| Starters | News | Dictionaries | Gov't/politics | Stats | Geography | Misc.
Starting Points
- WWW Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue
- No. I will not be like everyone else. I won't put in a link to Yahoo. I...oh, damn.
- Netscape's list of search engines. I recommend AltaVista, which is huge and powerful -- almost too huge and powerful. Get familiar with its syntax for best results. Webcrawler is less comprehensive, but easier to use.
News and Current Events
- CNN Interactive -- Support them. They support me.
- MSNBC - a joint venture of the overexposed, brightly-colored colored peacock of a network...and NBC, too. (Rimshot -- What, I'm supposed to pass up a cheap shot at Bill Gates? )
- USA Today
- Federal News Service - government press releases
- C-SPAN's Road to the White House - 1996 election news
- MLB@Bat - Official information, updates, and stats straight from Major League Baseball
Dictionaries
- Hypertext Webster interface (dictionary)
- Computing Dictionary
- English-French dictionary
- English-Estonian Dictionary
- English-German dictionary
- English-Russian dictionary (requires cyrillic support)
U.S. Government and politics
- Project Vote Smart - a voter education project.
- Fedworld - a good starting point for government agencies
- House of Representatives
- Senate
- The White House
- Thomas: Legislative information from the Library of Congress
- The Smithsonian Institution
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
Statistics
- Statistical Abstract of the United States from the census bureau
- Bureau of Labor Statistics - the government's main source for economic data
- Stat-USA - clearinghouse for government business and economic data
Geography
- CIA World Factbook - detailed information on every nation on Earth.
- Geographic name server - gives lattitude and longitude for just about anywhere in the US. Includes a link to the Xerox PARC map server. Very, Very cool.
- The Census Bureau Gazeteer is more complete and accurate than the GNS, but it doesn't have the cool map links.
- The Xerox PARC map server is itself amazing--you can get a map of any location, magnification, and projection. Not a lot of detail, but, hey, what do you want?
Miscellaneous
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