Sam's Eccentric

Searches & Link Sheets

  Google - The Boss.
  Wikipedia - Nothing else like it on earth.
  Yahoo - Mom.
  Hotsheet - The best link single sheet I've EVER seen.
  A9.com - A search engine that remembers your search history for you.
  Infospace - Business and people finder.
  Dogpile - An older multi-engine searcher that's still pretty good.
  Search.com - Another good metasearcher.
  Ask.com - Newer search engine.
  ODP - Open Directory Project - A kind of "do it ourselves" Yahoo.
  Wikipedia - If you haven't Wiki'd yet, it's time to PYAITK (put yer a* in the know).
  Librarians' Index to the Internet - The internet from Berkley's librarians.
  Looksmart - A 'tree' method of finding sites.
  100Hot - Really excellent site, worth exploring.
  About.com - Online experts.
  INFOMINE - Sources for academics from Univ. of Calif.
  HowStufWorks - Science and technology explained.
  Ken Porter's Home Page - Real geek. Awesome guy, by the way, I know him.

Specialized Searches

  Snopes - Urban lie detector.
  Mastercard/Cirrus ATM Locator - What a great idea!
  Visa-ATM Locator - Apparently it's good enough to copy.
  Catalist - The catalog of listservers.
  LincMad Telephone Area Codes & Splits - Area code maps
  SuperPages.com - On line yellow pages.
  Reverse Phonebook - Find out who it is on your phone bill.
  Consumer Reports Online - The famous bunch that rates like they sees 'em.
  eHow.com - Clear instructions on how to do (just about) everything.

Geograpy, Maps, Languanges

  Altavista Translations - The famous Babelfish site. Great achievement.
  American English Spelling Checker - On a Japanese server. Figures.
  Research-It! - Dictionaries, Maps, Zip Codes, and more.
  TheFreeDictionary - Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus
  One Look Dictionaries - 975 dictionaries indexed. Great for acronyms and computer things
  UT Library Online - Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Famous map collection from the Univ. of Texas.
  GlobeExplorer - Commercial space picture site.
  Terraserver - Great clickable map of satellite photos of the US.
  Google Earth - Just a little tip of it's many tentacles.
  The CIA World Factbook - See what the spooks dug up (that they are willing to share).
  TopoZone - Topographic maps of the US
  PlacesNamed.com - EVERYthing is in there somewhere.

Shareware

  Freeware Home - Just freebies.
  NONAGS Freeware Shareware World Center - Shareware that doesn't nag. The best kind.
  TUCOWS NETWORK - The original, and still biggest site.
  MajorGeeks.com - Shareware from the front.
  Download.com - C/NET's collection. Things you won't find elsewhere.
  WinPlanet - Software reviews and downloads.

Comments or suggestions? Email me at samlind@yahoo.com

06/17/06