Some favourite sites

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Regular visits:

• Google, my favourite search engine -- plain, sane and full of brains! It also usenet archives, webmail, up-to-date world news, and image searching, among other experiments. Here you ought to be able to either search the web or my site; except so far Google doesn't know my site exists:

  WWW http://www.oocities.org/zeborahnz/

• Elgoog is my second-favorite search engine, though in some ways it's a little backwards...
• Project Gutenberg for out-of-copyright e-texts available to download as text or zip files. From the Bible and Shakespeare to "The Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief".
• Distributed Proofreaders where you too can proofread books for Project Gutenberg, a page at a time.
• BookCrossing.com -- a site which promotes random acts of kindness in the form of leaving books in odd places. You can see the books I've released at my bookshelf.

Writing-related

• Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has useful information and interesting articles related to the business of writing speculative fiction.
• Ralan has regularly updated lists of markets for spec.fic. short stories and novels.
• The Black Hole keeps records of response times from markets for spec.fic. short stories and novels.
• Webster's Online Dictionary (not affiliated with the print dictionaries of the same name) -- you can search on English and non-English words using this box:
  

  	Webster's Online Dictionary The Rosetta Edition™
  	English      Non-English

Travel-related

• The Universal Currency Converter is just that.
• Lonely Planet Online has updates, traveller forums, and much much more.
• InterTran is a free web translator. Lots of languages. You get what you pay for.

Zebra sites:

• The Ship's Helm has a photo and caption of zebra mussels. I vote cute.
• Zebra Finch Pictures has several pages of photos of the lovely little birds.

Places I want and intend to visit regularly, but keep forgetting to:

• The New York Times for news. I've got them sending me an email each day with a summary of the main articles, so I know what to download in advance.
• New Zealand newspapers -- Stuff.co.nz hybridises the various regional papers of the country and makes it impossible to find articles that weren't on the front page. Goodness knows why I'm recommending it. May cause problems on older browsers and/or slower computers.
• New Scientist with the latest in scientific discoveries explained for the intelligent layperson.

A few interesting places I've picked up here and there:

• Utah Baby Namer, a site about Mormon names -- especially the weird ones. Includes newspaper articles, cartoons etc, as well as a few lists.
• Time wasters including such gems as Mr Insult!
• Canadian World Domination; need I say more? Fiendishly brilliant.
• The UNOFFICIAL Rugrats Online, an astounding collection of information and links about the children's cartoon "Rugrats".
• Googlisms where you can find out what people are saying about you.

Educational:

• Greek Mythology, recommended by my sister Sasscat. It includes Bulfinch's Mythology on-line; I'm impressed.
• Phil Abbey's Library, various but especially vexillology links. That's flags, folks.

Old randomness:

• The Griffin's Cookiebear website, particularly fun to read in an innuendo-laden voice.
• The Brunching Shuttlecocks for your cyborg acronym.
• The Onion: America's Finest News Source It looks like a news-site, it browses like a news-site, but whichever way you slice it you'll have tears in your eyes (and dust on your clothes from rolling on the floor laughing). (wave to Bucky for the recommendation!)

Some humanitarian stuff:

• Feed the hungry with a click
• Save some rainforest with a click

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