RefDesk.com

Hi All,

One of the better reference related websites available on the internet is Refdesk.com.  The site is eclectic - it has something for everyone as this blog post will attest to.

Refdesk has many, many useful features for users including options to check your email from a central location, a debt clock, Contacting Elected Officials, Job Search Resources, USA Gas Price Map, Headline News from Bing, Google, and Yahoo.  There is also a way to select a news source from either AP, BBC, Bing, Fox, Google, NPR, UPI, WSJ,  or Yahoo!. 


Users can search Yahoo! or YouTube from the homepage and also look for the Fact of the Day or Though of the Day or This Day in History.

Users can actually search Refdesk.com - use the search box on the left side of the page.  Users can also use TheFreeDictionary.com as a computing dictionary, medical dictionary, legal dictionary, financial dictionary or an acronym finder.

There are also People White Page Resources available to users.  For example, users can search 50States.com, AnyWho.com, Intelius.com, WhitePages.com.  There are also Reverse Phone Lookup sites and Reverse Address Lookup sites....sigh. 

And, finally, there are good news sites like Amazing News, Gallup Well-Being Index, Good News Broadcast,  and HappyNews.com.

What I just mentioned are just 'some' of the link from the top half of the homepage on RefDesk.com.  When I say that the site is eclectic and chock full of links, I am not kidding.

One last note...toward the middle of the page are various links under the rubric 'Today's Pictures'.  Trust me - this is awesome.  Link under this category are as varied as Botany Picture of the Day, Earth Images, Kodak, Latest Mars Images, National Geographic Photos in the News, Reuters Pictures, Top News Photos, Weather Photo Gallery and Webcam Index.

The pictures and photos are completely addictive so watch the hours flow by as if they were minutes!

Enjoy the site and the many, many links!
Regards,
Stu

What Do You Know?

Hi All,

So, 'what do you know?'.  According to this website, there is a list of '50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do'. 

Some of the things (like 'How To Actually Win a Fist Fight') are a bit tongue-in-cheek (but that doesn't mean there isn't valuable information there...).  Other suggestions are spot on - as in 'How to Change a Tire', and others are just really good career suggestions (like 'How To Write an Informative Speech').

Notice that the site has 3 sites for each of the '50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do' - that is, there is a backup for each suggestion.  That way, if one of the links is broken, or if the site is down, there are at least 2 other sites to get the information.

Interesting site - I especially liked number 28 ('Give a Compliment'), number 29 ('Negotiate') and 36 (Take Useful Notes').

By the way, this site is similar - in theory at least - to Ask.com and and eHow.com - both of which act as repositories of 'how to do things' type websites.  All three are helpful and useful - its just a matter of which site you are more familiar with more...

Enjoy the answers - I hope the questions are good :)

Regards,
Stu