Browsing Reference

Many classic works, all out of copyright, formatted HTML and nicely navigable. There are people out there who really do care, I guess.

Sort of a Gutenberg Lite, with less content and more polish. Also the stormclouds of commercial subsidy loom on the horizon for this site. Just look at it. It's clean. Another excellent recommendation from vitaphile Chad Levinson.

Bulletproof.org uses the same Spanner^tm links-database engine as danyell.com. But sometimes webmaster Steve Kang adds reference-site links faster and better than Daniel does. Here's your shortcut to a whole 'nother list 'o' links.

Like Sir Edmund Hillary said: because it's there, man. Your basic authoritative-seeming knowledge smorgasbord, and oh yeah, keyword-searchable. Decent use of hypertext.

An intriguing and very helpful "knowledge community." This membership-based site allows visitors to ask and/or answer questions. Each question costs you a number of points, and answering someone else's question earns you points. It's a kind of ongoing know-how auction site. Worth a look even if you don't have a question.

To the best of my knowledge, the oldest search site still running. I remember spending about 30% of my time at this site back in 1993, using Mosaic 1.0 Beta for Windows. Man, I feel old.

I eat, sleep and breathe Google. Google has changed my life. I have found my new religion. If I'm very very good maybe I'll come back as a Google search result. Consistently the best search engine… so far.

XHTML is the coin of the new realm, but it's good to have a handy link to this old jalopy of the HTML language standard.

A great example of an early Internet project making good in the face of ascending commerce, this is the definitive argument-ending resource for film freaks. Endless parlor games can be based on the data available on this site.

Panmedia, a top-flight outfit in Sausalito, Calif., created this site where you can learn to do pretty much anything: how to iron a shirt, check out a used car, repair a scratched CD… even how to whistle. You do know how to whistle, don't you?