Steve Bolhafner's

News Research Links

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Full Introduction
(includes notes on Search Engines and Web Page Reliability

My name is Steve Bolhafner. I work for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as a News Researcher, which is a fancy name for Librarian. Unlike Public Librarians, our main job is to do research for reporters and editors (and artists and photographers and other newspaper employees), rather than help members of the public -- although we do some public requests, for a fee on a limited basis.

Some days I think of myself as a librarian, other days I think of myself as a journalist. I'm really both.

For a more complete description of what my job and how to do News Research on the Web, see my Introduction page.

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Reference

Resource Lists	Demographics	Fast Facts	Calendars
Dictionaries & Etymology	Writing & Grammar	Quotations	Genealogy

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Reference

Basic reference tools of various sorts

Resource Lists Digital Librarian An awesome list of categorized links. Much more comprehensive than mine. Librarians' Index to the Internet California-based and therefore a little West Coast oriented, but mostly universal and pretty darned good. Megasources Dean Tudor at the University of Toronto compiled this list, so it's heavy on Canadian sources. It's a good place to look for mailing lists and discussion groups., among other things. INFOMINE Limited, but useful searchable database of links. Browse alphabetically or by Library of Congress Subject Headings. Better for research pros than amateur searchers. Resources for Working Journalists A great site I recently discovered. Seems to be pretty comprehensive. Sources and Experts Kitty Bennett of the St. Petersburg Times compiled this list of links to directories of experts for their Intranet, and was generous enough to share it with the SLA News Division. Profnet Find experts on almost anything, mostly university professors. Usually, you e-mail a question and they forward it to the list; if you're a legitimate journalist or researcher, you can expect an answer from someone in a couple of days. Allexperts.com Not necessarily experts in the legal or journalistic sense of the word, these volunteers will attempt to answer questions within 1-3 days. An interesting experiment, although obviously of questionable reliability. Resource Discovery Network British-oriented but fully international in scope, exceptionally good on science and technology links. Prices's List of Lists Gary Price, a Librarian at George Washington University, has compiled an incredible list of links to lists of various kinds, from the "Top 50 Independent Crop Consulting Firms" to the "Forbes Power Celebrity 100"
Demographics U.S. Census Bureau Free Melissa Free Online Lookups from Melissa Data Corp., used to promote their pay services and products (natch), but the free stuff here is pretty good. Look up zip codes, addresses, non proits, area codes, and more. State Rankings From the Statistical Abstract of the United States Statistical Abstract of the United States MO Census Information Illinois Statistical Abstract Census by State/County - 1900-1990 Hidden deep in the census site is this useful page with a gopher-type menu (for you Internet oldsters) of links to text pages, each of which contains the population count for each county of an entire state for every census from 1900 to 1990. The files are in the form "mo190090.txt" -- with the first two letters being the abbreviation of the state. It's not as easy to use as the main web pages with the graphics and buttons, but it is potentially very useful for historical perspective. OSEDA - Office of Social and Economic Analysis From U. of Mo., and therefore limited to the state of Missouri for the most part; some demographic analysis of data here as well as useful lookups of various datasets brought together in one handy place. Demographic Profile - Missouri
Fast Facts Information Please "On-Line Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, Atlas, & Almanac Reference" CIA World Factbook Information about all the nations in the world, compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency. Nothing secret or classified here, but the best source for this sort of information. Countries & Regions From the World Bank - provides economic data for over 100 developing nations and six regions of the world. Brief descriptions of economic conditions and tables of key indicators are available for each country (Adobe Acrobat required to view tables). How Far is It This service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server. Surface distance between points of Latitude and Longitude Similar site. 326 cities in its database, except it computes Great Circle distances. If your city isn't one of the 326, you have to know exact latitude and longitude. geodata.gov U.S. Maps and Data U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data "Welcome to the starting point when beginning to track down sources of mostly on-line and mostly free U.S. geospatial and attribute data." (from their META file) WebElements periodic table of the elements The Inflation Calculator How much would a dollar in 1800 buy today? OK, it only goes to 2002. Still, this is a great tool. NewsEngin's Cost-of-Living Calculator A much more complicated, but very useful site. More limited in years (1913-1998, but some data only good back to 1957), but you can use specific geographic locations, or not count food and energy costs. Classic 164 Currency Converter How much is a dollar worth in Yen, Pesos, Marks or Pounds? Up-to-date. Calculate duration between two dates Enter two dates and get the number of days between them. Martindale's 'Calculators On-Line' Links to a lot of different calculators that do all sorts of things. Online Conversion.com Units of Measurement S.O.S. Math Mathematical Tables and Formulas - the largest prime number less than 100? What's the decimal equivalent of 7/16 of an inch? How many millimeters is that? How many miles in a league? You can find quick answers to these and other perplexing questions for mathphobes at S.O.S. Mathematics -- a site that brings together logarithmic tables, conversions charts and even a multiplication table to make dealing with figures easy for those of us who managed to get through college without taking any math. USNO Master Clock Time The official time clock for the United States. Statistics Every Writer Should Know Not a list of stats, but a lesson on how to use them and how they can be misused. Nobel e-Museum All the Nobel Prize Winners, with bios and summaries of what they won for Biographical Dictionary Today in History OK, not likely to be journalistically useful. But fun. "Each day an event from American history is illustrated by digitized items from the Library of Congress American Memory historic collections." (from their META file)
Calendars Perpetual Calendar Any year from 0001 to 9999, which is perpetual enough for me. Calendar Zone A huge collection of calendar links. Holidays and Other Dates in the US Secular Calendar Enter a year after 1776 and get the dates of all the Federal Holidays, plus things like Groundhog's Day.
Dictionaries & Etymology Your Dictionary.com A collection of different kinds of dictionaries: general, specialized, foreign language, etc. OneLook Dictionaries Searches many dictionaries on a single search Language Tools - iTools "Look up words in dictionaries and thesauruses. Translate words, phrases, documents and web pages to other lanugages. Everything language-related in one place." (from their META file) Computing Dictionary Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing: search for computing terms or browse contents. The Word Detective Collection of columns on etymology Dave Wilton's Etymology Page Another good etymology site. The Word Wizard Yet another good place to look for the origins of words or phrases World Wide Words "More than 1300 pages on the origins, history, evolution and idiosyncrasies of the English language worldwide. New words and words in the news are regularly featured." (from their META file) Word Play Links to fun sites that feature word play of various sorts AltaVista's Babel Fish Translation Service Named for Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide" magic translation tool, this is the original on-the-fly Web translator. Type in a URL to translate a page or paste a batch of text to translate it directly. Writing & Grammar Writers Write Resources for writers "Writers Write is a professional resource for editors, journalists and writers which provides information, markets, job listings,writing news, events and discussion." (from their META file) Guide to Grammar and Writing From an English professor at Capital Community College - "The Guide to Grammar and Writing contains scores of digital handouts on grammar and English usage, over 170 computer-graded quizzes, recommendations on writing" and more (from their META file) Elements of Style The original Strunk version, without the White revisions, is public domain and available from Bartleby.com Anti-pedantry page Jane Austen and other famous authors violate what everyone learned in their English class: Singular "their" in Jane Austen and elsewhere Citation Style Guides from Karla Tonella at the University of Iowa Quotations I used to use these a lot more back when we had a dozen or so quote books in our library here at the newspaper. Now that we have over 50, I use the Web for this a lot less. Bartlett's Quotations The tenth edition, which was published in 1919, is public domain and available from Bartelby.com Quote Search Site that allows you to search several on-line collections of quotes. Quotations Home Page One of the oldest and largest of the many web pages devoted to quotations. Their META files says it contains approximately 20,000 quotations in total, across 30 indexed collections. Yahoo! - Reference:Quotations Genealogy Genealogy in St. Louis A pretty good collection of links by a dedicated and conscientious amateur Ancestry.com An incredibly huge repository of useful information for those seeking family history. Registration is required and some stuff is subscription only, but a lot of stuff is free. Several similar sites, including genealogy.com and family.com, are all owned by one company, which sells some web services and also sells software for compiling family trees. Social Security Death Index Interactive Search A database of folks for whom SSI death benefits have been paid. Lists birth and death dates, residence at time of death, SSN and state SSN was issued, which can be helpful tracking geneaologies. St. L. Public Library Obit Index Someone has begun indexing the classified death notices from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Only a few years are available, but this is the beginning of a wonderful genealogical resource. Cemeteries and Cemetery Records " Publishers of cemetery transcriptions and other information pertaining to cemeteries, for genealogists, cemetery enthusiasts, taphophile, and funeral professionals" (from their META file). A surprising number of cemeteries are available here, with index lists not only to who's buried there, but where in the cemetery the grave is located.

Search Engines

(you might also want to see my Note About Search Engines)

General	Specialized
People	About Search Engines

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Search Engines General Google It's clean, it's fast and has no ad clutter. Plus it usually delivers exactly what you want. If you have only one bookmark, this should be it. AlltheWeb.com An alternative to Google, nearly as comprehensive, slightly different sorting algorithm. Advanced search lets you use Boolean logic. See http://www.alltheweb.com/help/faqs/query_language.html for advanced search syntax Alta Vista Used to be my first choice, back when dinosaur's roamed the earth and Netscape still ruled the Web. Still pretty good. Advanced search not only allows Boolean but allows "NEAR" as a connector plus lots more. See http://www.altavista.com/help/adv_search/syntax for advanced features Teoma A really neat search engine with cool features like suggestions to refine your search and resources from experts that seem to be in the field you're looking for (and they do a remarkable job of matching these); not quite as comprehensive or as fast as Google, but otherwise in some ways actually better. WiseNut New discovery. Had more "unique" hits (i.e., those not found by any other search engine) than anybody but Google according to Search Engine Showdown Yahoo Still the best Directory around. Great maps and driving directions. Beaucoup! 2,000+ Search Engines, Indices and Directories. Vivisimo Document Clustering Web search engine exists to promote automatic categorization and content integration software; groups hits into folders by topic created on the fly to help you narrow down your search. Dogpile The best of the meta-search engines, searches several major sites and returns the top 10 hits from each. Ask Jeeves! I don't use this much, but it's always good to have a lot of search engines handy, as there are still a surprising number of sites that show up on only one of the major search engines and not any of the others. Lycos In the early days of the 'net, this was my #1 site, but it's been through a lot of changes. Rated worst on one recent study. On the other hand, you can use it to search for only pictures, which can be handy. (Alta Vista has the same capability, but they turn up very different results.) HotBot If you can't find it anywhere else, try here. I don't like its sorting algorithm - the pages I want seem to never be right on top, but they're usually there if I'm willing to slog through a couple of pages of links. About.com Formerly The Mining Co. A portal with sites chosen by "guides," or you can search the whole 'net (except then it really goes through Looksmart). Specialized There are two different kinds of sites here. Some of them are web searches like Google or Alltheweb, but they search databases of a select few websites on specialized topics. Others are huge databases with search engines like the famous Internet Movie Database. The first few are search engines and/or directories that specialize in specialized search sites. Invisible Web Searchable databases and specialized search engines, from Chris Sherman and Gary Price Internet Search Engines From Search Engine Guide. A collection of over 3,000 specialized search sites that is itself searchable as well as categorized. Search Engine Colossus Another collection of specialized search links What do you want to know today? A multi-search site with a difference - all of the links are to specialty sites, some fairly uncommon Internet Archive: Wayback Machine A searchable database of old web pages and old versions of web pages. AskERIC Search the granddaddy of electronic information databases, the Educational Resources Information Center, which has been archiving abstracts of academic publications and other important documents since the 1960s. Internet Movie Database This amazing, comprehensive, even exhaustive resource is a good example of the whole Web in microcosm - a collaborative effort greater than any individual or company could possibly accomplish. PubMed Search the abstracts of over 11 million medical jounals, including sometimes (though rarely), links to the full text at the participating journals website (more often, you have to order the journal text separately for a fee, but at least you can get the citation). Autopedia "The Automotive Encyclopedia" Aeroseek Aviation Search Engine and Directory FindLaw Wonderful legal research tool, including links to lots of information, like decisions from appellate courts, that you might otherwise pay huge amounts of money for elsewhere. Classical Search The Classical Music Search Engine NHTSA Search Search the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations database of customer complaints about automobiles with safety problems. NASA ADS The Digital Library for Physics, Astrophysics, and Instrumentation Aviation Accident Database Query Search the National Transportation Safety Board database of accident and "incident" reports. AGeze.com, Largest Agriculture Search Engine An agricultural search engine People InfoSpace My favorite free people search site, mainly because of it's easy to find and use Reverse Lookups Yahoo! People Search A good, basic phone directory Switchboard Has a pretty neat "find a person by profession" search capability Bigfoot Used to have the best e-mail search. These have become harder to find as people are trying to avoid spammers. WhoWhere? Look up e-mail, phone number or web page URL. From Lycos. Again, e-mail is hit-or-miss, mostly miss. About Search Engines (also see my Note About Search Engines) Search Engine Watch Rates the search engines in various ways. Good to keep up with who's on top -- or who's in second place, these days, since Google always comes out on top. Search Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching Another site that compares search engines Search Engine Features Chart Search Engine Guide The Guide to Search Engines, Portals, and Directories - A collection of over 3,000 specialized search sites that is itself searchable as well as categorized. Journalists' Links (no subcategories) Back to Main Categories NICAR The National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting. Power Reporting bookmarks Bill Dedman, who won a Pulitzer for a computer-assisted story way back in 1989 and has been a CAR evangelist ever since, put together this comprehensive site that includes instructional material as well as the usual link resources. Journalism Library Columbia University's Journalism Library The Journalist's Database of Databases From NICAR, a list of useful online databases. Resources for Working Journalists A great site I recently discovered. Seems to be pretty comprehensive. NewsPlace for News and Sources A nice, concise set of links to news organizations, government resources, activists, reference sites, etc. UNC School of Journalism One of our foremost Journalism Schools and headquarters for the News Division of the Special Libraries Association. Lots of good resources here. RTNDA The Radio-Television News Directors Association NAA Newspaper Association of America FACSNET "Improving Journalism Through Education" Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press A nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free legal help to journalists and news organizations since 1970 National Freedom of Information Coalition The U.S. Freedom of Information Act at 35 St. Louis SPJ Home Page The local branch of the Society of Professional Journalists, only sporadically updated. In fact, I have it all the way down here because the front page hasn't been updated since at least 2000, inviting people to the Regional Conference held here that year, although I found some current information linked from elsewhere on the site..

Local Government

St. Louis City	St. Louis County
St. Charles County	Jefferson County
Missouri	Illinois

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Local Government St. Louis City St. Louis Home Page The official website of the City of St. Louis Property Database Lookup St. Louis City's County Assessment records (the city is it's own separate county, separate from St. Louis County -- yeah, it's weird) Saint Louis Crime Map This nifty map lets you plot the number of recent crimes of various types within a several-block radius of any city address. Board of Aldermen The St. Louis Wards and their Aldermen City Departments A list of all the departments of the St. Louis City government, with links to web pages that at least have basic address and phone number contact information, and many departments have more. St. Louis Neighborhoods St. Louis is broken down into 79 official neighborhoods. Citizens' Service Bureau Real Estate Department City Development Corporation site includes searchable list of all property for sale by the city Building Division Convention and Visitors Commission "For complete St Louis, Missouri travel information for visitors, group tour planners and meeting planners and resources and planning assistance." (from their META file) Development Data Sources St. Louis County Facts & Figures "St. Louis County, with an 2000 population of 1,016,350, is the largest county in Missouri. Once a bedroom community,St. Louis County is now the economic heart of the St. Louis region." (from their META file) St. Louis County Government Official site of the St. Louis County Government County Council "St. Louis County Council Page, with links to Council Members home pages, current agenda and journal and searchable archive of ordinaces, resolutions, agendas journals since 1988." (from their META file) County Police The St. Louis County Police Department, which patrols those areas of the county that aren't in an incorporated municipality, plus several municipalities that contract with them for protection. Circuit Court Property Information St. Louis County Municipalities There are, believe it or not, over 90 of them. Luckily, not all of them have their own web page. The ones that do are linked below. Ballwin Bellefontaine Neighbors Black Jack Brentwood Bridgeton Chesterfield Clarkson Valley Clayton Crestwood Creve Coeur Des Peres Ellisville Eureka Fenton Ferguson Florissant Glendale Hazelwood Kirkwood Manchester Maplewood Maryland Heights Normandy Oakland Olivette Overland Pacific Pasadena Hills Richmond Heights Rock Hill St. Ann St. John Shrewsbury Sunset Hills Twin Oaks University City Warson Woods Webster Groves Wildwood St. Charles County St. Charles County Government The official page of the St. Charles County Government St. Charles County Property Assessment Database St. Charles Convention & Visitors Bureau St. Charles City St. Peters O'Fallon Wentzville Lake Saint Louis Weldon Spring Cottleville Jefferson County Jefferson County Government Official Web Site of Jefferson County Government Assessor's Database Weird and not worth much; you can only search by property owner's name, for instance, not address. Arnold Fenton Festus Hillsboro Missouri Mo. State Gov. Official State of Missouri Home Page. Links to government info, tourist info, business and development info, and more. Email Directory Directory of e-mail addresses of Missouri State Government officials General Assembly Missouri Judiciary Homepage Public Safety Corporation Database Search for a corporation or dba Department of Economic Development Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Department Of Health Illinois State of Illinois Corporation Name Search Board of Education Environmental Protection Agency Court Opinions

Local History

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Local History Missouri Historical Society A history of St. Louis History of St. Louis Neighborhoods Genealogy in St. Louis Built St. Louis St. Louis Architecture, particular lost or endangered architecture. African Missouri East St. Louis History Pictorial St. Louis Compton & Dry book with street grids and drawings of EVERY BUILDING IN ST. LOUIS (!!) in 1876. History's Time Portal to Old St. Louis 1904 World's Fair Society Home Page Terry's 1904 World's Fair Page

Education

General	Public Schools
Private Schools	Catholic Schools
Other Religious Schools	Local Colleges & Universities
National Colleges & Universities	Other

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Education General Gateway Guide to Schools From STLtoday - archived special report from St. Louis Post-Dispatch Independent Schools of St. Louis " Independent Schools of St. Louis includes 36 independently governed elementary and secondary schools throughout the metropolitan St. Louis region. These schools provide a complete range of educational opportunities for students in k through grade 12." (from their META file) Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education AskERIC Search the granddaddy of electronic information databases, the Educational Resources Information Center, which has been archiving abstracts of academic publications and other important documents since the 1960s. Missouri School Home Pages Education Week - Independent K-12 education insight! National Education Association Missouri National Education Association Missouri State Teachers Association Missouri School Boards' Association Educational Associations Missouri State High School Activities Association Missouri Association of Secondary School Principals Public Schools St. Louis Public Schools Education in St. Louis County Affton School District Bayless School District Brentwood School District Clayton School District De Soto School District Dunklin R-5 School District Ferguson-Florissant School District Festus R-6 School District Fort Zumwalt School District Fox C-6 School District Francis Howell School District Grandview R-II School District Hancock Place School District Hazelwood School District Hillsboro R-3 School District Jennings School District Kirkwood School District Ladue School District Lindbergh School District Maplewood-Richmond Heights School District Mehlville School District Normandy School District Northwest R-1 School District Orchard Farm School District Parkway School District Pattonville School District Ritenour School District Riverview Gardens School District Rockwood School District Special School District University City School District Valley Park School District Webster Groves School District Wellston School District Wentzville R-IV School District Windsor C-1 School District Private Schools Independent Schools of St. Louis " Independent Schools of St. Louis includes 36 independently governed elementary and secondary schools throughout the metropolitan St. Louis region. These schools provide a complete range of educational opportunities for students in k through grade 12." (from their META file) Andrews Academy Brehm Preparatory School Churchill School City Academy Home Page Clayton Academy The College School of Webster Groves Community School Crossroads School Forsyth School John Burroughs School Home Page Lewis & Clark Institute's School of the Future Opening in 2005 Logos School MICDS - Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School Metropolitan School The Miriam School! Missouri Military Academy New City School Rohan Woods School Rossman School St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf Thomas Jefferson School Whitfield School The Wilson School Catholic Schools Catholic Education - Archdiocese of St. Louis Elementary Schools in St. Louis City Elementary Schools in St. Louis County Elementary Schools in St. Charles County Elementary Schools in Jefferson County Bishop DuBourg High School Cardinal Ritter College Prep Welcome to Chaminade! Christian Brothers College High School Cor Jesu Academy DeSmet Jesuit High School Duchesne High School Gateway Academy Incarnate Word Academy John F. Kennedy High School Nerinx Hall High School Notre Dame High School Rosary High School Rosati-Kain High School St. Dominic High School St. Elizabeth Academy St. Francis Borgia RHS Saint John the Baptist College Prep St. Joseph's Academy Saint Louis Priory School St. Louis University High School St. Mary's High School St. Pius X St. Thomas Aquinas-Mercy Ursuline Academy Vianney High School Villa Duchesne/Oak Hill Visitation Academy Other Religious Schools The St. Michael School: Profile Reform Jewish Academy Currently under construction Epstein Hebrew Academy First Baptist Christian Academy Living Word Christian Schools Midwest Theological Seminary Principia - A School for Christian Scientists "Principia is a private college (both undergraduate and adult continuing-education programs) and school (from infant/toddler/parent education through 12th grade) for Christian Scientists." (from their META file) Solomon Schechter School Westminster Christian Academy Local Colleges & Universities Washington University in St. Louis Home Page St. Louis University University of Missouri - St Louis Webster University Lindenwood University Fontbonne University Maryville University Missouri Baptist University Harris-Stowe State College Principia College University of Missouri - Columbia Southeast Missouri State University Truman State University University of Illinois Southern Illinois University - Carbondale Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville Midwest Theological Seminary Covenant Seminary (Presbyterian) St. Louis College of Pharmacy St. Louis Community College St. Charles Community College Jefferson College Home Page Greenleaf University National Colleges & Universities < dd>Just a smattering of the hundreds of schools out there, mostly ones I actually visit occasionally for one reason or another. Harvard Yale Kenyon College Hey, I have to put this one in, it's my alma mater Columbia University Northwestern University UC Berkeley UCLA Stanford Other Community Education Centers Adult Education Afterschool.gov The Academy of Science of St. Louis Friedens Haus Lewis & Clark Institute St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf

Media/News

Local (St. Louis Area) News	Missouri News	Illinois News
U.S. News	World News	Alternative News
Traditional Media Links	Blogger Links	Watching the Media

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World News

General	British Isles	Canada
Latin America	Europe	Middle East
Asia	Africa	Australia

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Media/News Local (St. Louis Area) News STL Today (Post-Dispatch) Pulitzer Website affiliated with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Suburban Journals The Riverfront Times St. Louis' alternative weekly - "The Riverfront Times was founded in 1977 as St. Louis's alternative newsweekly. Since then, we've cultivated an audited weekly circulation of 100,000. Because of the pass-along nature of the RFT, our weekly reach is more than a quarter of a million readers. The Riverfront Times focuses on the issues that are important to St. Louis's young adults. Each week, hundreds of thousands of readers turn to the RFT for award-winning journalism, powerful investigative reporting, news and commentary on local politics, and the most comprehensive arts and ... " (from their META file -- apparently they ran out of room, and I'm not surprised; it's the longest META file description I've ever read, and I included it here in toto mostly for giggles for that very reason) Belleville News-Democrat The largest paper in Southern Illinois The Alton Telegraph The Edwardsville Intelligencer St Louis American " The St. Louis American Newspaper is the ultimate online resource for African-American news in the Greater St. Louis area. Includes local and national news, business, sports, entertainment, employment and editorial commentary." (from their META file) KSDK NewsChannel 5 KMOV.com Channel 4 FOX 2 St. Louis KPLR Channel 11 KMOX 1120 AM - The Voice of St. Louis Missouri News The Star (K.C.) News Tribune (Jefferson City) Missouri Digital News Digital Missourian (Columbia) The Tribune (Columbia) The Springfield News-Leader Online Edition The Joplin Globe On Line The Moberly Monitor-Index Online The Branson Courier Lebanon Publishing Co. Links to the Lebanon Daily Record, Pulaski County Democrat, Ozark County Times, Richland Mirror, Trout Talk, Guidon. Coming soon, the Webster County Citizen and the Weekly Trader. All published by the Lebanon Publishing Co. LakeWatch Lake of the Ozarks news and info Illinois News Bloomington Pantagraph Now owned by Pulitzer Inc. The Chicago Tribune Chicago Sun-Times Online Chicago Reader "Chicago's alternative newspaper, THE source for info on music, movies, restaurants, apartment rental, and more." (from their META file) State Journal-Register (Springfield) The daily paper from Illinois' capital New City (Chicago) Daily Herald (suburban Chicago) The Champagne News-Gazette U.S. News Google News Yahoo! News - Front Page HeadlineSpot.com US Newspapers Online News Headlines, World News, Current Events. CNN One of the best all-around new sites. Despite fairly heavy fancy graphics, it loads faster than most similar sites, which is a big plus. The New York Times Requires registration, but it's free. Washington Post Chicago Tribune Sun-Sentinel Miami Herald St. Petersburg Times Los Angeles Times Mercury Center (San Jose) The paper of record for Silicon Valley Wired News ZDNet News CNET News.com ABC ABC and Disney MSNBC NBC and Microsoft World News General Google News CNN One of the best all-around new sites. Despite fairly heavy fancy graphics, it loads faster than most similar sites, which is a big plus. International Herald Tribune British Isles BBC News Guardian Unlimited Independent Ananova Economist.com Telegraph Financial Times Daily Mail London Observer ManchesterOnline The Observer The Sun TimesOnline Belfast Telegraph Irish News Online Ireland.com from The Irish Times, Ireland's Online Newspaper The Irishworld Online The Herald, Glasgow The Daily Record Scotsman.com Edinburgh Evening News Canada Macleans National Post Toronto Sun Toronto Star Inside Canada Toronto Community News and several Mirror and Guardian papers in the surrounding area teamed up for this website Montreal Mirror Montreal - canada.com network Montreal Gazette and more Vancouver - canada.com network Vancouver Sun and more Waterloo Record Latin America Business News Americas Daily business news from Latin America Caribbean Daylight Argentina's Brief from Agencia Nacional de Noticias T�lam Buenos Aires Herald Bahamas news - complete Bahamian news portal The Nassau Guardian The Freeport News (Barbados) Daily Nation The Barbados Advocate InfoBrazil.Com (Brazil) International News Service Santiago (Chile) Times Costa Rica Daily Online News Granma International (Cuba) Panama News Europe Prague Business Journal - Home The Prague Tribune The Prague Post Online The Copenhagen Post Trade Union News from Finland French news Le Monde diplomatique - English Internet edition The Tocqueville Connection Der Spiegel Online New Democrat (the Netherlands) TheMoscowTimes.com Moscow News Russia Today The St. Petersburg Times TurkishPress.com Turkish Daily News Zaman Daily Newspaper (Turkey) Middle East Jerusalem Post The Jerusalem Report Magazine Haaretz DEBKAfile "Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism Security" Aljazeera.Net English - Home Page Middle East Times 2003 Arab News Newspaper Gulf Times Newspaper Homepage Gulf News Online Iraq Today Dar Al Hayat The Daily Star - Lebanon Al-Ahram Weekly | Front page Asia Asia Times AsiaOne South China Morning Post China Daily.com The Standard (China) Inside China Today Shanghai Daily The Hindu outlookindia.com: The Jakarta Post Indonesian Observer Asahi Shimbun (Japan) The Korea Herald Korea Times The Shipping Times (Singapore) The Straits Times (Singapore) Africa allAfrica.com Cairo Times Egypt Today Accra (Ghana) Daily Mail TLC-Africa (Liberia) Vanguard (Nigeria) Mail & Guardian (South Africa) This Day (South Africa) News24 (South Africa) Cape Times (South Africa) Star (South Africa) Australia The Age The Daily Telegraph Sunday Times The Sydney Morning Herald Alternative News AlterNet Alternative Weeklies Publication Directory from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Green Left Weekly Spinsanity MotherJones NewPages MoveOn.org Digital Edge Information Clearing House Independent Media Center A definitely biased but refreshing news site with a leftist bent Brainbox - An Independent Political Magazine Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters Drudge Report Traditional Media Links TotalNEWS: all the News, on the Net, all the Time Searches a large number of web news sites for current stories matching any keyword you choose. NewsLinx Daily Web News Tracks tech, computer, and Internet related stories from a variety of sources NewsLink Newspaper Archives on the Web SLA - News Division maintains this comprehensive table-format list, which includes dates available and cost. NewspaperLinks.com Radio-Locator NewsDirectory: Newspapers and Media AllYouCanRead.com Magatopia.com Free Online Magazines - "Over 1000 FREE online magazines. Just click on any magazine on the virtual magazine rack. They all have free and current articles to read online." (from their META file) Ezine Directory "The Ezine Directory lists over 1,000 of the best ezines available on the Internet today. Search, browse, or add your ezine today! The web's best ezine directory." (from their META file) Blogger Links Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things CyberJournalist.net Scripting News explodedlibrary.info The Dead Parrot Society Radio Free Blogistan California Insider - A Weblog by Sacramento Bee Columnist Daniel Weintraub This Modern World Joho the Blog InstaPundit.Com The Volokh Conspiracy Samizdata.net Mind Floss Electrolite www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish LILEKS (James) The Bleat Mitch Kapor's Weblog Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal Caution: Watch for Dropping Shoe - Plus: Tabs in the Tank By Mickey�Kaus Games * Design * Art * Culture David Frum's Diary on National Review Online danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: Blog BuzzMachine ... by Jeff Jarvis Semi-Daily Journal John Robb's Weblog Dynamist Blog buzz.weblogs.com rc3.org: Rafe Colburn's weblog WIL WHEATON dot NET Watching the Media Editor and Publisher AJR American Journalism Review Columbia Journalism Review Poynter Online Website of the Poynter Institute, a journalism think-tank Romanesko Jim Romenesko's media gossip column at the Poynter website - a must for journo addicts! mediaweek.com Media Week Media Ownership Working Group Studies Convergence Tracker Search Page From the American Press Institute. Tracks Partnerships, collaborations or shared resources among U.S. daily newspapers, online and broadcast media. The Daily Planet OJR section: page one Media Whores Online Extra!: The Magazine of FAIR insideradio.com TelevisionWeek -- Incorporating Electronic Media

Law/Courts

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Law/Courts Internet Law Library Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions, Phillips Nizer LLP - Directory of important court decisions and rulings affecting the Internet FindLaw Wonderful legal research tool, including links to lots of information, like decisions from appellate courts, that you might otherwise pay huge amounts of money for elsewhere. The Guide to Law Online From the Library of Congress - "The Guide to Law Online is an annotated compendium of sources accessible through the Internet. Links provide access to primary documents, legal commentary, and general government information about specific jurisdictions and topics." (from their META file) Supreme Court of the United States Supreme Court at Cornell In some ways, this is better than the court's own site. You can often find new decisions here that the court has on their own site but not yet linked to their search engine or front page, for example Missouri Judiciary Homepage Illinois Courts beSpacific "focuses on the expanding resources in the public and private sector related to law and technology issues" Judges of the United States Courts Recent Federal Judicial Nominations From Leadership Directories, the Yellow Book folks United States Code The law of the land Code of Federal Regulations The Government Printing Office's online searchable CFR Public Laws at NARA The National Archive and Records Administration searchable Public and Private Laws site Fed. and State Opinions from Cornell A handy list of links to information about lots of federal and state courts State Legal Materials from Cornell The Copyright Website Libraries Local Internet Special Libraries Librarians Back to Main Categories Libraries Local St. Louis Public Library St. Louis County Library St Charles City-County Library Jefferson County Library Mercantile Library Municipal Library Consortium Washington University Libraries Webster Groves Public Library Internet Libweb - Library WWW Servers IPL The Internet Public Library Special Libraries Special Libraries Association SLA News Division UNC-CH Mailing Lists (NewsLib) Resources for new news librarians Searcher Magazine The primary magazine for electronic researchers Intranets in the Newsroom Barbara's News Researcher Graffiti Page newslibrarytoolbox News Library Jobs and Internships Librarians Library Juice Laughing Librarian Cool Links Library Humor and Other Amusements The Lipstick Librarian! Adventures of Conan the Librarian Librarians in the Movies Government General Congress Executive Military State/Local Public Records International Other Back to Main Categories Government General FirstGov Fedstats One Stop Shopping Federal Statistics LC Government Links FedNet! - Broadcast Coverage of the United States Congress FindLaw: Federal Resources THE GOVERMENT BY STERBY An amazingly comprehensive set of government links. Politics & Government Resources by Pamela Dragovich, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress Congress U.S. Legislative Branch U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Senate THOMAS Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress Contains information about everyone who has ever served in Congress - including the Continental Congress, back to 1774, and delegates to Congress from U.S. territories. Executive The White House Fed. Government Web Sites Executive Branch Web Sites from the Library of Congress U.S. Department of Education SEC Securities and Exchange Commission GSA General Services Administration EPA NHTSA National Highway Transportation Safety Administration NTSB National Transportation Safety Board Federal Services OSHA's Statistics & Data Page FDA Enforcement Report Index Bureau of Labor Statistics Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering National Science Foundation - Home Page FOIA A Citizen's Guide to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Military Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP) From the Air University Library, "a subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals." Updated quarterly and indexed back to 1990. U.S. Department of Defense Army Navy Air Force Marines Defense Almanac Official publication of the Department of Defense chock-full of useful statistics and other info Defense Technical Information Center POW/MIA Data From the Defense Technical Information Center Iraq War Casualties Veterans History Project (Library of Congress) State/Local State and Local Governments (Library of Congress) State and Local Government on the Net FindLaw: State Resources FindLaw: State Resources: More State Resources Council of State Governments National Conference of State Legislatures National Association of Secretaries of State National Governors Association The U.S. Conference of Mayors Web Site Public Records Search Systems - Largest Free Public Records Database Collection A great collection of public records links. A slight emphasis on Pacific Coast states doesn't detract from the usefulness of this site. International International Information Other Federal Register "The Federal Register, on GPO Access, is the daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of the Federal Government." (from their META file) National Archives and Records Administration The United States Government Manual The Smithsonian Institution Hey, it's an institution. Seriously, no introduction should be needed here. I know it's not really part of the government, but neither is the Post Office anymore, and I thought it belonged here more than anywhere else. U.S. Postal Service Crime Back to Main Categories Crime FBI Uniform Crime Reports Uniform Crime Reports back to 1995 and other statistical information on crime from the FBI MO Uniform Crime Reports St. Louis Crime Map Justice Information Center (NCJRS) Great site. Links to most other major U.S. sites within a few clicks. TRAC Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse - University of Syracuse Global Economic Crime Survey 2003 Moved a couple of weeks after I found it; I may have to give up on keeping this as a permanent link Wrongful Murder Convictions Some people who have been wrongly convicted of murder, and some articles about how it's not as rare as you might think. International Law Enforcement - www.copnet.org coplink Emergency Cell Numbers Part of the Oak Park Shopping and Community Information site from 3planets.com Business General Advertising Agriculture/Farming Airplanes/Airlines Automotive Biotechnology Brewing & Bottling Electronics Food Service Healthcare Insurance Investing Manufacturing Mining Pharmaceuticals Publishing Real Estate Retail Shoes (Footwear) Telecommunications Textiles Tourism Back to Main Categories Business The categories are a little eclectic, but they're almost all types of business that are or have been important locally. I thought of ordering them by importance, but decided with this many I'd better stick to alphabetical. General Thomas Register - Industry Answers Results SEC Info Claims to be "the best EDGAR online database of Securities and Exchange Commission filings & IPOs." May be right. freeErisa.com Primarily a source of information on pensions and such, but also a good source of basic information like tax identification numbers) about most large public corporations. OSEDA - Office of Social and Economic Analysis kompass.com, the Business to Business Search Engine Researching Companies on the Internet A Tutorial by Debbie Flanagan on how to find information about a company using the Internet MSN Money - Key Developments: Investing GuideStar - The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations Search IRS 990 forms and other information on most recognized nonprofit organizations (excluding churches) - "The leading source of information on U.S. nonprofits. A searchable database of more than 850,000 IRS-recognized nonprofit organizations." (from their META files) EdgarScan EdgarIQ: New SEC Research Tool Yahoo! Finance WSRN.com: Wall Street Research Network Wall Street Executive Library - The Web's Best Business Sites. Wall-Street.com "We provide convenient, free access to all the important financial and investment information on the Internet. Read our profiles of fast-growing companies and order annual reports for high growth companies. Browse our list of public corporations offering DRIPs. You can access the SEC's EDGAR server, stock quote servers, financial publications and investment newsletters, plus investor information from futures to mutual funds. We link to online banks, small cap companies, large companies and IPOs. We offer rapidly growing lists of online publicly traded companies, including those on the NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ (NMS, SMC and OTC-BBS)." (from their META file) Inc. Online Fortune Magazine Forbes Magazine Economy.com The Dismal Scientist Economic Indicators, Data, Analysis, and News Annual Report Gallery " Annual Reports listings, online versions in HTML and PDF. Over 2200 annual reports, most of the fortune 500 reports listed" (from their META file) Corporate Information Small Business Administration Hoover's Online SEC Filings & Forms (EDGAR) 10k Wizard: SEC Filings Advertising Advertising Age adweek.com Brandweek.com Media Week Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters The American Advertising Museum The Advertising Standards Authority American Association of Advertising Agencies " Founded in 1917, the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA) is the national trade association representing the advertising agency business in the United States." (from their META file) AAF: American Advertising Federation "The AAF protects and promotes the well-being of advertising through a unique, nationally coordinated grassroots network of advertisers, agencies, media companies, local advertising clubs and college chapters." (from their META file) Agriculture/Farming Mizzou Agriculture University of Missouri Outreach and Extension Voice of Agriculture - VOA - American Farm Bureau AGeze.com, Largest Agriculture Search Engine "The largest and most comprehensive agriculture search engine, and selection of agriculture classifieds." (from their META file) Monsanto ADM-Archer Daniels Midland Company AgribusinessUniverse American Society of Agronomy ISNAR - International Service for National Agricultural Research "The International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) assists developing countries in bringing about lasting improvements in the performance of their national agricultural research systems and organizations. It does this by promoting appropriate agricultural research policies, sustainable research institutions, and improved research management. ISNAR's services to national research are ultimately intended to benefit producers and consumers in developing countries and to safeguard the natural environment for future generations." (from their META file) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Welcome to RAFI-USA Airplanes/Airlines Aeroseek Aviation Search Engine and Directory BTS - Airline Information From the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics Aviation Accident Database Query Search the National Transportation Safety Board database of accident and "incident" reports. Boeing American Airlines Automotive Office of Automotive Affairs The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers CARS - Vehicle and Equipment Information AUTOPEDIA� - The Automotive Encyclopedia NHTSA Search Search the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations database of accident statistics. NADA National Automobile Dealers Association - "NADA, founded in 1917, represents more than 19,700 new car and truck dealers, both import and domestic, with more than 49,300 separate franchises." (from their META file) Kelley Blue Book New Car Pricing and Used Car Values Automotive Service Association ( ASA ) Ford Motor Company General Motors DaimlerChrysler Mitsubishi Motors Corporation Toyota.com Bodine Aluminum Subsidiary of Toyota that has a plant in Missouri Biotechnology National Center for Biotechnology Information Biopolicy Journal Information Systems for Biotechnology Center for Emerging Technologies Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise Stem Cell Research Foundation Monsanto Amgen Sigma-Aldrich Auxeris Biosynthema Celera Genomics Chlorogen Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences Divergence - The Nematode Genomics Company DNA Polymerase Technology, Inc. Elan Human Genome Sciences Istotech Microbe Inotech Labs, Inc. MicroSense International Novactyl Orion Genomics ProteoPlex Quick Study Radiology Symbiontics, Inc. Technopolis Viral Therapeutics, Inc. Zassi Medical Brewing & Bottling Anheuser-Busch Companies "The Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. corporate site. Financial information is available along with information on Anheuser-Busch's companies and business interests. Learn Anheuser-Busch's rich history and explore employment opportunities." (from their META file) Schlafly Brewpubs Beverage Industry Beverage & tobacco product mfg From the "Bridge Between NAICS and SIC: Manufacturing" at the U.S. Census site Brewers' Association of America National Soft Drink Association Wine Institute Data and Statistics From Beverage Digest Industry News From BevNET.com - "The Beverage Network -- The beverage industry's source for new product reviews, news, jobs, and more" Beverage Online "Digital Marketplace for the beverage industry" Teamsters: Brewery & Soft Drink Conference The branch of the Teamsters that represents unionized brewery and soft drink workers Master Brewers Association of the Americas Coca-Cola Television Advertisements From the Library of Congress collection Electronics Electronic Industries Alliance - Home Consumer Electronics Association MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. - Silicon Wafer Manufacturing " MEMC is a leading supplier of silicon wafers for the semiconductor industry. Silicon wafers are the fundamental building block on which nearly all microelectronic applications are made. These devices, or chips, are found in nearly all computers, cars, consumer electronics, and automation systems." (from their META file) UM-StL Page on Missouri's Silicon River Food Service National Restaurant Association Food Service Industry Trade Associations and Professional Organizations From the U.S. Department of Agriculture. American Culinary Federation Institute of Food Technologists FoodSafety.gov "Gateway to Government Food Safety Information" (from their main page) Foodservice.com "Restaurant Jobs, Foodservice Products, Restaurant News, Hospitality Jobs, Hospitality Careers" (from their main page) Foodservice Central.com Digital Marketplace for Foodservice Professionals Food Service Professionals Network Hospitality Institute of Technology & Management food safety and HACCP training and certification provider Healthcare American Medical Association American Hospital Association InPharm.com - life support for the pharmaceutical industry BJC HealthCare SSM Health Care - St. Louis Health Insurance Association of America AAPP: American Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians APhA -- American Pharmacists Association Welcome to AAPSPharmaceutica Pharmaceutical Information on the Internet CIGNA.com - Providing health, retirement, accident, disability, and other employee benefits This is actually a personal link; it's my health insurance company Insurance Insurance Industry Internet Network Insurance Journal Property Casualty Insurance News ACORD Standards-setting organization for the insurance industry Insurance Industry Association For Benchmarking "The Insurance Industry Association For Benchmarking is an association of insurance professionals in companies that conducts benchmarking studies to identify the practices that improve the overall operations of the members." (from their META file) American Council of Life Insurers Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America Health Insurance Association of America Ulitmate Insurance Links Claims Guides Resources and News For Claims Insurance Professionals Agent Media Corporation The Rough Notes Company, Inc. Welcome to Marsh. The world's #1 risk specialist. My wife's employer - "Marsh Inc. is the world's leading risk and insurance services firm. Our mission: To create and deliver risk solutions and services that make our clients more successful." (from their META file) Investing The Motley Fool "The Motley Fool exists to educate, amuse, and enrich the individual investor. To propose from personal finance to the stock market, the key to investment success is doing one's homework; and to show that homework can be fun." (from their META file) thestreet.com "TheStreet.com provides a mix of financial features, commentary and breaking news that's updated multiple times during the trading day." (from their META file) Quote.com Historical Quotes Historical Quotes from Big Charts. You have to know the stock ticker symbol, but with it you can get ending-day quotes for any date the stock was traded on back to January 2, 1970. The New York Stock Exchange The Nasdaq Stock Market The American Stock Exchange Asset Management Firms Morningstar Stocks, Mutual Funds, Investing and Personal Finance - Get stock and mutual fund quotes, research reports and tools for making better investing and 401k decisions." (from their META file) Fidelity Investments Prudential Financial The Vanguard Group Merrill Lynch Citigroup Manufacturing Thomas Register - Industry Answers Results 1997 Economic Census - Manufacturing - Industry Series Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association - BHMA / ANSI Standards and Certification for Architectural Hardware National Electrical Manufacturers Association Mining Mining USA "The Store Front For The Mining Industry" National Mining Association "The National Mining Association (NMA) is the voice of the US mining industry in Washington, D.C. NMA is the only national trade organization that represents the interests of mining before Congress, the Administration, federal agencies, the judiciary and the media. Our membership includes more than 325 corporations involved in all aspects of the mining industry" (from their META file) InfoMine - Your Mining Information Source Welcome to Mining Technology SME - Society for Mining Metallurgy and Exploration Office of Surface Mining " Office of Surface Mining (OSM) is a bureau of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior with responsibility, in cooperation with the states and Indian Tribes, to protect citizens and the environment during coal mining and reclamation, and to reclaim mines abandoned before 1977." (from their META file) Online Mining Reference 1997 Economic Census - Mining - Industry Series Pharmaceuticals PhRMA Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Pharmaceutical Technology Pharmaceutical Industry Benchmarking Group Solutia Formerly part of Monsanto KV Pharmaceutical Pfizer Makers of, among many other things, Listerine, invented in St. Louis (it has no connection with the famous pioneer of the germ theory of disease, except for being named in his honor by a doctor who was an early supporter of that theory). GlaxoSmithKline Makers of, among other things, Tums, manufactured right here in St. Louis Publishing Association of American Publishers Publishers Marketing Association Newspaper Association of America Magazine Publishers of America Elsevier Health Sciences "Medical publishers, online journals, textbooks, drug references" - they swallowed C.V. Mosby, a local medical textbook publisher. McGraw-Hill Professional The publishing division of McGraw-Hill, which started out as a book publisher but is now a huge conglomerate Concordia Publishing House Publishing arm of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Real Estate Realtor.Org The National Organization of Realtors REALTOR.com Real estate listings & homes for sale, from the National Association of Realtors Buyers' Agents Real Estate Buyers' Agents Council ABC's of real estate consumer guide Real Estate Brokers and Sales Agents The Counselors of Real Estate Real Estate Pros Member Directory Institute of Real Estate Management Council of Real Estate Brokerage Managers Mortgage Bankers Association of America - The Association of Real Estate Finance National Association of Home Builders Retail The National Retail Federation STORES Trade Magazine affiliated with the National Retail Federation Yahoo! - Retail Industry Industry at a Glance: Retail trade Retail Stats Retail Statistics Studies and Retail Industry Market Research from About.com. I don't have too many About.com pages here, because their pop-ups are extremely annoying, but they do have some good pages. Wholesale and Retail Trade Shoes (Footwear) Yeah, the industry category is "Footwear" and it should be in the Fs, but everybody calls them "shoes," and besides, it fits the old joke about the Browns. AAFA American Apparel and Footwear Association - Apparel and Footwear Manufacturing Industry: Apparel customs & footwear customs. FDRA Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America NSRA National Shoe Retailers Association ShoeSearch.biz Brown Shoe Bakers Footwear Naturalizer Online Azaleia USA Telecommunications Telecommunications Online� "The Technology and Business Publication for Communication Professionals, covering service provider technologies and applications worldwide for more than 30 years. Telecommunications Online is the telecom industry's first resource for accurate, reliable technical telecom information." (from their META file) FCC Federal Communications Commission National Telecommunications and Information Administration "NTIA is the President's principal adviser on telecommunications and information policy." (from their META file) USTA United States Telecom Association TIA Telecommunications Industry Association NTCA National Telecommunications Cooperative Association AMTA American Mobile Telecommunications Association PCIA The Wireless Infrastructure Industry NANPA North American Numbering Plan Administration (now managed by NeuStar, Inc.) NASTD The official name of this organization is "NASTD - The Association for Telecommunications and Technology Professionals Serving State Government." I tried looking at the "History" section of their website and several other places, but could find no indication anywhere of what, if anything, NASTD originally stood for. NAB The National Association of Broadcasters CMA Communications Management Association SBC Communications Inc. DISA Data Interchange Standards Association IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Textiles Clemson Apparel Research Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production American Apparel and Footwear Association Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) Apparel Manufacturing Economic Census info; Bridge Between NAICS and SIC AAFA American Apparel and Footwear Association - Apparel and Footwear Manufacturing Industry: Apparel customs & footwear customs. UNITE! Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, founded in 1995 by a merger of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU). Sweatshop Watch Tourism World Tourism Organization (WTO) Welcome to Tourism Industries ERC Reference Desk: Tourism Statistics Recreation.gov Missouri Tourism Politics Back to Main Categories Politics Vote Smart Web The best single site for information about politics, both national and state. electionline.org The Election Reform Information Project Political Information (.com) A search engine for politics & policy State Election Laws From electionline.org State Election Links From The National Association of State Election Directors C-SPAN-- Congressional Races FECInfo Unofficial but very reliable site put together by a couple of form FEC employees who got tired of the agency's foot-dragging on getting the information up on the web. The official site now resembles this, but this one's still better. Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections From Dave Leip, one of the many incredibly dedicated amateurs who make the Web such a wonderful place. Election Statistics 1920-2002 From the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives PollingReport.com Has results of the major national polls, up-to-date, on many topics, plus some regional polls Skeleton Closet All the dirt on all the candidates Issues2000.org - Candidates on the Issues Elections U.S.A. A quirky but impressively comprehensive site from a couple of major political junkies. The Campaign Finance Information Center A good resource for journalists - not only access to campaign financing info, but tips on how to use it. - "The Campaign Finance Information Center is administered by IRE and the National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting. It's dedicated to helping journalists cover campaigns more in-depth by following the campaign money trail." (from their META file) Money in Politics Another campaign financing site CNN/AllPolitics - Election 2000 CNN's comprehensive election coverage. Includes a link to an archive of polls. C-SPAN: Campaign 2000 Campaign 2000 coverage from C-SPAN Religion General Christianity Judaism Islam Buddhism Hinduism Taoism Confucianism Other Back to Main Categories Religion General Adherents.com - Religion Statistics Statistics about worshippers and congregations for over 4,000 religions, denominations, tribes, movements, etc. religioustolerance.org Promoting religious understanding, tolerance and freedom Virtual Religion Index religion online Internet Sacred Text Archive Links to the texts of the scriptures of nearly all the religions in the world -- except for the one that jealously protects the copyright status of its sacred scriptures -- plus similar basic information on mystery traditions and the like. Christianity The Christian Religion What is Christianity? The Holy See Official Site of the Vatican Evangelical Christianity "Evangelical Christian resources, links and papers" Rational Christianity - Christian Apologetics The Center for Progressive Christianity Christianity Today Website of the magazine of the same name Bible Gateway Browse or search 16 different translations/versions of the Bible Bible: King James Version Search the King James Bible by word or phrase or browse by book and verse. Bible: Revised Standard Version Search the Revised Standard Version of the Bible by word or phrase or browse by book and verse. Judaism Jewish FAQ and Reading Lists Judaism 101 "An encyclopedia of information about Judaism, Jewish practices, holidays, people and beliefs. For beginners, intermediate or advanced readers." (from their META file) Torah.org - The Judaism Site Shamash Home Page Torahnet Links to Torah and Talmud study opportunities via WWW and via email. Jewishnet - Global Jewish Information Network www.jewish.com Jewish Publication Society Bible Index Divrei Torah -- Commentaries Tanach & Talmud - in Hebrew Modern Judaism A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience The American Jewish Congress Conversion To Judaism Reform Judaism USCJ - Conservative Judaism United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism The Union for Traditional Judaism Society for Humanistic Judaism "Humanistic Judaism is a nontheistic alternative in contemporary Jewish life. It was established by Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine in 1963 in Detroit, Michigan." (from their META file) Islam Islam Page "Learn about the way of Life called Islam. This site contains many links for you to find information on God, Jesus, Bible, the Quran, Muslims, etc." (from their META file) Al-Islam.org by the Ahlul Bayt DILP Islam Guide "A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam, Muslims, & the Quran" About Islam and Muslims "Information about Islamic Beliefs, history and civilization for Muslims and Non-Muslims. Read the Quran, Sunnah and articles yourself!" (from their META file) The Koran (U. Mich.) Searchable Koran Nation of Islam Official website of the homegrown African-American version of Islam Buddhism BUDDHISM from religioustolerance.org BuddhaNet Buddhist Information Network - Gateway to Buddhism. About Buddhism Access to Insight "Readings in Theravada Buddhism" Buddhist Studies The WWW Virtual Library Basics of Buddhism From PBS, associated with a program about Thailand Learn About Tibetan Buddhism-- What is Buddhism? From the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order Hinduism Welcome to Hinduism Online "Hinduism Online is a vast resource of knowledge and experience on Hinduism, one of the world's oldest living religions." (from their META file) The Directory of Hindu Resources Online Hinduism Today Magazine "Hinduism Today Magazine, affirming Sanatana Dharma and recording the modern history of a billion-strong global religion in renaissance." (from their META file) The Hindu Universe - Hindu Resource Center Sacred-Texts: Hinduism Taoism Taoism Information Page Introduction to Taoism (or Daoism), including several English translation of the Tao Te Ching (or Dao De Jing) TAOISM from religioustolerance.org Taoism Initiation Page "Online Resources for Home Study and Practice" Daoism Depot Taoism.net / TrueTao.org Confucianism CONFUCIANISM Confucianism Confucian Philosophy This is a philosophy site, and many argue whether Confucianism is properly a "religion" or not. In any case, most of the main texts are here. Lexicon of Confucianism by Professor Lao Sze-kwang Other The Baha'i World Official Site of the Baha'i Faith The Sikhism Home Page The Book of Mormon Searchable Book of Mormon Church of Scientology Official Site The Neopagan Religious Archive AVESTA -- Zoroastrian Archives Consumer & Safety Info Back to Main Categories Consumer & Safety Info ConsumerSearch.com Product Reviews and Reports by Consumer Search Household Products Database Health and Safety Information on Household Products FoodSafety.gov Gateway to Government Food Safety Information Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition From the Food and Drug Administration Food Safety From Iowa State University Extension NHTSA Search Search the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations database of customer complaints about automobiles with safety problems. OSHA's Statistics & Data Page FDA Enforcement Report Index EPA Toxic Release Inventory Original data from the Environmental Protection Agency on 582 individually listed chemicals and 30 chemical categories (including 3 delimited categories containing 58 chemicals). Search TRI From RTK.net Searchable database mirroring and in some ways extending the EPA data Office of Defects Investigation Health/Medicine Reference Diseases Drugs First Aid Wellness Back to Main Categories Health/Medicine Reference healthfinder (from the U.S. government) WebMD PubMed Search the abstracts of over 11 million medical jounals, including sometimes (though rarely), links to the full text at the participating journals website (more often, you have to order the journal text separately for a fee, but at least you can get the citation). U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) Links to various health information cites, including PubMed The Health Library at Stanford American Medical Association Virtual Hospital Home Page Health A to Z HealthAnswers: Homepage Stem Cell Resources From the Stem Cell Research Foundation Diseases Centers for Disease Control National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Office of Rare Disease Infectious Diseases Society of America National Organization for Rare Disorders West Nile Virus Information Center | St. Louis Metro Area Drugs Drug Information Consumer Drug Info Internet Drug Index First Aid First Aid Action Interactive lessons from the BBC - A fully interactive online first aid course from the BBC that informs, educates and entertains whilst leading you towards taking a recognised first aid qualification." (from their META file) First Aid & Safety From KidsHealth.org - "Keeping your child safe is your top priority. Learn how to protect your child inside the house and out, what to do in an emergency, how to stock a first-aid kit, where to call for help, and more." (from their META file) Emergency & First Aid From HealthWorld Online What to do in an Emergency From the American College of Emergency Physicians Home First Aid Kit Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file listing the contents one should have in a home first aid kit,also from the American College of Emergency Physicians InteliHealth NetWellness A non-profit consumer health web site that provides high quality information created and evaluated by medical and health professional faculty at the University of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve University, and Ohio State University. Wellness Online "Home of the Wellness Letter" - from UC Berkeley WELCOA Wellness Councils of America - "The Nation's Premier Resource for Worksite Wellness" (from their main page) Dr. Andrew Weil's Self Healing Andrew Weil was a pioneer in acceptance of wellness issues and an open-minded approach to traditional and homeopathic remedies among the established medical profession. His website is a little on the commercial side, but there's some good stuff here. Disasters/Emergencies Back to Main Categories Floods Tornadoes Earthquakes Terrorism Emergency Preparedness Other Disasters/Emergencies The specific disaster types are chosen and arranged by their likelihood to be dealt with here in the St. Louis area. Floods Floods From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (the department the oversees, among other things, the National Weather Service) Floods From the U.S. Geological Survey United States - Flood Warnings Most recent mostings from the National Weather Service United States - Flash Flood Warnings Most recent mostings from the National Weather Service National Flood Proofing Committee USACE - Mississippi Valley Division U.S. Army Corps of Engineers USACE - St. Louis District US Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi River Stages St. Louis From the Army Corps of Engineers, the highest official stage reading for the Mississippi River for the city of St. Louis for each day from 1/1/1861 through 12/31/2001 (as of the date of this description), with mean, maximum and minimum figures for each month. The 1993 Flood - 10 Years Later From STLtoday - archived special report from St. Louis Post-Dispatch Significant Floods in the United States During the 20th Century--USGS Measures a Century of Floods Tornadoes USA Today tornado resources A wonderful list of links to resources on tornadoes compiled by USA Today NOAA Home Page - Tornadoes The Tornado Project Online! "The Tornado Project is a small company that researches, compiles and makes tornado information available to tornado and severe weather enthusiasts, the public, the meteorological community and emergency management officials in the form of tornado videos, tornado books, and tornado posters." (from their META file) Earthquakes FEMA FOR KIDS: EARTHQUAKES Sometimes the best site for general information is one aimed at children FEMA: Earthquakes A more adult (and more thorough) version of the same FEMA information Understanding Earthquakes Earthquakes - General Interest Publication A U.S. Geological Survey publication Earthquake Hazards Program From the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program-FAQ Frequently Asked Questions answered by the U.S. Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center From the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program Soil Liquefaction Web Site Very scary explanation from the University of Washington of why and how soil can become liquid during an earthquake Earthquake Data at NGDC From the National Geophysical Data Center Earthquake Preparedness Handbook From the Los Angeles Fire Department Seismic Monitor - 30 Day Earthquake List From Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, "a university research consortium dedicated to exploring the Earth's interior through the collection and distribution of seismographic data." National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the University of California, Berkeley. Terrorism Homeland Security Actions This page always includes the current threat level assessment Missouri Homeland Security Ready.gov From the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Ready.gov - Useful Links Department of Homeland Security Advisory System Explanation of the threat level warning system Department of Homeland Security The front page for the Homeland Security Department APA HelpCenter An analysis of the psychological effects of acts of terrorism on those who witness or hear about them. Terrorist Attacks and Children From the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder FEMA: Fact Sheet: Terrorism Responding First to Bioterrorism From the National Academy of Science, aimed at "first responders" (firefighters, police officers, paramedics, etc.) Covering Terrorism From the Radio-Television News Directors Association Bioterrorism Coverage Also from the Radio-Television News Directors Association Emergency Preparedness Red Cross Disaster Services Natural Disasters - Are You Prepared From the Federal Citizen Information Center Earthquake Preparedness Handbook From the Los Angeles Fire Department Ready.gov From the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Other Top Ten Natural Disasters From FEMA, so it's just U.S. Worst United States Disasters By category. No list of top including all kind, like the FEMA list. Just worst aircraft disaster, worst fire, worst earthquake, etc. Natural Disaster Reference Database - Subject Categories National Hurricane Center / Tropical Prediction Center Hurricanes: Nature's Greatest Storms Historical Hurricane Tracks (1851-2001) NCDC Storm Events-Select State Volcano World "The Premier Source of Volcano Info on the Web" Federal Emergency Management Agency NTSB - Transportation Disaster Assistance Internet Facts & Figures Whois Resources Webcrafting Back to Main Categories Internet Facts & Figures Internet Archive: Wayback Machine Pew Internet & American Life Project Global Internet Statistics (by Language) Netfactual.com "NetFactual.com is the most accurate, real-time provider of Internet, domain and network statistics, reports, trends, analysis. NetFactual is also dedicated in providing reliable marketing lists focusing on growth, leads, hotlists, and prospecting for the global business." (from their META file) beSpacific "focuses on the expanding resources in the public and private sector related to law and technology issues" Nua Internet Surveys "Nua online Internet surveys portal for market research, statistics, demographics, metrics, surveys and web trends from across the globe." (from their META file) Internet Domain Survey Zooknic Internet Geography Project "Zooknic is a leading source of information on the diffusion, use and geography of the Internet. Zooknic specializes in analysis of growth of domain names and the dynamics of the domain name market" (from their META file) Hobbes' Internet Timeline - the definitive Internet history Chronology of the important events leading up to and in the ongoing development of the Internet Internet Society (ISOC) All About The Internet: History of the Internet internet.org A source for information on the Open Internet. "The Open Internet is the extension of the Internet from its original inception as a voluntary cooperative for global computing communications to a force supporting the free and open exchange of information and technology." (from their main page) Whois Resources Just the other day, a reporter told me he couldn't find who owned a domain name using whois. Only two of my six had it. That's why I have six of them. WhoIs.UserLand.Com Whois.net OpenSRS ARIN: Whois NSI Registry NSI - WHOIS Lookup Webcrafting A Beginner's Guide to HTML From the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana -- where Mosaic, the predecessor of Netscape, was born HTML Quick Reference HTML 4.1 Specification The official specifications -- well sort of official, since official HTML has been superceded by XHTML 1.0, a subset of XML. XHTML 1.0 HTML 4 reformulated in XML -- This is now the official version ISO8859-1 table (character entity names) How to get funny characters like "&" and "©" and accents and foreign letters to print correctly on a web page. Webmonkey Digital Toolbox CGI Scripts and HTML Forms Computers Help Desk Hardware Software Virus Info Other Back to Main Categories Computers Help Desk CNET Help.com Free Computer Help Tips and Tools to Help You Get the Most Fun and Use from Your Home Computer Help-Site Computer Manuals Computer Hopes free computer help Hardware Hardware Channel The Computer Hardware page from howstuffworks.com The Tech Report - There is no dash in "The Tech Report", dag nabbit! PCWorld.com - CPUs Motherboards.org - Home How to buy a hard drive My Super PC How To Build Your Own Affordable, Quality, Fast Computer! Build Your Own PC How to Build Your Own Computer, Learn Here Software TUCOWS CNET download.com Shareware.com Open Source Initiative Free Software GNU's Not Unix! "The GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)" Software Engineering Institute Computer Software Industry Association Software & Information Industry Association Virus Info Virus Information Official site from Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse, a government agency Symantec AntiVirus Research Center McAfee - AVERT CIAC Security Website Linux Resource: Top EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation "Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit group working to protect your digital rights." (from their META file) Electronic Privacy Information Center "The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) focuses public attention on emerging civil liberties, privacy, First Amendment issues and works to promote the Public Voice in decisions concerning the future of the Internet." (from their META file) 2600: The Hacker Quarterly Internet Law Library Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions, Phillips Nizer LLP - Directory of important court decisions and rulings affecting the Internet Art & Entertainment Art Theory, History & Criticism Museums Painting Sculpture Other Static Arts Dance Theater Opera Classical Music Folk Music Jazz Popular Music Movies Television Humor Comics Science Fiction Back to Main Categories Popular Music Lyrics Rock 'n' Roll Country & Western Other Pop Back to Main Categories Comics General Resources Comics History Comic Books Comic Strips Graphic Novels Webcomics Back to Main Categories Art & Entertainnmet This one's VERY subjective -- oriented to locals and/or stuff I like Art Theory, History & Criticism Timeline of Art History From the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From 20,000 B.C. -- currently only to 1600, as the sections after that are apparently still under construction. Click a tab or select alphabetical index. Aesthetics On-Line "The official web presence of the American Society for Aesthetics, this site is for anyone interested in philosophy of art, art theory or art criticism." (from their META file) Art Theory Databases From the University of Sydney Library Art Theory, Art Critcism From Zeroland JAAC Homepage Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism The British Journal of Aesthetics International Association of Empirical Aesthetics No, it's not an oxymoron, or at least they don't think so. Mark Harden's Artchive: Art Theory and Criticism A list of links to some interesting pieces Museums The Saint Louis Art Museum Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Washington University Gallery of Art The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Laumeier Sculpture Park "Laumeier Sculpture Park is a 96 acre outdoor museum designed to encourage creative thinking through exhibitions, educational programs and contemporary art experiences in a park setting." (from their META file) WebMuseum: Bienvenue! The British Museum " The British Museum has outstanding collections that cover world cultures from Prehistory to the present day. Visit our website for information about the galleries, collections, special exhibitions and events. View the collections and take online tours." (from their META file) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Web site features information on upcoming museum events, fine art exhibits, special exhibitions, the Met collection and art galleries online." (from their META file) Victoria and Albert Museum "The V&A is the world?s greatest museum of design and the arts: its collections cover two thousand years up to the present, in virtually every medium and from Britain, Europe and Asia." (from their META file) The Museum of Modern Art "The Museum of Modern Art Web site provides information on current and upcoming art, film and media, and online exhibitions, highlights from MoMA?s unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary art, and listings of education and family programs open to the public." (from their META file) Guggenheim Museum Painting Art st. Louis About.com Painting How-To Articles, Practical Tips, Projects, Inspiration. I don't have too many about.com pages here, their quality is uneven and their pop-up ads are infinitely annoying, but this one's pretty good. Yahoo! Painters: Masters American Art Art Journal published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum The Artist's Toolkit From the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Not strictly just a painting site, but a general pictorial arts instructional site that I put here because it fits here better than any of my other categories. Bob Ross Inc. - The Joy of Painting Remember that bushy-haired guy on public television who used to tell you to go into your own little world and paint "happy little trees"? He died in 1995, but his wet-on-wet technique, and his television show endure, and as this website shows his marketing machine does pretty well, too. Watercolor-Online Articles Links to various articles about different aspects of watercolor painting. Some dead links, but most work. Acrylic Demo By Charles Harrington, a step-by-step demonstration of the creation of one particular painting; one of the "dead liniks" on the "Watercolor-Online" site because it's moved. Painting Demonstrations - Online Art Another step-by-step site, this one going through the evolution of several different works. By Jason Morgan Pigments through the Ages - detailed pigment histories, recipes The cave of Lascaux Roman Painting Some examples of Roman painting from Pompeii Claude Monet "Claude Monet's life, Art, house and garden in Giverny. Related museums and exhibitions. Posters and prints" (from their META file) Van Gogh Museum: English The Vincent van Gogh Gallery Victorian Web - Painting A much-maligned period and place I happen to like (I'm especially fond of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema) Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema From Victorian Web Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema From "Orazio Centaro's Art Images on the Web," a set of links to images of Alma-Tadema works from various places around the Web J.M.W. Turner, 1775-1851 - The First Impressionist - Biography "Biography of James Mallord William Turner, English Romantic painter, forerunner to the French Impressionists" (from their META file) MuralArt.com Celebrating street art & paintings - from RJD Enterprises Painting/Drawing Links to paintings and drawings by a number of contemporary artists Sculpture Art St. Louis Laumeier Sculpture Park "Laumeier Sculpture Park is a 96 acre outdoor museum designed to encourage creative thinking through exhibitions, educational programs and contemporary art experiences in a park setting." (from their META file) International Sculpture Center International Directory of Sculpture Parks & Gardens "International directory of sculpture parks and gardens by Benbow Bullock, metal sculptor. Offers listing of parks around the world that are open to the public or by appointment." (from their META file) Sculpture Magazine 1200 Years of Italian Sculpture Greek Sculpture National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Other Static Arts Art St. Louis CeramicsWeb 3.0 FabricLink For Learning About Fabrics, Apparel, and Clothing Care FiberLink C.W.'s Navajo Weaving Corner American Photography: A Century of Images "Discover a century of photography though an interactive photolab and feature topics." (from their META file) Center for Creative Photography ::: Home Page America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1862 "America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839 - 1864, collection contains 600 portrait photographs, including many by the Matthew Brady Studio; architectural views; outdoor scenes; and occupational portraits." (from their META file) Dance Dance Online Cyber Dance - Ballet on the Net Voice Of Dance Dance Magazine Balletcompanies.com Dance St. Louis Alvin Ailey Dance Company American Ballet Theatre Tap Dance Homepage St. Louis Tap Festival - Rhythm Tap Dance An American Ballroom Companion Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 - "An American Ballroom Companion presents a sampling from the collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress." (from their META file) Lindy Hop Swing Society of Greater St. Louis, Missouri Lessons at the Casa Loma Ballroom St. Louis round dance members St Louis Metro Polka Club Home Folk Dance Association Folk Dance, Contra Dance, Square Dance, Traditional Dance, Recreational Dance and Ethnic Dance, etc. St Louis FolkFire Music and Dance International Folk Dance Association of University City St Louis English Country Dancers Kyklos formerly Hellenic Dancers Of St. Louis Belly Dancing by Desert Moon Dance Academy of St. Louis, Missouri Beat of India Theater American Theater Web Find theaters, Broadway shows, and musicals Theatre Communications Group Chicago Theatre Directory St. Louis Theatre Links bob jude ferrante--Playwright, Instigator A friend from college who's an up-and-coming playwright in NYC theatre-link.com Playbill.com Virtual Library for Theatre and Drama IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information Broadway Theater information source that emulates the IMDB - "The official source for Broadway information, statistics, dates, cast, crew and creative staff credits, roles and related facts" (from their META file) Internet Theatre Database Theatre History on the Web From Jack Wolcott, University of Washington School of Drama (retired) Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Bankside, Southwark, London The Shakespeare Theatre London Theatre Guide - Online The Abbey Theatre The National Theatre of Ireland The Public Theater Online National Theatre - Washington DC American Repertory Theatre Theatre LA ACT San Francisco American Conservatory Theater Chicago Theatre Company The Goodman Theatre Steppenwolf Theatre Company Guthrie Theater The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: home St. Louis Black Rep City Players of St. Louis Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis Saint Louis Shakespeare Stages St. Louis New Line Theatre Theatre Guild of Webster Groves One of the oldest amateur troops in St. Louis. An early version of "The Glass Menagerie" called "The Magic Tower" won their annual one-act play contest back in 1936 and helped launch Tennessee Williams' career. Opera OperaStuff Operabase OPERA America Opera World Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Lyric Opera of Chicago The Metropolitan Opera The Washington (D.C.) Opera San Francisco Opera Los Angeles Opera The Santa Fe Opera English National Opera Pittsburgh Opera Cincinnati Opera Classical Music Classical Search The Classical Music Search Engine The Classical Music Navigator Virtual Library: Classical Music Classical Music Archives The Classical Music Pages Classical Net - Classical Music St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Folk Music folkmusic dot org Ethnomusicology Folk Music Home Page FolkLib Index A Library of Folk Music Links Folk Music Index to Recordings Folk Music on the Web The Old Time Herald A Magazine Dedicated to Old-Time Music Focal Point Traditional & Original Music Concert Series & Arts Center in St. Louis area Music Folk Home Music store in St. Louis area that also serves as one of the centers of the local folk music community Midwest Bluegrass Festivals Jazz Jazz Online allaboutjazz.com International Association for Jazz Education Styles of Jazz - a map The Red Hot Jazz Archive Official Site of Duke Ellington Duke Ellington Centennial Celebration PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns Lots of great stuff here originally intended to supplement the Burns documentary. 88.7 FM WSIE Our local jazz station, operated by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The rest of the links are all local. Jazz at the Bistro The St. Louis Jazz Club The St. Louis Jazz Festival The Official Miles Davis Web Site Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis Website Clark Terry From jazzimprov.com Clark Terry From Riverwalk.org Russell Gunn and Other St. Louis Jazz Artists Article from the Jazz Library and jazzhouse.org about how lots of jazz musicians have come from St. Louis Popular Music Lyrics Lyrics World - Search for the song lyrics you want by using our index of thousands of lyrics sites. A-Z Lyrics Universe Lyrics Search Engine - Popular Lyrics Lyrics.com Rock 'n' Roll Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The History of Rock and Roll This and the next link are a good matched pair. This concentrates on the '50s and early '60s and essentially treats rock as dead before the Beatles show up . . . The History Of Rock Music . . . and this one seems to not know there was such a thing as rock music in the 1950s, the earliest sidelink to bands being "bands of the 1960s" MTV VH1 The Beatles - The Internet Beatles Album Steve's Beatles Page Not me, some other Steve. Pretty good site, though The Official Site of Chuck Berry The Great Progenitor of Rock 'n' Roll, and the first of a series of links devoted to local people and/or groups that made good, at least for a while. Tina Turner REO Speedwagon: "A Database Of Rock And Roll" Nelly Let's save the argument about whether Hip-Hop is Rock 'n' Roll for another time, OK? The rest of these are much less famous than the first few W I L C O Uncle Tupelo Head East Pavlov's Dog Country & Western Country Music Hall of Fame Opry.com CMT.com Official Hank Williams Website johnnycash.com Fred Rose From the Songwriters Hall of Fame Other Pop Frank Sinatra: International Sinatra Society Barbra Streisand C�line Dion Andrew Lloyd Webber Online Movies Internet Movie Database This amazing, comprehensive, even exhaustive resource is a good example of the whole Web in microcosm - a collaborative effort greater than any individual or company could possibly accomplish. The New York Times: Movies Television TV GUIDE epguides.com Episode Guides for over 2000 TV shows NBC CBS ABC Fox Network WB Network PBS Online A & E C-SPAN Court TV Online Discovery Online Nickelodeon Cartoon Network Humor The Onion Firesign Theatre PythOnline Funny.com Annals of Improbable Research Comics General Resources Comics Librarianship Resource Page Comic Book Resources GCD The Grand Comic-Book Database Comic Art Collection Home Page Comic Art in Scholarly Writing: A Citation Guide comics Forum COMICON.com The World's Biggest Comic Book Convention (TM) Steve's Reads Comics History Jay's Comic Book Compendium Extensive summaries, cover images, and credits for a large number of Silver Age and later Marvel and some DC superhero comic books. The History of Comic Books Rodolphe T�pffer Robert Beerbohm's COMICS REALITY GCD The Grand Comic-Book Database The Timely Comics Web Page Comic Books Comic Book Resources Diamond Comics Distributor Jay's Comic Book Compendium Extensive summaries, cover images, and credits for a large number of Silver Age and later Marvel and some DC superhero comic books. Marvel Comics DC Comics Image Comics Dark Horse Comics Oni Press Fantagraphics Books SLG Publishing Cerebus Fangirl Site The Strangers In Paradise Website Welcome to Boneville! Comic Strips Washington Post Comics Houston Chronicle Comics Comics.com From United Feature Syndicate uComics uComics from uClick LLC -- the online arm of Universal Press Syndicate King Features - Comics King Features Syndicate Creators.com Creators Syndicate ComicsPage.com From Tribune Media Services WPWG Comics Washington Post Writers Group Syndicate Graphic Novels Recommended Comics (Books) My own personal, though very, very outdated, list of worthwhile books-with-comics-in-them (which I argue should be logically called "comic books" rather than using that term for flimsy magazines) from my old semi-defunct but still operational "Steve's Reads" site Graphic Novels for Public Libraries A Librarian weighs in Graphic Novels and Comic Trade Paperbacks Another librarian's annotated list Graphic Novels A couple of grad students in the Library and Information Science program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graphic Novels Yet another librarian comics fan (there seem to be quite a few of us!) Beek's Books "reviews of comics/comix/comicbooks/graphic novels" graphic-novels.com "has free on line stories and hundreds of titles on sale." graphicnovels.com Webcomics Comixpedia Their motto: "We're all about the webcomics!" Steve's Comics Page As of this writing (8/2003) this is very badly in need of updating; I don't read all these comics anymore, and none of the Modern Tales sites are even on there, but this used to be the page I went to everyday to link to all the comics I read on the Web, and I still read half a dozen of them religiously. Modern Tales Girlamatic serializerdotnet Keenspot Small Stories - Comics To Make Love To scottmccloud.com Web Comics Nation The newest MT sister site Science Fiction Archon The main local science fiction convention Randy's SF Page The home page for the St. Louis Science Fiction Society Science Fiction Weekly infinity plus SF-Lovers Science Fiction and Fantasy World - sffworld.com ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE Science Fiction Resource Guide Prehistoric Fiction In a way, this genre is the opposite of science fiction, but it is based (though sometimes very loosely) on science and it is inevitably speculative, so I count it as a sub-genre of sci-fi. Sports General Baseball (Professional) Football (NFL) Hockey (NHL) Basketball (NBA) College Sports Olympics Tennis Golf Soccer Boxing Other Sports Back to Main Categories College Sports General Football Basketball (Men) Women Track Other Back to Main Categories Sports General The Sporting News CBS SportsLine ESPN CNN/SI Baseball (Professional) Major League Baseball Baseball Almanac - The "Official" Baseball History Site Baseball-Reference.com - Major League Baseball Statistics and History BaseballLibrary.com baseball-links.com From John Skilton Retrosheet "Retrosheet was founded in 1989 for the purpose of computerizing play-by-play accounts of as many pre-1984 major league games as possible." SABR The Society for American Baseball Research Ballparks by Munsey and Suppes Minor League Baseball Minor League Links From baseball-links.comb St. Louis Cardinals Obviously, I have the hometown team. Why don't I have all of them? I can reach any of them through the MLB main page. I have our division and a few other teams of personal importance to me. Chicago Cubs Houston Astros Pittsburgh Pirates Cincinnati Reds Milwaukee Brewers New York Mets Kansas City Royals New York Yankees San Francisco Giants Boston Red Sox Chicago White Sox Los Angeles Dodgers Seattle Mariners Football (NFL) NFL Franchise History From Football.com NFL St. Louis Rams Again, you can reach all the other teams through the league main page. San Francisco 49ers Seattle Seahawks Arizona Cardinals Hockey (NHL) NHL St. Louis Blues Online Chicago Blackhawks Detroit Red Wings Columbus Blue Jackets Dallas Stars Nashville Predators Basketball (NBA) NBA College Sports General NCAAsports.com - The Official Site for NCAA Sports SportsStats NCAA NCAA Sports Statistics Links to stats of all the major NCAA sports, including a searchable database of historical career stats and records. NCAA Records Books Links to .pdf files of the record books for all the NCAA sports, including past years back to 2001 and a historical men's basketball book published in 1998. Not easy to use if you don't know what you're looking for, relatively little in the way of search capabilities, but the information's all here, or you can order the books from this site as well. Football ncaafootball - Welcome SI.com - College Football SportingNews.com - College Football : CollegeSports.com - Football American College Football (RSFC homepage) College Football Hall of Fame Basketball (Men) ESPN.com: Mens College Basketball SI.com - College Basketball - Men SportingNews.com - College Basketball : CollegeSports.com - Men's Basketball Small College Basketball Homepage Women Women's Gymnastics - NCAA Sports.com WWW Women's Sports Page by Amy Lewis SI.com - College Basketball - Women CollegeSports.com - Women's Basketball US Field Hockey Association: Official Site for Field Hockey in the United States Women's Tennis - NCAA Sports.com Track Men's Indoor Track - NCAA Sports.com Men's Outdoor Track - NCAA Sports.com Men's Cross Country - NCAA Sports.com Other Men's Tennis - NCAA Sports.com Women's Tennis - NCAA Sports.com Men's Golf - NCAA Sports.com Wrestling - NCAA Sports.com Fencing - NCAA Sports.com CollegeSports.com - Baseball Olympics The Official Site of the Olympic Movement ATHENS 2004 Official Site U.S. Olympic Committee USATODAY.com ESPN.com - Olympics Summer Olympics Through The Years Winter Olympics Through The Years Women in the Olympics Olympics Through Time Ancient Olympics Tennis TennisOnline.com The Tennis Server International Tennis Federation U.S. Tennis Association Wimbledon Women's Tennis - NCAA Sports.com Men's Tennis - NCAA Sports.com ESPN Tennis SI.com - Tennis World Team Tennis St. Louis Aces St. Louis' own WTT Team Golf United States Golf Association The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews Rules of Golf From the U.S. Golf Association, in conjunction with the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews PGA LPGA PGA Tour/Golfweb Men's Golf - NCAA Sports.com Women's Golf - NCAA Sports.com Golfonline Golf Today GolfDigest.com The Golf Channel Soccer FIFA.COM The Official web site of the F�d�ration Internationale de Football Association St. Louis Steamers Major Indoor Soccer League SoccerAmerica.com: U.S. Soccer News US Youth Soccer - The Game For All Kids!� soccer-sites.com Home page soccer.com - The Center of the Soccer Universe Boxing Boxing Times Online " Hard-core insider's coverage of boxing including columns, world rankings, knockout photography, fight breakdowns and anaylsis, television schedules and classifieds ads." (from their META file) HBO.com: Boxing " HBO's boxing website: previews of upcoming fights, post-fight results and analyses, fight schedule, latest rankings by weight class, expert columns, a boxing bbs and special web events concurrent with boxing telecasts." (from their META file) Boxing.com - Your Online Boxing Authority ESPN.com - Boxing Other Sports TrueSport.com - Your Cycling Resource VeloNews: The Journal of Competitive Cycling Sailing World US SAILING National Governing Body of Sailing in the US Sailing.org International Sailing Federation SI.com - NASCAR Cricket 365 Science General Anthropology/Archaeology Astronomy/Space Biology/Genetics Chemistry Environment/Ecology Food/Nutrition Geology/Earth Sciences Physics Psychology/Sociology Back to Main Categories Science Obviously, the sciences tend to flow into each other and interconnect. The Periodic Table is Physics as well as Chemistry, but I've just put it under the latter. I've gone with the most obvious category for most links, and while some of them are duplicated elsewhere on the list I tried to avoid putting links in two different subcategories here. General Scirus - for scientific information Information Bridge From the Department of Energy - full-text scientific and technical reports (gray literature) The National Academies The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and the National Research Council, all share this site. Science Fair Project Resource Guide From the Internet Public Library. I happen to know from e-mail that some people have this site bookmarked for their kids' homework help. This one's just for that audience. EEVL "the internet guide to engineering, mathematics and computing" American Association for the Advancement of Science Federation of American Scientists National Science Foundation Office of Science and Technology Information Community of Science Research funding, expertise, abstract "publishing for academia and industry" - A site for scientists and members of the media that has all kinds of information. It requires registration, but it's free. Among the offerings are a grants database that lets you find out whose gotten grants for how much based on topic or location. You can also access experts. St. Louis Science Center How Things Work HowStuffWorks Bad Science The Natural History Museum, London, England Scientific American Official Website of the magazine Science Friday The NPR talk show Discover Magazine Public Library of Science NYT Science Section The New York Times. Requires free registration Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century From the National Academy of Engineering Anthropology/Archaeology Gee, can you tell this is one of my favorite subjects? The order is general, local (including American Indians, because of the local Cahokia site), then more-or-less chronological (stone age through Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome). That's why Stonehenge and the megaliths are nowhere near Hadrian's Wall, as they would be in a geographic sort. ArchNet The Archaology site of the WWW Virtual Library Anthropology The Anthropology site of the WWW Virtual Library Anthromorphemics: Anthropology Glossary Archaeology on the Net Archaeology Magazine 'British Archaeology' Official site of the magazine American Anthropological Association Anthropology Resources on the Internet From the American Anthropological Association Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology The Society for Historical Archaeology Anthropology in the News Biographies Margaret Mead "Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture" Virtual Exhibit from the Library of Congress American Folklife Center Home Page, Library of Congress Tim Baumann's archaeology homepage Professor at the University of Missouri at St. Louis SIUE Cahokia Mounds Web Site Mississippian Artifacts The Earliest Americans The National Park Service Archeology and Ethnography Web Site Kennewick Man Virtual Interpretive Center From the Tri-City Herald Welcome To The Mesoamerican Ballgame Teotihuacan Andes Expedition From National Geographic Flints and Stones "Explore the Lives of the Peoples of the Mesolithic" The Megalithic Portal Stonehenge and other similar sites Stone Pages "Web guide to Megalithic Europe" The threat to world heritage in Iraq Lost Treasures From Iraq Irish Archaeology Iraq - The cradle of civilization at risk : H-Museum Current Focus The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Daily Life in Ancient Civilizations THE CHRISTIAN CATACOMBS OF ROME Exploring Ancient World Cultures The Ancient World Web ABZU Bibliography "Abzu is a guide to the rapidly increasing, and widely distributed data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East via the Internet." Giza Platue Mapping Project Metis: Catalog Bruce Hartzler has created an impressive collection of interactive panoramas that allow you to view ancient Greek archaeological sites using Quick Time. The Ancient City of Athens Treasures of the Sunken City From NOVA Online - The Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria Pompeii Forum Project Tour of Italy - Pompeii, the forgotten city Hadrian's Wall Education Website Welcome to The Museum of Reconstructions Astronomy/Space SPACE.com Astronomy.com Astronomy News, Star Charts, Space Pictures HubbleSite American Astronomical Society AURA Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy PhysLink.com Physics and Astronomy National Space Society The Royal Astronomical Society NASA - Home NASA Digital Library The Digital Library for Physics, Astrophysics, and Instrumentation Kennedy Space Center Jet Propulsion Laboratory GRIN Stands for Great Images in Nasa (they used the "R" in "Great" to keep from having it be GIN, I guess). a historical compilation of Astronaut Biographies Handbook of Space Online version of "Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics" from Cambridge University Press. It's the 2nd Edition, so it's a little out of date (1990) but this is still a wonderful resource. Current Sky Information Deep Sky Database "Deep Sky Objects:Observing List Generator:Galaxies:Globular Clusters:Open Clusters:Nebulae:Double Stars" The Nine Planets The Constellations A tour by Richard Dibon-Smith Near-Earth Object Program darksky.org "The Light Pollution Authority Home Page" James S. McDonnell Planetarium A St. Louis Landmark since before we had an Arch, now part of the St. Louis Science Center Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum Biology/Genetics The EnviroLink Network - Envirobiz.com Newswire The Biology Project Biological Resources Division From the U.S. Geological Survey Institute of Biology BioMedNet Developmental Biology, Society for Journal of Biological Chemistry Human Genome Project Information NCBI HomePage The National Center for Biotechnology Information Stem Cell Research Foundation: The Promise of Stem Cells in Medical Research EPA Toxic Release Inventory Original data from the Environmental Protection Agency on 582 individually listed chemicals and 30 chemical categories (including 3 delimited categories containing 58 chemicals). Search TRI From RTK.net Searchable database mirroring and in some ways extending the EPA data Chemistry Congressional Green Sheets: environment, energy and natural resource news from Congress Chemistry WebBook From the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Library of Chemistry Resources Chemistry Tutor From ThinkQuest.org, made by students for students but useful for the rest of us Links for Chemists The Virtual Library Chemistry Section, maintained by the University of Liverpool American Chemical Society Royal Society of Chemistry Journal of Biological Chemistry WebElements periodic table of the elements Environment/Ecology National Library for the Environment (NLE) Environmental Protection Agency Commission for Environmental Cooperation National Council for Science and the Environment ESA: The Ecological Society of America Sierra Club Home Page: Explore, Enjoy and Protect the Planet Greenpeace International Homepage Environmental Policy Updates Environmental News Network - ENN News Eco Net - An IGC Progressive Community EPA/OPPT: Chemical Fact Sheets EPA Toxic Release Inventory Original data from the Environmental Protection Agency on 582 individually listed chemicals and 30 chemical categories (including 3 delimited categories containing 58 chemicals). Search TRI From RTK.net Searchable database mirroring and in some ways extending the EPA data Food/Nutrition Welcome to Nutrition.Gov Information about food, from dietary guidelines for a healthy lifestyle to statistics about U.S. food consumption. American Society for Nutritional Sciences Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition From the Food and Drug Administration Institute of Food Science & Technology InteliHealth FDA Enforcement Report Index Geology/Earth Sciences GeoTech.org "Basic Geology and Surface Geochemical Exploration on the World Wide Web." There are those who say we should ignore everything on the web that doesn't come from "official" sources, but some of the inspired and dedicated so-called amateurs are every bit as qualified and reliable, as this excellently put-together and well-referenced shows. Excellent starting place. Cave Geology From Onondaga Cave State Park Geological Society of America U.S. Geological Survey NOAA Home Page Canadian Climate NCDC Storm Events-Select State Historical Hurricane Tracks (1851-2001) Plate Tectonics Structural Geology on the Web National Geophysical Data Center The Geology Department at The Field Museum Geology of Missouri UM Dept. of Geological Sciences UM is the University of Missouri, and with no other designation, it refers to the main campus in Columbia UMR - Geology & Geophysics UMR is the University of Missouri at Rolla SMSU Department of Geography, Geology, & Planning SMSU is Southwest Missouri State University Real-Time River/Stream Levels Physics Physics 2000 From the University of Colorado at Boulder Physics Classroom PhysLink.com Physics and Astronomy PhysicsWeb - homepage American Institute of Physics - Home Page The Institute of Physics CERN - Public home WebElements periodic table of the elements Psychology/Sociology American Psychological Association American Psychiatric Association The Society of Experimental Social Psychology American Psychological Society National Institute of Mental Health Mental Help Net The American Association of Pastoral Counselors Social Psychology Network Social Science Information Gateway American Sociological Association The Society for Applied Sociology Electronic Journal of Sociology Not Your Typical Sociologist Miscellaneous Back to Main Categories Miscellaneous The Smoking Gun Celebrity dirt, usually from public records sources such as court documents, police reports, etc. Urban Legends Reference Pages Barbara and David Mikkelson now maintain this site, the oldest and probably the best reference on Urban Legends and such. The AFU & Urban Legends Archive Archives of the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup Timelines of History I don't know who Algis Ratnikas is, or what his qualifications are, but he has compiled an excellent history resource called Timelines of History. If you're writing about something that happened in 1959, for instance, and you want to know what else was happening then, you can click on that date and find a list of important events. While compiled by an individual hobbyist, it is pretty well referenced and my spot-checking hasn't turned up any clunkers so far, so I think it's probably pretty reliable. Women's History Links Resource Page of the National Women's History Project Invisible Library "The Invisible Library is a collection of books that only appear in other books. Within the library walls you will find imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished, and unfound." (from their META file) The New York Times Book Review: Back Issues BookBrowse.com. "Excerpts, reviews & more from the best current books." Project Gutenberg Bartleby.com: Great Books Online Nixon NSC files Files from the From the National Security Council (NSC) Institutional Files from the Nixon Administration, most just recently declassified, available at the National Archives and Records Administration website. National Priorities Project Database History and Politics Out Loud A searchable archive of audio materials - includes speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King and Richard M.Nixon's Watergate tapes. Great American Speeches Another audio archive, this one associated with a PBS TV show. Images of American Political History From the "Teaching Politics" maintained by William J. Ball, at the College of New Jersey. Unlike most such images on the Web, these are available in sizes we can actually use in the paper, plus they're all public domain. Most of them are black and white, and a lot of them are drawings, or scans of handbills and such, but there are quite a few historical photos. The LOC.GOV Wise Guide " A monthly Web magazine of historical highlights and fascinating facts from the Library of Congress - March 2003." (from their META file) Usenet on rtfm.mit.edu Old-fashioned FTP archive of USENET newsgroup intro and/or FAQ files, arranged by newsgroup Missouri Lottery Home Page Illinois Lottery Numbers Freeskills - Home Page Free and low-cost tutorials and training in everything from basic file management to Java programming. You will have to have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat to use the site. There are lots and lots of free courses here. It does require you to read the lessons online - you can't print out an entire training session. If you just have to have something printed, they will link you to a similar book, usually by the same author, at amazon.com. Of course, that's not free. Still, it's amazing what they're able to offer here for no money at all. The interface is fairly simple and consistent across lessons. Highly recommended Stop Spam How to reduce, filter or block unwanted and unsolicited commercial e-mail. Spyking Surveillance, privacy, hacking, and other links. Tommy's List of Live Cam Worldwide #1 Links to live cameras showing everything from the dazzling to the mundane - "Since 1995 this award winning page contains a constantly updated list of live cams on the internet throughout the world in an easy to use geographical format showing sites by location." (from their META file) Image archive Links to lots and lots and lots of pictures. City of Hollywood (Fla.) Popular Baby Names From the Social Security's Office of the Chief Actuary The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, by David Dodd O.B.E. Memorial Death Watch O.B.E. stands for "Old Blue Eyes," the site being dedicated to Frank Sinatra. One of the oldest Death Pools on the Web. Exhibits Collection -- Garbage Flashback Underground Archive: Books (English text) Telephone technology page Crime Scene Evidence File View "real" evidence of murder cases and help solve them - from the Yoknapatawpha County sheriff's department (NOTE: Yoknapatawpha is the fictional county from the works of William Faulkner). The Black Dahlia Web Site This one, however, is real. Everything you may or may not have wanted to know about the infamous "Black Dahlia" murder case. All the World-Wide Web sites [Scott Pakin] visited as of Sunday, June 8, 1997 This is an incredibly large page (over 4 MB without any graphics - just a list of links!). When I first discovered it, it bombed out three times using Opera 3.5, the last after I'd just restarted the machine, so I never tried it again with newer versions of that browser. Netscape handled it OK, but it took about 10 minutes to load across a 33,600 connection with a 8.5K/sec average download rate. Nowadays, with a T1 and IE 5.5, it "pops right up" in a still-glacial 45 seconds (remember, this for a page with NO PICTURES!!). It's a remarkable testament to how fast the Web grew -- how much was already out there as of 1997, just four years after the release of Mosaic. Other than that, it's not very useful or anything, just one individual's esoteric WWW travel diary, so to speak, and by now I'm sure most of the links are dead. Scott Pakin's home page Home page of the creator of the "All the World-Wide Web sites I've visited as of Sunday, June 8, 1997" page, which, he proudly points out, the New York Times called "the Web equivalent of your neighbor's vacation slides from hell" (January 2, 1996, p. C16). Back to Main Categories The Research Wizard News Research Comics Come Visit "Steve's Reads" on Geocities Comments? Questions? Drop me a line this page was last updated: 03/06/2004 All pages in this webspace created by J. Stephen Bolhafner. Contents copyright J. 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