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Dogpile - Dogpile
Needle in CyperStack - Needle in a CyberStack - the InfoFinder
Web Search Cheat Sheet - Web Search Cheat Sheet
WebGEMS - Discovery Center: WebGEMS
World Wide Web Virtual Library - Index of WWW Virtual Library Maintainers
About.com - About.com - The network of sites led by expert guides.
AltaVista - AltaVista - Search
Ask Jeeves - Ask Jeeves!
Direct Hit - Direct Hit - One Search Engine. Millions of Minds.
Excite - Excite
Infoseek (Go Network) - Infoseek
Lycos (& MyLycos) - Lycos: Your Personal Internet Guide
Microsoft Network - MSN Web Search
NorthernLight.com - Northern Light Search
Yahoo! - Yahoo!
555-1212.com Web Directory (Telephone numbers, Zip codes) - 555-1212 - The most powerful and useful Web Directory
Canada Post - Postal code directory - Canada Post - Postal Code Lookup
Teldir.com (Telephone directories) - Telephone Directories on the Web, Phone Books, White Pages, Yellow Pages
United States Postal Service - Zip code directory - Lookups
Encyclopedia Britannica - Britannica.com
Web design
Web Authoring Tools (Mike Guidry) - Web Authoring Tools
Britannica.com - http://www.britannica.com/worldsapart/
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ITN (London)
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Technology
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Deutsche Welle - Made in Germany - German
Internetnews.com
PC Week Webcast
TechWeb Today
ZDTV
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enn.com webcast
Health Network.com
Arts and Music
Australian Whoopi
broadcast.com
Ciudad Internet - Spanish
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Starmedia.com - Spanish
Starmedia.com .br - Porturguese
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Universo Online - Portuguese
Yahoo! Libraries - Yahoo! Reference:Libraries
The Australian National Library - ANU Library Catalogue
:Le Bibliotheque Nationale - Z39.50 Gateway - Search Form - Nouvelle recherche Z39.50
The British Library - The British Library
Die Deutsche Bibilothek - Die Deutsche Bibliothek
Die Deutsche Bibliothek (Frankfurt am Main) - WebOPC - Pica || WebOPC - WebOPC
The Library of Congress - Library of Congress Online Catalog
The National Library of Canada - via Telnet - National Library Catalogue
The National Library of New Zealand - via Telnet - NLNZ - Online Services - National Library's Online Catalogue
The State Library of New South Wales - Search Form - State Library of New South Wales - CATALOGUE
Cambridge University - Web Search - Search
Columbia University - Gateway - About: Web-CLIO: Experimental Web Interface to CLIO
Harvard University Library - Hollis - Gateway - Harvard OnLine Library Information System
Harvard University Library - Search Form - Harvard OnLine Library Information System
MIT (Massachussetts Institute of Technology) - Barton - Barton: The MIT Libraries' Online Catalog
Oxford University Libraries - GeoWeb - Geoweb Home Page
University of British Columbia - InfoGate - Search Form - University of BC Library Catalogue
University of California - Melvyl - \CDL-hosted Databases\
University of the Witwatersrand - Search Form - University of the Witwatersrand - OPAC menu
Yale University - Orbis on the Web - Yale University Library: Orbis on the Web Start Page
Bibliotheque de Montreal - Merlin - Search Form - Nouvelle recherche
Multnomah Public Library (Portland, OR) - via Telnet - http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/dyna.html
New York Public Library - CATNYP - Search Form - http://catnyp.nypl.org/
Seattle Public Library - via Telnet - Seattle Public Library - Library Catalog
Vancouver Public Library - via Telnet - Vancouver Public Library Catalogue
Earth Sciences Information Centre (Ottawa) - ESS Union Catalogue Main Menu
Statistics Canada - BiblioCat - Search Form - New search
Two recent books on a growing problem in our supposedly sophisticated and modern-thinking world.
Sleeping with Extraterrestrials : the Rise of Irrationalism and the Perils of Piety by Wendy Kaminer. New York : Pantheon Books, 1999.
A good look at some of the alarming things people will believe and even be willing to harm and curtail the beliefs of others to enforce those beliefs.
Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Supersition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer ; foreword by Stephen Jay Gould. New York : W.H. Freeman,1997
Many intresting observations in an attempt to debunk pseudoscientific thinking, including whole chapters on such topics as clairvoyance, ESP, UFOs, creation science, holocaust denial, and others. Excellent preliminary section on fundamental problems in thinking organized thus:
Problems in scientific thinking.
Problems in pseudoscientific thinking.
Logical problems in thinking.
Psychological problems in thinking.