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Oct 2000 — Issue 219
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Web Sites Worth a Look

www.ugetheard.com
Pick a company and pick a complaint—they'll write the complaint letter and send it for you. Browse a database of complaints/commendations arranged by company.

www.10-best.com/
A collection of the ten best sites in 50 subject areas.

www.circuitcity.com/
One of the best Web sites for a traditional retailer. Lets you search for a product, see the inventory at local branches, and reserve it before going to the store to purchase it.

http://gowest.coalliance.org/
A valuable site for genealogy researchers, this is the Denver Public Library's collection of digital photographs, one of the largest in the nation.

http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/webform.html
Send e-mail to California Senator Barbara Boxer.

www.razzies.com/
The official site for the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation, which showcases the absolute worst Hollywood has to offer.

http://arts.ucsc.edu/ems/music/equipment/analog_recorders/Analog_Recorders.html
This site offers incredible detail about recording tapes, with lots of technical information as well as helpful hints.

www.hmsbeagle.com/
An interesting resource on the latest news in biomedicine, regularly updated.

www.lyrics.ch/index.htm
Looking for the lyrics to a favorite song? Try the international lyrics server.

www.productreviewnet.com
Thousands of searchable product reviews, from printed and online sources. Reviews of restaurants and hotels, too.

www.guidestar.org/
"The Donor's Guide to the Charitable Universe" offers a searchable database of 640,000 nonprofit organizations, with official report filings and other information.

www.belushi.com/
The ultimate John Belushi fan page.

www.belizenet.com/
Guide to the country formerly known as British Honduras. Stunning photos, links to tourism organizations and agencies on the island, news on nearby hurricanes, and everything else you could imagine on the subject of Belize.

http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/sybev/cliche/
If you're not avoiding clichés like the plague, you might like to visit "The Book of Cliches," where you'll find a reference to cliches for any occasion or need.

www.chatplanet.com/
Your guide to thousands of Java chat rooms, on every conceivable topic, around the Internet. If you can't see what you want, start your own!

www.lucifer.com/~sasha/thinkers.html
Great Thinkers and Visionaries, some obscure and others debatable. A very personal listing, with links to books, Web pages, and Usenet discussions.

www.101freecalls.com/
Sign up here and get a free phone card with "up to 40 minutes" of free calling.

www.hicitizen.com/
"Making Government Easy for You!" Links to government agencies of all kinds and all levels.

www.cyberrebate.com
Everything sold at this site comes with a rebate, and every day there are several items that are free after rebate.

www.salon.com
It's a well-known site, but this is still one of the best-written, most entertaining e-zines on the Net.

http://dmoz.org
The sophisticates already know Yahoo is more of a directory than a search engine. But here, at the Open Directory Project, is a vast army of volunteer editors working to produce the most comprehensive directory on the Internet. New volunteers are welcome.

www.drivershq.com
Looking for a driver for that item you bought at a garage sale? Try here.

www.top20free.com
The top 20 sites for grabbing free stuff on the Internet. Free fonts, screen savers, clip art, phone cards, beauty supplies, t-shirts, and lots more.

www.perl.com/pub
The Perl home page. Downloads, documentation, discussionslinks to everything Perl.

www.sover.net/~whoi/Priceless.html
The absolute best in freeware for Windows, as designated by readers of the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup. If only I'd found this page before spending all my time looking for the best program for a job—almost all my basic tools are listed here.

www.microsoft.com/hcl/default.asp
Before upgrading to Windows 2000, be sure you check out this hardware compatibility list from Microsoft.

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