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Get That Gig New entry into sites that search from airfares. Proven to do a better job at present than Orbitz.
A site sure to inspire a few choruses of 'Why didn't I think of that,' DVD Tracks is a depot for alternate DVD audio tracks (MP3 files, actually) recorded by movie fans for playback during particular movie scenes. from USA Today
Why waste time hanging out in decrepit houses without guarantee of supernatural visitation when you can consult Haunted Places, a veritable Michelin guide to ghostly grounds? Spooky sites listed by state, country, complete with ghostly backstories. from USA Today The newly redesigned FirstGov site could be the least-baffling interface between the government and the people to date. Everything you need to navigate the U.S. bureaucracy, from electronic tax filing to obtaining a passport. from USA Today
The Web continues to prove the optimum medium for conveying
the complexities of the brain and its workings.
BrainExplorer.org displays each component of our '3-pound
universe,' as well as illustrating areas affected by
specific diseases. In honor of Chuck Jones, the Looney Tunes director who died Feb. 22, we light the torch for this Survivor send-up starring Daffy Duck and the gang. Watch past episodes of Toon Marooned or vote someone off the island. from USA Today It's lunchtime, you're bored, and one more hand of Windows solitaire may push you over the edge. Time to calm yourself with the online jigsaw puzzles at JigsawLand.com. From animals to cartoons, and three levels of difficulty from USA Today The next time you head online looking for the latest device drivers, shareware, or other mission-critical software, make your first stop VersionTracker.com. Includes latest versions for Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X and Palm. from USA Today The Library of Congress presents America's Story, a site designed to capture a child's wayward attention. Streaming video of the 1906 San Francisco quake, early cartoons and tunes of yore are just some of what you'll find. from USA Today
Bio/Chem Weapons The New Yorker offers a chilling exposé of the hidden lives of the Saudi royals, oilfield vulnerabilities and bungling U.S. Army lawyers. Read it and weep. from USA Today Before you upgrade to Microsoft's new
Windows XP operating system, browse this Special Edition of online
info from the respected search engine Northern Light. An educational (but fun) presentation of everything from animals and inventions to presidents and sports. from USA Today The Bureau of Labor Statistics serves up a new National Compensation Survey featuring a neat search function for Java-enabled Web browsers. You just pick a region, an occupation and an experience level — the app does the rest. from USA Today
The multimedia power of the Web helps you understand what
it's like to be a war correspondent. War Stories presents riveting
first-person accounts spanning World War II and the Gulf. Behind all good science fiction is science fact. And the fact-packed exhibit 2001: Destination Space from The Tech Museum of Innovation offers a multimedia demonstration of where those two sides meet. Watch artificial intelligence in action at this cybernetic art site. AARON creates original paintings on your computer screen. A trial download lets you use the program as a screensaver. Don't pass up a site that promises, "You'll never be bored again." And, in addition, tells you the exact length of a chameleon's tongue! Funology.com is designed for kids ages 1-101. Polish up those green thumbs with a few mouse clicks at Backyard Gardener. A user-friendly portal to everything from bog gardening to insects to vegetable planting.
Don't head to a campground without first consulting this online guide from the American Camping Association. Quickly search a database of more than 2,000 camps that have earned ACA-accreditation. GasPriceWatch.com aims to help you spot the lowest gasoline prices in your area. Just type in a ZIP Code and how far you're willing to travel to save a few cents. The Central Intelligence Agency may be best known for cloak-and-dagger covert ops, but it's also home to a savvy bunch of techno geeks. As this agency-sponsored Global Technology Revolution study demonstrates. Lighten up at the aptly named Post-It Theater, which insists that no computer simulation was used in these hand-drawn flip-book animations. A new feature each week, with an archive. Join a team of top scientists exploring the Central African Republic — remote primeval forests brimming with elephants, buffalo and chimpanzees. Team members in the region post field dispatches in this World Wildlife Fund site. Disturbing Auctions has a fitting motto: "... sometimes, trash is just trash." (Please don't blame us for what you may find there.) The aim of Tolerance.org is to create a national community committed to human rights. An info-packed site that tracks headlines and offers ideas on how to combat hatred. You can also test yourself for hidden bias. So much of the history of the Tower of London is distasteful, this Tower Warders site correctly observes. Which, of course, is precisely why we're attracted to this Shockwave-enhanced virtual tour. Running out of things to say at the water cooler? This Strange But True site comes to the rescue with long lists of factoids that it says are, well, strange but true. The Law Library of Congress serves up a hypertext guide to sources of online information on government and law. A free service that strives to identify "the most useful and reliable sites" for worldwide legal info. Wanna get away but don't care to stay at a corporate-style
hotel? Finding a cozy bed-and-breakfast is a user-friendly experience at USinns.com,
which boasts a database of more than 27,000 inns. Even in the age of the Net, snail mail still rocks at PostInfo. A useful international portal to everything from rate calculators to postal codes to express delivery companies.
Poet, printmaker, visionary, the British artist William Blake believed imagination to be our most important faculty. It's fitting, therefore, that he be the subject of this highly imaginative online exhibit from Tate Britain, the national gallery of British art. Dive and Discover invites you to learn about underwater exploration through a series of scientific expeditions — a multimedia presentation ranging from the Gulf of California to the volcanic East Pacific Rise to the central Indian Ocean. Power Reporting bills itself as a research portal for journalists. But with links to a wide range of online tools — touching on everything from aging to lawyers to writing — it also serves as a handy reference service for inquiring non-journalists. Before you set foot in a national park, pay a visit to the Park Guide. An extensive drop-down menu to individual parks lets you find details on everything from camping and lodging to fees and activities. With appropriately tempting scenic images.
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