Since the early 1990s, I've been collecting and categorizing web sites
I've found useful. When I published the first version of this web site
all those years ago, that list was the focus of the site. Back then,
everybody on the web seemed to have the same idea. Eventually, some
people took the idea more seriously, and formed companies like Yahoo to commercialize their work. I've kept plugging along with my humble,
eclectic list all these years, and I can't seem to stop collecting. I
hope you find it useful, too.
- 507 Movements: an animated version of the classic technical reference
- Animated Knots
- Bartleby.com: Great books Online
- Bit Savers, who make available historically important software, computer manuals, etc.
- Brainy Quote: a great, searchable source of quotations by famous figures
- Cook's Thesaurus: a cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Entries include pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions.
- Dictionaries
- EDGAR Databaseof information about corporations
- Elements of Euclid, Byrne’s Euclid: The First Six Books of The Elements Of Euclid, with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols
- Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- FamilyDoctor.org
- Free books
- Gap Minder: a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development
- health and medicine
- International Standard Paper Sizes, including A4 paper
- Internet Ancient History Sourcebooks, which includes lots of information about ancient Rome
- Languages (spoken)
- Latin and Ancient Greek
- Manuals Lib: the ultimate manuals library
- MathWorld: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns
- Poetry
- Quotations Page
- refdesk.com, the single best source for facts on the net
- SelecTree for California: a tree selection guide
- Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
- Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors
- Stoicism
- Symptom Checker, provided by WebMD
- Time zone tools
- Every Time Zone: Never warp your brain with time zone math again.
- timeanddate.com: Keep track of time zones, etc. world-wide. Especially useful if you call people overseas.
- World Time Buddy: ridiculously easy world times and meetings across time zones
- Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia created through volunteer contributions
- WorldCat: the world's largest network of library content and services