Gene Cooperman's General Information

Think of these pages as my current set of bookmarks, except that I've made them public, in case somebody else finds them useful.

My Virtual Reference Desk (broader and better than this page)
Martindale's "The Reference Desk" (another good one)
MIT Libraries Virtual Reference Collection (useful links, all on one page)

Table of Contents

Countries of World, and United Nations and regions
History
- Hyperhistory (excellent)
- The History Net
- Slave Narratives: Autobiographies (part of "Documenting The American South")
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Harlem Children's Zone (inspiring "conveyor belt" education model, led by Geoffrey Canada)
Maps
Other Languages
- yourDictionary.com (excellent)
- Apertium (open source, free translator among English, Spanish, French, Galician, Catalan, Basque, etc.)
- Dictionary - online translation (bab.la) (many languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, etc.)
- Free Translation (among English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese)
- Translating dictionaries
- Babylon dictionary and translator
  - Babylon on-line translator lookup
- AllWords.com (including crossword solver)
- interactive service of European Commission?
- Chinese radicals (Kangxi) with English meanings
- International characters using "compose" key (or right windows key???)
- Foreign Language Learning Online
- French
- German
- Greek
- Spanish
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Nostratic family (and Illyich-Svytich dictionary of Nostratic roots)
  - Linguistic Archaeology
- American Heritage Dictionary of English (with etymological roots)
- Online Etymology Dictionary/
- World Wide Words (etymologies)
  - Book: From Latin To Romance Sound Charts, 1954
  - Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans
  - Word History Notes (with many examples)
  - Proto-Semitic Language and Culture
Joule Solar Fuel (converts CO2 source into Ethanol, etc., without need for biomass))
Konarka Technologies (polymer solar cells that one can roll up and carry around)
Entertainment
- Books
- Art
- Music (also cf. radio)
- Movies
- Television
- Radio
- Comics
- News (also cf. International broadcast networks, French news, German news)
- Sports (good general site?)
- Local Info
- Travel (also cf. international travel)
- Business
- Health
- Reference
Other fun stuff

The Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign!

Detailed stuff

Index Mundi (Country profiles)
- The Virtual Tourist - World (web servers by geographical location)
- Country Studies (comprehensive, from Library of Congress)
- Largest Military Expenditures (Infoplease.com)
- United Nations
  - United Nations pointers to statistics
- Statistical Resources on the Web
  - UN Statistics
  - United Nations World Population Prospects
  - U. N. Statistics Division -- Millenium Indicators
  - OECD: A Family Affair: Intergenerational Social Mobility across OECD Countries
  - The World Factbook (CIA)
  - Nationmaster - Country comparisons
  - Country Rankings (per capita GDP, oil exports, consumption, etc.)
  - Economic indicators
  - Worldwide auto production statistics
    - Global Auto report (auto sales by ScotiaBank)
  - WWW Virtual Library links
  - Survey of Energy Resources, 2010 (World Energy Council, establishment report)
  - Survey of Energy Resources (older) (World Energy Council, establishment report)
  - U.S. Energy Information Administration of DOE
    - End of Cheap Oil (from Scientific American, 1998) (also, other sources)
    - Looking for Clues as to What may be Ahead (overview of current status and future prospects for oil)
    - BBC overview
    - The End of the Oil Age (another good overview, 2003)
    - Campbell update (2002)
    - Update by Matthew Simmons as of 2003
    - Another Simmons article
    - Twilight in the Desert, by Matthew Simmons, about status of Saudi oil fields
    - and one on natural gas (Dale Allen Pfeiffer)
    - Future World Oil Supply (presented at Salzburg 2002 Summer School) (excellent overview)
    - Another overview
    - Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage (book with online chapter by Princeton U. Press, former geology professor)
    - Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management (U.S. government commissioned report on peak oil)
    - ASPO Newsletters (available from Peakoil.net)
    - AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists)
    - The Essence of Oil And Gas Depletion
    - Global Public Media
    - Speeches and papers of Matthew Simmons
    - M.K. Hubbert Center for Petroleum Supply Studies, Colorado School of Mines
    - Regularly Appearing Statistics
      - BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2006 (with world imports/exports of oil)
      - International Energy Agency (IEA) information centre (see especially World Energy Outlook, annual series, and other free publications -- free after 2 to 3 years); 2002 World Energy Outlook;
      - oilmarketreport.org (from IEA)
      - EIA International Energy Annual (from Energy Information Administration of U.S. government, with statistics); Energy Information Administration (EIA) Annual Energy Review 2002 (see especially Energy Resources and Petroleum); Annual Energy Outlook (projections to 2025; with forecast evaluation and past editions); International Energy Outlook
      - World Energy Council (WEC) Surveys 2001 (also see free online publications)
      - Office of Fossil Energy of DOE (with International country overviews)
      - Country Analysis Briefs (EIA/DOE) (including Iraq, second largest reserves in world)
        
        Iraq Oil Timeline (from liberal perpsective)
      - Monthly Oil Production (International Petroleum Monthly, EIA)
    - Estimates of recoverable oil
      - Predicted production and estimates of recoverable oil by country (based on Hubbert Peak methodology)
        
        ASPO Newsletter (click on country assessment; alt)
        Country-by-country prediction of Oil Peaks, 1998 (misses recent fields: Kazakhstan, offshore Brazil, offshore Angola, but reasonable overview)
      - Resources for (Estimated Ultimately Recoverable) Oil and Natural Gas, based on USGS 2000 assessment using 1996 data (with details for each country)
      - Predicted World Oil Production Capacity by Country (EIA, International Energy Outllook, Appendix D1)
        
        Report by Common Cause on lobbying for fracking ("A faction of the natural gas industry has invested more than $747 million as part of a 10-year lobbying and political spending campaign to persuade federal authorities to ignore the dangers of ... fracking ....")
        Outlook 2003, 1995 - 2025
        Outlook 2002, 1995 - 2020
      - Current crude oil production by country (note crude oil does not include natural gas liquids, etc.)
        
        Country-by-country energy statistics (Based on current DOE reports)
        International Petroleum Production (Monthly and Quarterly Data)
        International Petroleum Monthly (EIA/DOE)
      - Oil Reserves Growth Potential (by Francis G. Harper)
    - Willkommen in der Energiekrise (with English link, and news in German)
    - The Coming Global Oil Crisis
    - Survey of Information on Oil Depletion (dieoff.org)
    - Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (with articles)
    - Dry Dipstick Hubbert's Peak metadirectory
    - PlanetForLife (Coming World Energy Crisis; good overview)
    - Energy Security (pressure of oil depletion, and renewable alternatives)
    - Peak Oil: an Outlook on Crude Oil Depletion
    - Beyond Peak Oil
    - The Busby Report (Analysis of U.K. energy after peak oil, by John Busby)
    - World Energy Council (establishment)
    - Reserves: Technological Progress or Bad Reporting?
    - Deepwater Gulf of Mexico 2008 (pdf, from MMS/DOE)
    - Deepwater Gulf of Mexico 2009 (pdf, from MMS/DOE) (or alt)
    - Oil in Iraq
      - articles on energy security (oil supplies) by Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
        
        Iraq Pipeline Watch (continuing chronology of attacks on Iraqi pipelines)
    - World Energy Resources (USGS)
      - World Petroleum Assessment 2000
      - Geology, Oil and Gas Fields of the World
    - Arguments that there is a lot more oil
      - Peak Oil Debunked
      - The Myth of "Peak Oil" - Mises Institute (by Charles Featherstone)
      - Proven oil reserves are not a measure of future supply
      - USGS 2000 analysis
      - DOE report based on oil industry studies
      - Lecture by Peter Odell, 2003
      - Older report of Peter Odell
  - Annual Coal Report (EIA, USA)
    - Coal Production in the United States - An (sic) Historical Overview
    - International Coal (EIA)
  - World Renewable Production of Electricity
  - EurObserv'ER Barometer (renewable energy statistics)
  - GEO FCT Portal (Forest Carbon Tracking Portal; requires Google Earth --- doesn't run on Linux?)
  - Global Wind Energy Council
    - Wind Power News (from alternative-energy-news.info)
    - World Wind Energy Association - Statistics (or .pdf (2011))
    - Wind power by country (Wikipedia)
    - Wind power production for main countries (thewindpower.net)
    - World Wind Energy Association - Wind Energy Technology and Planning (excellent!)
    - REN21 - Publications
    - IEA (International Energy Agency) Wind Home Page (with Annual Report for world)
    - American Wind Energy Association
    - European Wind Energy Association
      - Wind Directions Magazine (by the EWEA)
    - World Energy Council Survey of Resources 2010
  - IEA (International Energy Agency) Photovoltaic energy (solar electric) (with statistic reports)
    - Solar power by country (Wikipedia)
    - Solar Power News (from alternative-energy-news.info)
    - Industry News (solarbuzz.com)
    - Module Pricing (solarbuzz.com) (At $1.00 per peak watt, expectations are that photovoltaic will be cost-competitive with the grid in most places. At higher prices, it is cost-competitive only at selective locations, such as islands (e.g. Hawaii), where importing coal, oil, or natural gas is expensive.)
    - Cost competitiveness (generalities with few specifics) (solarbuzz.com)
    - Solar Electricity Prices (solarbuzz.com)
    - Solar Energy Market Growth (solarbuzz.com)
    - Solarbuzz Forecasts (quarterly, w/ registration)
    - EERE: SunShot (program of DOE to reduce solar power costs by 75% over decade 2011 - 2020: achieving price parity with fossil-based energy: installed cost of about $1/watt or 6 cents per kwh)
    - Solar Daily (along with Terra Daily, Sino Daily, and others)
    - NREL: Energy Analysis - Solary Energy (with Market Report (including world installed capacity))
    - The Open PV Project (real-time status of solar photovoltaic market)
    - World Energy Council Survey of Resources 2010 (issued every 3 years)
    - Photovoltaic Technology Developments and Solar News (Photovoltaics International)
    - Photovoltaic Industry News
    - World of Photovoltaics.com
    - Solarbuzz
    - PV financial incentives
  - Nuclear Energy
    - WNA Nuclear Database - under construction
  - Analysis of Hydrogen economy
  - EnergyBulletin.net
  - Peak Oil News
  - The Oil Drum
  - Green Car Congress (oil analysis, and clean, fuel-efficient vehicles)
  - NOAA Climate Services (climate.gov)
    - State of the Climate (Global Analysis) (Note: can select specific month, annual, other climate reports)
    - Global Warming (excellent overview)
    - Marclimate Graphs (excellent overview in graphs of historical statistics related to climate change)
    - Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (physicists who went back to analyze surface temperatures independently of the climatologist study, and with funding by Novim Group, independent of the traditional climatology funding sources, headed by Richard Muller (formerly skeptical of global warming (MIT Technology Review))
      --- using raw historical data (non-homogenized, unedited), for five times as many weather stations as the Global Historical Climatology Network Monthly data set (GHCN-M) used by many climate studies. The newly developed mathematical algorithms work on the larger data sets because they have less need for uniform record length, nearly complete reference interfals, etc. They conclude a rise in temperature of 0.7 degrees Celsius since the mid-1950s, similar to that of GDCN-M.)
      - Congressional testimony of Richard Muller, 3/31/11
      - Papers (submitted) arising from study
      - Video of surface air temperatures from 1800 to present
    - Understanding the Global Warming Forecast: Our Past and Future Climate (by Peter Demenocal, Columbia U., Nov. 1, 2005 -- one of the clearest talks on this subject ever)
    - Changing Planet (popular 5 minute videso from NBC on science of climate change)
    - "Can We Defuse The Global Warming Time Bomb?" (article by James Hansen, Scientific American, Feb., 2004)
    - BAMS Annual State of the Climate
    - NASA animations by keyword
      - Sea Ice (animations from NASA)
      - Arctic Sea Ice yearly minimum (animation, 1979 - 2012)
      - Extensive Ice Fractures in the Beaufort Sea (NASA animation)
      - Annual Gradient Melt over Greenland 1978 through 2009
      - Jakobshavn Glacier Calving Front Recession from 1850 to 2006 (or alt) (ice stream contributes 0.002 inches/0.06 mm per year of sea level rise)
      - Larsen Ice Shelf collapse (NASA animation (or alt), with more information and still more information with a good map/diagram; Larsen A ice shelf collapsed in 1995, Larsen B (size of Rhode Island) in 2002; concerns about Larsen C (larger than Connecticut) for future)
    - seaice.de
      - Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis (NSIDC)
      - Greenland Ice Sheet Today (NSIDC)
      - Polar Science Center: Arctic Sea Ice Volume Anomaly, version 2
        
        PIOMAS - ArctischePinguin (fits of PIOMAS ice volume, including exponentially and geometrically decreasing fit)
      - Arctic sea ice graphs
      - Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Area
      - Daily SSMIS sea ice maps (Experimental)
        
        Archive of sea ice concentration (to be re-analyzed later??)
        Archive of sea ice concentration (older)
      - Temperatures in the Arctic (daily, DMI: Center for Ocean og Is, "Ocean and Ice")
      - Arctic mean temperatures (1958-2013) (Centre for Ocean and Ice, Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut)
      - Atmospheric pressure in the Arctic (highs and lows) (daily, DMI: Center for Ocean og Is, "Ocean and Ice")
      - DMI/COI SST (Sea Surface Temperature)
      - Polar Met. Arctic forecast (Temp/Wind/MSLP, BPRC/OSU)
      - Arctic weather forecast (choose "N. Hem.", 500hPa, hours from present: T=low, H=high)
      - Surface Temperatures Anomaly (animation)
      - Tiksi temperature (Siberia on Arctic coast)
      - Liverpool Bay temperature (Canada on Arctic coast)
      - Rutgers Global Snow Lab (daily and monthly maps, with anomalies)
      - Energy balance of Earch (Encyclopedia of Earth) (with insolation chart)
      - Climate and Earth's Energy Budget (NASA site, excellent!)
      - Arctic Mosaic (LANCE-MODIS) (satellite picture of Arctic ice, prev/next button shows different days; click on "MODIS Mosaics")
        
        MODIS Composites from previous week
      - EOSDIS Worldview (Alpha) (set for Arctic)
      - Jet Stream Position and Forecast (U.S.) and alt
      - Arctic Cap Nowcast/Forecast System (ACVNS) (Naval Research Laboratory)
        
        Arctic Ice Thickness (30-day animation)
        Arctic Ice Thickness (12-month animation)
        Sea Surface Tempoerature (12-month animation)
        Arctic ice speed and drift
      - Sea ice (from MET in Norway; with Concentration of Arctic ice (daily), and Edge of Arctic ice (daily) and Sea Ice Type (multi-year ice, daily))
        
        Ice chart
      - Multi-year ice (from Russian Ice Center, Arctic and Antarctic Research, updated weekly)
      - Mercator Océan, prévision océanique opérationnelle - Bulletins Océan global 1/12> (concentration, thickness, and movement of the ice)
        
        Mercator Ocean (analysis and forecasting, dates, animation, sea ice thickness, sea surface temperature, etc.)
      - Arctic Buoy Programme (6-day track)
      - Jakobshavn Isbrae (glacier in West Greenland)
      - Historical ice maps from about 1900 (English and Icelandic, try Aug)
      - ERMA (Environmental Response Management Application, Arctic) (with ice conditions and active offshore oil and gas leases)
      - Trends in Carbon Dioxide (Mauna Loa, 1959 - present)
    - Sea ice blogs, talks, and general background
      - Climate Central
      - Open Mind (blog on global warming by "tamino")
      - Realscience (blog on global warming)
      - RealClimate (blog by climate scientists)
      - RealClimate.org ("commentary site on climate sicence by working climate scientists ... quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary")
      - Debunking Climate Skeptics: Chuck Kutscher, Ph.D. (workshop given for Colorado State Legislature)
      - Weather and Climate Summit, Jan., 2013 (overview of trends in Arctic (in first third), and effects on weather in North America; by Jennifer Francis; 1-1/2 hour video);
        or alternative half-hour version of talk
      - How does Arctic sea ice form and decay
      - Poseidon: Operating North Pole Icebreaker Cruises Since 2001
      - Arctic Sea Ice Blog
      - Skeptical Science (Examination of climate change skepticism arguments)
      - Dosbat (blog from "amateur reader of climate science")
      - Watts Up With That (climate denier blog; cherry-picks the data to prove that (a) the Earth is not warming, and (b) that the warming is not caused by people, and (c) that when people finish warming the Earth we'll all be better off (e.g. plants need CO₂ to grow))
        
        Historic Variation in Arctic Ice (author seems to feel that current summer melting of Arctic is not unusual by historic standards, but nevertheless a fascinating history of Arctic ice observations from about 1800 - 1900)
      - SciencePoles (Articles on polar sciences and research)
      - Glacier Change: From a Glacier's Perspective
      - Historic Variation in Arctic Ice (author seems to feel that current summer melting of Arctic is not unusual by historic standards, but nevertheless a fascinating history of Arctic ice observations from about 1800 - 1900)
    - General climate drivers
      - Global ocean heat and salt content (NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center)
      - Arctic Oscillation Index (National Weather Service, Climate Prediction Center)
      - Multivariate ENSO Index (ENSO = "El Niño/Southern Oscillation": positive = El Niño)
      - Sunspot index graphs (from SIDC)
      - Animation of North America Jet Stream
      - Meltfactor.org
    - Arctic Map (zoomable and detailed)
    - Arctic Ice Thickness (Ice Volume --- long-term, arctic ice volume will be more important than ice extent or ice area)
      - BBC News on Cryosat (June, 2011; sea-ice thickness map)
      - Measurement of sea ice thickness (Wikipedia)
      - CryoSat-2 (satellite of European Space Agency, altimeter measures land and sea ice thickness)
        
        Ice Thickness map of Arctic (June, 2011)
      - ICESat (wikipedia, NASA satellite for measuring ice sheets)
        
        ICESat-2 (planned successor satellite by NASA, to launch in 2016)
        NASA measurements (older)
      - Climate Watch Magazine: Old Ice Becoming Rare in Arctic
      - Polar Science Center: Arctic Sea Ice Volume Anomaly, version 2 (PIOMAS model for estimating sea ice volume based on numerical modelling with observations from satellites, Navy submarines, moorings, and field measurements as input: In 2010, the September volume (min. volume) was approximately 1/3 of the corresponding mean volume for the same month over the years 1979-2010.)
        
        PIOMAS seasonal predictions for ice thickness
    - Lake Mead Water Levels (effect of drought)
    - Pew Center for Climate Change (with Fuel Economy Standards around the World)
    - The Heat is Online (news on global warming)
    - United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
    - Arctic Climate Impact Assessment 2004
    - Arctic Report Card (yearly assessment of Arctic)
    - Find a Car (car mileage and global warming, by car model)
    - GAP (Government Accountability Project) from whistleblower.org
  - United Nations European Economic Commission for Europe publications (with World Robotics, Trends in Europe and North America, and Statistical Journal)
  - OECD (also here) (Org. for Economic Cooperation and Dev.)
  - World Bank data (including Country data)
  - State of the Nation (U.S. statistics)
  - FRED - Economic Research
  - (also see Latin America)
    - World Bank statistics
  - IMF (Int. Monetary Fund)
- UT Latin American Network Information Center
  - Latin American Economic and Social Indicators (USAID)
  - IADB (Inter-American Dev. Bank)
  - Basic Socio-Economic Data for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Countries
  - Canada
    - Quebec
      - Bonjour Québec accommodations (official tourism site)
      - Bed and breakfast, Montréal
      - Bed and breakfasts, Montréal (from toutmontreal.com)
      - Phone calls between Canada and U.S. - use Google Voice w/ forwarding from American incoming phone to a Canadian phone, etc.
      - Xoom (transfer money abroad; %5.00 commission + approximately 1.7% half-spread for rate - U.S./Canadai; can use eCheck (like writing check on bank, but takes up to 4 days to clear))
      - Auberge Montréal (residences at UQAM starting at $45) (Auberge Festivals Montréal,/a> (starting at CA$46 or CA$56, no hotel tax)
      - McGill summer residences ( Bishop Mountain Hall, starting at CA$45/night)
      - Solo Mobile pay-as-you-go cell phone
    - City of Montreal
      - Montreal Directory at HighwayHome (excellent, extremely broad and complete)
  - Latin America
    - HITN TV (public TV in the United States, in spanish)
    - TeleSur (TV supported by governments of Venezuela, Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay)
    - Latin Trade (magazine)
    - El Herald
  - China: People's Daily Online
    - Beijing Air Quality Monitor (particles < 2.5 micron, U.S. Embassy Monitor in Beijing)
      - For comparison, EPA Peak 2.5 micron level in U.S. (with color chart explanations here and here)
  - Cuba
  - France
    - The Paris Pages
      - Transilien (suburban trains) schedules (or alt)
      - paris.fr
      - Museums
      - Museums of Paris
      - Mémorial de la Shoah
      - Musée National du Moyen-Age Thermes de Cluny
      - Musée Carnavalet - Histoire de Paris or alt
      - Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie
      - Magasin de DVD -- Rue Sainte-Antoine à l'ouest de l'églie Saint-Paul.
      - " Kiosque Place de la Madeleine, Paris 2me; Kiosque Gare Montparnasse, Paris 14me; Et Le dernier n : Kiosque Place des Ternes, Paris 17me Horaires : mardi - samedi de 12h30 20h et dimanche de 12h30 16h"
      - Paris Airport Shuttle
    - Office de Tourisme de Montpellier
    - montpellier.fr - site de la Mairie de Montpellier
    - Le Guide Montpellier
    - Tourisme
  - Germany (Yahoo)
    - German weather
    - Stadtplandienst (city maps)
    - Berlin
    - Internationale Stadt Berlin
    - Bonn
    - Essen
    - Hamburg
  - Iraq
    - Informed Comment Blog on Iraq with excellent background to current stories
    - Informed Comment: Global Affairs
    - Iraq Coalition Casualties (especially useful, now that major news outlets tend not to report this)
    - Iraq Body Count (documented casualties with names)
    - Opinion Research Business survey (22% of respondents lost one family member or more living under their roof due to the war)
    - Sworn statements by Abu Ghraib detainees
    - Azzaman (English edition of most widely read Iraqi newspaper, in conjunction with Al-Sharqiya Iraqi television)
    - Target Iraq (much info, and links to many viewpoints)
    - Juan Cole's Informed Comment (Blog of news and analysis about Iraq)
    - Iraq war (info on casualties not generally reported, anti-war viewpoint)
    - and civilians killed in Iraq
  - Israel - Israel Information Service
    - Annotated Links (peace oriented)
    - Ha'aretz - English (excellent, more progressive perspective than American newspapers)
    - Jerusalem Post (or alt) (Israel)
    - Seruv (or alt)
    - Tikkun
    - Breaking the Silence (organization of Israeli soldier veterans, with soldiers' testimonies and video testimonies)
    - United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (led by Justice Richard Goldstone, for UN Human Rights Commision, Sept. 15, 2009; including issues of international laws)
    - BBC article on items allowed and not allowed into Gaza Strip (The Israeli government argues in their courts that they cannot disclose what is allowed into Gaza because it would "damage national security and harm foreign relations". - 5/3/10, BBC, quote from Israeli government; As of May, 2010, it included "jam, chocolate, wood for furniture, fruit juice, textiles, and plastic toys.")
    - Mideast Web
    - Anne Frank home page
    - Association of Holocaust Organizations
    - Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (founded by Steven Spielberg)
    - Nizkor Home Page (Holocaust documentation)
    - holocaust.juden-in-europa.de
    - Simon Wiesenthal Center
    - This Week in Palestine
    - B'Tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories: gripping footage, such as here)
    - HEB2, Experimental Internet Broadcasting out of H2 Hebron (collaboration of Israeli and Palestinian activists)
    - Palestinian web site links (Birzeit University) (also try this and Palenstine Remebered)
    - Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine (including Palestinians in Israel)
  - Japan Window
  - Russia (Window-to-Russia Home Page)
  - Si, Spain (from Spanish foreign affairs ministry)
    - Europe Online -- Spain
    - Spain
  - United Kingdom
    - Virtual London
FirstGov (official U.S. index of government web pages)
- United States Federal government
- Federal Statistics (collected from many agencies)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Statistical Abstract
- Census Bureau Home Page
- International Programs Center
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (with patent search)
- FedWorld Beta Home Page
- Search FirstGov (Gov Web Pages)
- National Technical Information Service Filename: http://www.fedworld.gov/ntis/ntishome.html
- Consumer Information Center (Pueblo, Colorado)
- WOT: Web of Trust (check out new web sites: users rank trustworthiness)
- Tax law, summarized by topic (Cornell U.)
- SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
- White House
- U.S. House of Representatives
- The U.S. Senate
- Thomas legislative information (with status)
- U.S. Congressional Record
- U.S. Judicial Branch Resources (U.S. code, judicial opinions, etc.)
- Vote Smart Web (info about candidates)
- League of Women Voters
- opensecrets.org (tracks money in politics)
- Democracy Place, USA
- Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
- Election Line (primaries, etc.)
- Politics Now
- dKosopedia (political encyclopedia, progressive point of view)
- Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (from Harper's Weekly in 1860's)
- IRS Forms and Publications
- OpenTaxSolver (free, open source program for calculating tax forms (federal and Mass., Cal., N.Y., and others; can be combined with Adobe Fill-in forms)
- Citizens for Tax Justice
NYC Information Page
New England Online
Massachusetts (also see local info)
- MassGIS -- Online Mapping
- Official City of Boston
- Boston Online
- Government (Boston & Mass.)
- Massachusetts Tax Forms
Martindale's Map pointers (also see reference, travel, and international travel)
- Bing Maps (Microsoft: interactive maps around the world, aerial view, 3D, etc.)
- Multimap.com (excellent maps for whole world)
- United Nations Cartographic Section maps
- PCL Map Collection
- Historical Map Web Sites
- Historical Maps Overview
- Oddens's bookmarks (maps)
- Google Maps
- Google Earth
- Microsoft TerraServer (on-line aerial imagery database)
- EarhExplorer (USGS)
- Census TMS Home Page
  - TMS Experimental Browser (U.S. Census maps)
  - TMS Experimental Browser (older version)
- Map Collection (Library of Congress)
- Rare Map Collection
- The Rhyiner-Project at the U. Library of Berne
- Map Maker - nationalatlas.gov (interactive)
- National Map (Interactive) (USGS)
Ethnologue (languages of the world)
- Language Families
- The Human-Languages Page
- Language Exchange (lingua2.eu)
- Live Mocha (for free language learning with others from other countries)
- Tandem Server Bochum (free server to match partners for tandem learning by e-mail/IM/phone; includes links for learning strategies; summary of pairs matched)
- Western European Literature
- FranceLink: Portail francophone
  - Wikipédia (encyclopédia)
  - Encyclopédie de Diderot et D'Alembert
  - Wiktionnaire
  - Portail lexical (avec morphologie, prononciation, lexicographie, Ã©tymologie, ...; du Centre National De Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales)
  - Dictionnaire français-anglais (ledictionnaireanglais.com, excellent!)
  - Dictionnaires français en ligne
  - Dictionnaires
    - Wiktionnaire
    - Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française, 9ème édition
      - Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française, 8ème édition
    - Linguee - Dictionnaire anglais-français (Excellent! With many translations in context)
    - Webster's Online Dictionary (with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation)
    - Larousse online dictionaries
    - French/Spanish/English/Italian Dictionary (wordreference.com)
    - English-French dictionary (bab.la)
    - French Dictionary (babylon.com on-line translator)
    - Dictionary of English and French Idioms, Illustrating, by Phrases and Examples the Peculiarities of Both Languages
    - Dictionnaire de la langue française (L'internaute magazine)
    - Dictionnaire français en ligne - LEXILOGOS
    - French course, on the principle of contrasts and comparison, on a plan securing, for each pupil of a class individually, constant speaking combined with extreme fluency
    - Les expressions françaises décortiquées
    - Frequent word lists (French and English)
    - Dictionnaire des synonymes
  - French verb conjugator
  - French glue words
  - Europe1 (talk radio from France) (If the embedded player fails to start for you, try mms://viplagardere.yacast.net/encodereurope1 or http://webradio.europe1.fr/V4/europe1/europe1.m3u with your favorite player)
  - Radio France Internationale (with web player)
    - Les journaux pour télécharger
    - RFI Monde (live)
    - RFI Monde (alt)
    - RFI: Proche et Moyen-Orient (mp3: replace date by current date)
    - Radio France Internationale -- Podcast
    - RFI - apprendre la langue française
  - Radio en Montréal
    - CBF-FM - Premiére Chaîne Montreal 95.1 FM (listen online via radiotime.com)
    - Radio-Canada.ca (Première Chaine Radio Désautels and RDI en direct)
    - La Zone Audio-Vidéo - Radio-Canada
    - Cckvl.ca Télé-Radio internet
    - CHOQ.FM : radio UQAM
  - Séries-TV (in France)
  - L'Intégrale de Zapping (Canal+)
  - Les Guignols de L'Info (Canal+)
  - Direct 8 TV live
  - TV5 Monde TV Online ("Le Journal" uniquement)
  - TV5 Monde Europe in streaming (avec grille)
  - TVE Internacional (espagnol)
  - En directo; La 1 de TVE
  - Arte+7 replay (ça dépend le programme; depuis l'étranger: ARTE journal ARTE Reportage, et des autres))
  - Pluzz.fr (voir ou revoir les programmes de France télévisions; seulement en France)
  - France Inter (direct)
    - France Inter (podcasts)
  - France Info Direct
  - Les Vidéos (Franc2)
  - WRN Français (World Radio Network)
  - Radio France (French public radio, with France Info - use web player and MP3 stream from here)
  - France 24: RSS/Podcast Feeds
  - LCI (La Chaine Info; French News, RealVideo)
  - RTL Podcast
  - Rue89 (news magazine)
  - Audio français gratuit en ligne
    - Rire et Chansons : les webradios
    - Piéces de théâtre à télécharger
    - Saga MP3
      - NETOPHONIX Sagas mp3 :: Liste des Sagas mp3
      - Donjon de Naheulbeuk (saga mp3)
    - Livres audio gratuits sur internet
      - Canal Académie (Magazine francophone des Académies sur Internet; podcasts)
      - Le Livre Qui Parle - moteur de recherche dédié au livre audio
      - Literature audio.com (livres audio gratuits; excellent; voir aussi Portail:Audiolivres - Wikisource)
        
        Scott, Walter -- Ivanhoe
        Hugo, Victor -- Notre-Dame de Paris
        Verne, Jules -- Voyage Au Centre De La Terre
        Robespierre, Maximilien (de) -- Discours Sur La Peine de Mort
        Leroux, Gaston -- Le Fauteuil Hanté
        Théâtre
        Policiers
      - Télérama Radio
      - Portail:Audiolivres (Wikisource)
      - Musique mal-voyants
      - Comptines et chansons pour enfants
      - archivox (audio French, including some of "les contes des mille et une nuits", qualité excellente; extraits)
      - audiocité - livres audio gratuits (classiques et plus contemporains; excellent)
      - Guy De Maupassant.fr (enregistrements soignés)
      - 01PodCast.com (avec Littérature
      - Internet Archive - French audio books
      - Boîte à Sourdines (livres audio, éclectique)
      - Librivox (livres audio gratuits en français: Dumas, Mille et une nuits, etc.) (qualité d'enregistrement moyenne)
        
        Arsène Lupin gentleman-cambrioleur, par Maurice Leblanc
      - Incipit Blog (qualité d'enregistrement moyenne)
      - AudioLivres (ou ici; souvent ne marche pas si on n'est pas membre)
        
        Louis Riel, Martyr du Nord-Ouest (in progress)
    - Tous les podcasts -- Politique
    - De quoi je me mail (podcast sur les actus hi-tech)
    - Podcast BFM: Les Grands Débats (alt)
      - BFM: Chine Hebdo
      - BFM: Green Business
    - GreatSong.net Musique : Paroles, Clips, Radio, Forums, Traductions
  - Livres français gratuits en ligne
    - Wikisource - Accueil
      - Wikimedia - Spoken French
    - manybooks.net (plus de 1,460 livres en français)
    - Gérard Klein (préfaces et postfaces)
    - Ponson du Terrail, 1829-1871; Rocambole, forerunner of Arsène Lupin and Raffles (ebooksgratuits.com) and here (livres de Project Gutenberge)
    - Livres pour tous (5000 eBooks gratuits en ligne)
    - Galicia Classique (de la Bibliothèque Nationale Française)
      - Documents numerotisés en mode texte
    - Project Gutenberg texts in French
    - Athena: French Literature
    - Ebooks libres et gratuits ou alt
      - Arsène Lupin (par Maurice LeBlanc)
    - Libres pour tous (gratuits)
    - French translations of Russian/Slavic books
  - FBReader (e-book reader for Linux PDAs and Linux desktop: supported formats: html, plain text, palmdoci, non-DRM'ed mobipocket, RTF, etc.; direct reading from gzip, bzip2, etc.)
  - Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
  - Resources for Learning French
  - France 2 (Journal de Télématin)
  - Athena: Textes Français
  - ABU (French texts)
  - Encyclopédie de Diderot et D'Alembert
  - De la Terre à la Lune (Jules Verne)
- Links for German Language
- Greek radio station
- Russian
  - Russian<->English<->Russian dictionary
- Spanish
  - Diccionario de la lengua española - Vigésima segunda edición
  - Diccionarios de elmundo.es (español, sinónimos, antónimos, inglés, francés)
  - Diccionarios.com (e.g. VOX)
  - El Castellano - Etimología
  - Wordreference.com (Spanish, German, English, French, Italian)
  - Spanish songs, trabalenguas, fiestas, etc.
  - Radio
    - CNN enEspañol (with RealAudio)
    - Russia Today (spanish)
    - CCTV-E En Driecto (CCTV Español)
    - teleSUR (Señal en vivo) (with audio en vivo
    - Globovision (Venezuela)
    - BBC en Español (from Clarin Digital; or BBC in spanish home page)
    - Cadena COPE (from Madrid)
    - Cadena 100 (radio from Spain)
    - Televisión peruviana en vivo (from Frecuencia Latina)
    - REE (Radio Exterieur de España, with RealAudio)
    - Canal Sur Radio (Andalucía, with RealAudio)
    - Radio Habana
  - Newspapers
    - Prensa (muchos países, y radio, etc.)
    - from Spain: El País, El Mundo, and ABC
    - Diario LA NACION - San Jose, Costa Rica
    - The Wall Street Journal Americas
  - Proyecto Cervantes (e otros)
  - Cuentos Infantiles
  - Spanish on-line texts
  - Red Mundo Latino
    - Centro Cultural
    - Rincón Literario
    - Cristóbal Colón (sus Diarios)
  - Rincón literario de Sofía
  - The WWW Virtual Library: Latin American Studies
  - soc.culture.spain
  - soc.culture.latin-america
  - soc.culture.mexican
  - soc.culture.peru
Entertainment
- Library of Congress Z39.50 Gateway
  - The Online Books Page (excellent, with pointers to foreign books)
  - Used Book Circle (request a title, and it finds a local bookstore with the used book in 48 hours)
  - Project Gutenberg Home Page
    - Science Fiction (Bookshelf) - Gutenberg
  - ManyBooks.net (free eBooks)
  - Baen Free Library (current science fiction and fantasy books free from well-known and other authors)
  - Oxford Text Archive
  - Humanities Text Initiative
  - /contrabib/Torah (internal contradictions in the Bible)
  - Early English Books Online
  - Earliest English Literatures
  - American Memory (on-line collections from Library of Congress)
  - Continental Books (sells foreign books)
  - World literature
  - Internet Book Information Center
- Athena (including French literature and Maupassant and Science)
- Arsène Lupin (by Maurice LeBlanc, in English)
- Blackmask Online (many on-line books)
- Children's books
- The Works of Flavius Josephus
- Perseus Project Home Page (emphasis on classics)
  - The Complete Works of Marlowe
- Classic short stories
- Internet Public Library
- Internet Public Library (organized in Dewey decimal)
- Schoenhof's Foreign Books
Internet Movie Database (see also Local listings)
- Internet Archive (free movies and classic TV for download)
  - His Girl Friday
  - The Little Shop of Horrors (original 1960 version)
  - Meet John Doe
- Top 25 Sites to Watch Free Movies and TV Shows
- joox.net
- YourTvLinks (including from many countries)
- Online TV (ForumFlicks)
- AmericaFree.tv
- EspanaFree.tv (Spanish movies)
- Open Subtitles --- divx subtitles
- SubsMax.com
- SubtitleSeeker
- Subscene (subtitles)
- Cinéma français
- RetroVision Media (free classic movies: Click on "The Show" or "The Feed")
- Archambault -- Musique, Livres et Vidéo
- Motion Picture Database of 40,000 movies (including current movies w/ detailed reviews and ratings) by TV Guide ( index)
- Top 10 movies (Cinema 1)
- New York Times movie reviews (requires free account)
Artcyclopedia
- Google Art Project (hi-res of famous paintings in museums)
- WebMuseum Paris
- Le Louvre
- ANU Art History Top Level Menu Page
- Krannert Art Museum
Music Resources on the Internet
- Grooveshark.com
- UNIX MIDI Plugin
- Free Sheet Music Downloads (links to other free sites)
- Classical Sheet Music WebRing (but usually not free)
- Free Sheet Music Guide
- Free Sheet Music on 8notes.com (also has MIDI)
- The Sheet Music Archive
- Naxos Realaudio archive
- MusixTeX (music notation for TeX)
- Music
- musique directory
Television (Yahoo)
- TV Worth Watching (daily best bets from the wasteland -- no ratings of best series like the old site for "quality television" had)
- Rose d'Or (TV entertainment awards)
- BAFTA Television Awards (British Academy Television Awards)
- TV news
- LetMeWatchThis (streaming video)
- Guidetele.com
- Guide TV SFR
- DVD Hacks -- Hack search (how to convert certain players to region free; if the box says it handles NTSC and PAL, then it's likely to be in this web page)
- Region free DVD Players or DVD Reviewer - Multi-Region Hacks or Nerd-out.com or VideoHelp.com (several sites about converting players to region-free)
- regional lockout (info about RPC-2 (newer) dvd drives and firmware issues; and a site with workarounds)
  - Region-free DVD viewing options for the Macintosh
- HDCP Copy protection for data using DVI (computers) or HDMI (HD TV)
- DVD FAQ
- Zap2it TV listings (w/ Boston or alt)
- TV listings (from Tivo)
- TV Guide Online (w/ listings)
- TV Fool (Predict strength of over-the-air TV signals to your address)
- Euro TV Guide
- free international TV available over internet
  - Beeline TV
  - Channel Chooser
  - Free TV Online
  - World TV PC
  - WWI TV
- Doctor Who - Classic Series - Episode Guide
- Babylon 5
- Star Trek Plot Summaries
Internet Broadcasting
- The Boston Radio Archives (and TV); (see Northeast Radio Watch for more recent news)
- Radio-Locator (incl. international, but mostly Radio, not streaming audio)
- DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting, digital radio on FM))
- DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale, digital radio on shortwave, AM) ; (with current broadcasts)
- Mobile DTV (mobile digital TV)
- Collections of audio/video sources
  - LibriVox (free audiobooks)
  - CounterSpin (from FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; with archives or alt)
    - Alternative Radio
    - Uprising Radio
    - Michael Parenti (political blog, progressive)
    - PolitiFact (most quoted, St. Petersburg Times)
    - FactCheck.org (Annenberg Political Fact Check; non-partisan)
    - Media Matters for America (analyzes and corrects conservative misinformation in mainstream press)
    - News Hounds (critical review of current Fox News stories)
  - Free Speech Internet TV
  - RadioTower (organized by category, or country, or language; but no combinations allowed)
  - World Radio Network (with audio on-demand)
- BBC Radio 4 Extra (BBC radio live, or on demand)
  - BBC 4 Saturday Play (on demand)
  - BBC 4 Friday Play (on demand)
  - BBC 4 Afternoon Play (on demand)
  - Internet Archive Old Time Radio (huge selection: Gunsmoke, Bob and Ray, ...)
  - Evan's Sci-Fi Page (X Minus One)
  - Playbill Radio: Broadway Show Tunes
  - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (all 1,399 episodes for free streaming and download)
  - OTR Network Library (including Stan Freeberg)
  - OTRNow - Old Time Radio Webcasts
  - Doctor Who (animated versions of classic TV programs)
  - Doctor Who episode guide (or another version)
  - A Prairie Home Companion
  - RTÉ.ie Radio 1: Drama (from Ireland)
  - Imagination Theater (Jim French Productions)
  - When Radio Was (w/ Stan Freeberg)
  - Goon Show links
  - ACB Radio (streaming for blind)
  - Mercury Theatre on the Air (Orson Welles)
  - Old time radio shows (some free downloads, others for a fee)
  - Wayback Old Time Radio
  - The Shadow Radio
  - Jaweb (incl. Avengers)
  - Zoot Radio (free old time radio downloads)
  - Old Time Radio Link Society (WebRing)
  - Science Fiction OTR
- NPR (National Public Radio)
  (with archives for Fresh Air, Diane Rehm Show, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation, Living on Earth, This American Life, NPR Planet Money Podcasts)
- WZBC Audio Archive (Sounds of Dissent, Democracy Now, etc.; with Listen Live)
- KQED (San Francisco) (with Listen live)
- WGBH (with listen live)
  - Moyer & Company (on TV and on-line video)
- WAMU (listen live)
- WBUR (with The Connection, On Point and live WBUR audio (or alt))
- PRI's The World (on WBGH)
- To The Point (PRI)
- Radio Open Source (PRI, cancelled?)
- News & Public Affairs
  - Democracy Now news (from the Pacifica Foundation)
  - IPS InterPress Service (w/ Gareth Porter)
  - Free Speech Radio news
  - "Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs" in Business Week (and "Andy Grove: Knowledge Work Isn't Enough" in Information Week): Grove argues that as American companies (both large and startup) continue to outsource, the U.S. supply chain is being replaced by an overseas supply chain. This means that we can innovate, but we cannot scale up. Scaling up is where the jobs are. E.g., the U.S. computer manufacturing industry rose from about 150,000 in 1975 to 2 million, and back down to 166,000 in 2010. Meanwhile, Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industries) alone employs over 800,000 people. Foxconn employs 250,000 people to build Apple products, while Apple employs 25,000 people.)
- BBC (with on-demand Realaudio and BBC Live or alt (or Radio 4 home page)
- C-SPAN Online (with C-SPAN RealVideo and C-SPAN 2 RealVideo)
- GSM
- International Broadcasters
  - CBC Radio on The Internet (many stations)
  - Radio-Canada (français w/ RealAudio and RealVideo; many stations)
  - RCI (Radio Canada International)
  - China Radio International
  - Deutsche Welle
  - All India Radio
  - Radio JAPAN: Broadcasting Information
- Boston's Yiddish Voice on WUNR 1600 AM
Comics
- skcd - a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language (with one on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN)
- Political Cartoons, essays
- Doonesbury -- Daily Dose
- United Media (including Dilbert)
news.google.com
- NewsBank (from NU subscription; articles from AP, some newspapers, etc.)
- Newslink (dir of newspapers, magazines, radio, etc.) (including Foreign newspapers)
- SkyTruth (whistleblower organization: uses remote sensing and digital mapping to estimate environmental consequences)
- Diffuse sources of air pollution in Europe
- New York Times (requires free subscription)
- The Guardian (from Britain)
- Global Post (World News)
- Inter Press Service (internaional news)
- International broadcast networks
  - BBC World Service
  - CNN International
  - France 24
    - France 24 (SELECT: direct/live, dernier, économique, météo) (doesn't work on some Linuxes, such as Debian 5 (Lenny))
    - France 24 (live, french)
    - France 24 (live, english)
  - CCTV News Live
  - Russia Today (Microsoft Windows Media only; not available for Linux?)
  - TeleSur (TV supported by governments of Venezuela, Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay)
  - Press TV (Iranian international news network)
    - Press TV (alt)
  - Al Jazeera (English)
    - Al Jazeera - Watch Now (English)
    - Al Jazeera video (from liveststation.com)
    - Al Jazeera English's Channel (via youtube, live feed in middle of page)
      - Playlists
      - Shows
    - "Inside USA" (from Al Jazeera)
  - WRN (World Radio Network) schedules (stations, and podcasts)
  - International Middle East Media Center (with "This Week in Palestine")
- local news
  - Boston Globe
  - Boston Phoenix (excellent for local events, but movie showings often seem to be incorrect as of 8/06)
  - New England Cable News
  - Middlesex News (good regional info)
- Information Clearing House (w/ search of archives)
- Extra! magazine (FAIR) archives
Local Information (Boston area; Main link is "Yahoo Get Local": integrated source of information; see also local news and events movie reviews, TV, etc.)
- White Pages (phone number lookup, and reverse phone lookup)
- Free Reverse Phone Lookup
- Official City of Boston
- Boston Online
- Greater Boston Convention and Visitors' Bureau info (w/ accommodations)
- Home prices (zillow.com, recently sold homes)
- SmarTraveler - Boston area traffic (also MBTA delays)
- MIT parking facilities
- MBTA (Boston mass transportation) (with weekday outbound schedule for Framingham/Worcester and Inbound)
- Logan Airport Satellite Parking (or shuttle)
  - Preflight Airport Parking (Logan) (was Logan Park & Go)
  - Park Shuttle & Fly
  - Logan airport vans (none currently existing, only high-priced limo companies??)
  - Back Bay Coach (airport shuttle)
  - Veterans Taxi (617) 527-0300 (for western suburbs; prefer 3 hours notice to reserve a taxi)
  - Warning: Knight's Airport Limousine -- means higher limousine prices, not shuttle prices, $110 minimum for one-way trip as of April, 2009
  - Warning: Zebra Airport Shuttle -- higher priced direct service, not shuttle prices
- Discount Airlines
  - Cheap Fares Online
  - Southwest Airlines (via Providence, Manchester, N.H., Boston), JetBlue, America West, Airtran Airways ;
  - In Europe: Transavia (from Amsterdam), RyanAir (from London), Brussels Airlines (from Bruseels) Virgin Express (from Brussels), Sterling (from Denmark) Easy Jet (London, Edinburgh, Milan, Geneva) Baboo Airlines (Geneva) clickair (Spanish web site with cheap European flights)
- Flight on-time status
- Swissport (call them about shipping personal effects (web site meant for coprorations); cheaper because you take it through airport customs, and somebody at destination takes it through customs at their end; recommended to us by a Delta Airlines agent, but phone book or web>Swissport>cargo>country should get you their phone number)
- Chinatown bus lines for East Coast
  - New York / Boston Chinatown Bus Info (and forum?)
  - BoltBus (new division of Greyhound with economy tickets as of 4/08, free WiFi on bus)
  - Fung Wah (e-tickets: $15; hourly buses between 139 Canal St/NY and Gate 25, South Stn. Bus Terminal, 700 Atlantic Ave., Boston)
  - Lucky Star (e-tickets: $15; on-board bathroom; hourly buses between corner of Chrystie St and Hester St/NY and Gate 13, South Stn. Bus Terminal, 700 Atlantic Ave., Boston)
  - Sunshine Travel ($15)
  - GotoBus
  - Megabus.com (South Station to Madison Square Garden)
  - Worldwide Bus (from Newton/Cambridge to New York City)
  - Limoliner ($80 one-way, fares subject to change; large seats, internet access, and maybe meal and movie)
- Official Time
- Weather
  - Weather Underground (with Boston weather and local radar and animation and hurricanes))
  - National Weather Service: Boston west suburbs, local radar, and forecast discussion,
  - Weather map
  - UM Weather
  - FAQ Hurricanes, Typhoons and Tropical Cyclones
  - Past Hurricanes (and HURDAT Hurricane re-analysis since 1851)
  - Climate Change (Weather Underground - popular exposition -- excellent!)
- WeedAlert.com (good descriptions/pictures of weeds and treatment)
  - Turfgrass Identification (Purdue U.)
- Boston Maps
- Boston Phoenix Movie Reviews
  - Metacritic
  - CitySearch:Boston movies (lots of cookies, Microsoft, good reviews by CitySearch, can crash older browsers)
  - Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (Free Shakespeare on the Common)
  - Cinema listings by theater and title (Google)
  - Cinema listings by theater and title (Boston Movie Times)
    - Dedham Community Theater listings (with slow-loading, annoying animations) (alt)
    - Framingham 16 listings
    - AMC Chestnut Hill 5
    - West Newton Cinema listings (also shows foreign films) (alt)
    - Waltham Landmark Embassy Cinema listings
    - Mendon Drive-in (Boston area)
  - BosTix (half-price tickets) and Arts/Boston
- Boston's Hidden Restaurants
  - City of Waltham Restaurant Guide
  - Boston Restaurants (yelp.com)
    - Waltham restaurants
  - Fiorella's, Newton
  - Village Fish, Needham's
  - DiningInMass
    - DiningInMass (Waltham)
  - MassMenus
  - Sichuan Gourmet (Lao Sichuan; Framingham and Billerica)
  - Chung Shin Yuan (Nonantum, Taiwan-style dim sum for Sunday brunch)
  - Dosa Temple, 5 central countries; country pairs available at cheaper rates)
  - Eurail passes (doesn't sell individual tickets: see Raileurope or national train sites)
  - Eurail passes from a competing provider
  - Amtrak schedules
  - SO.CA.TA. - Transit Links
- Foreign telephone directories (not always complete)
  - France Telecomm
  - Deutsche Telekomm
  - Guías ... (Spain, yellow pages only)
- Travel reference for other countries
  - Wikitravel (excellent!)
  - iGuide Travel (interactive map with descriptions of out-of-the-way places)
  - Links for international travellers (electric adapter, country dialing codes, etc.)
  - G.A.P. Adventures (lower cost tours -- find own restaurants, meet local people)
  - SmartPhrase.com (online phrase books, primarily for European languages)
  - City Map Sites around the world
  - Subway/commuter train maps around the world (urbanRail.html)
  - World Airport Guide
  - Excess Baggage Shipping (international)
  - The Weather Network -- International Cities
  - Multimap (street maps of other countries w/ hotels, etc.)
  - Currency exchange rates ( Alt)
  - Electricity around the world
  - AC power plugs and sockets (Wikipedia)
  - AmeriCom Country and Area Codes (excellent) (also describes competitive long distance rates)
  - Example long distance provider
  - ACR International Calling Codes
  - Telephone directories around the Web
  - Time zones, national holidays, etc. for countries
  - Local times around the world
  - Local Times Around the World
  - Electric standards around the world (electric plugs, current/voltage, etc.)
  - Currency Exchange International (Copley Place, Boston; web site has coupon for 50% off for exchange fee)
  - XE Trade (converts currency without the typical 3% exchange fee by other methods)
  - Best No Foreign Transaction Fee Credit Cards
  - TV Schedules from around the world
  - World Climates
  - Hotels
    - Prontohotel.com (meta-search engine)
    - Priceline
    - Hotwire
    - hotels.com (reasonably priced hotels)
    - Paris Budget Hotels (and all of France)
    - EuroCheapo (includes 2-star hotels, etc.)
    - Try 1-800-fly-europe search on this page or TripAdvoisor.com (consolidates other web sites)
    - 1-800-hotels.com (1.800.853.9054 USA --- but be careful: They add on 15% "Tax Recovery Charges & Service Fee" on credit card page itself, not before)
    - Reasonably priced hotels in Japan
    - Geneva Hotels
      - Holiday Inn Express, Geneva
    - Genoa and region (refuses to display, unless you have the latest FlashPlayer installed)
Investment and tax information
- IRS Tax forms
  - U.S. Foreign Per Diem Rates
- Companies Online (locates URL, given various info about company)
- Federal Express (can now print airbill on personal printer, x2135 for details at N.U.)
- Better Business Bureau on-line
- 1-800-free-411 (free directory assistance in U.S., in exchange for listening to an ad)
  - 1-800-411-metro (live operator then connects you) and 1-800-411-save (live operator gives you number)
  - 1-800-flights (on-time flight info., gates, etc.: by web, or by calling on phone)
- Compare Prepaid-Cell-Phones (excellent)
- Prepaid cell phone reviews (or this web page)
- Specs and reviews of cell phones
- 10-10 phone rates
- Prepaid phone cards (can be bought over Internet)
- SaveOnPhone.com (comparison, phone plans)
- MyRatePlan.com
- Cellmania (somewhat limited?)
- Cell phone rentals (including short-term)
- Decide.com(cell phone and long distance -- warning: modifies back button on browser)
- Mortgage Rates
- Dismal Scientist (economic analysis and data)
- Yardeni's Economics Network (economic analysis and data)
- The Baseline Scenario blog (with Simon Johnson, formerly (Economic Counsellor -- chief economist) of IMF, and others)
- Paul Krugman blog (by 2008 Nbbel laureate in economics)
- The Economist
- Current Economic Data
- BBC Global Business and BBC Business Report (Realaudio)
- Marketplace/RealAudio
- Yahoo financial pages (and quotes)
- Nasdaq (quotes and data for Nasdaq, NYSE, AMEX)
- Hoover's
- Morningstar.com
- Thomson I-Watch (institutional selling/buying)
- SchaeffersResearch, options
- Clearstation (tech. anal.)
- Silicon Investor
- FINWeb Home Page
- SEC EDGAR Database (and search or Free Edgar)
- Virtual International Business and Economic Sources
- Economics resources
- CompaniesOnline
- Fortune 500 (w/ customizable search; but lots of cookies, can crash browser)
- Forbes 400 richest American
Health
- The Merck Manual -- Home Edition (manual of diseases and their diagnosis, with search feature)
- Healthfinder
- Medsite Navigator
Reference (My Virtual Reference Desk)
(also see travel, international travel and see Local info for maps, yellow pages, phone books, etc.)
- Yahoo reference
- Infoplease.com almanac, atlas, timelines, etc.
- Encyclopedia Brittanica Online (available from Northeastern University only)
- Encyclopedia Brittanica from 1911 (free access)
- Catalogue of life (common names and scientific names of species in many languages)
- Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia
- Compton's Encyclopedia
- Concise (abridged) Encarta Encyclopedia
- Encyclopedia.com from Electric Library (from Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, abridged form is free)
- InfoTrac (NU/MLIN only)
- PC Webopaedia home page (Concise PC Encyclopedia with excellent links for PC technology)
- Information Please (almanac)
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- American Heritage Dictionary (with excellent articles on language, lots of cookies, pop-up windows)
- ARTFL Project: Roget's Thesaurus search form
- Queequeg (a tiny English grammar checker; recognizes text. LaTeX, and HTML)
- Bartlett's Quotations
- quoteland.com
- Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
- Zip codes, Zip+4 addresses (U.S. Post Office)
- Package tracking (FedEx)
- Package tracking (UPS)
- 555-1212.com's Fast Area Code Look-Up
- Telephone Country Codes (and City codes) (or alt)
- NTC U.S. Phone Number Lookup (given number, displays town)
- White pages/e-mail finder
  - Switchboard Find people, businesses, etc.
  - Netfind servers
- MassMentor (Key Facts on Massachusetts Universities)
- collegeboard.com (practice SAT tests, etc.)
- QS Top Universities: Rankings Lists
- Average SAT scores for Colleges
- Top 500 Ranked Universities for Highest SAT 75th Percentile Scores
- U.S. University Directory - Top Universities (detailed statistics on 500 universities)
- Ranking of Research Universities (by The Center)
- Princeton review (of Colleges)
- U.S. Mews & World Report rankings
- US News and World Report rankings (alphabetically)
- coursera.org Coursera (company with consortium of universities offering distance learning courses)
- 2u.com (company with consortium of universities offering distance learning for credit during a semester when university-registered students won't be in residence)
- David Szatmary (U. of Washington "Educational Outreach")
- Independent 529 Plan (prepaid tuition)
- Universities around the world
- Excite Home (travel and other)
- Consumer World
  - TrueDelta (Car Reliability, Pricess, Gas Mileage)
  - Consumer Guide new car search
  - U.S. Consumer Information Center (Pueblo, CO)
  - Office of Consumer Affairs (Mass.)
  - Consumer Guide (GTE)
  - Kelley Blue Book guide
  - Edmunds Automobile Buyer's Guides
  - Product Review Net
- IWR (Internet Weather Report) (and another by ISP)

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Other fun stuff:

l Renewable Energy World (wind farms, photovoltaics, etc.)
Do It Yourself Home Improvement
ServiceMagic.com (Free referrals for home repair/maintenance; also provides ratings from previous customers)
Powers of Ten (like the classic film)
Rules of card games
Healthwise
Chesler's Bed & Breakfast in New England, 5th Edition
Lawn care (by Toro)
Grass types
More grass types (Netherlands)
ArcadePod.Com: 500+ Free Online Java games
Java Zoop game
A Game
Java Applets
MinitelWeb: Home of the Internet/Minitel Gateway
Social science archives
Social Sciences Data Center (U.V.A.)
MacUser??
Index Librorum Liberorum (no way to categorize this, but it's really fascinating) (incl. French)
BoWeb '94 Award Recipientsm
SIPB Fun Stuff Page
Honolulu Community College WWW Service
EXPO Map
Paleontology museum (Welcome to the UCMP)
Honolulu Community College Dinosaur Exhibit
Early Scientific Instruments Museum (Museum of Physics Department)
Entering the World-Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace
Appendix A: A Hypermedia Timeline
A Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry
Views Of The Solar System
Welcome to the UCMP
Demo stuff?
Exploratorium (San Francisco)
Fomenko pictures of mathematical objects
Internet Society
Save the Princess