General/Reference/News

• Newseum (Today's Front Pages )
• Internet Scout Report
• Houston Chronicle Interactive
• Information Please almanac
• Digital Librarian
• Internet Public Library
• Quiz Hub
• OneLook Reverse Dictionary
• Visual Dictionary
• Truthdig; drilling beneath the headlines

Travel

• Matador Network (great travel writing)
• 8 Cool International Webcams
• IHateTaxis (ground transport info)
• Roadside America
• Roadside America's San Antonio page
• COTrip (Colorado road conditions)
• Google Lit Trips
• Our Earth as Art

Science/Math

• What If (xkcd spinoff)
• Bad Astronomy blog
• Graphing calculator
• LearningScience.org
• PurpleMath (basic lessons)
• Calculus Videos (from UofH)
• Cloud Appreciation Society
• Cracking the Nutshell (science/philosophy blog)
• Engineer Guy
• Mad Scientist Network
• Periodic Table
• Merck Manual
• NatureServe (biodiversity info)
• Tree of Life
• Avibase (world bird database)
• Map-A-Planet
• SnowCrystals.com
• Science and Engineering Encyclopedia

Health/Food

• Medline Plus
• Mayo Clinic First Aid Guide
• Mayo Clinic Nutrition & Healthy Eating
• Tastespotting
• Food Timeline
• What's in the Foods You Eat Search Tool

Internet

• Ixquick Search Engine
• Open Directory (Portal)
• Google Search & Directory
• Big Search Engine Index
• Cnet Technology Help Page
• Sign Generator
• Living Internet (news and history)
• WolframAlpha (interesting search engine)
• Color Schemer
• Serendip-o-matic
• Gmail tips
• MJDWebDesign (great videos)

Things to Listen To

• NPR Podcasts
• Mythgard.org
• Kahn Academy
• BBC History Extra
• Diane Rehm
• On Point
• Only a Game
• Frank DeFord podcasts
• Radiolab
• BBC-4 Podcasts
• Gameday Audio
• The World Podcasts
• Guardian Science Podcasts
• Infinite Monkey Cage (BBC)
• Quirks & Quarks (CBC)
• On House of Cards
• More podcasts

Languages/Geography

• Leo ( Deutsch/English Wörterbuch)
• Linguee (translations of words in context)
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Oxymorons.info
• Woxikon (translator/thesaurus)
• Lexilogos (many language dictionaries)
• Web Compjugador (Spanish verb conjugations)
• Flags of the World
• Flags of the World by Color Usage
• Nationmaster
• Mappy.com

Chinese resources

• My Chinese cheat sheet
• Chinese characters
• Chinese numbers
• Chinese Method Input Editor
• Chinese character dictionary
• Learn to speak Chinese (useful video lessons)
• Pinyin converter
• Zhongwen.com

Literature/Culture

• Brewer's Dictionary
• Tolkien Online
• Encyclopedia of Arda
• Silmarillion Film Project
• Middle Earth Lore (videos)
• Game of Thrones Stuff
• Cultural Learnings (TV criticism)
• Project Gutenberg
• Bartleby
• Online Book Page
• Mathematical Fiction
• Mieks Fabergé Eggs
• Lists of Bests
• Beatles Harmonies
• How Music Taste Evolved (Firefox)
• Wait but Why


• Educate Yourself Free Online

History

• World War I Centennial posts (mentalfloss.com)
• History World: Timelines & Histories
• History Channel: This Day in History
• Best of History Websites
• World War II photo collection
• Stuff Nobody Cares About (blog)

Humor

• The Onion
• Newsbiscuit
• xkcd.com
• Tree Lobsters
• Abstruse Goose
• Sat. Morning Bfast Cereal
• PhD comics
• Whatever (John Scalzi's blog)

Movies/TV

• Memory Alpha (Star Trek encyclopedia)
• EPGuidess (TV show plot summaries)
• Roger Ebert's movie reviews
• Internet Movie Database
• Ephemeral Films
• AVClub (thoughtful TV & movie reviews)

Neat stuff

• This is colossal

Links checked April, 2013