2000 World Factbook
<http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html>
The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency and its content is in the public domain. Accordingly, it may be copied freely without permission of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Acronyms and abbreviations
<http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html>
Explains many of the annoying shortforms used so much today.

Any day in history
<http://www.scopesys.com/anyday>
Were there any other special people born the day you were?

Currency Conversion
<http://finance.yahoo.com/m3?u>

Librarians Access to the Internet
<http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Internet/index/>
California State Library resource index.

Mortgage Calculator
<http://www.womenswire.com/bloomberg/mort.html>

Old Farmer’s Almanac
<http://www.almanac.com/>
Contains, among other things, kernels like how to predict the weather using a pig’s spleen.

Online English Grammar
<http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/fram-gr2.html>
Answers most of the tough usage questions.

Quotations
<http://www.quotationspage.com/>
"If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure"—J.Danforth Quayle

Texas Government Information
<http://www.library.unt.edu/info/willis/govdocs/tex_home.html>

The U.S. Constitution Online
<http://www.usconstitution.net/>

USPS postal rate calculator
<http://postcalc.usps.gov/>

yourdictionary.com
<http://www.yourdictionary.com/>
A superb site containing dictionaries, thesauri, and online translators.