John's Grab Bag

• DANCING BABY
• The Dilbert Zone for today's cartoon.
• The Dilbert Archive! a month's worth of cartoons.
• Comics 'n Stuff: index to comics on the Web.
• The Onion: Satire on the Web
• Anagram Insanity: makes anagrams out of your word or phrase.
• Online Personality Tests.
• Medical Jokes.
• Olestra/Olean Haiku.
• Olestra Poetry Page.
• Mind Reading Markup Language (MRML).
• Pat Paulsen for President.
• Late Show with David Letterman: archive of "Ten Most..." lists and more.
• Virtual Dorm requires CU-SeeMe software to view.

• Internet Movie Database: everything you ever wanted to know about every movie ever made.
• 68th Annual Academy Awards: heavy graphics, slow to load.
• Academy Awards by Catagory by Year.
• Recent and Upcoming Movie Releases
• Yahoo's list of Movie Titles.

Online travel agencies:
expedia.com
itn.com
reservations.com
travelocity.com
trip.com
U-M Travel Office
• Virtual Tourist II: a map-based interface to City.Net. If you know what you want, search City.Net directly.
• City Net: the most extensive library of local and regional information on the Web; text-based.
• Maps from MapQuest
• Elderhostel: "studying there is half the fun."
• Internet Guide to Hostelling.
• U.S. State Department Travel Advisories and Consular Information Sheets.
• North American Time Zones and GMT.
• World Wide Time Zones Map: from the U.S. Naval Observatory.
• World time by country from SwissInfo.net
• Time Zone Converter converts date/time in one zone to date/time in another
• Universal Currency Converter
• Currency Converter from Oanda.com
• European Union Home Page.
• Lonely Planet Publications: travel guides.
• Northwest Airlines, buy tickets online, etc.

• AMEX: American Stock Enchange current quotes AMEX, S&P 500, DJIA.
• CNNfn: the Financial Network current DJIA, NASDAQ and bond rates.
• Dow-Jones Industrial Averages: be patient: wait for the ticker to load.
• Investors Edge Market Indices current quotes and changes in 14 major indices.
• NASDAQ Stock Market Home Page
• NYSE: New York Stock Exchange Homepage
• Russell: US Equity Indexes
• Security APL Market Watch
• Smith Barney
• S&P Index Information
• Stock Smart industry by industry stock performance.
• Yahoo! Finance - Market Indices

• WWW Virtual Library: Veterinary Medicine: an index to colleges, publications, professional groups, etc.
• MSU College of Veterinary Medicine.

Aviation

• Landings: general aviation directory and information source.
• National Transportation Safety Board Homepage
• The Air Safety Homepage: airline safety information for the airline passanger, including crash summary data.
• The Last 10 Fatal Jet Airliner Accidents
• NTSB Accident Synopsis for TWA Flight 800
• MSNBC: TWA Flight 800: index to Internet sites concerned with Flight 800.
• Cockpit Voice Recorders and Flight Data Recorders: NTSB descriptions.
• TWA Homepage
• TWA Aircraft Photos

• Broderbund Software, Inc.: The Print Shop, Myst hints, Family Tree Maker, etc.
• Kodak: sample digital images are pretty awesome.

• TIAA-CREF
• Lexis-Nexis: professional searching.
• Boy Scouts of America: National Council Homepage.
• Smithsonian Institute: plan a visit, photo tours, catalog, etc.
• Radio Stations on the Net: over 1700 stations with Web pages.
• Radio station WKAR, East Lansing
• Birthday Calendar: find out who was born on your birthday or any other day!
• Electric Postcard.
• FedEx Tracking.

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