Useful Information
This section contains links to some very useful websites. Some of which you shouldn't be without!
General Reference:
If you use Mozilla Firefox , you can find the plug-ins to add search boxes for many of these items here .- onelook extensive multiple dictionary search with summary and lots of additional links/features
- dictionary.com multiple dictionary search
- thesaurus.com What's another word for Thesaurus?
- Acronym Finder - brimming with TLAs!
- OED Oxford English Dictionary
- Yahoo! Maps or MapQuest Both seem a bit optimistic on driving times
- Weather Network (NA) , Environment Canada (CAN), or National Weather Service (US)
- Universal Currency Converter Money, money money... (lyrics)
- Measurement Unit Converter Great for converting Celsuis to Fahrenheit, Kilometres to Miles, Kilograms to Pounds, etc.
- Encylopedia Britannica
- Online Medical Dictionary Try checking by the first letter, as the search is very picky!
- Familiar Quotations includes Bartlett's Quotations
- How Stuff Works you'll find answers to a *lot* of questions here!
- Internet Movie Database
Computers & Internet:
- Hoaxes virus hoaxes and explanations
- Symantec Antivirus Center with Virus Encyclopedia
- SecurityFocus includes Bugtraq
- Answers That Work for Windows users
Languages:
- Dictionaries on the web (other languages)
- Languages
- Altavista's Babelfish translator even Altavista has spelled Babelfish wrong before!
- World Lingo Translation
- Google's Language Tools search and translation
Searching:
- all-in-one search page all-in-one search page -- find anything
- Google and of course
- Googlism
- All the Web Good for advanced searching
- News Groups find something that has been discussed on usenet
- Yahoo still the best for searching by categories
- Excite
- Lycos
- Webcrawler
- MetaCrawler
- Dogpile
FAQs and sites less general:
- An American's Guide to Canada alt
- Dave VE7CNV's Truly Canadian Dictionary of Canadian Spelling includes a comparison of Canadian, British & American English, as well as French and spanish
- Cornerstone's Canadian English Page
- Hockey Definitions Ya wanna go?
- Urban Dictionary
Miscellaneous stuff:
(Some of this stuff has been added by request.)- Annoyances.org the most complete collection of information assembled for and by actual users of Microsoft Windows
- World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
- Lieutenant
- Dispute Resolution à la Douglas Adams
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