CALIFORNIA
California
State Senate
http://www.sen.ca.gov/
California
State Assembly
http://www.assembly.ca.gov
Santa
Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
http://www.nps.gov/samo/
UCLA Stunt Ranch
Santa Monica Mountains Reserve
http://nrs.ucop.edu/reserves/stunt.html
California
State Parks
http://www.parks.ca.gov/
California
Highway Patrol Traffic Info
http://cad.chp.ca.gov/
CHEMISTRY
Periodic
Table of Elements
http://www.webelements.com/
COLLECTABLES
Mr.
Martin's Typewriter Museum
The typewriter collection contains over 85 typewrites from 21 manufacturers
spanning the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
http://www.mrmartinweb.com/type.htm
CONSUMER
PROTECTION
(see also: Privacy and Consumer Rights)
Consumer
WebWatch
A consumer watchdog group formed by Consumers Union.
http://www.consumerwebwatch.org
DICTIONARIES
AND LINGUISTICS
dictionary.com
YourDictionary.com
Strunk's Elements of
Style
http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html
E-MAIL
Emailaddresses.com
Free e-mail
addresses and other features.
http://www.emailaddresses.com/
Ten
Minute E-mail
Creates a disposable e-mail account valid for only
10 minutes.
http://10minutemail.com/
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Peer reviewed.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/
FINANCIAL
Currency
Converter
http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic
Dollartimes
Personal Finance Calculators
A great variety of useful personal finance calculators, such as
commuting costs, car payments, savings needed for retirement, fuel efficiency,
fuel expenses, household budgeting, time and timesheets. The site also
calculates savings through smoking cessation, a more fuel efficient
car and eating in versus eating out.
http://www.dollartimes.com
Mortgage,
Loan and Personal Finance Calculators
This site features a multitude of personal finance calculators,
such as: various tpes of mortgages, loans, home equity, debt/credit,
taxes, amortization, retirement investments and comparisions such as
rent vs. buy and college savings.
www.mortgageloan.com/calculator/
FREEDOM
OF SPEECH and ONLINE DEMOCRACY
Wikileaks
Wikileaks is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and
leaks of sensitive corporate
and government documents, while taking measures to preserve the anonymity
and traceability of its contributors.
http://www.wikileaks.org
LiveLeak.com
Similar to YouTube,
except that this site has uncensored and at times graphic videos.
http://www.liveleak.com
INTERNET
The Internet
Archive
One of the most fascinating sites on the web! The Internet Archive
is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts
in digital form. Like a paper library, it provides free access to researchers,
historians, scholars, and the general public. Contains historical sound
recordings and films and open source music. The site's "WayBack
Machine" allows users to search web pages which have been taken
off line.
http://www.archive.org
DNSstuff.com
Versatile site compiles search results for IPs, their administrators,
their locations, spam and security violations, response time, pings,
and so on. Excellent research tool for many purposes.
INTERNET
HOAX CHECKERS
Legends and hoaxes are as old as speech. These sites investigate claims,
chain letters and frauds circulating on the Internet and by e-mail.
If you hear about an outrageous claim through the Internet, please do
all of us (and yourself) a favor by checking these sites before e-mailing
it to all your friends!
urbanlegends.com
truthorfiction.com
snopes.com
INTERNET
UTILITIES
Large
File Transfer
Sending large files via e-mail often leads to problems.
This free service allows users to upload a file to a server, from which
the recipient can download it.
http://www.yousendit.com
Speed
Test
Checks the current upload and download speed of your
DSL service.
http://www.speedtest.net
Ten
Minute E-mail
Creates a disposable e-mail account valid for only
10 minutes.
http://10minutemail.com/
Tiny
URL
Turns a long URL into a short one.
http://tinyurl.com
MUSEUMS
The
International Printing Museum
Printing changed the world more than any other invention. By making
knowledge available to an increasing number of people, printing was
instrumental in promoting general literacy, the emancipation of the
masses, the fall of religious and worldly empires run by aristocracy,
the rise of modern states and the triumph of rationality and science.
The International Printing Museum in Torrance, California, is small.
But it houses 500 years of printing history.
http://www.printmuseum.org
NEWS
AND MEDIA
(also see: Search Engines, Publishing Industry)
newsdirectory.com
The world's newspapers and magazines on one page.
http://www.newsdirectory.com/
findarticles.com
Searches 5 million articles.
http://www.findarticles.com/
PARANORMAL PHENOMENA, PSEUDO-SCIENCE
New Heaven
New Earth
"News, information and consumer
protection for spiritual seekers all over the world who are seeking
the fundamental mysteries of life."
http://www.nhne.com/
Committee for the Scientific Investigation
of Claims of the Paranormal
CSICOP encourages the critical investigation
of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific
point of view and disseminates factual information about the results
of such inquiries to the scientific community and the public.
http://www.csicop.org/
The James
Randi Educational Foundation
Resource on paranormal, pseudoscientific and paranormal.
Offers $1 Million Prize for controlled, scientific proof of paranormal
phenomena.
http://www.randi.org/
PHONE DIRECTORIES
anywho.com
whitepages.com
phonenumber.com
smartpages.com
switchboard.com
reversephonedirectory.com
reverseaddressdirectory.com
POLITICS (U.S.A.)
Annenberg
Political Fact Check
Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political
players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and
news releases. The Annenberg Political Fact Check is a project of
the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
The APPC accepts NO funding from business corporations, labor unions,
political parties, lobbying organizations or individuals. It is funded
primarily by an endowment from the Annenberg Foundation.
http://www.factcheck.org/
PROFESSIONAL
RESOURCES
U.S. State
Department - Foreign Press Center
Resources for foreign journalists working in the U.S.
http://fpc.state.gov
Los
Angeles Press Club
Professional organization and resources for media professionals
in Los Angeles.
http://www.lapressclub.org
National
Press Club
Venerable Washington based organizations. Good expert
search engine and library.
http://npc.press.org
PRIVACY
AND CONSUMER RIGHTS
(see also: Consumer Protection)
Privacy
Rights Clearinghouse
Nonprofit consumer education, research, and advocacy program.
Practical tips and U.S. regulations on privacy protection.
http://www.privacyrights.org
PUBLISHING INDUSTRY
American
Society of Journalists and Authors
http://www.asja.org/
Magazine
Publishers of America
Resources and circulation data.
http://www.magazine.org/home/
RADIO
Radio
Locator
Finds frequencies by zip code. Provides links to 10,000 radio station
web sites and 2,500 audio streams.
http://www.radio-locator.com
REFERENCE
acronymfinder.com
Find out what intials and acronyms stand for.
http://www.acronymfinder.com
SEARCH ENGINES
(also see: News and Media)
Everyone
knows Google and Yahoo. Here are some more exotic search services:
SEARCH
ENGINES
publist.com
Searches 150,000 magazines, journals and newsletters.
http://www.publist.com/
findarticles.com
Search engine for more than 500 publications.
http://www.findarticles.com
ingenta.com
Purchase articles from 28.000 academic journals.
http://www.ingenta.com
ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center is a database of journal
and non-journal education literature.
http://www.eric.ed.gov
EDGAR
Useful for researching individual companies. Finds filings with the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
Teoma.com
Owned by Ask Jeeves
(http://www.ask.com)
http://www.teoma.com
Kanoodle.com
High on sponsored links
http://www.kanoodle.com
Lycos
Dating back to the last century, this search engine now combines results
from other engines.
http://www.lycos.com
AltaVista
Created the first web index in 1995. Now owned by Yahoo, which is the
source of its results.
http://www.altavista.com
HotBot
Acesses the top three crawler-based engines of Yahoo, Google and Teoma,
but not simulaneously.
http://www.hotbot.com
AOL
Search
Uses Google's Index.
http://www.search.aol.com
MSN
Search
Currently accesses Yahoo listings, but is developing proprietary technology.
http://www.msn.com
virtualchase.com
Find
a Grave
Here you can find vital data and grave sites of ancestors and prominent
people.
http://www.findagrave.com/
SPACE FLIGHT
The European
Space Agency (ESA)
International pages pages about space activities and research programs
of ESA.
Space
Flight Now
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news
TECH REVIEWS
Cnet.com
Product reviews and tech news.
http://www.cnet.com
tech.yahoo.com
Product reviews from Yahoo users and Consumers Reports.
http://www.tech.yahoo.com
TIMES, DATE,
CALENDARS, CHARTS AND OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION
timeanddate.com
This very useful
site tells the time around the world, offers calendars for any day (past
or future),
sun- and moon calculators,countdowns, and free online clocks for web
sites..
http://www.timeanddate.com/
