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From BBC's Clickonline, May 2006:

HOW to do just about anything: http://www.ehow.com/
Try Science: Games with tutorials based on solving scientific problems: http://www.tryscience.org/

This page is hopelessly out of date. In March 2003 I'm adding: http://www.cyberglass.co.uk/FlashEx/mindreader and Howstuffworks

YOU are there: Share the experience with ...

The first all-woman North Pole expedition
View animals live at 30 second animals at South African game parks at http://www.africam.com/
Chris Pendergast was using his webpage to chart his bike trek to raise awareness for Lou Gehrig's disease. See this inspired site at http://www.geocities.com/~rideforlife/.
Join an expdition to the Korakoram range (8,000 meter peaks) via Quokka Sports, http://www.quokka.com (Newsweek, Apr. 5, 1999, p.17)

This team made the summit on May 22, 1997 and has since returned to Seattle.

"Alive on Everest", a NOVA/PBS Expedition

and coming up ...

Everest Challenge 1998

Other Everest sites:

Culture

aRT :-]

New York's Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco's DeYoung Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Illusion Works (and the Mysterious Number Trick)
"Joan" has a vast and artful collection of ASCII art -- "you won't believe the parrot and the Javascript fireworks" (Geocities blurb) -- at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/

Entertainment

[webmaster’s note to self: inform Suzanne Morine suzannem@dimensional.com when moving TTP info]

Song lyrics

Trivia

You Don't Know Jack

Youth and Yuppie

Science and Discovery

Facts and discovery

American Medical Association
The Discovery Channel, lots of facts, geared to kids
The Farmer's Almanac, useful facts
Popular Science magazine
Public Broadcasting System in the USA
Scientific American
Wetlands, Controversial Issues, Endangered Species, Biographies, etc.
The Why Files, National Inst. for Science Education, U. of Wisconsin
Galileo on the web, 300 pages of his notes on the mechanics of bodies in motion at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science web site at http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de, mirrored at http://www.imss.fi.it.
Do a net search on the string "How things work". You'd be surprised at the plethora of neat sites you turn up. One recurring one (on Altavista) is Louis Bloomfield's site on physics questions, http://www.landau1.phys/virginia.edu/. There is a lot of interesting information here. It needs an index, but you have a rudimentary one at your fingertips with Edit/Find (or whatever your browser uses to search documents).

Kid Stuff

Libraries

Bookstores

Music

Travel and Geography

Geography

National Geographic
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Yahoo Weather Information
"Have you ever wondered how your neighborhood looks from a plane? Try this site if you are interested. It's the largest database on the web." http://terraserver.microsoft.com/, from Mustafa, MLI, 27 Nov 1998

Maps

At this interactive world map http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/world.htm you can click on the continents and then the countries, and also find simple info on each country (as of April 2005)
City Net
MapQuest, maps and more
Yahoo map service (US addresses only) (Maybe they've expanded their database by now ??)
A good one for US and Canada, working on worldwide database: http://www.mapblast.com/

What time is it there?

· http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full.html

· http://www.web-search.com/timezone.html

· http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

Getting there

Air fares (and weather)
American Airlines Sabre Travelocity (requires password)
http://www.priceline.com: How it works: you name the price you want to pay and priceline finds a major airline willing to sell its as-yet unsold seats for that price To learn more about this revolutionary new travel service, visit the priceline Community Center at http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/.
American Express (what was the url??)
Around the World Airfares and Adventures (treks, discount airfares)
Microsoft Expedia
PC Travel
TravelEZ
Travelweb: (reservations: hotels, cars etc.)
US Dept of State travel advisories, links to other travel information sites
US Dept of State passport requirements (i.e. visa??)
Visa requirements for US citizens: http://travel.state.gov/foreignentryreqs.html
World Travel Guide

Currency Exchange

http://www.eurodata.com/currency/currency-converter.htm
Yahoo's currency conversion calculator: http://quote.yahoo.com/m3 | http://quote.yahoo.com/m5
http://www.xe.net/ucc/

Once you're there

Making overseas phone calls: country codes
The Backpacker.com
Great Outdoors Recreation Pages
Outside Online via http://web2.starwave.com/outside
Outside Online via http://outside.starwave.com
Horizon Zine, an e-zine in Yosemite, has campfire stories, camping with kids, hints and tips, and camping safety. It's at http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/2001/

Now, when you locate that quaint spot for a good, cheap meal in whatever backwater foreign country you're in, you'll find the yuppies at the other tables who are looking bored and wishing the others weren't there hoping to salvage some vestige of a third world experience on the trail they all follow, are consulting not The Book, but their LAPTOPS! since they all downloaded the same page from ...

The Lonely Planet

Learn a bit about world languages elsewhere on this website.

Money and Business

News and News Media

ABC News
Bangkok Post EFL/ESL Education Services
Chicago Tribune
CNN
CNN News for ESL Learners at http://www.cnnsf.com/education/education.html (Anthea Tillyer says this gives "a lot of stuff about San Francisc and California education initiatives" - must have shifted focus - ed.) However, Anthea found "something better": a news quiz every day at http://www.cnn.com/SEARCH/quiz/
More ESL edited CNN news at http://lc.byuh.edu/CNN_N/CNN-N_Page.html
The LA Times
MIT Foreign Language News and Magazine Page
National Public Radio
The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com ; The New York Times Learning Network Lesson Plan service is at: :http://www.nytimes.com/learning/. These are lesson plans that meet the U.S. national standards for various subjects including Language Arts and Social Studies. Many of these lessons can be adapted to meet the needs of students of English as a Second, or Foreign, Language. Once registered, the Times will send lessons to your e-mail address up to three times a week.
Instant Lessons from Reuters news articles available free from http://www.English-To-Go.com; Lessons are up to date and based around news stories provided by Reuters - the worlds premier news service provider. Just print and teach.
The San Jose Mercury News
Der Spiegel (double check this)
USA Today
US Robotics access to on-line newspapers worldwide
Word, an online literary magazine, has been saved from oblivion by Zapata, a company started in the 1950's by of all people, George Bush. Find it online again in September, 1998, at http://www.word.com
World Radio Web Links
World Television Web Links
Xoom e-zines: http://www.xoom.com/xines

Computers and the Web

This stuff should really go into the professional pages - ed note to self

The Web

Cybersweep for cool sites (as per Cybersweep radio)
How not to design a web page
Search engines
Topics on the web
Virtual Tourist (map-based tour of world servers)
Zing's roll in life is to fill those dead webpage download hours (yes, hours, 25 of them per year on average that people wait for web pages to load in). Install the zing player from http://www.zing.com
Free email, web hosting, cyber greetings, etc

Computer Stuff

Computer Magazines and News

Check out the Cobb group for access to articles up through 1995. Very good info here, not necessarily out of date.
Family PC Magazine
NewWeb, computing and communications news
PC Magazine
Plugged In
Windows95 Annoyances
Windows Online
Wired

Software

webmaster note to self: CD Source requires authorized entry; adjust url and try again ...

U.S. Government Fun Stuff

Federal Government WWW Servers, http://www.fie.com/www/us_gov.htm

A comprehensive list of U.S. government servers. The list is broken down into three areas: multiple-agency servers, single agency servers (including the executive and legislative branches) and government consortia servers.

The Federal Web Locator, http://www.law.vill.edu/

An award-winning hot list of links to U.S. government WWW resources, compiled by Kenneth Mortensen of the Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy.

American States, http://www.globalcomputing.com/states.html

An alphabetical list links you to the official home page of each of the 50 U.S. states. These home pages cover broad topics such as education, business, government and travel.

Government Information Sharing Project, http://www.govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/

A demonstration project by Oregon State University designed to provide Web access to U.S. federal government information. Areas covered range from demographics to economic data to education statistics.

Keeping America Informed: U.S. Government Printing Office, http://www.gpo.gov/

The Government Printing Office Homepage offers electronic access to documents published by government agencies. Papers from the National Budgets to Nicotine Regulation Documents to Congressional Records are searchable and available for down-loading in both text and PDF formats.

Postage stamps online: http://www.usps.gov/fr_stamps.html

Income tax documents - I'll put the url here once I relocate it (vance) - or you can find it by searching IRS + "tax forms" on a search engine such as Altavista

Not from the US Government

A web site to help people study for the Citizenship test, http://www.uscitizenship.org. - quizzes based on the hundred questions both in oral and written format and practice dictation.

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Updated: April 15, 2001 and one change April 28, 2005 in Hot Metal Pro 6.0
Which is to say, probably a lot of broken links here, will check eventually.
Right now checking watch (must run!).