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My Shortcuts page has links to the favorite pages I use everyday. The recommended web sites below have links and brief descriptions to additional web resources and also my home page. Some may have changed so I welcome corrections and updates (see feedback section at the end of the web page). I'm in the process of updating the links: headings marked "2009 update" are newly reviewed while others may be out of date.
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ART - OFF THE BEATEN TRACK (2009 update)


ART - TRADITIONAL (2009 update)

AUTOMOBILES (2009 update)

BUSINESS, FINANCE, and MONEY

COMPUTING and WEBCASTING

EDUCATION (2009 update)

EMPLOYMENT

GENEALOGY - Boynton

GENEALOGY - Quine

GENEALOGY - General - SOCIAL MEDIA

GOVERNMENT RESOURCES (2009 update)

HUMOR

KID-FRIENDLY WEB SITES

MOVIES

MUSICIANS - BEATLES (other groups in next section)

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MUSICIANS (Beatles in section above)

  • Robert Quine

  • Too Old To Care with Michael Schwarzchild ("Dr. Hopper"): electric and acoustic guitars, 12-string, vocals; Paul Underwood ("Lefty"): acoustic guitar, pedal steel, lap steel, vocals; Steve Flachsbart ("Screamin' Cat"): violin, acoustic guitar, mandolin, vocals; and Mal Gauthier ("Vasser"): bass, vocals

    • MUSIC REFERENCES

    NEWS and HISTORY

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    PHILATELY - STAMP COLLECTING

    POSTAL AUTOMATION and MAILING

    QUINE PAGES (2009 update)

    [Amazon Associate] REFERENCE, LIBRARY, and BOOKS

    SCIENCE, HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT, and FOOD

    TAXES

    • Internal Revenue Service stylish, up to date site to download federal and state forms, use questionnaires to compute deductions
    • 1040.com download state forms
    • Ernst and Young US tax information
    • Flat Tax Calculator for comparison
    • Tax Web helpful list of links to federal and state tax sites, tax publishers, software developers, discussion groups, and mailing lists [PC Magazine]
    • Taxing Times 1997 download federal tax forms and find IRS phone numbers

    TELEVISION

    THEATER

    TRAVEL and PLACES:

  • American Airlines - home page
  • American Express Discount Travel last minute deals
  • Athens, Greece the ancient city (thanks to Erin who improved upon a broken link)
  • Bed and Breakfast Inns Database plan your next weekend trip
  • Berlitz language home page - avoid "faux pas"!
  • Boston, Massachusetts online comprehensive guide
  • Boston, Massachusetts - the Boston Globe comprehensive Boston page
  • Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
  • City Net guide to cities around the world with travel, entertainment, business, and government information
  • Distance Between 2 ZIP codes [USA Today]
  • Expedia by Microsoft Travel Planning Online
  • Fodor's - top travel information
  • GOES NASA Satellite pictures of the USA
  • Halifax, Nova Scotia tourist guide
  • Infoseek Business Channel business information "switchboard" to many business topics [PC Magazine]
  • Internet world-wide travel guide locator with reviews from Webcrawler
  • Killahevlin - A Touch Of Ireland in the Historic Shenandoah Valley Historic Edwardian mansion bed and breakfast in Front Royal, Virginia
  • Lonely Planet - down-to-earth travel information
  • Map Blast [mast magazine]
  • MapQuest BEST Interactive USA atlas down to the city block; TripQuest shows route between locations [mast magazine]
  • Maps On Us map information across the country (also) Maps On Us [mast magazine]
  • National Museum of the American Indian
  • National Park Service
  • Radar speed trap national registry (but please don't net surf when you're driving)
  • Roadside America Plan your next vacation from this list of funny or unusual roadside attractions.
  • Smithsonian Museum list of national museums, archives, and searchable databases
  • Smithsonian Museum - National Postal Museum
  • US Department of State Travel Warnings and Advisories [Business Week]
  • TravelocitySearch for the cheapest airfares to anywhere in the world.
  • TravLang Travel information including Foreign Languages for Travelers, translations between 60 languages and sound files from native speakers; on line currency conversions [Business Week]
  • Yankee Magazine New England Guide the traditional New England guide

    • WEB SEARCH ENGINES (this site is listed in most)

    • About reference information (formerly Mining Co)
    • All4One Search Engine combining Alta Vista, Excite, Lycos, and Yahoo
    • AllTheWeb (powered by FAST from Norway) very efficient and very broad web searches
    • Alta Vista powerful engine: Search and Display the Results
    • Alexa: Recommendations and Find Lost Web Pages cure the 404 File Not Found blues using archives of the web to find old web pages; recommendations for related pages [Newsweek; PC Magazine]
    • Ask Jeeves metasearcher - answers to plain English questions [Business Week]
    • Bing.com Microsoft's 2009 addition to the crowded search engine space
    • Deja News Usenet searcher PC Magazine Editor's choice [PC Magazine]
    • Direct Hit search based on site popularity
    • DogPile combines multiple search engines
    • Excite conceptual searcher
    • Google large database - clearly the best in 2004 - especially helpful because it keeps a cache copy of each web page
    • Go To vendors can pay to be listed higher
    • Hot Bot exhaustive Web searcher: with a flashy interface (compliments Alta Vista and Webcrawler; PC Magazine Editor's choice)
    • Hot Wired leading edge Internet graphics and technology
    • InfoSeek / GO.com search the Web, newsgroups, and Usenet
    • Internet Archive THE way to view old web pages and trace their history
    • Lycos exhaustive Web searcher
    • Mamma multiple engines
    • MetaCrawler metasearcher combines multiple search engines [PC Magazine Editor's choice for simple searches]
    • Pathfinder Internet access interface to news, weather by ZIP code, etc
    • Planet Search [PC Magazine]
    • ProFusion metasearcher [PC Magazine Editor's choice for complex searches]
    • SavvySearch ranks results
    • Search.Com lists dozens of search engines from A to Z
    • Snap growing
    • WebCrawler Web searcher
    • Yahoo topical searcher

    WEB COMMERCIAL SITES and BUYERS GUIDES (2013 update)

    • Amazon.Com the extraordinary on-line shopping site
    • Ebay largest Online Auction site

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