Information Sources
last updated 10/18/2002

• Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Language Translator – to and from English
• Phone Number Lookup
  • Directory Assistance
  • Area_Codes
• Time Service Department - U.S. Naval Observatory
  • Current Time
• ZIP code lookup - US Postal Service

• CIA Publications
  • World Factbook
• Desk Reference from Northwestern University
• FAQ Archive from the Internet FAQ Consortium
• Maps on the Web
• Search Engines
• Stock Market Info
  • StockMaster
  • Yahoo! Finance - Major U.S. Indices
• Quick Reference from the U of Texas
• Weather pages

Calculators and Conversion

• Mortgage Calculator from Bloomberg.com
• Measures & Conversions (so how far was 20,000 leagues?)
• Metric / English measurement conversion
• Universal Currency Converter
• Volume Calculator for lots of shapes

Government

• Federal
  • FedWorld Index
  • THOMAS - US Legislative Information
  • Whitehouse
• State of Oregon
  • Oregon Blue Book
  • ODOT - Oregon Department of Transportation
    • Oregon Travel Advisor
    • Traffic Cameras
  • State Marine Board
  • Water Resources Department - streams, wells & water rights
• Southern Oregon
  • Jackson County
  • Jackson County Library System
  • Phoenix High School
    • Phoenix High Swim Team
  • City of Medford
  • City of Talent
• State of Washington
  • Dept of Transportation - including ferry schedules
  • Shoreline Aerial Photos - Dept of Ecology

Pacific Northwest

• British Columbia Ferries including schedules
• The Cascades Volcano Observatory
• Southern Oregon
  • Hansen's Motorcycles -- still have my BMW /5 I bought from him in 1973 ... good people
  • Harry and David -- where I work -- mail-order gifts, fruit and other good stuff
  • InternetCDS -- ISP -- WebMail
  • Medford Mail Tribune -- the local newspaper
  • Mt Ashland ski area
  • Nickel Ads of Medford and all over the West
  • The Southern Oregon Historical Society
  • Talent, Oregon Historical Society

Books:

• AddALL - search for used & out of print books - searches through most other search engines
• Amazon.com - The online bookstore
• Jackson County, Oregon Library System
• bibliofind - search for & buy used and rare books from "thousands" of booksellers
• BookFinder.com
• AllDirect
• A1books.
• Barnes and Noble
• eCampus.com (scripts required)
• Kingbooks
• Powell's Books (scripts required)
• Yahoo books
• 1bookstreet

Miscellaneous Stuff:

• The Brewery - the art and science of brewing beer
• Car Talk in RealAudio from NPR
• Froggy Page - if you like frogs, here's your page
• GORPS's Travelers' Tales
• Greenpeace - those folks who just might help save us
• PBS
• Sky & Telescope online mag - Astronomy - includes ISS Alpha visibility predictions
• Slash-5 United - BMW /5 Motorcycles
• U.S. National Library of Medicine and the Visible human project
• Vintage Volkswagen - VW FAQ, links, tech, etc.
• Word and phrase origins
• World War II vehicles - the Tech Pubs

Woodworking:

• Hand tools FAQ from rec.woodworking
• Lee Valley Tools - Veritas®
• McFeely's - especially Square Drive Screws
• Hand Planes
• Points about planing
• Sharpening methods - Scary Sharp(TM) System
• Woodworkers Central

Farm & Garden:

• Felling, Bucking and Limbing Trees
• Oregon Cutting Systems - saw chain parts & FAQs
• OSU Extension Service, Oregon State University, Corvallis

News:

• Reuters
• via Yahoo - Reuters, AP, ABC
• BBC Online
• The Irish Times
• Motley Fool - Investing
• National Public Radio (US)- with text and RealAudio
• PBS Newshour - Jim Lehrer online
• Voice of America
• Dilbert (a newspaper's got to have the funnies)

Computer Companies

• Apple
• IBM and US IBMLink Information & Services
• Intel
• Microsoft
• Oracle
• Sun Microsystems and the SunSITEs Freeware Index

Computer References

• Modem Page from Curt - PC Modem News, FAQs, Files, Tips & Tricks
• The Rexx Language
• Simtel.Net - Distribution network for Shareware, Freeware, and Public Domain software
• WWW, HTML and UNIX References
• Enterprise Computing links
• How to create an IE 5 Favorites Icon

Education

• US Dept of Education - Rules, regs, announcements
• Archimedes Project - Providing Leverage for Individuals with Disabilites through Information Technology
• Reed College Portland, Oregon
• AskERIC - The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a federally supported system of 16 clearinghouses and supporting organizations that makes articles and documents about education accessible to all who are interested. The ERIC system produces a computer-searchable bibliographic database of the literature in education. Currently, the database describes more than 800,000 documents.

Games:

• (gone missing?) Digital Nostalgia - A great collection of older PC shareware games
• AbandonWare - Saving the old
• Games Domain - Games related information site
• Apogee Software Ltd. Home Page
• Silicon Commander Games - Home Page
• The Game Factory - SuperSpeed
• Chips and Bits -- Buy games online

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