The Reference Shelf

• Here's looking up your old address...
  • 555-1212.com
  • Switchboard People and Business Directory
  • Infospace - the Ultimate Directory
  • WhoWhere
  • Verizon SuperPages
  • Smart Pages
• Convert any document format to any other
• Numerical Recipes in C and FORTARN by Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling, and Flannery
• Amazon.com Earth's biggest bookstore
• Borders Book Store
• Barnes and Noble
• Books Online
• DealPilot - The ultimate comparison shopping engine for books, CDs or movies. (Used to be Acses.)
• Used books from Bibliofind
• The Virtual Newsstand
  • New York Times online
  • Read TIME Magazine online
  • USA Today
• Science Periodicals
  • Ideal Online Library
  • Scientific American
  • Science Magazine - the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • American Journal of Physics
  • Physics Today
  • Nature
  • Physical Review (A-E, Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics)
    • Physical Review D online (Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology)
    • Physical Review D homepage
  • Progress of Theoretical Phyics
  • Nuclear Physics
    • Nuclear Physics B (High-Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory)
  • Journal of High Energy Physics - A refereed journal written, run, and distributed by electronic means
• Virtual Television
  • The Discovery Channel
  • The Learning Channel (TLC)
  • The History Channel
  • A&E - The Arts and Entertainment Channel
  • PBS - The Public Broadcasting System
  • CNN - The Cable News Network
  • The Weather Channel
• Virtual Radio
  • www.broadcast.com
  • Real audio
  • NPR - National Public Radio
  • Car Talk
  • PRI - Public Radio International
• Here are some World Wide Web Searching Tools
  • Netscape's Internet Search
  • a really good one called Alta Vista from Digital
  • Babelfish Translations
  • www.translate.com
  • c|net SEARCH.COM
  • Magellan Internet Guide
• Project Bartleby at Columbia University
  • Strunk's Elements of Style
  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• The Encyclopædia Britannica Online
• The CIA World Factbook
• All kinds of Dictionaries
  • Pedro's Language Dictionaries
  • Yahoo's Language Dictionaries
  • Hypertext Webster Interface.
  • Merriam-Webster's dictionary
  • HyperText Roget's Thesaurus
  • The Oxford English Dictionary
  • A French <-> English Tranlation Dictionary
  • and an Estonian <-> English Translation Dictionary
• The Periodic Table of the Elements (Extremely well done!)
• The 1986 CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants
• Map of the world
• The Library of Congress
• The United States Postal Service
• The Internal Revenue Service
• Currency Exchange info
• Expedia Airline information
• The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams - Answers to everything
• Some great places to start: Yahoo, The World-Wide Web Virtual Library
• THE archive -- wuarchive at Washington University in St. Louis
• Linux sites:
  • http://www.freshmeat.net
  • http://linux.davecentral.com
  • http://alpha1.linuxberg.com
  • http://rpmfind.net

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