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Food for Thought

Wikipedia

The World Question Centre 2002 (at The Edge) Questions which will, if answered, extend the boundaries of human knowledge.

Cosmiverse -- this website used to be a space and science news portal, then disappeared from the internet without explanation in early 2003. What happened to Cosmiverse? Does anyone know? I'd like to know. If you know, please tell me.

SpaceDaily Space and Science News Portal

Global Ideas Bank Just what it sounds like.

Moveon.org

The Exploration Network Science news, contests and video clips from Discovery Channel Canada's flagship show @discovery.ca

Complexity Digest

Personal Webpages

Clifford Pickover

Darcy Casselman

Jenn and Rob McArthur

Matthew Skala

Yaacov Iland

Zhan Huan Zhou (Drivel.ca)

Blogs

Eric's Blog

Rowan Redfern

Zaldan

Tejina

Hugh Cook

Banana Blog

Where is Raed?

Dear Salam

Riizu

Claporte

Lutze

Dan Lynch Online

Floating Ice

University-of-Waterloo-Related

UW Homepage

UW-ACE

UWStudent.org

Daily Bulletin

Engineers Without Borders Waterloo Chapter

Engineers Without Borders Discuss Site

CTRL-A

Systems Design Class of 2005

Systems Design Engineering Department

Rate My Professors

Library Proxy for searching the Oxford English Dictionary

Grand River Transit for getting to and from the university without a car

Lectures / Concerts

Perimeter Institute Public Lectures and Scientific Seminars

Perimeter Institute Event Horizons Concerts

Architecture Lectures

Astronomy Lectures

Knowledge Integration Seminars

Math Lectures and Seminars

Philosophy Colloquium Series

St. Jerome's Lectures

Grebel Noon Hour Concerts

WLU Concerts

Weather

Environment Canada Radar

UW Weather Station

Weather Network Hourly Forecast Long-Range Forecast

 

Insert Appropriately-Named Title Here

Ascii Art Dictionary

Memepool

Nupedia The Open Content Encyclopedia and parent of Wikipedia. (this used to be at http://www.nupedia.org -- does anyone know why the new URL? is this a mirror for archival purposes, or is the project starting again? As far as I know, the project has been dead since September 2003.)

Rinkworks A very entertaining site - Subscriber Login

 

Dictionaries

Wordreference.com Online English, German, Spanish, French and Italian Dictionaries

List of Dictionaries in Many Languages

Chinese Characters and Culture

The Jargon File

Symbols.com -- Encyclopedia of Western Signs A searchable encyclopedia of graphic symbols.

American Sign Language

Internet Acronyms Dictionary

Logos Multilingual Dictionary

 

Music

Petrucci Music Library of Public Domain sheet music

Public Domain Sheet Music Consortium

Duke University list of sheet music collections

The Yoko Kanno Project

Calvin Vollrath

La Pasión Según San Marcos

Boa

Encore Music Software

Sibelius Music Software

Quest Studios music from Sierra computer games

Canadian Music Centre music of Canadian composers

Austin Wintory

Carl Davis

 

Comic strips

Sherman's Lagoon

For Better or For Worse

MegaTokyo

SevTrek

Piled Higher and Deeper

Bonobo Conspiracy

Kid Radd

XKCD

 

Search

Google

Kartoo A new meta-search engine with a unique graphical interface

Open Directory Project

Duck Duck Go

List of alternate search engines

Internet Archive "Wayback Machine"

Mycroft Project for Mozilla search add-ons.

Technorati

 

Spaceflight and Astronomy

NASA's Solar System Simulator See any object in the solar system from the point of view of any other object in the solar system.

Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures Wow! I can't believe how beautiful these are.

NASA TV

Davinci Project Canada's entry into the X-prize competition

 

Times Long Ago

Archaeology Channel

Cambrian Era

Historical Mysteries List (Fiction)

The Ancient World on Television (AWOTV)

 

Genetically Modified Organisms

Monsanto vs Schmeiser

Saskatchewan Organic Directorate Agricultural Protection Fund

Vandana Shiva (ZNet page)

 

The Law

Canadian Internet Law Resource Page

E-Laws The Laws of Ontario

Internet Law News

Michael Geist

Electronic Frontier Foundation

 

Web Design

BOBBY Accessibility Checker and W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

CSS Zen Garden

GlassDog

RSS Feed Validator, Another Validator, RSS 2.0 specs

Spywarewarrior.com

Useit.com Jakob Nielsen's Website about Usability

Web Developer's Virtual Library: Web Authoring

 

C++

Cplusplus.com

CppReference.com

Glen McCluskey & Associates LLC

 

Online Books and Criticism

The Online Books Page

Robert's Rules of Order

William Shakespeare's Complete Works at MIT

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet Useful as a web-resource guide

James Alan Gardner's Planescape novel Fire and Dust A good fantasy read

 

Radio Drama

Sci-Fi Channel's Seeing Ear Theatre Excellent original radio dramas

Mercury Theatre on the Air Classics from the 1930's

 

Oracles

Matrix Software Oracles software based on numerous systems of asking for guidance including astrology, tarot, and numerology

Rec.humor.oracle A participatory project on Usenet

 

Writing

Scriptwriting Secrets A helpful resource on scriptwriting format and style

Patricia C. Wrede's Worldbuilding Question List

Robert J. Sawyer's Writing Tips

The Snowflake Method for Writing a Novel

James Alan Gardner's Writing Prose, and Skill List Project.

 

Online Shopping

AbeBooks

Alibris

Amazon.ca

Bookcloseouts.com

Canada Computers

Chapters.indigo.ca

CDJapan

CDPlus.com

Compusmart.com

Red Flag Deals