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How To
English Language How To
Information and Opinions
Online books & Documents
Wordlore
Quotations
Oddities

How To

All Experts (About.com): http://www.allexperts.com/
Antimated Knots (Alan W. Grogono): http://www.animatedknots.com/
Ask an Expert (Stevens Institute of Technology): http://www.k12science.org/askanexpert.html
BBC Learning: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/
Easy2 DIY: http://www.easy2.com/home_improvement.asp
eHow: How to Do Just About Everything: http://www.ehow.com/
Find Tutorials: The Tutorials Search Engine: http://www.findtutorials.com/
Free Education on the Internet: http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/
How Stuff Works (Marshall Brain): http://www.howstuffworks.com/
How Things Work (Louis A. Bloomfield): http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/
How to Clean Stuff: http://www.howtocleanstuff.net/
How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author (Peter Armenti): http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lost/
Knowledge Hound (Heidi Allen): http://www.knowledgehound.com/
Learn That!: http://www.learnthat.com/
Learning Space - Britain's Open University: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
Mentat Wiki [ways to become a better thinker]: http://www.ludism.org/mentat/
MIT OpenCourseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/
Monkey See [video tutorials]: http://www.monkeysee.com/
Problem Solving [lawn and garden]: http://problemsolving.scotts.com/index.cfm
Resource Discovery Network Virtual Training Suite Tutorials: http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/
So You Wanna?: http://www.soyouwanna.com/
Wiki How: http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page
Wonder HowTo (videos): http://www.wonderhowto.com/
Worldwide Learn (Angela Lovett): http://www.worldwidelearn.com/

English Language How To

Ask Oxford: http://www.askoxford.com/
Common Errors in English (Paul Brians): http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/
ESL Gold: http://www.eslgold.com/
E-Write: Writing for online readers: http://www.ewriteonline.com/
Garbl's Editorial Style Manual (Gary B. Larson): http://home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/index.htm
Guide to Grammar and Writing (Charles Darling): http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Inogolo: English Pronunciation Guide to Names (Stuart Yoder): http://www.inogolo.com/
KU Writing Center: http://www.writing.ku.edu/students/guides.shtml
The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (Michael Harvey): http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/
Online Writing Lab (Purdue University): http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Using English [Resources for English as a Second Language]: http://www.usingenglish.com/
Writing Tools (Roy Peter Clark): http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=78&aid=103943

Information and Opinions

All-in-One Biblical Resources Search (Mark Goodacre): http://ntgateway.com/multibib/
Answers {formerly BrainBoost] (Bob Rosenschein): http://www.answers.com/bb/
Behind the Name
Cliffs Notes: http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/
Convert Me: Interactive Units Converter (Sergey and Anna Gershteins): http://www.convert-me.com/en/
The Cook's Thesaurus (Lori Alden): http://www.foodsubs.com/
The Costumer's Manifesto (Tara Maginnis): http://www.costumes.org/
The Cynic's Sanctuary (Rick Bayan): http://www.i-cynic.com/main.asp
Discovery School (Kathy Schrock): http://school.discovery.com/
Every Rule in the Universe (Brian Burke): http://www.everyrule.com/
FamilySearch: Internet Genealogy Service (the Mormons): http://www.familysearch.org/
Flags of the World (rob raeside): http://flagspot.net/flags/
Guinness World Records: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/
Idiom Site: http://www.idiomsite.com/
Information Please: http://www.infoplease.com/
Internet Bumper Stickers: http://www.internetbumperstickers.com/
The Lefthanded Universe: http://www.xs4all.nl/~riksmits/lhu/lhu.html
List of Bests (Bill Turner): http://www.listsofbests.com/
List of Lists (Gary Price): http://www.specialissues.com/lol/
Luminaria [pre-18th century literature] (Anniina Jokinen): http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
The Old Farmers Almanac: http://www.almanac.com/
Online Literary Criticism Collection: http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
Pet Information: http://www.peteducation.com/
Philosophy Resources on the Internet (Thomas Ryan Stone): http://www.epistemelinks.com/
Pseudodictionary (Paul Jarvis): http://www.pseudodictionary.com/
Roots Web Genealogy Searches: http://searches.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
The Rosetta Project: The 1000 Language Archive (Jim Mason): http://www.rosettaproject.org/
The Skeptic's Dictionary (Robert T. Carroll): http://skepdic.com/
Studies in Bibliography (U of Virginia): http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/sb/
Symbols (Carl G. Liungman): http://www.symbols.com/
This Day in History: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
US Geneaology Web: http://www.usgenweb.org/
The Vaults of Erowid: http://www.erowid.org/splash.php
The Victorian Web (George Landow): http://www.victorianweb.org/
WebTender [bartending]: http://www.webtender.com/
Yoga Basics (timothy burgin): http://www.yogabasics.com/

Online Books & Documents

Alex Catalogue of Electronic texts [literature and philosophy](Eric Morgan): http://gutenberg.us/Alex_Catalogue.htm
Bibliomania [literature]: http://www.bibliomania.com/
Footnote [original documents]: http://www.footnote.com/
Internet Sacred Text Archive (JB Hare): http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm
Online Books: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Project Gutenberg [literature] (Michael Hart): http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
The Questia Online Library: http://www.questia.com/publicdomainindex
Read Print - free online library: http://www.readprint.com/

Wordlore

Language Log: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/
Luciferous Logolepsy [obscure English words] (Alan M. Taylor): http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/
Online Etymological Dictionary (Douglas Harper): http://www.etymonline.com/
The Phrase Finder: http://www.phrases.org.uk/
Word Detective (Evan Morris): http://www.word-detective.com/
Word for Word (Terry O'Connor): http://plateaupress.com.au/wfw/wfwindex.htm
World Wide Words (Michael B Quinion): http://www.worldwidewords.org/
Ye Old English Sayings (Joanne Todd Rabun): http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genepool/sayings.htm

Quotations

Annabelle's Quotation Guide (Annabelle Burriel): http://annabelle.net/
Brainy Quotes: http://www.brainyquote.com/
Quotations: http://www.bartleby.com/quotations/
Quotations Home Page (Stephen L. Spanoudis): http://www.theotherpages.org/quote.html
The Quotations Page (Michael and Laura Moncur): http://www.quotationspage.com/
The Quotations Ring (Gunnar Hjalmarsson): http://www.quotationring.net/
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (James B. Simpson): http://www.bartleby.com/63/

Oddities

Annals of Improbable Research: http://improbable.com/
Bad Human Factors Designs (Michael J. Darnell): http://www.baddesigns.com/examples.html
Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics (Carl Hepburn): http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
Darwin Awards (Wendy Northcutt): http://www.darwinawards.com/
Demotivators: http://www.despair.com/
Dribble Glass (Scott Roeben): http://www.dribbleglass.com/
The Easter Egg Archive [software Easter Eggs]: http://www.eeggs.com/
Find-a-Grave (Jim Tipton): http://www.findagrave.com/
Gallery of Hoax Websites (Alex Boese): http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html
Ghost Sites: Dead Web Sites (Steve Baldwin): http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/
J-Walk Blog (John Walkenbach): http://j-walkblog.com/
Keepers of Lists: http://www.keepersoflists.org/
Last Words (Kurt A. Sanftleben): http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6537/
Museum of Hoaxes: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/
Nessie on the Net: http://www.lochness.co.uk/
Rotten.com: http://www.rotten.com/
Quatloos! Scams and Frauds Exposed (John Barrick): http://www.quatloos.com/
The Six Patron Saints of Graphic Design (W. Lynn Garrett): http://www.lynnster.com/saints.html
The Smoking Gun (Daniel Green): http://www.thesmokinggun.com/
Sociology of Death and Dying (Michael Kearl): http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/death.html
Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches [re Dave Barry 1994]: http://www.pmichaud.com/toast/
Truth or Fiction (Rich Buhler): http://www.truthorfiction.com/
To Die For (Michael [Grinny] Nejman): http://www.nejman.com/todiefor/
Urban Legend Combat Kit (Patrick Douglas Crispen): http://netsquirrel.com/combatkit/
Urban Legends [re alt.folklore.urban]: http://www.urbanlegends.com/
Urban Legends Reference Pages (Barbara and David P. Mikkelson): http://www.snopes.com/
Useless Knowledge (Joe Edelman): http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/
Very Strange Things on the Web: http://www.InternetTourbus.com/bizarre.htm

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