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| dirtdirt | www.dirtdirt.com | This website is too fun. Lemme just say this: if you don't giggle at least once, you didn't visit dirtdirt, built by a very clever geek apparently with time on his hands. Enjoy the "disappointment" of a unique 404 page, then move on to the current site. | |
| Global Coca-Cola | www.CocaCola.com | The world's best soda serves up the net's most refreshing websites--everywhere! This portal to local Coca-Cola company sites around the globe exemplifies the world wide web. Drink up, 'cause "It's the Real Thing." | |
| here is new york |
www.hereisnewyork.org | The still-amazing photos of this 9/11 gallery have been shown in a NYC storefront since shortly after the WTC terrorist attack. The all-donated 2000+ color prints are archived for purchase online, a partial show has travelled the country, a book is available, all nearly a million bucks has been raised for charity. | |
| IRS | www.irs.gov | Yeah, it's that time again. Go to the IRS site to download every last one of the ten gazillion forms they expect you to fill out by April 15, along with the Britannica-sized instruction PDFs... impenetrable though they may be. | |
| Illinois State Museum | www.museum.state.il.us | Our state tax dollars at work on something cool and educational, for a switch. The Illinois State Museum in Springfield collects art, archaeological artifacts, natural history, and lotsa other fascinating thingos. Click to get your money's worth. | |
| Smithsonian Institution | www.si.edu | A 19th century Brit's bequest to the US government seeded this museum family. Now, the national attic holds everything from the original "star spangled banner" and Bill Clinton's sax to flora, fauna, and mineral specimens to world-class art and photos. Too bad the mag is a Natl Geo wannabe lately... | |
| Babel Fish | world.altavista.com | Globalism at its best—sorta. This useful, free online tool translates short texts to and fro, from French to English, English to Italian, etc, with literal results that may make you laugh until you cry "tio" ... | |
| CNet | www.cnet.com | One-stop techie heaven: hardware comparison shopping, free software downloads, mucho informative articles and links. A website every user should know about. | |
| Wired Style | hotwired.lycos.com | A wacky guide to web lex and e-tiquette by the mag that thinks it invented the internet. Already, this is a flash from the past, eh? | |
| Slate | www.slate.com | Wry wag Michael Kinsley's left, & webmag Slate may be a Microsoft organ, but the punditry's still worth more than the paper it's printed on. News well-covered helps soothe the sting of indirectly having truck with the IT robber barons. Keep up with the "war" through daily national newspaper review delivered via email. | |
| Salon | www.salon.com | Ur-webzine Salon combines hard news and witty commentary with a leftie lean. Subscriber-registry requirement stinks, issues are skimpier than they used to be, it's heavy on the cookies, yet the staff's still hot on major stories. For now... | |
| Chicago Reader | www.chicagoreader.com | Chicago's top alternative paper blankets local politics, media, and entertainment, plus an offbeat weekly cover feature and the Chicago classifieds. The online restaurant guide helps finicky folks who wanna know how much it'll hurt their wallets before they open the menu. | |
| Laura Stempel, PhD | www.laurastempel.com | This Dr. Laura can facilitate your meetings, help you deal with diversity issues, mediate your disputes, and generally make your life a more pleasant proposition. I should know--she's my girlfriend. If you, too, need a multi-talented consultant who's smart as a whip, click here right this minute. | |
| duografix | www.duografix.com | "We now pause for a word from our sponsors." Yeah, in a flash of shameless self-promotion, the author of this website will send you on an all-expenses-paid trip to her professional island home page, where she's but 1/2 of the web design team duografix.com. Dig it--everybody's gotta earn a living. | |
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