Betsy's Links Page

Links to some of our favorite websites:

Animals

Animal Planet

Ann Arbor Cat Clinic

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)

Humane Society of Huron Valley

Computer-internet stuff

Free animated .gifs

Free fonts at Acidfonts

Free fonts at Simplythebest

Urban Legends / E-mail Hoaxes (I hate them! Think about this before you send me a stupid e-mail)

Snopes.com (another place to disspell e-mail crap)

U of M Virus Busters (More e-mail hoaxes & such)

Food

All Recipes.com (Need a recipe? You'll find thousands of them here)

Health & Nutrition

Restaurant Inspection Reports

UM establishment Inspection Reports

Fun, Random Sites

Ricky Jay (Amazing card mechanic / general trickster)

Survivor: Outwit, Outplay, Outlast (The quintessential reality TV show)

Who's Alive, Who's Dead (bet you find yourself saying, "I can't believe she's still alive!)

SET Daily puzzle (my average completion time, which I've been tracking every day since 1/8/2010, is about 65 seconds)

Grammar & Words

Anagram Site Type in your name, and you get a list of fun anagrams!

Dictionary Dot Com

Lynne Truss is my Hero Author of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" and other works.

Grammar Guide Courtesy of Jack Lynch at Rutgers, whom I do not know personally.

Word of the Day No matter how smart you are, don't ever stop increasing your vocabulary.

Quotation mark abuse A blog that I started with great passion and then abandoned.

My Grammar page

Grammar Revolution Sentence diagramming and more.

Movies

Independent Movie Database (IMDB) Every film and TV show, every actor, virtually every question--answered

Oscars The official Oscars website

Golden Globes The official website of the Oscars' bastard stepchild

The Wizard of Oz Everything you want to know about the best movie ever made

Derek & Betsy's Movie Ratings Created by us, for us, and featuring us

Politics / Causes

Michael Moore Yes, he's radical. Yes, he's controversial. And in my opinion, he's mostly right.

Bill Maher See "Michael Moore" above.

Betsy's Politics page

Pool

ACUI Intercollegiate 9-ball

ACUI winners back to 1937

AZ Billiards

Billiard Congress of America

Billiard Education Foundation

Derby City Classic Tournament

Inside English Magazine

Pool & Billiard Magazine I write for this magazine occasionally!

Professional Associations

ACUI

ACUI Region 7

Reunions & Hometown stuff

Da Yoopers

Betsy's High School Class of 88

Northland Inn In my hometown!

Gary's Knotty Pine Also in my hometown. This was one of my first jobs and also where I first became a pool competitor!

Yooper Alumni Site

Yooper: the next official dialect?

UM: Finance & Miscellaneous Rresources

Academic Calendar

Chartfield Converter

Find any campus zip code

Mcommunity Directory of Students, Staff, Faculty, and Alumni

Maize Pages

SOAR Registration status check

OSHA (OSEH)

Outlook online access

Procurement/financial forms at U of M

Request for payment (UU)

Standard Practice Guide

UM Web

University of Michigan

UUAP Event Report

Wolverine Access

UM: Michigan Union stuff

Center for Campus Involvement (my department)

Billiards & Games Room

Division of Student Affairs

Digital ad screen administration

Digital ad screen live feed

Work Order (Maintenance)

UM: Student Employment

Student Employment Home page

Other employment forms

Everything you need to know about hiring work-study students

Work stuff (Derek)