For those of you who enjoy Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac, here it is on the Web.

A very comprehensive site for Natural Health information.

Try this nifty on-line metric converter.

If all these new area codes are driving you crazy, go to the Area De-Coder.

From Hearst Communications comes an impressive array of articles and reference guides from various advice magazines, including Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Popular Mechanics, Country Living, and more.

Infiltration specializes in taking us to places where we shouldn't be. Some lessons in urban sociology here...

See if you can outwit MIT's artificial intelligence server.

You won't believe Project Denny's -- the quest to visit every Denny's restaurant (over 1500 of them).

From The Library of Congress-- an American Sheet Music site, covering the era 1870-1885. A browser's delight.

Here are two for the world traveler---

An on-line currency converter.

Worldtime is a service featuring an interactive world atlas, information on local time as well as sunrise and sunset times in several hundred cities, and a database of public holidays worldwide.

Get inside dope on one of the most popular films of all time. Lots of fun...

A great site to learn all about Linux, the freely-distributed version of Unix. An alternative to Windows??

The complete source for horror movie fans.

Visit the The Junk Science Home Page. "Junk science" is bad science used by: personal injury lawyers to shakedown deep pocket businesses; the "food police" and environmental Chicken Littles to fuel wacky social agendas; power-drunk regulators; cut-throat businesses to attack competitors; and slick politicians and overly ambitious scientists to gain personal fame and fortune.

Let the Internet protect you from scams and frauds. Check out....

National Fraud Information Center... established by the National Consumers League

Be safe when you travel abroad!! Here are a few sites that will keep you informed.

US State Department

British Foreign and Commonwealth Office--sometimes better info than from Uncle Sam.

Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Exhibits and digitized primary source and archival materials related to American culture and history, from the National Digital Library. Detailed multimedia presentations on significant historical events provide access to the highlights of the collections at the Library of Congress.

Calculators On-Line Center contains over 18,270 calculators created by over 3310 individuals, businesses and tax supported entities world wide. Subjects range from agriculture and horticulture to welding and engineering. Absolutely unbelievable. Compiled by Jim Martindale and Frank Potter, of University of California Irvine.

Another good shareware site.

Online computer help for Windows and Mac, from Ziff-Davis

Tunes.com is the website that Windows 98's CD Player will access to download specific info on the CD currently playing. It also has a large searchable archive of sample cuts from thousands of CD's.

Royal Frazier's GIF Animation on the WWW is a great source for how-to info on sprucing up your website. Lots of examples and free downloads.

Type in your birthdate at this Time Capsule site and you'll get a digest of news headlines, top song titles and other timely factoids covering that era.

Before you head off to an amusement park, learn something about the forces behind the fun. Learning physics can be fun, when you design your own roller coaster.

Your Online Guide to Offbeat Tourist Attractions, with the emphasis on Offbeat.

Know someone who is planning to take the AP, GRE, GMAT, SAT, The Praxis Series, or TOEFL exams? ETS Net provides sample test questions, test preparation, and test registration. It also contains information on ETS research initiatives, teacher certification, college planning, financial aid, and links to college and university sites.

Jokes to read, and a mechanism to submit them. Also, a joke newsgroup.

The authorized site for everything Laura Nyro -- the sixties pop/folk singer/songwriter, who wrote some of the sweetest music around, and was claimed as a feminist icon later in her short life. Full lyrics, bio, and more.

You'll find loads of stuff at Cecil Greek's Criminal Justice Page: Book recommendations, Drug and Alcohol Information, Searchable Law Databases, Police Agencies and Resources, Criminal Justice in the Media, etc.

The Weird Places On The Net -- Just what it says.

A way cool on-line molecular weight calculator. Just input the formula, and it returns the molecular weight to 13 decimal places. A free off-line calculator program using popular spreadsheets is also available.

The Bible Gateway offers a search engine that pulls out keywords or passages. Several different versions of the Bible can be searched, in several different languages. Very quick and useful.

Check out the interactive magic of The Mysterious Rabbit.

All you need to know about Web Browsers and their components.

Indie film director Ronnie Cramer's humungous cult film site. Lots of info...

Ever need to determine if a celebrity is still alive? Try the Dead People Server.

Way cool weather site for the whole world, also gives you sun and moon rise and set times, and moon phases. The weather underground.

The Death of Rock'n'Roll features untimely demises, morbid preoccupations and premature forecasts of doom in pop music. It IS sobering....

You'll like this one. A corporation is fighting a 12-year-old kid whose website has a name -- Pokey -- that they think belongs to them. Witness the battle!!

You'll love the AFU and Urban legends archive

They surveyed over two million web sites and distilled the contents to produce a database. It's an index of sites not pages, and will give you results different from the better known search engines.

For a source of notable quotes, compiled by a college student who should probably be studying instead...

The Wacky Patent of the Month is devoted to recognizing selected inventors and their remarkable and unconventional patented inventions..

The Straight Dope--fighting ignorance since 1973 (It's taking longer than they thought) Cecil Adams' answers to any kind of question--now on the Web.

Aesop's Fables on the Web! Hundreds of 'em, including some with Real Audio narration.

The official site of the "The Cathedral of the Skies"--the Empire State Building, complete with tourist info, as well as a full directory of tenants!

Another food site. Are you ready for the pancake collection??

You'll love this one. Now you can catch up on all your favorite wise guys!!!

Rotten dot com collects images and information from many sources to present the viewer with a truly unpleasant experience. Not for the faint-hearted, nor the easily offended.

Here is a free encyclopedia from the folks who brought you Electric Library.

Real Audio isn't new, but it keeps getting better. A basic player is free!!

Winsite bills itself as "The Planet's Largest Software Archive for Windows." Come here for an incredible number of downloads.

We've mentioned Windows95.com before. Now, they offer a free e-mail update, to keep you on top of all the latest and greatest software.

This site knows where the bodies are buried, and even has pictures of the grave markers, in many cases...