Please note that most of these websites have nothing in common except that I like them. Your taste may vary, therefore you may not like every site listed here.

Web/Computer Geek Stuff

Indices and Search Utilities

• Yahoo!
  
• Lycos
  
• AltaVista
  
• Google (my personal favorite search engine)
  

Downloadable shareware

• ZD Net Software Library
  
• Shareware.com
  
• Jumbo
  
• PalmGear (software for the Palm OS)
  

Buying stuff online

• Amazon.Com (books, music, videos, games, electronics, and lots more)
• Buy.com (almost everything Amazon has, but cheaper)
• EBay Online Auctions
• Half.Com
• BiblioFind (a great place to search for rare or out-of-print books)
• Expedia (for buying plane tickets and other travel-related services online; lets you search all airlines for the best price)

Geek Humor

• User Friendly (a geek comic strip)
  
• An index of Live Webcams
  
• Cool Site of the Day
  
• The Dilbert Zone
  
• The Bastard Operator from Hell (extremely geeky)
  
• The Useless Pages

Reference and Utilities

• Convert Fahrenheit to Celsius, or vice versa
• Currency Converter (can convert between almost any two forms of currency)
• Area Decoder (you give it an area code, it tells you the city, or vice versa)
• Babelfish Translations (can translate a word, a sentence, or an entire website from English to French, German, Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese, or from any of those languages into English)
• The Ultimate White Pages (look up any person by name and city/state)
• MapQuest (maps and driving directions)
• PhoneSpell tells you what easy-to-remember words your phone number spells

English Language/Literature Stuff

• EnglishChick.Com Grammar Lessons
  
• The Complete Works of Shakespeare
  
• Webster's Dictionary Online
  
• Common Errors in English
  
• Online English Grammar

Music Stuff

• The Aria Database (with texts and translations of arias from dozens of operas and oratoria)
• The Piano Technicians' Guild
• Web Sites for Musicological Study
• The Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame
• A list of music resources (mostly classical, some jazz)
• Biographies of most of the best-known classical composers. Some of the bios are more comprehensive than others....

Alternate Spirituality Stuff

• The Witches' League for Public Awareness
  
• Rainbow Wind, a group for lesbian/gay/bisexual pagans and their friends
  
• The FAQ for the alt.pagan newsgroup
• JBL sells devotional statues from many different cultures.

Gender/Alternate Sexuality Stuff

• Indiana University's GLBT Page
• List of Queer People Out on the Net
• Planet Out

TV/Movie Stuff

• The Internet Movie Database (you can search thousands of movies and TV series by title, character name or actor/crewmember name)
• The Sci-Fi Channel
• The official Buffy the Vampire Slayer site
• TV Guide online (with today's TV listings for all of the USA)
• E! Online
• The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5
• The Official X-Files Page
• Paramount Pictures' Star Trek: Voyager Page

Baseball Stuff

• The Official Major League Baseball homepage
• CBS Sportsline: "watch" baseball online, live!
• CNN/SI Baseball Site
• The Official Boston Red Sox website

News

• The UK Guardian (a great place for us Americans to get the news that the American media won't give us!)
• CNN
• ABC News
• The Weather Channel online
• USA Today

Online Games

• Bingo
  
• The Riddler (trivia games and puzzles)
• Yahoo Games featuring the most popular card and board games
• Web Puzzler
• The Station at Sony.com: featuring Jeopardy Online
• The Cosmic Baseball Association

Miscellaneous

• Dave Barry (my favorite humor columnist)
• Bits And Pieces (my favorite jigsaw puzzle catalog)
• The Disgruntled Housewife
• Heartless Bitches International

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