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Reference sites
Hoover’s Online – business profiles
Everyday Mysteries – fun science facts from the Library of Congress
Refdesk – facts on the net
Search Systems public records locator
Reference links from the New York Times
Yellow pages from Verizon
Earth Calendar – holidays around the world
Damn Interesting – obscure facts
InfoSpace
Information Please Almanacs


Searching the Web
Google - the champ!
Clusty, from Pittsburgh’s Vivisimo
Search Engine Showdown
Black Box Search – search without being tracked
Search.com - meta-search more than 800 specialized search engines
Librarian's Index to the Internet
Ask - maybe a new champ!
   Writing/Style
Bartleby.com – reference books and more
DICT – multiple online dictionaries
International English from a British Viewpoint
Acronym Finder
Dictionary of Difficult Words
Common errors in English
AskOxford: fun English language resource
RhymeZone – find rhyming words
Thesaurus.com
Online etymology dictionary
Tech writer's (tongue-in-cheek) style guide
Buzzwhack – demystifying buzzwords


Humor and entertainment
The Onion
The Borowitz Report – satirical pseudo-news
The Daily Show on Comedy Central
Worst Country Song Titles
That’s Ironic
Modern Humorist
Classic TV outtakes and bloopers

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