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Medicine and Health
- American Medical Association
- Animated-Teeth.com ("Explanations and animations" about selected dental topics)
- drkoop.com (health advocacy network from former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop)
- Food Allergy Network
- The Hunger Site ("make a free donation of food to hungry people around the world")
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (part of the World Health Organization)
- Monitoring the Future ("a continuing study of American youth")
- National Cancer Institute
- National Coffee Association
- National Sleep Foundation
- Smoking
  - American Legacy Foundation
  - ASH: Action on Smoking and Health
  - QuitNet ("Quit All Together")
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- World Health Organization
Time, Space, and Math
- Fractal Geometry by Michael Frame, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Nial Neger (Yale University)
- The Prime Page ("prime number research, records, and resources")
- American Mathematical Society and its links to Math on the Web
- Slates, Sliderules and Software: Teaching Math in America (exhibit curated by Peggy Kidwell, Smithsonian Institution)
- The official U.S. time (from the National Institute of Standards and Technology)
- Time Service Department (U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.)
- NIST Physics Laboratory's A Walk Through Time: The Evolution of Time Measurement
- WebExhibits.org's Daylight Saving Time site.
- timeanddate.com's World Clock -- Time Zones
- timeanddate.com's Calendar
- Telechron.net. Devoted to Telechron (1917-1992), a clock manufacturer and designer.
- Sky and Telescope Magazine
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Environment Center ("Providing space weather alerts and warnings [...] for disturbances that can affect people and equipment working in space and on Earth")
- Universal Currency Converter
Weather and Travel
- Weather
  - AccuWeather.com
  - BBC Weather
  - Google Directory's Weather links
  - National Weather Service (U.S.)
  - The Weather Channel
  - Weather Underground
  - Yahoo Weather Forecast
  - Weather Hazards
    - FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
    - FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and its Office of System Safety
    - Hurricanes: online meteorology guide
    - The OnLine Tornado FAQ by Roger Edwards (Storm Prediction Center, National Weather Service)
- Global Warming / Climate Change
  - An Inconvenient Truth (climatecrisis.net)
  - Global Warming: Early Warning Signs
  - Global Warming International Center
  - StopGlobalWarming.org
  - Union of Concerned Scientists' Global Warming pages
- Maps
Nature
- Becoming Human ("Paleoanthropology, Evolution and Human Origins")
- The Iowa Farmer's Corn Cam (watch corn grow)
- Farmer's Markets Listed by State (AMS at USDA)
- Food Museum
- Sandra Loosemore's Froggy Page (highly recommended for any frog-phile)
- Jack Lynch's Moose Resources on the Internet
- Potato Museum (a the Food Museum)
- Potato Museum (on Prince Edward Island)
- Ketzel Levine's talkingplants.com (gardening tips from the "Doyenne of Dirt")
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- The Yuckiest Site on the Internet: features Yucky Roach World (all about roaches and other "yucky" bugs)
General
- 4000 Years of Women in Science from Drs. Deborah Crocker and Sethanne Howard
- MadSciNet ("The 24-hour exploding laboratory")
- National Geographic
- Scientific American
- TryScience (links and info. about science museums around the world)
- WebExhibits.org
- Yahoo's Science pages

Hello, Mister Valve! (links to pioneers in electronics, including Theremin & Farnsworth)
The Farnsworth Chronicles (read about the man who invented TV!)
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (Smithsonian Institution)
How Stuff Works
TheFetcher ("regularly e-mails you any Webpage you want, anytime you want")
Slashdot.com ("News for Nerds. Stuff That Matters")
Thomas Edison Invention Web
J. Marcus Ziegler's Y2K Page ("Links to many sensible Y2K or Year 2000 resources")
Apple Computers
- Apple Computer (official site) and their Support and AppleCare Site Index pages
- Apple Links ("Apple Macintosh News, reviews, shareware...")
- Ambrosia Cafe (the "web site for Mac aficionados" is now defunct, though its main page links to many of the sites it formerly hosted)
- Guy Kawasaki's EvangeList Web Site (no longer there. Where has it gone?)
- Dan Frakes' InformINIT ("The Most Comprehensive Guide to System Software")
- Kaw River Macintosh Users' Group (of Manhattan, Kansas)
- Ted Landau's MacFixIt ("Troubleshooting Solutions for the Macintosh")
- MacInTouch ("The original Mac news and information site")
- Mac Observer ("You'll get your Mac news here from now on...")
- MacConnection (sells Apple and Apple-compatible products)
- Alex S. Pang's Making the Macintosh: Technology and Culture in Silicon Valley (history of the Mac, at Stanford University Library)
- ShareTheMac City ("Macintosh search engine, news, shareware")
- SiteLink ("the Web Guide for Mac Users")
- Son of Spy's Mac Freeware
- "Apple Shows Off New G4 Mac" by Lawrence M. Fisher (article at New York Times, 1 Sept. 1999)
HTML
- NCSA (at UIUC) Beginner's Guide to HTML
- HTML Quick Reference (The University of Kansas' Academic Computing Services)
JavaScript
- Intranet Journal's JavaScript FAQ
- irt.org's JavaScript Articles
- Yahoo's Computers and Internet pages: Programming Languages: JavaScript
Spam Prevention
- Blacklist of Internet Advertisers
- CAUSE: Coalition Against Unsolicited Commerical Email ("Join the Fight Against Spam!") Recommended.
- Fight Spam on the Internet!
- Junkbusters
- Network Abuse Clearinghouse
- Spam Cop
- Stop Spam ("Filter and Block Unsolicited Spam, Junk Email, Bulk Email") Recommended.
Viruses
- CERT/CC Current Activity (Carnegie Mellon University's "regularly updated summary of the most frequent, high-impact types of security incidents and vulnerabilities currently being reported to the CERT/CC")
- "Viruses and Their Cures: Year 2000 and Beyond" by Peter H. Lewis (at the New York Times)
Internet Governance and Civil Liberties
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) (non-profit corporation that handles "IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions")
- Network Solutions
- Register.com ("Domain Name Registration Services")
- FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology
- ACLU's Defend Your Data campaign
- The Center for Democracy and Technology
- Cookie Central
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- Internet Free Expression Alliance (IFEA)
- Privacy.Net
- JALO ("Just Another Link Organizer" allows you to surf the web anonymously. Recommended.)
Commerce
- MacConnection
- TigerDirect
- Timbuk2. Bags for computers (and not for computers).
- Webshopper.com

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