Various Interesting Stuff

Extracted from Mark Verber's bookmarks...

Search Engines

• Google
• Vivísimo
• Teoma
• Technorati
• Blink
• searchmash
• retrievr (search flickr)
• domainsurfer
• onkosh - arabic searchg
• swotti - reviews
• referencextract.org - librarians do google / wikipedia

Find People / Biz

• SMARTpages Phone Directory
• Telephone Directories on the Web
• National Address Server
• Switchboard
• wink (social networking people search)
• spock (beta people search)
• zoominfo (people data) 
• zabasearch (commercial personal info search)
• http://www.academia.edu/
• notable names db
• muckety
• criminalsearches.com
• instantphonelookups.com
• 123people
• birthdatabase.com
• pipl.com

General References

• freebase
• Wikipedia and wikidashboard
• Bartleby's Great Books
• Webster's (MW)
• John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Refdesk.com
• Information Please Almanac
• CIA World Factbook
• The Internet Movie Database
• The International Lyrics Server & LyricFind.com
• Britannica
• Acronym Finder
• reverse dictionary
• WWW Unit Converter
• How much information, a project from UCB SIMS
• onlineconversion
• worldcat.org - global library catalog
• data.un.org
• epodunk & city-data.com & Neighborhood Demographics Reports, walkscore
• worldometers
• wikileaks.org
• harvard digital access to scholars

Health

• Emory  MedWeb
• Healthfinder
• Aetna Find Doctor
• DrGreene.com - Caring for the Next Generation
• Entrez-PubMed
• AMEDD MEDLI-NET
• Preventive Medicine Research Institute

Science,  Nature, Technology

• Smithsonian Institute
• Biodiversity and Biological Collections WWW Server
• Fish!
• How Stuff Works
• Science Toys (experiments with household goods)
• A Primer for Digital Experimenters
• Bell Labs Text-to-Speech
• Audiograbber
• Future Energies
• Face Recognition
• Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize
• Influential Watch Manufactures & timezone.com
• Interesting Projects
• Edward Tufte Ask E.T. forum
• Oscilloscope for Windows
• Databases Patent Grant and Patent Application Full-Text and Full-Page Images
• World Wide Patent Search
• Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center Engineering - Electrical & Computer
• JavaScript Collection
• Public Library of Science
• History of Murphy's Law
• Michael Bach's Optical Illussions
• Optical Camouflage: almost a cloak of invisibility
• Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group
• Tree of Life
• Discover Life

Educational

• MIT OpenCourseWare Master Course List
• comparecurriculums.com - compare top CS schools
• The Ancient World Web
• Perseus Project Home Page
• Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp)
• U.S. Geological Survey Bay Area Digital Orthophoto Imagery
• StarMaps
• s m i t h s o n i a n w i t h o u t w a l l s
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library Museums
• The Math Forum Home Page
• EXPO exhibit from the Library of Congress.
• Linworth Alternative Program aka the AP of Worthington High School. 
• EDWARD DE BONO

Politics and Government

• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
• Amnesty International 
• U.S. House Of Representatives - Home Page
• U. S. Bureau of the Census Home Page
• CCER National Budget Simulation
• NIST
• United Nations.
• INCORE (In Conflict) Country Guides
• Fourth World Documentation Project Home Page
• Constitution
• Historical DocumentsDeclaration of Independence
• The Federalist Papers
• Prisoners' Dilemma
• Introduction and Summary What the World Thinks in 2002
• EPIC Profiling and Privacy Page
• Ruler s of Governments
• Opensecrets.org - money in politics data
• followthemoney.org
• sunlight foundation
• FactCheck.org  - Balanced analysis of political ads
• Cal-Access - automated tracking of contributions by the state
• California League of Women Voters
• California Voter Foundation
• project whitehorse - 4G warfare
• fivethirtyeight.com
• politifact truth-o-meter obameter
• cryptome.org repository of "secret" information... focuses on disclosing info governments would rather citizen not know or think about.

Business and Productivity

• pocketmod - paper "PDA"
• noguchi filing system - chronological with active working set
• lifestreams - electronic version of noguchi
• social life of paper
• The fortune at the bottom - eradicating poverty through profits
• GTD Tiddly Wiki - self hosting wiki for Getting Things Done
• angelsoft.net - angel financing portal
• divvy - customizable reservation and billing system

Humor & Fun

• Dilbert Zone
• The Onion
• The Klingon Language Institute 
• Kingdomality Personal Preference Profile
• A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys
• The Code of the Geeks v3
• emode
• Dictionaraoke
• SatireWire
• Animal Game
• Why Tow Truck Drivers Should be Required to study basic Physics
• Pass the Pigs
• Planarity
• Store Wars
• rathergood.com
• Bush & Bubbles
• Hallmark's Honest Boss
• I used to believe
• Helsinki Complaints Choir
• DiceWars
• Procedural Dating Kit
• miniclip games

Consuming

• General: Epinions, Consumer Review, Consumer Guide, Google - Consumer Info, consumersearch, trustedreviews, viewpoints
• Deals: Overstock, EBay, Dealtime, Auctionet
• Real Estate: hotpads, trulia, housingmaps, zillow, roost, redfin
• Housing: habitaflex, tumbleweedhouses.com (tinyhouses)
• Cars: USDOT Saftey Results, Crash Test Data - Edmund, IntelliChoice, The Tire Rack, Tires.com ,
• Electronics: Pricewatch.com, Point.com (Wireless), mobiledia, RN SW Receivers, Universal Radio, iButtons, The Gadgeteer, video game accessories, I4U Future Tech News, Aurora Solar Chargers, Ambient Devices , ICP Solar Chargers , Icom IC-R3 Scanner/Video Receiver, sf bacell.com , buydig, wxworx (xm weather), liliputers, celltradeusa , cellswapper
• AirSoft: MFI What is it?, airsplat, local store
• Furnishings: Ikea, ponoko (custom design)
• Media: DVD Empire
• Cameras: Photo Links
• Gifts: Peacock Maps, Amish Photos by Bill Coleman,  Henry & June, Giant Microbes, custom bobbleheads
• Misc: Outdoor Family, JetPens, wristdreams
• Drinks:  Scotch Homepage (Cragganmore and Ardbeg are my favorite).   The Wine Page, Wine Spectator have some good suggestions.  I like the wines from Cuvaison. 
• Food:  Recipes of Chefs &  Authors, Epicurious, Cook's Illustrated, Belgian home made chocolates, localharvest.org

The Rest of Them

• Chinese Community Information Center
• Earth lights from space
• BountyQuest -- Hunting Patent Info
• Monthly Archives for interesting-people
• Tradition and Memory World Cultures to 1500 Schedule
• L4 Header Page
• Shackleton: Open Directory
• Origami Underground
• Best Free Fonts
• project censored
• zamzar.com - convert formats
• google stock screener
• Foresight Exchange (used to be Idea Futures)
• http://www.superstructgame.org/ futures in game form
• spinspotter - id media bias
• opposingviews.com
• http://blog.repec.org/2009/04/24/the-economics-of-open-access-publishing/