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Interesting and Fun Places to Browse

• ACLU American Civil Liberties Union Full of interesting information about threats to your civil liberties

• Adoptive Families Together A supportive network of adoptive families who share experiences and information to strengthen our families and our adoptions.

• Amazon.com Book ordering

• Ask Dr. Science web page for the comedy radio show with daily pseudoscientific answers to listeners' questions. Has searchable archive. Also has email list to receive the daily question. To subscribe send email to majordomo@listserv.direct.net with message: subscribe dr-science (your email address).

• Big Brother source for a shareware link-checker program (cost is $10.00)

• Brenden Kehoe author of Zen and the Art of the Internet

• Canonical List of Tom Swifties has a huge list of these one-liners, with some historical info. Includes: "I never get lost", said the pathologist. Would someone please explain it to me?

• Carlos A Howard Funeral Home check out the hardware and the prices. Found on internet shopkeeper.

• Centre for the Easily Amused has lots and lots of fun ways to waste time on the WWW.

• Child Safety Forum has info on prevention of accidents to children.

• City.Net Travel info, partially map- driven. Fare info, events, etc. world-wide.

• CNET runs a free service with news, reviews, bulletin boards. The same service runs search.com, download.com, and shareware.com.

• CNN Online News

• Cool Medical Site of the Week

• Consumer Information Center View or download Federal consumer information (that famous Pueblo CO address!).

• Consumer World A public service site which has gathered over 1700 of the most useful consumer resources on the Internet, and categorized them here for easy access.

• Cyberspace Law Email Homepage Home page has a subscribe and unsubscribe form or mailto:LISTSERV@PUBLISHER.SSRN.COM with message: SUBSCRIBE CYBERSPACE- LAW FIRSTNAME LASTNAME discussion area at http://www.ssrn.com/webx?14@^36@.ee6b2aa archive http://www.ssrn.com/cyberlaw papers (pdf format) http://www.ssrn.com/cyberlaw/lawpaper.html

• DeathNet web page, issues related to death and euthanasia.

• Discovery Channel Online

• Ethnologue: Languages of the World Listing information about 6700+ languages.

• Faces of Adoption: America's Waiting Children page run by National Adoption Center & Children Awaiting Parents. Photolisting of available children , info about adoption in general.

• Federal Election Commission has info on who's getting what from whom. Some downloadable databases. Data can be searched.

• Fight Spam on the Internet petition to sign, list of rogue sites, what to do about abusers.

• Gallup Poll Organization take a poll, review past poll results, suggest what polls they should give, list of interesting sites: journals, references, entertainment

• Gilbert and Sullivan Archive has librettos, performance schedules, info on festivals.

• Graphics Archive Web Site features WWW graphics software, FAQs (frequently asked questions), links to multimedia sites, not medical.

• Helicon Random Quotations random quotations as fast as you can hit reload! In just a few minutes, we got quotations from Hemingway, Shakespeare and T S Eliot.

• High Performance Computing and Communications Program Page Government info on info superhighway

• Home Schooling

• Hot AIR (Annals of Improbable Results) to subscribe send message: subscribe mini-air firstname lastname (like Journal of Irreproducible Results) to mailto:LISTPROC@AIR.HARVARD.EDU mirrored on: news:clari.feature.imprb_research

• Illinois Cooperative Extension Service Disaster Resources Illinois CES Home Page: http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/ The Disaster Resources Web Site provides access to information on disaster preparedness and recovery for the State of Illinois and the Internet community

• Institute for Global Communications PeaceNet, LaborNet, EcoNet, ConflictNet bleeding heart organizations (my kind of Gopher).

• History of the Light Microscope with illustrations, links to Scientific and Medical Antique Collecting System an on-line info and sales area for antiques, links to on-line exhibits.

• Internet Published Comics comic strips

• The Lighter Side of the Internet, a collection of pointers to fun places.

• MBA program in quality, University of Iowa

• Med Help International Patient centered medical information resource

• Medical Humor Page is an outgrowth of the Med-joke Medical Humor mailing list, which itself was an outgrowth of the Critical Care Mailing list. The page has some jokes and cartoons of generally questionable taste. To subscribe to the humor mailing list send email to majordomo@list.pitt.edu with the message: subscribe med-jokes.

• Mercury Mail gives you news, sports, weather, stock prices by email. Fill in forms to give info on what you want.

• The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has virtual exhibits, links to a huge list of museums worldwide.

• News Financial / Investment news

• NY Times Fax is a PDF formatted 6 page condensation of NYT, including the crossword. Free, requires registration, then you can go to it directly. Also has links to Boston Globe and other info sources.

• Nobel Prize Internet Archive has info on the prizes and prize winners, bulletin board to post questions and Nobel gossip.

• On-Line Exhibitions and Images many links are biological or natural science, some are not.

• Oracle Humor Archive

• THE PARENTING COMMUNITY Parents can get the help they need on this webpage from other parents and from a variety of resident experts. Find answers and support for every 'problem child' in your life. The bulletin boards here are well visited and there are hundreds of topics from baby names to sibling rivalry. There are also special chat sessions around the clock on differing topics.

• The Parents' Corner Advice on childrearing from other parents.

• Internet Postcards The Postcard Rack has a wide variety of postcards for you to choose from. You pick the card you like, write your message, and send it off. The recipient will be notified by email that a card has been sent and to claim it at the Pick-up Window.

• Product ReviewNet consumer product reviews

• Project Gutenberg is trying to distribute 1 trillion volumes within a decade. Hundreds of books are available as text files.

• Quicktime Virtual Reality Player QuickTime is the Apple technology that makes video, sound, music, 3D and virtual reality come alive for Macintosh and Windows.

• Archives of Rec.Humor.Funny Describes itself as the largest collection of jokes on the net.

• Reinway Court Rory Hinnen's home page with Tolkein, movies, Disneyland, Amtrak schedules.

• Rubber Chicken has a collection of pranks and gags, for a fee.

• Scientific skepticism Page is a neat site with skeptical info and links related to UFO's and flying saucers, including the Roswell Alien Autopsy film..

• Smithsonian Institution has an excellent web site with info on the myriads of musuems and institutions. Very nice scroll-box interface. On-line resources including virtual tours (virtual tours require VRML) and traveling exhibit schedules. Has a mirror site.

• Subway Navigator, also available at telnet METRO.JUSSIEU.FR 10000 will tell you what subway routes to take if you know names of the stations at beginning & end of route, or can find them on stylized map.

• U Texas FTP Archives has Amnesty International archives, software, aviation info.

• This Old House Homepage info on the TV show, general home renovation info, bulletin board

• Time Magazine Homepage has current news, files to search.

• Epicurious Travel travel info

• Top5 List A daily topic with a list of up to 20 items, similar to Letterman's top 10 but funnier. Daily list and archive on web page. Subscription form to recieve the list by email. For mail subscription mailto:top5-on@lists.zdnet.com

• To find David Letterman's latest Top Ten List you can Finger barnhart@well.sf.ca.us or send a message to infobot@infomania.com with TOPTEN in the SUBJECT line. You can also check out the newsgroups alt.fan.letterman.top-ten and alt.fan.letterman. To have the list sent to you daily, subscribe to the email list TOPTEN. To subscribe mail the message SUBSCRIBE TOPTEN YOUR-NAME to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.CLA RK.NET. TOPTEN is the number 1 listserv list in the world.
  U Wisc Marathon County Student Server maintains an archive back to 1987. The CBS Home Page besides info on other shows, has a Letterman area, including a Top 10 Archive which only includes recent lists but is searchable by keyword or date.

• UExpress--Comics and columns Universal Press Syndicate and Andrews & McMeel: comic strips 2 wk old and archived, several columnists

• United Media Comics. Many comic strips and editorial cartoons.

• Urban Legends Archive collects interesting stories that everyone knows someone who saw it, but just aren't true, mostly drawn from the newsgroup alt.folklore.urban.

• US House of Representatives Internet law library of the US House of Repersentatives (searchable by US Code)

• UWI Web's Edge Stanford radio station page- artsy & weird stuff

• Human Interface Technology Laboratory, U of Washington all sorts of stuff about virtual reality, literature reviews and web resources listed under "projects"

• Washington Post

• WeatherNet has weather info and forcasts for any site. Links to weather cameras at many sites.

• Webc onferencing Bookmarks Webconferencing info and links

• Webtest Script for secure testing over the WWW

• What's On Tonite is a television programming guide- by time, channel, or category. Also available as an email list: To subscribe send email to: circulation@paperboy.com with the message: subscribe edition, where "edition" is Eastern, Central, Mountain, or Pacific.

• The White House has images, tour, presidential stuff, speeches, federal agencies incl links to dhhs & fedworld.

• Net Scout Project, U of Wisconsin collects useful and interesting sites on the WWW and distributes the weekly "Scout Report" of good sites by email. Archives and pdf version available. To subscribe send email to listserv@lists.internic.net with message: SUBSCRIBE SCOUT-REPORT YOUR NAME or use subscription form. The Toolkit lists good network tools.

• A Word A Day Word Server "AWAD" is an email list that supplies an interesting new word each day with definition. Subscribe through link from home page, or send email to wsmith@wordsmith.org with the subject: SUBSCRIBE YOUR NAME. You can finger william@ockham.uchicago.edu to get a random previous word. There is a mirror site.

• You Don't Know Jack- the NetShow Online version of trivia game from popular CD- requires PowerMac or Win95 to play

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