Reference Links

Clocks & Calendars

US Naval Observatory Master Clock
Current Phase of the Moon: Shows the current phase of the moon, graphically.
World Time Zone: Displays the current time in any time zone

Literature

Project Gutenberg: A project dedicated to making electronic copies - plain .txt files - of as much literature as possible and make it publically available. Pretty much all current public domain books seem to be in there.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

News & Weather

INTELLiCast: USA Weather: Weather forecasts for cities all over the country.
WeatherNet4: More weather forecasts (this link is specific to the Washington, DC area)
NBC 4, Washington DC: NBC News for the Washington, DC area.
WTOP News: Washington DC news radio station.
Carmen's Headline Viewer: Windows application to view headlines from various news sites.

Product Reviews

Buying Guides: Links to various buying guides, divided by product.
Product ReviewNet: Sort of like an online version of Consumer Reports.
Complaints.com: Only the bad stuff, but still can be useful.
ReviewBooth.com: Computer hardware and software reviews

Directory Services

InfoSpace: Look up phone numbers, addresses and email addresses of people you've lost track of. Also find a person based on their phone number.
Yahoo! PeopleSearch: Find a person's phone number or email address.
American Directory Assistance: PeopleFinder: Find a person based on very little information - as little as just a last name. Also find a person based on their phone number.
WhoWhere?!: Find a person's phone number or email address.
If it's on the Web find it here: Yet another directory search engine.
LookSmart - exploring World: Another directory search engine.
Six Degrees: A service based on the "six degrees of separation" theory - that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else through at most six degrees of relationships. People enter their direct associations, and the idea is that those associations enter their associations, and you can then search for a person and see how you are related to them.
GTE SuperPages Yellow Pages: Searchable, free nationwide yellow pages database.
BigBook: Searchable yellow pages on steroids.

Apartment & House Hunting

Apartments Plus: Enter where you are looking, what kind of apartment you want, your price range, etc. - it gives you a list of matching available apartments.

Travel

Washington, DC Area

DC Metro Map: Map of the DC metro system.
HOV Information: Schedules for HOV lanes/roads in the Washington, DC area.
Smart Tag: Information about Smart Tag - a prepaid toll system for the Dulles Toll Road
Virginia Railway Express: Schedules, maps, fares, etc.

Job Search

Career Resource Center: Set of links useful for people looking for a job.
CareerPath.com: Contains the want ads of most major newspapers across the country. Also contains a resume database, tips on job-hunting, etc.

Web Search

AltaVista: Alta Vista automatically follows links on the web: from one site, it tracks all the links to other sites; then goes to those sites and tracks all the links to other sites, etc. The result is a full-text search engine for the web.
Yahoo: Not as thorough as Alta Vista, but more organized. Yahoo catalogues various sites on the web under specific categories.
Netscape Open Directory: Similar to Yahoo, but with a more open structure.

Urban Legends

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Site to help distinguish between which stories you've heard are true and which are not.
Urban Legends and Folklore: Another site which keeps track of rumours floating around the Internet, and which are true and which are not.

Health

Ergonomics Guidelines: Task Force on Ergonomics recommendations on how to set up an office workstation
Workstation Ergonomics: CDC recommendations for office safety, including how to configure a workstation environment to avoid neck and back problems
Office Eegonomics Consensus Guidelines for Adjustable Chairs, Work Surfaces, and Peripherals: Oregon State Agency Safety Advisor’s Network's recommendations
UCLA Ergonomics: Links to various articles

Miscellaneous

83b Explanation: An extremely easy to understand explanation of the 83b form.
Prince William County Government: Various information about Prince William County
Geographic Names Information System: Provides reference information about just about anywhere in the US
The Earth Edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Similar in concept to the book by Douglas Adams, this is an actual repository of real information on all topics
The Universal Currency Converter: Converts currency from just about any type to just about any other type based on current rates
Useless Information: "Stuff you never needed to know but your life would be incomplete without."

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