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Site Name / Description |
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| The Acronym Finder - Discover the meanings of over 200,000 acronyms from all fields. | |
| GI Search - The web's most comprehensive military search page. Loads of interesting information, and a great portal to other military sites. | |
| Department of Defense Dictionary of Military Terms -- If you ever read a military term like AMMRAM and wonder what it means, look it up here! | |
| IBM's Patent Server - Ever wonder if that magical idea you had has already been patented by someone else? Wonder what some of the weird, strange patents that have been granted are? This is the place to find out! | |
| Yahoo! Internet Life's Useful Reference Site of the Day -- One of the more useful links, this is actually a link to hundreds of more links for reference sites. Most of the useful links on this page originated from this site. | |
| DejaNews Power Search - For those of us that remember Deja when it was actually useful, this page allows you to customize your search and select the "Deja Classic" format of feedback so that your searches aren't as cluttered as the "discussions" format. For those of you that don't know what Deja is, it searches USENET newsgroups for critera that you enter, and returns all articles that match. Useful for finding that fanfic you missed. | |
| The Straight Dope Homepage -- Cecil Adams has been fighting ignorance longer than Mulder's been chasing aliens. Great site to debunk common myths, and discover really interesting things like why it's impossible for a human man to have sex with a common housecat. | |
| Dave Barry's Column in the Mami Herald -- Dave Barry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist publishes his column every Sunday in the Miami Herald. If you can't wait that long, check out this URL every Thursday night, when the site is updated. Dave tackles heavy issues in a mature, intelligent way, such as the shocking increase in exploding toilets and why the words "booger" and "weasel" are inherently funny. | www.herald.com/barry |
| Roger Ebert's Movie Review Page -- Roger Ebert, also a Pulitzer Prize winner, is the world-renowned film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. His movie reviews appear on this site, as do his essays, interviews, and a searchable database of his reviews dating back to 1985. Great for the video rental freak in all of us. | www.suntimes.com/ebert |
| Scientific American Online - Those wacky folks that brought you gravity that repels, antimatter galaxies and photons that can be teleported are now on the web and eager to bend your brain with fascinating new scientific discoveries, theories and the occassional cartoon. | www.scientificamerican.com/ |
| Sodaplay Constructor -- It defies descritption, but possibly the single best use of JavaScript I have ever personally witnessed outside of the animated .gifs on the "Hooters" home page. | sodaplay.com/index.htm |
| The Daily .WAV -- If you collect .wav files like I do (12,000 and counting) this is the place for you. Wavs are updated daily, and on the weekends the webmaster usually does a theme of some kind with 5-10 related wavs. Great source for startup, error and shutdown sounds. | www.dailywav.com/default.html |
| Walmart Receipts -- From my "Bizzare" file, this website is dedicated to a single man's collection of WalMart receipts dating back YEARS. Everything from underwear to Weed-B-Gone purchases is covered in here. An incredible insight to another human's life as viewed by his purchases at a large chain-store. | lightning.prohosting.com/~receipts/ |
| The Simpsons Archive -- If you're a fan of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Ned, Rod & Todd, Comic Book Store Guy, and all the rest, then this is the site for you. Probably the most comprehensive non-multimedia Simpsons site on the web. Warning though; if you're looking for .wavs or avi/mpegs of The Simpsons stuff, this is not the place for it. The Simpsons Archive wants to stay around, and doesn't post anything that the facists at Fox might be offended by. | www.snpp.com/ |
| Whatis.com's "What is Every File Format In The World?" -- If you've ever been mailed a file as an attachment that ends in an extension that you've never, ever heard of, then this site will help tell you what software you need to beg, borrow, steal or pirate in order to open that funny 30-second clip of the cat running into the wall. (Macintosh users will probably be bored stiff, since that entire data fork/resource fork thing that Mac files have going kind of obviates file extensions.) | http://www.whatis.com/ff.htm |
| MedicalWizards Home Page -- Not really a useful site at all for anyone that's visiting MY site. It's a site dedicated to selling IV drip calculation software that runs on the Palm Pilot for ER doctors. The only reason it's here is because I designed the site, and I'm the webmaster. | www.medicalwizards.com |
| The Internet Movie Database - Perhaps the single best "go-to" source of information about movies, period. And it proves that the real strength of the web is not selling you stuff, or delivering goat porn to your email, but as the single most powerful, community-based reference engine ever invented. | www.imdb.com |
| User Friendly, The Comic Strip -- I've been in computers in one form or another for 25 years. That's right, I started when I was 9 years old. User Friendly is a comic strip about an ISP and is perhaps one of the single funniest strips out there, after Dilbert (www.dilbert.com) and FoxTrot. Oh, and my cat Coco looks exactly like Dust Puppy. Who, or what is a Dust Puppy? Check out User Friendly to find out! | www.userfriendly.org |
| InPassing -- As far as I can tell, this woman (who lives in the SF Bay Area) is the worlds most public eavesdropper. She posts things she overhears in public on the site, and it makes for really interesting reading. | InPassing.org/ |
| The Smoking Gun -- About as close to "The Lone Gunman" is you're going to get on the web, this page has loads of interesting documents scanned and available for your persual, like Robert Downey Jr's most recent arrest report by the Palm Desert PD. And tons of other stuff, too. | www.thesmokinggun.com/ |
| Wired Magazine's Phrase Generator -- Click on the link and read a random list of about 10 "super high tech" phrases. If you do technical support and someone asks you a really obvious question like "Why doesn't my mouse work?" you can use this site to generate some fabulous Geeky answers, like: "Ultra modern content providers are channeling the online frontier of cyberspace." | reality.sgi.com/dawson_engr/phrases/wiredPhraser.cgi |
| The Urban Legends Reference Page -- Very useful page to discover the "truth" behind such things as alligators in the NYC sewers, and whether or not there is a ring of organ thieves working in New Orleans. (There isn't.) | www.snopes.com/ |
| The Annual NORAD Tracks Santa Website -- The North American Areospace Defense Command, a joint US-Canadian military group that watches the skies for missiles and other such things, started tracking Santa's progress across the world in the 1950s. With the advent of the web, they've stepped up their coverage and reporting. | www.noradsanta.org/ |
| Traffic Waves -- Ever wonder why in heavy traffic you seem to start, stop, start, and stop again? This page explains (with cool animated .gifs) why this happens, and what you can do to change it. I've actually tried some of the things described on this page on 101 in the SF Bay Area, and it works. | www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html |
| Rules of Card Games -- If you like to play cards, but are getting bored with Gin, Poker and Blackjack, check out this site. Thousands upon thousands of card games with the rules clearly explained. | www.pagat.com/alpha.html |
| Despair, Inc. -- Has anyone ever given you one of those "inspirational" posters that have a stunning photograph of a wave crashing onto a big rock with the title "Persistence?" This site is for people that think the idea of such things actually being motivational is hilarious. | www.despair.com/ |
| The Jargon File -- If you hang around people that say such things as "Foo!" and "newsfroup" and you find yourself wondering if they're insane -- they're not. They're just hackers. (And not "crackers," those evil little shits that break into other people's systems and use DoS attacks and things like that.) Find out what your hacker is trying to say by reading the original Jargon File. | www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html |
| The Movie Cliches List -- Ever notice how a cop in a movie can't solve the case unless he's been put on suspension? Or that all mad bombers build bombs with handy-dandy red digital LEDs displaying the seconds until detonation? Or that a 40-year-old, slightly overweight hero can outrun a Porche trying to run him down? | www.moviecliches.com/ |
| Defense Intelligence Agency -- One of the lesser-known intelligence agencies, the DIA is the Pentagon's version of the CIA, and perhaps could be better described as the United States' "Military Intelligence Agency," like the former Soviet Union's GRU. | www.dia.mil/HOMEPAGE/Site5/indexdata.html |
| US Department of Defense - Military Installations By State -- If you need to write a story surrounding a military base, but don't know where anything is, check this site out. Lists all the military installations in the United States by location. Also describes what the base does (major activity or command). | www.defenselink.mil/pubs/installations/bystatea_j.htm |
| DefenseLink - This is a page of other Department of Defense websites. | www.defenselink.mil/sites/ |
| NYPD Home Page | www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/nypd/ |
| Gossamer - One of the oldest, and perhaps the largest archive of X-Files Fan Fiction on the web. | fluky.gossamer.org/ |
| California Independent System Operators System Status Page -- Wanna know if the lights are going off in Northern California? This is the place to find out. | www.caiso.com/SystemStatus.html |