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Links of Note
Links to our neighboring Mensa groups
Other assorted stuff.
These links are
presented for your delight or edification, or to foster invigorating debate.
They are neither affiliated with, nor endorsed by, nor a reflection of the
opinions of NH Mensa, American Mensa, or Mensa International. Remember,
Mensa has no opinions, although our individual members and these authors
often do. Revel in the possibilities...
Miscellany
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Mensa Marketplace
- General Shopping Agents
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AddALL -- "book search and price comparison"
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Abebooks -- "40 million
books: Used, Rare, and Out-of-print Books You Want"
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Direct Textbooks -- "College
Textbook Price Comparison"
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BookFinder4U
-- "Search new, used, discount books at 55 Book Stores"
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FetchBook.info -- "New & used books - Compare 122 book
stores, 60,000 sellers"
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Books Price
-- "Multiple Book Price Comparison"
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AreYouGame.com
-- "The Internet's Greatest Puzzle and Game Store"
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Smarterkids.com -- "Great toys for young minds"
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Discovery Toys --
"The Premier Educational Toy Company"
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Edmund Scientific
-- "For Science and Engineering Enthusiasts" -- discount info available at the
Mensa Marketplace
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MindWare
-- "brainy toys for kids of all ages"
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Boston Mensa's Bookmarks for Mensans -- why reinvent the wheel?
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Going Forward
-- "A Pro-Mensa Publication"
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Mensa History & Politics
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Mpedia -- a project of the redoubtable Dan Tobias
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Estimated IQs of the Greatest Geniuses
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Famous Mensa Members
- Marilyn is Wrong!
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The Society for Philosophical
Inquiry -- "devoted to resuscitating the once time-honored art
and skill of Socratic philosophical inquiry"
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Chicago
Area Mensa / Mensa of Illinois / Cheap Eats -- lots and lots of unusual recipes
Humour and Amusement
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Richard Lederer's Verbivore
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Anguish Languish Redux: A Celebration
(sort) of the English Language
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World Wide Words --
"Investigating international English from a British viewpoint"
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Today's Pun
-- a Richard Lederer site, it would appear
- The Pun
FAQtory -- "Frequently Askewed Questions about Paronomasia"
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Oxymoronica
-- "Celebrating Oxymoronic, Paradoxical, & Self-Contradictory
Quotations"
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Palindromelist.com --
"A Huge List of Palindromes"
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Fairy Tales for the Erudite
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HotAIR
-- "Rare and well-done tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research"
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Physics Limericks
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MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery
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April 1 RFCs
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404 Research Lab
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Unisys offers
an apology -- "Company
apologizes for inventing the computer and ruining your life"
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museum of broken packets
-- "The purpose of this museum is to provide a shelter for strange,
unwanted, malformed packets - abandoned and doomed freaks of nature - as
we, mere mortals, meet them on twisted paths of our grand journey called
life. Our exhibits - or, as you wish, inhabitants - are often just a
shadow of what they used to be before they met a hostile, faulty router.
Some of them were born deformed in the depth of broken IP stack
implementation. Others were normal packets, just like all their friends,
but got lost looking for the ultimate meaning of their existence, and
arrived in places we should never see them. Every time, we try to recover
a unique history of their lives, and to make you understand how difficult
it is to be a sole messenger in the hostile universe of bits and bytes."
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The Museum of
Unworkable Devices -- "a
celebration of fascinating devices that don't work"
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Wacky Patent of the Month
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Delphion Gallery of Obscure Patents
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Totally Absurd Inventions
or Absurd Archive
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Intuitor Insultingly
Stupid Movie Physics
- The Onion -- "America's
Finest News Source"
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Monty Python
- h2g2 -- "the Earth Edition
of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
So long, Douglas Adams, and thanks for all the fish. '52 - 5/11/01
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BBC Online - Cult - The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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The Official Three Stooges Web Site
- Cinematic Titanic
-- the (official) second coming of
MST3K
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Talk Like a Pirate Day
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Official Darwin Awards
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NEWS of the WEIRD
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This is True by Randy Cassingham
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The TRUE Stella Awards
-- "Opportunists vs. the American Justice System"
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Harper's Index
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The Useless Pages
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Tom Lehrer
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Tom Lehrer's "The
Elements" in Flash animation
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The "Wicked Pissah" Website
-- "The Intahnet Resource for Bostonians Around the World"
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Bizarre Stuff You Can Make
in Your Kitchen
- Science Toys -- "Make toys
at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that
demonstrate fascinating scientific principles"
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Science Groove
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M A S S I V E -- "Math And Science Song
Information, Viewable Everywhere"
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CSICOP On-line --
encourages the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science
claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and disseminates
factual information about the results of such inquiries to the scientific
community and the public" - including
Skeptical Inquirer Magazine
- The Skeptics Society
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Skeptic News
-- "The 'What's New' page for skeptics"
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Wacky Uses
-- "Discover hundreds of little-known uses for well-known products"
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notMensa
-- "Its activities include the exchange of silly jokes, discussions on
irrelevant topics, mindless ponderings about trivia and research and
debate into achieving world peace by placing old chewing gum into the
ears of every human being on the planet." -- Hmm... Sounds a lot like
real Mensa, doesn't it...?
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Boston.com / Sports
- New England Lost Ski Areas Project
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NEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM
Puzzles, Games, & Tests
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MENSArcade
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Mensa Page-A-Day
Calendar
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Cryptogram
-- a nifty Mensan creation
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AllTheTests.com
-- "The Searchengine and Directory to all IQ-Tests, EQ-Tests,
Career-Tests, Health-Tests and much more"
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iq tests
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Uncommonly Difficult IQ Tests
- Body-Mind QueenDom --
"personality, intelligence and health-related tests"
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TypeLogic
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mental_floss
-- "takes the chore out of learning by blurring the lines between a
great education and great entertainment"
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Everyrule.com
-- "Every Rule in the Universe-All Categories"
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sodaconstructor
-- "the online toy where you can build and play with things made out of
masses, springs and muscles"
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Paper Airplane Flight Simulator
- Thinks.com -- "brain games,
puzzles and pastimes"
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playwithyourmind.com
- "original word games, card games, typing games, logic puzzles and mind
games of all kinds"
- Puzz.com -- "Analogies, IQ
Tests, Trivia, Puzzles, Contests & Games"
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Puzzler
-- "UK’s No 1 Puzzle Site"
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Puzzability
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Puzzlemaker
-- "A site that allows you to create puzzles and games for your
newsletters, flyers, handouts, or classroom assignments"
- Puzzles.com
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click mazes
- "interactive puzzles and mazes"
- BrainJuice
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iRIDDLER.com -- "Riddles,
logic puzzles, brain teasers, word puzzles, logic games"
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BrainBashers -- "Brain
Teasers and Puzzles"
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Play With Your Mind
-- "Original word games, logic puzzles, typing tests and other games for
your brain"
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Games for the Brain
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IBM Research | Ponder This
-- "match wits with some of the best minds in IBM Research"
- Test My Brain
-- "Test yourself and help us learn more about the mind and brain"
- Logic Mazes
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Launchpad -- online game in the mold
of one of your Webmaster's favorite classics (thanks, Eric!), "The Incredible
Machine"
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Physics Games
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The ten most addictive online flash games ever made
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UselessKnowledge.com
-- "Facts, Quotes, Quizzes, History"
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The Implicit Association Test
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World RPS Society
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The Anagram Genius Server
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Internet Anagram Server / I,
Rearrangement Servant --
"anagrams, wordplay, solve, crossword, transmogrify, pangram, shuffle,
fun"
- Boredom Relief
-- "Stimulate your Brain with Puzzles, Games, Magic Tricks and more fun
activities"
- A Dozen, a Gross and a Score,
Plus three times the square root of four,
Divided by seven,
Plus five times eleven,
Equals nine squared and not a bit more.
Translation: ((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(1/2))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0
Nifty Geek Links
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Gibson Research Corporation
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SamSpade.org
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What's that site running?
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TechRepublic
-- "The IT Community Hub"
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ExtremeTech -- "Deep
technology content for the IT community"
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Slashdot --
"News for nerds, stuff that matters"
- ZDNet
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Meet Leonardo da Vinci, the world's
first super-techie
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Big Idea Group
-- Manchester-based! - "we offer no-cost services to help refine and
present ideas to the best-matched licensing companies" - read about them
here
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BountyQuest
-- "where knowledge-loving people like you can win large cash rewards for
finding information" - help challenge dubious patents
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PATENT CAFE
-- "The World's Leading Portal for Inventors, attorneys, kids, K-12, and
teachers to Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets, Science and
Innovation"
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
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B1 - esp@cenet - your gateway to
patents
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Rolf Claessen's IP Newsflash
-- "Patent Research, Patents, Trademarks, Intellectual Property"
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FreePatentsOnline.com
-- "Patent Search Database"
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WikiPatents
-- "Patent Reviews, Free Patent PDFs, Patent Searching, & File
Histories"
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Halfbakery -- "I think,
therefore I am thinking"
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A Sightseer's Guide to
Engineering
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DEKA Research
-- NH's celebrated inventive genius
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Segway
- The Tech Museum of Innovation
- Rough Equivalents
- MajorGeeks
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LifeHacker
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Make
- Curious Inventor
-- "HowTo Guides, Tools, Parts and Kits for DIY'ers"
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Illustrated Self-Guided
Course On How To Use The Slide Rule
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The webmaster can't seem to
get enough of this clock
- Nifty Newsletters
Reference
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Choose the Best Search for Your Information Needs
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How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory
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The Best Online Research Apps/Sites You've Never Heard Of
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Google Scholar
-- search "specifically for scholarly literature, including
peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical
reports from all broad areas of research"
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Navigator
-- "the home page used by the newsroom of The New York Times for forays
into the Web"
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Special Libraries Association News
Division Web Site
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Sources
-- "intended to help busy journalists find high-quality experts quickly" -
by St. Petersburg Times News
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Assignment Editor --
"The Newsroom Home Page"
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Power Reporting
-- "Thousands of free research tools for journalists"
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Writers Free Reference
-- "A list of free reference sites useful to writers"
- Refdesk.com Facts and Reference
-- "Best Source for Facts on the Net"
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LibraryThing
-- "Catalog your books online"
- Internet Public Library
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- public.resource.org
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Stumpers
-- "a place for librarians (and others) to discuss reference questions
which they are unable to answer using available resources"
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#1 GiantGlossary.com
-- "The internet's best resource, research, reference, learning and
calculator site"
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CIA - The World
Factbook
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Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal
-- "Our Favorite Sites"
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NHewLINK: The Granite State
Information Connection -- "The State Library has signed
contracts with various vendors to provide access to a variety of
resources"
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Stephen's Guide to the
Logical Fallacies
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Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy Files
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Logical Fallacies
-- The Adam Smith Institute
- National Atlas
-- "Maps of America are what you'll find and make on nationalatlas.gov"
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Google Maps
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MapQuest
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Windows Live Maps
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Yahoo! Maps
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Worldmapper
-- "The world as you've never seen it before"
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NH GRANIT DATA MAPPER
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World Sunlight Map
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strange maps
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USA.gov -- "The U.S.
Government's Official Web Portal"
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Fedstats
-- "One Stop Shopping Federal Statistics"
- The
Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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metacritic
-- "REVIEWS AND SCORES FOR FILM, VIDEO, MUSIC, GAMES, AND MORE"
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Intuitor Insultingly Stupid Movie
Physics
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Physics Flash Animations
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HowStuffWorks.com
-- "Learn how Everything Works"
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Science For Kids, Children, Projects &
Experiments
- Science Toys -- "Make toys
at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that
demonstrate fascinating scientific principles"
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Bizarre Stuff You Can Make
in Your Kitchen
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Jim Loy's Pseudoscience Page
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junkscience.com
-- "all the junk that's fit to debunk -- over 1,200,000 served"
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Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy
-- "devoted to airing out myths and misconceptions in astronomy and
related topics"
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Bad
Meteorology
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The Straight Dope
-- "Fighting Ignorance since 1973 (It's taking longer than we thought)"
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The Explainer from Slate
Magazine
- Scirus -- "For Scientific
Information Only"
- Phibot -- "the search
engine for scientists"
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New Scientist -- "The Last Word Science Questions and Answers"
- Astronomical Society of Northern New England
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Accretion Disk
-- "An Astronomy Internet Directory"
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Human Space Flight (HSF) - Realtime Data and
NH -- "Satellite Sighting Information"
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Chicago
Area Mensa / Mensa of Illinois - Space Links
- purportal.com -- "the bunk
stops here" - excellent myth, legend & hoax portal
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GeoBird -- "Your online
birding community"
- Encyclopedia Mythica
-- "award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and
religion"
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Best of History Web Sites
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timeanddate.com
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Rader's PHYSICS 4 KIDS.COM
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Optical Research
Associates | Optics for Kids
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Totally Free Math
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Some science links
On Learning
- Gifted Children Resources
- Online Education
Database -- "your guide to online
colleges, continuing education, distance learning, and more"
- WorldWideLearn.com
-- "The World's Premier Online Directory of Education"
- MIT
OpenCourseWare
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OpenCourseWare Consortium
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OpenCourseWare Finder
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Distance Learning Guide
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AcademicInfo
-- "Online Degree Programs & Subject Guides"
- NH Vocational and
Technical Schools
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Intuitor
-- "How to Succeed through Creative Learning"
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RJ Julia Booksellers - Five
Feet of Books -- "which works of fiction every well-read adult
should have read"
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100 Words That All High School
Graduates - And Their Parents - Should Know
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Standards For Success -- "a
three-year project of the Association of American Universities in
partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts"
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ERIC/AE Full Text Internet Library
-- "links to some of the best full-text books, reports, journal articles,
newsletter articles and papers on the Internet that address educational
measurement, evaluation and learning theory"
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FreeFullText.com
-- "direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or
all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access
for free"
- MERLOT -- "Multimedia
Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching - a free and open
resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education"
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Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Literature & Language
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Children's Books Online:
the Rosetta Project, Inc.
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LibriVox -- "acoustical
liberation of books in the public domain"
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AudioBooksForFree.com
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Learn Out Loud
-- "educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos"
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Banned Books Online -- "Books Suppressed or Censored by Legal
Authorities"
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PROJECT GUTENBERG INDEX
- Just Free Books
-- "A search engine to find only free ebooks - eBooks in English and
Spanish"
- The National Academies Press
-- "Read more than 4,000 books online FREE"
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How to Search for a Poem
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Handbook of Rhetorical Devices and
Glossary of Literary Terms
- Library of Congress
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eBookNet
-- "Electronic book hardware, content, information, e-publishing, e-book
news, and hardware reviews"
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Access The Great Books!
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BIBLIOMANIA, The Network Library
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Bartleby.com -- "Great Books Online - Encyclopedia, Dictionary,
Thesaurus and hundreds more"
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The On-Line Books Page
or
The Online Books Page
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Eldritch Press
-- "Open Source Books"
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Internet Public Library
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The Word Electronic Text Library
-- "Read or Download Books Online"
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NAP Reading Room
-- "full books, free for the reading"
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ClassicReader.com
-- "Read, search and annotate classic literature"
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Concordances of Great Books
-- "fully searchable word indexes"
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netLibrary
-- "The world's largest collection of ebooks"
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FullBooks.com -- "Thousands of Full-Text Free Books"
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Electronic Text Center -- University
of Virginia
- Online Books Page
- Read Print
-- "thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic
enthusiast"
- PublicLiterature.org
-- "read books online free"
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First Lines
-- "name the book given the first line"
- 60 Second Recap
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Legends
-- "exploring the history, literature, and lore surrounding Robin Hood,
King Arthur, Pirates & Privateers, and other swashbuckling characters of
balladry, fiction, and film, from The Queen of Elfland to Zorro"
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The Elements of Style -- Strunk, William, Jr. 1918
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Serendipity: Common Errors
-- "errors that are sufficiently widespread as to be in danger of
becoming generally accepted as non-errors"
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Ye Olde English Sayings
- The English Server
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Early Manuscripts at Oxford
University
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Arts & Letters Daily
-- "ideas, criticism, debate"
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The Human-Languages Page
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Envelope and Letterfolding
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Shakespeare Online
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Mr. William Shakespeare and the
Internet
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All Shakespeare
-- "the web's premier Shakespeare destination"
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Public Speaking & Speech Writing
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Alphapage - University of
Maryland -- "Evolution of
Alphabets"
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Dr. Grammar
-- "Your Rx for Writing Ills"
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Words and WordPlay
-- "A gallimaufry of logodaedaly and verbalistic legerdemain"
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Richard Lederer's Verbivore
-
Anguish Languish Redux: A
Celebration (sort) of the English Language
- The
Pun FAQtory --
"Frequently Askewed Questions about Paronomasia"
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World Wide Words
-- "Investigating international English from a British viewpoint"
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The Anagram Genius Server
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Internet Anagram Server / I,
Rearrangement Servant --
"anagrams, wordplay, solve, crossword, transmogrify, pangram, shuffle,
fun"
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Common Errors in English
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'Eskimo' snow words
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Lorem Ipsum
-- "All the facts - Lipsum generator"
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Word Spy
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Logophilia -- "Home of The
Word Spy - devoted to recently coined words, existing words that have
enjoyed a recent renaissance, and older words that are being used in new
ways"
- Omniglot
-- "writing systems and languages of the world"
NH Media
NH Portals
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The Free State Project
-- "Liberty in Our Lifetime!"
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Franklin Pierce Bicentennial
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The Franklin Pierce Pages
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USATODAY.com - NH Census
- NH.gov -- "The New
Hampshire State Government Online Information Center"
- NH Geographic
Information System (GIS)
- State of New Hampshire
Surplus Property Auctions
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New Hampshire Scenic and Cultural
Byways
- City Data
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All Around New Hampshire
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Cancellations.com -- "Weather Closings & Delays"
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New Hampshire Weather - WxUSA
-- weather info clearing house - WOW!
- Weather Bonk
-- "Live Weather, Forecasts, WebCams, and more on a Google Map"
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New Hampshire Climatologies
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NH State Climatologist
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GRANIT
-- "New Hampshire's statewide geographic information system (GIS)"
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Clear Sky Clocks in New Hampshire
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New Hampshire MapStats from FedStats
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ePodunk
-- "New Hampshire profile, statewide, New Hampshire demographics,
moving, statistics, business, location, government"
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newhampshire.com
- NH.com -- "Where New
Hampshire Clicks!"
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NH.com Marketplace
-- "a resource for a wide variety of New Hampshire shopping, online and
off"
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NH Stories
-- "New Hampshire-made specialty food and gift items"
- New Hampshire Maple Producers'
Association
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New Hampshire Coupons
-- "Save Money with Discounts, Rebates and Special Offers from Local
Merchants"
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nhbusiness.com index
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New Hampshire Guide
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Yahoo! - New Hampshire
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PeekABoo New Hampshire
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The Insiders' Guide to New Hampshire
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Roadside America: New Hampshire
- Welcome to New Hampshire --
"The official site of the NH Division of Travel & Tourism Development"
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New Hampshire Historical Society
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Seacoast NH
-- "The New Hampshire Seacoast region and South Coast of Maine"
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Welcome to Hampton Beach!
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New England's Mt. Washington Valley
-- "Outdoor Recreation, Outlet Shopping & Fun-Filled Family Vacations"
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MUTHA'S MT WASHINGTON VALLEY HOME PAGE
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White Mountains Server
-
Welcome to the White Mountains of New
Hampshire
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Northern Forest Center
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North Conway Area Guide
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The Great North Woods of New Hampshire
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NH Outdoors
-- "New Hampshire's Online resource for Outdoor Recreation"
-
New Hampshire Sportsman
-- "Providing New Hampshire Sportsmen with Outdoor Information and News"
-
Welcome to New England
-- "Yankee Magazine's Guide to the Region"
-
New Hampshire Happenings
-- "New Hampshire Entertainment,New Hampshire Events,New Hampshire
Activities,New Hampshire Attractions"
- NH Events -- "From all around
the Granite State"
- State NH Links
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TripAdvisor: NH
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New Hampshire Lodging, History, Travel
Tourism
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New Hampshire Resource and Information
Page
- Dates for NH fairs and expositions
- New Hampshire Farms
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The League of NH Craftsmen
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Historic USGS Maps of New Hampshire
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New Hampshire: Geography, Maps and
Information
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Color Landform Atlas: New Hampshire
-- and other links
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MyTravelGuide.com - New Hampshire,
United States
- New Hampshire Historical Society
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iLove-NH.com
-- "Adventures in New Hampshire"
-
Stately Knowledge: New Hampshire: Just
the Facts
-
Introduction to New Hampshire
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PaleoZoo's Prehistoric New Hampshire
-
New Hampshire Fast Facts and Trivia
-
See New Hampshire
-
License
Plates of New Hampshire
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New Hampshire Resource and Information
Page
-
NH Route 4 Antique Alley
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Hometown USA - Welcome to the Great
State of New Hampshire
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Heritage New Hampshire
- NHSCOT
-- "The New Hampshire Gathering Of Scottish Clans"
- New
Hampshire Discussion
- NHToDo Magazine --
"Discover New Hampshire's Fun, Fascination & Adventure"
- New Hampshire Radio Network - Discover New Hampshire
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NH Insider
- ZIPskinny
-- "get the skinny on that ZIP"
-
New England Anomaly: NH -- "regional
folklore and history that shapes people and their society"
-
weather.com - N.E. Fall Foliage
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Yankee Magazine
YankeeFoliage.com
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USDA Forest Service
and
White Mountain National Forest
-- Fall Colors Website
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The
Foliage Network: The Northeast United States --
"Providing accurate fall foliage conditions"
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Foliage Reports
-- "Autumn Foliage Resources for New Hampshire"
-
New
England Foliage Central --
"Autumn in New England - Complete Guide to Fall for Travelers and Others
Who Love the Season"
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The Miracle of Fall
-- University of Illinois Extension
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