"Awesome Library organizes the Web with 26,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.' Here's a special resource for library-goers, arranged by type presentation as well as topic. Just click on the door through which you'd like to enter to start your library tour be it as a Teacher, Kid, Teen, Parent, Librarian or College Student. The various topics listed will be appropriate to the door through which you entered. There's even a feature, Awesome Talkster, that is downloadable; 'Talkster combines a browser, directory, search engine, and text-to-voice technology.' Coupled with the standard library resources, the talking feature 'allows you to select online text and have it read to you.' What a great resource for those vision impaired visitors in addition to having the capability for helping improve reading skills!
One of the things that rap-haters don't seem to understand is that the best rap goes just miles beyond most popular music in terms of sheer wordplay. Which is why this site really cracks us up: It uses rap-style lyrics to help you bear down on tough vocabulary words. The full downloads cost $2 apiece, but you can get a pretty good sense of what's up (and a big smile) for free.
A Congressional Research Service Report. Since CRS will not post its reports online, the Federation of American Scientists does, which believes important public policy information gathered by public servants should be available to the American public.
As we all know, "Mistakes Happen," especially in this fast-paced society when trying to report on all the various news. "Regret The Error reports on corrections, retractions, clarifications and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in the media." This is an interesting as well as entertaining site where you can look up corrections from specific newspapers, read articles by editors in response to some of these reports and even put in your two cents worth on certain issues. Spend a few minutes to see what is really happening in the world. However, remember that articles such as the following Los Angeles Times report are scheduled for correction. "Driving in LA is much safer than walking. A news brief in some editions of Wednesday's California section said the driver of a car that struck and killed a pedestrian in Huntington Beach on Monday was cited. The driver was not cited."
Here's a cheery fellow. His personal site provides a variety of other goodies; take a look at what's available, enjoy the (somewhat lengthy) quote on happiness from Charles Swindoll, and have a look at the “Happy Links” section. A nice antidote to the usual mayhem.
Track the popularity of given names across time, either by typing in a name, for a graphic depiction of its decade-by-decade use, or by moving your arrow down the screen through an alphabetical listing that notes each name's peak year.
"Consumer World was founded by Edgar Dworsky in 1995. Edgar has been a consumer advocate and consumer educator for the past 27 years." Here's the nitty-gritty from the man who authored 'a number of consumer protection laws,' was formerly the Director of Consumer Education at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation in Boston, was 'a former Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General in consumer protection,' 'a consumer education consultant for the Federal Trade Commission' as well as 'the consumer reporter for the then CBS television affiliate in Boston.' Edgar has developed this site as a 'public service, a non-commercial consumer resource guide with over 2000 links to everything 'consumer' on the Internet.' The homepage, updated every Monday, contains the week's top consumer news stories, scam alerts, money management features, and a "bargain of the week." Browse Consumer World to do your homework on the consumer front before making that expensive purchase!
We could barely stop exploring this site long enough to write about it, but we figure 80-odd words and we're free to go back to thr perfectly wonderful collection of games and interactive installations in the Orisinal section. Ferry Halim's got a great portfolio of projects you can find all around the Net (holler, Aqua Teen Huger Force fans!); the more personal stuff here has both charm and truly addictive gameplay. And if you'll excuse us, we're tired of writing and need to go bounce some stars off soap bubbles now.
"this is the most comprehensive edition of Andersen's fairy tales in English (American) on the internet," and it's searchable. Also includes scholarly research on Andersen, a bibliography, and other resources.
Splitcoast stampers is 'a gathering place for stampers' a place where stampers can 'meet and talk with other members of the community, check out the gallery' for 'tons of categorized samples,' share stamping creations as well as 'catch up on the latest news, tips and techniques.' Naturally, upcoming events and happenings are posted regularly. If you're a novice on the stamping scene, you'll certainly want to browse the site to see what the hype is all about. As the site explains, 'if you're a stamper, you already know that store-bought can never compare to hand-made' so come see some of the great cards and even hand-sewn items that the members have created. "Truly nothin' says lovin'" like these items!
Unfortunate but true: In our living-color age, black-and-white photos often don't have the immediacy and power for us that their full-spectrum brethern do. That's a terrible shame, considering how much recent history we're lucky enough to have photographically documented. This excellent site looks to close that gap, providing well over 100 color photos from World War II.
Search by zip code through 11,000 member daycare providers, each with a page supplying basic information about the facility (including state license info).
The Great Buildings Collection bills itself as 'the leading architecture reference site on the web.' "This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds." Here's 'up-to-the-moment coverage of the latest buildings, designers, ideas, and trends,' as well as linkage to Architecture Week, the leading online architectural magazine. This site should definitely be your starting point for all your architectural questions and research.
There’s plenty going on in San Antonio, and B1604.com is ready to let you know about it. An online guide of sorts to the Texas city, B1604.com provides information on the art, theater, concerts, restaurants and other worthy attractions around town. The navigation is remarkably clear and easy to use, and the bevy of topics covered ensures that you’ll be remembering more than just the Alamo after your next visit to the Riverwalk City
"gateways that bring together federal information and services from multiple agencies about a particular topic or for a particular customer group," in alphabetical order by topic.
In 1996, A Festival of Mummies was discovered by an Egyptian team at Bahariya Oasis, located about 380 km west of the pyramids. Four tombs were excavated; found inside them were 105 mummies, many of them beautifully gilded and preserved. These mummies, some decorated with religious scenes, represent the very best of Roman-Period mummies ever found in Egypt. Dr. Zahi Hawass, the Undersecretary of the State for the Giza Monuments, was responsible for the exploration and preservation of this area; he created this site to document his work. The Plateau has become a 'work in progress.' Egyptologists will want to visit this cyber site regularly as it 'continues to grow and remain current with new information as it arrives directly from Dr. Hawass!' For further exploration, be sure to click on the link to Guardian's Egypt where you can actually enter the pyramids of Egypt and take your own 'cyberjourney' to the land of the pharaohs!
An interesting way to look for new jobs — perfect for those who are tired of the Monster.com style sites or want to try something a little different. Instead of having a specific job search tool, the site has a news feed of top articles on the job market and on looking for jobs. There are sections devoted to global job market news, job search newsletters and job search blogs. Overall, a great site that helps with the job of…well, finding a job!
The Lady Washington is a 1700's tall ship replica of the first square rigger to sail from Boston, around Cape Horn and up the west coast to Washington State, the mission, to trade with the Indians. This is the website 'for all those who love the Lady' and other sailing vessels like her. Join the crew in The Caribbean Chronicles as they relate the experiences of the Lady as she 'set out to strut her stuff for Disney [as the HMS Interceptor] in the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean.' In other sections you can meet the crew, examine the vessel specs, look up the Lady's schedule and find other 'tall ship' links. The Gallery is always a fun place to visit to see landlubbers and experienced sailors on their tours of the ship. All in all, the Lady Washington brings to life a bygone era on the seas! (BTW, the son of the subscriber who recommended the site is the engineer; it's all in the family!)
This lovely photography project operates from a fascinating premise: The “lives” of physical infrastructure – buildings, roadways, parks and the like – would include a consciousness of time very different from our own. This site attempts to portray what that experience might be like, using a series of photos beautifully morphed and featuring an unusual circular interface. It's not a large site, so take a few minute to explore it thoroughly.
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