Life on the Internet

This is a collection of places you can go and things you can do on the internet that make life a little easier or more fun. In part it's a grab-bag of links that I didn't find another logical place for.

• Searching for things on the Web
• General Reference sites
• Finding e-mail addresses
• Mail-order shopping
• Consumer services
• Home Ownership
• Travel Information
• Kid stuff
• Education resources
• Services available on the 'net
• Investing
• Music
• Books
• Media-related sites (News)
• Birding
• Photography
• Outdoors
• Woodworking
• Humor
• Other cool stuff on the web

Services available on-line

• The Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Konica OnLine Photo Center
• US Postal Service

Home Ownership

• Zillow.com - valuation for homes

Music

• Musical Events
  • TicketMaster - buy concert tickets on-line
• Net Radio
  • Hober
  • Folk Alley
  • Pandora.com
• On-line Record/CD Stores
• Record Company Sites
  • Atlantic Records
  • Columbia Records
  • Green Linnet Records
  • Virgin Records
  • Warner Brothers
• Folk Music Sites
  • Ceolas - Home of Celtic music on the internet
  • CelticMusic.com - e-zine on Celtic music
  • Dirty Linen magazine
  • Folk Roots magazine

Refreshing beverages

• Tea
  • Todd & Holland
  • Republic of Tea
• Coffee
  • Baltimore Coffee & Tea Company
  • Coffee and Caffeine FAQ

Museums

• Yahoo Art Museum Index
• Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (FAMSF)
• Smithsonian Museum of American Art
• WebLouvre
• Natural History Museum Berne Switzerland (NMBE) - Home Page
• Univ. of California Museum of Paleontology

Media

Television

• On-line news - web sites for various TV news organizations
• The Association of America's Public Television Stations (APTS)
• CBS
• Public Broadcasting System
• The Discovery Channel
• The Discovery Channel Canada
• Star Trek Sites
  • Star Trek Voyager Pages
  • Star Trek Index
  • United Federation of Planets Home Page
• Quark - Buck Henry's 1978 TV spoof of Science Fiction.

Radio

• National Public Radio Home Page

Motion Pictures

• MCA/Universal Cyberwalk
• Disney Studios
• Sony
• Buckaroo Banzai
• Aardman Animations - home of Nick Park's Wallace and Gromit

The Web as Medium

• On-line news reports
• News.Com - High Tech industry news

Outdoors

• LL Bean's Park Search - National/State Park finder

Humor

• The Onion
• SlashNOT - satire for geeks
• BBSpot - more satire for geeks
• The Toque - Canadian satire
• News of the Weird
• Joe Bob Report

Other Cool Stuff

• Cerf's Up - Vint Cerf's web page (moving soon - to Google?)
• Chaos Manor Musings - Jerry Pournelle's web site
• Flickr - people upload their photos
• YouTube - people upload their videos
• del.icio.us - Social Bookmarking site
• Bob's Rock Shop
• Lavaworld - home of the Lava Lite "lava lamp"

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