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Miscellaneous Reference
Bow Brummell: Where Cyberians Learn the Manly Art of Tying a Bow Tie

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/bowtie/

This humorous page offers diagrams and instructions on how to tie a bow tie. Arguably the most noteworthy thing about the diagrams is that the man in the picture is clearly not tying his own tie.

Central Notice

http://www.notice.com/

Billing itself as the place to find information that you aren't aware of not knowing about (as opposed to information that you don't know, but you realize that you don't know it--make sense?), Central Notice posts listings of product recalls, class action lawsuits, and missing children while also assisting with consumer problems and providing lists of holidays, both important and trivial.

The Consumer Information Center

http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/

With a browsable catalog, consumer news on topics like car- and home-buying and children's health, lists of publications, and links to other consumer sites, the CIC's site is another valuable consumer resource.

The DataStar Information Retrieval Service

http://www.krinfo.ch/

This service of Knight-Ridder Information provides a searchable index to over 400 databases culled widely from sources such as automotive industry data; import/export trade statistics; pharmaceutical, biomedical, and healthcare information; and European news organizations.

Disaster Information Network

http://www.disaster.net/

Offering information about current and historical disasters, this site covers natural disasters, fires (both natural and manmade), and acts of terrorism.

Find-A-Grave

http://www.orci.com/personal/jim/index.html

Listing the final resting places for hundreds of celebrities and VIPs, this macabre site offers notable graves geographically or alphabetically, pictures of famous graves, and links to other tomb-related sites.

Gray Ghost: The Links You Use Everyday

http://www.whytel.com/ftp/users/pwirth/index.htm

A cornucopia of references is what this site offers. Standard, office, scientific, World Wide Web, computer industry, and government and military references, plus links to maps and geographical sites, and museums are all located here.

Internet Nonprofit Center

http://www.nonprofits.org/

This excellent and extensive grouping of links to nonprofit sites offers a search engine that will locate almost any U.S. charity, provides links to home pages for nonprofit groups, and even offers a library of rankings of charities and a "Donor Defense Kit" to help separate the wheat from the chaff when charities contact you for donations.

Jumble & Crossword Solver

http://odin.chemistry.uakron.edu/cbower/jumble.html

Stumped by a scrambled word game or a crossword puzzle? This simple interface allows you to either enter the jumbled letters (for example, "tbona") or the word you need with question marks in the spaces you can't fill (for instance, "ba?o?") and this page will return a word or list of words that answers your query. In the first example, this page unjumbled "tbona" into "baton" and, in the second, provided "bacon," "baron," "baton," and "bayou" for "ba?o?."

Morse Code and the Phonetic Alphabets

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~scp93ch/refer/alphabet.html

Contains the phonetic alphabets in British English, American English, international English, international aviation English, Italian, and German and the Morse code equivalent for all letters plus some punctuation marks.

Morse Code Translator

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~scp93ch/refer/morseform.html

Translates typewritten Morse code (i.e. dots and dashes) into text and text into Morse code.

MRXMorse Receive and Transmit Training

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~jwsamin/

Download a copy of MRX from this Web site. MRX is a software program designed to provide training in Morse code. Software system requirements are DOS 4.0, 286 PC, sound card or PC Speaker, VGA monitor, and a joystick port.

My Virtual Reference Desk

http://www.refdesk.com/

This site bills itself as a "one-stop reference for all things Internet." Although it is mainly a collection of links, it maintains a thorough and comprehensive database of references on a vast array of subjects

The Nobel Foundation

http://www.nobel.se/

In addition to offering a list of present winners, this official site presents a searchable database for past winners.

The Nobel Prize Internet Archive

http://mgm.mit.edu:8080/pevzner/Nobel.html

Listing both the 1995 Nobel Prize winners (announced in October) and all previous winners in every category, this site also links to biographical information about many of the winners. The interface is much easier to navigate than the Noble Foundation's official site (see below).

The Obituary Page

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/README.html

This morbidly fascinating page offers death hoaxes, in addition to the life spans of famous figures from literature, movies, music, politics, sciences, sports, radio and TV, and visual arts.

On-Line Reference Works

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/references.html

Carnegie Mellon University provides this list of links to dictionaries, Internet resources, geographical references, bibliographies, and legal and government resources.

The Reporter's Internet Survival Guide

http://www.qns.com/~casey/

Patrick Casey, an Associated Press reporter in Oklahoma, created this online catalog of reference materials for reporters on a deadline. Despite that, this is a valuable reference for anyone needed access to a wide variety of information.

Research-It!

http://www.iTools.com/research-it/research-it.html

This table-based site requires the use of either Netscape Navigator or Microsoft's Internet Explorer. By using forms you can search through dictionaries and thesauri; find acronyms or quotations; translate words between English and French and English and Japanese; find maps, area codes, and 800 numbers; look up currency exchange rates and stock quotes; and even track packages through the United States Postal Service, UPS, and FedEx.

The Scout Report

http://rs.internic.net/scout/report/

Net Scout Services publishes this weekly report (via e-mail and the Web) cataloging new and newly discovered resources and tools available on the Internet. Aimed at researchers and educators, The Scout Report offers its archives on the Web for both browsing and searching.

Standard Industrial Classifications (SIC) Index

http://www.wave.net/upg/immigration/sic_index.html

Browsable list of the 1987 edition of the SIC index (latest available). List is arranged alphabetically by subject.

Ten Codes

http://www.jaxnet.com/~habedd/10codes.html

Lists the official meanings of the 10 codes used by police departments.

THOR+: The Virtual Reference Desk

http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html

This information-rich site at the Purdue University Library provides references to many Web resources including the following: government documents, information technology, dictionaries and language reference, phone books and area codes, maps and travel information, science data, time and date information, and ZIP and postal codes.

Tipping

http://www.cis.columbia.edu/homepages/gonzalu/tipping.html

This page offers general guidelines for how much to tip in certain situations: restaurants, hotels, valet parking, train stations and airports, cruise ships, and the like.

UTLink: Resources by Subject

http://library.utoronto.ca/www/subjects.html

The University of Toronto Library maintains this site, which offers lists of resources, at U of T and beyond, in academic fields ranging from African and Black Studies to Women's Studies.

World Population

http://sunsite.unc.edu/lunarbin/worldpop

This site offers an estimate of the current world population at the time you access it.

The WWW Virtual Library

http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html

This Web-based library offers hundreds of subjects in science, mathematics, art, literature, music, culture, museums, religion, spirituality, sport, finance, and transportation. Truly eclectic, some of its more unusual categories include beer and brewing, paranormal phenomena, roadkill (!), whale watching Web, and yeasts.