Besides being able to search SD with member privileges, which websites do you use repeatedly for reference such as: dictionary sites, general knowledge, trivia, searching, etc?
I think it would be helpful and fun to compile a list of favorites.
I use the Firefox browser, and I have a few search shortcuts that run from the address bar: Webster’s Dictionary/Thesaurus and Google get used the most.
I also have a bunch of search engines available from a drop-down list: of the engines I have installed, I use IMDB, Acronym Finder, and Dictionary.com the most.
Of my many reference bookmarks, I use Bartleby.com, the CIA’s World Factbook, AltaVista’s Babel Fish translator, All Music Guide, and NIST’s Official U.S. Time the most.
I’m a recent devotee of www.wikipedia.com.
Also love sites like www.snopes.com.
Amazon and several other shopping sites are part of my staple.
I get my news from Yahoo.
Emails from Hotmail.
Most of my favs were already posted.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/ is the best resource for Baseball Stats & past trades.
Skepdic’s Dictiionary
How Stuff Works
For North American Ppro Stadiums/Arenas
Ballparks by Munsey and Suppes
That’s impressive, thanks!
I just love OneLook Dictionary Search. The “reverse dictionary” is particularly useful.
I find Project Gutenberg highly useful when it comes time to check the relatively obscure quotes (ones good enough to stick in memory, but not good enough to make it into Bartlett’s). It’s also great for saving some typing with block-quotes; just grab the first few words and you can copy-paste paragraphs as needed. You have to know where they come from, though.
I’m doing (almost done! sob) an internship as a fact-checker at a newsweekly. As I had an opportunity to say straight-faced to an editor yesterday: “Facts are my life.”
IMDB is the site for movies. Accept no others (other than the movies official page.)
AllMusic.com is great for finding out stuff about bands and performers.
Census.gov is a good one for all manner of statistics.
The NY Times Navigator and
PowerReporting.org are both (for journalistic types, at least) godsends - basically, “How to find what you’re looking for” portals.
FindLaw.com is great for looking up legal stuff.
The InfoPlease Almanac is useful.
If you should find yourself needing to know who, say, the Minister in charge of Disaster Relief of Mongolia is, this is the site. (Ukhnaa Khurelsukh, by the way).
this is a good and very accurate site for Congressional info.
Uh, no…I’m not actually geeky enough to browse some of those sites just for fun…um…move along, folks…
For astronomy and space info:
Data Services at the U.S. Naval Observatory -
NASA GSFC Eclipse Home Page (6,000 years of moon phases too)
National Space Science Data Center (especially for the data on planets and moons)
Spaceflight Now for up-to-the minute (literally) news on manned and unmanned missions.
In addition to the sites already mentioned:
For a good
[QUOTE]
(http://www.quotationspage.com/) …
To convert CURRENCY …
When I want to know the TIME anywhere in the world …
To find the ANSWER to a perplexing crossword clue …
I quite like Worldtime.