines from the Seeing Eye school's veterinarian.
• Semaphore Flag Signalling System
• Slipup.com: America's Newspaper Correction Connection - pointers to correction policies in print and electronic news media, while highlighting current notable slips of the reporter's pen.
• Sunsite Picture Archive
• Tripod - "Tools for Living"
• Universal Currency Converter, The
• Universal Shipping Calculator - site calculates the cost of shipping your packages nationwide and worldwide from the United States. To calculate, enter the zip code of the origin, the destination, and the weight and dimensions of the package.
• U.S. Mint - The U.S. Mint celebrates the American Numismatics Association's observation of National Coin Week. Including a new, more-interactive home page design highlighting the agency's 50 State Quarters Program.
• U.S. National Debt Clock
• Vintage Calculators - history of calculating devices beginning 5000 years ago with the abacus and continuing to the invention of the electronic calculator. Includes a drawing or photo of each device along with an explanation of how it works and who invented it.
• Useless Facts - "Useless information at your fingertips."
• Virtual Hospital - University of Iowa
• World's Most Wanted Criminals

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