Time Zone Map - instant access to current time in any part of the world with graphical representation of locations included in each time zone.  Site assumes that you are in the location set as local time on your PC.  The site also offers interactive selection of a variety of maps showing different features.

Books         

* Amazon -the biggest and best!  Free shipping now with purchase of $50 or more.  Check out prices on like-new "used" books.  You can now order for pickup from Borders, but the savings are less, if any.
* Buy.com - reliable vendor, claims price 10% below Amazon (did not have the one book that I was looking for, but it  was available from Amazon).  Good prices for my Epson printer inks.
Barnes and Noble - "bricks & clicks" ... internet availability plus a store that you can take returns back to.  Partnered with Borders bookstore.  As of 7/14/02 offered free shipping with two or more items.
Books on Tape - $13 monthly subscription brings one book per month, $16 gets two.   Also provides a list of best-sellers as well as access to radio and audible versions of newspaper or magazine.
Lulu.com - self-publishing done right!  No up-front costs, this publishing prints copies of your book on paper or DVD as they are ordered by customers.  They handle the ordering and delivery and charge only 20% of the selling price.  I have not used this service yet, but am considering it for several projects including genealogy projects for those who prefer hard-copy versions of the information now available on the internet.

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Cartoon         

Dilbert -the lovable engineer and his office crowd!
Peanuts - Charlie Brown and the gang!

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 * ASP - tutorials, examples and reference ... keep this available while you are programming ASP and it will save you time.
Compaq Computer - computer systems (not recommended)
Delorme - StreetAtlas USA and Tripmate GPS receiver
* HTML - tutorials, examples and reference ... keep this available while you are programming HTML and it will save you time.
Gateway 2000 - computer systems
* Web Programming - XML, XPath, SOAP, SQL, ASP.NET, and much more (including the ASP and HTML links above) ... tutorials, examples, and references.  A super site!

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Directories

* Google - all you need to find almost anything
ATT 800-Number Directory - computer systems
AltaVista - one of the oldest major search engines around ... still does an excellent job
Four-11 White Pages Directory - individual listings
* Yahoo - now uses the Google search engine, prividing the same excellent results.
White pages - individual internet listings via Netscape
Reverse Telephone Lookup - can't remember whose phone number was on that scrap of paper?  Look it up here. 

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Education

Learning Tree International, Inc. - short courses (1-5 days) on information technology topics

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Electronics

Buy.com - often has the best price on digital cameras, flash memory, printer ink, and so on.  Never had a problem with this vendor.
CNET.com - product reviews, comparative pricing, downloads, industry news ... a good all-around site to consult before spending your money.
PC Connection - sometimes has the best price for things I want to buy.  Reliable.
Pricegrabber.com - best price-comparison site for computers, digital cameras, and other electronic products.

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Employment

Career Builder - search for a job, one time or continuously (choose type, area, salary)

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* Microsoft/CNBC MoneyCentral - news, research, track your stock portfolio.  I use this one every day. 
Briefing.com - free financial news and services, with premium services available for fee.
BigCharts - real-time minute by minute stock charts that you can tailor using indicators of your preference (moving averages, parabolic, momentum, and much more!)
Financial Center, The - free stock advice from top money managers and analysts.
Intuit (Quicken, Turbo Tax) - personal financial management software
Schwab - Charles Schwab & Co., Inc: investment services, free stock quotes (current and historical)
Stockmaster - free financial information.  Web presence of Red Herring magazine.
Wall Street Research Network - lots of free info: company research, news, markets, mutual funds, and good links to other useful sites.

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Games 

Rubik's Cube - best set of links to useful sources of genealogical information that I have seen!
Boxerjam - game shows, word games, puzzles, crosswords.

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Government

Department of Defense - DefenseLINK provides routes to unbelievable amount of information, including links to the Armed Services and Defense Agencies..
Department of the Army- Info on organizations, installations, history, and links to much, much more.
NEW!  Global Incident Map - searchable and "zoomable" world map with scrolling summary of terrorism and other incidents worldwide.  Updated daily.  Graphic indication of trouble spots.
Postal Service - find zip codes, calculate postage, buy stamps, change address on-line.
Social Security Administration - Benefits calculation, wealth of information, lots of links.
Treasury Direct - Establish an individual account with the Treasury Department, then buy and sell bonds (EE and I) as well as T-Bills and T-Notes.
The White House - visit this site at least once!  Current political information, photo tour, historical information and pictures and more.

The Queen of England and the British Monarchy - see the crown jewels, the Tower of London, and Crown Prince Phillips statement on those letters to Diana.  All of that and more on this interesting and valuable site.  Be prepared to search for the navigation tools ... they vary from page to page.  Sometimes icons, sometimes a menu bar at top or bottom of the page. Pretend that you're playing a computer game!

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Hoaxes  Save yourself embarrassment by checking one or more of the following hoax and urban legend sites before forwarding that "unbelievable" offer that your received via email

NEW!  snopes.com                                     the standard reference
urbanlegends.about.com             latest info
www.urbanlegends.com              variety of info
Top Ten Urban Legend Sites      other sites to check

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Internet

Internet Archive - storehouse of old web pages back to 1996
Spam Reporting - Federal Trade Commission's Spam page.  Forward Spam to spam@uce.gov

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Magazines

asp.netPRO - Good overall coverage of hardware and software technologies with a lot of useful information for corporate IT support.
Microsoft Office Solutions - Variety of interesting articles on programmatic enhancement and integration of MS Office products.  Current issue is available online, but unlike many of the other magazines, online back issues are available only to subscribers.
MSDN Magazine - Hints, tips and "how to do it" articles for developers using Microsoft products.  Oriented toward the professional developer rather than the casual user.  ASP.NET developers will be interested to note the .aspx extension on this page.  Much more information is available at the MSDN home page.
PC Magazine - Good overall coverage of hardware and software technologies with a lot of useful information for corporate IT support.
* PC World Magazine - Geared more toward the "ordinary user" than the "super-techie", PC World has a lot of practical and useful information for all users.  After taking PC Magazine for many years, I have switched to this valuable information source.
* Visual Studio Magazine - Successor to the prestigious Visual Basic Programmers Journal and several other publications, this magazine is an essential reference for the .NET programmer ... users of VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, or ADO.NET.

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Maps        

World: Maporama - Pick a country and city from the dropdown list, zoom in or out.  No street level detail in Baghdad.
World: MultiMap - Formerly only UK and Europe, MultiMap now covers the world.  Easy zoom by clicking on map, shows major streets in Baghdad (but not as much detail as for European cities).
World:  WorldAtlas - a wonderful collection of graphical maps and a host of related items of information (time zones, flags, oceans, islands and more.  This one is on my Favorites list!
USA: MapQuest - Find and map location in USA at variable scale.  Aerial maps for some locations.
USA: Terraserver - Topographic maps and aerial photographs.  Find your house!
USA:  Maps On Us - Mapping plus route planning, yellow pages, find a person, find an email address.
Europe: Map 24 - Pick a country from a dropdown control, then draw a rectangle around the area to zoom in on.  This link goes to the English version.
Europe: Michelon Maps - These have the look and feel of high-quality printed maps (see illustration at right).
Europe: Rail Maps - Flash interactive maps or static versions, your choice.
Austria: Austrian Map Online - Fully interactive coverage of Austria.  German language only ... but graphics on controls make it understandable to others.
Germany: German City Maps - From the German city map service.  This link takes you to the English language version
Switzerland: Map.Search.ch - Search interactively or find a specific address.
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Privacy

Electronic Privacy Info Center - some very interesting information, plus links to useful downloads.

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Security

Browser Checkup - checks your Internet Explorer for security holes, links to patches.
ZoneLabs - home of ZoneAlarm, one of the top rated software firewalls to protect your computer.  A free version is available (it has kept me protected for years).

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Shopping

CNET - price comparisons, more
Pricegrabber - price comparisons include shipping costs

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U. S. Army

The Vietnam Project - research or contribute to this study at Texas Tech University

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Utilities

pdf995 - Create Acrobat-like pages just by using pdf995 as your printer ... and it is FREE!

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Web Site Utilities - See also Magazines

Reallybig.com - tools for building web sites.
Streaming Media World - info and tools for video and animation

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Windows

Annoyances.org - links to patches, freeware & shareware utilities
Driver files - over 70,000 files
Microsoft - software

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