Word Up

Merriam-Webster Home Page or just get the Word of the Day.
Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus - Online searches. The Educational Dictionary.
Roget's Internet Thesaurus

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
American slanguanges - Slang terms grouped by US city.
Foreign language translation services on the Internet - From consumer.net.
Babelfish - Translates Web Pages into several languages. Cool.

The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary

Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style
Jack Lynch's Grammar & Style Notes - A prolific grad student [he's finished his graduate work now -ED] pontificates... visit his Home Page. He also maintains a list of resources for Writers and Writing Instructors.

Reading Online - Primary Source Material

The Internet Public Library - The IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 7000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Subject Classification.
Books On-line: Call Numbers / Subjects - Another collection of online text.

Library of Congress

Documents for the Study of American History
Ready Reference Using the Internet - Alphabetical subject listing of full-text resources available on the Internet.

The Collected Works of Shakespeare

San Francisco Public Library home page

Learning

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - A must visit. Her home page is here.

Paul Gorski authors two web sites:
Multicultural Pavilion & Multicultural supersite - Education resources for educators, students, and activists.

Walk a mile in my shoes - Part of the K-5 Cyber Trail

Classroom Connect
Global School House

WebQuests

The Why Files - Explores the science behind the headlines.
AskERIC
Kids Connect: AskKC

Points of Reference

The Digital Librarian - a librarian's choice of the best of the Web

Sasha's Links about Space

"My Reference Desk"- One of the largest collections of reference links on the net.

Martindale's 'The Reference Desk' - Links like "Over 6,110 Calculators On-Line" and "Chemicals | Disaster Management Guidelines." Comprehensive but poorly laid out.

Biographical Dictionary Search Page

Journalism.net - A good source for things like Phone Books Online.

Research-It! - Your one-stop reference desk - Language, library, geographical, financial, shipping and Internet Searches.

Deja News - Usenet Newsgroup Search Utility.

MapQuest!
MapBlast! - Create street maps.
Zip2 Door-to-Door Directions - Get Driving directions and email them to people.

What time is it?

Religion, Philosophy & Mythology

World Scripture - A Comparative Anthology
Religious and Sacred Texts

Encyclopedia Mythica - An Encyclopedia on mythology, folklore and legend.

63 religions, Faith Groups & Ethical Systems
Glossary of Religious Terms

Barton College Library Religion and Philosophy Resources - Journal and Magazine Indexes for Religion and Philosophy

King James Bible Online - Indexed and searchable.

Bhagavad-gita As It Is -- Table of Contents

Religious Studies Web Guide - From the University of Calgary

Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighbors

Schools

Web66: International School Web Site Registry

Education World's list of "cool schools"

Bay Area Schools:

Saint Mark's
SFDS - San Francisco Day School
Urban School of San Francisco
Town School For Boys
KDBS - Katherine Delmar Burke School
FAIS - French-American International School of San Francisco
Schools of the Sacred Heart
The Nueva School
Marina middle school
San Francisco Waldorf School
Bridgemont High School and Junior High
San Domenico School
Mercy High School - San Francisco
Drew - College Preparatory School

Other Places

Smithsonian Institution

• Museum of National History
• National Zoo
• National Air and Space Museum
• National Museum of African Art
• National Museum of American Art

Government

The White House / White House for Kids

U.S. Federal Government List of Sites - Maintained by Federal Information Exchange, Inc. (RAMS-FIE)
Government Resources on the Web - From the University of Michigan.

Health

OnHealth
DrKoop
WebMD
Mayo Clinic Health Oasis - Daily News on Disease, Treatment, Drugs, Diet
Ask Dr. Weil
The Health Library - Stanford University Hospital.
HealthWorld Online
U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) - Check out the The Visible Human Project.
(AMA) - Official American Medical Association Home Page.

Macintosh Software

MacDownload
The Mac Orchard - Internet Software
Tucows Macintosh Software
MacShareware
MacResource Essential Software List.

About the Internet

NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary - Definitions of hundreds of words that are emerging as a new vocabulary surrounding the technology and community of the Internet and the World Wide Web.

Consumer Net - links to Internet Privacy Issues and more

Nua Internet Surveys - Lots of survey information.

ISP (Internet Service Providers) - A directory. And another one known as The List

Internet Background and Basics - An small annotated collection of unusual and interesting links to little-known background information about the Internet.

URL Addressing Schemes - A Between the "dots" look at URL's
Russ Haynal's ISP Page - For a geeker understanding of the Internet.

The End of the Internet