1. Reference Desk - (The biggest and best I have ever seen)
2. Financial Calculators
3. Unit Conversion.org
4. Online Conversion
5. Calculators and Converters - Easy Calculation
6. U.S. Surveyor FREE Deed Plot (use IE)
7. Reference Librarians' Index to the Internet
8. Marylaine Book Dealers and Reference
9. Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net
10. This file lists all counties and equivalent areas in the United States defined as of January 1, 1990, alphabetically by State with related codes. There are several codes shown: FIPS MSA/CMSA/NECMA code, PMSA, FIPS State and County, then State and County Name
    1. If not on census site
    2. Fips state and county codes only
    3. All Counties and CMSAs (FIPS Codes) with 1999 MSAs (with C/MSA codes not approved by Census, etc)
11. Maps of Counties and CBSA's (from Census)
12. US Relief map
13. State Abbreviations
14. Acronyms and Abbreviations
    1. Air Programs
    2. Enhanced Monitoring
    3. From Blue Book
    4. DOE Ames Lab
15. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is replacing the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system
16. File Extensions - database of file extensions and the various programs that use them
17. Area Code look up
18. Postal Info
    1. How to Address a Letter per the USPS guidelines
    2. USPS Postage Price Calculator Buy Stamps online at USPS
    3. USPS Look Up a +4 ZIP Code by Address or Business and cities by Zip code
    4. US Postal Rates, Postage Calculator, Domestic Rates, Fees
    5. Mailbox Locator: find a USPS mailbox in your area
    6. USPS Hold Mail Service
    7. Official USPS Abbreviations (States, Street Suffix, etc.)
    8. ZIP Code database (maps, everything you can think of)
19. The Internet Public Library
20. Calculator - Scientific, Finance, many others.
21. Metric Conversions
22. Time
    1. US Naval Observatory EST Clock (If clock stops, enter Control- F5 to refresh)
    2. National Institute of Standards and Technology CLOCK - TIME Clock using Java Clock without Java (In Netscape do View, Reload to update clock) Clock using Internet Explorer Another Clock Time Zone Conversion
    3. Time in Raleigh, NC (link to all other cities)
    4. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Zulu time (can select East Coast) GMT (opens in new window)
    5. World Map Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Zulu Time (easy to convert from Z)
    6. Time by Phone - dial (303) 499-7111 for WWV (Colorado) This is not a toll-free numbers; callers outside the local calling area are charged for the call at regular long-distance rates.
    7. Sun and Moon Data
23. Decimal to Minutes-Seconds Converter and Latitude And Longitude Lookup
24. Univ. of Michigan Reference - Census etc
25. 107 Congress - House Of Representatives
26. 107 - Congress Senate
27. Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
28. Bartleby Library - Great Books Online
29. 435 Mystery Audio CDs at Wake County Library, North Carolina as of Jan 16, 2006
30. Dictionaries
    1. Dictionary.com - English definitions, synonyms, spelling, audio pronunciations, example sentences
    2. The Free Dictionary.com - English, Medical, Legal, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine
    3. Ask Dr. Dictionary!
    4. Misspelled Words, Names and Places
31. Thesaurus
32. Grammar Book
33. Elementary English Grammar - Teaching and Learning Resources
34. text analysis tool
35. Encyclopedia.com
36. Meanings and Origins of Phrases, Sayings and Idioms
37. Dr. Mardy's Dictionary of Metaphorical Quotations, the world's largest online database of metaphorical quotations
38. Shmoop is a way to get into history, poetry, or classic literature. Developed by masters students and faculty at some of the country's top universities. The service is designed to provide students, teachers, and everyday readers with a resource to help them get engaged.
39. Info Please Almanacs http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/frameset.php?frame1=talk
40. Natural Reader online - text to speech Natural Readers Text to Speech 200 characters Free online
41. Translation
    1. Google language translation
    2. Translation.net - Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese.
    3. Free Translation - Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese.
    4. Travlang's Translating Dictionaries (many languages)
    5. Freedict.com - Translator for Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish
    6. Balel Fish - Altavista
    7. SYSTRAN
42. Audio Pronunciation of a Name (Pronounce Names)
43. Audio Pronunciation Guide of Names (How to say that name)
44. Currency Converter
45. Barcode Search Engine
46. True Cost of Driving
47. Cost of Driving
48. Military Alphabet
49. Rope Knots
50. How many people have your name?
51. Check out Rumors to see if Truth or Fiction Urban Legends (Scopes.com)
52. Consumer Electronics Instructions Manual
53. Tax valuation guide for goods donated to charity Salvation Army Fun With Taxes.com
54. All About Birds
55. The Macaulay Library is the world’s premier scientific archive of natural history audio, video, and photographs. Although the Macaulay Library’s history is rooted in birds, the collection includes amphibians, fishes, and mammals, and the collection preserves recordings of each species’ behavior and natural history.
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1. Harvey Jeffries - information of interest on photochemistry
2. Scientific Journals
3. National Journal's Greenwire, The Environmental News Daily
4. Large List of Environmental Web Sites
5. World Resources Institute
6. Earth Trends - World Resources Institute
7. NC Green Power (improve North Carolina’s environment through voluntary contributions toward renewable energy)
8. The Power Scorecard is a rating mechanism that assesses the environmental impact of different types of electric generation.
9. Green-e.org lists energy providers certified to meet certain environmental and consumer protection standards
10. Green Power Partnership Through Department of Energy
11. Piedmont Biofuels
12. Wake Co, NC Waste and Recyling
13. NC Swat-A-Litterbug Program 856-5700 or 1-877-DOT-4YOU (1-877-368-4968)
14. North Carolina gets D grade in 2015 State Integrity Investigation
15. Earth911 - Recycling Services
16. Sierra Club in Raleigh
17. Clean Air Visibility Rule - Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART)
18. Green-Label Programs - These 15 green-label programs are recognized as good benchmarks by experts and retailers such as Green Depot and Office Depot.
    1. Green Seal (www.greenseal.org)
    2. Energy Star (www.energystar.gov)
    3. EPA Design for the Environment (www.epa.gov/dfe)
    4. WaterSense (www.epa.gov/watersense)
    5. Forest Stewardship Council (www.fsc.org)
    6. Scientific Certification Systems (www.scscertified.com)
    7. EcoLogo (www.ecologo.org)
    8. Greenguard (www.greenguard.org)
    9. Cradle to Cradle (www.c2ccertified.com)
    10. Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (www.epeat.net)
    11. Global Organic Textile Standard (www.global-standard.org)
    12. Biodegradable Products Institute (www.bpiworld.org)
    13. FloorScore (www.rfci.com)
    14. Totally Chlorine Free (www.chlorinefreeproducts.org)
    15. Carpet and Rug Institute's Green Label/Green Label Plus (www.carpet-rug.org)
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This is for my personal use only and is not a sales pitch for any web site.

1. Meta-Search sites: Debriefing Dogpile Metacrawler Savvy Search
2. Search: Google Experimental search Google Cheat Sheet (help) Yahoo Dogpile MSN Several Search Engines with Descriptions of Uses About Ask LookSmart
3. Reverse search Google for images, just like you can search for websites TinEye Alerts tracks where your images appear online.
4. Startingpage search engine protects your Privacy by NOT recording your IP address (Google does and uses it to track you)

5. Google Search using Startingpage Privacy

6. Search for Best Prices: Bottom Dollar Price Scan Shopzilla Shopper Shopping
7. Discount Coupons: Current Codes Deal Taker ebates Gotta Deal
8. Find the title of a Song: Lyrics Freak at Yahoo at Find Me a Tune Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
9. News: Drudge Report NY Times LA Times Washington Post CNN Scientific American Environmental News Network
10. The Onion - American news satire website featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news.
11. Medical Kosmix health search site
12. Web Cams
13. PC Magazine Good Sites
14. Lightning Safety
15. Print Large Photos (up to wall size)
16. Digital Photography Review Digital Camera Resource
17. Publish a Book: Blurb Picaboo SharedInk Lulu
18. Greener Choices (Consumer Reports) Buying cleaner products and recycling
19. National Do Not Call Registry
20. Center for Auto Safety Rankings of State Lemon Laws
21. Who has the right of way at intersections in NC. (NC Criminal Law - UNC School of Gov. Blog) as PDF file
22. How to stop Unwanted Spam on Your Cell Phone
23. Identity Theft
    1. FTC ID Theft If not available on FTC site
    2. Short list of things to do (by MOAA)
    3. Another FTC Identity Theft site
    4. Ric Edelman's suggestions If not available on Ric's site
    5. Michigan State
    6. World Privacy Forum - responses to medical identity theft
    7. Identity Theft 911
24. MIB will provide consumers with health record disclosure once annually without charge
25. Public Health Service COA Foundation U. S. Coast Guard Pay & Personnel Center
26. EPA Alumni Association is a nationwide community of former employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
27. EPA Research Triangle Park Retirees' web site How to become a member
28. Campbell Interest and Skill Survey (CISS) Vocational interest and skills inventory with career planner (the best)
29. Career Orientation Placement and Evaluation Survey (COPES)
30. Valuation Guide - determine an estimated value of donated items (Salvation Army)
31. Social Security
    1. Social Security Administration (1-800-772-1213)
    2. Online Retirement Estimator
    3. Retirement Estimator
    4. Social Security Detailed Calculator
    5. Social Security Handbook
    6. AARP
    7. Information about Social Security
    8. AARP Social Security Benefits Calculator
    9. Maximize My Social Security costs $40 by Laurence Kotlikoff Professor of Economics Boston University and President of Economic Security Planning, Inc. (Wall Street Journal)
32. Advanced Directives - Living Will etc
    1. North Carolina Advance Health Care Directive Registry - forms Advance Health Care Directives and Organ Donor Card
    2. Caring Connections provides free advance directives and instructions for each state
    3. How you want to be treated if you are seriously ill and unable to speak for yourself
    4. AARP
    5. US Living Will Registry
    6. Amer Bar - choose Health Care Decisionmaking
33. SaferProducts.gov is the Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database website of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission http://www.saferproducts.gov/
34. The Writer's Almanac Poetry - Garrison Keillor
35. The Poetry Foundation
36. Poet Betty Adcock
37. Under Milk Wood (Dylan Thomas)
38. Dr. Mardy Grothe's: Aphorisms, Oxymoronica, Repartee, Ifferisms, Neverisms and I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like
39. Celia Rivenbark's latest column Past columns
40. Birthday Messages More Birthday Messages
41. Jokes
42. WebCams
    1. North Carolina traffic webcams and info
    2. Cary traffic webcams and info
    3. WebCams
43. Health Info
44. The Ktichen is the Germiest room. Here's how to deep clean everything
45. National Association of State Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans (NASCHIP) - state governments to serve the medically "uninsurable" population.
46. NeedyMeds is a 501(3)(c) non-profit with the mission of helping people who cannot afford medicine or healthcare costs
47. RxAssist can help you learn about ways to use pharmaceutical company programs and other resources to help reduce your medication costs
48. 4,500 photographs documenting natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities
49. Earth Shots is a photo of the day contest (5yrs) celebrating the beauty and diversity of our planet.
50. Perfectly Timed Photos is a collection of Pics taken at just the right moment.
51. FakePosters - demotivational posters
52. Google Art Project - view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Explore museums with Street View technology: virtually move around the museum’s galleries, selecting works of art that interest you, navigate though interactive floor plans and learn more about the museum and you explore.
53. Art.sy collection comprises 25,000+ artworks by 3,700+ artists from leading galleries, museums, private collections, foundations, and artist estates. Art.sy works with 400+ of the world’s leading galleries, museums, private collections, foundations, and artist estates from New York to London, Paris to Shanghai, Johannesburg to São Paulo. We provide one of the largest collections of contemporary art available online.
54. Grooveshark - Free online music streaming
55. Rocky Top Tennessee Mark Easley Kate Campbell The Classical Station WXYC 89.3 FM is the non-commercial student-run radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
56. Jenn Cornell - cellist
57. Montana Skies Montana Skies (cello guitar fusion) - "L.C.P." You can listen to six songs off this one page Interview Gringo Flamenco House of the Rising Sun Nocturne (Roberto Di Marino) Another Brick in the Wall Classical Gas for electric cello and guitar Montana Skies and Vivaldi Malaguena The Edge of Night December Mourning Pink Floyd "...the Wall" Canyon Breeze El Gitano 3 Interview clip
58. John Prine and Iris DeMent - In Spite of Ourselves Iris DeMent - God May Forgive You (But I Won't)
59. WSHA Shaw Univ radio Jazz, Big Band and Blues Program Schedule
60. The Roots Music Listening Room
61. Songstube - numerous free songs of top artists
62. Rock Star Radios - web radios
63. Vintage Music (free)
    1. Digital Archive of Cylinder Recordings
    2. The Roots Music Listening Room
    3. Library of Congress
    4. The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
    5. Cultural Equity - Alan Lomax - folk lore music (very large collection and free) and photos
64. The Speek - finds, rescues and restores classic music performances, captured on film and videotape, of the Rock & Roll Era
65. You Tube type Videos - art, culture, research, how-to, lectures
    1. FORA.tv delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to join the conversation.
    2. ResearchChannel - Remarkable speakers, researchers and professors present revolutionary thoughts and discoveries on ResearchChannel.
    3. University Channel makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public
    4. Research-TV produces cutting-edge research news stories on behalf of universities and research organizations.
    5. Traditional Fine Arts Organization - a comprehensive catalogue of online full motion videos streamed free to viewers - art oriented videos
    6. 3D Virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel
    7. TotalVid allows you to select from thousands of videos in over 50 categories, for as little as $1.99. Browse through our library of hard-to-find videos in categories like action sports, martial arts, how-to, anime, travel, etc (not free)
    8. Energy Policy TV - video of leaders in energy and the environment as they propose and implement policies and market responses.
    9. uVu is a video sharing website and companion digital broadcast channel powered by WPBT Channel 2, South Florida ’s PBS station. - art and culture
    10. Technology, Entertainment, Design - the best talks and performances from the TED Conferences available to the public, for free.
    11. PBS
    12. Teacher Tube
    13. blip.tv Stage6 Brightcove Veoh MSN Soapbox YouTube Vimeo Jumpcut MySpace
    14. Video of over 300 miles of trails from: Great Smoky Mountains, Yellowstone and Grand Canyon National Parks (Hint: on trail you can turn in all directions w/ your mouse)
66. Text Messages (free) by Joopz
67. Text Messages (free) by Pinger
68. When Is Good - Set Up a Meeting - find out when everyone is free for your next meeting or event
69. Google Images Scholarly papers and books To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word "define," then a space, and then the word(s) you want defined.
70. Instructions for projects around the house
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