New Riders' Official World Wide Web & Internet Dir

Guides, Tours, & Cool Site Resources

Cool Site of the Day

http://www.infi.net/cool.html

Connects you to the cool site of the day on the Internet, determined by the moderator. This works better than a random-site connector because the sites are more likely to be pretty cool.

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Exploring the Internet

http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/exploring.html#BlindSpin

Introduces you to blindspinning—spinning around and then going in a random direction. Thus, it provides all sorts of random links. Also includes a link to What's New lists, searching tools, subject directories, server and other directories, tutorials, multimedia exhibits and demonstrations, computer information, weather, and more.

George Coates Performance Works

http://www.georgecoates.org/

Just a diversional site where you fill out a questionnaire (it's short) and are then matched with a character who most fits your personality type. Your character is described, and you can change characters often. You are encouraged to visit your multiple personalities often!

Glass Wings

http://www.aus.xanadu.com/GlassWings/

A site whose stated purpose is "to have fun, help improve the state of the world, inform, provide an interesting and useful commercial site, and have fun (yes, I intentionally mentioned fun twice)." Provides a collection of links and a search site only for fun and nonbusiness-oriented stuff. Includes an online mall where you can buy things, links to humorous sites, and more.

GO! Online Communications

http://www.jumppoint.com

An exclusive Internet club of advertisers. Includes links to businesses, professionals, employment opportunities, Kids Corner, and more.

Greene Communications Design, Inc.

http://www.greene.com/

A graphics design firm expanded to Web publishing. Greene will design anything for the business, educational, advertising or marketing executive (including letterheads, logos, promotional or educational materials, press releases, and so on). Provides links to projects, clients, and the Internet development group.

Hajjar/Kaufman New Media Lab

http://www.hkweb.com/

A small marketing and development company that gives you all the benefits and expertise of a large company. Hajjar/Kaufman will develop your business Web site. Provides links to clients and to contact information.

Handy Guide

http://www.ahandyguide.com/

Serves as a complete guide to thousands of sites on the Internet and Web. Lets you search by category or company name, and teaches American Sign Language (ASL) as you go.

High-Tech Investor

http://www.want2know.com/invest/invest.htm

Written by an investment and markets reporter at the Toronto Globe and Mail, this site discusses investment-related resources on the Web and offers a collection of links to some of those resources.

Hit The Beach!

http://www.hitthebeach.com/

If you like the beach, you'll love this site. Provides links to a chat café, the swimsuit shot of the week, a virtual trip to the beach, a beach shop, and food. Register to win a trip to Cancun or to Jamaica, mohn. Also a beach-related search engine.

Hybrid Communications

http://gs1.com/homepages/dir.HTML

A virtual metropolis of culture, government, art and antiques, restaurants, public service, business, retail, travel, and entertainment sites. Click on whatever interests you.

Internet ProLink SA/AG

http://www.iprolink.ch/

Provides links to businesses on the Web, Web tools and services, and the "culture café." Also available in other languages.

Internet Resources

http://www.brandonu.ca/~ennsnr/Resources/

Contains pointers to more than 100 guides, lists, and indices of documents that help you learn how to use the Internet. Includes pointers to The December and Yanoff Lists, Patrick Crispen's Internet Roadmap (in HTML), The Awesome List, and many others.

Meta-list of What's New Pages

http://homepage.seas.upenn.edu/~mengwong/whatsnew.list.html

Offers a collection of links to all the different Internet What's New sites for the Web. By the author's own admission, "the Web is growing so fast that this document can be considered, at best, a historical artifact."

Mirsky's Worst of the Web

http://mirsky.com/wow/Worst.html

Provides an alternative to the many sites that serve up a "cool" site of the day or point you to "great" places. Offers links to sites that exemplify why some people shouldn't be allowed to make their own Web sites.

Net Trek Cafe

http://www.nettrek.com.au/

The first Internet café in Australia, offering a variety of links and services, including Internet training, a business directory, links to Internet search engines and catalogs, Australian links, outer space and Star Trek links, links for kids and music lovers, sports, news media, and much much more.

nicejob Media

http://www.earthlink.net/~mrnicejob/

An odd assortment of home pages, including Two Moms Names Alma, An Illusion Dog, Unexplained Art, and more. If you're looking for an interesting site, look no further.

NickNet

http://www.pinc.com/nburger/home.html

More than 3,200 links to dazzle and amaze you! If Web surfing were any more fun, they would have to ban it! Everything you could ever want is here and categorized so it is all easy to find. Web addicts beware!

Overall Knowledge Company, Inc.

http://www.okc.com

Overall Knowledge Company, Inc. is a general Web presence provider with an emphasis on the film and television trades as well and the arts and entertainment industries. Also publishes several industry-specific directories on the World Wide Web.

Point Survey and Escort

http://www.pointcom.com/

Provides a large collection of reviews of Web sites. Rates sites for content, presentation, and experience. Includes more than 1,000 reviews across many categories. Helps you get started on the Web with answers to common questions and guided tours of browsing software and sites.

Thousand Points of Sites

http://inls.ucsd.edu/y/OhBoy/randomjump1.html

Sends you to a Web site randomly selected from its listings.

ThreadTreader's WWW Contests Guide

http://www.4cyte.com/ThreadTreader/

Presents ThreadTreader's WWW Contests Guide, a complete, current compilation of contests on the Web. Provides easy ways to browse through an extensive index of online contests, drawings, raffles, sweepstakes, and other prize-oriented promotions. Even lets you add your own contest to the ThreadTreader's Guide.

Today Page

http://www.vossnet.co.uk/local/today/index.html

Offers a collection of links to sites that change daily; for example, includes links to news, your horoscope, and weather photos.

Unusual or Deep Site of the Day

http://adsint.bc.ca/deepsite/

Offers links to sites that provide some sort of intellectually stimulating purpose.

Virtual Town City Limits

http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/virt-town/welcome.html

Contains many links to stores, public offices, and other things you might find in a real town. Allows you to maneuver around it the way you do around a real town.