Everything is easy on the Internet! From this page, you can go to a number of Internet search pages, you can search for someone's email address, you can check the latest news ... You can even track Federal Express and UPS packages!
Latest Links!
- K's Four Eyes Blog.
- MercedesForum.com - Mercedes Owners' Forum.
- Baht and Sold - Thailand's Classifed Ads.
- Shrimpworld.com - South East Asian Island Beauty.
- dpMac - Digital Photography and the Macintosh.
- Elephant Shirts.
Live Cams
- Tommy's List of Live Cams Worldwide
Fu Manchu
Internet Web Page Search Tools
- Country-based search engines
- Internet Navigation from Rice University provides links to many Internet finding tools
- CyberTimes Navigator from the New York Times is a great starting place for searches and other Internet resources
- www.search.com has an interface to many Internet search sites
- Go to Yahoo! or enter a search query here:
- HotBot
- Alta Vista
- Excite
- Infoseek
- Lycos
- MetaCrawler
- WebCrawler
- WWW Worm
- SouthAsia (specializing in that region)
- Another List of search sites, compiled by Don Bull
Universities
Places where I hung my hat in my bookish days:
- University of Wisconsin (Madison)
- Harvard University
- Columbia University
- University of California (Berkeley)
- University of London (King's)
Internet Email Address Search Tools
WhoWhere.com provides a useful lookup tool for finding email addresses. You can:
- Go to the WhoWhere.com site
- Go to Microsoft's FIND IT FAST gateway to WhoWhere
- Enter a name here:
Four11.com provides another good email directory service
Shipping and Package Tracking
- US Postal Service
- Go to FedEx Tracking Site or enter your tracking number here for USA destinations:
- Go to UPS Tracking Site or enter your tracking number here:
- Go to DHL Worldwide Express Tracking Site
Online Bidding and Bargain Sites
- Priceline - for airline tickets
- eBay Auction Classifieds - they have everything!
Communication Tools
- Telephone Directories:
- Switchboard Directory Search (People and Businesses)
- Big Book Directory Search (Businesses)
- Toll-Free Directories
- NYNEX Yellow Pages
- Mail:
- US Postal Service - Look up a ZIP+4 Number
Travel:
- Making travel easier:
- Astronomy Picture of the Day - In case you're going really far.
- Introduction to the Nine Planets - Another site with 'distant' information.
- Her Majesty's Prison Service - In case things go wrong while you're in Great Britain.
- TripSpot delivers a comprehensive range of travel links.
- 100hot Travel provides links to the Web's top travel sites
- Travelocity provides "maximum power for the do-it-yourself traveler."
- TravelScape serves up reservations and other travel information.
- Preview Travel lets you "travel on your terms."
- Travigator travel search engine and directory
- 1Travel claims to have "the best values anywhere"
- Lonely Planet Travel Guide
- All Hotels on the Web
- Mapquest is "the hottest interactive mapping service on the WWW"!
- USA Citylink offers travel information for cities around the US.
- Currency Converter gives you exchange rates for 164 currencies
- Don Bull has compiled a guide to various countries' phone codes and Internet "IP address" codes
- Subway Navigator guides you through the world's underground systems
- Preview Travel's reservations.com
- Travel Resource Center provides a one-stop resource for airlines, hotels, car rental and more
- Butterfield & Robinson specializes in creating biking and walking trips for people who want the very best.
- Air travel:
- My Trip and More provides details of your itinerary (if it's registered with them)
- American Airlines
- Delta Airlines
Northwest Airlines
- Thai Airlines
- If things go wrong with any of the above, check here for the rules of U.S. air carriers
- Flight Check tells you whether a flight is on time
- Priceline lets you seek airplane tickets at your price
- Jet Lag Calculator gives you step-by-step instructions on coping with any time zone jump
- Business Travel: biztravel.com is the Internet travel company for frequent business travelers
- Where things are:
- How far is it between two places?
- Expedia Maps from Microsoft
- MapBlast helps you create all sorts of cool maps. You can even email someone a map showing them how to find you!!
- Bush Pilot
- South Asia: A search site devoted to the region
- Weather from the National Weather Service
News Sources:
- Journalist Express: Portal to many news sources
- AJR Newslink: News on the WWW
- Business Bookmarks from the AT&T Business Network
- CNN Interactive
- New York Times
- USA Today
- Financial Times
- Monster Magazine List from the Electronic Newsstand
Movies and TV Listings:
- The Internet Movie Databsse
- Go to Yahoo! TV Listings or enter your 5-digit zip code here:
- TV Guide Online
Books:
- Books Online - read 20,000 books over the Internet
- corkscrew-balloon.com recommended books
- Amazon Books - Earth's largest book store! Search for books, music and movies:
Miscellaneous Research:
- Research It! - An amazing compendium of handy reference tools: Language references, library research tools, geographical information, financial tools, Internet searchers, you name it!
- calculator.com - Online calculators to help you solve problems and answer questions in the home, office, and school.
- Chemical Scorecard - Information from the Environmental Defense Fund, including the location of polluters in your area, plus a database of what we know about the effects of various chemicals.
- The Year 2000 - Iron Horse Vineyards tells you how much time remains before January 1, 1000.
Just for Fun:
- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
- Amusement Park Physics - Learn about roller coasters and more
- SpellWeb - Let the web decide! This site lets you compare the web prevalence of two word spellings ... or any two words or phrases. "To be" or "not to be"? Try it out!
- CyberKitchen - From the Food Network
- Epicurious - "The Taste of the Web"
- Wine Spectator - "The most comprehensive wine web site in the world"
- About-Face! - Are they serious??
- Web Page Translator - Enter a web URL and convert the text of any page to a different language!
- Web Page Reverser - See my site flipped backwards
- The Word Detective
- The Evolution of Time Measurement
- Your Weight on Other Worlds - What would you weigh on Neptune?
- P&M's More Fun Sites
- A Nice Swimsuit
