They say that 90% of the 'Information Superhighway' (I hate that name) will be used for entertainment. Well, here's the stuff that'll fall in the other 10%. I've found these links quite useful.

Here's what you'll find in this Room:
Places to Start Web Searches\ Universities and Academics\ News\
Weather\ References\ Misc. Useful Stuff\
The most important link of All\ Other Rooms.
Places to Start Web Searches
  1. Yahoo! -The best guide to the WWW. If you need to find anything, they will have it.
  2. Who's Who on the Internet -Tons of other links.
  3. The Planet Earth Home Page -This place has all types of good stuff.
  4. Timex's World Map -Click on the map, and you'll get a list of links for that area.
  5. Info for newbies -Good Stuff for newbies and veterans alike.
  6. Comprehensive list of sites -a HUGE list of links
  7. W3 Servers -A list of all registered www servers.
  8. Citylink -Links to city and state pages across the US.
  9. City Net -Links to International cities
  10. A guide to Cyberspace -Background info about the web
  11. Special Internet Connections -by Scott Yanoff
  12. The Virtual Tourist -A great graphic-based web site searcher
  13. The Virtual Tourist II -The new version
  14. Global Network Navigator-It's got some pretty useful stuff.
  15. The Whole Internet Catalog from GNN.
  16. Commercial Sites Index-Directory of services, products and information.
  17. WebNews -A large what's new page
  18. World of Interest -Specializing in Useful stuff
  19. The Virtual Yellow pages -Let your fingers ..er.. mouse do the walking.
  20. WWW Search engines -If you can't find it through here, it doesn't exist.
Universities and Academics
  1. A Huge University list -A great way to find E-mail Addresses. This one has over 1000 Schools on it!
  2. American Universities -If the previous list doesn't have it, this one might.
  3. Home pages of Universities across the US -From The Planet Earth Home Page
News
  1. WWW NewsLink -A comprehensive list of News-related Sites.
  2. The Nando Times -Current World Events
  3. News links -A good list of international news links
  4. Time's Daily News -Up to the minute news stories.
  5. New York Times Internet Edition -you'll first need Adobe Acrobat, but you can get through their page.
  6. Hot Topics-Current events from Amdahl
  7. The Chicago Tribune - and other Tribune stuff
  8. Editorial Cartoons -Some good and cynical stuff
  9. Detroit/Michigan News
    1. WDIV Channel 4 Detroit -A good station if you don't mind yellow journalism
    2. The Detroit News -Their daily newpaper online. Now you don't have to pay 35 cents anymore!
    3. The Detroit Free Press- The Free Press' Gopher
Weather
  1. Weather Maps from MSU -See how the weather will be in 5 minutes.
  2. The Lighthouse -Online Weather Info
  3. International Weather -from U of Illinois
  4. USGS Weather Info -More weather data.
  5. NOAA's Home Page -Climate data.
  6. Another NOAA Page -More climate data.
References
  1. The internet public library -from here at U of M
  2. ATT's 800 list -An online phone book
  3. Telephone Books-A gopher to all types of phone books
  4. Languages Page -Dictionaries and Info on other Languages
  5. US Public Libraries -Links to lots of libraries.
  6. Webster's Dictionary -Just type in the word
  7. Roget's Thesaurus -A Thesaurus Gopher
  8. The Un-official Internet Book List -A list of where to find network related books on-line
  9. Fundamental Constants -Just in case you forgot what avagadro's number was.
  10. Familiar Quotations -Find the source of familiar phrases, passages, etc.
Misc. Useful Stuff
And here's the most important link of All:
THE OJ SIMPSON TRIAL!!!!!
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Dan Cho (dkcho@umich.edu)