Reference Shelf

Dictionaries

• OneLook Dictionaries
• Meriam-Webster dictionary with misspelling allowed
• Travelang's translating dictionaries
• Dictionary of Cell Biology
• Online Medical Dictionary
• Botany dictionary - brief definitions, but some subjects are expanded
• List of Dictionaries
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Britannica Online
• Elements of Style - (a.k.a Strunk and White) grammar guide
• On-line English Grammar
• Dictionary of Computing
• Search Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Comm. Terms
• Italian/English English/Italian Dictionary
• Visual Thesaurus - a visual way of looking at word meanings and word relationships

Postal Information

• United States Postal Service
• National Address Server determines the zip+4 code, postal bar code, and map of address
• FedEx Airbill Tracking Form for tracking FedEx packages

Phone Books

• SMARTPages - can save personalized info (searches, address book, etc.)
• AnyWho - reverse lookups, etc.
• GTE Yellow Pages Searchable Yellow pages, provides map
• Zip2 Main Search Yellow pages with maps, etc
• BigBook
• Switchboard for searching people's addresses and phone numbers
• BigYellow "Yellow Pages"

Recipes [Back to the Top]

• Online Chef Recipe Book
• Cookbook Thesaurus lists possible substitutions for hard-to-find or expensive items
• CookieRecipe.com - just what you'd think
• Kitchenlink - recipes and general cooking links
• ChopStix - Chinese recipes
• CyberDiet - oriented towards "healthy eating"; create your own profile; recipes

Medical

• Virtual Hospital
• Medscape offers peer-reviewed medical/healthcare information; requires registration (free)
• Health Insight from the American Medical Association
• Merck Manual
• Medsite Navigator - maintains loads of organized medical links
• Mayo Clinic - more patient oriented
• Medical Matrix - well organized medical resources with a Yahoo! flavor; more professional oriented; requires free registration
• Healthfinder is a government-sponsored medical web site
• MedicineNet - medical news
• OnHealth - health news, in depth reports
• Centers for Disease Control
• RxList - info on medicine
• WebMD

Other

• Trilogy Home Owners Association
• Terraserver - satellite photos (including my "house", a couple of years before it was built)
• CIA World Factbook
• Official time from the NIST and USNO
• USNO Master Clock Time
• Search for name frequencies from the Census Bureau (1990 census)
• Learn2.com has answers to all sorts of practical questions
• SoYouWanna - similar to Learn2
• Conversions - convert from English to metric, etc.
• U.S. Gazetteer from the Cenus Bureau, for looking up census info and location of cities
• Patent Databse from IBM covering 1971-present
• Notable Citizens of Planet Earth
• Nobel Prize Winners
• Periodic Table of Elements
• World Flags
• The Internet Public Library has lots of reference info
• Attorney Yellow Pages
• Restaurant Row lists restaurants all over the country
• Quotations - search for famous quotations, or just read to quotation of the week
• Familiar Quotations - for looking up the sources for famous quotations
• Consmer Information Center (Pueblo, Co.)
• Stain Removal Guide
• San Diego Gas & Electric
• Journalist Express - links to research sources
• Search Systems - access to public records (most for free)