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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.
The Exploration Network Science news, contests and video clips from Discovery Channel Canada's flagship show @discovery.ca
Blogs
Engineers Without Borders Waterloo Chapter
Engineers Without Borders Discuss Site
Systems Design Engineering Department
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
Knowledge Integration Seminars
Weather
Weather Network Hourly Forecast Long-Range Forecast
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
Wordreference.com Online English, German, Spanish, French and Italian Dictionaries
List of Dictionaries in Many Languages
Chinese Characters and Culture
Symbols.com -- Encyclopedia of Western Signs A searchable encyclopedia of graphic symbols.
Petrucci Music Library of Public Domain sheet music
Public Domain Sheet Music Consortium
Duke University list of sheet music collections
Quest Studios music from Sierra computer games
Canadian Music Centre music of Canadian composers
Kartoo A new meta-search engine with a unique graphical interface
List of alternate search engines
Internet Archive "Wayback Machine"
Mycroft Project for Mozilla search add-ons.
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.
Davinci Project Canada's entry into the X-prize competition
Historical Mysteries List (Fiction)
The Ancient World on Television (AWOTV)
Saskatchewan Organic Directorate Agricultural Protection Fund
Canadian Internet Law Resource Page
E-Laws The Laws of Ontario
Electronic Frontier Foundation
BOBBY Accessibility Checker and W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
RSS Feed Validator, Another Validator, RSS 2.0 specs
Useit.com Jakob Nielsen's Website about Usability
Web Developer's Virtual Library: Web Authoring
Glen McCluskey & Associates LLC
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
Sci-Fi Channel's Seeing Ear Theatre Excellent original radio dramas
Mercury Theatre on the Air Classics from the 1930's
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
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.