REFERENCE SHELF

Culture | Where / When | Web | History | Languages | Disneyana | Advice


Culture

  • The most important reference site of all: The Internet Movie Database main site, the Search site, and the Search by Year site.
  • The Roger Ebert Movie Files (he has poor taste but you can pinpoint release dates).
  • The Internet's very own art gallery, the WebMuseum. * Oops! They forgot to include René Magritte! Here are nine paintings, the rest are all copyrighted away.
  • The University of Alberta's Judaica page
  • Music Charts from all over the world

    Where & When

  • Mapquest for maps and driving distances / directions
  • How Far Is It? will give distance and latitude / longtitude information
  • View the Earth or Moon even if you're stuck in a cubicle
  • The most area-code obsessed person in the world, LincMad
  • A list of Airport Codes
  • S.F. area weather data
  • Bill Hollon's Calendar History Page
  • The Calendar Maven's Hebrew Calendar
  • Waleed A. Muhanna's Islamic Timer
  • An Introduction to the Canaanite Sacred Year, from Qadash Kinahnu

    The Web

  • AltaVista, Lycos, Google advanced search, AllTheWeb's FAST Search, HotBot, Ask Jeeves, Dogpile, Yahoo!, and Infoseek.
  • Google's "Deja News" Power Search
  • WashingtonPost.com: Search Page
  • Los Angeles Times Archives Advanced Search
  • VSL: Front Desk at the OAK Repository (oak.oakland.edu) (gone?)
  • A good way to learn more about your Internet pals
  • A list of the Internet country codes

    History

  • The Encyclopaedia Brittanica
  • The University of Florida's Classical Books Links Page
  • The Classics Page at Ad Fontes Academy, including links to both the Latin Library and the White Trash Scriptorium
  • The Angelcynn Dark Ages Glossary
  • Fordham's Internet Medieval Sourcebook

    Grammar

  • Merriam-Webster has been kind enough to put their dictionary and thesaurus online
  • Merriam-Webster also archives their popular word trivia feature Word for the Wise
  • Travlang's online dictionaries (mostly European languages)
  • Bucknell University's Web of On-line Dictionaries has links to dictionaries in 130 languages
  • Tons of classics at bartleby.com, including Strunk's Elements of Style
  • When dictionaries aren't enough, try the British slang glossary (gone!).

    Disney Arcana

  • Al Lutz's totally comprehensive Disney Information Guide, at Mouse Planet
  • Secrets of Disney
  • The Bertino Disney Archives
  • Eric runs Operation Preserve Disneyland, constantly monitoring the park's quality.
  • A whole page of quality Disneyland links (gone!)
  • Everything you wanted to know about the Haunted Mansion
  • Disney Urban Legends Page
  • Proving a Disney Urban Legend true
  • Yesterland, the graveyard of discontinued Disneyland attractions.
  • And, lastly, when all seems lost Don't Panic!

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