Educational Institutions

• Haverford College
• Bryn Mawr College
• Harvard University and its Physics Department

Buying Stuff on the Web

Books
• Amazon.com
Camping, Useful Clothing, etc.
• Campmor
• REI
• L.L. Bean
Computers and Computer Equipment
• PC Connection
• Global Computer Supplies
• Mac/PC/DataComm Warehouse

Reference

• WWWebster Dictionary
• The Old Farmer's Almanac
• The OED
• How Stuff Works
• The Jargon File (with frames or without.)
• The Periodic Table of the Elements
• Religious Texts at the University of Michigan
• Pantheons and other interesting references
• The U.S. Constitution
• NASA's Planetary Fact Sheets
• Snopes.com, debunking site extraordinaire.
• The Urban Legends Archive (from alt.folklore.urban). Extremely useful for debunking Internet hoaxes.
• Along the same lines, the hoaxes list at CIAC. A good reference to refer people to when they forward you hoax email. (Also check out their Chain Letters page.)
In addition to that, CERT has a virus page that has links to lots of other sites.

WWW/HTML Related Links

• Martin Ramsch's iso8859-1 table.
• An HTML primer.

Anagram Generators

• One Anagram Generator. Here's another.
• PhoneSpell -- what does your phone number spell?

Governing Organizations

• The IRS
• The Social Security Administration. Their information sheet gives numbers, rates, and caps.
• The US Postal Service. Especially useful: Zip Code +4 Lookup.
• The Federal Election Commission
• The U.S. Patent Office. A visit there is not complete without checking out US Patent 6,368,227: Method of Swinging on a Swing.
• Arlington Online (Arlington, Massachusetts); another Arlington site; yet another site; the Arlington, MA email list
• ARIN, the American Registry for Internet Numbers, its reference page, and the ISO 3166 Country Codes.

Companies

• Federal Express

Random Silly Stuff

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