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Cybercops – Most important – where to report kiddie porn, etc.
Report sexual exploitation of children www.cybertipline.com
Cyberstalking http://www.haltabuse.org/
Report child pornography http://asacp.org/reportsite.html
http://www.reportchildporn.com/
Internet Content Rating Association http://www.icra.org (Formerly Recreational Software Advisory Council http://www.rsac.org/)
Cyberangels http://www.cyberangels.org/ "World's Oldest and Largest Internet Safety Organisation"
How to Stop Porn Predators http://www.safesurf.com/newsletter/issue1101.htm
Report a site that is misrated or misusing the SafeSurf Rating System http://www.safesurf.com/reportsite.htm

Report SPAM:
National: Forward the messages to uce@ftc.gov. Make sure that you include the header information in the e-mail.
Each state has a computer crime point of contact.
Find yours at the NAAG Initiatives: Computer Crime Point-of-Contact List

In Virginia the prosecutor is
Lisa Hicks-Thomas, Director
Computer Crimes Unit
Office of the Attorney General
900 E Main St.
Richmond, VA 23219
Public Tx:804-659-3122
Email: Cybercrime@oag.state.va.us

The investigators are:
Robert Tavenner, Lt.
High Tech Crimes Unit
State Police
PO Box 27472
Richmond, VA 23261
Public Tx:804-674-2000

Leslie E. Lauziere
Computer Crime Unit
Office of the Attorney General
900 East Main St.
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Public Tx:804-659-3122

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Consortia, Standards & Protocol Sites
Accredited Registrar Directory http://www.internic.net/alpha.html Numerous hosts & contact info
Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Standards (ATIS) http://www.atis.org/
European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) http://www.ecma-international.org/
List of ECMA standards http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/Standards/standard.htm
List of ECMA technical reports http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/techreports/techrep.htm
Government (US) Network Information Center http://www.nic.gov/
...and info on registering .gov domains http://www.nic.gov/index.html
Internet Architecture Board http://www.iab.org/
Internet Assigned Number Authority http://www.iana.org/
IANA list of character sets http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
Root-Zone Whois Information http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm Find the registrar for any country code
Internet Consortium for Assigned Names and Numbers http://www.icann.org/
Generic Names Supporting Organization http://gnso.icann.org/
Internet Domain Name Registration and lookup http://www.internic.net/ also http://www.internic.net/whois.html
Internet Engineering Task Force http://www.ietf.org/
ZeroConf http://www.zeroconf.org/ "...a Working Group of the IETF." concerned with simplifying network connections
Internet Mail Consortium http://www.imc.org/ "...information about all the Internet mail standards and technologies."
Internet Protocol (IP) high-level address assignment http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
Internet Protocol (IP) Architecture and Assignment http://www.iana.org/ipaddress/ip-addresses.htm
IP Address Lookup:
North America and Sub-Sahara Africa http://www.arin.net/
Asia/Pacific Region http://www.apnic.net/
Latin America and some Caribbean Islands http://lacnic.net/en/index.html
Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, and African countries north of the equator http://www.ripe.net/db/whois/whois.html
Public Interest Registry (.ORG) http://www.pir.org/ & whois http://www.pir.org/whois_search/
Internet Research Task Force http://www.irtf.org/
Internet Systems Consortium http://www.isc.org/
Internet Society http://www.isoc.org/
Military (US) Network Information Center http://www.nic.mil/
World Wide Web Consortium www.w3.org
HTML 4.01 Specification http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/
IP Port Number Conventions http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
...also... http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1700.txt?number=1700
...and a more readable list http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/ip/ports00000.htm
Registrar for .edu domains http://www.educause.edu/edudomain/
Unicode http://www.unicode.org/
SendMail http://www.sendmail.org/ Sendmail Consortium: a resource for the freeware version of sendmail
International Telecommunications Union http://www.itu.int/home/ Keepers of Morse Code (and hopefully others)
United Nations Information andCommunication Technologies Task Force http://www.unicttaskforce.org
NANPA: North American Numbering Plan Administration http://www.nanpa.com/index.html Control of area codes & telephone numbers
Intl Org for Stds – Widely used standards http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/popstdsindex.html
ISO Language Codes http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/iso639a.html
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php
International Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Foundation http://www.doi.org
Macintosh Binary Transfer Format ("MacBinary") http://www.lazerware.com/formats/macbinary/macbinary.html
ISO JPEG standards committee http://www.jpeg.org/index.html "...official site of the Joint Photographic Experts Group, JPEG, and ... JBIG."
http://webstandards.org/

Most of the working documents in defining a variety of protocols are warehoused on http://www.faqs.org/. URIs to some of the more useful directories follow:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/
http://www.faqs.org/rfc/ (index)

ftp://www.faqs.org/usenet/
ftp://www.faqs.org/std/
ftp://www.faqs.org/rfc2/
ftp://www.faqs.org/rfc/
ftp://www.faqs.org/news/
ftp://www.faqs.org/internet-drafts/
RFC 3092 - Etymology of "Foo" http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3092.html Someone has waaay too much time on their hands!
RFCs from the Internet Engineering Task Force http://www.ietf.org/rfc/
RFC Sourcebook http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/default.htm "...a comprehensive guide to the RFCs series of Internet standards and Internet protocols."
RFC Editor http://www.rfc-editor.org/

http://www.intellectuk.org Intellect is the trade body for the UK based information technology, telecommunications and electronics industry.

http://www.ffii.org/ Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
FFII is a non-profit registered in Munich, dedicated to the spread of data processing literacy. FFII supports the development of public information goods based on copyright, free competition, open standards.
More than 300 members, 700 companies and 50,000 supporters have entrusted the FFII to act as their voice in public policy questions in the area of exclusion rights (intellectual property) in data processing.

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) http://www.ansi.org/
National Information Standards Organization (NISO) http://www.niso.org/
Open Source Initiative (OSI) http://www.opensource.org/

Open Mobile Alliance http://www.openmobilealliance.org/index.html
The mission of the Open Mobile Alliance is to facilitate global user adoption of mobile data services by specifying market driven mobile service enablers that ensure service interoperability across devices, geographies, service providers, operators, and networks, while allowing businesses to compete through innovation and differentiation. Includes the former WAP Forum.

IPv6
IPv6 http://www.ipv6.org/
http://www.ist-ipv6.org/ "European IPv6 Research and Development Projects"
Internet Engineering Task Force http://www.ietf.org/
List of IPv6 Enabled Applications http://www.ipv6.org/v6-apps.html
http://www.6link.org/
IPv6 Forum http://www.ipv6forum.org/ and http://www.ipv6forum.org/navbar/
IPv6 Tools http://www.ipv6tools.com/

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Accessibility
My own Reader's Digest explanation of 508 Accessibility Rules
Access Board http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/guide/1194.22.htm
Internet Society Disability and Special Needs Chapter http://www.isocdisab.org/
International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet http://www.icdri.org/
30 days to a more accessible web site http://www.diveintoaccessibility.org/
Royal National Institute of the Blind http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/code/public_rnib003460.hcsp
Lighthouse has some good resources http://www.lighthouse.org/ ironically you have to look hard to find them
Penn State: Creating Accessible Web Sites http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/accessibility/

W3C resources:
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/
Checklist for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/full-checklist.html

Check to see how a site appears to someone with a color deficit: http://www.vischeck.com/vischeckURL.php3
Color blind image correction http://www.vischeck.com/daltonize/
Good accessibility site http://www.webable.com/ Little content, but links to other resources.

Internet First Amendment & Intellectual Property Issues
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse http://www.chillingeffects.org/
Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/ devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share.
Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/ Promoting free speech online
Freedom of Information Center http://foi.missouri.edu/
PK http://www.publicknowledge.org/ "...advocates a fair and balanced approach to copyright and technology policy."

Development
Evolt http://evolt.org/ "a world community for web developers, promoting the mutual free exchange of ideas, skills and experiences"
Lots of good info http://builder.com.com/
Lots of good tips http://www.eyewire.com/tips/design/
Very good resource http://www.womenspace.ca/resources/open_source.html
Good how-to, albeit designed for non-profits http://www.techsoup.com/howto/ "The technology place for non-profits"
Lots of good downloadable reference data http://www.zvon.org/index.php?nav_id=3
Good discussion of the use of colors http://www.colormatters.com/
Internet Journal http://www.intranetjournal.com/
PageResource http://www.pageresource.com/ "A Web Development Tutorial and Information Site"
Web page design for designers http://www.wpdfd.com/index.htm lots of good info
WebMonkey http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/ "the web developer's resource"
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web/html.html lots of good info
http://www.digital-web.com/
Metalinks for web page construction http://members.tripod.com/~billlalonde/wlinks.htm
Search tools for a website:
HTDIG search tool: http://www.htdig.org/ and http://www.it.htdig.org/
http://www.spoono.com/ "the web designers' playground"
http://www.zeldman.com/
http://www.kirupa.com/
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/index.php
http://www.webref.org/
http://www.mhavila.com.br/link/internet/
http://www.lanet.lv/links/other.html

O'Reilly, a traditional publisher, has a series of books on web design which can be found online...
The parent directory is at http://skaiste.elekta.lt/Books/O'Reilly/Bookshelfs/books/webdesign/index.htm, or go to the individual titles:
Web Design in a Nutshell http://skaiste.elekta.lt/Books/O'Reilly/Bookshelfs/books/webdesign/wdesign/index.htm
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web http://skaiste.elekta.lt/Books/O'Reilly/Bookshelfs/books/webdesign/infoarch/index.htm
HTML & XHTML The Definitive Guide http://skaiste.elekta.lt/Books/O'Reilly/Bookshelfs/books/webdesign/xhtml/index.htm
Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide http://skaiste.elekta.lt/Books/O'Reilly/Bookshelfs/books/webdesign/css/index.htm
ActionScript: The Definitive Guide http://skaiste.elekta.lt/Books/O'Reilly/Bookshelfs/books/webdesign/action/index.htm
Designing Web Audio http://skaiste.elekta.lt/Books/O'Reilly/Bookshelfs/books/webdesign/audio/index.htm

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Development Tools
Authoring Tools
1-2-3 Publish – offered by AOL – use AOL keyword Hometown
AOL Journals – another AOL offering for blogging – use AOL keyword Hometown
Easy Designer – offered by AOL – use AOL keyword Hometown
Trellix – Earthlink's offering that runs within your browser www.earthlink.net/home/tools/trellix/
Barebones (for Macintosh) http://www.barebones.com/index.shtml

Adobe GoLive www.adobe.com/products/golive/main.html
Globalscape CuteSite Builder www.cuteftp.com/cutesitebuilder/
IBM WebSphere Studio Homepage Builder http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/hpbuilder/
Macromedia DreamWeaver www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver
Microsoft FrontPage www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx

Python (language) http://www.python.org/
And http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html
another Python site http://www.uselesspython.com/
Learning to Program (In Python) http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/
Dive Into Python http://diveintopython.org/ free Python book for experienced programmers
How To Think Like A Computer Scientist http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ A mis-titled book

WebSiphon (site development tool) http://www.purity.com/
http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp
Color picker/converter tool http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/pages/QuickReference/Color/converter.html
NICE color chart http://users.rcn.com/giant.interport/COLOR/1ColorSpecifier.html
Hit counters http://www.merlet.com/counters1.htm

Favicon resources and information
Free favicon editor (of dubious value) http://www.favicon.co.uk/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/howto/ShortcutIcon.asp

Site Add-Ons
Online Marketing http://www.prq0.com/
Creating your own poll on your site http://www.votations.com/
Site Search http://www.picosearch.com/

E-commerce tools
"copy and paste" download tracking service http://www.downloadcounter.com/

Sites to assist in marketing software products:
Aladdin's Privellege product http://www.ealaddin.com/
eSellerate http://www.esellerate.net/
http://www2.kagi.com/
Safenet's Sentinel product http://www.rainbow.com/solutions/antipiracy.asp
http://www2.kagi.com/ "...a premiere e-commerce store for thousands of products distributed over the Internet."

Site statistics analysis http://awstats.sourceforge.net/

Critique of my website http://www.graphic-design.com/Web/

Search Engine Submission http://www.icls.net/

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Clipart and imaging
Discussion of Common Image File Formats http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/presentation/table7-1.html
Metalist of images: http://www.echoswebmagic.com/free_graphics/links-graphics.html
Metalist: WorldWide Media Exchange http://www.wwmx.org/

General images:
Clip Art Connection http://www.clipartconnection.com/index.html
FreeFoto http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
George Eastman photographic sources:
George Eastman Online Gallery http://www.eastman.org/9_colphoto/9_coll/9ninetw.html Only a few images
George Eastman House http://www.geh.org/ Good selection of images.
Getty images http://gettyimages.com/ (requires login)
Government www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml/ (lots of gfx, but may be hard to find specifics)
Illegal-Art http://www.illegal-art.org/
Image collections & Search www.images.google.com
Microsoft
Design Gallery Live http://dgl.microsoft.com/
Office ClipArt, Photos, Animations, etc. http://office.microsoft.com/
MorgueFile http://morguefile.com/
National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/siteindex/photogallery/
Photocolumn – no particular organization http://www.photocolumn.org/index.html
Picture Search http://www.picsearch.com/
Public domain images http://www.pdimages.com/
Olympus (unoficial) Image Gallery http://www.taiga.ca/~gallery/gallery.html Varied, but unorganized OpenPhoto http://openphoto.net/
Extreme photos http://www.rotten.com/
Excite http://www.excite.com/
About http://webclipart.about.com/
Artsy-Fartsy http://www.mcaf.com/freeartsy/index.html
GeoSnapper http://www.geosnapper.com/index.php
Odd assortment http://www.fotolog.net/
Satellite Imagery http://terraserver-usa.com/
http://www.fg-a.com/ Animations, clip art, scripts, etc.

Specialized images
Animals http://www.tapirland.co.uk/ (small selection)
Astronomical images http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm
Aviation
http://www.lindauer-fly.ch/fotogallerie_gross/ Commercial, military, more
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search
http://www.airportsandairplanes.com/

Computers, old Related: Computer History
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/brochure/museum.html
http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw/j-hist.shtml#History
Intel Microprocessor Hall of Fame http://www.intel.com/intel/intelis/museum/exhibits/hist_micro/hof/index.htm

Edifices
http://www.emporis.info/en/bu/sk/
Every building façade in Paris http://photos.pagesjaunes.fr/
Famous buildings http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings.html

Espionage images (mostly fictional characters&props) http://www.cia.gov/spy_fi/spy_fi_archive.html

Feminist images http://www.newmoonvisions.com/

Flags – international http://www.faqs.org/docs/factbook/docs/flagsoftheworld.html
Flags of the World http://flagspot.net/flags/

Geographic:
Europe and South America Olaf Greve's photo gallery http://www.millennics.com/olympus/picture_gallery/gallery.html
Mt. Everest, Tibet, Nepal from The Royal Geographic Society www.imagingeverest.rgs.org
Paris - Every building façade in Paris http://photos.pagesjaunes.fr/
Varied geographic images http://www.placesonline.org/
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
Earth images taken from the Space Shuttle and ISS – the EarthKAM http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/images/index.shtml
Hairstyles http://www.hairarchives.com/
Military images, photos & artwork – US Center of Military History http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/art/A&I/A&I.htm
The United Statyes Air Force Art Collection http://www.afapo.hq.af.mil/artists/artistsdetail.cfm?Letter=B&value=28
Kate Spade's images http://www.katespade.com/about/images/ (mostly images of Kate Spade)
Nature images, particularly weather phenomena by NOAA http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/
Population Reference Bureau's Graphics Bank http://www.prb.org/template.cfm?Section=Graphics_Bank
Orchids www.orchidworks.com
http://members.tripod.com/charneski/marks5.htm
http://gallery.angelfire.com/photos/Flowers_and_Plants/Orchids/P0318726.JPG
American Orchid Society http://orchidweb.org/
All About Orchids http://www.orchid.org.uk/contents.htm
Web site of The Orchid Thief author http://www.susanorlean.com/
The Orchid House http://retirees.uwaterloo.ca/~jerry/orchids/
http://home.att.net/~siegrid.stern/ORCHIDS.htm
Particle Physics Images – No quarks, just linear accelerators, Hadron spectrometers, etc.
http://www.interactions.org/imagebank/
http://www1.jlab.org/ul/jpix/

Tillandsias
http://home.att.net/~Exotics/TILLANDSIAS.htm

Technological Innovations http://www.cedmagic.com/history/index.html
Virginia Tech campus images http://www.vt.edu/images/rawimages/ Check out the duck pond!

Computer generated art:
http://www.cti.dtu.dk/~berco/html/computerart/computerart001.htm
thru
http://www.cti.dtu.dk/~berco/html/computerart/computerart015.htm

Digital Photography and imaging
http://www.digicamhelp.com/index.html
http://www.shortcourses.com/ good digital cameras and digital photography
http://www.shortcourses.com/choosing/files/08.htm Image compression and file formats

Metalinks for Illustrations, Photography, Web Graphics, etc. http://www.imagejunkie.com/reception.htm

Sounds:
www.findsounds.com
http://www.killersound.com/

Video Clips
Anti-Bush: Excellent set of 30 second TV commercials www.bushin30seconds.org/
Open Video Project by the Sch of Info.&Libr.Sciences at UNC www.openvideo.org/

Icons & Buttons
Misc buttons & stuff from Black Widow – they want credit http://www.blackwidows.org.uk/free/index.html
World Flags http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/node/view/91
http://www.xicons.com/
http://www.w3.org/Icons/
http://www.iconarchive.com/
http://www.iconbazaar.com/
http://www.symbols.net/
http://www.lirmm.fr/bib-icons/Stanford/

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General Information
A lot of good internet-focused newsletters http://aroundcny.com/technofile/net.html
Sree's periodic columns – generally pretty good http://www.sreetips.com/

Subject Matter Expert sites
http://www.experts-exchange.com/
http://searchtechtarget.techtarget.com/
http://www.tek-tips.com/

Browsers
Many, many browsers available from Evolt http://browsers.evolt.org/
MacEdition Guide to CSS2 Support in Mac-only Browsers http://www.macedition.com/cb/resources/macbrowsercsssupport.html
Emacs/W3 – a full-featured web browser http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/docs.html

Firefox
Inside Track on Firefox Development. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/ Ben Goodger, Lead engineer on the Firefox browser project.

plugins for firefox
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=%257bec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384%257d

ICab http://www.icab.de/

MSIE:
Microsoft Internet Explorer www.microsoft.com/ie/
Microsoft Internet Explorer for unix www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/

Lynx http://lynx.browser.org/

Mozilla www.mozilla.org/

Netscape Navigator 7.1 http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp
Components of a Netscape window http://www.duneland.k12.in.us/programs/webfun/browser.html

Opera http://www.opera.com/
Opera Glossary http://help.opera.com/Mac/8.0/en/glossary.html
“30 Days to Becoming an Opera Lover” – Version 6 http://www.tntluoma.com/opera/lover/6/
“30 Days to Becoming an Opera Lover” – Version 7 http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/7/
Good Opera resource http://www.demuths.de/iopera/

Darrel Knutson has a good review of browsers for the Macintosh http://darrel.knutson.com/mac/www/browsers.html

Browser Tools:
Browser test page http://www.icab.de/test.html – Check to see if your browser correctly displays certain HTML elements

And then there's Google
http://www.google.com/ Your basic Google search
http://www.google.com/mac.html Google search restricted to Macintosh issues
http://www.google.com/microsoft.html Google search restricted to Microsoft technologies
http://www.google.com/options/universities.html Google's university search - hundreds of universities international
http://www.google.com/unclesam/ Google's search of the U.S. government
http://scholar.google.com/ Google Scholar –
search specifically for scholarly literature, ..., theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
http://video.google.com/ Google video search

http://www.google.com/options/index.html Full menu of Google services
http://local.google.com/ Google Local Search (restrict to city, state, or zip)
http://answers.google.com/answers/ Google Answers ($$$)
http://www.google.com/contact/newsletter.html Subscribe to Google's Newsletter
http://www.google.com/addurl.html Submitting your web site to Google
http://labs.google.com/gviewer.html The Google Viewer
http://www.google.com/help/index.html Google Help Central
http://toolbar.google.com/ Google Toolbar
http://www.google.com/dirhp Google Directory
http://www.google.com/imghp Google's searchable Image collections also http://images.google.com/
http://translate.google.com/translate_t Quick load for translating a web page
http://labs.google.com/ Google Labs – Find out what future tricks Google is working on
http://labs.google.com/sets One of my favorite things coming out of the lab
http://www.google.com/corporate/ Google Corporate pages
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/google-friends/ Google friends archive

Google sites not directly related to searching:
http://www.googlesyndication.com/
http://www.googlism.com/ As far as I can tell, this is just for fun
http://www.orkut.com/
http://www.google.com/webmasters/ Google Information For Webmasters
http://www.blogger.com/start Google's weBlog offering
Google ad words https://adwords.google.com/select/ To advertise on Google
Google ad sense https://www.google.com/adsense/ To put Google ads on your site

Google-related sites:
Better Googling: Things You Didn't Know Google Does http://www.sreetips.com/google.html
Watching Google like a hawk http://www.watchinggooglelikeahawk.com/
Google Friends: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/google-friends/
http://www.gmailswap.com/
http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
Google forums
http://forums.seochat.com/forumdisplay.php?f=44
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/

Scoring a gmail account:
http://www.gmailswap.com/
http://www.bollyfilms.net/gmail_free/

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Non-English Search Engines
French – Yahoo http://fr.yahoo.com/
Japanese http://www.atrium.com/cgi-bin/banner/display.pl?h=search
Multilingual – VADA http://www.vada.nl/sengine.htm
Multilingual search catalog http://www.mavicanet.ru/directory/eng/
Vietnamese – http://panvn.com

Specialized Search Engines/Pages
Encryption & Security searches http://www.cryptosavvy.com/index.asp
Healthcare Search Engine http://www.healthcyclopedia.com/
Personal Home Pages of Computer Scientists http://hpsearch.uni-trier.de/

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Web Site Traffic, Promotion & Ranking
800go http://800go.com/800go.html
Altavista http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new
DMOZ http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new
AllTheWeb http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php
Google http://www.google.com/addurl.html
NorthernLight http://www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html
MetaNet http://metanetpromotions.com/ 300+

MaxPromo http://www.maxpromo.com/
http://www.selfpromotion.com/
http://www.worldwidepromoter.com/
http://www.webring.com/rw

Cross-promotion
http://value-exchange.sitesell.com/ (belongs to tucows)
http://phenomenaltools.com/

Web site traffic ranking http://trafficranking.com/
Alexa's top 500 sites http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500
Traffic Analysis http://www.hitlens.com/

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Bots, Crawlers, Spiders, Snakes & Slithery things
The Web Robots Pages http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html Excellent info on bots & lists of agents
List of user-agents (bots) http://www.psychedelix.com/agents.html
Web bots http://www.jafsoft.com/searchengines/webbots.html
Tutorial on robots.txt http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm
robots.txt validator http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/robotcheck.cgi
Database of user agents http://www.siteware.ch/webresources/useragents/
Bots forum http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum93/
Googlebot: Google's Web Crawler http://www.google.com/bot.html

Hosting
Accredited Registrar Directory http://www.internic.net/alpha.html Numerous hosts & contact info
http://www.internic.net/alpha.html
Angelfire, Lycos www.angelfire.com/ www.tripod.com/
Bravenet http://www.bravenet.com/
Network Solutions http://www.networksolutions.com/
Yahoo www.geocities.com

http://editthispage.com Free hosting???

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Hosting Comparisons
http://www.webhostingrank.com/
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/
http://www.webhostingratings.com/
http://www.hostcompare.com/
http://www.hostapproval.com/
http://www.ratemyhost.com/
http://10besthostingreviews.com/

Netcraft http://uptime.netcraft.com/ Lots of metrics on lots of host providers

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ISPs, WISPs & Services
America OnLine http://www.aol.com/ and a perceptive opinion of AOL http://www.chick.net/aol.html
Internet Access Providers Meta-List http://www.herbison.com/herbison/iap_meta_list.html
ISP Locator http://www.isprank.com/
Eskimo http://www.eskimo.com/

WISPs – Wireless Internet Service Providers
Locate a WISP http://www.part-15.org/maps/

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Distributed Computing Projects
Google – share the cycles to advance scientific knowledge – http://toolbar.google.com/dc/offerdc.html
Protein Folding & Pathologies http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ and http://folding.stanford.edu/
Modelize the conformational changes ... beta 2 adrenergic receptor http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~cparnot/xgrid-stanford/

Exemplar Sites

WebCams
South Pole http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/southpolediaries/webcam.html
Tokyo Tower http://www.nttls.co.jp/webcam/
Trafalgar Square http://www.camvista.com/england/london/trafsq.php3#
University of Colorado Boulder webcam http://www.colorado.edu/webcam/

WWW – World Wide Wastes (of time)
Computer Stupidities http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/
http://www.debsfunpages.com/easterswf/rapeasterbunny.swf
FunTrivia http://www.funtrivia.com/
http://www.jesusdressup.com/ Bob Smith has way too much time on his hands!
Tickle – various self-assessment "tests," mostly pithy: http://web.tickle.com/ AND they require personal info before giving you the results
Where's George? http://www.wheresgeorge.com/ Who cares?

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