| AmeriCom Area Decoder | |
| Check this site when you want to find someone’s area code or learn where an area code is located. | |
| ClassMates.Com | |
| Locate old high school classmates. | |
| CNN Interactive | |
| The network’s web site | |
| Decision Aide Analytics | |
| A sophisticated online amortization calculator that lets you compare payment schedules. From the home page, click Loan Schedules. | |
| eHow.com | |
| A free site that provides fast advice on things like how to ask for a raise, treat a cold, raise a baby, including amusing uses for useless items. | |
| Epicurious | |
| More than 10,000 recipes, mostly from Gourmet and Bon Appetit. | |
| Expedia | |
| A grandaddy of online bargain travel booking sites. | |
| Feminist Majority Foundation | |
| Site supporting various feminist causes such as women’s rights in Afganistan. | |
| Fodors | |
| Create your own mini travel guide that fits your price range, amenities, and preferred mode of transportation. | |
| Gorp | |
| US News & World Report calls this one of the best sites for everything outdoors. | |
| Internet Movie Database | |
| US News & World Report calls this site the best for researching films. | |
| Kansas Medical Center Support Group List | |
| Find a support group for a rare or genetic disease. | |
| Merriam-Webster Thesaurus | |
| An online thesaurus and dictionary. | |
| Morningstar | |
| You can investigate mutual funds at no charge and for a monthly fee have access to fund research that’s more timely than the printed reports. | |
| New York Times on the Web | |
| Free access, once you register, to the Times’ online edition. | |
| Project Gutenberg | |
| Volunteers have compiled (and continue to compile) and make available for free download the full electronic text of hundreds of books in the public domain.
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| RoughGuides | |
| Covers 10,000 travel destinations from the company’s guide books, aimed at budget travelers. | |
| Star Chefs | |
| A portal for people who love food. The signature recipes of over 60 of America’s top chefs are available via searching for ingredients or clicking topics. | |
| Switchboard: The Internet Directory | |
| A search engine for people, businesses, products, city guides, etc., operated by CBS. Check here when you want to locate a person, for example, someone’s email address. | |
| Travelocity | |
| Another grandaddy of online bargain travel booking sites. Recently merged with Preview Travel. Has a highly-rated “best fare finder” tool. | |
| U Chicago Roget’s Thesaurus | |
| An online thesaurus | |
| United States Postal Service | |
| There's a lot of post office business you can do online--without standing in line at the post office--from looking up the ZIP code to go with your friend's new street address to purchasing stamps, calculating postage, printing a mailing label, and tracking deliveries. | |
| Vocabulary University | |
| Helps school-age children expand English vocabulary through interactive word puzzles. New sessions every 2 months. | |
| Washington Post | |
| US News & World Report calls this site better than the newspaper. Easy access to major newspapers in any state plus AP wires.
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| Weather Channel | |
| Before you leave home, look up a weather forecast for your destination, anywhere. | |
| Weather | |
| The weather site at MIT. Non-commercial and not as fancy method as The Weather Channel site for finding weather information. | |
| Yahoo Finance | |
| You can analyze a stock and track stock and mutual fund portfolios.
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| KQED | |
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| SF Gate | |
| Access to an online version of the SF Chronicle. A good research source for news, features, and opinion columns. Includes an archive of back issues. Instead of clipping and mailing an interesting article, consider looking it up here (by title or author) and emailing it directly from the site. | |
| Berkeley Public Library | |
| Search the catalog; see what books you’ve checked out; renew books. All without leaving home. Have the bar code number from your library card on hand to check your account. | |
| Chez Panisse | |
| You can view upcoming menus but not yet make reservations online. Caveat: by the time the menu’s posted, it may be too late to make reservations. | |
 Bay Area Hiker | |
| A resource and guide for hikers at all levels of experience and endurance. Includes directions for many area hikes which you can list in order of distance and difficulty. | |
| BayInsider | |
| Places and events in the Bay Area, sponsored by KTVU. | |
| City of Berkeley | |
| Access to what’s going on in city governement | |
| Craig's List | |
| A stupendously wonderful community bulletin board which started in the SF Bay Area and has spread across the country through local community Craig's List websites, all accessible through the main site. Both posting to to the site and access to the postings are free of any kind of fee. Craig's List is one of the best ways to find an apartment and buy or sell anything locally. For example, there are always many listings for used cars, computers, and furniture. | |
| 511 Transit | |
Your guide to Bay Area public transit. The site provides access to transit schedules and maps as well as enabling you to plan a trip using public transit anywhere in the Bay Area. You select your starting point, destination, the day and time you plan to make the trip. You can also specify your preference for the fastest trip, fewest transfers, or lowest fare and the maximum walking distance between transfer points. You get step-by-step directions telling you where to wait, how much to pay, where to transfer, and your estimated arrival time. To cope with services that are running behind schedule, you also see the time listed for the next departure.
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| Black People Love Us | |
| As evident from its collection of letters and testimonials, this site has some people rolling on the floor and others mightily offended. Its link is offered here in the spirit of multiculturalism, self-discovery and transformation. | |
| Cave of Magic | |
| A live demonstration of computer mind-reading! A tip that you will undoubtedly ignore: avoid the temptation to have the magician perform this feat more than once. | |
| E-Mail Communication and Relationships | |
| An article on the psychological aspects of email. | |
| Journal of Polymorphous Perversity | |
| Humor. Check out the Sample Articles link.
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| McSweeney’s | |
| Journal of humor. Quick absurdities and parodies of highbrow writing. | |
| The Psychology of Cyberspace | |
| This online book by John Suler, Ph.D of Rider University explores the psychological dimensions of environments created by computers and online networks. Includes links to related sites. | |
| The Straight Dope | |
| Columns by Cecil Adams, syndicated in the Express. Adams takes oddball questions seriously and ferets out the real answers. Site features an index and archive going back to 1994. On the home page, look for the link labeled "Search the Straight Dope Archive."
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| Whole Brain Atlas | |
| Harvard Medical School brings you CT-scan views of the brain from various angles & in various states of health and disease. | |
